#CG Reiko

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Okayy tyy!! Take your time with this but can you do headcanons of cg!havik and also cg!Reiko from mk1 with an age regressor thats a werewolf please?? -🐯

These feel a bit more puppyspace than actual werewolf regressor, but I tried my best, hope you enjoy!! 😅

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CG Havik & Reiko w/ Werewolf Regressor Hc

🫀 They’d think your super cool!!

⚔️ Whether you can transform at your own will, or only during full moons, they think it’s pretty cool

🫀 Order vs Chaos, they’re dynamic can by either very … interesting at times

⚔️ Reiko would like to have a schedule for what happens when your little and in werewolf form … But Havik is highly against the idea (doesn’t mean that Reiko won’t try though)

🫀 Howling at the moon at midnight? Sounds awesome!! Havik’s in full support

⚔️ Reiko’s also in full support, it’s similar to a battle cry!! 💪

🫀 If you shed a lot, no worries!! Surprisingly, it’s Havik who cleans it up a lot (Reiko’s cool with a bit of dirt, fur, or, well, ‘war related’ things)

⚔️ Play fighting? Both these guys are one of the PERFECT to wrestle with!!

🫀 Also you have a personal chew toy!! His name is Havik :3

⚔️ If you do a full transformation (like full blown werewolf) you can easily act like a big dog who thinks they’re a tiny dog

🫀 Sitting on their laps and practically engulfing them is very funny, atleast to Havik

⚔️ ^ Reiko thinks it’s funny too, just not when he’s doing some late reports

🫀 If your cool with collars, I could see Reiko attempting to get a spiked one (very war like)

⚔️ If not, they’ll try to find a chew strong enough for your sharp teeth!! (If not, Havik’s arm works just as well)

🫀 But no biting or scratching at the furniture!! Your nails are long, and teeth are sharp! While Havik can handle bites, the armchair cannot (Reiko can also handle some bites, but Havik’s the best option)

⚔️ You know what werewolves have? Cool caves 😎 (forts)

🫀 It’s the only time Havik is willing to take orders, mostly so your cave will have support but also look exactly how you want

⚔️ … In the nicest way I can say this, I can totally see Reiko boasting about how he’s the ‘Alpha’ of the ‘pack’ :|

🫀 ^ No, I don’t wanna elaborate, but it’s something I can see him doing 😭

⚔️ Slightly related though, Havik hates him doing that (Again, Havik doesn’t do titles, too controlling 🙄)

🫀 To end on a note that I don’t hate, they’d totally call you Puppy! Or Wolfy!!

⚔️ Will reciprocate growls/whines, which might turn into more play fighting

🫀 Will try not to fight dirty, on both ends … But one CG might have to put the other into timeout for ear pulling :(

⚔️ Don’t worry though, they’ll get you snacks to make up for it!! Maybe not chocolate, too scared that you’ll get sick or feel yucky, but other things! Like blueberries or scooby snacks!! (And candy, but Reiko’s fussy about it)

🫀 … Havik, however, is not, use this to your advantage >:3

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The difference between 🌧️CG!Rain and 🫀CG!Havik babysitting 🗡️Little!Reiko is that Rain is more stern & firm—knows when to put his foot down and say no when Reiko is going to go cause a wreck. Havik on the other hand actively encourages them and would let him join in on his chaos (that doesn't hurt anyone, of course! Just pranks. No bloodshed here).

Cue Rain shooting Havik the Dissappinted™ glare, but of course he just sighs and smiles at Reiko—he's little and tiny and who was he deny listening to Reiko's ramblings about what pranks he did while cleaning him?

(Havik, stop grinning, you are banned from inviting Reiko to your pranks)

[365idolmaster]

DAY 1 || HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

The character randomly chosen today (or 2 days ago for me now lol) is Reiko Ozaki! Present in Dearly Stars, Reiko is Eri’s Producer. She is a strict, hardworking woman who works alongs Eri to help her become a real idol. I really don’t know how many dearly stars spoilers I want to disclose but I guess you could say she has a deeper history with idols than one may think.

FUN FACT: She is the first iDOLM@STER character to be named Reiko. That shouldn’t be interesting but Reiko Takahashi became a character 2 years later. yay

It’s kind of funny that I get Reiko because I’ve been playing Eri’s route on Dearly Stars lately. I enjoyed drawing her decently enough, still getting used to drawing in concepts as it is a vector based program.

Oh yeah also this really isn’t every iDOLM@STER character who I’ll be drawing. I wanted a number close enough to 365 as possible so I didn’t put in characters with little screentime. The wheel I’m using does not include every specific anime producer nor does include adaptation exclusive characters like Yoshizawa. It also doesn’t have every puchidol. However, I might reconsider and add some of them later in some type of way.

The wheel has 368 characters and I take off the one I do for that day. The three extra are the Korean exclusive mobamas idols, but the listing I used didn’t list them with the CG roster so I had to add them in when I was making sure everyone was there (and make it so I draw one of them+another character I roll). I would create separate posts for each of them but I would draw both on the same day. I might roll an extra character on one of those days and make it so that two other characters that aren’t the KR mobamas 3 are drawn on the same day. Sorry if this doesn’t make sense I just don’t want to single those three out. There will likely be times where I miss a day and will do two anyways though.

Anyways enough yapping, I hope you have a great day.

here are the bonus photos:

please let me know if there’s any formatting issues, this is my first time posting on tumblr.

[tsunflowers]

just off idolized visuals, who looks interesting? I know you could look at the wiki character page but they all show the initial moment that you meet them instead of how they present as idols

there are 190 but there are two cards for most girls here so you will see repeats

https://tiermaker.com/create/cg-perm-ssr-tier-list-438675

I do know a decent number of cinderella girls! I watched the anime they made. but if I'm just skimming these the ones that interest me are ai, yukari, tokiko, akira, megumi, natsuki, reiko, aki, chiaki, seira, rumi, rena, noa, and kanade

[chierabbit]

Cinderella Girls Theater Episode 1084- Special Training to Express Yourself!

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headcanons to do

deltarune:

Spamton - general/misc, disorders+disabilities

Swatch - general/misc, disorders+disabilities

Tasque Manager - general/misc, disorders+disabilities

arcane:

jinx- disorders&disabilities

rottmnt:

donnie - stims

mikey - stims

leo - queer in general

bapc:

wizard siblings - mogai

bee - stims

ddlc:

yuri - stims, disorders+disabilities

sayori - stims, queer/mogai, disorders&disabilities

tof:

samir - disorders&disabilities, lgbt

undertale:

sans - stim, queer

gow:

kratos - cg

tdc;aor:

deet - nd, stims

dhmis:

red - agere, nd, disorders+disabilities

yellow - nd, disorders+disabilities

green - nd, disorders+disabilities

RAM

Rick - stim

DC

lego batman - stim, mogai+queer, qpr, ND, music taste, general/misc, agere/cg+, disorders+disabilities

lego joker - stim, mogai+queer, qpr, ND, music taste, general/misc, agere/cg+, disorders+disabilities

crit role:

grog - agere

cassandra - disorders+disabilities+nd

Wakfu:

yugo - +platonic childhood friend reader.

mortal kombat:

Takeda - x stimming!reader, agere

Kung Jin - x stimming!reader, agere

rain - agere

fujin - cg

reiko - cg

kitana - cg

havik - agere

kano - cg

kung lao - cg(ft. little liu kang and raiden!)

nightwolf - cg

edgerunners:

lucy - ND

David - ND

Dislyte:

brynn - qpp

q - qpp

drew - qpp, cg

baldurs gate 3:

astarion - cg

karlach - cg

addams family + wednesday:

wednesday - disorders+disabilities+nd

mlp:

n/a

a plague tale:

amicia - queer, cg/agere

melie - queer

lucas - cg

strikethrough = in drafts

note: i dont do this in the order listed !

[20tn]

video(CGI animation) for Gucci ‘Kaguya by Gucci’

credit↓

Cast：Hikari Mitsushima / Aoi Yamada / Eita Nagayama Music：Keiichiro Shibuya Vocal：Alter4 Cinematographer：Hiroaki Takeda Lighting Director：Yuki Maeshima Sound Designer：Junnosuke Okita Art Director：Enzo / Reiko Goto Stylist：Koji Oyamada Hair Stylist：KENICHI / Hiroshi Yamamoto Make-up：YUMI ENDO / yaboon Hair ＆ Make-up：YUKO Nail artist：Shoko Sekine 1stAD：Tomohiro Furuta Recording Mixer：Takashi Kuno Key Grip：Maki Saito Drone OP：Michito Tanaka / Toshikazu Kazama DIT：Daisuke Odachi Special Effects：Yuji Tanaka Editor：Shunichi Sone Online Editor：Yoko Izumi Colorist：Hisashi Nemoto CG producer：Tomohiro Futase CG assistant Peoducer：Daisuke Narita CG Director：Naoto Takatsu Digital Artist(Animation)：Daisuke Ukishita Artist：Makoto Egashira Translator：Jo Allan Production Company：Ghostitch/GEEK PICTURES Producer：Yasuo Suzuki Production Designer：Urara Mano Creative Director：Toshihiko Tanabe Director：Makoto Nagahisa

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Yes! Party Time!!

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Mortal Kombat 2021 Movie Review (w spoilers)

Just wanted to get this off my chest now that the movie’s been released in America. I watched this on 8th April when it was first released in Singapore, and two more times the following week.

So, overall I give the movie about a 6.5-7/10 or C+. Acting: Decent Story: Average at best Action: Above average to Good Gore: Graphic but not as often or much Best highlights: Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero, Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion, Costuming

I’ll be referencing some comments by others about the movie, but this’ll all be my opinions. I reviewed the movie based on my understanding that it’s a low budget film before even watching the movie. I am also a fan of the game (though I do not play, I watched most of the lore)

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When I first watched the movie, I was excited. The intro showing Hanzo Hasashi’s backstory would be something familiar to fans of the game. As expected, his wife and child were killed, but as we know it, they have an extra baby girl who later survives and carries on the bloodline. At this point, I was already ‘eh’ because it was so predictable what happens next. I was already disappointed that they named the son ‘Jyubei’ in the subtitles, when the wife didn’t even utter his name in Japanese. In the game, Hanzo’s son is called Satoshi. But one can say that’s something petty.

Anyways, as it goes on, we meet Joe Taslim as Bi-Han. He’s menacing, he’s cocky and has the presence that fills the screen. Already, I was smitten. While some people were saying the movie is rushed, I’d say this part of the intro felt a little draggy. But, the fight scene after is great, and we see Hanzo and Bi-Han throw hands.

I’d have to say at this point: ALL fight scenes including  Bi-Han/Sub-Zero were great. They’re the best. Every other fight scene with the other characters were decent but not great.

Then we get introduced to Cole Young. From the get go, I do not like new characters not in the lore. I’m that type of person who does not like original characters in fanfiction. And his story further made me feel that a lot of time was wasted on him. Mortal Kombat has story elements around family, yes, but it’s not central, and it made the movie too wholesome and not in a way that I feel implemented well. In my opinion, it made the movie a little cringey at times. I like Lewis Tan who plays Cole but unfortunately he’s been given a role that was completely unnecessary.

A Youtube reviewer said it best: Why make up an entirely new character when there’s a plethora of characters to choose from? Heck, if you want him related to Hanzo, you could have used Takeda or something (though yes i know he’s not related to Hanzo, but he could be like a distant cousin relative whatever, with Takehashi on one of this other parents side).

There’s Jax and Sonya - why not just use Sonya? She’s the one gathering all the information. They could have used her. 

Anyway, moving on. We also meet Kano. He was good and I see a lot of people loved him. Personally I thought he was okay, but he was too comedic in my opinion and felt underwhelming. While funny quips and mockery are appreciated, he felt like what Liu Kang called him: A small, angry little bunny. Not at all what I’d expect of the leader of Black Dragon. 

There was... it that supposed to be Reptile? I honestly do not know, but I don’t believe that’s the Reptile we know from the game, and more of a mindless monster that has Reptile’s abilities.

I loved Sonya in this movie. Jessica McNamee was amazing as her. One - she’s attractive as hell, and Two - she felt far more relatable than Cole Young. From her being a soldier living in her ‘shithole’, to her curiosity in trying to find out more about the Mortal Kombat tournament.

They look for Raiden’s Temple in the desert. This was a little slow and again, I say Kano just felt like a chump here. A try-hard doing his best to appear intimidating but failing.

Liu Kang appears. Kano won’t shut up. Liu Kang’s introduction was interesting and I liked it, but later on his monologues and exaggerated actions were so odd and ‘extra’ to me that I was cringing. I don’t know why they don’t just make him a normal guy who’s a Shaolin monk lol.

Raiden is as cranky as we know him in the game. He’s kinda dull here, but to be honest, so is he in the game, so I don’t mind it. I saw someone compare him to the 1995 version which while I enjoyed and appreciated, did not think he suited the game and movie. So Tadanobu Asano’s Raiden is fine to me! Also, shut up to the people who get on others’ case on the way they pronounce Raiden. In Japanese it’s Rai-den, not Ray-den, like they say in the game. Both are correct, so shut up.

Sub-Zero makes an entrance again, menacingly running down the hall and making me sploosh, and Kung Lao also makes an entrance. Here you can see how poor the CG is. This is where you can tell the budget is low and realise that all the sets we’ve seen so far is pretty small and closed.

The ‘arcana’ thing that they made up to explain their powers was honestly pretty smart and I quite liked it. It then becomes a training arc, which while understandably can be seen as slow, it’s quite needed for the story.

The villains in this story were sadly underutilised. Admittedly I am unfamiliar with Nitara and Reiko, so them being throwaway characters did not affect me. Kabal, while very charismatic, died but I felt it was a decent end. I personally wish they could have included him more. However, for Mileena and Goro, I could see the moment I watched it that people were gonna be mad. I’m not fans of either of them but I understood that they are major characters in the game. So for them to be offed that easily was... tbh very disappointing and quite insulting. I sincerely hope they will bring back Mileena for the next movie, experimented on and brought to life using Kitana’s blood or something.

But best villain? Obviously goes to Bi-Han/Sub-Zero. Honestly I went into the movie expecting to root for Scorpion but I ended up being so in love with Joe Taslim’s menacing and chilling portrayal of Sub-Zero. He’s soooo good. People said he was like a slasher film villain and I think they made a great choice doing so!

As for Cole - I’m still not a fan of him or his powers. I like they used tonfas, but as some called it - he has literally plot armour which, tru. Hahahhaa.

So finally after all that, we finally get to the last fight.

Sub-Zero is about to kill Cole then Scorpion is summoned. They both fight and actually one can see Scorpion is winning? He got more hits in than Sub-Zero (two stabs, a side slash and a throw from Scorp, meanwhile Sub got one slash and a throw) so I don’t understand why people thought he actually needed help from Cole.

Also, this is another major complaint about the ‘wholesomeness’. Why was Hanzo’s family killed but Cole’s family spared by Sub-Zero? Why couldn’t they just killed them off for extra weight to the story instead of making it so safe? I felt that would have redeemed Cole’s character as more of  Mortal Kombat character if they did so.

But I really enjoyed the fight here. As I mentioned all fights that involved Sub-Zero are amazing and people not giving the credit to this fight scene are blind. I also saw a comment that said they were expecting ‘John-Wick level’ of fight. Both fair and unfair comment because: It’s a low budget movie and they are two different styles of movies. John Wick is more realistic while this one is more fantastical. Though for them to call this a Marvel level choreography... I’m not sure bc Marvel put a lot of money, so that means for their budget the MK movie did well? So IDK but I believe the fight choreography was good in this most especially in the Sub-Zero/Scorpion fights.

Fatalities were great, costuming were great and for the sets while small and enclosed they did good.

Story could have been better and I cannot stress how much I find Cole’s role completely pointless. Pacing wise I actually do not find a problem with it. I only wished for more fighting and less about ‘family’.

From the movie overall I understood it as to be a set up, and even before watching it, from the trailers, I somehow knew it was not going to have a tournament so I don’t know why all these people in comments are lamenting about the lack of a tournament. It feels clear to me that this is a set up movie and more are to come.

So while I have a lot of issues with this movie, I do think it’s a fun watch which is why I give it a pretty generous score imo.

Hopefully we’ll have more to come, improving everything in all aspects with hopefully a bigger budget!

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Back again hehe! (Not anon now tho) Literally adore this page sm! Content is so heartwarming I can’t get enough of it and is easily one of my new fav accs to look through :3 Maybe some MK1 caregiver Reiko and Regressor General Shao Hcs? TY✨

Awhhhh, thank you!!! I love your account as well!!! It's so wholesome and so fun to go through 🥺 (Also the emoji's I used are: 🗡🛡!!)

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CG Reiko w/ Regressor Shao Hcs

🗡 Shao regresses kinda young, about 1-3

🛡 This is probably mostly because he holds back his regression for a super long time because he's busy, he's the general, he doesn't need relaxation time, this, that, etc, etc

🗡 So when he does regress, he's a baby that just wants to be held and loved 🥺

🛡 I like to think Shao involuntarily regressed for a super long time before even knowing what age regression was

🗡 But also never really fully slipped and was probably stuck in between headspaces without knowing

🛡 It was too scary, feeling fully small and fuzzy, what if someone caught him snuggling his blanket or babbling to his favorite stuffie!!

🗡 It was a deep secret he had where he'd find some time to relax and snuggle with his blankets and hide from all his big kid responsibilities

🛡 The first time Reiko ever saw Shao regressed was when they were doing reports together and Shao started getting frustrated because the words were getting too hard and the acts on the page were too horrid and too big for his tiny mind

🗡 Since Reiko already knew of regression, he kinda just went with the flow

🛡 Said that Shao was too tiny right now to be doing any kind of big kid files and they should take a break and do something fun! Like sword fight or wrestle (Reiko's personal favorite little activities)

🗡 Instead they just kinda cuddled in bed because Shao doesn't like doing those things when he's tiny

🛡 He already has to do them when he's big, don't make him do it while he's small 🥺

🗡 Shao doesn't fully regress regress without Reiko

🛡 He can't, it's too difficult and scary

🗡 Plus what is someone walks in? Or he forgot to lock the door? Reiko's big and strong, he can protect him!!

🛡 One of both their favorite activities is story time

🗡 Reiko has a lot of war experience, and he can use some of his victories into great outlandish tales he's done!!

🛡 (^ keeping most of the gore and stuff to practically nonexistent, and maybe fabrotacting a few things here of there, gotta keep the baby entertained!!)

🗡 You know those big dogs that think they can jump on you and sit on your lap like they're the smallest thing in the world?

🛡 That's Shao, 100%

🗡 What do you mean he's gotta be careful when he's trying to get cuddles? He's just a baby 🥺

🛡 (^ Don't worry though, Shao gets all the cuddles he wants, Reiko’s super strong!!)

🗡 Does have to be careful of his horns though, he doesn't wanna poke someone by accident, that'd hurt :(

🛡 If he did accidentally poke Reiko with them, he'd probably just get a gentle reminder that we gotta be careful when we have super cool horns because sometimes we can hurt others

🗡 Please do not yell at this man, he will cry

🛡 Or, more have tears weld in his eyes and start blubbering when you turn away

🗡 He's a big boy, he doesn't cry!! >:(

🛡 . . . Lier

🗡 Positive reaffirming and gentle redirecting work best with Shao

🛡 He doesn't like getting yelled at, or going to a naughty step, or any type of punishment

🗡 He already has to bark orders all day, deal with people he despises

🛡 Luckily, Reiko can turn very soft when he can read a room

🗡 He gets very patient when Shao does something naughty, leading him in the direction rather than yelling

🛡 Will rarely have to every put his foot down because Shao doesn't actually break too many rules

🗡 Most of their rules are for safety anyhow, although he still doesn't understand why he can't draw on the walls 😒

🛡 When Shao feels a little bit older and not baby baby, he's very bossy

🗡 What does Reiko mean he has to write one more sentence on his paperwork? No he doesn't! He can come cuddle him right now!! That's an order!! >:(

🛡 Stomps and huffs when he doesn't get his way (and Reiko has to finish his job, stupid paperwork)

🗡 Doesn't like feeling tiny and Reiko's not there, its scary

🛡 Reiko's got a full time job on his hands, bossy baby on his hip 24/7, fr

🗡 Doesn't like others babysitting him either, right now only Reiko knows and he has no plans on changing that

🛡 Reiko doesn't mind, they'll move at his pace

🗡 Horn scratches are must!!!

🛡 Well, any scratches are a must, lightly on the arm, back scratches while cuddling, almost anywhere Shao has scales

🗡 For being a lieutenant, Reiko has really nice nails that are perfect for scratchies

🛡 Reiko's favorite CG nicknames are Papa or Bubba (when Shao's really small 'Ko cause Shao will repeat it and it makes Reiko feel all big and proud)

🗡 Shao's favorite little nicknames are Little One, Fierce Guy, Tough Cookie, Baby-Bear

🛡 I could probably see Shao being a dragon regressor too??

🗡 And that means he steals all of Reiko's nice shiny stuff for his blankie nest, its his now, Reiko doesn't have a choice >:(

🛡 He's also much more active in this headspace and will play more games like tag or hide and seek

🗡 Shao also likes being called Hatchling when he's a dragon

🛡 Overall, he's either a very cuddly baby, or a little bossy baby (still super cuddly though)

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I know they're mostly focused on Shao but I hope you like them!!! :D

[adventseven]

Mortal Kombat!!! | REVIEW

Mortal Kombat has been a long-time favorite of my life. I can remember playing Mortal Kombat on the SNES when I was four and watching the 1995 movie for the first time when I was six. I was hooked. I continued to play the games and follow the crazy history that unfolded over the years. I was mainlining The Immortals’ Techno Syndrome for a week straight leading to opening weekend. Can the 2021 Mortal Kombat live up to the hype or will it be another Fatality for video game movies?

Mortal Kombat as a franchise has a long and overly complicated story, but luckily enough the movie only adapts the first game. Short synopsis of MK 1: Earthrealm is in hot water as Outworld looms with nine consecutive wins of the Mortal Kombat tournament. With a tenth win Outworld has the justification of invading Earthrealm. Protector of Earthrealm, Raiden, brings together Earthrealm’s champions to stop the looming invasion.

The 2021 film takes the overall story and plays around with its history to bring this world to life. Shang Tsung is set to win the tenth tournament even if he must cheat to do so. He sends his forces to Earthrealm to take out their champions. From the characters’ powers to their backstories, things are adapted to suit the new story. One of the major tweaks is the addition of a new kombatant Cole Young, played by Lewis Tan (Into the Badlands and Deadpool 2). His fish-out-of-water perspective gives the audience members who are not familiar with this world an easy way to get up to speed on his situation, and what the cost is if Outworld wins. His journey of finding his “arcana” and the will to fight makes him into one of Earthrealm’s warriors.

Arcana and the dragon marks are introduced to help explain how characters can shoot fireballs or lasers out of their eyes. The dragon mark claims them as champions and that gives them their unique superhuman abilities, arcana. It makes sense as to why people like Sonya Blade can fight against ice manipulating ninjas or reptilian humanoids.

From the fight choreography to the costumes, the movie goes to great lengths to ensure that the nearly 30 years of Mortal Kombat history is there for fans of the games. You can find multiple easter eggs splashed around the film from mention of characters like Bo’ Rai Cho to pictures of Kotal Kahn and Nightwolf. It gives spotlight to lesser-known characters like Nitara and Reiko and fanboy moments of “Oh, he did the thing! He did the thing”. Not to mention the main attraction of Mortal Kombat, the thing that created the ESRB rating system, Fatalities. It heartily deserves the R rating for how far it is willing to take to bring them to life in all its bloody glory. It is a far cry from the PG-13 and simple fight choreography of the 1995 version.

The story itself is good, but not the best. What can you expect from shoving an 8–10-hour game to two hours of runtime? The first and final thirds of the film are great, filled with action and story beats. The middle is kind of slow and bogs the momentum carried on from the first third of the film. The writing is a bit tongue in cheek with quotes and jokes, however they do not seem too corny or forced. Some slight CG special effects are a little wonky, but most of the time it is spot on and looks great.

The actors bring every character to life and make them feel incredibly special. Hiroyuki Sanada (Avenger: Endgame and The Last Samurai) brings that fiery fury to the hell wraith Scorpion. Joe Taslim (The Raid and The Night Comes for Us) brings that cold and cruel personality of Sub-Zero/Bi-Han. Finally, Kano, who steals about every scene he is in, is played by Josh Lawson (House of Lies and The Little Death). He brings out the best of the egotistical and thuggish leader of the Black Dragon crime syndicate.

The movie is a definite watch. It clearly shows a reverence for the source material while bringing some well-crafted additions to the expanding universe. The little details and rich history it's drawing from makes it all worth the price of admission, or if you already have HBO Max then add it to your list. Not a flawless victory but a great addition along with the 1995 film. Just forget about Annihilation. If you want more, do not worry, it heavily implies a sequel filled with more kombatants and more gory fun. Also, Joe Taslim is signed-on for like four more.

SCORE: 8/10

By Frank Cayou

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Mortal Kombat (2021) Review

Mortal Kombat is back in live-action with the beginning of a planned franchise of films. Following a slightly altered storyline to the lore new character Cole Young is a descendant of legendary warrior Hanzo Hasashi. Upon coming into contact with an old clan enemy he is forced into the Mortal Kombat tournament with the Earth and his family at stake.

 Mortal Kombat is a 2021 video game film, it is produced by New Line Cinema and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is in theaters now and HBO Max until May 23.

Editor’s Note: Near complete to complete spoilers for Mortal Kombat and potential spoilers for the source material may be present in this review.

Mortal Kombat pays respect to it’s deep lore.

Video game movies are making a wild comeback and the latest among them is Mortal Kombat. While the film follows most of the plot of the video game it also inserts additional lore and characters. On the surface this isn’t too much of a problem in of itself. However it more often than not feels like the film chickens out of said originality midway through. 

Historic characters take a backseat to new ones.

THE GOOD: Mortal Kombat opens with the historic war between Scorpion & Sub-Zero’s families in 1400s Japan. Sub-Zero kills Hanzo Hasashi’s wife and son leading to a battle in which the former wins. As Hanzo dies Raiden retrieves his surviving child in an effort to preserve the Hasashi bloodline for the future of Earth realm. The film then cuts to Cole Young, a family man and former MMA World Champion. Now he’s fighting in smaller independent circuits where he routinely loses. After his latest fight Jax introduces himself to Cole questioning his decision to fight in underground MMA scenes. While out with his family Cole is attacked by a very much alive Sub-Zero. Who has become much stronger since we last saw him. 

Jax saves Cole and his wife & daughter and informs him of the truth of the Dragon imagery on his chest. He allows Cole and his family to escape while telling them to find Sonya Blade who has more details. As Cole & his family leave Jax fights Sub-Zero, but is easily beaten to near death with his arms severed. Cole sends his family off to a cabin as he meets Sonya. Sonya who has captured Kano (a black market criminal for hire) reveals to Cole that the symbol is an invitation to Mortal Kombat a deadly tournament with worlds at stake. She also states that Kano earned his invitation by luck killing the previous invitee. The three are attacked by Syzoth, but Kano kills him with Cole and Sonya’s help.

The trio travel to Raiden’s temple where Liu Kang awaits. He explains that the Mortal Kombat is an ancient tournament where control over worlds were put on the line. With each world having a team of Champions defending them. He introduces them to Kung Lao who like Liu is also an Earth realm Champion. Liu Kang tells the others that they need to train to unlock their unique power which will aide Earth realm. Sonya and Cole are reunited with Jax who’s healing from his injuries. During dinner a hostile Kano unlocks his power after being egged on by Kung Lao. 

Raiden expresses doubt for the Champions being successful and Cole who’s worried for his family gets sent home. Returning to the cabin his family was held up in he’s suddenly attacked by Goro one of Outrealm’s Champions. Meanwhile, Shang Tsung the leader of Outrealm arrives at Raiden’s temple with several of his Champions. Including Sub-Zero, Milenna, Nitara, Reiko, and Kabal. Kano betrays Earth realm joining Outrealm and fights Sonya. She & Jax unlock their powers during battle with the former defeating Kano. Kung Lao kills Nitara with his hidden blade hat and Cole after unlocking his power kills Goro returning to the temple. Raiden reveals that Cole is a descendant of the Hasashi family angering Tsung & Sub-Zero. 

Kung Lao sacrifices himself to save Cole as Raiden teleports Earth’s Champions to a safe zone. Cole suggests a plan in which Outrealm and Earth have a pre-tournament. Outrealm’s Champions are killed and Cole & Sub-Zero face each other at the MMA gym which Sub-Zero has incased in frost including his kidnapped family. Cole’s blood resurrects Hasashi who now goes by the moniker of Scorpion & they work together to defeat and kill Sub-Zero. Scorpion leaves telling Cole to keep their bloodline safe. Shang Tsung vows revenge taking the corpses of his warriors back to Outrealm. Raiden states that he is gathering more Champions for Earth and tasks Cole with finding Hollywood actor Johnny Cage. 

Josh Lawson’s Kano is a scene stealer & it’s one of the film’s biggest issues.

The action of Mortal Kombat is some of the coolest you’ll see this. I may be reaching a bit, but there were times when the normal hand-to-hand combat reminded me of some of the fights in films like The Raid. I didn’t mind Cole’s character it made sense for the movie’s direction. Cole being an MMA expert was a nice modern touch up for the martial arts aspect of the franchise. The special effects were excellently done too. You know how these lower budgeted type of films tend to have CGI that looks noticeably like CGI (aka bad)? Even at a budget of $50 Million, of which I can only imagine went to the CG I never really saw any of it that just looked awful or wonky. Except for maybe a single instance with Syzoth. It’d have been easier to just use a humanoid ninja version of Syzoth honestly. 

The story is fine, I like the idea of the unique powers having a backstory instead of just existing. That’s a neat layer that adds some sense into the world. Granted, it’s not necessary to do so, but the fact that they did it is kind of appreciated. And yes Kano ruled in this movie. His quips and jokes were almost always on. I do feel bad for most of the cast who felt like they were playing catch up with Lawson’s energy. I also have to commend the writers for going out of their way to feature Scorpion & Sub-Zero’s backstories. They were spread across several games and it was done fairly well here for a two hour film. 

All the Mortal Kombat gore you can handle and then some.

THE BAD: Mortal Kombat some some good ideas, but it seems the movie loses confidence in itself quit a bit. For example, I mentioned earlier that I like Cole in the sense that him existing doesn’t bother me. However, Cole’s character direction kind of falls flat. Like him being there is cool, but there’s literally no reason why his role couldn’t have been given to Scorpion or Johnny Cage like in the original film. The former probably would have made for a much better movie honestly. Lawson as mentioned is awesome here, but it gets to the point where he completely outclasses the rest of the cast. And it really makes them look bad and dry. I also feel I have to say this respectfully as a fan of the source. I don’t like the idea of turning Liu Kang and Kung Lao who are arguably the main characters of the first handful of the games background characters. They could have given Jax’s role of informing Cole about the legend of Mortal Kombat to Liu, and they oddly do in the second act. It was also weird for the film to be called Mortal Kombat, but not feature the actual tournament. They do some makeshift pseudo-tournament. 

Mortal Kombat is a decent video game movie that still has time to be a great one.

OBERALL THOUGHTS: While on the surface Mortal Kombat is probably what you’d expect from most video game films there is a lot to like about it. It follows the story closely enough even with the original direction effecting it. The action, fighting, and special effects are strong and well done. Unfortunately, the film suffers from unbalanced character direction and the impact said original story has on the future of this reboot’s franchise intentions. If the issues can be looked on in earnest I think Mortal Kombat has a genuine shot of being a good video game movie franchise. And I say that, because we’re undoubtedly getting at least one sequel. Otaku Dome gives Mortal Kombat a 70 out of 100.

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Review: ZOMBIE LAND SAGA

“ In 2008, high school student Sakura Minamoto is on her way to audition for an idol group when she is killed in a traffic accident. Ten years later, she discovers that she, along with six other "legendary" girls from various eras of Japan's history, are resurrected as zombies by Kotaro Tatsumi to save Saga Prefecture as the all-zombie idol group Franchouchou. “ 

Now this is the show I needed. Oh wait, I said I wanted to watch a romantic comedy? Well apparently this is the show I really needed because 10/10 would watch again, I adore this show to no end (let me enter the rap battle please). I do have a few nits to pick but let’s save that for...

Criticism: 

The eye placement in this art style drives me straight up a wall, everything else about the art is cute but I just can't get use to those eyes....

DON’T JUST SKIP OVER HOW SHE BECAME A ZOMBIE! AT THE SHOW TAE BIT PEOPLE!!! ARE THEY GOING TO BE ZOMBIES????

Sakura has been dead for 10 years???? Did... did they bury her in her school uniform?? Where'd Kotaru get that from??? Also I learned 99% of Japanese burials are via cremation..... So... how does he have a body from the 19th century.... The old man he talks to in the bar in episode 11 "A One-of-a-Kind SAGA" acted like he knew Yuguri... How old is he??? How old is Kotaru??? Wasn’t he in high school with Sakura as Inui-kun??????????????????

Can't...cant they just say they are wearing stage makeup??? People in this world are very very eager to accept that zombies are real, like too eager...

....wh...what...the fuck.... why was the actual performance in CG? It looks...so bad.... eugh I already am not a fan of the idol genre and this really kills it for me more. Not to mention that no one in the crowd is CG!! What a fucking bizarre decision. WAIT, and then in episode 7 "But It's Zombiemental SAGA" Iron Frills’ performance is not in CG, BUT THEN FRANCHOUCHOU’S PERFORMANCE IS?!?!?!? AND EVEN WEIRDER ALL OF FRANCHOUCHOU’S PREFORMANCES ARE IN CG EXCEPT FOR THE ONE IN EPISODE 8 "Go Go Neverland SAGA" ???????????????????? AT LEAST KEEP IT CONSISTENTLY BAD! 

I don’t understand why Romero goes from cute to scary. The girls do it when people see them as zombies, but Romero will just do it random from scene to scene... 

How is that the same dog?!?!?!

That thing on Lily’s chest is supposed to be a heart??? They don’t even call it a heart until episode 7. It doesn’t look correct as a cartoon or anatomically correct heart.... 

I love the attention to detail and how each of their bows in the finale represents them but why is Junko’s bow all messed up??? Does that represent her???

Also while I love love love Lily’s episode, I don’t like her song at all, the talk singing at the beginning was just hard to listen to. My partner was listening while I was watching that episode and even he was like ‘eugh what is this song?’ The melody comes together in the end though!

This is a costume?????? YOU ARE TELLING ME THIS IS NOT A REAL ANTHROPOMORPHIC CHICKEN??????

Oh and I hate this guy 

he’s a shitty manipulative asshole cop. 

I am sorry what is this... 

Is it supposed to represent Saki arising from the flames and being reborn as a zombie (or later doing the same stunt that killed her and then rising from those flames BECAUSE she was a zombie) either way this hair is too much and should stay in a show like Cromartie High School. 

Positives: 

Wow I wrote a lot of criticisms.... don’t take that to heart and a ton of them were lighthearted. Please let me reiterate here that this show is 10/10 must watch. 

I really love how they just jump into it. Unlike School-Live! where they wait till the end of the first episode to do the crazy zombie reveal this show is like nah let’s do it a minute in!!! 

The real opening sequence with the dark beginning and then fucking power rangers is hilarious.

Mamoru Miyano deserves the best voice actor role of all time as Kotaro Tatsumi. I usually don’t notice voice acting unless it’s really bad or if the character delivers a really emotional speech and I can feel them truly crying, but Mamoru Miyano gives one of the most insane voice acting performances I have ever heard.

Ugh I love how when they move their bodies make that gross zombie rigor mortis flesh sound, it sends shivers down my spine in the best creepy-cool way. Great attention to detail!!! 

THEY ABSORB LIGHTNING AND SHOOT LASERS

Kotaru...made the horn blow noise in episode 8, they didn't have a sound effect for the horn...... true voice acting brilliance. 

I fucking adore that all the bumps are promoting real Saga products and places! It took me awhile to realize that is what they were doing. They are truly trying to revitalize Saga. The attention to detail is so great!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reiko had Saki’s Tamagotchi this whole time.... I’m gonna cry (though she did not keep it alive). Speaking of which this show does some of the best balancing between it’s beyond out there comedy and it’s heart-wrenchingly sad moments. For example, when Sakura is in her depression at the end of the show; I totally understand where she is coming from and don’t disagree with her feelings in any way. Who wouldn’t give up in her position?

Speaking of which this show is downright beyond hilarious, sometimes I can’t believe how they pull it off so well.... 

Lily’s slippers <3

Junko’s singing voice is insane, the most beautiful int he show. It’s hard to look up if that was her real voice actor (Maki Kawase)? I only question it because Junko’s speaking voice is so much higher then her deep beautiful singing voice that its hard to believe.

Lily Hoshikawa is a real trans girl. This is no fucking trap bait here folks. The dream is now tangible and I LOVE it!!! 

I feel like a lot of idol shows really die for me because all their girls are just the boring same. There’s 50 million of them and I don’t care about a single one but in this show all these characters are so different and unique that I love all of them. 

Verdict: 

GO WATCH THIS SHOW 

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FLCL Alternative and Progressive Japanese theatrical version PV. Alternative will hit Japanese theaters on September 7th. Progressive will hit Japanese theaters on September on September 28th. 

FLCL Alternative key visual

Japanese cast

Mayumi Shintani as Haruhara Haruko

Karen Miyama as Kana Kawamoto

Yuri Yoshida as Tomomi Heta (Pets)

Riho Iida as Hijiri Yashima (Hijiri)

Mutsumi Tamura as Mitsuru Motoyama (Mossan)

Katsuyuki Konishi as Kan Sudō

Takuma Nagatsuka as Kado Sasaki

Ryota Suzuki as Ben Sōta

Miki Itou as Shizuka Kawamoto

Maho Masaka as Bunta Kawamoto

Katsuji Mori as Yōga Dennis

Kaya Matsutani as Maki Kitaki

Yutaka Aoyama as Tabata Kanda

Staff

Chief Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro

Supervisor: Kazuya Tsurumaki

Directors: Yutaka Uemura, Kiyotaka Suzuki

Script: Hideto Iwai

Original Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Character Design: Yūichi Takahashi

Mechanical Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Costume Design: Hiromi Taniguchi

Prop Design: Yuji Hosogoe, Hiyori Denforword Akishino (Aki Production)

Background Art Director: Ayaka Fujii

Color Design: Chiho Nakamura

Director of Photography: Shinji Tonsho

CG Director: Tsukasa Saitō

Music Director/Composer: R.O.N

Sound Director: Toru Nakano

Theme Song: The Pillows ("Star overhead")

Animation Production: Production I.G, NUT, REVOROOT

 Progressive key visual

Japanese cast

Megumi Hayashibara as Haruha Raharu

Miyuki Sawashiro as Jinyu

Inori Minase as Hidomi

Jun Fukuyama as Yoshimi Iide

Tomo Muranaka as Gorō Mori

Masatomo Nakazawa as Nogata Maruko

Tomoyo Kurosawa as Aiko

Kikuko Inoue as Hinae

Kouji Ohkura as Masurao

Takayuki Sugo as Eyepatch

Jin Urayama as Tonkichi

Reiko Suzuki as Tami Hanae

Staff

Chief Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro

Supervisor: Kazuya Tsurumaki

Directors: Kazuto Arai, Toshihisa Kaiya, Yuki Ogawa, Yoshihide Ibata, Kei Suezawa, Hiroshi Ikehata

Script: Hideto Iwai

Original Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Character Design: Chikashi Kubota

Mechanical Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Sub-Character Design: Mai Yoneyama

Prop Design: Akiko Murayama, Yōko Kubara

Background Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai

Color Design: Noriko Arisawa

Director of Photography: Koji Tanaka

CG Director: You Takayanagi

Editor: Taeko Hamauzu

Music Director/Composer: R.O.N

Sound Director: Toru Nakano

Theme Song: The Pillows ("spiky seeds") 

Animation Production: Production I.G

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B-Log’s 2018 February Issue Collar x Malice Unlimited Page Spread Translation.

「Please rest calmly now that Shinjuku has returned to a everyday life」

Following the events until the truth of the X-Day affair is reached by the Heroine and the Members of the detective office. After Story depicting the days with the members of the detective office as YOU officially become lovers and a couple ❤. Interlude which is a one-part scene during mid act in the fan-disk. Side Story which has the Characters and the Adonis Members are featured. Here we the reveal the new outfits, date scenarios and the After Story with the Heroine depicting the days of time spent with her Lover during the main segment.

Ichika Hoshino

“Even if I get hurt……I will want to face it.”

A police officer affiliated with the Shinjuku Region Local Crime Prevention Office. A year ago she was fitted with a poisonous collar but survived the ordeal safely.

CHARACTER DESIGN  MAI HANAMURA

Private clothes mainly relaxing and for going out. I tried to design with an adult-like calmness, but retain the original lively cuteness that was in her previous outfit.In keeping with the hair and decorative pattern, the corsage, hair ornaments and the pendant pattern motif are gardenia flowers.

Aiji Yanagi

CV: Morita Masakazu

Former Metropolitan Police Investigation Division 1

“… …So as to take responsibility for your words, do not let me get up so much in the morning.”

��A former detective who is calm and has a sense of justice. He used to be in service to the Metropolitan Police Investigation Division 1 but left his job to independently pursued the “X-Day incident(s) he is very thoughtful, sharp insight and very tactile. The leader of the detective office and the one responsible for assembling the others who were also investigating the X-Day. He is currently living peacefully in the detective office in a city in Shinjuku and is 28 years old.」

CLOTHES CHECK!

In my previous work, Aiji was wearing a necktie and jacket. A chic patterned V-neck with a jacket for a more casual outing and atmosphere. A simple colored Accessory adorns the chest is also fashionable ♪.

GAME PRODUCER REIKO SHIMA

New outfits will appear mainly during the holiday season, For the main story Since there are so many characters and scenes that has suits and shirts, so it’s Very rough but close in the distance along with the outfits that are making an Appearance today, the pattern of the clothing allows you to enjoy a adult-love Atmosphere. There is a CG of the private clothes ver available so look forward to it!

CHARACTER DESIGN MAI HANAMURA

Following the main story, because there are so many many scenes of suits work, My clothes are pleasantly shattered while I worked.The knit pattern was quite boldly inserted, I wonder if it suits/accents his body well?

「On a calm day, a visitor had arrived.」

After the main part ends, the After Story tells the days of the heroine and Her lover of the detective office. The theme of this story is “everyday romance and growth” the heroine who was connected in the extraordinary  Situation known as the X-Day Incident. However while enjoying the sweet daily life there will be further challenges to overcome this holiday season. The event CG scene from Aiji After Story Route is finally here! Pay excellent attention to the new character: Aiji’s Older Brother.

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Yuji Yanagi

Older Brother of Aiji Yanagi

“Don’t Make Me Repeat Myself, Imbecile.”

「35 Years Old and the older brother of Aiji Yanagi. An elite who works for a Large enterprise. He knows of Aiji past during his high school days as a “Bad Guy”. Has a huge pride and was insulted when his younger brother became a police officer.」

It Sounds Newlywed like? Whatttttt!? A Kiss For The Heroine Who Fixes His Tie.

The heroine who spent the night over in Aiji’s room. The next morning Before going out together is correcting his tie ……… “it seems the word Newlywed and a sudden kiss with the phrases “I’m going” and “I will come back” makes the heroine blush.

「……Well then, one more thing, let’s do something newlywed like.」

SCENARIO

Straighten the knot, make it diagonal, check the length, got it. Also check The position.

Heroine「 ………..」

While I am examining Yanagi-san necktie while taking notice of the workmanship that is when I notice it.

What is this?

I fix his neck tie before going out.

Aiji  「Somehow this is…. 」

Heroine「 Yes?」

Aiji「 …….It seems like a newlywed thing to do.」

Heroine「 I thought the same thing.」

Aiji  「 ……………… is that so?」

My face starts to become unnaturally hot.

I can not help it even if it is embarrassing, I thought.  

Aiji 「Well then, one more thing. 」

Heroine  「What?」

Aiji  「Let’s do things like newlyweds.」

At the same time as Yanagi-san face approached. Subsequently a light feeling of his lips.

A tiny lovely sound is made, a soft sigh, I bite my lip.

……. I was only slightly surprised.

Yanagi-san is really going to do this.

Heroine「 Perhaps, a take care kiss, is it?」

Aiji「We will leave together……Well, aren’t you going to kiss me?」  

Heroine「Hehe it is a luxury」

Aiji「Thanks to you, I will be doing my best today.」

Heroine「……me too.」

We exchanged words while touching at a distance, my heart was simply Fulfilled. 

But, at the same time, my concerns have also appeared.

Heroine「Well Yanagi-san, Have you had anything?」

END ❤

Are you guys are "x-cited” for this as I am?!

Wishing you all a merry “x-mas” and happy new year and see you all for the Fandisc in 2018!

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