what she says: i'm fine
what she meant: i don't know why puss in boots the last wish is so good but it just is. the character development, the music, the animation--holy fuck THE ANIMATION. and also the freaking themes of mortality and death and found family choke me up so much. the moment puss literally saw life flashing before his eyes and getting into a panic attack and how perrito calmed him down teared me up. and the found family themes with goldi and the bears to puss, kitty, and perrito. i really want to watch this more often it is just a masterpiece of a movie and i am so torn up about it.
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Everything I Managed to Watch in 2022
I might as well give you my thoughts on...exactly what it says on the tin. I'll try to keep things short and simple since I'm kinda tired and I wanna finish celebrating the year's end, lmao.
First up, the movies!
Top 5 Favorite Movies:
5. The Bad Guys
4. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
3. Rise of the TMNT
2. Pinocchio (Netflix Movie)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Honorable Mentions (still love them!!):
Turning Red
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
Wendell and Wild
On the television side of things, Smiling Friends, Dead End, The Cuphead Show, and Super Robot Giant Brothers, were pretty good! The Cuphead Show got better after its rather mediocre first season and I grew to love it. Smiling Friends I was happy turned out good as I expected, and I'm excited for season 2. Dead End was a nice surprise, I grew to like the characters and I appreciated how it handled its LGBT and Autism representation. Super Giant Robot Brothers deserves more love, Reel FX did a good job with that one, had some dynamic action and fun character moments.
For decent stuff, the only one was Hamster and Gretel. Will get back to it, but I hope gets a better execution than Milo Murphy's Law, which I liked too but the second season wasn't so great, oof.
On the other hand, shows that didn't wowed me were Oddballs and sadly Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight. The former had some decent jokes and maybe a character that amused me like Max, but the other attempts at jokes fell flat and characters like Echo really annoyed me.
The Dragon Knight was like the biggest disappointment for me. As a huge fan of KFP, I was hoping it would turn out to be a good show, maybe a better outing than the last KFP TV show. But I stopped at I think episode 5 and lost interest all around. The animation was a bit unfinished, and the writing choices were kind of questionable. I am glad they brought back Jack Black as Po, but alas...
There's like other shows that aired this year along with new seasons of other shows I love, but I'll watch them for next year.
For the anime stuff, Demon Slayer Season 2 was great, same with Spy X Family and Attack on Titan. Really happy I managed to give it another shot. Chainsaw Man also aired and of course was incredible. I'm already caught up with the manga and I'm eager to see how they'll handle the rest of the story soon. Urusei Yatsura 2022 I also want to shout out. I need to get back into binging the original series, but so far, the reboot is neat!
And also, I made a list of Anime Openings I watched this year and fell in love with. Keep in mind, I haven't seen any of these anime yet based on this list, aside from the ones I just mentioned above and also My Hero Academia, but I lost interest for that series because of story problems lately, yeah...
I'll get the chance to watch the others soon, don’t worry!
So here's the Honorable Mentions first:
Honorable Mentions:
BNHA OP 10: Way better than OP 9 and the visuals were unique, but the song didn't worked for me
Spy X Family OP 2: Visuals and song are neat, but the first op is more stronger to me
Dr. Stone Ryusei: Visuals are decent, but the new version of the first OP song was just incredible
My Top 11 Favorite Anime OPs:
11. Kaguya Sama OP 3
10. Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War OP 1
9. Call of the Night
8. One Piece OP 24
7. Ya Boy Kongming
6. Urusei Yatsura 2022
5. Spy X Family OP 1
4. Mob Psycho III OP
3. Attack on Titan OP 7
2. Chainsaw Man
1. Ranking of Kings OP 2
Boom! That's it! Here's hoping 2023 turns out to be an even greater experience for me, and for the animation community as well!
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‘In all of kings landing, is there no one to take my side?’
idk alicent, maybe because, just listen. you decided to do shit that does not help your side? you did things that only made people feel sympathy for rhaenyra? YOU ASKED FOR HER SON SECONDS AFTER HE WAS BORN??? BEFORE SHE COULD EVEN BIRTH THE AFTERBIRTH???
also, yknow, YOU ARE TRYING TO GET CHILDREN KILLED?? DOING THE EXACT THING YOU WORRIED SHE WOULD DO TO YOU AND IF SHE DID DO THAT, NO ONE WOULD HAVE SYMPATHY BECAUSE OF ALL THE THINGS YOU DID?!
in short, people side with those who aren’t batshit and don’t make their stances that well known, especially if you are doing all this in secret. If everyone knew her children were bastards, everyone also knew you were the one to start those rumors, that alone means you are her enemy and she is the realm’s delight.
you are going against the most popular child of westeros, since her birth and till her death, and you are seriously confused on why no one sided with you? Truly?
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Belos's use of fake personas is an interesting part of his character and I want to talk about it for a second. Belos as a persona is the feared but benevolent dictator grandpa who's religious but ultimately caring, and he takes Hunter under his wing after their family dies. This is his Boiling Isles persona, it's not who he really is. He makes deliberate choices to portray himself in this way, specifically giving Hunter the company line about how he would be dead without Belos, etc. The Curse is an extension of Belos he uses to explain why he abuses Hunter. He mainly uses The Curse to get away with harmful actions, ei trying to convince Luz that the Curse made him hurt people.
And then there's Philip as a persona, closer to the real personality of this guy but Philip is trying his best to be a wet cat. He pulls this one out when he needs to be a poor little meow meow about things and has his fake limp that goes along with this one. An extension of Philip is Kid Belos, which is pretty much the same but he's appearing as an innocent kid to try to get Luz to feel bad for him. which is. horrific.
Then there's actual Philip/Belos, who is behind all of these actions and doesn't feel bad about it. He feels like he has a greater purpose and he wants to wipe out an entire island of people because he's a religious extremist, and he attempted to kill his brother's partner, and killed his brother, because he hates people who are different from him. Hunter has always known the Belos persona, and is fully aware of how Belos uses fake personas to get away with shit with The Curse, so the use of names via Hunter and Luz is interesting. Luz struggles with what name she's going to call him because Belos specifically asks her to call him Philip, but Hunter reaffirms calling him Belos because it's mostly a power play and an attempt at separating himself from his actions to call himself Philip.
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