Every version of 2012 RaMona in my AUs explained:
Turtles in The Roaring 20s - Raph is a famous jazz singer, Mona is a burlesque dancer from the lower class. Their love is forbidden but they are in a secret relationship.
Mission Failed - 10 or so years after the Turtles failed to save the Earth from the Triceratons, Raph now lives on Salamandria and is married to Mona Lisa. Mona constantly wants Raph to reconnect with his brothers who he hasn’t talked to since they failed their mission, but Raph refuses to listen.
Intergalactic Sisters - April is cockblocking Raph from making a move on her sister, Mona Lisa.
Mazes & Mutants - Raph and Mona Lisa are a barbarian warrior battle couple ready to ruin your day with their chaos. (that or Mona is a pirate instead of a barbarian)
Vampire AU - Raph is a vampire, Mona Lisa is a vampire hunter, hijinx issue.
Medieval AU - Raph is the Prince of the Hamato Kingdom, he falls in love with Mona Lisa, Princess of the Salamandrian Kingdom, but he is heartbroken to discover that she is engaged to his older brother, Prince Leonardo.
Princess Bride AU - Raph is Westly, Mona Lisa is Buttercup, you know the rest.
Human/High School AU - Raph is the trouble making bad boy jock and Mona is the overachieving student who is also captain of the basketball team. He's hopelessly in love with her, but Mona won't give him the time of day, but Raph likes a challenge.
Actor AU - Raph and Mona Lisa are actors for the TMNT show and they fall in love on set, being a couple in the show and in real life.
Greek Gods AU - Raph is Ares and Mona Lisa is Aphrodite (their tale and myth is slightly different from the actual one)
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If Rin watched Frozen, do you think he'd have the self-awareness to see himself in Anna?
I can't imagine a world where Rin drops his horror movie marathon to watch Frozen.
However if he ever watched it I think he would feel the slightest bit of sympathy for younger Anna but it disappears the second he sees Anna spend time talking to Elsa's door instead of doing something to win her sister's attention and praise be better than Elsa.
I can perfectly picture Rin as someone who has never seen a Disney movie so he also has a very skewed view of how the plot will progress. Maybe at some point he's like "Elsa will turn evil because of her powers and Anna is going to have to kill her." And then that's not the plot at all so he turns it off
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i just finished watching nimona and i think it was good, not personally to my tastes but still a solid movie regardless, but the whole damn time i was watching i was Shocked that it was like, a full movie with an obvious budget in the millions of dollars and not a 10 minute indie film with a budget of Maybe 100k from a kickstarter
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I’ve rewatched Episode 0 – Jidai (Eng: The Times) recently. It hits very differently in light of Kiyoshi Kobayashi’s passing.
It's weird to think that in the last few years, several of the people who defined the Lupin III franchise have passed away. There was Yasuo Yamada (Lupin's first VA) nearly thirty years ago; and more recently Yasuo Otsuka (one of the key animators who helped define the series’ art style) two years ago, now Kiyoshi Kobayashi... and most importantly, Kazuhiko friggin' Kato aka Monkey Punch, the guy who invented Lupin in the first place, passed away in 2019. All the big names are disappearing one after the other.
And, well... that's sad, but also that's bound to happen in a franchise that’s 50 years old (55 including manga) and counting. And to me, it puts into light a happier thought: that this franchise has grown beyond what it originally was, and that it's continuing even without these people.
It's not like their passing were great tragedies striking an unprepared franchise and leading it to a crisis. Both Yamada and Kobayashi had trained a successor, and the passing of the flame happened smoothly. And Monkey Punch hadn’t had a hand in the franchise for years when he passed away. They all got to see Lupin III grow, and they passed away with the knowledge that it would keep going on after them. Kind of like parents would shape their child in his first years, but ultimately watch him evolve on his own, in a direction they couldn’t have predicted.
And that's exactly what Jidai was about, right? "When times change, I adapt. That's how I've always lived. But Daisuke Jigen is the only person who never said a thing, who always accepted me the way I was. He's the only stable thing in my life. And I think that's why I've always been able to stay true to myself."
It's about the passage of time and the gentle shift from one era to another, as things and people that we thought were essential disappear, but what matters about them, the things they created, live on and stay true to themselves. I’ve talked about it at length when Jidai aired, through the lense of Kobayashi’s retirement, and it’s still true, maybe even more so, in light of his passing.
Lupin III, as a franchise, is incredibly different today from what it was in its beginnings, in the manga or even in Green Jacket. But that evolution was gradual, and at its core it's still the same characters, with the same values, the same relationships, and that's what make Lupin Lupin. What Kazuhiko Kato, Yasuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kobayashi and the others built is strong enough to outlive them. And I think that's beautiful.
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God damned Andor is real fuckin good. Love that it’s different from pretty much everything else Star Wars in terms of pacing, writing, and presentation. For the first time in a hot minute I can honestly say I’m really excited for the future of Star Wars.
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