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shonenjonah · 20 days
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Rest In Peace, Akira Toriyama. May King Yemma treat him like the hero he is in Other World. Dragon Ball changed the way the world looked at Japanese art … Naruto, One Piece, My Hero Academia, etc. … none of them would exist without Toriyama’s art and influence. The king of action and gag manga. Every single one of us that watched Dragon Ball growing up tried to emulate Son Goku’s Kamehameha or generate enough internal energy to become a Super Saiyan. Hell, when I’m in the middle of a difficult task where I need to push myself, I still yell out “KAIO-KEN!!” with a multiplier based on how difficult the task is … and 95% of the time, it works. Don’t believe me? Ask Alyssa. I cannot tell you the amount of times I watched my Buu Saga VHS boxset when I was a kid, or the amount of joy I got rewatching the series with my girlfriend in the past few years. Sometimes the only happiness I had during a day in high school was taking a moment to read through the Dragon Ball manga, I brought that day, during study hall or lunch. Shonen Jump magazines were my bible. When I heard the news of his passing last night, I’ll be honest, I was not sober enough to process it. I have been avoiding using social media for personal reasons for the past month or so, but this is worth saying something. You are so missed, Toriyama Sensei. Thank you for being there for me through so many difficult and impossible moments in my life. 🐉☄️
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shonenjonah · 2 months
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Ichigo’s new favorite way to play is jumping into his blanket via the laser pointer. Love our hilarious boy.
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shonenjonah · 2 months
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Some Sunday mornin’ ear rubs for the boy!
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shonenjonah · 3 months
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Quite enjoyed completing the epilogue that was released today for the DLC in Pokémon Scarlet. The extra content, in general, has been wonderful and the amount of quality of life improvements they added to the base game really caught me off guard in a positive way. Obviously grateful to be able to use Blastoise again. While the game has its flaws, it does not dampen the overall experience of the game, at least for me. Looking forward to trying out future raid events as they are announced in the future. Love my team, and the boxes and boxes of Pokémon I’ve worked hard to train. ✌️
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shonenjonah · 3 months
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Remember when I used to ONLY wear black socks for the first 30 years of my life? 🧦 I’m folding the laundry at the moment and just taking a moment to appreciate how colorful my sock drawers have gotten in the past two years. 😅 It started with Cobra Kai, but now I’ve got Pokémon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Avatar, Dragon Ball, Kirby, and Naruto! I’ve got too many now, but I love ‘em! 😂
#socks #sockcollection #wowthatreallyisahashtagwithover20thousandposts #cobrakai #pokemon #yuyuhakusho #avatarthelastairbender #dragonballz #kirby #naruto #shonenjonah #shonenphotos
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shonenjonah · 3 months
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I finally gave the live action version of Yu Yu Hakusho a shot this weekend, and you know what? I was really impressed. 💥👈 There was a surprising amount of care for the source material in this show. The characters, for the most part, felt like themselves. AND THE DAMN FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY. WOW. Now, it was never going to come anywhere close to being as amazing as the anime, and it could’ve benefited from eight or ten episodes instead of … FIVE?!?! There should have been a lot more build up to some of the biggest moments and, yes, there isn’t really a Dark Tournament. BUT, the core elements of what makes Yu Yu Hakusho, as a whole, great are there, and it makes for an excellent introduction to this world. It felt like a five hour long movie, which I would take over a two hour long mutilated version of this ANY day. In terms of live action adaptations of manga, it doesn’t quite hit the highs for me as the 2006 Japanese Death Note live action films, or Solanin, but I actually enjoyed it more than something like Speed Racer, and you know what? It actually did something that I thought wasn’t possible. It washed out the TERRIBLE taste the live action Cowboy Bebop left in my mouth … couldn’t get past two episodes. 🤢 Just, if you give it a shot, temper your expectations about seeing all of your favorite scenes. They combine four or five arcs (60+ episodes) into five live action episodes, and the decisions they had to make with the time restraint, for the most part, I can honestly understand. I give it an 8/10.
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shonenjonah · 3 months
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A boy and his Boo. 👻♥️😻
“Still a better love story than Twilight.”
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shonenjonah · 3 months
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I stopped actively collecting Funko Pops a while back, but Alyssa knew that, despite that, I would definitely appreciate the Target exclusive MMPR Dinozord I was having a nostalgic moment with while we were out doing some Christmas shopping, so she gave it to me last night when we exchanged one early gift each. Made me so happy. 🦖🤖
⚡️💛🖤💚♥️💙💗⚡️
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shonenjonah · 3 months
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Alyssa and I have been having a ton of fun with each other in the new Pokémon Scarlet and Violet DLC over the past week, hunting for shiny Pokémon, grinding for rare items, etc. Entirely privileged and grateful to be loved by someone that becomes just as engrossed with my hobbies as I am. (let’s be honest, if at times more than I am! 😅) The best partner I could ever ask for.
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shonenjonah · 3 months
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Celebrating seven years of living in Illinois with this beautiful woman! ♥️ Easily the best seven years of my life. But also some of the most difficult. All of our spoken and unspoken trials have strengthened the threads of our relationship, placing one more piece after another of a puzzle into something that just feels … whole, unlike anything else I could ever compare to previously in my life. What are we going to do today? Well, my woman is just as introverted as I am … so we’re enjoying the new Pokémon DLC together and getting good food tonight, and that’s ALL we want to do, and … I love that!! We don’t pressure each other to do more just because that’s what’s expected. Our constant communication, love, and understanding of each other is something I’m grateful for every day.
Sorry NY, I’m not coming back. ✌️
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shonenjonah · 4 months
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I can’t do a “Spotify wrapped”, but I can do this! My Switch helped get me through … A LOT … this year.
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shonenjonah · 4 months
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When your Linkin Park tattoos make your old fingerless gloves from high school a bit redundant, but you still love them anyway. 😜
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shonenjonah · 4 months
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So thankful for this boy, and everything we’ve been through together. Always by my side, or Alyssa’s. Just can’t help but feel so loved when he lays next to you.
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shonenjonah · 4 months
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Got to put up the tree this morning! 🎄
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shonenjonah · 4 months
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Managed to get the secret ending in my current playthrough of Super Mario RPG last night! ⭐️🎆
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shonenjonah · 4 months
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I don’t use Spotify. 🚫 Too many songs I love just aren’t available on the platform. So, here, have the current version of the 60 song playlist I’ve been listening to on shuffle, to get me through this year. 🎵
A lot of clashing genres, but I don’t give a fuck. You might recognize some of them from the lyric arts I made last month. 🎶
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shonenjonah · 4 months
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I still can’t believe that we got Super Mario RPG remade on Nintendo Switch. Holding my preorder copy last night was surreal. This game means so much to people, and hearing how faithful it is to the original on the SNES … well, I’m just looking forward to diving back into this world again.
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