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steve0discusses · 9 months

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Ep 46 Pt 1: Zorc’s Massive Low Hanging Fruit

We are getting very close! I don’t actually...remember how many episodes there were in this season but listen, It can’t possibly be more than 50 right?

Right?

Anyway, we’re starting off in the battle basement in Yami’s tomb. Who, of course has a battle basement installed right outside of his final resting place, just like how he would have wanted.

And it’s here that the form of Bakura that the dub is telling me is Ryou wants to kill his own classmate. Which, I’ll just point it out since a couple people mentioned it, apparently the manga did not do this nor did the original Japanese version. The dub just made this Ryou for giggles. We already know Bakura can split into evil pieces, this was not necessary. We also know that Ryou is sleeping on those painful steppies, so this doesn’t make much logical sense.

But like we’re watching the dub right now, so sorry, everybody, this is Ryou. Ryou on a bad day, I guess. Dark Ryou. Not to be confused with Shadow Ryou, who is...that other freaking guy.

Yugi just upset that he forgot to bring his dueling disk to a dream universe in the past or whatever. Must feel naked without that thing stinking up his left arm and making that school blazer all wrinkly. Bro is telling me that Yugi should have one really big arm, kind of like trogdor.

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the one thing that does make sense with making this Ryou is a little bit of symbolic imagery. Ryou talks about how he doesn’t have friends anymore in the beginning of this arc, and we can assume it’s because he’s decided to step away from other people because of the ghost in his bean. In contrast, Yugi has all these friends he cursed to like him (woops), and for whom he just risked his whole life for, and for whom he didn’t learn the Pharaoh’s name that he needed in order to save all of mankind.

Which, for reals, Tea and Joey are such good buds, that he really did just end the world to save their ass, and that is pretty anime of him.

But Tea gets very nervous over whether or not Yugi was going to perma-die. It would be very awkward if he died, since he’s also the host of this puzzle which is she is currently stuck inside of. Though I’m not 100% on if it’s even possible for him to die here. Little bit of a chicken or the egg situation, which I may have brought up before.

But still, she’s worried about it.

Which is when Joey does a quick head count and go “WAIT WAIT"

(the show does not show us where Tristan is)

Back at Kul Elna, everything is very quickly falling apart. Rocks are falling from the sky, Pharaoh is back at the capital with Seto and the other Seto, and Karim helllllllllllllla died last episode (or 2 episodes ago? I have such bad memory nowadays) so we’re just gonna leave his corpse in the barn and go.

sorry I just took in the incredible abs on this oversized chess piece that is Hassad.

Why bother? Like for reals why bother?

I have so many questions about this random guy and his character design and they will not get answered. Apparently Dark Side of Dimensions dives into it as well as other unresolved issues from this season but like, that’s for another time. We will be watching that later, and at my rate it’ll be like 5 years from now but I swear...unless I caught covid a second (third?) time we will eventually get there and find out the deal of this...this freakin guy.

Meanwhile, our story boarders are not finished flexing. I think they really enjoyed this particular episode, with this really fun composition around Bakura here. They LOVE to shred scenery with Bakura on this carving, and there are so many good shots where it’s like a comic cover. I mean, look at this:

Damn that’s a good idea. This composition is fun. You got the curves from this...pokemon that I forgot the name of... you got him dead center all strong and rigid to contrast the curves. You got purple and green clouds. It’s fun. If y’all ever want to do the “draw this anime still but in your style” this is a good still. Good stuff.

And then Bakura peaces off--no idea where, and it doesn’t really matter since we have like so many Bakura’s at this point. Lets just assume he’s everywhere.

And with that, the ground gives way to the ZORC within.

This ultimate being, Zorc, who we’ve been talking up for so many episodes.

And that’s when we find out Isis also left out another crucial detail about Zorc:

So listen. We can say that the...neck...of the snake is coming out of his lower stomach. But also, they left it in shadow for a reason.

The reason is, this episode is getting me flagged.

It occurred to me I don’t have to go for the low hanging fruit. I don’t have to. I can find a way around this. And I struggled. And I did whatever I, a full grown adult, could think to do. I thought to myself, I am a creative person, and I am inventive and I can write comedy well enough so it’s not just about poops and butts and dicks.

And then I gave up because of the number of times this thing is dead center on screen. And really, truly, I make a lot of low hanging jokes on this blog anyway so we’re just going to embrace Zorc for who he really is, both inside and outside.

And he is a slowly growing talking dragon shaped penis with legs.

Covered up by my joke towel in this scene I want you to know the snake just had it’s maws wide open to shout them down. It literally does only talk out of the dragon head on the bottom part of him.

Anyway, then Hassan jumps in front of the missiles zorc shoots from his crotch and well...he dies that way.

Death by firecrotch. This is like an immortal God meant to be the protector of the Pharaohs but you can kill him and the way how is disgusting.

There they go, back to the palace, which like, I guess is VERY close to Kul Elna, since Yami and Seto are currently vibing there right now.

Back at fight club, these two are still at it.

and then back at the funeral of the most romantic anime death of all time, Seto is still at it.

Seto, despite probably having to throw just SO MANY funerals for his tragic backstory is not very good at them. So right now he’s just distancing himself emotionally from literally everything going on around him by convincing himself this is all a very vivid hallucination.

Which it is. For once he is correct, this entire arc is a hallucination, but a hallucination with consequences. Which he is not used to. Hell he doesn’t see consequences when he’s not in a hallucination half the time. He’s like super rich.

Yami decides he did what he can, but he’s done with this freakin guy. I guess trying to reach through to Seto is a skill that only Yugi possesses, cuz Yami is just clear out of patience for this sociopath. Which is a shame, he usually loves this sociopath.

I laughed out loud at this cut to this horse’s ass and Seto’s reaction to being left behind from getting a ride the one time he was the one who needed a ride.

LMAO at the dub for adding that suspicious soil clump where a dead girlfriend probably was laying before.

but being real, this is another very nice shot, I didn’t cap it for vibes, and I really should have. Again, if you’re looking for a “draw this in your style” anime still challenge, this is another fun one. You got a juxtaposition of old and new. You got the storytelling of the dead girlfriend and trying to understand feelings you don’t understand because you were taught to never love. You got lovely ancient pillars. You got a clump of dirt that used to be a girl...

Like we may have dragged Seto’s ass back here, just to make him look cool and out of place in that coat as the wind sweeps by him. And that’s fine, I’ll accept that Seto this season may only be here for some vibes.

As he admires her slowly breathing (yes, breathing, thanks dub) he flashes back to that only time he every had a single conversation with this woman (a conversation they had, only because she thought he was someone else)

And off he goes, to look cool and probably do little else.

And as always, here is the link to read these from the beginning in chrono order.

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

#YGO #Yugioh #Yu-gi-oh #photo recap #episode recap #yugi muto #seto kaiba #bakura #ryou bakura #Theif King Bakura #bewd #blue eyes white dragon #joey wheeler #tea gardner #yami muto #pharaoh #Episode 46 #season 5

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karizard-ao3 · 7 months

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Hello Kar! I love your fics and the ideas you write here, and I'd love if you could help me with a loose concept I've been thinking about. Idk if you've read the aot junior high manga or watched the anime, but there's a huge - huge - implication of a love triangle between Eren, Mikasa and Annie. It kinda surprises me that they chose Annie since she has her thing going on with Armin in the original (but then again Ereannie was a thing by some fans right in the beginning of aot as well). She clearly has a huge crush on Eren, that's never really epxlored on his side, probably because he's a very dense boy. It's hinted that Mikasa is aware of Annie's crush on Eren and doesn't take it too well. (And poor Bertholdt gets sidelined real bad)

Here are a few examples:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/shingekinokyojin/images/f/f6/Eren_apologizes_to_Annie.png/revision/latest?cb=20180925140824

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/05/7f/83/057f832b47e724e9a7b7656a1a1b2a44.jpg

https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=sv4zcEhIGykGlQ

https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=TmqOVY.VWykGqxcxoNWLuD9SqbotqVTdP20

https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=Tq77pSOEqSkGqxcxoNWLuD9SqbotqVTdP6Y

https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=Tljap4iUsykGqxcxoNWLuD9SqbotqVTdP08

I've been toying with the idea of Annie having a crush on Eren and how this plays out with Eremika and Aruani. Like Armin being jealous of his best friend? Maybe Eren gets jealous of Armin spending some time with Mikasa as they both feel left out by Eren and Annie? Obviously I'm not asking for Ereanni, but instead how this impacts Eremika, because I sincerely don't know what to think! 😅 I feel this has a lot of Clueless Teens vibes, even though they aren't strictly the same characters. I'd love to hear your take on this, especially how they all deal with it and how Eren and Mikasa finally end up together

I have both read and watched AOT Jr. High so I know exactly what you mean!

My thoughts are this: Annie would be trying to invite herself along to hang out with EMA, which Armin is very excited about until he realizes who it is precisely that Annie is trying to get close to. He gets mad at Eren but won't tell him why because he's afraid if Eren figures out Annie likes him he'll go for her. Mikasa has similar fears but is mad at Annie. Both girls are constantly butting heads over Eren while he's just like, "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo!" Mikasa could probably end this whole thing by telling Eren she likes him, but she doesn't know that. She believes if she gets a concrete rejection then Annie has won, so she can't risk it.

Maybe as far as Eremika getting together, Annie finally manages to get Eren to go out with her on a date (he does not know it's a date). When he gets home from it, he calls Mikasa to tell her Annie was acting really weird (flirting) and what does she make of that? Mikasa realizes Eren was on a date (he still has no idea) and thinks he's trying to get Mikasa to tell him if she thinks Annie likes him. She bursts into tears and Eren starts panicking. She's like, "Why would you go out with Annie when Armin likes her?"

This is news to Eren on two fronts. He was on a date? Armin likes Annie? And also, why is Mikasa so upset on Armin's behalf? Unless... DOES MIKASA LIKE ARMIN? Now he's upset for some incomprehensible reason! "Why do you care so much about Armin's feelings?" he demands.

Mikasa hangs up on him. He's flabbergasted. He's hurt. He is mad at Armin. He doesn't know why.

It's not until he sees Annie at school and starts ranting about how he thinks Mikasa might like Armin because she was acting so weird last night and what the heck is up with that, etc, that he gets some clarity.

Annie is all, "I guess she's the one you really like. Thanks for the date. I give up."

Eren is like, "Whaaaaaaat?" Spends the rest of the morning telling himself he doesn't like Mikasa, but then he sees her and, Oh boy. It all hits him at once.

So, then he goes to bitch at Armin for stealing his girl and Armin is like, you dumbfuck! Mikasa likes you!

So then Eren goes to get his girl.

My kid has a different take on this ask. He thinks Annie should ask Eren out at knife point and was very adamant that I share this option with you.

#eremika #ask me things #my asks #answered asks #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #armin arlert #annie leonhart #attack on titan Junior high #aot jr high

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magimerlyn · 2 years

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So I am thrilled that the Tokyo Mew Mew fandom is being revived, but I’m also remembering why I wasn’t particularly upset it wasn’t active when I got into the story

Now, if you haven’t read the manga or seen the original anime (all of it) and are only familiar with the reboot, this isn’t directed at you. The stuff I’m talking about is long-term story and character arc stuff, and the reboot hasn’t gotten to it yet.

Now, for any returning fans, especially those who ship kisshigo, I have a bone to pick with you.

How do you see a “romance” where the only time one of them shows any form of affection for the other is when the person is literally dying, where the one who’s interested in a relationship repeatedly tries to kill the object of their affections, and where his character arc literally culminates in him realizing that she doesn’t want him and that that is okay, and decide“Yes, that is the best ship.”

How do you do that?

How do you so violently miss the point of Kisshu’s character arc? His most violent, cruel moments were not when he was acting as an alien invader, but when he was specifically tormenting Ichigo and trying to make her his. But his fascination and eventual sympathy and affection for her were what started him on the path to turning against Deep Blue, even going so far as to die to give her a bit more of a chance. As long as Ichigo is alive and happy (which he finally realizes she won’t be with him) then he’s fine with dying and not being with her. This character arc does not work if they end up together because his acceptance of that fact is the final piece of his redemption.

This isn’t “enemies to lovers” because that requires both sides to be interested in each other. Ichigo does not want Kisshu. The closest she ever comes to reciprocation is when he is literally dying in her arms. Before then we never see any kind of fondness for him.

And I agree that the anime made Aoyama kinda dull. But I’d like to remind you that he did love Ichigo. So much so that he became the Blue Knight so he could fight at her side and support her. Because he loved her. And it’s beautiful.

So why do people insist on shipping something where only one party is interested, and he never gives her any reason to see him as anything but an enemy?

Especially when it destroys a great character arc?

Kisshu is my favorite character in TMM, and he always has been. But I hate seeing people misunderstanding his story and doing something that ruins it without seeming to realize it.

#tokyo mew mew #kisshigo #kisshu x ichigo #can we also talk about the fics that make Aoyama abuse so that Ichigo can be ‘saved’ by Kisshu?#those make literally no sense

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sir-klauz · 1 year

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Really hate when people still call Yuka just a girl when he explicitly identifies as a bi man who likes cross dressing, blatantly (as far as I’ve watched in the anime) directly in the anime.

"So you told him that you're a guy"

not "that you're a trans woman"

He is called a crossdresser, and he doesn't correct him on that. He speaks of how he loves cross dressing. And why can’t he love as a gay man doing this.

At this point he identifies this way and that shouldn’t change until it might be different in the future, and forced assumptions of “having to be trans” now if anyone wears anything that isn’t binary, isn’t acceptable.

He doesn’t lie about his gender. That’s transphobic terminology in itself so get lost with that as well. And he’s not a “trap”. That’s also transphobic. This is people not bothering about people’s identity once again when it comes to not being cishet with binary presentation.

It doesn’t help that the “female pronouns in MC's dialog was Netflix taking their own liberties with it. Yuka's entire thing is basically not wanting to be labelled and conforming to society's expectations. Yuka is also exploring and isn't entirely sure about his own identity at this point”. Netflix decided to translate it like that, that’s it. For some reason. But Netflix is known to be problematic with anything to do with gender. The original doesn’t appear to be that, and at the end of the day the original content is canon.

If I’m totally wrong, please mention, but from my experience he’s not said he’s a girl at all, and he’s open with himself being a guy who decides to wear women’s uniform regularly to class? And was very upset about not being able to date a man like any other person because of clothing preference. I haven’t read to manga yet in honesty, so is it saying something different there? But numerous people are getting concerned about why this is happening, and why translations are being so disrespectfully messed up. There’s a limit to how badly you dub something ahaaa….

It makes him feel absolutely awful when he’s rejected as a guy who likes men just because he likes wearing clothing that isn’t binary.

Even in lgbtqia+ character wikis (unofficial to actual wikis, just random run) he’s being misgendered there as well. Not to mention with how he’s written about when you Google it, there’s a mess of pronouns and assumptions everywhere, with people saying he “seems to be a girl” anyway??? Probably only based on him wearing “women’s clothing” and ignoring what’s been said or maybe they haven’t even watched it. You can barely find anything accurate about him from the actual canonical sources?

Just because someone wears this kind of clothing, it doesn’t mean they’re a girl, nor transgender. It means their presentation may be non-binary in some way, but that doesn’t = being a whole other gender to what they identify as.

It’s hard enough as it is being gay in the first place. I have this happen often and it’s been hard to see, it’s close to my heart (especially as he also cares a lot about doing his art) and I’m glad it’s being depicted though, and talks about how hard to can be to date if you’re not simply “binary”, even within queer circles.

I haven’t watched every episode so if he comes out later in the manga or anime? Please say. But so far it’s been stated pretty clearly tbh.

#blue period #ryuji ayukawa #yuka blue period #cross dressing doesn’t equal being transgender #being cis is not being trans because you appreciate cross dressing #presentation does not = gender automatically for everyone #transphobia #manga #lgbtqia manga #lgbt manga

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carriagelamp · 1 year

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This month I managed to read a few Classic Children's Novels that I've been meaning to get around to for years, so it was very satisfying to finally have them checked off my list!

Early Man: Junior Novelization

This is a novelization of the Aardman film, in which you learn about the secret neolithic origins of football/soccer, in which a timid, bumbling clan of Stone Age cavemen find themselves being overwhelmed by an all powerful Bronze Age empire… a Bronze Age empire that loves football. The only way to save their valley will be for the cavemen to somehow learn this strange new sport and beat the Bronze Age champions.

I really enjoy this movie and I often enjoy a novelization, so I thought I’d see how this one was. And it was… fine. It pretty well expresses the movie in simple language, with no shocks and surprises — though it was Americanized which always gets my goat. If something is written in British English just leave the damn thing in British English, especially if one of the key concepts is football/soccer, it just becomes jarring to “soccer” when the whole movie refers to it as “football” smh

Elmer and the Dragon // The Dragons of Blueland

I read the first book of this trilogy — My Father’s Dragon — a couple months ago because of the Netflix film and quite enjoyed it. These next two books were… fine. The first felt quite fresh and interesting and charming, in which a young boy called Elmer ventures to Wild Island to try to save a baby dragon that’s been imprisoned by the animals there. These next two are a direct continuation of that adventure, but honestly just feel more like additional chapters more than anything, they don’t really stand on their own. In Elmer and the Dragon, Elmer and the baby dragon escape Wild Island and end up having a little adventure with some birds who have a strange mystery on their island. In The Dragons of Blueland, Elmer is called back by the baby dragon to help save his family who are being hunted and are trapped in a cave.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 3

I adore this series, and I’ve talked about it at length before. I can’t believe that this book almost entirely took place in the past and never resolved the cliffhanger from the end of book two, but it just as me desperate to get my hands on the fourth book. The way all the different layers of the past are gradually being woven together to not only give answers but to actually raise more questions is really well done and makes it really satisfying to track how all these different characters connect to each other, and who knows what, and what events happened before and after other events…

I Think Our Son Is Gay

Just a very cute little manga about a housewife who suspects that her son may be gay. The son hasn’t come out yet, and is doing his best to try to cover it up, though he is sweet and very easy to read and not a terribly good liar. This is just the cutest slice of life — the mother accepts her son completely and is supporting him from the background until he’s ready to come out himself.

Julián Is A Mermaid

A lovely and loving picture book about a little boy who is completely enthralled by mermaids. He does his best to get dressed up as one, making a horrible mess in the process. However, when his abuela finds him and the mess, rather than being upset, she helps him perfect his costume and encourages him to do the things that make him feel happy and excited. All about self-love and passions and how children might express themselves in different ways.

I find some books like this can occasionally feel less like fun stories a child would enjoy and more like a lecture directed at adults who are already familiar with the topic, but this one is a perfect balance. It has a message to share, but the art is wonderful and dynamic, and the story is one a child could enjoy and relate to.

My Dress-Up Darling v1

I’ve had a hard month, so my brother bought me the first book of this as a happy day present because he thought it was funny. It definitely was and I think I’ll pick up the next book, it made me giggle out loud.

This story is about a boy who is learning the art of making traditional hina dolls from his dollmaker grandfather. While he loves the work, and is excited to be ready to work on more than just the clothing, he feels like a misfit for this unusual passion. Things change though when he finds his sewing skills suddenly being called for by a classmate who has her own odd passion -- a video game character that she desperately wants to cosplay. It's very cute, very silly, and is absolutely chock full of fanservice if you enjoy some gratuitous, silly sexiness along with romcom.

Nick and Charlie

Like many people I’ve been enjoying the Heartstopper graphic novel series, and finally picked up this little novella that Oseman had written years ago about a snapshot into Nick and Charlie’s relationship. This novella takes place in the lead up to Nick going off to university — Nick’s excited and Charlie’s anxiety over being left behind or forgotten is at an all time high. It was a very sweet and very quick read, I enjoyed settling down with it.

The Secret of Platform 13

I’ve often heard this book called a clear inspiration behind Harry Potter and have always meant to read it — well, now I finally have! I really enjoyed The Secret of Platform 13 and would highly recommend it to anyone that wants a book that reads like good, old-school, children’s low fantasy. I honestly can’t remember the last time I read a fantasy novel that gave me quite this feeling in a long time.

There is a magical world kept hidden safely away from the mundane world, where humans and magical beings are able to live together in safe and happy harmony. Every few years though, a door between the worlds open for a few days, giving a chance for people to crossover. During one of these moments, the newly born prince is brought over… and kidnapped, disappearing into the mundane world and unable to be rescued before the closing of the door. The magical kingdom waits many anxious years for the door to open once more, so that an intrepid rescue party can be sent out to save the lost, kidnapped prince…

Shaun the Sheep: The Flock Factor // The Beast of Soggy Moor

I really love these little Shaun the Sheep novels, between the art and the silly, cute writing style they really capture all the great things about the show. I had read a few of them a couple years back, and decided to finish off the series.

These books are all about Shaun, the de facto leader of the farm’s sheep flock, who is always coming up with schemes and plots and pranks. Along with him is the rather bumbling sheep flock, always ready for some mischief, Bitzer the overworked sheepdog who is just trying to keep order, and the completely clueless Farmer who manages to get into just as much trouble as his flock.

Stuart Little // The Trumpet of the Swan

I got onto an E. B White kick at the end of the winter holidays, because I have read Charlotte’s Web a hundred times, but haven’t read his other two children’s novels. I will say, I can see why it’s Charlotte’s Web that has really stood the test of time while the other two have become a bit more of a footnote. Both were enjoyable reads, but I wouldn’t bother recommending either unless someone really wanted a classic children’s novel to read.

The Trumpet of the Swan is about a trumpeter swan who is born without a voice. Determined to find ways to communicate, Louis goes through a variety of adventures, in which he befriends a human boy, learns how to print, is gifted a trumpet, gets employed at a summer camp, and even saves his love from a zoo. There’s some bits I really like, but then there’s other bits that don’t quite sit right, especially towards the end. It’s a mixed bag in my opinion.

Stuart Little I found particularly disappointing, especially because I assumed it would be like the film that came out in the aughts. Instead, Stuart Little is more episodic than possessing an overarching story, in which the mouse Stuart, born to a human family, goes through a series of odd misadventures that a mouse can get into. Once again, I found the ending weird… E. B. White just has a kind of weird fixation about love and I don’t love how it’s expressed in these children’s books. It feels out of place and frankly uninteresting. Honestly, I’d rather just rewatch the movie.

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gamesception · 10 months

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let's read rgu chapter 21, part 1.

Late again today. Slept in plus lost time doing more set up of the new toy. I'll make a separate post about that later. In the mean time, we've started chapter 21, or I guess volume 4 of the graphic novel collections, out of I believe 5.

I'm a little confused by that, because I'm pretty sure we're not doing the Black Rose arc. There's just not time enough to do that AND have a final confrontation with Akio. On the other hand, if Akio is the only thing we're doing for the rest of the manga, 7 chapters feels like maybe too much. But we are doing actually new stuff now - threatening Utena's friends with an arson attack is something that never happened in the anime, and is a solid move for raising the stakes and drawing audience heat, though as I mentioned last time if he had made Anthy do it I think that would have been more dramatic, drawn more heat, and fit Akio's character better. But then again, I don't really know this version of Akio yet.

this chapter in the scan opens with a brief recap. I don't know if the original manga chapter started with that, or if it was something added to the reprint volume.

We also get this recap here showing manga Anthy much more enthusiastically agreeing to follow Akio's orders.

the tag team manipulation of Utena starts with Anthy arranging for Utena to wake up late & be late for classes, stopping Touga from acting as utena's squire by redirecting him towards student council responsibilities, only... wasn't he supposed to quit the student council?

Anyway, Anthy doesn't wake Utena, but wouldn't you know it Akio just happens to show up with his Fancy Car just in time to give Utena a ride.

Only, Akio couldn't have known exactly when Utena was going to wake up, so now I'm imagining him just idling outside her dorm for like two hours, a stupid smarmy grin on his face the whole time, thinking "I'm so clever and devious!"

But Akio doesn't actually take Utena to class, instead taking her out on a joyride to take in scenic views in the area.

Akio's laying it on a little thick here, and you might criticize Utena for falling for it, except this bastard has been literally grooming her since she was six years old to be specifically vulnerable to exactly this kind of behavior. But Utena is savvy enough to think of how Akio is behaving similarly to Touga, who she knows was manipulating her - though she hasn't pieced together that Touga's whole manipulative affect was stolen wholesale from this bastard here.

Mentioning Touga briefly cracks Akio's mask, though.

"My former apprentice! How dare at fool defy me for your sake!"

I choose to read Utena's expression in this panel as being concerned by Akio's change in demeanor rather than struck by the sort of compliment, but it could be either way.

But before that tangent in the conversation can go any further, Utena slips and trips into the water, soaking her shoes, and Akio...

Yeesh. It's doesn't go any further than that, but still.

Back home Utena and Anthy have this conversation, where Anthy directly asks if Utena's falling for Akio. What is she thinking here? Is she afraid for Utena? Jealous over Akio?

Either way, Anthy's upset enough to go to Akio about it. It's still not clear here whether she's afraid that Akio will hurt Utena, or leave Anthy for her. For his part, Akio seems completely unaware of her concern, focused more on trying to come up with the absolute creepiest and grossest dialog possible, as befits 'Prince Licky-Licky'. "Your body will have to be put to Good Use"... Gross. Gross, Akio. That's gross. Go to jail.

That line - "What if she doesn't want to?" does definitely sound like Anthy being sincerely worried /for Utena/. But Akio's so wound up in his masterful manipulations that he doesn't catch the decidedly not Rose-Bridely thought.

...

There's more to this chapter, but I'm kind of burnt out and busy today, and this post is late enough already, so I'm going to end off here and finish the rest tomorrow.

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #sception reads rgu

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volfoss · 4 months

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MT-007 → MT-008: The Adventures of Rock

TW: A few appearances of racial stereotypes, depiction of a genocide (of slightly humanoid aliens)

This volume has 2 short stories at the end (kind of. they're summer/new years specials) so the tws for THOSE are here):

Skyscraper Kid: attempted suicide (of a mouse, the mouse was okay :)), a few appearances of racial stereotypes, animal death (not graphic, played off as a joke if anything)

Volcano Boy: fire (solely because of well. volcano) and simulated child abuse (it is part of a movie but is upsetting, it's not super graphic)

this is also very long. i had many thoughts on the politics handled in The Adventures of Rock so. thank you if you read to the end :)

Summary of Plot: A planet named Dimon (discovered by a scientist of the same name) causes a very damaging storm on Earth as it begins to orbit Earth itself. In the middle of the storm, Dr. Dimon signs the rights over to the planet to his son, Rock (the same Rock Holmes who is pretty famous within Tezuka’s works). Many people want these rights, and once Rock has come around to the fact he does want them, he becomes more curious about Dimon as a planet. With some pressure from the media, he agrees to go on the mission to explore Dimon. When he and the crew land, they discover no resources that would sustain human life, but a mysterious disease begins to spread along the crew. They end up leaving Rock and Daisuke (his friend) behind on the planet, in their rush to get back to Earth to be cured of this mysterious sickness. With the two boys abandoned on Dimon, they fight to survive, rationing their limited resources to live as long as possible. They run into two species on the planet and get entangled into a war soon after finding peace.

Characters: I will NEVER complain about Rock Holmes centric manga. Never. So seeing him before Vampires (where he was the villain) and where he’s just a kid and decently nice (minus him really being shitty about his friend’s vanished parents in Chapter 1) is really funny and interesting. He’s just a very good character overall and always a pleasure to read about. With his role in Tezuka’s other works typically being more evil/he is VERY clearly the one in charge, seeing scenes like the one in Chapter 1, where he’s being threatened to hand over the rights to Dimon as a planet, really gives him a lot of depth, as you do truly get to see him grow and change throughout the course of The Adventures of Rock. I really also enjoy his friend Daisuke as a character, I feel there’s a bit more depth to this one than there was in a work like Kimba/Jungle Emperor.

Art: With The Adventures of Rock releasing from 1952-1954, it’s one of Tezuka’s earlier works, and I do find a lot of charm in his earlier art as well. The environmental scenes are gorgeous, and the cute way he draws characters works really well to juxtapose the serious topics being discussed. I do really enjoy how, when they are on Dimon, the creatures and atmosphere is drawn in such a haunting way. He does slightly veer into a specific type of horror with his art (of people being formed in the cave walls and coming out to grab Rock being a primary example in this) and I do really always enjoy his clear skill at being a visual storyteller. Even though I did translate all of it, most panels were pretty clear what was happening, especially when it got into the war (see under the Misc section for more discussion on this).

Ending: The ending was really good, as Tezuka did change it from the original release (when it was being serialized). I think it did end with a sad note but it works very well for the media and the general somewhat dark tone of the piece.

Misc: This was the first untranslated series (160/400 volumes) that I will be reading via machine translation, so forgive me for any small details (such as names) being incorrect.

Onto actual details with it, starting with the gripes: on the top of page 15 of volume 1 are some very stereotypical depictions of African and Chinese people being impacted by the storm. More of these stereotypical depictions are on the big spread covering pg 16-17, as well as on pg 18 (these are all in the background but still present). It is also on page 21-22 as a background character and as a character (quite literally) named Dr. Uganda (and yes, he is from Africa). This character speaks in pure gibberish and has another character who is translating for him. It’s pretty fucking bad. The art for this character is also pretty vile, with it being to the point where I can confidently say this one example is (visually) worse than Kimba’s portrayal of Africans. Another stereotypical background character appears on pg 29. These do go away for the rest of Volume 1 once they go into space on Chapter 4 (pg 36) but it is something I want to mention (although with it not being translated, I would imagine that less people may seek this one out, compared to the other ones on this list). In Volume 2, these background stereotypical figures appear again on pg 13. This is not something that is remotely as bad as it was in Kimba but is something I would like to note for anyone who would like to seek this one out.

The space war subplot is not one that was super interesting to me at the beginning, but I do think the idea of going to a new planet and discovering life there is one that is executed very well. Overall, it ABSOLUTELY gets better once they head into space but it’s just not something that I (as a guy that isn’t super big on science fiction most of the time) would count along some of his best work out of everything I’ve read. I will say that the way this handles Rock dealing with his trauma from his dad dying (specifically around the events of another father dying on pg 102-105 roughly) was really well done for this being an earlier work of his. Him stepping up to father the child of the character who died and being so excited about that really comes full circle with how upset he was about his father dying. Rock as a character (in the works that he has appeared that I’ve read (in Vampires and Black Jack)) isn’t a character that is often awarded sympathy and kindness, so it was very neat to read one of his original stories (before he went a bit more evil). The themes of caring for people, even if they are unlike you or not family by blood was one that I think Tezuka was always very good at, and was a very big part of what worked for me in The Adventures of Rock.

The discovery of oil on Dimon becoming a way of showing how people on Earth are so greedy for it that they want to drain Dimon of it is interesting commentary on that topic as well. A lot of the works in Black Jack (and bits of Astro Boy) are also reliant on Tezuka’s very strong pro-environmentalism messaging and I think this one is really an earlier version of those themes. It worked very well here, solely because of how Rock was very open to becoming integrated in the Epumu (one of the alien races) and how he did pretty much start living with them. His dual citizenship (in a way, as he did live with the Epumu for a year and was considered one of them, but also was a human) was part of the central conflict towards the end of Volume 2, with which side he would choose. The ending specifically worked excellently with Rock dying FOR the Epumu (as he did quite literally stop them from being hurt by using his body as a shield) and saying that neither race should have gone to the other’s planet. Both races caused destruction when on the other’s planet, and that lends a lot to the way that Tezuka handles a lot of war and environmentalism messaging in The Adventures of Rock.

Another thing I find very charming is with the Epumu (who are bird people) that most of their dialogue is just various chirps and cheeps, and with the Ruborooms (who are basically clay people) are speaking with katakana to show how they are struggling to speak the language.

I feel that some of the politics are handled a bit more clumsily just due to how early of a work it is, so it doesn’t really work as well as some of his later stuff that handles similar stuff does (specifically thinking of Astro Boy, which isn’t a LOT later but is a bit). This story feels very much like older sci-fi (I’ve been watching a lot of the classic Dr. Who recently, and this has very similar vibes), and minus the issues, if that is your cup of tea, this one may be worth reading. It’s a lot darker with the subject matter than some of his very early works.

The politics in this are mostly focused around the war between the Epumu and humans on Dimon and how the Epumu get exploited by a second group of humans. The running theme in The Adventures of Rock that stuck out to me the most was how it parallels human exploitation of resources in the real world. First, before Dimon as a planet was explored, the immediate leap to action from the humans was to explore it and see if it could be used for resources for Earth. After Rock’s group makes it to Dimon and then leaves, another group (lead by an oil baron) tries to make it. Dimon as a planet, instead of having seas, has oil all over it, so it was a natural jump to try and take that as oil for Earth. Their rocket ends up exploding as it takes off. The third group that makes it to Dimon is initially curious of the Epumu’s existence but does end up shooting at them (this group was specifically retreating from the war going on before this third group landed) and capturing some of them. One of the humans gets a blood clot and a donation of blood is forced from one of the Epumu, who later dies from this. The blood transfusion is successful (from the humans side), and Tezuka shows that the humans realize that they can also exploit this resource and plan on doing so. In a truly horrifying moment, in the middle of one of the humans giving a speech about how good of a resource the Epumu are, he explains how good of workers they are and how good of livestock they are. He then goes on to say that the meat they are eating now is the meat of the Epumu that died from the transfusion and Daisuke’s father (who is part of the third group) is visibly nauseated. The speech ends with the announcement of the plans to export the Epumu to Earth because of these reasons. Meanwhile, Rock, who is still on Dimon has helped the Epumu grow as a society and is living peacefully among them. It’s a stark contrast.

This is arguably one of his very early anti-war manga, and I do think he handles it with grace. I also feel a lot of the anti-colonialism messages in this land a lot better than in Kimba (if there were even really any there, it was all really badly handled in that), with the humans very clearly parading around an Epumu that has been to Earth as proof that the humans are okay and the Epumu being on Earth would be a benefit to them. They even have obtained a company to try and force the Epumu on Earth that they use as part of this parading to try and coax the Epumu onto Earth. After Rock is convinced to return to Earth (partially by his son and because he’s very excited to be able to return), the humans attack the Epumu that are trying to flee, saying that none of them must be allowed to escape and using violence when they deem it is needed. After capturing them, the humans determine which of them would be good for meat or any other purpose they might want the Epumu for, before cramming them all into a capsule. On the rocket, Rock catches one of the scientists abusing the Epumu that was paraded around the rest of them and asks him what is going on, only for him to reveal that trying to get them onto Earth peacefully was a lie and that they were being hunted down on Dimon. Tezuka does not shy away in the slightest from showing the camps that they are being kept in and how they are very blatantly abused and mistreated by the humans, who see them as much less human than themselves. When the Epumu retaliate with a disease that attacks some of the humans, they are then immediately treated as the enemy of the humans that must be wiped out. Rock begins to work on stopping the war and ultimately dies as a consequence of this. His death is ultimately the cause of the war stopping, and I do really think that both of these topics were handled very well.

As for the two short stories at the end of Volume 2 (Skyscraper Kid and Volcano Boy), I’ll review them both in this section.

Skyscraper Kid:

Summary (since I can’t really find one for this short story in English): Skyscraper Kid follows a boy named Kozu who previously was unhoused and living on the lot where the Empire State Building was built. When it was built, he was kicked out of where he was living, and as compensation, moved up to a small apartment at the very top of the building. He makes his living cleaning and has a best friend (who is a mouse) named Hatsuda Mouse. His mouse friend ends up jumping off of the building and Kozu has to call emergency services to report the suicide attempt so Hatsuda can be saved. They arrive in time and save the mouse, although Kozu is chastised and made fun of for calling emergency services for the mouse. The mouse and an older man (named Dr. Gamma) are both very appreciative of Kozu and his kindness. During the night, some watchmen are patrolling outside the ground floor of the tower and are startled by a cat’s shadow (which makes it appear to be much bigger than it actually is due to a lamp shining on it). They are intrigued by how the shadows work and start playing around before a burglar team knocks them both out. The team is in search of a stone and succeed in finding it, leading to the leaders in control of the Tower being upset at how poorly the night watch did to prevent this.

A rich business man offers to buy the tower, and this news is very concerning to Kozu and another hotel worker. Kozu spots the thieves planning out their next heist and asks for Hatsuda’s help to stop it. The stone they are looking for is part of the foundation of the tower, so Hatsuda digs into the stone and eventually finds it. The burglars wish to just blow up the foundation of the tower to easily access the stone, as they do not care about what happens to the tower. Hatsuda emerges from the foundation, having eaten the stone so the burglars cannot get it, and he and Kozu flee as the burglars examine the hole. They notice that there is a smaller hole in there and wonder if a human could fit through, before deducing it was a mouse (due to the mouse hair left behind).

Kozu flees to Dr. Gamma’s office and explains that they found the stone the bandits wanted. Gamma points out a certain squelching noise that he is making with his slippers and that makes Kozu realize that Gamma’s slippers have the exact same kind of mud as the burglars outside were standing in. Kozu also notices that the same cat that caused the guards issues the other night was Gamma’s cat and that he MUST be the boss of the burglars. Gamma pulls off his disguise and pleads for the stone from Kozu, holding the boy at gunpoint. He tells Kozu that it all ties into politics from XX Country (Tezuka often censors country names like this, in Kimba there was Country A and Country B) and that the wrong foundation block (that had the stone in it) was used for the tower. Gamma moved to the building and disguised himself so he could get the stone back. Suddenly, he jumps and starts giggling, as something tickles on his neck. It’s Hatsuda, who has grabbed the key to the room and urges Kozu to run away. They head for the elevator, but the burglars who are chasing them destroy the motor of the elevator so they cannot head up. They begin running up the stairs, as Kozu realizes their only option is going up to the roof.

Once they reach the roof, Kozu redirects a pipe to flood the stairwell, causing the bandits to get caught up in the water. The boy and his mouse begin scaling down the building with a rope, but unfortunately their path is right by the window that Gamma’s cat is sitting at. The cat obviously informs his owner and he shoots the rope right under where Hatsuda is climbing, severing Kozu’s connection to the rope. They are only worried about getting Hatsuda, since the mouse swallowed the stone they needed. Hatsuda moves fast and uses his tail to keep Kozu from falling. The thieves try to persuade Kozu to join their efforts and offer to save him if he gives them Hatsuda. At hearing his refusal, they put the cat on a stick and dangle it very close to Hatsuda, as a threat. The cat very nearly grabs at Hatsuda’s tail, which causes Kozu to cut it off and climb up the rope a bit further (while holding Hatsuda in one hand). With a quick hand movement, he moves Hatsuda to his back pocket, which makes the burglars think the cat ate Hatsuda, only leaving the tail behind. The cat tries to tell its master that it was a lie but the burglars all surround it (one even suggesting to give it a laxative).

Kozu mourns his situation, as he is still hanging there and his hands are getting tired. He looks down at the many stories below him and lets go, explaining it is hopeless. A helicopter swoops by and saves him just in time. The burglars are all caught, and the owner of the building contributes all of this to Kozu. They were about to dissect the mouse to remove the stone when the person carrying the mouse tripped and dropped the container down the stairs, causing the mouse to (seemingly?) die, as Kozu comments on the fact that they can do a dissection now.

Thoughts (doing shorter formatting for these): My main thoughts with this was it just felt sort of confused as to where it wanted to go plot wise throughout all of it. I feel it was slightly more adjacent to his gag strips, where comedic things just happened and didn’t have a super clear plot (which, to be fair, it being a pretty short story (only 18 pages long) would make it hard to have a very cohesive plot with THIS much details). I feel the mystery elements worked well, and I did really enjoy Kozu as a character, he is very spirited and is a fun protagonist to follow along in the story. I do always enjoy a little rambunctious scamp character, and I think the team of Cozu and Hatsuda really worked for me for that reason. The ending felt very strange to me, given what happened to Hatsuda (and how similar subject matter is dealt with in the Black Jack story “Guinea Pig”) and just sort of rushed. Given how short it is, the shortcomings make sense but it’s just an odd little story. Heads up for (yet another) poorly drawn Black character on pg 142-143. I’d say this one is definitely a decent story, just a bit odd (and maybe I’m missing cultural context in some way here, as Tezuka tended to put those in his works a lot). 6/10.

Volcano Boy:

Summary (since I can’t really find one for this short story in English): The story begins with explaining the seven mysteries of Panana* Island, which include the sun rising twice, people cannot see other people but can hear their voices, if a bird dies, humans will die, anyone who sees the 3 AM eruption (of the volcano on the island) cannot ever leave the island, and a few others that are not elaborated on. The man is explaining all of these to none other than the character commonly known as Kenichi (he appears a lot, given Tezuka’s Star System, he doesn’t seem to be named in this one though, so I will keep referring to him as Kenichi in this summary). Kenichi wants to go and visit the island (on summer vacation) but the older man worries for his safety. A man offscreen calls for them to “Cut!” and try a new take. It then reveals all of this takes place on a film set and they start a new take of the same material shown in the first take. This time, Kenichi gets hit hard enough that the director yells “Cut!” again and worries over his star. Kenichi tells him that he is going home with how bad his face looks and the director calls after him to please come back. The director panics and one of the other helpers behind the set tells him that it is all the fault of the director. The new suggestion is finding a cheap replacement for Kenichi. As Kenichi is leaving the studio, he’s approached for an autograph from Daisuke and Rock. Some of the film crew oversee this interaction and realize Rock is the perfect replacement for Kenichi. They return to the director and reassure him that everything will be okay, even if the replacement isn’t a professional actor.

The star of the film approaches Rock as he and Daisuke are leaving and begins asking him about Panana Island. The film crew are filming the interaction, although it doesn’t seem Rock is aware of this. They reveal the rest of the secrets of Panana Island (The bottom of the crater has blooming flowers, there is a singing pumice stone, and a great Nyudo comes out). Rock is very enthusiastic and says he wants to go to that island, but Daisuke disproves. Rock proclaims again that he wants to go to that island and the film crew are overjoyed, as it is just how the script was written (even though Rock is clearly not aware of the script). The man warns Rock that the island is uninhabited and would be really dangerous for him. Rock brings up that he wants to go because it would be good to study it on summer vacation, which also perfectly aligns with the script. The director himself has arrived and is very happy to hear how perfect it’s going. The scene that had the older man worry for his safety and then hit him is up next, and Rock is very startled. Thankfully, Daisuke is there and throws the older man right onto his jaw. Just when everything was going right, they had to cut the take again due to Daisuke’s actions. The director rushes to explain that their company wants to do a documentary on Panana Island and shows them the script. He shares the casting trouble that they had (given how Kenichi was punched too hard to really have a useable take) and both boys are enthusiastic about helping, now that they know it is for a movie.

A boat takes the crew out to Panana Island, and Daisuke worries about the superstition about the bird. He takes the bird out of its cage and replaces it with an octopus, taking the bird with him. Another crew member comes by to inspect the cage and gets inked. The crew member gets in a fight with another, as they do not recognize him now that he has been inked. The bird thanks Daisuke for saving it and promises to give him good luck. Mysterious circumstances start the second that they land on the island, with a ton of rumbling on the ground. One of the camera operators realizes it is a volcanic eruption. They end up abandoning the camera, but the bird that has befriended Daisuke urges him to go back for it, so he does. He tries to take a photo of the volcano, but the active eruption is making it hard. Daisuke is scolded for being so dangerous.

They start waiting for the second sun to rise, but the bird that Daisuke set free comes by to give him corks to put in his ears. Everyone but Daisuke and Rock (who covered his ears) are affected by the sound. The sunrise happens, but from Daisuke’s position, he can see two suns, and Rock cannot. He is much lower (elevation wise) compared to Daisuke, so that explains the illusion. The film crew are approached by a large hairy man, who claims to have lived on the island for thirty years (as he witnessed the 3 am volcano eruption and so cannot leave). They all rush to record the volcano’s eruption on camera. They get slightly buried under the rocks and then head closer to the crater. They notice the flowers at the bottom of the crater. While they’re busy focusing on that, the giants appear and everyone is scared, Daisuke most of all. The bird urges him to calm down and film the giants, which he does. Rock reassures Daisuke that if he looks closely at the images, he will realize it’s just their shadows.

The boys go to sleep (although the bird is being shooed for being too noisy) until an eruption at 3 am wakes Rock up. The director insists he will be the one to go up and see the eruption the night before and sneaks up on his own. Rock and Daisuke follow him. They go to the crater and see some jewels coming from the bottom. Rock realizes that instead of flowers at the bottom, it was actually jewels. The director insists that even if it takes him a lifetime, he needs to get that jewel. The old man who had been on the island for 30 years approaches them and explains that the jewels are his and that they will never be able to collect the jewels. Thieves fall into the crater, which explains why people stay on the island forever. The bird died and the director, Rock, and Daisuke panic about it. The director is beat over the head by the old man and Rock tries to bring him down the mountain. The old man, in agony, pleads out for help, and no one comes to his aid as he is dying.

1 week later, Rock summarizes it up to the director (who is recovering in bed). There is science behind the singing pumice stone and every other superstition. He also tells the director that Daisuke’s cut of the film will be available today, and the director thanks them both deeply. The preview of the film starts, as it is presented as Daisuke’s desperate filming of the island. It’s revealed on the last page that Daisuke had accidentally filmed his face for the ENTIRE film. The director is so upset over this that he faints.

*translated literally, the official site has it as “Banana” but it’s pretty distinctly starting with パ(pa) and not the バ(ba) when you first see it mentioned on pg 154 of this volume. Not an important note but something I did want to point out.

Thoughts (doing shorter formatting for these): This one worked a bit better than Skyscraper Boy for me, namely because it felt like a more cohesive story than the previous story. I really enjoyed the mystery elements of it, as well as the comedic twist ending. Tezuka is very good at telling a story with many threads and letting it all unravel and tie back together as it goes and I think that’s very clear here. It was very nice to see Daisuke and Rock again after the very sad ending of Adventure of Rock. I don’t have a ton to say here other than as a person who LOVES legends and stuff like this, I did really enjoy this one. What other manga will you nearly see Rock Holmes blown up by a volcano. None (although I hold out hope ok). I also really enjoyed the film set framing at the start, it was really neat! 7.5/10.

Overall Thoughts: For one his earlier works, The Adventures of Rock finds its footing pretty strong in Volume 2 and really did let the themes that Tezuka put into his later works shine. This one had a lot of moments where I did enjoy bits and pieces of it, but overall, it just was one that I was not enjoying reading in Volume 1 but Volume 2 was much more enjoyable. I’m not letting the horrors of having to translate all of this get in the way of my opinions on it, but it was just really a mixed bag in Volume 1. Volume 1 had a lot of focus on stuff that I feel paid off a lot later in the second half of Volume 2, but it didn’t work as well while I was reading Volume 1. It was stuff that definitely did make Volume 2 better, but I feel it was sort of clumsy in Volume 1, and it did not keep my interest as well in Volume 1. Minus the couple glaring issues, this was a pretty decent story but not one that is up there with my favorites of his. It was one I did enjoy a lot more once they got into more of the politics in Volume 2 (as Tezuka does truly shine in handling political topics that he had experience with and then incorporated into his writing). The short stories were both pretty good, and overall, for my first untranslated experience, it was a pretty good one. I’d say overall, it’s a 7/10, it was very good in some parts but I wish it was just slightly more polished in other parts.

#twist rambles #tzkposting #sobbing as i take a solid 30 seconds to scroll to the end here. so sorry.#the adventures of rock #to be CLEAR if this one was translated. id rec it to a few ppl but the issues are also there <- having to say this abt his works until im #blue in the face.#the way im doing short story formatting here is how itll be for a lot of them going forward and prob how i handle BJ when i get to that :)

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My name is : Cat

Hair style: Medium wolf cut, dark brown hair

Eye color: Hazel

Pronouns : She/them/he

MBTI: INFP/ INTP

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Personality: I'm a personality lizard can change personality very fast, is most of the time nice and friendly but can have a short temper with specific people, lazy, loyal, aroace, Bisexual, sleep deprived, and might have ADHD or Autisme.

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Calculating...

Your sibling figure is... TACHIHARA MICHIZOU!!!

-Tachihara is such a great brother omg

-He is nice and easygoing most of the time, however, he does have quite the temper too. But after your arguments with him, you both end up apologising to each other and resolving the conflict

-He can handle your short temper pretty well (*cough* Chuuya and Teruko *cough*) but please don’t snap at him all the time :(

-Tachihara was a bit surprised when you suddenly changed your personality one time, but he wasn’t shocked, since he was used to Teruko doing that. He thinks it’s cool how you could act sweet one second, emotionless the next, but don’t change your personality so suddenly or else he’s going to have a heart attack

-I don’t think he’d be that annoying as a brother. Sure, even though he may tease you for fun, but he doesn’t want to go too far as to make you angry or upset. You two would have some playful banters now and then, but it’s mostly teasing remarks and witty comebacks

-Piggyback rides! Tachihara gives Teruko piggyback rides all the time, and he would be perfectly happy giving you some too. He is pretty strong, so don’t be afraid that you’re too heavy for him. Tachihara will carry you anywhere you wanted to go, and he could even run around a park while giving you a piggyback

-He is kind of concerned with your sleep deprivation, because sleep is very important! Definitely asks a doctor for some advice, and would brew some chamomile tea or hot milk for you to help you fall asleep. He would also read stories to you, and it’s actually one of his softest moments with you

-If you’re feeling down or in need of someone to talk to, Tachihara is right there for you! He’s a great listener and is quite patient, so he always finds the right words to comfort you. He might even hug you or buy you some stuff that you like to cheer you up, because he hates it when he sees you sad

-Watch anime with him! When both of you are free on the weekend, Tachihara would put an anime series or movie on the television and the rest of the evening would be spent watching that. I headcanon he likes watching Spy x Family

-I feel like he would also like cats. Due to his job, he isn’t able to have a lot of time to look after a pet, but he would love to adopt a cat with you. Sometimes goes to pet shops with you to see which cat(s) you two would like to adopt in the future

-As we all know, Tachihara is very insecure deep down, and he feels inferior compared to others. Since you’re his sibling figure, you’re most likely the person he’d be vulnerable with. Please comfort him and give him words of encouragement, because he really likes it when you do

-Food trips!!! Tachihara would totally go to different restaurants and cafes with you to try out different cuisines. He’ll pay for the food, even though sometimes you split the bill with him. On special occasions like your birthday he’ll take you to very expensive restaurants to celebrate

-Please give him hugs. A lot of them

And last but not least, your mentor is... JOUNO SAIGIKU!!!

-One word: rip

-/Hj, but Jouno is going to be tough on you and make you work hard. He doesn’t accept anything less than 100%, and don’t think you can rebel or slack off, because then he is going to punish you by making you work even harder. And this man is lowkey terrifying even without his punishments so I wouldn’t want to say no to him either

-His trainings normally consist of him sparring with you (aka beating you up but not entirely). You learn a lot through his lessons, but at the cost of a severely exhausted body and no energy left. Even when he’s not physically training you, expect him to plop some big-ass book with lots of information in it on your hands and make you read it since it could be ‘helpful for missions’

-He doesn’t really mind your nice and friendly personality, it’s kind of refreshing for him actually. Jouno finds the fact that you could change your personality quickly good, since it could boost the success rate for missions. Just don’t be short-tempered with him or snap at him, because even when he thinks it’s amusing, you wouldn’t want to get in trouble with Teruko, would you?

-Jouno will teach you one or two things about interrogation, however, his version of teaching is really ‘watch and learn’. After watching him interrogate aka traumatise several criminals, you definitely have an idea of how to do it yourself, but please get therapy (dw I’ll make Jouno pay)

-He would tease you a bit every now and then, but he wouldn’t take it too far. Most of his teasing is reserved for Tachihara and his victims, and he would mostly focus on training you. But that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t drop a few witty remarks about your work and training

-Jouno is sadistic towards everyone, and that includes you. He would like scaring you sometimes, as well as making your training even harder if he felt like you deserved it. He just loves the sound of your heartbeat increasing in fear when he suggests extending your training, but don’t worry he won’t do that because Fukuchi wouldn’t let him

-But Jouno cares about you! He wouldn’t really show it, but it’s there, deep deep down. Even when his trainings are hell, Jouno wouldn’t hesitate to be by your side when you need help. He hates how he would never be able to see you. Fun fact: Jouno finds the sound of your heartbeat the least annoying out of all the Hunting Dogs; it’s even kind of calming to him

-He pushes you to take risks. Definitely gives you harder missions because he thinks it’s a good way for you to grow. Of course, he will assist you if it was too difficult for you

-Definitely would not let anyone bully or harass you. You’re his student afterall, and nobody can hurt someone under Jouno’s wing. So if you’re being bullied or anything, just indirectly tell Jouno and even when he might act like he doesn’t care, he will teach them a lesson when you’re not looking

-Jouno pushes you to succeed, and you will become a great Hunting Dog under his tutelage. Just please don’t pick up any of his sadistic traits.. please?

#bsd x reader #bungou stray dogs x reader #bsd platonic #tachihara x reader #jouno x reader #silverbladexyz's 100 follower event

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Gray out right says that he doesn’t like her and rejects her.

Not to mention the fact that when Lyon is hitting on Juvia, he backs off after being fully rejected, and during the Edolas arc when Edolas!Gray continuously hits on the uninterested Edolas!Juvia, it’s seen as weird and creepy, and he isn’t even a fraction as bad as Earthland!Juvia is to Earthland!Gray.

Many shippers were ready to fight Lyon for having the audacity to like Juvia when she said no, even after he backs off. Because No means No, and he needs to respect her wishes, which he did.

What they need to learn is that No means No REGARDLESS of gender.

Gray. Said. No. And there is nothing shippers or Juvia can do to change that.

As I’ve said before it’s okay if you don’t like them but baby they can only do what Mashima writes. That’s my whole point. You go into spaces on twitter where you can mute them. It’s fine you don’t like them but since it bothers you so badly you might want to mute Juvia, NaLu, Gruvia, and anything else that bothers you.

Gray didn’t like Juvia at first and I can admit that but Mashima the writer has always stated that he loved them as a ship so it was obvious they would get together. I’m not trying to make you love them. Gray did say no in the beginning but Mashima have stated in interviews and questions at the end of chapters who he was obsessed with for Gray. AGAIN ITS OKAY IF YOU DONT LIKE JUVIA OR GRUVIA.

I’m sorry you have been in terrible situations where Juvia’s character remind you of real people but Juvia isn’t real. She can only do what Mashima writes nothing more nothing less. Mashima has also stated during one of his lives that Juvia might not be understood outside of Japan because she is a girl they call a girl in love. He said it’s very popular in Japan and the reason why fans love her. He also said that fans in the west might not get it and that’s okay. It’s okay if you don’t get Juvia’s character but Juvia didn’t manipulate, force, and do anything to Gray because she’s a character and the only way for her to do any of that stuff is for Mashima to write it.

I think the issue you are having is that you applying real life to it too much. It’s okay. They not real and can’t hurt you. You might want to leave the fandom and just enjoy your graylu pocket of the fandom with fanart and fanfic because it appears to me that it’s consuming you. AGAIN YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIKE GRUVIA OR JUVIA. Just giving suggestions.

Gray said no in the beginning is correct and I agree with you on that but I’m an adult with my own little family only 28 and I don’t see the way you see it. I can’t change the way you see it no more than you can change the way I view the anime. I just don’t see none of what Juvia doing besides the stalking as anything bad. Yes she would denounce her love to Gray every chance she got and call other women love rival but those moments are suppose to be comedic relief. It’s also okay if you didn’t find them funny. I don’t find them funny either. I live in America and understand that Japan’s sense of humor is different from mine.

I’m praying you be alright at the end of the day. I just want you to see that Juvia is not a real person. You speak of her often as if she’s a living breathing human doing these things. I hate Mest but I don’t have to shout it to the rooftops and treat it like Mest is truly a person out here liking little girls. That’s my point. I agree with some of what you say especially about Gray telling her no in the beginning but Mashima didn’t take Gray’s as serious as you take them. If there’s anyone you gonna be upset with about how Juvia is it should be Mashima and not a character drawn on paper or digitally.

Also I know you don’t read 100YQ but Gray has declared his love for Juvia multiple times in the manga and Mashima has stated that he is growing Gray emotionally from the cold and closed off person he was in the original. Just fyi.

Again my post wasn’t to get you to like them but to realize you are mad at a character that is written by an author when it’s all the author doing.

Have a good day! Thank you.

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Loving Yamada Lv 999 Review

Includes Spoilers....

So I went into this show knowing it was going to be different than most which I was happy. Most don't feel as real for me more fantasy but this was one that hit close to home to me. I have in the past met a guy that brought me into mmo world who later cheated on me and left me for the girl he met online, this I can relate completely with Akane for this. Not gonna lie her ex is attractive but such a asshole especially in how he broke up with her like he had already been seeing the girl. Worst part is its bad when a guy cheats on you but bro seriously what the fuck why is chick ugly as shit... see what I mean below.

Like seriously what the fuck he is one stupid MF thats all I got to say. Akane is beautiful and he was too blind to see it. Not to mention as you get to know Akane you realize she is a sweet girl maybe Takuma just didn't bring that out in her I don't know but I'm glad Yamada ends up being the guy she is with. I also think its funny when Takuma finds Yamada at her apartment like the realization the man he stalks on social media as a gamer is in his mind fuckin his ex lmao priceless. Now Yamada is actually kind of funny with how he says things at times the no care attitude but you can tell its cause he has never let anyone really effect him. So when she starts getting to him with little things she does its sweet watching them fall in love. It is I guess somewhat of slow burn due to his Kuudere personality however it is just the sweetest watching him change. Like from running after her, or giving her his umbrella and even calling out her name in the middle of the hallway. Like dude is sexy in his own way. So sweet when he takes care of her when she is sick like by her bedside care.

Then there is the way he looks at her like seriously you can tell when he falls for her even before its even said. From the firs time he looks at her til later til the last picture his look changes so much in how he feels. His smile is full of love and contentment by the end I love that gentle side of him.

Then there is that epic ending where he tells her he really likes her, I say like because its weird in the Japanese version Suki da 好きだ is said which in the Japanese language means both I like you and I love you if its someone you feel something for that is intimate. that being said he practically said he loved her however in English language we dumbed it down to just I like you which I hate. I saw this because I originally watched in English but watched the last 2 episodes in Japanese before it was dubbed and I thought was sweeter in Japanese for that reason. That smile he gives though when she asks him if he likes her omg he has a really nice smile.

The way he holds her hand is so delicate how he held her when she was upset. I mean yes he may not be the most skilled in what to do but I think Yamada did a good job being there for the best way he knew to. He was there when she was drunk or when she just needs a shoulder to cry on he is always the one there to take care of her.

Then there is the girl he let down he even did that nicely. Like he was soft and gentle and just didn't dismissed how she felt, he let her tell him everything she needed to then admitted his heart was with Akane. I respect him for how he handled this he really is that genuine guy that I think someone like Akane needs in her life after the shit she has dealt with.

Honestly all in all I think its a really good anime with alot of heart to it. Has good characters and most are very relatable. I think Yamada needed her in his life more than he even knew and she definitely needed him. I hope there is another season but I do plan to read the manga as well. Hope yall give it a chance and love it as much as I do.

#loving yamada at lv999 #yamada #anime #shoujo #shoujo anime #akane x yamada #yamada x akane #reviews #review #anime review

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hey, read your answer about you being an anime only! i promise i'm not trying to pick a fight, but if you're open to discussing this a little: considering it took endo years to get to this point, it's unlikely we'll be able to get a full S3 next year since there's probably not enough manga chapters. will you be reading the manga then? ps: the manga isn't exactly. spoilers. it's the original story, no?

I don't think I'll be reading it, no. I mean, I can't be sure, my resolve may break at some point and I may indulge, but as I've explained why I'm doing it that way, I plan on continuing watching the anime first and then reading the respective manga chapters.

If I may be a little more personal here, this past year I've been stuck on a job that, while not unpleasant or demanding or exhausting in any way, it was far from fulfilling. This job's contract ends at the end of July and if I'm lucky, I may actually get a much more fulfilling job this September and be more proactive in it in general, so I'll have more time filled with stuff I like. Last fall it was Spy x Family that filled a lot of that hole, and I've been stuck all these months without that nor a job I enjoy. So I'm thinking, if I get that job I want, I'll have less unfulfilled time and thus less dependence on the show (not that I'll love the story or characters any less), so it may be easier for me to wait for ten months again for new content.

As for your p.s., by anime-only standards, yes it is a spoiler. If you go to the cinema to watch a film that was inspired by a book, you wouldn't tell someone what happens at the end if you knew they haven't read the book. That's spoilers. The book is still the original story, the film is still an adaptation, but by revealing a part of the story that a film watcher doesn't know, you're spoiling it for them - and no film watcher is obligated to read the whole book and know the whole content just to enjoy the film. And while Spy x Family is quite popular, it's not common knowledge popular. Saying "Jesus dies on the cross and then gets resurrected" isn't a spoiler for the bible or any film inspired by it because it's a millennia-old story that even many non-Christians know.

When it comes to the manga vs anime debate on what's spoilers and what's not, it can get a little tricky cause you have snobs and purists on both sides, which is why I prefer to stay away from the fandom instead of engaging and then complaining about getting spoiled, because I will get spoiled and it will be my fault. My one request is that, if someone reblogs any posts of mine, to not add any details about stuff that happens in manga chapters that haven't been animated. That's all. But no-one is obligated to read or engage with my stuff, a lot don't even see it, I'm not demanding anyone tag their spoilers on their own posts or complaining to those that don't, I recognize my own responsibility in curating my experience and avoiding spoilers and take the necessary measures to do so. So I don't see where's the problem with me, in my personal blog, referring to stuff that hasn't happened in the anime yet as "manga spoilers".

I understand you wanted a discussion, not a fight, but honestly it's a tricky issue, and I'd really really rather not get into the bad side of a purist, whether they're a manga or an anime purist. And such a discussion can be derailed very easily, so while you're welcome to discuss it with me in a civil manner, I will stop it if I feel it can get out of hand.

I'm not mad or upset at you or anything. I'm just a little wary because I know how toxic fandoms can get, especially when they hold some very passionate beliefs about what's "right" and what's "wrong" in the way other people consume fictional media.

#nette speaks #anonymous #ask and ye shall receive

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PLF Spotting (S6/E2)

High concentration of advisor material here, making this a rather long one. Hit the jump! (Warning: The very first thing after the jump is a screenshot of mauled Noumu.)

On the Villains:

A new and rather gory shot of poor mangled John-chan is added, and while I appreciate the lingering over Ujiko’s upset, and especially the cute panel of Ujiko showing off Noumu to AFO,(1) I wish they’d kept the voice-over dialogue from AFO telling Ujiko what a dear friend he is and praising his curiosity. Your Honor, they’re terrible husbands, and we deserve all the content we can get.

It’s hard to say, but I think this new shot of Ujiko might be him kneeling over John-chan’s remains? The angle’s about right, anyway. The moment does leave out Ujiko’s background yelling, though, which the manga shows via sound effect.

Love and always have loved Shigaraki dressing like Sensei for some reason. It’s definitely not right after the merger announcement, so I’ve always wondered when exactly this little flashback happened. Sometime during the few weeks between Deika and Shigaraki reporting in for surgery? Maybe the day of the surgery itself, shortly before they get down to business? No clue, but it’s a nice shot, anyway.

It's technically anime-original, in that it's taking some of Ujiko's internal monologue from the manga and applying it to a flashback instead, one based on a scene in Chapter 276. I imagine we'll be revisiting it when we get to the release of the Near High Ends later. (My main takeaway on this new angle is that it and the jacket coat make Shigaraki’s shoulders look broader than they typically do.)

Point: Giving Mocha-chan a sound effect/protesting whine when they jump Mirko to defend Ujiko: please take some ok-hand emojis because that’s a nice touch.

Likewise, with the High End fighting Crust, having the color to distinguish its brain parts from the flat white of its extra eyes/exposed bone/whatever is going on beneath the metal grating does a lot to heighten the wrongness of it compared to the manga, where it’s all just white regardless. Very effective!

Point: I'm thrilled the anime kept that SD shot of John-chan and Mocha ascending to heaven. XD

New shot of Skeptic, though missing his ever-present transformed helpers, and very low effort on the monitor screens.

I love how deep Galvanize (fan name)’s voice is! And his smirk changing into a savage grin as he lights his cigarette with a spark, which I’d never caught before. I’m amused that they just color-swapped Kaminari’s hair for his. (New nickname: Nega Kaminari.) I definitely imagined his shirt being a yellow-gold shade myself—he certainly has a loud enough aura to support the visual impact!—but the lavender’s not bad. Still a better coloring decision than some of his compatriots will be getting here shortly.

No visual for this, but I appreciated the lines added in which nearby MLAers react to Galvanize’s quirk use and call on others of their number to fall back. It’s exactly the kind of line the My Villain Academia anime deleted constantly—members of the MLA reacting and responding to each other’s movements exactly like you’d expect to see from a trained underground army—so I was pleased that some got added in this time instead.

Adding Spinner to this shot is a weird decision, seeing as he’s supposed to be down in the conference hall—and, indeed, we’ll see him there in the next-episode teaser! I know he didn’t just teleport down there, so what happened? He took the direct route of crawling down walls and left Toga and Compress to catch up with him? But why on earth would the three of them choose to split up in the middle of a hero attack? The fact that Manga!Spinner was already down in the assembly hall with Re-Destro and Trumpet when the attack started was always one of the things I read to suggest that Spinner was the member of the League to have thrown himself most insistently into the duties of his new rank, whereas the others all lollygagging around elsewhere meant they were in no hurry to get down and confer before the meeting began.

Big group shot of the advisors, and H’OKAY, LET’S BREAK THIS DOWN. I’ll start at the top left and spiral my way in broadly clockwise. I’ll go on using fanfic names where I have them, but as always, Sanctum is the only canonical name we’ve got thus far.

“Spikey Cabbie Hat”: Definitely the one that gives me the strongest “MY EYES” response! Plum purple layered over orange stripes is a hell of a choice, by which I mean it is somewhat akin to eternal damnation. But almost everything else is on point, particularly his weird chin prongs. I think my only quibble other than the eye-searing vest color would be that I’m not sure if the animators caught that Spikey Cabbie’s eyes aren’t supposed to be shadowed by the brim of his cap; he’s supposed to be wearing a domino mask. He could still be doing so and they’ve just chosen to make it black—checking back to his introductory shot last episode, it looks even more like a shadow over the eyes there (albeit shaded purple), save that it cuts off precisely at his hairline, as it does in the manga. He’s got one more appearance yet to come, so we’ll see if it looks any different there.

Beacon: His tie should be louder—it’s very obviously got a pattern on it in the manga, and not a plain one, either. But I don’t mind the yellow coat.

Sanctum: They changed the outfit he’s wearing, but only back to the military uniform he’s wearing in his introduction and Twice’s anime-only Imagine Spot about him. You’d think the plain dark suit he’s wearing in the manga version of this scene would be simpler to draw than all those medals, but your guess is as good as mine on how involved the design materials are for background characters like this. That is, maybe it's easier to have one design sheet than to have to cross-reference the manga. One thing the change does obscure is something I noticed for the first time writing this: Sanctum and Band Jacket Guy have the same sleeve cuffs in the manga version of this shot!

“Band Jacket Guy”: As mentioned above, he and Sanctum are supposed to both be wearing dark jackets with the same sleeve cuffs (though, I think, Sanctum’s lacks the elaborate button-up breast layering of Band Jacket Guy’s). Unlike Sanctum, he keeps the jacket—maybe to help visually distinguish them in the shot?—though the front panel seems to be gone in favor of a simple line of buttons. He’s also been given darker hair than I would have gone with; his hair is unshaded in the manga, while the anime has it only slightly paler and redder than Uraraka’s; Uraraka certainly does not have unshaded hair in the manga. But he doesn’t clash too badly, and I like that they gave him gloves. (They probably should have given Sanctum gloves, too.)

“The Question”: Barely visible, and yet the only extant detail is wrong: the question marks on their mask are supposed to be symmetrically mirrored; the anime has them facing the same direction.

Scarecrow: I don’t love the pale yellow of the ruff—looking at just this screenshot, you’d think the staff only had access to one shade of yellow!—but I guessed black on the robe back when I was writing fic about him, so I’m glad to see the anime do the same. His arm is extended here where it isn’t in the manga, making his segmented fingers and wrist visible. They’re somewhat simplified compared to how they look in other shots in the manga, but, eh, it’s just a quick panning shot, so the loss of detail isn’t surprising.

“Aviator Teeth”: He looks great! I wouldn’t have guessed pale purple for his skin color, but it heightens his monstrous anatomy to great effect. I have only the smallest of quibbles: his fingers in the manga bend in ways that suggest double-jointedness, and the patch on his shoulder pretty clearly has a logo/emblem of some kind on it. The anime simplifies both.

Galvanize: Covered above; he also looks great! He does have his arms down for some reason, whereas he’s got his Amplivolt out and readied in the manga.

“Grandma Bindi”: Still missing her bindi—it should be just barely visible at the center of her forehead. She’s got her moxie intact, but she probably has the second-worst colors. More of that same shade of yellow under her orange apron, and that combination would be fine, but it violently clashes with her bubblegum pink hair.

“Big Sis Bindi”: I like the dark blue for her coat and that her hair is clearly glossier than her mother’s(?), but I still think the pink is kind of lazy.(2) I also think her expression is just the slightest bit off, her eyes faintly too large, her brows too arched, taking away from her supremely unimpressed look in the manga. But if I started critiquing the anime’s ability to capture Horikoshi’s exquisitely nuanced facial expressions, I’d never stop, so I’ll move on.

“Hole Punch Face”: I like his coloring at first glance, but I have a lot of quibbles. Firstly, he’s the advisor I would most likely give an unusual skin tone, chiefly because he’s got that dark sclera thing going on that both Mina and Curious do, them being pink- and blue-skinned respectively.(3) …Except that he doesn’t have the black sclera in the anime, which is Highly Lame. Also, the jacket’s colors are fine, but my Pinstripes Favoritism and I have some complaints to register about the change to its pattern.

“Hose Face”: There’s something off about his colors I’m having a bit of trouble pinning down. I don’t like the green on him, I think. He’s such a big, intimidating figure in the manga, a broad, solid frame wearing heavy black—or at least very dark—combat clothes, with the paleness of his mask heightening the impact of its skull-like design. Even in the confines of a monochrome medium, he gives a monochrome impression. The anime going with the same camo green it gave “Red” last episode doesn’t work as well here as it did for Red; the warm grays of the mask and the short shock of brown hair sticking out from behind it detract from its visual resemblance to a skull rather than heightening it. He just looks less menacing in these colors than in all black.

Brand: Mixed feelings. I like that shade of green for him in isolation, but in the broader context, it’s the same skin tone Horikoshi gave the heteromorph giantess Deku saves post-war, which just makes me want to headcanon them as estranged siblings or start brainstorming the fic where she’s a PLF plant or something.

Exceptionally cool if very brief shot of Galvanize blowing out cigarette smoke as lightning snaps and leaps around his face. God, he's so chill; I love him.

Stray Notes:

The hidden door is completely sending me. Is that how bad all the backgrounds look when the anime doesn’t have a manga panel to work from? It’s so bad. And so bonkers, too—like, okay, yes, in the manga, Crust takes note of other passages branching off from the path down to the lab, surmising that there are exits other than the one that goes to the morgue. But he’s just following in Mirko’s trail, and Mirko—as the anime explicitly added dialogue to say—went in via the morgue. Who thought a secret door right in the middle of the main lobby (and/or floating in non-Euclidian space) would be a good idea??

Point: The anime-original material is, as I take to be fairly standard, Kinda Bad.

Why does Erasure freeze the Noumu in their tracks? That’s very demonstrably not what Erasure does to Noumu. Like, we’ve seen it a whole bunch of times!

Endeavor's sidekick quip is either a poor attempt at a joke (and Endeavor is not exactly a noted jokester) or meant in earnest, in which case I must bust out a word I generally avoid: cringe.

Two hundred and fifty chapters'-worth of adaptation in, Bakugou whipping out an ore-sama and complaining about parts of hero work he thinks are menial and beneath him is just awful. I really feel for the Bakugou fans who like him for his character development but keep getting saddled with the anime’s incredibly Flanderized version every time an episode director gets cute and tries to squeeze in a few seconds of new Bakugou material for the fanservice.

Can anyone please explain to me why the anime felt the need to overlay a crappy scale pattern on top of Crust’s already-drawn scales?

Point: The Mirko fight scene’s got its ups and downs. I generally like the choreography of it, and the quick movements around the lab, up and around surfaces in three-dimensional space. But it did rather lose a lot of the emphasis on just how strong Mirko’s legs are that the manga gets across by having her shatter several mad science tubes just by leaping off of them!

The gruesome scene of her arm getting torn off is extremely well done, with the not-small caveat that the manga has a visual suggestion that she has to (and does!) forcibly tear free of the vortex under her own power, severing her arm in so doing, while the anime’s action there is muddled enough that her intentionality and fortitude don’t come across as well. It just sort of looks like the vortex took her arm and that’s all it was ever going to do.

More bizarre slow stroll decisions going on with the cut of Edgeshot and company. They come off like a small group of friends on a slightly sullen hike through the woods rather than members of a sizeable army detachment steadily advancing toward a mission point.

There are just generally a lot of weird stop-and-starts with the forward momentum of this episode. Along with what I’ve already mentioned, we get the ever-tiresome Flashbacks To Stuff You Just Saw, along with new weirdness in the form of the shot above, wherein Midnight and Tokoyami come to a dead stop in the middle of the charge on the villa to stand there proudly intoning Kaminari's name. Perhaps it’s meant to be in line with the MLA types calling for people to give Galvanize room? The heroes are doing the same for Kaminari? I don't know, but it looks awkward as hell.

FOOTNOTES 1: My god, the polka dot background, though. What a choice. XD 2: “They’re girls! Give them pink hair!” But please compare the shade of their hair in the manga to Mina’s and tell me if you think their hair should be that pink.) 3: All Might and, eventually, Deku get the dark sclera treatment, but with them, it’s visual shorthand for eyes sunken with over-exertion, not indicative of them actually having black eye-whites.

#bnha #plf spotting #meta liberation army #paranormal liberation front #plf advisors #noumu #stillness has salt #moderate amounts re: the anime's frequently shoddy visuals #my writing #throwing in an @ for the person who asked about my thoughts on the advisors' coloring #wheredidmydadgo #this one's for you

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