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catchyhuh · 6 months

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HALLOWEEN!!!!

halloween pretty much started late august anyway this is overdue. let’s get seasonal. but first,

PRO VS ANTI CANDY CORN, IN ORDER:

zeni, lup (just gets a bit too sweet after that first handful) jigen, fujicakes, goemon (“tastes like a dollop of corn syrup drowned in orange sugar”)

lupin:

fucking LOVES it. i mean you know he already loves dressing up and playing made up characters so this just feels like another excuse to get crafty with it. if he could stand the consistency/normalcy of owning a house he’d absolutely be that guy getting arrested for having way too many obnoxious decorations lighting up the street at 4 a.m. and you KNOW IT!!

would he, a grown ass man, trick or treat? no. unless you count hightailing it to walmart and stuffing those mixed packs into his shorts lolz I MEAN THAT IS TECHNICALLY FREE CANDY SO MAYBE IT COUNTS

costume: boring answer is vampire but. yeah that IS his go-to. he just loves the variety and consistency he gets with it simultaneously! of course, not to say he doesn’t have fun with it time to time. he just seems to be a vampire like, every other year

jigen:

he can have a little fun with it if he so chooses. depends on the weather, literally. if the air is crisp and the leaves are pretty and falling all nicely where they’re currently stationed for some heist or something, he’ll get in a autumny mood, but if it’s already gotten too cold, or worse, it’s still hot, then yeah he’s not super impressed

dude lowkey adores the excuse to startle people. if they actually handed out candy and shit he’d absolutely pretend to be a halloween prop sitting on the porch only to move when someone reaches for the candy bowl and tries to take two. and then he laughs so obnoxiously loudly about it that the next like five batches of kids aren’t even phased. don’t worry. a fresh, unsuspecting pack will arrive soon enough.

costume: again boring, usual answer is a werewolf. look at that beard dude he LOOKS like a werewolf!! but he could have fun with like a zombie getup, or maybe like a stereotypical 20’s mafia type. he can even wear the same hat and keep smoking, but it’s INSISTED that he get the pinstripe suit too

fujiko:

“haha, don’t you think that’s a little juvenile for me?” frankly no i don’t is cuz that a fucking bedazzled jason voorhees mask on your front door??

she’s not exactly breaking into spirit halloween, pulling out the mummy cakepops and shit, but like lupin, she loves an excuse go dress up, she just… keeps it a little more reasonable than he does

on the night of, she probably goes to like, one party, then when she’s inevitably disappointed by it, she goes home and pops in like rocky horror or something. it’s halloweeny enough

costume: NO DOUBLEDIPPING!! NEVER! she’s gone as everything reasonably attainable under the sun, so long as it doesn’t cover her lovely face up. she likes having unique costumes, but the actual ooak costume making process with the sewing machine and everything didn't really work out for her the one time she tried, so she’ll either bring together different pieces to pull it off or use some poor schmuck’s money to get one made for herself. she has fun with it!!

goemon:

doesn’t FEEL the hype but GETS it. understands it from an outsider standpoint. he knows his company well, and he understands why it appeals to them. before meeting them, he probably saw fall as a calm time of year. lmao. lol even.

really the only one i can reasonably see handing out candy in a normal, pleasant fashion. firmly insists the child may take one. but maybe they can pick a second one, since they were so polite. and maybe a third as well since they clearly put love into their costume, and it IS a bit chilly tonight-- BUT NO MORE!

costume: guy’s already dressed like this, put some white face paint on him and ring his eyes with purple and you have your spooky long-deceased spirit of the damned. ooouuouuouuu scary! the others try to throw less generic ones at him time to time, but he doesn’t like anything TOO wacky, and need he remind you he doesn’t HAVE to partake in the festivities, so maybe he’ll be a jedi for ONE year, count it, ONE singular year, but that’s IT

zenigata:

for such a tough guy he’s very easily startled! he recovers easy but god is he sick of those stupid motion activated animatronics. he’d rather eat phillips head screws soaked in vinegar than go to a haunted house

that said his favorite parts are easily the costumes and snacks. which. duh that’s everyone’s favorite but he really is content just hanging back and looking at what other people have come up with! even if it’s common it’s fun to like. tally how many elsa’s are out there. the food, of course, is self explanatory. he may be one of the few people left on earth who immediately associate candy apples with halloween. also makes a beeline for the monster cereal the minute september hits ITS A CUTE THEME OKAY!! BOOBERRY JUST TASTES GOOD

costume: may have to be bribed into it. it’s not that he hates the fun. like i said, he thinks the costumes are cute, but he feels like it’d be too silly for him to really go out of his way getting dressed up. this of course is patently bullshit almost nothing is “too silly” for this fucker and it’s not too hard to convince him to do some bullshit. otherwise he just looks like he’s going as columbo and inspector gadget’s fused clone.

#i haven't even watched ghostbusters yet. i gotta get on top of my shit dude #lupin iii #lupin the third #lupin #jigen #fujiko #goemon #zenigata

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somescenecatholic · 2 years

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HELLOOO! this is my intro post!

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I'm very hard of hearing (my left ear has 40% of the hearing it should have) so if we talk irl, get ready for me to say huh alot, even when I have my hearing aid on bc I have issues with tht and stufff

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the-golden-ghost · 2 years

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NO but Part 2 is actually the best Lupin series cause it’s just like “what if there was a zombie” “what if Lupin had a taser strapped to his dick and every time he failed to open the safe it tasered him in the dick” “what if Fujiko had an affair with Genghis Khan’s great-great-great-great grandnephew who’s a pro wrestler/gumball machine salesman and every gumball they sell has a tiny gold nugget hidden inside and so it’s up to LUPIN to STEAL all the gumballs” “what if the gang had to front as fast food workers and the walls started oozing green slime and then Nosferatu was there and he was flickering the lights”

#Lupin III #so anyway Part 2 is basically if you took Scooby-Doo and made it PG-13 and also dropped a bunch of acid

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sauntervaguelydown · 4 months

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Finally got my hands on The Woman Called Fujiko Mine.

Pros: gorgeous stylized art. Cons: hey is this somehow MORE sexist than the last series I watched???

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izzythehutt · 6 months

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Lupin the Third Part 2: Halloween Special Thoughts

I don't know what's more insane:

A.) The fact that this episode starts with the discovery of an apparent incorruptible ancient saint clutching a statue of Our Lady, with the scientists excited for the "theological import" of said discovery

B.) She turns out to be a vampire

C.) She then claims to be the long-lost twin sister of Jesus Christ, abandoned by St. Joseph for being born with fangs and raised by bats and a she-wolf

D.) Despite the obvious blasphemy the episode kind of ends up feeling pro-Christian because they can't say the name of the Lord, lightning smites all the vampires and then Lupin returns the statue to a Catholic Church now hedging his bets that Jesus is real

E.) This wasn't the most controversial episode of this show to dub for an English language audience

F.) Fujiko dresses as an Elvis impersonator and Goemon has to cut her out of the suit AND THEY NEVER EXPLAIN WHY

#lupin III #lupin the third #izzy rediscovers lupin #maybe it makes more sense in the sub idk #i can only interpret the vampire's girl anti-christ thing as bs #based on the smiting

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canmom · 1 year

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Animation Night 143 - Lupin III

Animation Night oldtimers - what few remain... - may remember Animation Night 37. It was a fun night where we carved a core through the Lupin III franchise in its many iterations.

For a series of such towering importance to the history of anime, I must have written a massive writeup, right? Ah, if only ‘twere so. Apparently I was having meds trouble - la plus change... - so all you got was a list of films and a promise to write more later.

Well, it’s finally time! Fully two years later x3

So, Lupin III! It’s a lot of things but before it was any of them, it was a gritty seinen manga by Kazuhiko Katō - far better known by the name Monkey Punch - serialised in a magazine called Weekly Manga Action starting in 1967. Here’s the opening spread...

At this time, Monkey Punch was 30, meaning he’d grown up through the second world war, starting his career in comics in junior high where he competed with other artists in the school newspaper. His route into manga was via dōshinshi, then 4koma, and eventually working as an assistant to Naoki Tsuji on influential wrestling series Tiger Mask.

Lupin III took inspiration from, of course, Maurice Leblanc’s stories of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, by way of a little James Bond. Many of the details of the plot were improvised. Femme fatale Fujiko Mine was originally to be one of a rotating cast of girls like in the Bond films, but that proved to be too much work, so she became a recurring character. Lupin’s samurai buddy Goemon was originally his enemy.

The Lupin manga has that strange horny energy that you tend to expect from 60s manga. It’s definitely still a comedy, but the kind of comedy where the first issue involves microfilm hid inside someone’s vagina and the second has a man almost wrongfully executed. The artwork is sometimes very detaile, but more often sketchy; its expressions are exaggerated, but it predates the codification of standard manga expressions. It’s shaded - in watercolours, I think, and markers. It feels very different from later manga characterised by ultra-precise illustration.

At this point in the history of manga, the waves of gekiga were beginning to be felt. So far as I’m able to tell the distinction goes, Lupin falls outside the (later-defined) line between ‘gekiga’ and ‘manga’, but there was definitely a feeling that more ‘serious’, dramatic stories were coming in. Original flavour Lupin is less ‘thief with a heart of gold’ and more ‘horny trickster’, a much more amoral character.

The manga introduces at first the cat-and-mouse pair of Lupin and Inspector Zenigata, perpetually a step behind. It gradually introduces the rest of the recurring characters: rival thief Fujiko the sexy girl full of cunning plans; Lupin’s partner the gunslinger Jigen whose main trait is shooting really fast and accurate; samurai Goemon whose sword can cut anything, especially clothes.

So, the anime then! This is one of those nights where we’re leaning on Matteo Watzky, who’s provided a great deal of information on the production of the original Lupin TV series.

Lupin was only in serialisation for a year when esteemed animator Yasuo Otsuka left Toei in the midst of ongoing union struggles, shortly after the completion of Horus: Prince of the Sun on which he’d worked as animation director. (See Animation Night 70 for more on that!) Otsuka landed at A-Pro, one of a number of studios in the orbit of a company called Tokyo Movie Shinsha, to work on an adaptation of Lupin - at the time, intended to be a feature film under the direction of Masaaki Osumi.

In 1969 they finished a twelve-minute pilot film that steered close to manga in both design and sensibility. Monkey Punch himself provided some supervision. The pilot is a series of brief vignettes introducing the main characters of the manga, with a narrator describing their main traits and fashion choices before brief skits that mostly end in explosions. Its animation is impressively elaborate and stylish and does not look like much from the era, but producers balked at all the sex and violence, so it was retooled into a TV show. Otsuka and Osumi were pulled away to work on Moomin, and the staff shuffled around a lot - not for the last time.

Lupin finally hit TV in 1971, again under Osumi with Otsuka designing characters. It was going for something dark and dramatic by the standards of the time, in the vein of Ashita no Joe (c.f. Animation Night 95) or Star of the Giants. But Osumi’s manga-faithful take hit poor ratings, and when Osumi was unwilling to compromise, he was gradually squeezed off the project.

Instead, Otsuka brought in two of his protégés from the Toei days, recently hot off the collapse of Pippi Longstocking. You may have heard of them. They were of course Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata - at this point an inseparable pair. Although they took over the series, they did a lot of it pseudonymously, and they would leave A-Pro down the line.

The series that resulted under their direction is known to fans as ‘Green Jacket’ Lupin, because (shockingly) Lupin wears a green jacket. It’s full of foreshadowing for Miyazaki’s later works. Osamu Dezaki, also working pseudonymously, directed a number of episodes as well in his distinctive style. Under their direction, the series became a lot lighter in tone, with a gleeful sense of chaos that would become the defining tone of later adaptations. It wrapped up after 23 episodes, with Miyazaki apologising for the stuff - but all in all it was a success, although not as much as the next one would be...

The second Lupin III adaptation, Lupin III Part II known as ‘Red Jacket’ Lupin, came six years later. In this time a great deal had happened. A-Pro had evolved into Shin-Ei and left the TMS orbit, and the other TMS satellites like Madhouse were also going their own way; in such uncertain conditions, and with their own director obsessed with his ultimately fruitless project to adapt Little Nemo In Slumberland, TMS sought to return to some of their various established licenses to make some reliable money.

A very long production that hit 155 episodes, the Red Jacket series is where Lupin really took off. It’s a mixed bag, with plenty of filler, but also several real standout scenes and episodes. In Watzky’s account, much of this has to do with the involvement of Oh Production, a subcontracting studio that would be a close ally of Takahata and Miyazaki right into the Ghibli days. Their star was Kazuhide Tomonaga, known for his work on Space Battleship Yamato, not to mention duelling Yoshinori Kanada to outdo each other in effects for the ridiculously elaborate finale of Galaxy Express 999. Tomonoga’s best moments would come after Miyazaki’s return, but we’ll come to that in a moment.

Red Jacket gave rise to the first Lupin movie, The Mystery of Mamo, which served as a vehicle to bring back a lot of the departed Shin-Ei animators into the TMS fold, and prior to Akira, it was the highest budget animated film in Japan with enormous ambitions for animation. Read Matteo’s article to get a sense of the different animators and studios shuffling around, but to summarise very briefly, it brought back most of the staff who had created the pilot film and they were able to bring much of the same energy. The film sets Lupin up against an immortal psychic billionaire, and it features an impressively varied animation style, with manga panels or a dreamlike psychic sequence when Lupin runs through a series of series of surrealist paintings.

Next came... guess what... The Castle of Cagliostro! Miyazaki’s back and he’s going to push his vision of Lupin as a romantic, kind-hearted character to a new level, once again in a green jacket. The film featured startlingly elaborate animation. The car chases cemented Lupin’s car as a staple of the series, the finale features the classic ‘I am a traditional animator and I want to flex’ setting of a gigantic clock full of cogwheels. It’s as fun and impressively shot a film as you’d expect from something headed by Miyazaki, although to Lupin fans, it is widely seen as a frustrating one, since it hews furthest from the ‘proper’ roguish characterisation of Lupin.

Cagliostro is also important for another reason: among otaku, the nascent lolicon movement fixated on its character Clarisse, much as Miyazaki himself had once fixated on the girl Bai-Niang from Toei’s The White Snake Enchantress. That’s a... complicated subject to explicate to put it mildly; I discussed it more on Animation Night 69. ‘Clarisse clones’ started popping up all over the place; Cagliostro was perfectly placed as one of the most impressive animated movies at the dawn of the otaku boom.

The TV series continued to run throughout all this, and the success of Cagliostro washed back in, with sudden character redesigns and of course, the two episodes directed by Miyazaki exhibiting all his quirks. Its scenes feel eerily preminiscent of Ghibli, even more so than Green Jacket, elaborate enough to seriously push the envelope on TV animation.

After all this, Lupin had been firmly cemented as a ‘classic’, nostalgic series in anime. Rather than a single canonical story, it was a group of iconic characters with a general setting and tone that was flexible enough to accommodate many more stories. This probably has a lot to do with its enduring presence: you certainly don’t have to have followed Lupin III from the very beginning to be able to jump in to one of the later installments and have a pretty good sense of what’s going on. There is a comfortable status quo, with Zenigata chasing Lupin who’s always one step ahead; from there, you can pull Lupin and the gang into whatever escapade you have in mind.

Through the 80s and 90s, TMS continued to produce Lupin films with a variety of directors. These generally follow the tone set out by the TV series and they’re a lot of fun. Monkey Punch himself actually directed one, being Lupin III: Dead or Alive, albeit reluctantly at the last minute! The 2000s saw TMS, facing budget limits, stripping production down to OVAs.

The most interesting change of direction came with Sayo Yamamoto, of Michiko and Hatchin and later, Yuri on Ice, who we covered back on Animation Night 36. Reading back her comments in the present, it’s like, wait, that Mari Okada?

In Yamamoto’s hands, the focus shifted from Lupin (though he’s still present) to Fujiko as the main character. The tone hews far closer to Monkey Punch’s manga: sex and violence, sure, but also escapades. It’s a hell of a ride, with all sorts of unexpected tones.

The animation, although clearly taking inspiration from the heavy lines of the manga, is most of all a Koike-ism - the deliberate and weighty way characters move, the use of black, the colour palette all scream ‘I just finished working on Redline for seven years’. Koike would end up staying with Lupin even after Yamamoto moved on, directing a trilogy of hour-long movies, Jigen’s Gravestone, Goemon’s Blood Spray and Fujiko’s Lie.

Last time we did Lupin, we watched one of the three, Goemon’s Blood Spray, last time, and honestly... well it’s a weird one! If Yamamoto’s take was able to preserve the comic chaos even with the darker content, Koike decided to fully go for a drama, with a very strange plot that sees Goemon going on a kind of spirit quest as he’s drawn into an intense battle with first gangsters and then a massive lumberjack guy. The long final battle of the movie sees the two gradually slicing bits off each other, meticulously animated in the way only Koike can (truly I never have seen a more carefully rendered sagittal section of the upper arm muscles), but at the time I found the film struggles to deliver the emotional stakes. It’s a long way from the rest of Lupin, and I’m curious but a little apprehensive to see what Koike did with the other two films.

The other major development in Lupin films is the CG film Lupin III: The First (2019) dir. Takashi Yamazaki (his first animated film), featuring a distinctive stylisation that reminds me most of recent Chinese films like New Gods: Nezha Reborn. It’s a curiously bold departure; it caught my attention with clips of hyperchoreographed action scenes; it’s got a very broad, exaggerated style of movement that’s far from the norm for anime and a constantly roving camera. It’s kind of fascinating to look at, CG that isn’t trying to look like something else. It’s also a departure for the animators at Marza Animation Planet, whose previous works tended to be hyperrealist adaptations such as the 2013 version of Space Pirate Captain Harlock or Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. That’s a lead to follow up on, actually. They would later come to work on the Sonic the Hedgehog films.

So, this movie. It’s evidently attempting to retool Lupin for the CG era, with tributes to the iconography of the old anime, such as remaking Lupin’s car in 3D and staging a chase with it; whether this attempt to ‘modernise’ will land I’m not sure. I don’t love their models for the female characters especially lol, they’re painfully Disney. The plot is a Lupin escapade vehicle with a dash of Indiana Jones, putting Lupin and the gang up against Nazi occultists. I don’t expect it to challenge much, but it does look fun.

So! What’s the plan for tonight?

Well, it’s basically the same plan as last time: another cross-section through the Lupin III series! We’ll hit the following notes:

the original Lupin pilot!

The Mystery of Mamo

Miyazaki’s two episodes of Lupin III Part 2!

the two parts of Jigen’s Gravestone

Lupin III: The First

Sound fun? Great! (Doesn’t sound fun? I’ll shoot you.) We’ll be starting early tonight; going live at 7pm UK time, and starting films after about 20 minutes. I’m going to try and keep the start of Animation Night in the 7-8pm range from now on - let’s see if we can rebuild this thing.

If you will, then: head to https://twitch.tv/canmom and get ready for some burglary, robbery, theft, and even perhaps a bit of larceny. See you in the theatre~

#animation night #lupin iii

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albertonykus · 1 year

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Doraemon Movie Review: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom (2002)

What is Doraemon? The title character of the Doraemon manga and anime is a blue robotic cat from the 22nd Century who keeps an array of high-tech gadgets in a portable pocket dimension on his belly, and has traveled from the future to improve the fortunes of a hapless schoolboy named Nobita. Although relatively obscure in the English-speaking world, Doraemon is a Mickey-Mouse-level cultural icon in East Asia (and some other regions, too). The Doraemon franchise was a big part of my childhood, and there are still elements of it that I enjoy now.

Doraemon has released theatrical films almost annually since 1980, most of which involve Nobita and his friends (kind Shizuka, brash Gian, and crafty Suneo) getting swept into adventures thanks to Doraemon's gadgets. Despite being of potentially broad appeal to fans of science fiction and animated films, there are very few English reviews of the Doraemon movies, so I'm embarking on a project to write about all the films that have come out so far. Good luck to me…

Movie premise: Nobita and his friends rescue a lost robot boy, who comes from a planet where humans and robots once lived in harmony.

My spoiler-free take: A compelling story that packs some strong emotional punches, but flubs a crucial character arc. I suspect it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon, but I’d like to see a remake of this one!

POTENTIAL SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT

Review: It must be something about robots that brings out the emotional stories in Doraemon movies. That probably shouldn’t be a surprise, because one of the most important themes of the franchise is, after all, the friendship between a robot and a human. The dramatic setup here is an interesting one for a Doraemon film, as we learn that the robot boy Poko was the childhood playmate of one of the major antagonists, the tyrannical Queen Jeanne, with both of them having grown up under the care of another robot, Maria. For most part, the movie gets a lot of mileage out of this premise, and the scene near the end where Doraemon and Maria deliver what they fully expect to be their last words to their respective charges is especially heartwrenching.

However, there is one way in which this movie drops the ball considerably on its emotional journey: the queen’s character development happens far too quickly! Barely a montage passes before she has a change of heart. I wondered whether this was also the case in the manga adaptation of this story*, so I had a look.

*Although the original author of the Doraemon manga, Fujiko F. Fujio, passed away in 1996, his company Fujiko Pro continued to produce manga counterparts to the films for a while following his death. My understanding is that the films and their associated manga that were made after Fujio’s passing were developed in parallel from a shared story outline, instead of one being directly adapted from the other.

As it turns out, it takes much more for Jeanne to come around in the manga, including getting smacked in the face by Shizuka!

(Damn.)

I have to say, I really wish this version of the story had been used in the film, not only because it would have improved Jeanne’s character arc, but also because Shizuka doesn’t get very much to do in the movie proper. In fact, many of the newer Doraemon films (remakes aside) don’t seem to know what to do with Shizuka, as has been summarized very well by @creepfactors. Whereas Nobita, Gian, and even Suneo often get to display more rarely-seen sides of their personalities in the movies, she is mainly just cast as “the nice one”, which is already her default role in the group.

In truth, Shizuka is not such a one-note character in the mainline series. There are times when she can be very direct with her words and quick to anger towards perceived slights. Lashing out in the name of justice for a vulnerable child is absolutely something she would do, yet would be unprecedented in a Doraemon movie!

There are other elements of the manga that I would have liked to see in the movie, too. For example, Poko’s ability to remotely pinpoint Maria’s location seemingly comes out of nowhere close to the end of the film, but in the manga it is mentioned that he was unable to do so earlier in the story because he had a damaged antenna. The manga also indicates that the roboticist Dr. Chapek repaired Doraemon’s Time Machine so that the protagonists could return home at the end of the story, whereas the movie never explains how the Time Machine was fixed.

Given that this is a relatively recent Doraemon film, I’m guessing that it’s not high on the priority list for a remake. However, I think it would benefit a lot from one! Newer Doraemon movies are generally longer than those that came out prior to the 2005 anime reboot, which would give a hypothetical remake of Nobita in the Robot Kingdom more room to include the aforementioned items. Furthermore, the remakes often use material from the manga that was left out of the original films.

Do I have anything else left to note? This movie might contain one of Doraemon’s most impressive feats in the series: charging into the main villain’s lair by himself and taking down the villain unarmed. It’s also funny how ready Nobita is to go on an adventure in this film. The moment that Doraemon determines that they need to travel to another planet, Nobita essentially declares, “Leave that to us!” Quite a contrast to how timid he usually is in the regular stories!

Star rating: ★★★☆☆

#Doraemon #Anime #Nobita in the Robot Kingdom #ドラえもん

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RINGING THE BIG BLU-RAY SALE BELL LOUDER THAN EVER BEFORE

Today, 12/31/2022, is the last day of RightStuf's big holiday sale, which means all the previous daily deals are back up again, including:

All Three Volumes of Revolutionary Girl Utena for $80 (pro tip: it's cheaper to buy them individually today than in the bundle)

Dear Brother/Oniisama e... for $32, which is confirmed to be going out of print

Both Volumes of The Rose of Versailles for under $50, which is currently not streaming online

The Woman Called Fujiko Mine for $32

The Hayao Miyazaki-directed Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro on UHD for $16

Six Full Pages of Really Good Anime-On-Disc Discounts

Not to mention all the other stuff currently on sale that isn't a daily deal, like all of the Gundam bundles. If you have ever wanted to check out literally any Gundam series (except the one currently airing), it's on sale. Even Reconguista in G and Iron-Blooded Orphans!

To drill down on the point I made the last two times I made a post like this in the past month: it is worth owning the things you like physically. I realize even at these discounted prices, they may still be too expensive for some people, but the trade off is that you'll own this stuff in very high quality forever.

#anime #Revolutionary Girl Utena #RGU #Dear Brother #Oniisama e #The Rose of Versailles #Lady Oscar #Lupin III #Lupin the Third #Lupin the 3rd #The Castle of Cagliostro #The Woman Called Fujiko Mine #Gundam #Mobile Suit Gundam #blu-ray

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ilalangtertiupangin · 1 year

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“ Doraemon The Movie “

Released on March 3, 2023! "Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Skyutopiautopia』 ��

"Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Skyutopiautopia』 Published: March 3, 2023 Original Story: Fujiko F. Fujio Director: Takumi Doyama Script: Ryota Furusawa Cast: Doraemon: Wasabi Mizuta Nobita: Megumi Ohara Shizuka: Yumi Kakazu Giant: Susumu Kimura Suneo: Tomokazu © Seki Fujiko Pro, Shogakukan, TV Asahi, Shinei, ADK 2023

#doaremon #movie

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useless-bi-otch · 1 year

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Cookies’n Cream - Tomori’s profile

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Age: Late 20’s (27)

Birthday: 22/02 (Pisces)

Height: 1,60 (5′4′’)

Weight: 61kg (134 pounds)

Description: Woman of medium height, curvy, without defined muscles. Brown, wavy hair that goes to her shoulders. Has big, brown eyes described as "warm and expressive"

Hobbies: Watching pro-wrestling, MMA, and boxing matches, collecting wall posters of famous fighters, painting and illustrating, making cookie art (and not eating them), watching/playing baseball and singing on karaoke

Ocupation: Pastry chef, specializing in cookies and sweets in general. She currently works as a sous-chef at the Heavy Bakery

Trivia:

She once wanted to become a professional martial artist but couldn't make it;

Her type is tall, muscular men. If they know some kind of martial art, even better. Beauty is a secondary factor for her;

Despite being a pastry chef, she got sick of sweet things. She prefers savory dishes or desserts with a more bitter or citric flavor;

Her entire family has very peculiar traditions; they're all fanatical about martial arts, love baseball and always compete in karaoke during reunions;

She used to be a delinquent in high school, having nearly been expelled from school for constant fighting;

She has a huge peacock tattoo on her left thigh, much to her parents' chagrin, who think she'll never get a husband because of it;

She doesn't like to receive very expensive gifts, getting all awkward and paranoid with the possibility of being “bought”;

The martial artists she admires most and looks up to are Sekibayashi, Gaolang and, of course, Okubo.

Allies/Friends/Coworkers/Family:

Oomori Kanami, the owner of the Heavy Bakery, her boss and friend (and protagonist of the fanfic Heavy Bakery). A woman with a firm hand, she's hardworking and a skilled fighter, in addition to being very protective of her friends and employees. Calls her "Tomoh" sometimes.

Takeshi Hiroki, aka Hiro, the cashier. The two of them love to gossip and affectionately tease Kanami, and he is always ready to offer encouragement and advice when she has a new love interest. He also calls her "Tomoh".

Jiki Paikon, the janitor. Sleepy and drunk, but efficient in service. He is somewhat protective of Tomori and acts as her advisor and voice of reason.

Haruhi Tomoyo, the waitress. She's a serious, no-nonsense teenager. Being only sixteen, Tomori and the others are a bit protective of her.

Agata Akane, her best friend since highschool. They used to be rivals, but ended up getting closer when they saw that they had a lot in common. She is an extroverted, outspoken gyaru with an above average sex drive. She calls her Tomoh, but was also the one who nicknamed her “Peahen”

Uta Tatsuhiko, aka Tatsu, her older brother. Extremely protective and jealous, which leads him to be a little inconvenient and have inappropriate attitudes at the wrong times. The two of them are quite close, though.

Uta Saeko, Tatsu's wife. She is more calm and collected than her husband, acting as a kind of mediator when the siblings disagree on something. Tomori considers her like an older sister.

Uta Fujiko, her mother. A woman with a very intense and somewhat impulsive personality. She can't accept that her daughter is single and wants her to find a husband ASAP.

Uta Naofumi, her father. A quiet and friendly man, but also extremely stubborn and prideful. Has problems with high blood pressure and refuses to follows the doctor's advices.

The following illustrations and sketches are @aneenasevla ‘s work, posted with her permission (go comission her, she’s the best)

Tomori:

With Kanami:

With Akane:

“Hey, guys... this is my friend Akane...”

Her tattoo:

With Hiro:

With Okubo:

In a bikini:

#cookies'n cream #Kengan Omega #Kengan Ashura #kenganverse #fanfiction #oc x canon #Okubo Naoya #Naoya Okubo #okubo x oc #I was so happy when Ane let me play with her #thanks girl ily

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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Puzzle Monday: Golf, Only Slightly Abstracted Among our crosswords and other puzzles, we'll be featuring logic challenges from Puzzle Communication Nikoli, a cult-favorite puzzle publication from Japan. A PDF of the puzzle, as well as the solution, can be downloaded below. You wouldn’t know it from looking at their rule books, but sports are fundamentally simple. Baseball: throw, hit, run. Basketball: bounce, pass, shoot. Soccer: score, but no hands. And then there’s golf: swing until ball goes in hole. But rethinking those basic forms into, say, a puzzle? Not so simple. The puzzle maker who goes by the handle Alkaline Factory, often sees inspiration in sport; he was the creator of Slalom, based on the skiing event and featured here not long ago. One of the newest puzzles to go from user creation to mainstay in Puzzle Communication Nikoli, Japan's hugely influential puzzle publication, followed a similar course. Well, not a downhill course. A golf course. Enter Herugolf, a typically grid- and number-based Nikoli puzzle, but one that manages to capture significant features and subtlties of the game of golf. It involves balls and holes, but also out-of-bounds, water hazards, and a general feature of golf: that, more often than not, each shot is shorter than the one before it. It works so well that some of the puzzle grids even begin to resemble golf courses, and occasionally one can even “chip in” a shot. The puzzle was originally named Pro Golfer Maru (with maru meaning “circle”), an allusion to a creation of famous Japanese cartoonist Fujiko A. Fujio: Pro Golfer Saru (with saru meaning “monkey”). But when the puzzle gained popularity and was considered for promotion as a regular Nikoli puzzle, it needed a new, original name. Like some other puzzles, a pun presented itself: Heru means "decreasing" in Japanese, but, according to Nikoli president and puzzle creator Yoshinao Anpuku, it is also how a native Japanese speaker might pronounce "hell." We don’t find it quite so scary, but sometimes it is a challenge! Herugolf plays like a simplified, miniaturized version of the sport. Your goal is to sink each ball to complete a round. Each circle is a golf ball and each “H” is a hole. Your goal is to “hit” each ball one or more times so that it reaches a hole. Each hit or “stroke” is represented by an arrow, with the tip in the cell where it stops. Arrows cannot cross cells that contain other balls, holes, or arrows. The first stroke of each ball must cross as many cells as the number in the ball, vertically or horizontally. Each successive stroke must be one cell shorter, and may change direction. A ball cannot leave the grid, or it will be considered out of bounds. A ball cannot stop in a gray area, which represents a water hazard. When the ball reaches a hole, it has been sunk and stops there. All balls must reach holes to complete the round. Stumped? Download the solutions! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/puzzle-monday-herugolf

#AO Puzzles #Atlas Obscura

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demovibes · 2 years

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Doraemon wii game

Gian and Suneo often bully Nobita, but are also shown as Nobita's friends in certain episodes, and especially in the movies. Nobita's closest friend and love interest is Shizuka Minamoto, who eventually becomes his wife in the future. Doraemon's gadgets help Nobita overcome the troubles, and they end up developing a relationship with each other. Doraemon has a four-dimensional pouch in which he stores unexpected gadgets he uses to aid Nobita. Most stories of Doraemon revolve the young Nobita Nobi, who receives poor grades and is frequently bullied by his two classmates, Takeshi Goda (nicknamed "Gian") and Suneo Honekawa (Gian's sidekick). At present, Nobita is a man who always fails in class, and whose company goes bankrupt, causing his family and sons to face financial difficulties. The Doraemon character has been viewed as a Japanese cultural icon, and was appointed as the first "anime ambassador" in 2008 by the country's Foreign Ministry.ĭoraemon, a cat robot from the 22nd century, is sent to take care of Nobita Nobi by Sewashi Nobi, Nobita's future grandson, so that his descendants can get a better life. Doraemon is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time, of which the animated film series has the highest number of admissions in Japan. As of 2012, it has sold over 170 million copies worldwide, becoming the sixth best-selling manga in history. It won numerous awards, including the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 19, the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga in 1982, and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 1997. The anime series was licensed by Disney for an English-language release in North America in 2014, and LUK International in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.ĭoraemon received critical acclaim and became a hit in many Asian countries. Fujio Pro with Voyager Japan and AltJapan Co., Ltd. The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America, via Amazon Kindle, by a collaboration of Fujiko F. Various types of merchandise and media have been developed, including soundtrack albums, video games, and musicals. Additionally, Shin-Ei Animation has produced over forty animated films, including two 3D computer animated films, all of which are distributed by Toho. Three anime TV series have been adapted in 1973, 1979, and 2005. The story revolves around an earless robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a boy named Nobita Nobi. The manga was first serialized in December 1969, with its 1,345 individual chapters compiled into 45 tankōbon volumes, published by Shogakukan from 1970 to 1996. (first full story published) – June 23, 1996ĭoraemon ( Japanese: ドラえもん ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Chingwin Publishing Group (bilingual English-Chinese)Īnd other Shogakukan children's magazines

#Doraemon wii game

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