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Welcome to the Japanese niche games deals and discussion thread!  Feel free to talk about local and import Japanese games here.  Our goal is to maintain a thread dedicated to active deals on niche games including RPGs, Visual Novels (VN), Shoot'em ups (Shmups), Musou, etc.  Also maintained are pre-orders for standard, limited and collector's edition games with key release dates provided.

I've wikified the thread to make it more friendly and open to others that can actively update with important information. You can find the wiki post directly below this one.

NOTE:  Please, leave the censorship discussion away from this thread.  It's common for japanese games to have questionable content outside of the country.  We want to keep discussions to the game itself and not about cultural/societal tolerance.

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NeoMonk said:
You don't watch animu?..
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We real animggas know what's up
 
shadowysea07 said:
Well if you apply real world logic it takes 4 years to go through elementary school. So if each episode is one day (which most of them are not since plenty of them are 2 or 3 parters or have cases that take place in the same day) he'd still have another 2 years to go. But yeah it'd be nice if the plot could move forward a bit.
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Wut? It takes 6 years to go through elementary school.

Japan, Taiwan, South Korea etc is elementary grades 1-6, middle school 7-9, high school 10-12.

Also, I don't watch that much anime, despite buying a ton. I used to, 15 years ago. Thinking about it, it might have had to do with playing MMOs. Nowadays, I watch 2-3 a year, it seems. The most recent ones I watched was Gate and One Punch Man. Like 3 episodes of Parasyte and 1 episode of AoT S2. That's basically the last 2 years.

 
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I usually watch 2-4 a season. Anime is just kind of samey for me now. Once you've watched a lot of it stuff seems to repeat over and over and over. It really takes something special to be cool like the Monogatari stuff. Also another reason I rarely buy anime figures (other than a weird job position right now), as I really don't feel connections to the characters as much.

I still haven't decided what i'm watching this anime season but so far it seems like Centaur anime (read the manga), koi no uso (also read the manga....man that thing is dragging...finish it already!), and that quiz one cause I like Jeopardy and it's an alright anime. Also probably going to watch that In Another World With My Smartphone (currently read the light novel and it's pretty generic, but eh). I tried to watch Kakegurui, but just ended up catching up on the manga which is over the top and somewhat meh in my opinion.

I'm not a shounen type guy anymore (honestly DB Super was boring for all 5 episodes i saw of it at first). I've heard My Hero Academia is alright, so I may watch it, but I generally skip all Shounen anime and generally watch romance/slice of life/comedy/horror/adventure/ecchi/harem ones. Last season I think I only stuck with Saekano S2 and Sakura Quest (better than I thought). I just didn't finish anything else.

 
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Some Overwatch news for those interested. A patch was released today with quite a few changes. Short version:

- [customspoiler='Doomfist']https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pLpQwjGAnA[/customspoiler] is now live

- Lootbox change is now live (Less chance for duplicates and dupes give more currency)

- New highlight recording options

Plus more stuff you can read about in the link above.

 
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Happy 10th anniversary (Japanese release) to The World Ends With You, Square Enix's best game imo and one of the best DS games around!

Even though Square Enix and Nomura don't really care about the game one of the lead artists, Gen Kobayashi, cared enough to draw this to celebrate:

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Also here's a brand new TWEWY Twister remix for the KH mobile game: https://youtu.be/aI9CCAVJn2g

 
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I can't believe what I'm reading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSN9Hc0Y_2U

Well I already knew about BRW not watching a lot of anime.

Did Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash ever get a release date? It use to be listed as August 28, now it's listed as September 12.

Also, I guess it's pointless to ask if anyone else is enjoying Gamers! then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYoH2VI61A

 
whoknows said:
He watched Love Live though, so he watches important anime at least.
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Ya know, I wonder why Time and Eternity never got an anime. Feels like it was robbed, it would have been a masterpiece just like the game

In all seriousness, the cutscenes were like the best part of T&E, right? So an anime would probably have been decent at the very least

 
ar4757 said:
Ya know, I wonder why Time and Eternity never got an anime. Feels like it was robbed, it would have been a masterpiece just like the game

In all seriousness, the cutscenes were like the best part of T&E, right? So an anime would probably have been decent at the very least
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Everything was the best part of Time and Eternity

 
I'm lucky enough to have a good friend who keeps up with the new anime scene. I frequently watch newer series with him, based on his recommendations. This means that there's a huge swath of current anime that I simply don't have to bother with. He will frequently sample all of the newer material, and screen it for me. It saves a lot of time, as I can focus on the shows that have already been vetted.

A lot of my collecting of anime recently has been much more focused on the re-releases of certain classic shows that have long-term appeal. Outlaw Star got re-released recently, and the Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon series have been getting proper Blu-Ray release over the past few years.

As far as anime-inspired games go, I'm really feeling good about the release schedule for the Switch. We're seeing publishers like NIS and Nicalis releasing a sizable number of Japanese games at mid-tier prices. I've missed having proper mid-tier options. We could do with more games coming out in the $20 - $40 range. A lot of upcoming Japanese Switch entries are all coming in around that MSRP.

 
When I was in elementary, we (the dumb boys) thought Ranma was a hentai comic (somehow, remember this is before the Internet), then by jumping through all the hoops, pooling together our snack money, we bought a few volumes and was extremely disappointed that it wasn't hentai at all. But continued to read it because of how funny it was. Couldn't understand most of it though, so went back Saint Seiya and Doraemon etc. Picked it up again in Junior high and had a blast with the (still dumb) boys. Good times.

 
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I buy a lot of anime too.   Was really bummed out when IKEA stopped selling those media sized bookcases that are only six inches deep.  I have limited space and can't find anything with the proper dimensions anymore.  So you're stuck using regular bookcases and only get six shelves instead of nine and have to double stack things.

 
Supplice said:
Warriors All-Stars Receives Details For Strengthening Bonds Off the Battlefield; New Trailer

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So when do we get this scene with Marie Rose and Honoka?

Supplice said:
Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash — Watch 90 Minutes of PS4 Gameplay

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Wow, these guys have faces of steel. I skimmed through it and they didn't smirk, or laugh, or blush, or pinch a tent once. I don't know if they are desensitized to anime boobies flailing in their faces or they are really good actors.

whoknows said:
He watched Love Live though, so he watches important anime at least.
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Not gonna lie, I loved it!

Also, new Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition game announced! For mobile devices. And only for the Chinese Market. Only released in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Yeah...

 
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I used to watch anime a lot more often, but nowadays I don't do it as much. (The same could be said about video games)

I've also gotten into the bad habit of starting an anime and then never finishing it, I know I've done that for a few series last season.

Only if the series is one of my favorites will I actually make sure to keep up with it. Like right now I'm making sure to keep up with Fate/Apocrypha.

I miss when I used to have much more free time.... :(

 
Nothing371 said:
Was really bummed out when IKEA stopped selling those media sized bookcases that are only six inches deep.
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Yeah, a lot of the furniture places have started phasing out media storage. I blame the rise of digital media streaming. These days a lot of people are content to make do with streaming subscriptions. But I'll always be a physical collector.

One of my big problems is just lack of space. I got a lot of those media shelves you're talking about when they were still available, and covered one of the walls of my condo with them. But now I've basically run out of walls. My place is not very big to begin with. In order to consolidate my collection, as well as sock away repeat content, I started storing a lot of my older discs in 3-ring binders. When you "break-down" a DVD, it is possible to squeeze it into a much smaller space. The paper inserts and keep-case covers go in a plastic storage tub, and when removed from the keep-case they can squeeze down real tight. The discs go in 8-disc storage pages in a large 3-ring-binder. I can squeeze 200+ discs in one of those things. The old keep-cases go in boxes in the garage. They're quite hardy, and can endure such an environment once the paper elements have been removed. Using this method I basically mothballed all of my old DVDs, most of which were made obsolete by Blu-Rays. A lot of anime got squirreled away this way. Alphabetizing it was quite the chore.

 
Etrian Odussey stories are all stand alone. EO is a great franchise. Tough but fair and smart combat that expects you to use every single skill point smartly without expecting grind or you to be some autistic total minmaxer.

Breath of fresh air considering the average JRPG barely asks you to think
 
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Re: Anime

I watch a couple of shows a season at best. Last season I watched Eromanga Sensei and Saekano s2, and this season I'm watching New Game s2 and Aho Girl. I don't watch or care about shounen shit anymore. It was fine when I was 14 and watching new episodes of DBZ every day, but waiting a week for what will obviously be a filler episode of a 100+ episode arc can fuck right off. As for buying anime, I only buy Japanese releases. I hate the presentation and dubs of localized stuff. I don't actually play any of the physical media anyway. I just stick to fansubs and buy the releases for a series I actually care about and want to support. 

 
iPayMSRP said:
Etrian Odussey stories are all stand alone. EO is a great franchise. Tough but fair and smart combat that expects you to use every single skill point smartly without expecting grind or you to be some autistic total minmaxer.
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You can grind skill points in EO2. Max, retire, raise level cap by 1, rinse and repeat....... Oh god.

 
EdJericho said:
Also, I guess it's pointless to ask if anyone else is enjoying Gamers! then.
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It's one of the series I'm looking forward to watching once it's over.

That's kind of my setup now since I binge watch a series in a day or so when I have time after they're finished.

Can't do the weekly thing anymore like Dead Texan mentioned, I lose interest.

Still making my way thru last seasons shows. Just finished watching the Danmachi spinoff & Lefiya can burn in hell for all eternity. :whistle2:

 
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Super, super quick Wagamama High Spec Impressions:

Wacky, weird, lots of flirting, so many dirty jokes and not really sure what to think of the story. It's alright so far. I'm guessing the Steam version is pretty racy, but i'll see what the 18+ version has later. Got a different route than expected for choices in Wagamama so must have gotten default path i'm guessing. Will give more impressions after my first route down.

 
BlackRockWaifu said:
:ps4: Superbeat: XONiC $28.74

:ps4: Dragon Quest Heroes II Explorer's Edition $31.92

Yeah, for some reason I never have the patience to sit through anime and just stare at a screen, while text heavy games like Neptunia or visual novels, I can at least fast forward/skip by pressing X. Even for cutscene heavy games like Final Fantasy, I feel like I'm making up "lost time" by playing through it. It's not just anime, I never really watch television shows either, though I love movies. Honestly, if Castlevania wasn't only 4 episodes, I probably wouldn't have watched it either. Most people I think are the other way around, I guess I just lack the patience or have ADD or something. It also doesn't help most anime are subbed, so I can't even do something else while listening to it, and have to pay full attention.

Thanks! I'll definitely look at Hellsing! I've heard it mentioned a lot before, but for some reason I always confuse this with Trigun, I haven't seen either though.

Also, it's possible Castlevania seems so amazing to me since I rarely watch anime, and I tend to have a blast being exposed to things for the 1st time. I watched Love Live like a week ago and thought that was the best thing ever. I also watched the Phantom Menace when I was like 7 years old, before the original Star Wars trilogy, and thought that was the greatest movie ever made. It's only years later I realized what an utter fool I was.

Sadly I have it on PS4, but I do have you added on PS4 though. I've seen you playing No More Heroes, and I remember really loving the art for that game. I gotta try playing it again soon.
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Yeah I knew we were PSN pals but wasn't sure if you had an XB1 as well. If I remember correctly you also live fairly close. We gotta organize a NYC cag barcade funtime at some point....

But also yeah, I decided after years of waiting for it it was time for me to play through No More Heroes recently. I'm enjoying it, but I definitely don't find it as good as Lollipop Chainsaw or Killer Is Dead. I like the characters and feel of the world of NMH more than KiD but KiD just had more entertaining gameplay. Lollipop is still my absolute favorite Suda title. Still worth playing, since I know you like those kinds of games.

draco259 said:
I have it on XB1, have the season pass, and would be down for playing. My username is draco259, go ahead and add me if you want.
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I definitely will add you! I'll pop on Xbox this weekend and add you. I'm Miker525

 
For those who didn't know, the Persona Super Live 2017 concert event is August 2nd

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And we've known at least one new product announcement will be made (Shoji Meguro said as much back in April). A lot of people are thinking an entire P5 anime, which I agree is probably gonna be announced at this event.

Anways, Atlus has had tons of Persona domains registered, like P5A.jp, P5D.jp, PQ2.jp, etc. related to Persona 5 Arena, Persona 5 Dancing, Persona Q 2 and so on, for a few months now.

Well, it ends up they just moved PQ2 to their active websites list, which is what they did a week before Persona 5 was originally announced all those years ago. So I'd say there's a 90% chance PQ2 gets announced also

Source: https://twitter.com/mysticdistance/status/890476680338448385

It makes sense considering Persona 5 Arena is unlikely to come out this year because of that Blazblue Crossover with P4A, UnderNightinBirth, and RWBY. I liked Persona Q because it's based on Etrian Odyssey which, like iPayMSRP mentioned earlier, is challenging with unique combat.

 
elessar123 said:
Wut? It takes 6 years to go through elementary school.

Japan, Taiwan, South Korea etc is elementary grades 1-6, middle school 7-9, high school 10-12.

Also, I don't watch that much anime, despite buying a ton. I used to, 15 years ago. Thinking about it, it might have had to do with playing MMOs. Nowadays, I watch 2-3 a year, it seems. The most recent ones I watched was Gate and One Punch Man. Like 3 episodes of Parasyte and 1 episode of AoT S2. That's basically the last 2 years.
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even more years for the show then ;) Does preschool and kindergarten not count there or are they separate? granted he's long since out of those.

 
ar4757 said:
Happy 10th anniversary (Japanese release) to The World Ends With You, Square Enix's best game imo and one of the best DS games around!

Even though Square Enix and Nomura don't really care about the game one of the lead artists, Gen Kobayashi, cared enough to draw this to celebrate:

twewyanniversary.jpg

Also here's a brand new TWEWY Twister remix for the KH mobile game: https://youtu.be/aI9CCAVJn2g
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ooh nice of him to do that. thanks for sharing ^_^

Nothing371 said:
I buy a lot of anime too. Was really bummed out when IKEA stopped selling those media sized bookcases that are only six inches deep. I have limited space and can't find anything with the proper dimensions anymore. So you're stuck using regular bookcases and only get six shelves instead of nine and have to double stack things.
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If you have a big lots they sell the 9. I can fit 36 ps2 games on one shelf if I do 2 rows. 20 ds/3ds/psp games. not sure about vita since own 3 physical vita games. they aren't six inches though but I suppose you could always saw it in half and have 2 6 inch book cases if you were crazy enough.

 
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Is there something wrong with me that I play a lot of JRPGs and such....

And hardly watch any anime?

Anyyyyways....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn-av_FoECQ

Make of the dub however you will.

And because of boredom, some random stuff to get you ready for Tokyo Xanadu eX+:

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I watch anime, several shows a season. I knew this was going to be a weak season from awhile ago. I watch a bit of every genre, except sports [unless keijo counts].

my interest in video games didn't get me into anime though. I got into it by just stumbling into it on tv one day.
 
 
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Wagama High Spec impression after 1 route:

First of all thank you game for having the other characters around in a route even if they're not the main characters. You of course get less of them, but they're still around. Also one or two secondary characters is actually important for the route, so that's a nice touch. The story I got was somewhat simple, but it was pretty good for a high school romance. The route took believable twists and turns and sounded like well...school kids in that sometimes they needed to focus on studies, or getting into college or such. I'd think i'd give the story so far maybe a fair 7/10. Nothing special, but not stupid either. Drama came late in the route, and made it super cliche though (I'd seen this twist before at least 2-3 times in novels...). It was a decent route before that happened though.

The graphics are good and the characters are all really cute. The scenes are drawn well and looked pretty high budget for a VN. The skip function is actually pretty slow because the characters change their faces/locations many times as they are talking. The voices are very good and the music is pretty good for the most part. I didn't find either of them grating.

Overall so far it's looking like an average 7/10 VN. Also there are 5 18+ scenes per character with one I think having 6. I honestly don't know how the Steam version handles this, but the route would have felt more shallow without the eroge scenes. They generally were well written and as I said before illustrated well. I'd recommend the 18+ version if you can get it.

I will be purchasing Princess Evangile W later on and give some impressions as well. I'll give my Wagama High Spec final impressions as well when i'm done with all 4 routes.

 
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EdJericho said:
Also, I guess it's pointless to ask if anyone else is enjoying Gamers! then.
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I typically don't watch much anime but almost exclusively play Japanese games. I've been watching WAY more this season though since I've been more tired/stressed and haven't felt like games when I do finally get home.

personal life ranting explosion in spoiler like it's LiveJournal in here

My roof leak fiasco has escalated far worse than I ever could've imagined.. A $2,000 repair with several callbacks on the workmanship that did nothing finally turned into "fuck this, I'll just replace it for $5,500".

Oh I wish that were the end of it. We can't pull the permit for the work, because turns out this room isn't up to code and shouldn't have counted as square footage (even though it did when I bought the home) and my inspector, nor appraiser thought to mention it.

I'm also in a weird position where I've been taxed on the square footage, but it isn't legal to count it at the same time because the county appraiser and building inspector offices are separate.

Apparently legal action would (most likely) hinge on proving the seller knew what she was doing, and since she bought it as-is from a bank that wasn't required to disclose any code violation she probably didn't and that leaves me as the fucked one since I discovered the problem.

So now I need like 20-30K suddenly to tear it down and rebuild as a proper addition. I can't just leave it because I can't ever sell the home knowing there's a violation.

The money I had saved was meant to be enough to fix all my house and car issues, but now it's not even 1/3 of what I need for one problem. And since we're stuck with only one working car I'm stuck with ~11-12 hour workdays while sharing.

/endemotionalspillover

So I'm dead inside for now and anime is my savior to zone out the world while exhausted.

Gamers! is great, I'm really loving it. Fastest Finger First is fun as well.

I'm also finally watching Robotics;Notes, as Crunchyroll just picked it up.

 
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Just to chime in on the anime discussion, I also barely watch anime.  About 1 show a year, I only keep up on the scene to see if anything comes out I might like and because I enjoy pointless fandom drama.  Really, I just enjoy the tropes of JRPGs more than I enjoy the tropes of anime.  Climbing a big tower, fighting God, and murdering him with a chainsaw; that's what gets me hyped.  Friendship, powerlevels, and Japanese highschool just doesn't do it for me.

Though it might be that every time I get recommended a show I might like I end up disappointed.  Oh you have to watch Soul Eater, oh you have to watch Hunter X Hunter.  And I watch them, and they're great, and then at some point they turn to shit and I'm stuck with 30 more episodes of a show I'm not enjoying anymore because "I gotta see how it ends", but half the time it doesn't end because they're adapting a manga that's still ongoing so I'm doubly disappointed.  At this point, half the shows I do end up watching are adapting from manga I've already read so I know I'll like.

 
I try to keep hype at a minimum and not tell people that they have to watch anything,. Usually, the show just winds up disappointing them if you do.

I think that people in general should give a little more thought to the shows that they suggest when trying to get somebody else interested in anime.  For example, I would never suggest someone's initial series be something with 50+ episodes like Soul Eater or HxH.  I find that shows around the 26 episode mark are generally the way to go.  The majority of shorter shows throw too much out too fast, and longer shows drag on too long to maintain their interest. 

I think content occasionally gets overlooked too.  Sometimes people lump all of it together into a single genre because that's just how it's been labelled since the days of the "Special Interest" VHS section at Captain Video.  Higurashi, Planetes, Genshiken, and Guin Saga are no more similar than American Horror Story, The Expanse, Big Bang Theory, and Game of Thrones.

 
Supplice said:
Capcom “starting to prepare” multiple Switch-version titles
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Megaman Starforce 4, Legends 3 hype

I wish

JCAll said:
Climbing a big tower, fighting God, and murdering him with a chainsaw; that's what gets me hyped.
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Oh hey like Persona 3

Friendship, powerlevels, and Japanese highschool just doesn't do it for me.
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...also Persona 3 :p

Speaking of which, now a Persona Dancing game is also suspected to get announced, and they had recently asked in a survey if people wanted a Persona 3 rhythm game so that's good

 
Pheria said:
personal life ranting explosion in spoiler like it's LiveJournal in here

My roof leak fiasco has escalated far worse than I ever could've imagined.. A $2,000 repair with several callbacks on the workmanship that did nothing finally turned into "fuck this, I'll just replace it for $5,500".

Oh I wish that were the end of it. We can't pull the permit for the work, because turns out this room isn't up to code and shouldn't have counted as square footage (even though it did when I bought the home) and my inspector, nor appraiser thought to mention it.

I'm also in a weird position where I've been taxed on the square footage, but it isn't legal to count it at the same time because the county appraiser and building inspector offices are separate.

Apparently legal action would (most likely) hinge on proving the seller knew what she was doing, and since she bought it as-is from a bank that wasn't required to disclose any code violation she probably didn't and that leaves me as the fucked one since I discovered the problem.

So now I need like 20-30K suddenly to tear it down and rebuild as a proper addition. I can't just leave it because I can't ever sell the home knowing there's a violation.

The money I had saved was meant to be enough to fix all my house and car issues, but now it's not even 1/3 of what I need for one problem. And since we're stuck with only one working car I'm stuck with ~11-12 hour workdays while sharing.

/endemotionalspillover

So I'm dead inside for now and anime is my savior to zone out the world while exhausted.
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Sorry to hear, hope things turn around for you, as I know what home repair cost can and will become, as I have a few repairs needed currently, that I'm waiting to get fixed(due to time, money, or both).

I do have a question though, I'm not familiar with with your early roof leak issues, but shouldn't any kind of damage or repair fall under your home owners insurance?

I currently have a leak from a window that needs repair, and the only reason I haven't had it fixed by my insurance, is that the deductible would be more than the repair cost, so not worth it, but if the repair was more the deductible, I would for sure have my home insurance cover the issue.

 
Didn't know we were opening the can of worms of house repairs. Just spent four k on replacing my broken fence. So fence is no longer broke, I am.
 
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