#Funime

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

[animentality]

[poet-tree-lines]

back on my 'watch the dub' propaganda

[yoshipupz]

ANYBODY ELSE

Animation meme!!!!!!!!!! Dogman x Petey 🤤

yeaahahhahhaahh!! BBeen working on this on and off for about a week. I wanted to posted I Jan 31st but I couldnntt 💔 BUT UM!! IT'S DONENNOWW!!

I hope u guys like this I'm proud offf it idk why but my art has been improving and making this kinda reminded me that I'm not actually that bad at art I'm just too harrdd on myseellfff!! That's besides the point though OHMYGOD I LOVE PETEY AND DOG MAN SO MUCH AND GUYS THE MOVIE WAS GREAT LOVED IT THEY'RE SO GAY AND I LOVE THEMMM I LOVE THEM THEY'RE LITERALLY ENEMIES TO LOVERS

[seekerbr]

As kind of a companion piece to my other post where i found some ultra early YGO fanfics and fansites, here are some reaction posts to the premiere of the first dubbed episode of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters I found on rec.arts.anime.misc, a anime-related newsletter messageboard (i cut the part with the dates, but most are from either 29 or 30 of September, 2001):

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[vxmpire-vxlle]

Tokyo ghoul.

[pea-haw]

first 20-some seconds of baby's first AMV while you wait for the rest to be finished...

[shoujo-magical-girl-library]

Ouran High school host club banners from the old Funimation website

[shi-ni-shi-ni-koroshi]

Soul Eater official sparkly Funimation stickers. I scanned them with full resolution because everywhere else makes their designs blurred. The blue Death the Kid sticker art is more unique. I think this is the only way to get this design of his in, because I don't remember this on anything else.

[kazcat]

i watched both of the yu yu hakusho movies last night and although poltergeist report really wasnt that good i loved the animation, especially for hiei!!!

like he looks so cool!!!

[trutown-the-bard]

Wish I had the business acumen to make my own anime streaming competitor to Crunchyroll. Because it’s doubling its prices after FUNimation is folded into it. And you aren’t even getting a better service!

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[an0n-1o1]

[kakarotcake]

Had a giant early morning realization on why I enjoy Gochi as much as I do. (I wrote a lot in this; there's a TLDR at the end but please read through my hopefully-coherent rambling to get full context.)

It's specifically because of how non-conventional they are. They didn't date / go through a courting phase before they got married. They barely knew each other at all in fact. Yet, Goku felt unbothered enough to honor a promise he made as a child, and agreed to go forward with the marriage anyway. Chi Chi stayed committed to Goku's promise, despite how she didn't know him, and literally got his consent as an adult first before they went on.

And they made it work.

I so wish we got to see the 5 years of Goku and Chi Chi living together + the early years of Gohan's youth, but specifically because I would like to see just how they each adapted to their new living situation. But regardless, the fact remains that they STAYED together. Chi Chi for sure would've left Goku if she was that unhappy with how Goku just isn't a conventional guy when it comes to relationships. Going home to her dad and resuming being Fire / Frypan Mountain's Princess was always right there as an option. Hell Chi Chi's been identified as an attractive lady in-universe, so she could probably meet someone new before long! But she didn't take it. IIRC, she never has.

I also feel like Goku would also get up and leave if he was unhappy. He's never had to force himself to sacrifice his own happiness for someone else as he lived on Paozu by himself for years, then spent the rest of his teenhood traveling around & training, so if presented with that kind of scenario he wouldn't think twice before being like "ok whatever, see ya" and just peacing out. He wouldn't see the point in staying, since why would he make himself stay somewhere he isn't welcomed or doesn't feel welcome? Grandpa Gohan's old home was always there for him.

My personal biggest gripes with their relationship have honestly never been because of how they had little chemistry before they got together. For me it's always been about how Chi Chi is just treated like a joke by the writer(s); she follows an angry housewife stereotype. Sure, it's supposed to be a joke and she's supposed to come off as comedic, but it only ends up doing damage because it encourages you as a viewer to not take Chi Chi or her relationship with Goku seriously. (I'm ignoring Goku here, but his writing in DBS *anime wise at least* is atrocious and further fed into this btw.)

Yet, from what I've seen over the years in the western fanbase, people's biggest issues with Gochi (aside from general Chi Chi hatred) is because it isn't a conventional relationship. It had hardly any chemistry going into it. I understand that logic, don't get me wrong, but I only understand it when I factor in society's amatonormative & allonormative lens. And I hate both of those things. Gochi not complying with them is what I find charming about the ship.

They didn't date or establish a super deep bond or whatever, yet they lived together in peace for 5 years. They continued to bounce off of one another throughout Z. Chi Chi NEVER remarried or even dated someone while Goku was dead for 7 years. She was crying happy tears when he finally returned at the end of the Buu saga. Goku was more than happy to go home with her and their kids (and tbh I'm 99.99% sure he wouldn't have minded if Chi Chi chose to get with someone else - he chose to stay dead after all). OBVIOUSLY they care for one another a lot, despite how they married each other as strangers. They themselves are narrative (if that's the right word) proof that conventional love & romance & whatever don't guarantee successful marriages. I adore that.

And it's funny because Vegebul is a pairing that also had little to no chemistry going into it, but unlike with Gochi, the no chemistry actually does hurt it for a couple of reasons (all of them revolving around how Vegeta was/is a terrible person) that I won't get into here because it'll derail this post and it's long enough already. I just wanted to point that out in text myself first, before other people came at me trying to argue it.

Anyway. TLDR Gochi as a ship defies amatonormative & allonormative concepts regarding intimate relationships. "You have to date / court someone first, fall in love with them, then marry them because marriage will make sense & be healthy then." They didn't do the first two parts, but after getting married, they're happy together. They spat in the face of societal norms & expectations.

[animatejournal]

Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn | Creator: Akira Toriyama Studio: Toei Animation | Japan, 1995