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aesterblaster · 4 months
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Just saw a really clickbait-y youtube video that called Blue Lock fascist in its thumbnail and I will admit first and foremost that I didn't watch it and yes I've been informed that it isn't implying that Blue Lock is some fascistic propaganda but it still got me thinking so-
here's my rant/breakdown about the ways that Blue Lock is specifically anti-fascist
So first of all, popular animes and mangas having possibly fascist undertones is nothing new. I won't deny that there's a long history of Japan being a colonizer and commiting atrocities that are still brushed off or forgotten about to this day. And this does seep into some works that I personally choose to not engage with for exactly that reason. Miss me with trying to be an apologist for or glorifying real world war crimes- But Blue Lock specifically? I'd be extremely hard pressed to call it fascist.
Fascism is defined as an alt-right, ultra nationalistic political ideology usually characterized by a centralized autocracy, forced suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy and subordination of individual interests for the believed good of the nation or race according to Wikipedia. First let's go through the ways Blue Lock does match up with that.
Ego can be easily viewed as a dictator near the beginning of the manga
Most characters thrive on putting others down for their faults and strictly believe that there is some sort of natural order where people who lack "ego" are at the bottom
There is a sort of central autocracy with the top 6
Near the beginning especially, there is a violent snuffing out of any ideology that dares oppose egocentrism or the idea that you need to be a solid team to win a game
Now let's go through the ways Blue Lock denies and even goes against Fascism.
BLLK's main goal is to make a Japanese soccer team that can win a World Cup. In a more fascist manga, we would see racism ga-fucking-lore. We can see this in animes that have more right wing leaning undertones like Attack on Titan where when race is brought in it's for conflict. There's no possibility of harmony, only winners and losers. Those protected and those put down and punished.
And Blue Lock does have an extreme focus on who wins and who loses. It is not afraid to include racism against Japanese people like with Adam or portray black people in unsettling and kind of racist ways like Dada's original design. But these elements don't automatically spell fascism. Blue Lock is careful to portray characters of color as just that, characters. They don't exist to tell you about their lives of hardship and struggle and they don't exist to justify Ego's obessesion with creating a good Japanese team. As you read BLLK, you'll notice that the artist has taken care to get better at drawing different body types and facial structures. The character design isn't trying to sell some perfect ideal like fascism so famously does, it tells you a peak athlete doesn't have one distinct look. It tells you characters from other countries are just as if not more capable than the Blue Lock boys. Hell, even Sae's hatred of Japanese football is portrayed as less of a betrayal of country and pride and more of a cultural clash. The issue to be solved in Sae's character is the way he looks down on his brother, not how much he despises Japanese football teams' tactics. We know this because Ego himself rails against them too.
A fascist manga would paint Sae as a villain for even learning from and joining teams from other countries, lending them his talent instead of keeping it in his home country. But Blue Lock encourages diversification and collaberation with other nation's teams so heavily that it is literally an entire like 5 part arc right now. Ego isn't ultra nationalistic, he just wants to make a better soccer team for his country and he isn't afraid of praising and adopting from other countries in the process. The biggest win to come out of a Blue Lock team wouldn't be that they're all Japanese but that they all follow his ideology.
Speaking of his ideology, Ego is extremely harsh and controlling, yes, but he also believes in the boys. He lets them do what they believe is best. He pushes them to their limits, not because they disobey him, but because they dissapoint him. A true fascist dictator would rule with fear with no introductions of other ideologies, he would strike at any sign of weakness or opposition. At the beginning, he does do this. But as the manga goes on we see how much wiggle room he's willing to allow. He lets Isagi curse at him and question his leadership, he lets Shidou play even though he's clearly queer and extremely volatile, he doesn't punish any of the boys for injuring each other. In a fascist society, you are expected to fit an ideal or be othered, be perfect and work together with a sense of comradere because that's the only way to prove your claims that you are the best race/nation. There can be no imperfections or cracks in the facade...But Ego lets the boys be messy. He never forces them to change who they are, only forces them to believe that they can do great things all on their own. Even with Kunigami, Wild Card wasn't a correction of his disbelief in some nation or race, but instead a correction of how limited his mindset was. In fact, in a more fascist society, Kunigami's love of playing hero and protecting his teammates would be praised and celebrated. Ego putting individuality and aspiration over the good of the team as a whole is literally a middle finger to fascism.
The villain of the series is literally a greedy Japanese man that wants to commercialize the team and make them less individualized. I don't know how much more anti-fascist you could get-
Also, Blue Lock handles disability very carefully and very well. In more alt-right ideologies than not, something you'll see again and again is this idea that disabled people don't deserve the same rights because they can't contribute to society. Disabled people are a stain to be pushed away and hidden because they contradict the central idea of a "perfect" nation. In a fascist retelling of BLLK, Chigiri would be kicked from the program, not given power and influence. In a fascist retelling of BLLK, Kenyu would be attacked and beaten as soon as it was discovered that he made it into the top-six with failing eyesight. Any physical disadvantage could easily put an athlete at the bottom of the social hierarchy as well, Blue Lock could have very very easily made fun of its disabled characters for even trying. It could get away with mistreating these players and be defended for it so fucking quickly. But instead, it lets you root for them and gives them just as much care and weight as the others. It's trying to tell you that being a good player sometimes means knowing your limits and getting help, not punishing yourself because you have some biological disadvantage. It also takes care to demonstrate that no race is inherently worse at soccer than the other.
And, of course, the elephant in the room, Noa and Kaiser. Okay...if you see German characters and immediately think OMG NAZIS??OMG FASCISM?????OMGGGG HE HAS BLONDE HAIR???AND BLUE EYES?? That's a fucking you problem and you clearly aren't reading the manga. Even Noa Noel being an older man and still being allowed to play and looked up to as the best is an example of how Blue Lock goes against steriotypes about athletes. Kaiser does have blonde hair and blue eyes yes, but he also wears eyeliner and eyeshadow and has a tattoo and dyed hair... None of that would be allowed in an actually fascist Japanese manga unless it was as caricature to make fun of and dominate. But instead, Kaiser is an actual threat who has complex arcs and behaviors. Also, Kaiser isn't fascist himself, he clearly views Isagi as an equal even though they're different nationalities and he doesn't believe in any one authority or greater cause except for himself. Noa is very strict yes, and he does rank and rate the boys, but he specifically doesn't factor race into it. He also, just like Ego, allows other ideas and patterns to emerge even if they mess up his own plans for matches. He doesn't suppress anyone and is actually extremely lax. If you think he or BLLK is "fascist", look at actual real world sports teams and their strict practices or past statements about other nationalities.
Isagi as a protaganist is anti-fascist too!!!! He's a Japanese everyman who has good Japanese parents, no disabilities, an honest personality and believes in a future where Japan wins the World Cup. In a fascist story, he'd be fucking untouchable (ESPECIALLY against characters from other countries) and all of this would be paraded as proof that a Japanese soccer team is clearly superior and all-dominating. But no! He gets beat down, questioned, disrespected and constantly shown up by others. He's not special and he's extremely self-centered. He doesn't water his own beliefs down for the "good of the nation" or whatever the fuck and he grew up idolizing foreign players. Isagi never supresses other people's ideologies, he just makes fun of them if they fuck up. He's never xenophobic, even when other characters have moments that have xenophobic undertoens like Adam or Sae's comments. Isagi Yoichi's character could have a few traits flipped and be a poster boy for some alt-right manga about how superior Japanese people or hell, Ego's pupils are. But he doesn't. He's simply designed and he's rude and he looks down on people, but he also apologizes, humbly accepts when he can improve by questioning his own ideals and is open to talking with everyone he comes across.
Calling Blue Lock a "fascist soccer manga" is not only demonstrating that you have no idea what fascism is, but also disgustingly painting over all the beautiful themes and messages within the manga.
Again I'm aware that that original video wasn't aiming to negate any of these points but I have seen people make claims and jokes before that about Blue Lock's more *beat it into your head* tendencies with ideology. And I've seen jokes specifically about the German team/the way Sae seems to just hate Japanese culture. I just dislike the painting of Blue Lock as a jumping point for discussions about fascism and its effects because of the way it handles themes like cross cultural connection, family pressures, capitalism and disability so carefully.
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About SnK/AoT: What do you think of Ymir as a character? Not the founder Ymir (is this how is she called in English? Idk)
Like, I really started to like her character during the second season, the one that isn't "marry me Christa" all the time, and I think she was outed too soon from the cast- like, I would have loved to see her bonding with Historia further now that the two of them got even closer. So I would like to know what do you think about her and her bond with Historia (outside shipping and all that drama related to it)
Sorry if you already talked about it in the past!
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I think she was a good character but I completely agree with you that she got offed a bit too soon. Or at least, Isayama should have confirmed her death earlier so people wouldn't have had hope for her return. I also hate how Isayama just didn't mention her at all after her letter was delivered (aside from showing small panels from someone's memories) and also reduced her to that hair sniffing joke.
She's a very refreshing female character. Very rough around the edges, not feminine at all, and very blunt. Her character is meant to enhance Historia's character, so she can leave the Krista identity behind and become Historia. This is why it's kind of funny to me when people who like Ymir hate Historia.
However, unlike how many theorized back in the days, she wasn't anyone big, but just a normal orphan girl with an unfortunate past who wanted to protect the person she loved. She had no grand goals like Eren/Zeke or ties to royalty like Historia or anything like that.
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When Ymir is first introduced, her behavior is very harsh, but it's also subtly pointed out that it's a way for her to cope. In the first arc, we don't really know much about these two characters yet, aside from the fact they are always shown hanging out together, and that Ymir s the mean one and Krista is the nice one.
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After the initial first impressions we are shown a flashback where Ymir approaches Krista about her helpful behaviour. There are already hints how she sees through her facade. But the story will come back to this later. Ymir seems harsh, but she has that tough love persona, which will become more clear later. She is always looking out for Krista/Historia. She's basically a tsundere who hides her feelings behind harsh exterior. Everytime the two are shown in other scenes, they are together. The build up is very good.
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In Clash of the titans arc the two become relevant to the plot because Krista holds the key to the secrets of the walls, and Ymir's name is the same as the one the talking titan uttered. Of course, we will later find out the talking titan in Ilse's story used to be a human who was part of the cult Ymir was in and mistook Ilse for Ymir due to her brown hair and freckles.
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We (as in the readers who understand) find out more about Ymir's personality and how she cares for others when she tries to distract Connie from thinking about his family's faith, or when she is reprimanding Sasha for trying to please others, telling her to just be herself.. She's an easily misunderstood character due to the way she behaves. It was frustrating to watch so many anime onlies misunderstand her character.
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In this short moment, Isayama tells us Ymir's sexuality as well as the fact she's not from the walls. Very nice job.
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The way Isayama revealed of Ymir and Krista/Historia's characters was very well written. A lot of people didn't expect them to be that relevant.
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Isayama used Ymir's screentime in general very well. I'm not surprised people fell in love with these two's dynamic immediately. The coming together of two people with tragic pasts and one of them helping the other conquer her inner demons was well done.
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It's wonderful how nicely these two different girls meshed together. Isayama was shining when writing them in Clash of the titans.
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Ymir's influence carries on even after her death, because it's both due to her and Eren's words why Historia rejects the serum in the Reiss cave.
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I also like that this was the last panel of her in present time. The focus was on her, not on Reiner and Bertolt.
But, the end of her character writing was slobby and rushed. It left a lot of people confused by her actions. Why would she do what she did? To give Marley a weapon? To the people who try to kill the people of Paradis, including Historia? Even with possible guilt or empathy towards Reiner and Bertolt, it just doesn't really fit her character, in my opinion. Isayama should have at least shown us a believable transition on how this happened. But he kind of just sped through it. And Ymir getting an off-screen death and only a quick mention by Porco is another thing that frustrated me a lot.
While Isayama used to write both Ymir and Historia so well, he really dropped the ball with them in the last arc. But he did so with many other characters too. It's sad. The bad ending has kinda soured my feelings for snk but I try to take the good parts of it and pretend the ending doesn't exist. Ymir was still overall a good character.
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levmada · 2 months
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hi kane, hope you're doing well :3 for the aot ask game:
2. What is your favorite opening song (OP) from the series?
5. Favorite manga panel?
10. Favorite arc and why?
hiii :3 thx for the questions flo!!!
2: favorite OP
this is SO hard you have no idea :(((( EVERY single song is a masterpiece for me so that can’t go into my decision i mean it😭😭😭
OKAY in terms of the actual OP that plays before the episodes, it has to be Jiyuu no Tsubasa (from s1p2). it’s unbeatable in terms of presentation and animation for me.
in terms of the full song, i’m biased towards The Rumbling for SURE (my metalhead ass lol). but it’s neck and neck with My War.
5: favorite manga panel
answered :D
but i’m subjecting u to more.
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speaks for itself?
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sorry but this is at the top for me LOOK at them (never saw levi squad just hanging out much) (especially levi in his lil malewife outfit) (and oluo trying to imitate him)
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10: favorite arc and why
all the hard choices😔
i know my least favorite one for sure and that’s the attack on trost arc😭it always has me so stressed on rewatches bc eren was either out of commission, dreaming, or out of control. (still 10/10 though) (like all of them).
my FAVORITE arc is clash of the titans (season 2). it’s shorter than most of the others but sets up just as many juicy mysteries as it answers
the action is sort of condensed down to pretty basic sequences (like erwin’s charge -> getting eren back + massacre -> getting titans thrown at them). BUT that’s what’s satisfying about it when the plot is SO fucking confusing. atp SO many characters know SO much shit that the survey corps/we don’t. so on top of the relationship between action and narrative, it’s captivating instead of frustrating because most of the main characters have no clue what’s going on either, and are just trying to stay alive.
EVERYTHING IS SO FRESH AND INTERESTING
you’re also on the edge of your seat the whole damn time while it’s not clear if wall rose is fucked or not.
and obviously this arc has the most iconic twist in the story.
(((the war on paradis arc is runner up, which goes from coming back from liberio to the end))))
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1: don’t know if I ask this already but what story arc would you give to the duo if an actual comic exists?
2: for starknights/titans of tomorrow, is the members powers the same as canon? Like Robert having super strength & Cerdian having water powers.
3: what powers would you add for both teams? I saw a AU where mar’i had invisibility as a power.
4: you know some ppl hate the word moist, what’s something they hate? Most likely Chris hating the word zod.
5: what’s something the duo hates? Homework & chores XD
6: does the duo do anything childish/juvenile like armpit farting or foaming spit out of their mouths?
1) Well……besides their origins first meeting when Chris was 7 and Jake was 5, their first real team ups with Brainiac then later a grand misadventures in trying to recover some stolen Tamaranean and Kryptonian tech, Zod’s invasion and Chris running away to the Graysons’ apartment before he’s able to reunite with his family, Jake discovering a bunch of slain orphans and steers urchins courtesy of a small underground gladiator ring run by Victor Zsasz;
One arc I can give the Duo would involve Chris being captured by warlord Mongul as a representative of earth for a special Mortal Kombat like tournament spanning across the universe with Darkseid being its host and champion to defeat. All of this while Jake anyways abroad Warworld and hides within the ranks of Mongul’s younger warriors in his quest to rescue his friend. A bulk of the arc would focus on the various opponents from across the universe Chris would face that are summoned to his grand event whom the Duo can befriend and others develop into rivalries which can set up for further stories later, culminating with Chris stepping up against Darkseid himself while Jake finally revels himself and takes on Mongul. It’s an epic two front clash that would see all the other tournament participants the two befriended come to their aid and win the fight with their numbers, allowing the Duo to escape with said new friends back to Earth, destroying Warworld in the process and sending Darkseid into a retreat.
2) Pretty much exactly like it is in canon for the lot of them with canonical counterparts. As for say Jasper Logan who’s an OC belonging to @fireflyxrebel-writes and @hains-mae , his powers are more linked to his mother’s dark magic whereas I give him the spin of using said dark magic to create constructs in the shapes of various animals that he can think of then surround himself with said constructs if need be like a suit of armor, a small shout out to his father’s animal based shapeshifting.
3) ah yes, @snothing and the invisibility power for Mar’i. I can probably add both that and also from it Jake’s ability to feel into the electromagnetic spectrum whenever his eyesight fails to function correctly, detecting heat signatures and the energy fields living things can give. Those are probably powers I can later adapt as they two start actually reach their teenager years at least in my version events
4) Chris would feel real…REAL uncomfortable with ‘Abuse’ it just rings too close to home for what he went through. That said he doesn’t want to bring that up to Colin Wilkes regarding his moniker as for Chris, that’ll be rude of him as far as he’s concerned
Jake, humorously, can’t stand ‘Honey-Mustard’ it just confuses him to no end and it kills his appetite for actual mustard which is a shame since like his mother, he loves it.
5) Homework is the bane of the Duo’s existence. The tediousness, the amount of hours it takes for them to complete, the sheer bulk of it they’re given usually due the next day; whenever their parents remind them of homework needing to get done, Chris and Jake have to steel themselves and prepare their minds for the tedium that is to come.
6) Well besides maybe like say Tickle fights between them at sleepovers and even just hanging out by themselves at their base, or even surprisingly causal for them Handstand contests and roll laying as famous Kryptonian and Tamaranean warriors, thumb wrestling, patycake, freestyle dance contests, and tossing snacks into the air to catch with their mouth, those are some things I can see them pulling off
Thanks for the asks buddy XD @pin-crusher2000
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basedkikuenjoyer · 7 days
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Eh, Thursday Afternoon Toriyama posting is fun for now. I'm surprised by how much I've thought about it lately. Not like I'm usually the type to dwell on celebrity deaths heavily, but Toriyama's taken up as much of my mind as when Prince & David Bowie passed close to each other or having the two windows I followed pro wrestling line up with Owen Hart's, Eddie Guerrero's, and Chris Benoit's sudden deaths. We'll touch on it in time but y'all saw Oda is taking a break because of it right? So far I've re-watched a huge chunk of Dragonball and binged the excellent review by Totally Not Mark for Z. I don't think a lot of anime fans, myself included, ever gave Toriyama a fair shake for how truly good DB could actually be.
Like...think about Meruem & Komugi in Hunter x Hunter. How lauded that story is. How much controversy but praise Oda generated by taking such a freewheeling goofy direction with such a late stage of his story. Both of those are just elements of the Majin Buu Saga. Meruem has Cell's design and Buu's arc. And Mr. Satan saving the day by being a good friend and mentor to the Majin? I've always loved that. My actual first exposure was that stretch of the story, staying at a friend's house while Cartoon Network ran a marathon. I liked Videl and we got to see this wonderfully epic clash of titans:
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I remember going back to school in the fifth grade, telling some guy friends who liked the screaming and blowing up Earth shit all about how I finally saw DBZ and they were horrified by how much I loved this nonsense. Mr. Satan is a legend and Goten/Trunks pulling a Vincent Adultman is iconic. But...ma cherie. Android 18 is objectively the coolest thing to come out of that series. You may disagree but it's objective so that would make you wrong. I mean, the Androids alone are already cool as hell for being such a solid callback to the earlier Red Ribbon Army arc. Who could forget 8? Guy was classic. First we have a couple of goofy ones then BAM! kickass young sibling pair named Lapis & Lazuli which is a high watermark in a world with some truly weird names. Since I'll be on about another favorite pair likely somewhat inspired by them tomorrow might as well say it.
That's not exactly off the wall right? Kiku & Izo, Jodio & Dragona, that combat sibling pair of a sister that's feminine but fierce and a kinda fey brother you definitely shouldn't underestimate? Nothing new under the sun but the trope certainly echoes from the Cell Saga. And honestly, can't help but notice that side of Okiku I always want to come out more. Lazuli's best moment that made me love her so much:
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I do like how when she recognizes Goten & Trunks she just takes them out via disqualification using Krillin's disk technique. But I adore the conclusion now as much as I did then. Knowing Mr. Satan was enough of a preening dickhead to pay her double for the glory of the win and throwing the fight. Same flavor as what makes me love Kiku and the Yokozuna as much as I do with a distinctly Nami blend. Tell me those two couldn't play good cop/bad cop to shake someone down.
Honestly a lot of the way I see contemporary One Piece makes sense through that lens, the way the Buu Saga took a different approach was bold and controversial but got the series back to its roots. I bet Toriyama had a lot of fun with it. And thank you for the archetype I love so much even if I didn't fully appreciate the Ur-pair until after I came to love their inspiration.
This is probably too much to get into today, but you can't divorce this from what we know about the Cell Saga, how there was so much editorial meddling when it came to the villains. The more meta elements of how I see Kiku & Yamato, how one is set to age like fine wine even if she wasn't the flashiest and the other will probably never be as popular as you were at the start even if you started white hot. The Android Pair vs. Cell are a great example. Fans as a collective sometimes don't really know what they want, I get why Eiichiro Oda opines about "authors becoming slaves to readers." Weekly serialization is a wonderland. And that wonderland gave us something really cool along the way to giving editors another Frieza.
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linkspooky · 7 months
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TITANS, ISSUE #2 THOUGHTS.
This is way late but welcome back to my continual coverage of the new Titans series currently being released by DC Comics. Goodbye anime it's time to return to my real passion cheesey super hero comics. This is the first series since the N52 and Rebirth reboots to feature the classic New Teen Titans lineup so as a fan of the old comics I'm interested to see where they're taking these characters. Especially since this is the first time in like three reboots the focus is on letting these characters grow up.
This is also running simultaneously with World's Finest! Teen Titans which is bringing back the silver age lineup + Bumble Bee and making them canon again. As a fan of the silver age comics I'll be covering that series eventually too. Anyway, issue number two under the cut.
MEET THE NEW BOSS
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We open with a much younger version of the Teen Titans about to ambush Brother Blood only to find the Justice League has already taken care of them. As far as I know something like this never really happened in the old continuity. Robin always acted separate from Batman that was sort of the point, and the only time they really clashed was the crossover with Batman and the Outsiders. It culminated in a story arc where Dick Grayson realizing he'd been emulating batman a little too much realized he didn't actually want to lead people the same way that Bruce did.
Then much, much later in the JLA and Titans crossover Technis Imperative. So yeah, The Justice League never really sniped one of the Titans targets. It was more of a silver age Teen Titans thing that they were just considered the Jr. Justice League and the Justice League / Their mentors were more active in interfering with them. By the time of New Teen TItans, they were just the Titans their own independent group.
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Wally's not dead (obviously), but an alternate timeline version of him does give us the interesting premise that Dick is tasked with solving a murder before it even happens. It gives Dick a chance to show off his detective training here presenting a unique challenge to his skill set.
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Cyborg's question of whether or not Dick has contingencies in place is a reference to the Tower of Babel storyline where Batman prepared weapons to use against the Justice League with the knowledge of all their weaknesses, only for those same weapons to get stolen by Ra'as al Ghul who put them into place and crippled the league while at the same time sending Batman on a wild goose chase by robbing his parent's grave an forcing him to track down where Ra's moved the bodies in order to distract them. It was a pretty big deal in the pre-reboot continuity.
Dick having those same contingencies shows his control-freak Bruce foiling, but at least he's open about it I guess. I'd say that Nightwing having all of those weapons and contingency plans though does put a little too much power in his hands over the others. The whole point of Tower of Babel is it's not so much about Batman always needing to carry krytponite around in case Superman goes evil, as it is that Bruce needs to feel in control and in order to achieve that he disrespects all of his comrades agency by devising methods to control them.
THough later on Dick does have a point that it's Wally's tendency to rush off immediately without thinking because he is a speedster and therefore stretch himself too thin. IT's the right call to keep Wally close when Dick knows that he's going to get murdered soon, but it's kind of wrong to hold "I can keep you here if I want because I know your weaknesses" over his head to get him to stay.
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Dick makes another controversial decision by putting Donna in charge instead of Starfire. This is probably to give Donna a character conflict.
It's funny that Dick chose Donna over Starfire considering their track record with leadership. One of the biggest fights Donna and Dick ever had is when Dick trusted Donna with leading the team in his absence and Donna let the whole team fall apart. Basically while Dick was gone Cyborg and Beast Boy ran off, Raven was kidnapped by Brother Blood and missing for months and Donna basically sat on her hands and did nothing about it. All because Donna's greatest character flaw is being unable to live up to the perfect image that everyone else has on her.
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It sparked one of the biggest fights Dick and Donna ever had in the comics, they literally got into a fist fight over this. Anyway, in summary Donna does not have the best leadership skills. On the other hand Starfire led the Titans pretty succesfully when they were mentoring Young Justice in the 2003 comics and Dick walked away from the team.
Dick probably just made the call because it's his tendency to trust Donna with everything, due to their close friendship.
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At least it doesn't get in the way of Donna and Starfire's friendship. There's a funny little nod here to the New Teen Titans which had pretty constant inner-group conflict, to the point Cyborg would make fun of it by calling their lives a soap opera. The Titans are pretty famously a dysfunctional found family. We'll see if they keep that element in or not.
Two more things set up for future issues, number one it's Garth's turn to be brainwashed by Brother Blood this week. Garth seems like the natural choice to get brainwashed, despite being a member of the original four he's kind of been more of an outsider to the group. In the original silver age titans he felt so insecure about his place in the group he literally developed an illness and had to quit.
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The second is that it's mentioned that the explosion that started the fire is Tamaranean in origin. Considering Starfire's Tales of the Titan comic deals with her encountering a pair of sisters with a healthy relationship, and featured an off-hand mentioned of Blackfire.
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This could be foreshadowing the return of Blackfire, which I'm excited but also nervous for. Blackfire is one of my favorite villains in all of comics, but her relationship with Starfire is often reduced to "Starfire is the good one, and Blackfire is the bad one" when in the New Teen Titans it became much more complicated than that and became a pretty nuanced analysis of the conflict between a golden child and a scapegoat.
However, my hot take about Blackfire and Starfire's relationship is a rat for another post, so I'll just end things here.
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kimium · 2 months
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I was tagged by @m34gs in this post HERE! Thanks for the tag, friend! Took me a moment to figure out how to do this. Anyways, I'm done, so let's talk about this!
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Anime with a Favourite Opening/Ending Song:
While this was a touch choice, and almost went to Attack on Titan, I picked Jujutsu Kaisen because it's one of the rare anime when I love all the openings. If I had to pick a favourite opening it's a tie between VIVID VICE and Specialz.
Anime you recommend others watch:
Without a shadow of a doubt I recommend Anohana to everyone. It's a coming of age story centred around a difficult topic, yet there are light moments. However, it's an anime that always makes me cry, so be prepared to not just watch a coming of age story but also an emotional character dive.
Anime that shares a genre with the centre anime:
It would have been easy to pick another adventure/fantasy/sci-fi anime and call it a day, but I think I did well picking Sabikui Bisco. The anime is set in a post apocalyptic wasteland. There is awe and wonder outside of the city but also danger. Government cannot be trusted and medicine/scientific advancement is a key element to the story, which are all elements that FMA has.
Anime that shares Eng. VA with touching square:
Laura Bailey who voices Lust in FMA also voices Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket! Actually, Fruits Basket and FMA have many English VA overlaps, but Laura is the one I first thought of!
Favourite Anime of All Time:
Fullmetal Alchemist is my favourite manga of all time, so I had to go with the 2009 remake. While the 2003 anime still holds a nostalgic place in my heart, nothing compares to the manga's story to me.
From the plot, pacing, character arcs and design, and art direction I truly believe Fullmetal Alchemist is a near perfectly written and produced series from Hiromu Arakawa.
Anime that shares Japanese VA with touching square:
Paku Romi who voices Edward Elric in the Japanese version of FMA also voices Hitsugaya Toshiro in Bleach.
Shares a Similar MC Energy with centre square:
The obvious comparison is Senku and Edward are both genius scientists who did the impossible (Senku with his counting and Edward with human transmutation), however there are other traits the two share. Both have a bit of a mischievous side and both can be singularly focused on their scientific goals. Finally, both are hopeful in the face of peril and use their wits and scientific knowledge to win in the end.
Also, as an extra fun fact the English VA for Senku is Aaron Dismuke who voiced Alfonse Elric in the original 2003 FMA anime.
An Anime you read/have the manga of:
I've been reading My Hero Academia (or BNHA) for years. While I don't own it, I read it on the Shonen Jump app. It's a series I'm also enjoying the anime adaptation.
A series with your favourite ship/ship dynamic:
Soukoku (or Dazai/Chuuya from Bungou Stray Dogs) is both my favourite ship in the series and also my favourite ship dynamic.
My favourite part about Soukoku as a ship is the underlying loyalty and trust the two have in one another. Despite everything: their personality clash, their first meeting, Dazai betraying the Port Mafia, they still care for one another. In their own weird ways, yes, but care none the less. How else can the series explain the convoluted schemes in both Dead Apple and in Season 5? That's some "we're two halves of the same whole" level of trust there. They're not even being subtle.
I tag: @a-little-harmed-shinra, @someobscurereference, @shreedle, and @memoryoflife.
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Do you think toh needs a reboot? There's lots of things that I don't like how were handled in the show but it's also painful to give up on them when you think of the better ways they could've worked out, characters, backstory, plot, everything in general.
I wouldn't mind a reboot tbh, but then again you mentioned that the show isn't quite concious of it's own identity. So I guess unless they work with better writers, it won't make a big difference even with the time needed.
The short version of this is that TOH's inherent flaws mean that… No. A reboot won't help it, it'd be a nightmare to try and adapt or reboot in general and it's never going to see one in animation that could improve much on the version we got except for cleaning up mistakes made because the writers weren't thinking about the consequences of their character's actions.
And this mostly has to do with its crises of identity being a very core part of its image at this point. If you try to refine it into an adventure series, into a school drama, into a more traditional fantasy story or one of the half dozen identities you could place on TOH, it becomes effectively a different show. It's going to feel different, it's going to be different, etc. like that.
So the first problem with even conceptualizing a reboot is you have all these disparate, clashing elements that barely interact and never were enabled to properly interact in the show so… What do you emphasize, what do you de-emphasize? Because no matter what, you're pissing SOMEONE off. If you lean into the childish nature of S1 then you annoy people who prefer the darker, more serious tone to S2. If you lean into the school stuff, Eda's plotline with her sister becomes more neglected and S1 doesn't feel as coherent while Belos feels like even less of a figure than he already does. If you lean more into the Owl Family, you lose as much time with Amity so her character arc is going to suffer, Lumity takes longer to happen naturally and you probably get called racist because people already call the show racist for how little it cares about Gus and Willow.
Quick note for another blog: I don't think race had literally anything to do with Gus and Willow's treatment. They simply stop having a place in the narrative post S1, even arguably after Luz becomes friends with Amity. They look the way they do for design variance and demographic numbers and that's probably it.
Anyways: No matter what, you cannot fix the conceptual problem of TOH being everything that Dana wanted to say and do alongside throwing in the kitchen sink. The only way to smooth out The Owl House is to literally smooth it out. Just flatten it into five or more seasons so it has the time to breathe and actually explore EVERY concept and even then… Yeah, that definitely gets into needing better writers than TOH has who can follow through on the ideas they have. After all, just because they would have more time doesn't mean they have the skill.
And you would need that promise from go so the writers could plan that out properly and… That's never going to happen. Especially not for serialized content like The Owl House, not in the current media landscape that we have. This isn't even because the show is bad. Quality has VERY little to do with whether something gets renewed nowadays. And if you want to get renewed consistently beyond three seasons (and iffy on even that) you need to hit one of two different options.
The first is for broadcast television where ease of programming, cheapness, and advertising is king. This is where you get why Teen Titans Go has two movies and a billions episodes. That show is entirely episodic and thus very easy to break up, throw into a hole in your broadcast schedule, easy to make marathons because you can just slap a bunch together without care, etc. like that. The animation is also incredibly simply and the show in general is probably very cheap to produce. Its writing style of literally anything goes adds to this fact. Cartoon Network can probably make five episodes of Teen Titans Go with the budget Disney gives for ONE Owl House episode and it works better for the company's goals monetarily.
And yes, Teen Titans Go is bad. It's WAY worse than The Owl House. But quality doesn't matter here. What matters is that it's easy, it's cheap, it has brand identity and is easy to merchandise. It is profitable, safe and people see it as easy to sit their child in front of for when they need the television to babysit.
The other option is streaming services and you're not going to get a 100 episode contract for a streaming service. Yes, they want cliffhangers and serialization to make sure you binge and continue subscribing even between seasons but that's also why streaming services are all or nothing. You either are so big that you will continue to pull people for months after your release or they don't care about your small squad of dedicated fans.
And TOH… Didn't become a cultural phenomenon. It was genuinely nothing special to most people, if they'd even heard of it, until Grom. Outside of that, it was just known that it had above average animation when it launched and… That's literally all I ever heard about TOH until I joined the fandom inbetween S1 and 2. And by then Netflix would have cancelled the show most likely.
Because TOH didn't break any records. It didn't light the world on fire. It didn't even cause some giant discourse that rattled through the internet on all fronts. And that means streaming services would probably rather invest in another attempt at a new Walking Dead or Game of Throne rather than continue the show. It's those record breaking numbers that got Velma and Wednesday renewed after all, not their quality or anything like that. (This isn't me condoning these practices btw. I think it's a real problem like everyone else and that it has to do with a lot of focus on short term gain rather than long term retention but I'm rambling enough as is)
And The Owl House never had that clout. Ever. I mean, how many people always had to add caveats to what made The Owl House special like "On Disney" or "in a prime time kid's show" rather than the show actually being special on its own merits? Especially now? There is one last option and that's of course a reboot that doesn't happen in the next five years but instead is closer to 20 when enough time has passed that radical changes might be allowed. That's the Voltron and She-Ra method effectively. Except... That's where we get the fact that Voltron and She-Ra were big properties at their time, never truly forgotten and have strong nostalgia attached to them. They pushed toys, they pushed consumers and those IPs had a real value to them, even to the current day but to revive them took a delicate touch because cartoons are different now. And TOH just doesn't have that power. That impact and care. And there is a LOT to be said about how it's much harder for shows to have that sort of impact nowadays but that's beyond the scope of this blog. The main point is that in 20 years, why would a studio choose to give TOH that much love and attention versus any of the other cancelled animation projects around this time? Especially something that did get to do its full run like Amphibia?
So… Is there a way The Owl House could get the time it needs to explore its whole identity and possibly become better? Yes? In a webcomic, manga or book. Animation is simply too expensive a medium and not regarded well enough that it's going to get the time but things like webcomics, manga and books are known for being more drawn out, able to do more with that space and more independent because the overheads are a LOT less than other mediums. After all, you only have to pay one writer and maybe a couple editors for a book.
But… I don't think Dana has the skill or attention span for any of those mediums. Not if she's working solo. If you look at her solo episodes in TOH, they have some really powerful moments and statements in them… And also some of the most meh B plots, some of the larger narrative cheats, show blatant disregard for her own world building and even at times had to have major plot points in them retconned by future writers because Dana wrote the show into a corner while trying to be clever. It shows someone who would be much better on an anthology series or an episodic series than ANYTHING serialized.
Remember, Dana wrote Reaching Out, where everyone just forgets that being a Wild Witch is met with the death penalty and is not just equivalent to college, which is how Amity and Alador treat it, let alone the twins celebrating becoming outlaws like they just joined a special club.
So in general, I don't think The Owl House is going to see a revival or the like. I think the best thing that could happen to The Owl House's legacy is that people figure out which parts they like the best and go on to make media inspired by those parts of TOH. Because I feel bad for anyone who tries to adopt TOH as a whole.
Because I just don't think it's possible to capture TOH's essence without also bringing along its crises of identity. The two are too intertwined and that was always going to hold the show back.
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Wonder Woman Cinematic Universe Pitch
And now, to present my pitch for a Wonder Woman series, mostly set within the Cinematic Universe already set up with Superman and Batman, that works in most of the Wonder Woman villains and allies that I've covered in the last month or so. Here we go:
We will start with a Wonder Woman trilogy, starring Diana, beginning with an entry in Phase One (unlike her two counterparts), to get an early start on establishing magic and gods in this world. The trilogy will include:
WONDER WOMAN I: Instead of being set in World War II, we'll take a different tack and set it in a more modern day war setting, with Steve Trevor, and others such as Etta Candy and Barbara Minerva, working for the U.S. military, tracking down a terrorist operative named Paula von Gunther, who has been searching the Mediterranean for powerful ancient relics, armed with chemical weapons from her minion Dr. Poison. This search would lead both parties to the island of Themyscira, thus roping in Diana, but differentiating things from her original movie. Hippolyta, Donna, Nubia, and others would all be featured here too, and the history of their war with Ares.
WONDER WOMAN II: After the defeat of Gunther and Poison, and helping the Justice League fend off Zod's invaders, Diana would seek to explore the world with Steve, Etta, and Barbara. Their journeys would lead them to Egypt (part of a larger Phase II segment introducing us to Hawkman and Hawkgirl, Vandal Savage, and Shazam), with Diana discovering Bana-Mighdall, clashing with Artemis throughout, and the White Magician acting as the true main villain. We will also delve into Barbara's feelings of inadequacy that the White Magician will prey upon, leading her toward . . .
WONDER WOMAN III: Barbara will leave the crew, seeking a power and strength of her own. She will encounter what seems to be an African God who grants her wish for power, transforming her into the Cheetah, only for him to turn out to be Ares, leading into later stuff, but with Cheetah acting as the main final villain.
We will also have a Wonder Girl trilogy, falling in between these three films in the same vein.
WONDER GIRL I: A school archaeology expedition in the Aegean Sea will get caught in a storm and end up marooned on Circe's Island, all the students taken captive (these students will include Cassie Sandsmark and Vanessa Kapatelis). Without Diana around, Donna will set out to try to save them, making friends with Cassie and working together against Circe. Medusa will also crop up summoned to fight them by the witch.
WONDER GIRL II: Donna will start school in the mortal world with Cassie and Vanessa, encountering a giant woman who seems confused, only to learn that she is a gorilla named Giganta, forcefully evolved by a man named Doctor Psycho, with both acting as villains, but Giganta being reformed in the end.
WONDER GIRL III: Similar to Cheetah's arc, Vanessa will similarly have her insecurities played upon, this time by Circe and Doctor Psycho, having her be transformed into the Silver Swan.
In between all of these, Justice League and Teen Titans movies will feature both Donna and Diana. Queen Clea will feature early on in one of these movies, with Diana and Aquaman stumbling upon each other as both try to fight her. We, of course, will also have:
50s WONDER WOMAN ANIMATED COMEDY: Same as the Superman and Batman movies, but this one will feature Eviless and Hypnota and delve into the whole Saturn slave ring plot.
As we've been building up, we will then have a War of the Gods two-parters:
WAR OF THE GODS, PART I: The first will deal with Ares' escape from the Underworld, facilitated by Circe forming Villainy Inc. through Cheetah, Silver Swan, Giganta, Doctor Poison, Queen Clea, Blue Snowman, and Zara, all of whom Diana and Donna will discover have been held on Themyscira to be forcibly rehabilitated by the Amazons. Nubia will also play a major role, as Doom's Doorway will be a major part of the story, and Paula von Gunther will choose to turn down Circe's offer and help the Amazons instead. In the end, though, they will succeed in opening the doorway to let Ares out, only for someone else to break free instead.
WAR OF THE GODS, PART II: Setting Ares free will also set loose a being known only as "The First-Born," revealed to be the first-born son of Zeus, cast out due to fear that he would kill Zeus as Zeus killed his father. The First-Born was found by Cronus in Tartarus, and raised to be the perfect god-killer, storming Olympus and killing many of them. Ares will also get a heroic death in the end, as will Hippolyta most likely. Many of Villainy Inc. will also die, but Cheetah, Giganta, and Silver Swan will likely reform. Also, Artemis should also return to life through the same doors to help fight.
And that's pretty much it. What do you think?
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it's been a couple years but i think my ranking would be
uprising
war for paradis
clash of titans
return to shiganshina
female titan
rumbling
marley
trost
return to shiganshina is 100% def the best arc in the anime but tbh i got bored reading it when it was coming out. and the reiner stuff in marley is brilliant but not enough to move it up. historia + ymir are unparalleled and trost is just babey before anything (erwin) is happening
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Jean and Connie should have become Yeagerists (a 〜very〜 unpopular opinion)
Disclaimer: contains ending spoilers so anime-only nation proceed with caution
Warnings: mentions of death and genocide; obscene language (?)
a/n: it's not a hatepost on the ending or anything. Jean and Connie are my faves in the Survey Corp so I want to explore some of the ending options with their characters
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Many people say that chapter 123 was the last good chapter in SnK and it started going downhill from that. I personally didn’t mind the last chapters (hell, I still haven’t formed an opinion about the ending). And I didn’t seem to notice the “downgrade” in content quality until I’ve reread chapters 128 and 129 — the whole battle of the port. I’m referring to the murder of Daz and Samuel and how conflicted Connie and Armin felt about that.
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On my first reading this moment literally brought me to tears. How much has changed in those 4 years, how black-and-white it all was in the beginning and how people who used to be comrades are now forced to be at each other’s throats. 
Shout-out to Isayama-sensei for including a flashback with Bertolt. Although Bertolt’s words here are not stated, it’s implied that it’s “someone has to get this blood on their hands”
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Connie is also a brave soul for having it in him to kill his former comrades. (my poor baby has suffered so much already)
But as I’m reading this now… It seems so lackluster to me from a dramatic standpoint. I get why it’s hard for Connie and Armin and the murder felt so emotional because I’ve known their characters for so long and empathized with them. In short, it was hard for me to read because it was also hard for the characters to do. 
But come to think of it, why should I feel sad about the death of Daz and Samuel? They don’t have any outstanding personalities apart from Daz being a scaredy-cat. The last time I saw them was during the Battle of Trost, not to mention flashbacks in the Clash of Titans Arc. Hell, even in the official Encyclopedia Samuel was erroneously stated to be dead. And after more than 100 chapters they bring those characters back just to kill them off and then expect me to care? 
So I was thinking — how to make it more dramatic? An idea came to me. Now hear me out because it would (kinda?) make sense in the end. 
*deep breath in* Jean and Connie should have joined Yeagerists. I think it makes sense from a motivational standpoint. Because — let’s face it — all of the Alliance members have their reasons to stop Eren and the Rumbling.
☆ For Reiner, Annie, Pieck, Falco, Gabi, Magath and Onyankopon it’s to protect their homeland and their loved ones from being trampled to death.
☆ For Mikasa and Armin it’s to bring Eren back home.
☆ For Hange it’s to stop the meaningless genocide. 
☆ For Levi it’s not to stop the Rumbling per se but to kill Zeke and through his death give the meaning to the lives of his comrades that were sacrificed (at least that’s what I understood from chapter 112 don’t @ me)
But when it comes to Jean and Connie there’s no clear motif behind their actions. Why did they join the Alliance in the first place?
You know, for a story that’s built around the idea that there is no good or evil, the ending sure does come off as being lopsided when all of the main characters that we care about unite against the forces of evil. No matter how main of the character Eren is, he is not enough to tip the scale and make the viewers cheer for his victory. Not to mention Floch — I know Isayama-sensei stated that he made Floch into a Yeagerist just to create some opposition against the Alliance — but considering how disliked Floch was even in the Return to Shiganshina Arc, it’s still not looking good for Yeagerists.
Why not 〜increase the tension〜 and have Jean and Connie join the Yeagerists? 
First of all, out of the whole Eren’s friend group Jeanis the only person to question Eren’s true motives. Even his best friends couldn’t come to the conclusion that it was unusual for Eren to act like this. And Jean was right in the end.
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The activation of the Rumbling is basically the point of no return. If before Paradis had a small chance at ending the cycle of hatred between Eldians and other nations and mending the relationships — now it is hopeless.
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Jean is not driven by idealistic motives like Armin or Hange. The Rumbling leaves no other options — either the outer world is destroyed and the Paradisians live in prosperity or the Alliance stops the Rumbling which would spell the end for the Island. It’s in Jean’s egoistic (and kinda cowardly) nature to question Alliance’s plan. Jean doubts that they even have a chance at stopping Eren. And that’s true. It was a fucking miracle that the Alliance stopped the Rumbling with NO casualties (Hange doesn’t count they died before the Battle of Heaven and Earth). 
Jean acts as the voice of reason. His sense of self-preservation doesn’t allow him to be with a group that is being hunted down and join them on their suicidal mission. 
But then the thought of Marco convinced Jean to agree to the Alliance’s plan. 
“You know... I wished I could've stayed cooped up in my room, ears shut... But... If I had... The burnt ashes of the dead would never have forgiven me…”
I get what Hange says in chapter 127 about the fallen comrades and that they would never sacrifice all of humanity for the sake of their island. The same thing with Marco — I can’t see this precious boy being ok with genocide. But Marco has been dead for 4 years. Back in those days when everything was black-and-white and the Pure Titans were the only concern for humanity, it was easy to distinguish right and wrong. Marco didn’t get to see the ocean and find out the truth about the people outside the Walls. So it’s hard to tell what Marco’s opinion on genocide would be. In this situation it seems counter-intuitive to look for future-determinative answers in the past when the past was so drastically different. So at this point (when deciding on which side he is on) Jean should have left the memory of Marco and aimed for the future i.e. siding with the stronger group that shares the same goal —  successfully finish the Rumbling — and that will appreciate Jean’s support. The Yeagerists.
So I guess it would be in character for Jean to accept Floch’s offer (but for different reasons, his ambitions would have nothing to do with this) and decline the Alliance’s offer to join them.
As for Connie… It’s so sad to see this cheerful baby have all of the joy sucked out of his life. Unlike the golden trio Connie didn’t go through the loss of his parents and family. Up until the Clash of the Titans Arc he doesn’t have any particular reason to be unhappy with his life. But then chapter 37 happens — and suddenly Connie loses his entire family. And not only the family, his entire fucking village — the place where he was born and raised. What’s sad about this is that at this point in the story Connie does not even know what exactly has happened to his parents and siblings. They’ve just disappeared and all that Connie gets to find is a Pure Titan laying on top of his house.
Later Connie learns that the population of Ragako was turned into Titans for the sake of the Marleyan military operation (he finds out about this much later but still) and the Pure Titan was actually his mother. But this knowledge doesn’t bring any relief. In fact, now he knows that his family and fellow countrymen were indeed killed in their Titan form. All he has left is his mother but it’s very likely that she will stay a Titan for good.
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After 4 years I think Connie gets used to the fact that he is never getting his mother back and finds a new family in his friends — Jean and Sasha (mostly Sasha). 
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And then Connie suffers another blow, Sasha’s death. And again, she dies as the result of the cycle of hatred that has been going on for 2000 years. (Connie himself doesn’t openly blame Gabi for the murder of Sasha so hush)
All of the deaths that deeply affect Connie: his family, the population of Ragako, Sasha — are caused by people from outside the Walls. Those losses break Connie and he consequently becomes spiteful and aggressive. It comes to the point that Connie doesn’t hesitate and kidnaps unconscious Falco when he learns about him becoming one of the Nine Titans. Connie, this goofy guy as we know him, is willing to kill a child — all to get his mother back. 
Connie has no one left apart from Jean. Hatred towards the Paradisian took all of the people he loved from him. Blinded from grief and emotionally scarred, he is ready to do anything in order to protect the few people he still has with him. Connie would want to break the cycle of hatred so that nobody could hurt the people from the island, his friends, anymore. With the Rumbling activated and being in full swing — all it takes is to wait until all of the other nations are wiped out thus destroying one of the sides of conflict.
Of course Connie would realize how cruel it is to let other nations be crushed to death — even after having kidnapped Falco and while being confronted by Armin and Gabi he is aware of the foolishness of his actions. Maybe they would have had the room and the time for negotiations, but the Rumbling left them no other options. 
So I guess it would also be logical for Connie to join the Yeagerists in order to make sure that the Rumbling is carried out fully and on all continents.
Now 〜imagine〜 with Jean and Connie joining the Yeagerists and being in port. How gut-wrenching it would be to watch the Alliance fight not some NPC Yeagerists but their actual friends.
Ok my rant is coming to the end now sorry if you don’t like it. Just wanted to share my very unpopular opinion. 〜bye〜
p.s. sorry for shittily photoshopped together manga panels
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One Piece Sets Sail for a New Dawn with WIT Studio at the Helm
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Calling all Nakama! Brace yourselves for a news wave that’ll rock the Grand Line — One Piece, the epic pirate saga that’s enthralled millions, is setting sail for a breathtaking remake, and none other than the animation maestros at WIT Studio are steering the ship!
Imagine Luffy’s stretchy grin rendered in the dynamic animation that brought Attack on Titan’s epic clashes to life. Picture Zoro’s three-sword symphony wielding the fluidity that graced Vinland Saga’s battlefields. These are just glimpses of the visual feast awaiting us in this retelling of Eiichiro Oda’s legendary tale.
But this isn’t just a paint job. WIT Studio has promised a fresh breeze through the East Blue Saga, the series’ beloved origin arc. Think tighter pacing, streamlined storylines, and an even deeper dive into the world’s rich lore. This isn’t about erasing the past, it’s about polishing it like a pirate’s prized treasure, shining new light on familiar moments and characters.
So, what treasures await? Will Chopper’s adorable clumsiness be cranked up to eleven? Will Sanji’s nosebleeds take on an operatic intensity? Will Nami’s navigational genius be portrayed with chalkboard diagrams worthy of Tony Stark? Only the sea breeze of anticipation can tell.
This remake isn’t just for old pirates, though. WIT Studio, known for their knack for captivating new audiences, promises a retelling that’ll hook a fresh generation. Imagine introducing a child to the Straw Hat Crew through animation as vibrant and action-packed as their wildest dreams. It’s a gateway to a world bursting with laughter, tears, and adventures that make your heart sing “We Are!”
Of course, some may grumble about revisiting old waters. But let’s be honest, even the most seasoned Straw Hat fan could use a refresher on Sabo’s fiery loyalty, Arlong Park’s gut-punching arc, or the heart-stopping thrill of Luffy’s first Gear Second. It’s like returning to your favorite port of call, greeted by familiar faces and breathtaking vistas, but with a delicious new rum cocktail in hand.
So, raise your Jolly Roger high, Nakama! This is a call to arms for seasoned adventurers and wide-eyed rookies alike. The grand adventure called One Piece is embarking on a fresh voyage, and we wouldn’t want to miss it for all the buried gold in Davy Jones’ Locker. Set your sails, gather your provisions, and prepare to be swept away by a tidal wave of storytelling prowess from WIT Studio. The One Piece remake is coming, and it’s sure to be a legendary journey.
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —  DANIEL SIMMONS | Writer POP-COOLEDTURED SPECIALIST cooledtured.com | GROW YOUR COLLECTION
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Powerhouse Animation Round-Up: All The Netflix Original Series Ranked
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We’re always having conversations about Disney Animation, Pixar, Dreamworks and Illumination. But one of the most overlooked animation studios out there is Powerhouse Animation. The studio responsible for some of the greatest animated series of the last few years, all exclusively on Netflix. So it’s time to do a Powerhouse Animation round-up of their best shows available on Netflix. Please note that this Powerhouse Animation round-up will be a spoiler-free discussion of all of their series on Netflix. So read on and then check out the shows yourself. Skull Island Kickstarts The Powerhouse Animation Round-Up Powerhouse Animation’s most recent release is a continuation of the MonsterVerse, with Skull Island. The show continues the story from the live-action Kong: Skull Island movie, in a new and exciting way. I loved the show, and how much it added a new spin to the existing universe of Kong and monster movies. And despite being the fifth entry on this list, it’s still a great animated series. Skull Island incorporates the traditional Powerhouse Animation style into jungle locales and exotic monsters, which is kind of a first. The show uses shadows and underwater animation in a really cool and interesting way. While most of the animation is in the classic 2D format, they use textures and layers in ways that are very unique and innovative. Masters Of The Universe: Revelation Is Powerhouse Animation's Most Visually Stunning From the mind of geek-king Kevin Smith comes the sequel to the original He-Man series from the 1980s. Along with a brilliant writing team that compromises writers like Marc Bernardin, Masters Of The Universe: Revelation is a direct continuation to the original He-Man show, that takes the story in a brand new direction. The show homages the original’s roots and spirit while updating the approach for a new generation. Powerhouse Animation does an incredible job of updating the look of the original series with brand-new animation and styles to the existing characters. The updated visuals complement the story in a great way. Not to mention the action is drastically different from the original with Powerhouse really going above and beyond with the aesthetic of the show. Blood Of Zeus Is Powerhouse Animations’ Clash Of The Titans Blood Of Zeus is another amazing Powerhouse Animation original that takes on the Greek mythology universe, excitingly and dramatically. While the story is absolutely brilliant, putting a new take on the Greek Gods, the animation style is breathtaking. The way that Powerhouse shows off Greek Gods with glowing light and larger-than-life backdrops of Mt. Olympus, is very stunning. An achievement that’s even greater when you think about how many other depictions we’ve gotten of these characters in various other media. So to find a new way to visually showcase these classic characters is very impressive. Powerhouse’s animation complements the story of Blood Of Zeus that much more with some amazing visuals and insane action sequences. There is a mix of horror, supernatural, demons and God-like characters that give audiences a lot to behold in Blood Of Zeus. The show itself is one of the best new animated original series of the last decade. And definitely worth a watch. Seis Manos Is An Underrated Anime From Powerhouse Animation One of the more hidden gems in this Powerhouse Animation round-up is Seis Manos. Imagine an anime series with Latino characters who know Kung Fu, with supernatural elements blended into the story. It’s a genre mashup for the ages that doesn’t rely entirely on this gimmick. The story and characters are moving and have so much depth Their character arcs are superb and add substance to the action and visual components. The action choreography in the style of 70’s action movies is incredible. The vibe of the series is very much that of the 70’s martial arts Bruce Lee movies while adding many horror and supernatural concepts as well. And seeing action done in animation so wonderfully is a feat in and of itself. Powerhouse Animation Round-Up Ends With Castlevania! Probably the series that brought the most acclaim to Powerhouse Animation, not to mention kickstarted Netflix’s anime library, is Castlevania. The 90s video game adaptation is a brutally mature anime that is one of the best works of storytelling I’ve ever seen in anime or live-action form. Castlevania sees a world where Dracula is a tragic and embittered lover seeking revenge from the world for the loss of his love. Along comes a generational vampire hunter who has to take him on, with some unexpected allies. Castlevania remains one of the best all-time anime series, ever! Coupled with an insanely moving story that just grows and becomes more layered in each of its 4-seasons, the visuals from Powerhouse Animation are just incredible. The story will move you to tears, while the action and visual effects will make you stand up and cheer. It’s the perfect example of how action engages audiences that much more in the emotional core of a story. All seasons of Castlevania are now on Netflix. Which is your favourite Powerhouse Animation series? Let me know in the comments below or on Twitter at @theshahshahid Read the full article
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teknoloskop · 7 years
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Yeni yazımıza göz atın https://www.teknoloskop.net/attack-on-titanshingeki-no-kyojinin-2-sezon-tarihi-kesinlesti/
Attack on Titan(Shingeki no Kyojin)'ın 2.Sezon Tarihi Kesinleşti
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Son dönemin en sevilen ve en popüler olan anime serisi olan Atack on Titan ya da diğer bir adıyla Shingeki no Kyojin, sezon finalinin ardından kendini özletmişti ve herkes tarafından ne zaman çıkacağı merakla bekleniyordu. Bundan birkaç ay önce 2017 yılında çıkacağı açıklanmıştı fakat kesin bir tarih verilmemişti fakat gelen haberlere göre 2. sezonun tarihi belli oldu. Serinin 2.sezonu “Clash of the Titans” ve “Uprising Arcs” isimli hikayeleri  kapsayacağı belirtiliyor. Ayrıca yeni karakterlerinde animeye dahil olacağı gelen bilgiler arasında.
Heyecanla beklenen Attack on Titan‘ın 2.sezonu Şubat 2017‘de yayınlanmaya başlayacak. Şuan için net bir gün belirtilmese de bu ay içinde kesin bir gün verileceği düşünüyoruz. Tam tarih açıklandığı zaman yine duyurusunu yapacağız.
Bizi takipte kalın.
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jayteacups · 2 years
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Jayyy, hiii
For the aot ask game, 3 (super curious because i was 11 turning 12😭) 4 and 7
Hey Nick hope you're doing good!!
3. How old were you when Attack on Titan first came out?
I was 10 when it first came out! I wasn't into anime at all during that time, though. Like I heard about it because it was making waves but it wasn't something I thought about checking out - not until much later 😂
4. What’s your first memory from the show?
I think I remember just hearing about it in passing, but the most distinct very first encounter with the show (way before I actually started watching) was just hearing the phrase Clash of the Titans somewhere (referring to the S2 storyline, as I would later find out). Honestly can't remember where, though. The first clip I saw from the show was one of Levi's fight scenes though - the one of him vs Kenny squad and I was instantly mesmerised 😂 so I guess in terms of watching the actual show, that scene would be my first memory
7. Favourite season?
I've really enjoyed all the seasons so far! I have to say S3 because of the Return to Shiganshina arc (basic answer, I know, but it was just such a good arc) and Uprising was very different to what we'd seen so far at that point in the show so it was super interesting!
but S1 is just so nostalgic and the plot intrigue of S2 that generated more answers than ever... damn this question was hard lol
AOT 9th Anniversary ask game
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everylevishot · 3 years
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Anime Levi #519
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