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2025 has basically been the Double-pack year for movies, hasn't it?

Two remakes of movies made by Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois

Two reboots of some of the oldest, most well-known comic book characters for Marvel and DC

Two sequels for anthropomorphic animated animal movies

Mmm... I don't know... Two movies about blue people living in the woods being tormented by humans from the city? 🤷🏼

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Fujimoto's ability to generate the biggest hype moment one chapter and then follow it up with a troll chapter next needs to be studied.

That's not a complaint, btw. I love how anti-hype this series tends to be.

"Let's have Denji face an intense fight against a devil that took over an entire building, and follow it up with having vomit being forced down his throat at a gathering with his coworkers!

Let's have Pochita take over Denji's body after he reached his lowest point in life, then let's have him eat cheeseburgers and buy ice cream!!

Let's build up a super big epic fight against Aging Devil! Then, follow it up with a super anticlimactic breakfast in a restaurant.

Let's show the war devil being powered up by the return of nuclear weapons! Then, follow it up with a bunch of underwear shots!"

I unironically love this back and forth between super epic and super stupid. It gives me so much life 🥰

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Ne Zha 2 is so good, man

This is the kind of movie that might ruin other movies for you. They go so big and epic for every major scene, and there's such a massive amount of detail for all the important moments that it just makes the emotions they want to transmit hit even harder. And then you look at other movies and go "Wait, why aren't the big moments as big and epic as Ne Zha?" 🤔

It's not perfect but it's one of those cases where the stuff that's good is so freaking good that it makes you not care about the flaws.

I had a couple of nitpicks here and there. Sometimes I wish they would tone down the humor and try to be more serious, sometimes I wish they would let some dramatic scenes play out longer, or explore some potential character dynamics in a tad more depth...

But at the same time, I'm constantly having just so much fun and being so amazed by the sheer size and scale of it all that it's hard to let it bother me.

I really, really, freaking liked this movie a lot.

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lol, wha?

She fought against ghosts, jumped out of a moving truck, disarmed a bomb (or at least tried), and now is pointing a gun at someone.

Pomni is kind of a badass, man.

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New promo art for my webcomic

Read it on webtoon canvas >>

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After trying out both demos, I can safely say I enjoyed Vengeance more than Ragebound (gotta love these names).

Ninja seemed to have a bigger focus on precision for its gameplay. There are tons of moments where they expect you to be precise with how you move, how you attack, how you dodge, how you handle missions, and so on. It kinda feels like they expect you to be good at the game in order to enjoy the game.

Shinobi felt more relaxed. You can still be precise with how you play, but that feels more like a choice than a requirement. It has more options for combos in the combat and it gives a really rewarding feel when you do a good job pulling them off. You want to play better because what you can already do feels great and you want to feel it even more.

One game makes you feel like you have to be good, while the other feels like it's rewarding you for wanting to be good.

I can see people gravitating to either side, but to me, Shinobi definitely felt more my type of thing.

(F**k that room with vertical spikes though.)

Thinking about how we're getting two awesome looking 2D ninja games. One in July and one in August.

Both look so sick! 🥹

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Funny how when I first read this chapter I thought this was going to be the image that would turn into the next great reaction panel.

Then I read the actual rest of the chapter.

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I had to do a double check because... wow!

"Would." 🤣

Apparently in the Spanish translation she says "He has it!" as in, he has everything she could possibly want and more.

And the Portuguese translation, which apparently is the closest one to the actual Japanese translation, just has her going "Yes!"

And the French translation had her going "This might actually be a really good deal!" 🤔

It seems like each language felt like adding their own spin on her delivery to transmit aspects of her personality in a funny way.

The English translation is probably the least accurate cause it makes her look more "thirsty" than actually calculative about the situation... but it's definitely the funniest one, so all is forgiven and shall now be the official canon for me. 😌

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Steam has so many good Demos, man...

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I love whenever visual media tries to have fun playing around with shadows and silhouettes to trick the audience

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Guys, was this the first time we ever had a dragon movie and a dinosaur movie playing at the same time? 🤔

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Apparently there are some Kpop fans that are not happy with the success of the Huntrix's songs becoming so popular because they're not actually "real."

That kinda confuses me a little bit because... Gorillaz have been a thing for years and (as far as I know) nobody had a problem with them, so what's the difference?

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(spoilers) Me trying to predict what's gonna happen in a new chapter of Chainsawman and then actually reading the chapter:

Of course the devil of war declares her love for America and proceeds to sing "Star Spangled Banner" while making clothes out of the embodiment of the fear of falling as she loses herself in joy over the return of nuclear weapons...

Is this what's like to read Jojo? You just go chapter after chapter going "Sure, why not? Sure, why not? Sure, why the absolute freaking heck not?"

(Also, "Lil D?" Ehh... I would have gone with "Dee Chan" or something...)

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Oh, yeah, this one belongs here

Videogame trailers with music that hit that hype moment just right 🤌🏽

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I never noticed this, but...

Dandadan really doesn't use many sound effects, huh? 🤔

I was looking at the latest chapter and noticing how neat it was that the fight scene was going on entirely without onomatopoeias during the impacts.

But then I went back and like, no, a lot of fights just don't use sound effects, even back then. That's so interesting 🤔

Definitely must make things easier to translate, so there is that.

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I guess someone out there was like, "You know what would be fun? What if Jinx/Harley Quinn was a pirate? 🤔"

And they're right, she does look really fun!

Game name: Sea of Remnants

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The most internet-coded devil just gained access to the "aura-farming" skill.

May God have mercy on us all.