Nothing To See Here

Like they're mad teenage girl Nanoka from the modern era didn't turn up in the Taisho era and immediately start kicking ass while up against ayakashi and a bunch of sorcerers with 900 years of experience. They think it's bad writing that she's not some kind of mary sue.

You're right, like I do understand that MAO can sometimes be a hard series to follow with all its mysteries but some of these people make me question if they're even watching the show😭 and honestly i think it's not that they dont recognise story beats but rather ignore them, I've seen people make theories based on what happened in INUYASHA and not what's actually happening like I've seen someone say that they think Nanoka will be Sana's reincarnation because they "look alike" (i know Rumiko's characters tend to look similar but come on, if she wanted to make them look alike she would, like with Kikyo/Kagome and Sana/Yurako)

This is what pisses me the most because I KNOW that those same people would also whine and call her a Mary Sue if Nanoka was immediately capable and knew how to fight, like god forbid a teen girl, who was told her whole life that she's weak and needs to take care of her health and has never fought in her life, isn't getting into every little fight from the get-go and MIND YOU even with all that Nanoka has saved Mao on multiple occasions. This is also one of the reasons why im convinced some people dont watch the show because I've seen these people say that MAO IS THE ONE CONSTANTLY SAVING NANOKA?? Like that is just straight up not true💀

LMAO saying "popping up last minute" "characters arent established" and "threads are dragging" as we are on season 4 and not SEASON 1💀 the story is literally JUST starting, this is an adaptation of over 300 chapter manga, things are gonna keep popping up in the first season, like this is literally "putting the clues on the table" season, just in this week's episode (episode 17 out of 26) we finally got introduced to Daigo and Natsuno.

-Ephesians 1:6 NKJV

"What will he think of me?"

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Tho he looks like a kicked puppy right after (bc of his guilt of taking Nanoka's blood😔)

Mao's frustration and anger, he doesn't think about what he does.

On the other hand, I feel compassion for Nanoka she never saw him that way,even less for Sana.

just checked hulu’s august schedule today to confirm the mao dub was there, but what’s surprising is that it says premiere 🤔

so I guess the first cour dubbed is releasing weekly starting with the first episode, instead of all at once? 😭

Psalm 103:1

I'm delighted to drop this new artwork, commissioned by the wonderful team at Del Rey Books to celebrate the upcoming release of AGNES AUBERT’S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER by Heather Fawcett!

I was grateful to read an early copy from Del Rey Books to deep-dive into Heather's crafted new world, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this was my TOP read at the end of last year. This was the first time I've wanted a stand-alone to not be a stand-alone, as Agnes and Havelock and all of the shelter kitties are my new obsession.

In the book, Agnes Aubert is on the search for a new space after her cat shelter was collaterally damaged by a spontaneous magician's street duel. She ends up unwittingly leasing a new space from Havelock Renard, the First Dark Mage who infamously almost caused the apocalypse -- a worst case scenario for Agnes when magic is outlawed. Agnes is adamant on keeping her cats safe and her charity sensible, but soon her no-nonsense policies clash with Havelock's stubborn personality and his precarious dealings in magic, bringing the attention of the authorities and other unexpected magical dangers to her doorstep.

Please sit down and enjoy this cozy fantasy set in 1920's Montréal, packed with bejeweled magicians, magical pastries, and the ultimate cat distribution system!

Genres: Magic, cats, cozy

Rating: 3/5

I thought after reading all of Emily Wilde the main character Agnes would be the same. Happily, she's not! Agnes is older and too jaded to deal with the ridiculousness of magicians and their wacky spells when she has to worry about the cat population in Montréal. If you like Howl's Moving Castle, the book or the movie, you'll like this.

Thanks to a street duel between magicians on her street, Agnes Aubert is on the hunt for a wide shopfront for her business, a cat shelter. With many landlords not willing to put up cats in their space and rent being even more high, Agnes is at the end of her wits and decides to move into the haunted shop in a fancy street with dirt-cheap rent. She notices strange customers marching into her cat shelter and disappearing into a forbidding trapdoor in the backroom, but she doesn't question the strange dealings of the landowner as long as she can take care of her cats. Imagine her surprise when she finds out the man living beneath her floorboards is the dreaded Witch King himself!

It's Howl's Moving Castle but instead of a magical hat maker who can speak truth into objects, it's an older widowed cat lady who can't stand the childish antics of magicians. Agnes dislikes magicians and all the mayhem and suffering magic causes the normal people. But as we know a story is going to do, she's going to understand the motivations of the magicians: how they grew up, how they came into power, and how the magicians' community is divided into the quiet unobtrusive ones and the flashy destructive ones.

Our Howl, our messy Witch King Havelock Renard, is…he's LITERALLY Howl. He keeps spiders around, not bothering to kill them. His rooms are messy and cluttered with magical Artefacts. He's antisocial, bad with ladies, and obsessed with magic.