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i know the original rurouni kenshin wasn't exactly consistently top quality as far as animation goes, but I'm surprised the 2023 series didn't lead with a bigger more impressive fight scene of some sort. I'm eager, if a little impatient, to see what some of the more prominent fights end up looking like

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QUEEN'S SEED[クインズシード]

#manga covers

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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Oh man, i totally missed taht there's been a Rurouni Kenshin reboot last year, but between this opening and these dubs, I'm already pretty disappointed. I'll probably just end up listening to it in Japanese but for nostalgia's stake I would've liked to listen to some hokey english localization but these English performances are just... eeehhhh... it's just not very committed. Even the kind of laughably bad 2000s dubs were at least overwrought. When all else is equal --which is to say bad-- I'll always take a dub the actors are too into, rather than not into enough.

But like this script is also just like, really bad?? I'm also confused as to why they even bothered with adapting the original manga again when there was already a remake of that. I really would have liked to see the super truncated plot of Restoration, along with the Watsuki's sharper, more modern, post-Busou Renkin art style. The art style for this show is weirdly unrelated to any version of Rurouni Kenshin at all... It's really bland and toothless.

also unrelated to the quality of the dub or the translated script but my god this OP is trash

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FUTABA KUN CHANGE[ふたば君チェンジ]

#manga covers

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Shokushu Majutsu-shi no Nariagari [触手魔術師の成り上がり] The Upstart Tentacle Magician

#manga covers #yeah okay unsurprisingly i poisoned the algorithm for this stint of browsing #i gotta reset this private window

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DAINANAJYOSHIKAIHOUKOU[第七女子会彷徨]

#manga covers

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Bartender (2006) - Episode 1

#the first Bartender anime really went above and beyond #in creating a warm and intimate mood and atmosphere for the whole show #9(?) out of the 11 episodes open with one of these gorgeously rendered title cards

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So I can only assume from these Absolute Power teasers that we're going to end up with that classic situation where any Amazo based robot's fatal flaw is that they also copy the weaknesses of the heroes they copy... But if that Martian Amazo is weak to fire.... these days, Jonn isn't like fundamentally weakened by fire, he just has PTSD from surviving the martian genocide. So did they give that robot anxiety?

#martian manhunter #jonn jonzz

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Digging up these early scenes just reminds me how disappointing it was, not just that the whole Failsafe plot turned out stupid and drawnout and nonsense gibberish, but that it started off with SO MUCH potential.

Like, I actually do love the idea of Batman's Tower of Babel continency plan being brought back up to address the idea of what his own failsafe is. I love the idea that the whole scenario is actually a manufactured false positive on Failsafe's activation; that Bruce has been tricked into thinking he killed someone, and thus Failsafe has come online on the assumption that Batman has gone out of control.

Because if it weren't for the stupid introduction of Zur into this equation, I love that there should be a difference between the a real Bruce who is actually still abiding his code but has been implicated in a murder, vs the 12-move-ahead/5D-chess phantom of a purely hypothetical renegade Batman that Failsafe was supposedly programmed to take down.

Like, it could have been a great excuse to try and draw lines around how bad Batman is/isn't, because he's always going to be written such that goofy unaccounted for implications, bad writing, and fridge logic will make him out to be some kind of Frank Miller masked super fascist. But Batman having to outline for himself and for others what he would or wouldn't do, and how that defines what Failsafe's profiling, tactics, and capabilities are is a great excuse to address those things directly.

But more importantly, Failsafe's entire M.O. should have been very very clear. It doesn't need to be a fucking invulnerable super robot that can singlehandedly beat the JL; it doesn't need to have all of Tower of Babel rolled into it. It only needs to beat Batman, and by extension it needs to be built to keep the fight only between itself and Batman.

Like, after being immediately fought to a standstill in hand to hand, in gadgets and other hardware neutralized, and his navigation of Gotham either matched or cut off, Batman's next move should have been the contact the batfam, and he should have found his commlink blocked and hijacked by Failsafe. He should have made the move to contact Clark, and then the reset of the JL and found his emergency beacon, again neutralized. He should have been confident that the batfam or Supes would be able to deduce or detect that something was wrong when he went radio silent, only for Failsafe to be accurately mimicking his communications and life signatures. So not only can Bruce not ask for help, but everyone who tries to do any routine check ins only sees signs that everything is fine and normal.

The key to the entire fight shouldn't be Bruce thinking his way out on the fly, or having a plan, or being prepared, it should emphasize all the ways that once Failsafe is one step ahead, Bruce's only real plan B is his support network, and Failsafe should have cut him off from it. Because THAT's Batman's real weakness, that for all his planning and scheming, he's still just one guy and he knows it, and he trusts and relies on so many other people close to him to make up for that. And that as a theme is such a perfect antithesis to the Tower of Babel. The entire conflict should have been this game of cat and mouse of how Bruce survives without his teams, because in the situation where Batman would have to turn on the JL, that's the situation he'd be left in: without his team.

And more over, as the Most Dangerous Game routine drags on, it should also shed light on how, both in the past and the future, Gotham operates without a Batman.

But the real twist to the whole thing should have been Batman having to turn to Gotham's villains for help, not only because they know how to fight him, but because they're the only people Failsafe wouldn't have been designed to cut him off from. And other than just making for some fun team ups, ultimately his ability to communicate, negotiate, and empathize with villains is the thing that would prove he wasn't the heartless fanatical murderer that Failsafe was designed to stop in the first place.

#dc comics #batman #failsafe

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BAIYAKUZUMI NO MEGAMI-SAMA[売約済みの女神さま]

#manga covers

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let's be real, Zur's batdroid body is a total stylistic downgrade from Failsafe's bayformers-esque jumble of sharp metal bits in the vague shape of a (bat)man. Like, that's just a dude with slightly less of a face and some vents in his torso. Failsafe may have gone from interesting to utterly stupid in just 3 issues but at least he looked cool.

#dc comics #batman #failsafe #zur-en-arrh

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SORA to HOUKI to TOMATO-SAUCE[そらと箒とトマトソース]

#manga covers #glorifying/romanticizing/fetishizing service industry work and its workers never really sits well with me #but i'll admit witch pizza delivery is cute

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Oretama[オレたま]: My balls

#manga covers #as yes classic ero comedy #about a guy with the demon sealed in his balls #and the attempts of a succubus to release her master from them

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Tengai SERIES[天涯シリーズ]

#manga covers

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Kankin Ou[監禁王]

#manga covers

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DEATH BALL[デスボール]

#manga covers #sports manga #sort of...