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hi! you probably get this a lot, but I got into the series just about a week or two ago and watched everything they had on netflix, i loved it a lot! i want to look at more but I'm like... 11 years late to the party and it's kind of overwhelming and confusing. where should I start? what sort of stuff is there beyond what's on netflix? (sorry if this is a silly question, but i figured you would know a lot!)

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Hi! No worries, it's not a silly question at all, there's a lot of content out there! I think it depends on how invested you want to get, because there's things like the shorts, the mangas, audio dramas, and even more supplementary stuff like the novels and interviews from characters/cast/staff. I'd recommend starting out with the shorts and mangas first and see how you feel from there!

Shorts: The Side Bunny short takes place between episode 13 and 14, Side Tiger short takes place after episode 25, and the Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth short takes place after the Rising. You can download all three of them from here, provided by coolboxofcandy!

Manga: There are two main ones. Tiger & Bunny: The Comic by Ueda and Yoshida (read here) which follows canon and depicts new stories that take place early in the anime and up to the Rising. If you only read one then I'd say go for that one! Tiger & Bunny by Mizuki Sakakibara (read here) on the other hand is a little bit of an AU story, as it largely follows Barnaby's perspective and diverges a few chapters in. Both of these mangas are completed, but the Ueda manga is still in the process of being fan translated. And while the Sakakibara manga is available online up to chapter 25, it has been localized so you may have to end up purchasing volumes 7, 8, and 9 if you'd like to read the rest. Also, starting this month we'll be getting sequel mangas to both of these with season 2!

Then there are the two oneshots by Katsura (character designer) and Nishida (head writer): read here and here, and they take place sometime between episodes in the anime.

As for the rest of these, they aren't really necessary materials, but they are canon and very fun.

Drama CDs: You can download the audio thanks to coolboxofcandy here and read the translations on the Wiki here. Expect lots of shenanigans and different pairs of characters getting their share of the spotlight!

Novels: Excerpts from the novelization of The Beginning part 1 (generously reuploaded by T&Bftw), part 2, and part 3; and The Rising excerpts here. These follow the movies through the characters' POVs and gives insight to their thoughts, which the audience isn't privy to hearing in the series itself.

And interviews/etc! There have been a lot of these. ThisIsSternbild has a good collection of translations to get started with, and the Directory on this blog has a variety of other bits of translations and other miscellaneous events. Monthly Hero in my opinion is another fun one to read, as that information is from the booklets that came with the Limited Edition Blurays so they tend to relate to the episodes they came with.

Beyond all of those, I'd say it's just a matter of reading or clicking through to whatever else sounds interesting to you! Sorry this was so long, but I hope it helps! And feel free to ask if you have any more questions :)

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fictional things that deserve more love

the I LOVE MY WIFE guy

the guy who refuses to listen to anyone expect for his wife (even if she isn’t his actual wife)

two characters deciding to live for each other as opposed to dying for each other

the guy who goes from “i’ll die for my wife” to “i’ll kill you if you hurt my wife” because she cried over him being a martyr

the female character who’s a total cinnamon roll but could also kill you (she won’t. but she could)

boy who takes —1— good look at his love interest and decides it’s the love of his life

friends to strangers to lovers

the character who refuses violence until one of their loved ones are in danger

enemies with benefits

love stories that don’t end with happily ever after

characters trying to wingman their friends on a date but it ends in disaster

rom-com male dumping his love interest for refusing to communicate with him

genuine friendship between a man and a woman without it turning sexual

childhood best friends to lovers

villains who made being bad their hobby

“i thought i told you to get a hobby” “i did. i choose murder.” “last time i checked killing innocent people isn’t a hobby.” “it is it to me.”

frenemies who don’t get along being locked in a confined space together

best friends to i don’t care if we get married to other people we’ll still be buried together

fake dating

morally grey female characters

characters who’s smart individually but chaotic when together

bad boy bad girl / good boy bad girl

long-term relationships, characters doing mundane, domestic stuff

found family (dysfunctional but we love each other anyway) and with no focus on romance

best friends to enemies to best friends

a character being single/becoming single and not ending up in relationship

not clumsy anti-heroes, but reckless ones. anti-heroes who doesn’t understand why they can’t just stack their victim in the closet and get rid of the body the next day, and forget that the murder weapon is in their back pocket

a slow burn kissing early on, then denying their feelings for like eight months

enemies to lovers but i actually stab you this time, but you have nowhere to go so now i have to bandage you up

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So one thing I've been thinking a lot recently, regarding His Dark Materials, is the way Lyra and Will's last kiss, the one with the doorway between worlds, parallels Marisa and Asriel's one in Northern Lights, in the sense that they are the complete opposite of one another.

Aside from the fact that they both happen in front of a portal, and that it is heartbreaking because neither of them would pass together thought it, think of this :

The odds have always been against Marisa and Asriel's relationship. First because she was married, and then the whole scandal and the shame that came after, and the hate and all that. There was not one time when the odds were on their side. Meanwhile, Will and Lyra's romance was written in the stars. They were tied together by fate, and so there was never any chance that they wouldn't be together.

And then comes the point where they are both standing in front of those gates, together, and suddenly there is nothing that's keeping Marisa and Asriel from being together. They have managed to get there on their own - now, they have the chance to continue together. Will and Lyra, on the other hand, are standing there for the sole purpose of the fact that they can't, after all, be together, even thought it was written in the stars and it was their destiny.

Marisa refused to go with Asriel because she doesn't dare to, or because she wants to find Lyra, according to either the book or the TV show. Asriel doesn't protest to that because he has a war to wage. They let each other go and missed the only chance they had at a fresh start because they loved other things more, because they would not put each other first.

However, Will and Lyra didn't want to join one another because their lives would be shorter, and their death would pain the one who survived, were they to live in the same world. They accepted that they couldn't be together, and let each other go, because there was no one else they loved more.

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