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Metal Slug Tactics Game's Trailer Reveals November 5 Release Following Delays

Trailer reveals Ikari Warriors Clark, Ralf, Leona
Source: Metal Slug Tactics Game's Trailer Reveals November 5 Release Following Delays
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Medical Students to be Allowed to Take Leave of Absence for Personal Reasons

[Domestic] :
Medical students will be allowed to take a leave of absence as long as the request is for personal reasons.
 
The education ministry revealed the decision on Tuesday after holding a closed-door meeting with the presidents of 40 universities that have medical schools.
 
Previously, medical students were ...

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Loner Life In Another World Episode 6: A Mole & A Stranger! Release Date & More

After an action-packed episode, Loner Life In Another World Episode 6 returns with more surprises for Haruka and his group. The previous episode already shows Haruka saving a noble girl. While he is doing his job, things will dramatically change in his life after that noble girl reveals her true intention. Does she have nefarious plans for Haruka? Only time will tell! On the other hand, the upcoming episode will witness the most shocking battle ever. Will someone die? Keep reading to find this out.





Loner Life In Another World Episode 6: What To Expect Next?





The previous season ended with the jocks and nerds fighting, which will likely continue in the upcoming episode. While the groups are fiercely fighting, Loner Life In Another World Episode 6 reveals that they will soon learn about a mole in the jocks. As of now, nobody knows about this traitor. However, there’s speculation that the cloaked individual known for his mysterious sighting is behind all this mole drama. Episode 6 will also reveal the person’s motive.





Loner Life In Another World Episode 6 Preview
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While there’s speculation that the person belongs to the nerds’ side, the stills suggest he is someone else. Considering his cruel and sadistic demeanor, this cloaked individual seems more dangerous than ever. Loner Life In Another World Episode 6 will also focus on Merielle. The girl’s identity hasn’t been revealed yet. So, the upcoming episode will likely focus on it. It will also reveal her true intention for Haruka.





At this moment, it doesn’t seem like she has nefarious motives for Haruka. However, she will soon make a request. Perhaps she wants his help with something, which will be revealed soon. This will further delay his return to a loner lifestyle. In the upcoming episode, someone will also return. However, it remains unclear whether this person will belong to nerds or jocks.





A Quick Recap!





Loner Life In Another World Episode 5 began with Haruka’s group exploring Omui town. The group then registered themselves to the adventurer’s guild and sold their treasures. However, Haruka learned he wasn’t eligible because of his low level. He couldn’t even register as a part of a group since his Loner skill set him apart from being a part of a group. While he was disappointed, Haruka met the guild’s boss, who later thanked him for saving Ofter’s party.





Loner Life In Another World Episode 5 Recap
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Afterward, Haruka returned to the woods, sold his crystal, and killed other monsters. To his surprise, he earned eight million Ereh, which was similar to yen in value for killing those monsters. After receiving the amount, Haruka went on a shopping spree and sent the eight million in one go. He desired to return to his NEET life. But it couldn’t happen. As the episode progressed, Haruka was caught up in a fighting scene where he beat the bandits to save a noble girl named Merielle.





Loner Life In Another World Episode 6 Release Date





Following the brutal storyline, the upcoming episode is all set to give answers to all the questions. Loner Life In Another World Episode 6 will be released on November 1, 2024, at 12:00 a.m. JST. The all-new episodes will air every Friday and are available to stream on local Japanese networks such as BS Fuji and Tokyo MX. Meanwhile, the global audience can stream it on HIDIVE. This is all for now. Stay with The Anime Daily for more such updates.


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Source: Loner Life In Another World Episode 6: A Mole & A Stranger! Release Date & More
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Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Teases New Game

Sakurai details game proposal on finale episode of his YouTube series
Source: Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Teases New Game
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Other News / N. Korea’s Top Diplomat Departs for Russia
« Last post by Tinien on Today at 01:45:25 AM »
N. Korea’s Top Diplomat Departs for Russia

[Inter-Korea] :
North Korea’s foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, has reportedly left Pyongyang to visit Russia amid international criticism over the North’s participation in the war between Russia and Ukraine. 

According to the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Tuesday, a delegation led by Choe ...

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Otherwordly Izakaya 'Nobu' Manga Artist Refuses to Draw Volume Cover Due to Nonpayment

Virginia Nitōhei confirms manga's upcoming 19th volume will not have bonus features
Source: Otherwordly Izakaya 'Nobu' Manga Artist Refuses to Draw Volume Cover Due to Nonpayment
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Anime News / Dan Da Dan Episode 5: Aira Shiratori Joins Momo! What’s Next?
« Last post by Taniara on October 29, 2024, 07:20:25 PM »
Dan Da Dan Episode 5: Aira Shiratori Joins Momo! What’s Next?

Momo and Okarun indeed dealt with Turbo Granny in the previous episode. However, their budding friendship will soon see a turning point in Dan Da Dan Episode 5. There’s no denying that the pair can fight any sort of danger and trouble. However, when it comes to school bully, things will be different. That means the pair will face dramatic situations in the upcoming episode, creating major life troubles. Meanwhile, Science SARU’s latest anime is all set to bring the most-anticipated character. Who? Keep reading to find this out.





Dan Da Dan Episode 5: What Will Happen Next?





After the duo deals with Turbo Granny, things will change in their life. Okarun and Momo will start focusing on the new day despite reeling over the aftermath of the previous episode’s events. While Okarun and Momo’s friendship is still blossoming, Dan Da Dan Episode 5, “Like Where Are Your Balls?” will focus on their growing awkwardness. The pair has seen a lot and can stand beside each other, but dealing with school matters, especially bullying, won’t be easy.











The upcoming episode will likely show the duo bickering over small things, which escalates when Momo’s gang of Gyaru girls enters the picture. It will have a negative impact on their newly budding friendship. While they deal with the complications in their life, the upcoming episode will introduce a new character. Dan Da Dan Episode 5 will welcome Aira Shiratori (voiced by Ayane Sakura). Now, it remains to be seen how her character will help deal with Momo and Okarun’s friendship. Will she help them out? There’s also a chance that the duo will encounter another supernatural element.





A Quick Recap!





Dan Da Dan Episode 4 began with Ken “Okarun” Takakura and Momo Ayase arriving at the Turbo Granny’s tunnel. They planned to capture her, but they were trapped instead. While they tried to escape, Turbo Granny used her curse and overpowered Okarun. However, the latter convinced the spirit to use his body again and restrained her from fully accessing her powers. After realizing this, Turbo Granny called another location-bound spirit for help. That spirit was later turned into a giant crab.





Dan Da Dan Episode 4 Recap
Crunchyroll




That crab chased Momo and Okarun while they rushed to save their lives. The crab then cornered them in a bathhouse. However, Momo used her powers to break the hot water pipes to boil the crab. While it temporarily stopped the crab, it later followed them, creating complications for Momo. Since a horde of people cornered them, Momo used a running train to escape the situation, and Turbo Granny followed them. This led the spirit into the trap, and finally, the episode ended with the Turbo Granny exposition.





Dan Da Dan Episode 5 Release Date





According to the official anime social media page, Dan Da Dan Episode 5 will air on November 1, 2024, at 12:26 am JST. The local Japanese audience can stream it on MBS/TBS. It is also available on local streaming platforms like Anime Times, ABEMA, MUSE, U-NEXT, WOWOW On Demand, Disney Plus, Prime Video, Hulu, Lemino, and more. Meanwhile, the global fans can stream it on Crunchyroll and Netflix. This is all for now. Stay with The Anime Daily for more such updates.


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Anime News / Spy x Family – Episode 34
« Last post by Alderis on October 29, 2024, 01:41:01 PM »
Spy x Family – Episode 34

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to dive right into the presumed conclusion of Spy x Family’s action-packed cruise arc, wherein Yor has fended off countless would-be assassins while Loid does his best to be a Perfectly Normal Man. I am proud to say that both have conducted themselves admirably; Yor’s efforts have prevented any harm from coming to her charge, and Loid has (with a little help from Anya) engaged in such profoundly normal activities as miniature golf and wearing everything in the gift shop.


Along the way, Yor has been challenged to find the answer to a fundamental question: why exactly does she fight? Yuri no longer needs her protection, and while she once saw the Forgers as a cover for her actual work, she’s now more committed to their collective life than her original purpose. What she has decided serves as a tidy echo of Loid’s convictions: she must fight to ensure other families enjoy such happiness, using her skills to preserve peace just as Loid fights for all the lonely orphans of war. I’m sure the two would be quite proud of each other, if revealing their secrets wouldn’t immediately put them in mortal opposition – but for now, I’m just happy Yor’s found a meaningful reason to fight, a drive that will hopefully prompt future growth. Let’s see if we can catch the last of the fireworks!



Episode 34



This arc’s gotten so circuitous that we’re actually getting a recap for once. It wouldn’t surprise me if the show continues to trend in this direction; thinking up continuous one-chapter gag concepts is actually tougher than you think, particularly when confined to the relatively specific dramatic constraints of Spy x Family’s premise. The concept is a rich vein of comedy, but no such vein can be mined forever; having already used up so many natural adjacent conceits, it does not surprise me that Tatsuya Endo is embracing more long-form storytelling, which both builds off our existing fondness for the characters, and more importantly facilitates more extended or specific gag concepts (like jokes that would only work on a cruise liner, for example)


Aside from simply ending the sitcom while you’re still on top, one other potential way to avoid diminishing returns is character development – keeping the concept stable, but letting the characters grow, and thereby furnishing the original concept’s flavor with both the added satisfaction of getting attached to a character’s development, as well as the fresh comedic opportunities afforded by wherever that character growth leads them



Unsurprisingly, this recap is like half Anya faces and half Yor crushing skulls. Spy x Family knows what the people need


Excellent goofy walk cycle for Anya as they head back from the fireworks. Apparently gravity does not affect Anyas as strongly as other creatures


Loid overhears several security officers discussing some kind of disturbance, which he believes to be a bomb planted somewhere in the ship. That makes sense; you can easily explain such a device as an emergency measure planted by Yor’s enemies, and more importantly, it gives Loid something spy-like to do in this arc’s last act. Endo has been very judicious in distributing the payoff of “all Forgers united in combat mode,” but the end of an arc like this seems like the perfect time to splurge



Coming up with a few ideas isn’t terribly hard; as long-running works like this demonstrate, the trickier feat is properly conserving comedic and dramatic resources


“Wow, I get to play with a ball!” Love that Anya’s about as convincing at playing a normal child as Loid is at playing a normal man


Loid swiftly recognizes the bomb as being of a type frequently used by eastern terrorists. He also notes his own superiors mentioned nothing about any potential complications on this trip, and the gears start to turn. An odd quirk of worldbuilding versus characterization; Endo can say “Garden is so secretive that Loid’s organization would know nothing of their operations,” but stick an actively thinking Loid in the vicinity of a Garden operation, and you have to work hard to keep him from discovering everything without in some way betraying his characterization



One of the most simultaneously rewarding and frustrating things about fully realized characters is that they’ll often surprise you. You can plot a scene to end however you wish, but when you actually get to writing it, you’ll often find your expected conclusion doesn’t ring true to what the characters would actually do, and you have to adjust


Anya’s powers detect the voice of the assassins’ radio coordinator, who is now making his getaway


“That’s… Mama’s stabby thing!” Translators doing a fine job of conveying Anya’s distinctive vocabulary


Yor’s fight getting so intense it now demands an insert song. Get ‘im, Yor!



And now even Anya’s received her assignment: get the stabby thing to Mama so she can defeat her enemies. Forgers united!


This sequence does suffer a bit from a lack of clarity due to the darkness. The contrast of the fight silhouetted against the fireworks worked very well for the previous episode, but with the fireworks now over, it’d probably have been for the best if some overhead lights went up on the ship’s bow just to help us see what’s happening


Hah, I love how Yor basically billows and glows with energy when she recovers her needle. Look, you can’t activate the powers of the Thorn Princess if you’re not wielding the Princess’s Thorn



Smart use of looser ink tones, somewhat resembling a sort of scratched chalk overlay, as Yor gathers all her energy into one charge


Ah, I see. They withheld the light beforehand to enhance the impact of this sequence, using big flashes of light to connote the power of Yor’s charge. A fair exchange, then


And the final cut is spectacular. I particularly like how the camera movement is tethered to Yor’s momentum – staring towards her as she approaches, then swinging right and actually aligning us in her perspective for the collision, then detaching again as she continues past the theoretical camera positioning. A trick that’s hard to make this graceful, but which ultimately emphasizes both Yor’s incredible speed and her vulnerability in the moment of exchange, as we are at that moment visually attached to her perspective



In the aftermath of the battle, we receive two consecutive gestures towards the instability of this current paradigm: first Loid silently reflecting on what this unexpected bomb means for his intelligence operations, and then Yor wondering how her needle arrived at just the right location. That’s the thing about these group operations; every one threatens the stability of the Forger alliance even as they demonstrate its power


Fortunately, Yor remains too airheaded to actually carry this line of questioning anywhere


Loid informs the other staff that there are surely several more bombs. As a demolition expert who just played through Metal Gear Solid II, I applaud his wisdom



Love Anya putting on her femme fatale scarf and shades to inform a crewmate about the next bomb. A nice unspoken joke in Anya somehow thinking this makes her “less suspicious” of an informant – all she knows about these things is what the character roles are supposed to look like from Bondman


Loid concludes his disarming by flinging the bomb-laden grandfather clock into the ocean. One last flourish using this CG boat they mocked up to facilitate some moving perspective shots


And then on the far end, some nice smears for Anya being unceremoniously dragged back to the playroom



“My hands are all dirty, and…” “Your hands are what connected him to his future.” Yor is unaccustomed to actually being thanked for her work, and her language emphasizes what she considers its unseemly nature. Through this escort mission, she is learning to see it not as a relic of her past, but as an expression of faith in the future she is seeking


Her softening stance is matched by a cut to Loid, who has reached the point of reflexively chastising himself for leaving his family behind


Then a lovely, wordless final sequence, each family member taking joy in the small communal rituals of the following morning



And Done


Ah, that was delightful. After last episode’s absurd demonstration of Yor’s martial prowess, it was nice to see the whole family get in on the game here, and once again demonstrate that when the Forgers are united in purpose, there is no force on earth that can stop them. And this time, all three of them were driven not simply by the desire to survive or complete their assignment, but by the context those assignments exist within – the concern for their family that drives them to ensure other families are similarly untroubled, and that reminds them to ensure they themselves get home safe. Yor is never going to be the most intellectually dazzling of characters, but I was happy to see her grapple with these questions of purpose and identity in her own way, and ultimately find a new purpose to drive her forward. Now hopefully our crew can at last enjoy their goddamn vacation!


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Source: Spy x Family – Episode 34
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Panel Aims to Reach Preliminary Agreement on Retirement Age Extension by Q1

[Politics] :
A presidential advisory body for social dialogue announced plans to reach an agreement on the issue of "extending employment" for older workers, including retirement age extension by early next year.

During a press briefing on Monday, Economic, Social and Labor Council(ESLC) chairman Kwon Ki-seop noted a ...

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Source: Panel Aims to Reach Preliminary Agreement on Retirement Age Extension by Q1
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Anime News / Samurai Harem's Yuu Minamoto Launches New Manga
« Last post by Junky4000 on October 29, 2024, 12:28:09 PM »
Samurai Harem's Yuu Minamoto Launches New Manga

Watashi-tachi wa Kakechigatteiru debuted on October 17
Source: Samurai Harem's Yuu Minamoto Launches New Manga
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