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1. merchantHelios (merchanthelios@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 05:48:40 JST merchantHelios
   literally nobody voting in the anime girl contest has actually watched azumanga or read spice & wolf they are just voting on their favorite reddit meme choice based off watching 4 youtube shorts
   • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 07:16:46 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     • Gin
     @GinNig @merchantHelios Read/watch Spice & Wolf it's one of the few Japanese fantasy works that isn't just a generic setting but is based upon the real Medieval Europe and also none of the characters are the typical Japanese highschoolers that make up 90% of anime.
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   • Gin (ginnig@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 07:16:47 JST Gin

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     @merchantHelios I've never watched or read either
   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 09:25:13 JST gentooP

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     • Rehn

     @RehnSturm256
     Laurence a merchant in medieval Europe and somehow not Jewish? Non-religious? Crypto probably. The word capitalist even existing? No wonder why they had labeled it fantasy. The wolfgirl is more realistic tbqhwyf.

   • Rehn (rehnsturm256@shota.house)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 09:25:14 JST Rehn

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     • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield
     • ProfessionalNEET
     • Gin

     @ProfessionalNEET @GinNig @merchantHelios @wgiwf unfortunately that’s not true. There a moment when Laurence gets stabbed by a religious guy in the sewers, first season, who apologizes to God on the spot. To which Laurence responds, “don’t bring your god into this, hypocrite”. Then there are a few of the ‘villains’ who are religious/Christian, using their position as a hypocrital forgiveness for their manipulative capitalist adventures. It’s subtle, but basically

     Laurence is le based non-religious honest merchant, and it’s for that reason - unspoken as it may be - that the Pagan deity Holo, isolated on a Christian world, bonds with him so readily.

   • ProfessionalNEET (professionalneet@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 09:25:15 JST ProfessionalNEET

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     • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield
     • Gin
     @wgiwf @GinNig @merchantHelios It especially stands out for having none of the standard Japanese anti-organized religion tropes which always turn into some sort of retarded nihilistic gnostic cope. I am actually shocked how it uses religion in the world to centrally structure the story without being massively gay.