#Steel Stampede

[rockandroar]

Outta the way! The kings of Metal are charging in! 🤘🏼Meet Steel Stampede, fronted by the legendary Grant Ruffalo. In the world of Rock & Roar, heavy metal music was originated by, and belongs to, animals with horns, and that’s the origin of the “🤘🏼” hand symbol. The last image is a drawing of Grant from all the way back in 2013. Miles will meet these guys in chapter 4!

[anime-grimmy-art]

WHAT'S THIS? IT'S MERYL WITH A STEEL CHAIR!?

The tags of this post were just way too hilarious, it rly did warrant a continuation.

Meryl came back to finish the job. Knives should not have messed with her bf.

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Part 1 here

Part 3 here

[marcop0los]

if I had a nickel for everytime I had a interest that consisted of a deeply traumatized blonde cowboy that slings something that shoots like a gun with a probably boyfriend who uses a strange unusual weapon I would have two nickels which isn't a lot but its weird its happened twice

[lost-technology]

So, I felt like visiting the Commonwealth Wasteland (Massachusetts, United States, post thermonuclear war) of Fallout 4 today. I was thinking "Oh, I'll just play for a couple of hours" and it's near dawn now that I've finally got off the console. Whoops. Anyway, something that I wind up doing to myself a lot (that my player character goes through) is ACCIDENTALLY EXPLODING MYSELF with explosive and incendiary devices. Like, I just have to do that thing where I lead big enemies (such as the yao guais - mutant bears) over a trail of land mines I've set or I get beset by a mass of feral ghouls and I lob fragmentation grenades at them... Only to not watch where I'm running and to trip my own land mines or throw my grenade at too close of a range and do massive damage to my health bar, sometimes blowing my legs off and getting a bloody game over. I had the thought while playing: I wonder if Vash has ever done that to himself. Like, wondering if a few of his nastier scars were actually accidentally self-inflicted by doing something incredibly stupid with some frag grenades... But... that's when I remember he's more of a small arms precision fighter in combat (because unlike my Fallout character, he does NOT want to kill his enemies or any creatures that are after him). I'm pretty sure I recall him doing some stuff with explosives before... like lobbing a tied dynamite bouquet that the bounty hunters / bandits and thrown his way into a cliff in the first episode of the '98 anime and giving Luida some interesting lines in the manga about fun with things that go boom. Like... I wonder if that big scar in the left side of his chest that looks barely held together (by a cage in a couple of canons, just a bark-like tear in Stampede, but no less awful-looking) is less from "Oh! The cruelty of humans that Knives berates me about again and again!" and is more like "Okay, this time, I did something REALLY STUPID!"

[soufi-draws]

Suuuupeer old art challenge of my fav characters. Do we notice any patterns?

Very doodle-y but I had a lot of fun. I did want to add 1029922 more character to the blue section though....

[sheriffmango]

Wonder why the best, borderline-gay duos always come from westerns?

[fatiguedcorvid]

I think this might actually say more about how my brain works than I’d like to admit

[genderenvyelimination]

Gender Envy Elimination! First Round

[takineko-arts]

But they were all of them deceived

for there was another Independent born.

In the land of earth, in the bowels of the plants, the great Commander Chronica was forged in secret, a cool ass Independent.

Into NoMan’s Land Knives poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life. One Plant to rule them all. 

One by one, the humans of NoMans Land fell to the power of the Arc. 

But there were some who resisted. A Last Alliance of men and women marched against the Angel Arc of Knives and on the slopes of Octovern, they fought for the freedom of NoMan’s Land. Victory was near. But what’s that... ?

CHRONICA WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!

[lunar-eclipse-cos]

I have been inspired

So I made these silly little chibis

[otaku-republic]

＜Article＞ 【2023 Winter Anime】Tokyo Revengers, The Vampire Dies in No Time, NieR:Automata, Tsurune, and MORE! A Super Luxurious Line-up!

[theinfinitedivides]

is it possible to plug Anything But into my veins and have it circle around my blood on demand any time i want some kind of serotonin. does anyone know if that's possible

[tumblblabber]

Crunchyroll Announces Winter 2023 English Dub Slate

Crunchyroll Announces Winter 2023 English Dub Slate

More are expected to be announced in the coming months ahead, but so far, this is already Crunchyroll’s impressive Winter 2023 English dub slate. Check back as we will update this list with premiere dates, new series, and cast information as we get them.   Tomo-chan Is a Girl! (Lay-duce) Tomboy Tomo couldn’t have picked a more awkward high school crush ’cause it’s on her childhood friend,…

[dukeofriven]

So today at a friend's place my friend got me to watch the first episode of Trigun Stampede. I have never seen any Trigun, knew literally nothing about it except that the name would pop-up on TV Tropes a lot back in the day. My friend was a fan of the original and wanted to give the remake a shot. As the episode went on my friend got more and more aggravated, frequently making confused and irritated noises like a cat locked in an unheated bathroom, so that I could only surmise he wasn't enjoying the television programme. I was finding it kind of awkward and often off-putting, tiresomely sexist, and I just generally disliked its visual style (but then that's not specific to Trigun Stampede as I feel like '3D CGI' anime has yet to hit its stride—from Arpeggio of Blue Steel to Beastars the character models still feel leaden and droopy, their balance all wrong, and the framerate choices that should make them look more like tradition animation just make things look jerky.) The episode wasn't terrible, but it felt generic and forgettable, another anime that felt like I'd seen it before. After it was over my friend turned to me, ashen faced, and said 'what the fuck did they do to Trigun?' Then he made me watch the first episode of the original. It felt like watching a completely different show. It contextualized ever single choice the remake had made—and every choice it made was wrong. Where the new one felt sexist, the old one felt progressive. Where the new one felt aimless, bouncing from space opera to quasi-western, the old one had a razor-sharp sense of theme and genre. Where the new one's Vash felt like that druggie who tries to hold Bruce Willis up at the start of Fifth Element, the old Vash was a pitch-perfect balance of a guy who could ooze shonen cool one moment and then act like a total dork the next, with neither element feeling incongruous to his character. I sat there slack-jawed and baffled and began to understand why my friend had been so appalled. Why would you take an empowered female leader and make her a childish rookie? Why would you replace a fascinatingly unusual female character with an old alcoholic male asshole who spends the entire episode belittling his young female partner with misogynistic taunts? Why would you so clearly take every one of Trigun's narrative secrets and spill them all in the opening scene, then bookend the episode with a cartoonish villain playing a scary organ and all-but twirling a moustache> The original Trigun oozes confidence and charm - it feels like the sequel to Cowboy Bebop that I never knew existed, from the action sequences to the character design to the cocky assurance with which it just drops you into its world and makes no attempts to set it up for you: you are here, enjoy. Trigun Stampede seems terrified you might not instantly be invested in its deep lore so its non-stop exposition dumps from start to finish, with no mystery left by episode's end, everyone's motivation and backstory seemingly explained and squared away.

Hell, I watched the OG Trigun with its truly awful English dub and still felt riveted to the screen. I have never seen Trigun before. I have zero skin in the game, no childhood nostalgia to defend, no identity-forming anime obsession to shore-up as the backbone my existence. I give no goddamn weeb shits about Trigun. But I watched two episode of TB today: episode 1 of Trigun Stampede and the episode 1 of Trigun, and the former ditches every single element that makes the latter good. Every. Single. One. I have rarely watched a remake that seemed to so utterly and totally miss the point. If Stampede's only goal was to make me go 'man, this remake makes the original look amazing I'm going to ditch this show and watch that instead' well then it exceed. Otherwise, who the hell is this for? Why does this exist? MERYL GETS HANDLED ROUGHLY ENOUGH BUT WHAT THE SHIT DID YOU DO TO MILLY?

[operationrainfall]

oprainfall Week in Anime: Jan 15 - 21

We here at oprainfall don’t just love video games: we’re big fans of anime, too. So in celebration of the medium, we’re here to give you our thoughts on what we’ve been watching each week as we watch it. Old, new – anything goes. Currently Airing: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – Northern War This week’s episode sees Iseria and Marty infiltrate a party being held in the Port City of…

[marshallflynn]

I'm so soft for them 🤧

Promises

He should know better. 

Wolfwood has seen Vash make promises, or hear about the ones he has made in the past. He has also seen the end of each one and how every single time the outcome is less than what was promised. 

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