#Tekken and Avatar 1 & 2

[milihamada]

*Tekken & Avatar Couples*

Part Final:

•Heihachi & Kazumi•

•Eddy & Christie•

•Tsu'tey & Sylwanin•

•Kuma & Panda•

•Leo & Azucena•

•King & El Blaze•

•Claudio & Zafina•

•Reina & Lidia•

•Norm & Trudy•

•Forest Law & Julia Chang•

[whispersxwhimpers]

Mommy, what are some of your sfw interests? ☺️ (music, movies, shows, games, etc)

Music: I have a wide variety of favorite artists, so I'm just gonna list my top 25 on my spotify from the last 6 months 😂💕 Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Boygenius, Megan The Stallion, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Lauren Sanderson, The Pretty Reckless, Renee Rapp, Doja Cat, PVRIS, Labrinth, OTEP, Tyler The Creator, AshNikko, Kendrick Lamar, BONES UK, Kent Osborne, Lana Del Rey, $uicideboy$, Hozier, CORPSE, Harry Styles, & SZA

Movies: Howls Moving Castle, Kikis Delivery Service, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Corpse Bride, Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pokemon Movies, Lilo & Stitch movies, Lion King Movies, Harry Potter Movies, Batman Movies, Marvel Movies (my top 3 favorite MCU characters are Wanda/Scarlet Witch, Spiderman, and Deadpool), Suicide Squad Movies, Birds of Prey, The Scream Movies, Terrifier Movies, The Conjuring Movies, The Insidious Movies, Mean Girls (2004 & 2024), Fried Green Tomatoes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Illusionist, and 50 First Dates

Shows: Euphoria, Haunting of Bly Manor, Stranger Things, You, Game Of Thrones, House of Dragon,  Shameless, Wentworth, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Avatar The Last Airbender, Adventure Time, Fiona & Cake, Batman The Animated Series, Powerpuff Girls (the classic one), Pokemon (Gen 1-4), and the original Teen Titans on CN. I also love anime! My favorites are Naruto, Demon Slayer, Death Note, and Inuyasha

Games: Naruto Games (Ultimate Ninja Storm series is my favorite), Pokemon Games (Gen 1-4, Pokemon Snap, and Pokemon Stadium are my favorites), Mario Games (Mario Kart & Mario Party are my favorites), Sonic Games (Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic Battle for GBA are my favorites), Kirby Games (Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land is my favorite), Super Smash Bros (Melee is my favorite), Kingdom Hearts (2 is my favorite), Life Is Strange (Before The Storm & 1 are my favorites), Tekken (3, 4, 7, & Tekken Tag are my favorites), Dead Island, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Minecraft, Sims (My Sims for DS & Sims 2 are my favorites) Jackbox Games, and Monster Prom/Camp. I also enjoy playing Cards Against Humanity, Blackjack/21, Uno, Mancala, and many board games!

If you'd like to know other interests and more, feel free to send me asks or message me! 🥰

[anestofocs]

10 FANDOMS, 10 CHARACTERS

tagged by @muses-in-my-closet <3

1: Solas (dragon age)

2: Korra (Avatar series)

3: Rose Quartz (Steven Universe)

4: The Lamb (Cult of the Lamb)

5: Nemsis ( The chronicles of Evilious/ Seven deadly sins)

6: Sora (Kingdom hearts)

7: Emet Selch/ Hades ( Final Fantasy)

8: Jun Kazama (Tekken)

9: Olive Spector (The Sims)

10: Ken Ichijouji (Digimon)

tagging @unshackled-instinct , @healxcoded, @bucketfullofocs

[karlamon]

Decided to give Topsters a try and listed my 25 favourite films, shows, games, and albums.

Starting off with Topsters list for my 25 favourite movies:

Airplane! (1980)

Apollo 13 (1995)

Balto (1995)

Bolt (2008)

Children of Men (2006)

Finding Nemo (2003)

Gravity (2013)

The Iron Giant (1999)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

The Lion King (1994)

Migration (2023)

Nimona (2023)

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Ratatouille (2007)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Sing 2 (2021)

Surf's Up (2007)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

United 93 (2006)

The Wild Robot (2024)

You Were Never Really Here (2017)

Zootopia (2016)

Next is my Topsters list for my 25 favourite shows:

Aggretsuko (2018 - 2023)

The Angry Beavers (1997 - 2003)

The Angry Video Game Nerd (2004 - Present)

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005 - 2008)

Band of Brothers (2001)

Bluey (2018 - Present)

BNA (2020)

Chernobyl (2019)

Digimon: Digital Monsters [Adventure (1999), Adventure 02 (2000), Tamers (2001)]

Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999 - 2009)

Green Eggs and Ham (2019 - 2022)

Mayday [aka, Air Crash Investigation] (2003 - Present)

Mythbusters (2003 - 2016)

Primal (2019 - Present)

Regular Show (2010 - 2017)

Robot Chicken (2005 - Present)

Rocko's Modern Life (1993 - 1996)

Seconds from Disaster (2004 - 2018)

The Simpsons (1989 - Present)

South Park (1997 - Present)

SpongeBob SquarePants (1999 - Present)

Thomas & Friends (1984 - 2021)

Untalkative Bunny (2001 - 2003)

We Bare Bears (2015 - 2019)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000 - 2004)

Then it's my Topsters list for my 25 favourite games:

Alan Wake (2010)

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Civilzation VI (2016)

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (2017)

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (1997)

Day of Defeat: Source (2005)

Destruction Derby Raw (2000)

Digimon: Rumble Arena (2001)

Dust: An Elysian Tail (2012)

Euro Truck Simulator 2 (2012)

Fallout 3 (2008)

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)

Grand Theft Auto V (2013)

Half-Life 2 (2004)

LEGO Island (1997)

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002)

Papers, Please (2013)

Portal (2007)

Ratchet & Clank (2002)

The Simpsons Game (2007)

Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018)

Super Animal Royale (2018)

Team Fortress 2 (2007)

Tekken 3 (1997)

VRChat (2014)

And finally, here's my Topsters list for my 25 favourite albums:

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)

Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust (2006)

Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)

God Is an Astronaut - The End of the Beginning (2002)

Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)

Shihad - The General Electric (1999)

Björk - Homogenic (1997)

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000)

Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

Sigur Rós - Kveikur (2013)

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)

Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (1993)

Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)

Solar Fields - Movements (2009)

Mogwai - Mr. Beast (2006)

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)

David Gray - A New Day at Midnight (2002)

Jon Hopkins - Opalescent (2001)

Meniscus - Refractions (2016)

Jakob - Solace (2006)

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood (2006)

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place (2003)

Deftones - White Pony (2000)

Feel free to create your own Topsters list here:

[multimuseforme]

I'm gonna put a list of some of the muses I'm thinking of adding some point in the future, they probably won't be ready till I get their pages all up and nice(and for some getting/making some icons/resources)

Why so many? Cause i wanna

Marvel: Captain America, Doctor Strange, Juggernaut, Captain Britain/Brian Braddock, The Thing, Colossus

DC: Hal Jordan, Shazam, Wildcat, Doomsday

Dragon Ball: Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Gamma 1

Warcraft: Varian Wrynn, Anduin Wrynn, Greymane, Arthas, Khadgar, Illidan, Sire Denathrius, Gul'Dan

Star Wars: Revan, Anakin/Darth Vader, Captain Rex, Cad Bane, Darth Maul

Mortal Kombat: Liu Kang, Shao Kahn, Sub Zero

Castlevania: Simon Belmont

Diablo: Xul(Diablo 2 Necromancer), Imperius, Mephisto, Diablo

Street Fighter: Alex, Luke, Rashid, Ken

Overwatch: Roadhog, Cassidy, Genji

Final Fight: Mike Haggar, Cody

Yu Yu Hakusho: Yusuke Urameshi

Wolfenstein: BJ Blazkowicz

Tekken: King II

Transformers: Megatron

Starcraft: Jim Raynor, Artanis, Fenix, Dehaka

Devil May Cry: Nero

Avatar: Aang

Nintendo: Bowser, Ganondorf

Evil Dead: Ash Williams

[vvanini]

whats your favorite obscure hc about each of the losers?

Fucking perfect thank you

1- Mike he reads books or articles like “how to understand woman”, “why women like jerks”, not because he wants to woo woman or is a nice guy or anything but just because he thinks it’s interesting

I don’t think he’d date anyone

Gives great dating advice tho

Reads manga Likes Junji Ito

“The manga/book was better” kind of guy

I don’t know why but I feel like he’d be this ENTP-ish dude who likes to gather information about a lot of useless things and likes to debate He likes film and game theories Watches MatPat for sure

Also he likes The Walking Dead and… zombies in general

Also I’m sorry but he likes Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson

He likes grindhouse movies and appreciates the gory details but is chill about it Likes cinematography in general

Watches video essays about movies

2- Richie

Unlike Mike, Richie isn’t chill about gory details and whenever someone gags while watching a movie he goes “You think that’s disgusting??? Lmaoooo that’s nothing.”

He’d be the type of guy who brags about being immune to disturbing shit

Google searches include “top ten disturbing movies of all time” “scariest movies ever” “movies worse than a serbian film”

Still likes pink guy and thinks Joji is a genius

Unironically loves the song “I Love Sex” by Pink Guy and listens to it at least once everyday

Uses Discord a lot

Always starts studying on the last day

I think he’d like history

Not like Mike tho, he just likes textbook history and world wars etc

Plays Hearts of Iron and League of Legends

Also :) he likes to code

he is a Linux >>>>>>>>>> Windows kinda guy

Likes breaking bad

And Rick and Morty

Understands politics really well

His music taste is… anime opening songs

Evangelion especially

Likes science fiction books

Pretends to be a flat-earther/conservative/anti-vax for the meme

3- Ben

LIKES BACKSTREET BOYS

and boy bands in general

he is old school and still carries an mp3 around

Doesn’t use spotify, he illegally downloads songs like a champ :D

Likes story rich games

Especially RPG’s. He really likes Planescape Torment and Baldur’s Gate

Kinda lame about women, like he hears Jordan Peterson say something like “the eternal image of the divine feminine” or some shit like that and he goes “wow poetic. agreed”

Doesn’t read “How to woo women” books like Mike but thinks about it a lot that’s for sure

Likes Audrey Hepburn

And Steinbeck

Saves different versions of the same song to his mp3. “The Less I Know The Better but you’re crying in a bathroom” “The Less I Know The Better Slowed & Reverb Listen With Headphones” “The Less I Know The Better Nightcore”

Shares playlists with Eddie

ALWAYS. ALWAYS waits for the person who’s tying their shoes

He notices if someone is walking behind the group alone and walks back to accompany them

If no one laughs at your joke, he does

Bleached his hair once and regretted it immediately Writes poetry in his free time and makes Stan proofread it

Into psychology

Hands always in pockets

Probably owned lots of lego sets as a kid

People go to him for dating advice because he is seen as this “romantic guy”, I mean he is but he gives terrible dating advice

4-Stan

He likes geography

Literally knows all the flags in the world and all the capitals

Blindfold him and give him a country name, he can show you exactly where it is on the map

Also he plays those google earth games where you get a random location and try to find out which country you’re in/ or try to find the nearest airport

Also I feel like he’d like planes a lot

Idk he just likes things that fly lol. Birds, planes etc.

Likes to read classics

LOVES H. P. Lovecraft

carries little poetry books with him everywhere and reads them he’s so cute

Dark academia is his aesthetic

Can play the piano

Likes to read Ben’s poetry :D

Dark humor

His ringtone is Le Festin :)

Has an instagram account but never posts, just watches people’s stories

Very photogenic tho.

He’s a man of culture. He likes visiting aquariums and museums

Hates zoos tho, thinks it’s evil to cage animals

Also I don’t know how to explain it but… He just likes to decorate his place? Like to the clubhouse he’ll bring stuff he likes and just quietly claims a corner as his own and make it as comfortable as he can

Has...beautiful hands

you know how some people cut the cothing labels because it irritates the back of their neck? Stan does that with everything he buys

5- Eddie

Likes Backstreet Boys because of Ben

Replies to texts immediately. Communication and social interaction gives him serotonin

I have no idea why but I feel like he’d have an obsession with Tekken and his favourite character is Ling Xiayou

Big fan of classic playstation games. Loves Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and Ratchet and Clank

He likes wearing long sleeves under t shirts

Listens to emo music, stares out the window and imagines scenarios matching the song he’s listening to

He considers MCR to be emo btw. Loves G note memes

Likes astrology

Can’t watch horror movies, and gets teased by Richie about it

However he likes media that is presented as funky/funny/happy but is actually depressing/disturbing

He likes courtroom dramas

Wears sunglasses indoors for no reason

Probably likes fallout and metro games

Has a collection of finger skateboards

#weirdcore #oddcore #nostalgia #grunge

buys and wears random college sweatshirts

Hates and loves study groups, hates it in the sense that he can’t focus on anything and just wants to hang out and talk, loves it in the sense that he CAN hang out with his friends and talk

Romanticizes everything

6- Bill

Has lots of taurus energy and is sleepy all the time

Has major Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries vibes

Dresses effortlessly

And likes basketball lol.

He just has… boy energy. If that makes sense. Boy next door

Likes to draw his friends

posts his drawings on Instagram

Has lots of OC’s but doesn’t know they’re called OC’s, just refers to them as “this character I created”

He likes being praised a lot ngl

His taste in memes is very similar to Richie’s

You know how they put a random word on top of a random image and it doesn’t make sense at all. He laughs at things like that. Like Richie sends him something like this:

ME WHEN I WHEN

[image of monkey]

BOTTOM TEXT

and he thinks it’s funny and loses his shit im sorry

Like someone sends a picture of Keanu Reeves to the groupchat and texts “g” and he thinks it’s funny???? He sees a picture of a cow in the backrooms and starts choking

He memorized every line in Boneless Pizza and can quote it wihtout stuttering. Like he would be sitting alone talking to himself saying shit like “ya pizza. Watchu want. 2 liter machine broke we got one liter tho. fuck you mean B.”

Never answers calls? Doesn’t like talking on the phone. He just has “Don’t fucking call me when you can text!!” energy

phone is always on silent mode

doesn’t do anything but attracts people anyway

7- Bev

Likes musicals

Theatre kid

Chews gum a lot

And swallows them :(

Likes cottagecore

Buys notebooks with cute covers but can never fill them so she just gives them to bill who turns them into sketchbooks

I think she’d give advice or reaussure people in a way that sounds kinda rude but isn’t really? Like she tells it like it is. Blunt

Likes Avatar The Last Airbender

Sense of humor is:

[Picutre of the fox from Zootopia]

why is he hot help 😭😭😭

wears baggy clothing + long skirts

[whythehellnaut]

The secret brilliance behind Nickelodeon All Star Brawl‘s marketing

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Nickelodeon fighting game after it was announced, progressing from mild interest to ironic excitement to unironic excitement for it.  So many jokes and memes have been made about it that they’re almost impossible to avoid.  But when I thought about it, I realized that that’s exactly what the marketing team for this game wanted.  The idea of the game is so absurd that no one would expect it to exist, but they figured out a way to make absolutely sure that it would create just the right buzz to get people like me to take serious interest in it.

Watching the trailer again, I figured out that every character they picked to showcase in that minute and a half trailer were carefully and strategically chosen to cater to as many people as they could.  Even the order of their appearance had deliberation behind it.  Here are my thoughts:

Michelangelo comes first, establishing that the game is combat focused.  After all, who better to show off first for a fighting game than a character that has already appeared as a playable character in at least two of them?  Plus, the Ninja Turtles are the oldest characters in Nickelodeon’s library when you consider that they first aired in the 80′s, before Nickelodeon even started making cartoons.  This is a character that everyone recognizes, parents included.

Lincoln Loud comes next, a more modern character that adults might not know but kids will.  This is to quickly lure the kids, who have less patience than adults, into watching the rest of the trailer, assuring them that it won’t just be older characters like the turtles that show up.

Powdered Toast Man comes next to snatch up the other side of the equation, the adults/90′s kids who remember him from the original Ren and Stimpy show from 1991.  I’m not sure if it’s still airing as reruns on Nick today, but considering I hear very little about the show online, I’m guessing not.  This is a bit of a surprise to the adults who thought it’d be a kids’ game, so it lures those folks into staying for the rest of the trailer as well.

Sandy is important to show off early for a number of reasons.  Spongebob is popular among kids and Millenials, and is arguably the only property here as well known as Ninja Turtles, so they’re luring in more fans.  It also serves to imply that other Spongebob characters will join, as, even though Sandy’s passion for karate makes total sense for her to appear in a fighting game, you still can’t leave out Spongebob himself.  Showing her first implies more possibilities of characters to come, proving it won’t just be a festival of protagonists like Jump Force was.  It also shows off their female representation to keep women interested.

Patrick is just a fan favorite to get out of the way before the sponge shows up, so he’s only here to confirm that the game is going to be full of characters that people actually want to see.

Oblina was personally a shocker to me, as I barely remember Ahh Real Monsters from my own childhood, but I remember enough to know that she wasn’t the protagonist, necessarily.  I also know it’s relatively obscure in comparison to Spongebob or Ren and Stimpy, so they proved that they are willing to take characters from more obscure shows that the young kids won’t remember.  This solidified my interest as I could tell that they are doing more to cater to the 90s generation than just confirming Powdered Toast Man.

Nigel Thornberry is arguably their most important addition at the halfway point.  Outside of Spongebob characters and maybe Stu Pickles, I would say Nigel is the internet’s favorite Nickelodeon character to use for memes.  The marketing team had to have known this.  After getting some of the core audiences hooked, they now have the memer crowd invested, ready to spread the word about the insanity of this game’s premise across the internet.  This is exactly what happened, and why the trailer has 2 million views on Youtube right now.

Lucy Loud is shown off quickly to remind the younger crowd to keep watching, and to add a little bit more female representation.

Spongebob is shown off a little bit late, but since we were expecting him to show up, it’s just to make sure the casual fans who only know the big names stay watching.

Helga is an older character, but I recently saw a young kid wearing a Hey Arnold tee shirt at the supermarket, so I’m positive it’s being shown as reruns on Nick today, so most Nick fans of all ages will be excited about her.  Moreover, since she came immediately after Spongebob, who is a protagonist that was introduced after Sandy, a side character from his show, it gives an implication that Arnold will also appear.  Although he is not introduced in this trailer, it allows the fans to speculate that he will soon be showcased, perhaps in the next trailer.  Also, she’s the fourth female character shown, confirming that the game is being fair and inclusive to both sexes and not simply catering to male gamers, like say, Jump Force or Dragonball Fighter Z.

Reptar is another shocker, because although Rugrats is very popular and well known throughout the generations, he is a very, very minor character in the show.  He is literally a fictional character within a separate fictional universe.  The marketing team threw him in to show off that just about any character from any Nick property, no matter how minor or obscure, has a chance of making it into this game.  Again, this forces the fans to speculate about future announcements with even more creative thinking, as we now know that it won’t just be major characters joining the fray.

Zim is a well thought out choice because he caters to a specific crowd that I’d describe as the alternative niche.  That is to say, there are people who are fans of Invader Zim who don’t watch other Nick shows, so they are luring in the folks you’d expect to see at Hot Topic and the like.  It was an edgy show with a feel and fanbase unlike other shows of its era, so it’s important to use him to diversify the roster.  They also showed off Gir as his assist, and although that may deconfirm him as playable, it still pleases the fans, who often prefer Gir over Zim.

Danny Phantom is the only character that comes strictly from the 2000s era, so they are making sure to maintain the attention of the teenagers who watched that show as kids.

Leonardo seems like an odd choice to end on, maybe even anticlimactic, since they started with Michelangelo, but it makes sense when you think about it.  They couldn’t show just 1 turtle, or else it might imply that the game’s roster was small.  But if they showed all 4 turtles, they would have needed to leave two other characters out of the trailer to make room for them, and they didn’t want to make it look like a Turtles fighting game with guest characters.  So having exactly 2 turtles allows them to show off enough characters from other properties, while also confirming unofficially that the other turtles would appear later, since you can’t just have 2 of the 4 turtles in the game.  By leaving it open like that, they’re giving an implication that the roster is going to be huge.  So big that the turtles were just a small portion of it.  They end the trailer this way to leave the crowd speculating again: how many characters will appear in total?

The only characters that curiously don’t show up in the trailer are the cast of the Avatar franchise, who are quite popular.  However, one of the stages shown is clearly the Air Temple with Aang’s glider in plain sight, implying that Avatar characters will be announced later.  Another smart move to instill hope in the fans.

Finally, the Rollback Netcode announcement that came afterward solidified a very important group- the serious/competitive gamers.  For those who don’t know, rollback netcode is relatively new technology that speeds up online gameplay to cut down on input lag, which is super important for fighting games in particular, as they rely on strict timing more than other game genres.  It’s so new, however, that not all competitive fighting games use it.  Popular tournament fighters like Super Smash Bros, Tekken, and Dragonball Fighter Z have not implemented rollback netcode for their games yet, so of all games, Nickelodeon All Star Brawl beating them to the punch is causing a stir.  This is a sign that the devs are putting serious effort into making the game enjoyable online, which could potentially help its chances to be taken seriously in competitive settings.  Only time will tell if that truly happens, but it’s a sign of quality, nonetheless.

So ultimately, this short trailer and announcement manage to cater to dang near every crowd that may want to play it: Kids, teenagers, young adults in their 20s and 30s, parents in their 40s, men, women, memers, casual fans, alternative fans, and serious gamers, and opens up a ton of potential for speculation regarding new announcements.  That’s a fantastic way to start off and explains why this game, which for all intents and purposes should have been nothing more than a thought experiment that people joke about in the car with friends, has been trending so much for the past two weeks.  Congrats to the marketing team for what they put together.

[comunidadarcsystemworks]

¡Avatar Belial y Vira llegarán a Granblue Fantasy Versus el 14 de diciembre!

¡Con la actualización 2.70 tendremos a Lunalu como personaje jugable! Será al estilo Mokujin, que conoceréis por la saga Tekken

Cygames está llevando a cabo una encuesta donde podemos solicitar a quién nos gustaría ver como personaje jugable en #GBVS https://questant.jp/q/DZ8QKRHJ

Roadmap con actualizaciones futuras que llegarán a Granblue Fantasy Versus.

Se ha anunciado una Legendary Edition que incluirá el season pass 1 + 2 así como a Avatar Belial y a Vira. Por otro lado, también se ha anunciado que el juego base se pondrá a un precio más reducido. Todos los detalles (en inglés) en las imágenes.

[solidsmax]

Top 10 Favorite Female Characters!

I was tagged by @theonyxranger  to list my 10 favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people.

In no particular order:

1. Storm/Ororo Munroe - Marvel

2. Chun-li - Street Fighter

3. Asajj Ventress - Star Wars

4. Samus Aran - Metroid

5. Toph Beifong - Avatar The Last Airbender

6. Master Raven - Tekken

7. Motoko Kusanagi - Ghost in the Shell

8. Tali'zorah vas normandy - Mass Effect

9. Bayonetta

10. Chloe Frazer - Uncharted

Tagging: @eivorswolfsmals, @finalfantasy7, @yo-yamcha , @arnault, @bunieboo, @jtgunner, @homosexualitay

[milihamada]

*Tekken & Avatar Couples*

Part 1:

•Kazuya & Jun•

•Jake & Neytiri•

•Jin & Xiaoyu•

•Lo'ak & Tsireya•

•Hwoarang & Steve•

•Aonung & Neteyam•

•Asuka & Lili•

•Rotxo & Kiri•

•Lars & Alisa•

•Tonowari & Ronal•

[dlamp-dictator]

Quick Thoughts of Strive Beta

Messed around on the beta for about 3 hours between last night and this morning and just wanted to give my thoughts on it so far.

General Things

For those wanting to download the Beta I believe you have to go onto the PSN website itself and search it up. It took all of yesterday to realize this and I’m still mad no instructions actually said this... I pre-order this game dammit.

From what I’ve played the netcode is very good. I think there were only 2 moments the game wouldn’t let me connect with someone. All of my games have been smooth so far with little if any lag.

The look, aesthetics, and animations all look very nice and are done very well. The action feels very fast-paced and bombastic. The explosion and fire effects are stellar and give some very nice feedback to your stronger attacks. Heavier counters have a nice zoom and slow down effect for maximum impact. This game wants to really sell you on that hype dear Lord am I buying it.

I know I was negative on the music of Strive in my last essay, but hearing it within the game itself has me warming up to it. On its own the songs feel a little out of place, but now that I’ve got the game’s beta in my hand and started playing it the music works. It kind of like moving and fighting along to a rock album. I’ve got a particular fondness for Giovanna’s theme now. The chill vibes I get from her theme combined with her personality sell me on her character a bit more now.

General Gameplay Things

I know the devs were saying that they wanted to make this game simpler, or at least more approached, but boy is this game a little more bare compared to Rev2. Just to give a quick rundown, you can only cancel Slash into Heavy Slash, Punch and Kick are more poking tools that can’t cancel into much aside from Specials, but you can also mash out 3 Punches in a row. Punch cannot be canceled into Kick, Slash, or Heavy Slash, nor can Kick cancel into Punch, Slash, or Heavy Slash unless in a Dust combo, not with the characters I was using at least (Ram, Zato, Chip, and Gio). 

However, this is offset by the HUGE damage Slash and Heavy Slash can do, especially if you combo it properly with specials. Ram in particular has some evil stuff she can do with her Dauro loops. It’s a bit more like a more combo-based SamSho where you can be dead in just three or four short combos... just... without the teeth-grinding slowness of Samsho.

I’m a bit torn on this. While I think this kind of gameplay actually works pretty well for what it is, it’s such a different approach to Rev2 and even Accent Core Plus that I wouldn’t blame folks for being dismissive of it. There could be an honest argument for this being flash over substance given the lack of complexity on the surface. Not one I would make given my mixed opinion of Guilty Gear as a whole, but I could see that argument being made.

I think having Throw be 4/6D was probably the smartest move in this game. Now we don’t have to worry about having our 4/6HS command normals accidentally turn into throws and ruin a potential combo.

“Allen, why would you use 4/6HS up close raw? It’s typically very unsafe and can make you eat tons of damage.” 

Hey... shut up.

Speaking of Dust, if it wasn’t a universal overhead before, making it one now gives it a lot more utility. 

Ramlethal Things

I played mostly with Ram in my three hours with the game, so I’ve got the best grasp on how she plays out of the other three characters I messed with.

Ram’s very different from her Rev2 days. She no long has her Tekken-esque combos and a lot of her gameplay is now even more focused around her swords. She’d best at midrange, but can do a few things from close up and far away.

I don’t really like how you can’t call your swords back, but given the damage output when she has them equipped I think it’s a fair enough trade off.

Her Dauro loops are still a thing and boy can you do some mean things with them. 

I don’t really like how a lot of her combos feels like they need a sweep or 2HS to do real damage, this is apparently the case for a lot of characters, but with Ram... I dunno’, I haven’t play around with her enough to be sure but it just feels kinda’ weird.

Mortobato is actually a pretty nice super in terms of utility, but I really miss having Explode. It was the coolest looking super in Ram’s kit back in Xrd.

Her new rekka special is pretty sweet, makes for a nice combo ender after a sweep.

Giovanna Things

I think this is the character I’m going to main in earnest. Ram is fun, but I can actually win matches with Giovanna with some competency since her damage is constant unlike Ram who needs her swords.

Like Chipp, she’s a rushdown character, but with less tools for mobility and is more about nailing people hard and fast with her kicks and staying close with her surprisingly far-reaching specials that can close the gap, at least that’s what I got from her after a few runs in training mode.

Her 6HS rekka looks really cool and I wish I could combo into better.

Apparently she turns all green and gets possessed by her ghost dog when she’s a max Tension, but the game doesn’t explain anything about this.I’m curious, but also annoyed that what looks like a gameplay function is hidden for the beta players. I understand wanting to keep things a surprise, but I’d rather that part of her be removed if it isn’t going to be discussed.

I heard a lot of talk about Giovanna being un-Guilty Gear and boring as a character. I’ve got a lot of negative opinions about these people, but I’ll at least say that after playing her I don’t believe this to be the case. She admitted has few tools, but her playstyle, animations, and character do feel like a Guilty Gear character. Her simplicity is what makes her stand out among all the nuttiness of Guilty Gear. 

Think of it this way, a snarky, deadpanned, straightforward government worker being forced to deal with half-dragon bounty hunters and kings, assassins, sky pirates, ninja presidents, and Faust with only basic martial arts and a ghost dog to keep her on equal footing with the monsters of the cast stands out a lot more if she was quirky. She seems to be the straight man to all the craziness and I think she’ll have a lot of comedic moments with the cast if down well. 

Zato Things

THE TRAILERS FUCKING LIED TO ME THIS IS STILL ZATO -FUCKING- 1

To keep this simple and to keep me from raging, Zato and Eddie still attack in tandem outside of the player’s influence. 5K with Zato will still make Eddie do ”That’s A Lot!”. Doing 5S will still have Eddie do Leap. This is gonna’ need an actual essay to explain in detail, but basically, Eddie is unwieldy in his movement speed and positioning, so properly doing combos with him is very difficult due to how hard it is to position him in your favor.

To be fair, Eddie can only do about two attacks when he’s summoned, and his animations are much clearer to read and react off of for both you and your opponent, but... it feels like all the playing Relius Clover if Ignis moved without your full input. Again, more detail in a proper essay.  

Outside of that, you can actually do some really dirty stuff with Zato with you time things right. They did try to simplify Eddie but... it’s stil Zato-1 man.

Lobby Things

Yeah... this lobby kind of sucks. The aesthetic just looks very cheap compared to how nice the game looks. The blocky avatars don’t have the charming cuteness of Xrd’s avatar designs, and while I do think the method of getting matches is pretty simple, the overall way you do it feels sluggish and unneeded. I really wish Japanese fighting game developers didn’t try to make the lobbies as... immersive as they try to. This stuff peaked with Continuum Shift lobbies and have honestly gone downhill since then.

Overall, I’ve been liking what I’ve played of the beta, but I’m gonna’ need another day or two with it before having a full opinion. But so far so good, I’ve been either liking or appreciating most of the changes and things made, barring a few nitpicks and actual problems.

[hslim912]

Ready, FIGHT!!!

Alright, since another episode came out, I'm back with my critique of the episode. But before that, two cautions! (1) SPOILER ALERT! Pls skip this if u haven't watch the ep13 of MLB season 3. (2) Since it came out French dub, pls forgive me if I may commit misinterpretations. I don't understand French. This is just a pure hunch on how I manage to understand the ep. Okay, here we go!

1. The Game Genre - I really like how this episode showed the game themed in video games. I mean, I can totally relate coz I've played Tekken few times in arcades. Haha Not only that, the characters they used as avatars are their previous enemies. I know it shouldn't or I should feel sorry but IT'S. REALLY. COOL!!!

2. The Akumatization of Max (pt.2) - Compare to his first akumatization, I would say that this one's way too low or not too deep compare to the feeling of losing on season 2. Imagine, he got akumatized just bec no one wants to play with him? Is that even reasonable? Ugh! C'mon! (Pls correct me if I'm wrong with this part).

3. Chat's Getting Better - Okay, going back to Max's challenge with LB and CN... There's a part where LB kept on losing to Gamer while Chat kept on winning. At first, I was disappointed that Chat used Mr. Pigeon as his avatar bec I thought he wouldn't win--BUT I TAKE THAT BACK! HAHA He's way better than LB on this episode. He took advantage of their knowledge of their enemies' abilities to use it as his weapon in winning every fight. And I like that! Haha Not to mention he used Reflekta bec he knows well how it feels like to be in that body and it worked! When he used Reflekta, it's kinda nostalgic for me and I can't help but giggled at his cuteness!

4. True Love - Okay... This is a bit emotional... On the last round before the boss, the coup--err... LB and CN's next opponent is one another. I expected that Chat would sacrifice himself or he will not fight. DAMN! IT DID HAPPEN! Ugh! Look how he's willing to sacrifice everything for LB! He truly loves her! He trusts her so much that LB will fix everything and put it all back to normal! I got teary eyes on that part! I've grown to love him more because of that! Chat Noir, I SALUTE YOU, MAN! T^T

5. Calm Down, Ladubug! - After Chat sacrificed himself, of course, it's hard to get your cool down with that. I felt how LB felt and I'm also glad that she managed to calm down and recollect her thoughts. What a bright idea that she used the right weapons in defeating Gamer. That's our almost-perfect Ladybug!

6. Dupain Cheng's - At the first scene of the episode, Tom asked Marinette to play with him but she refused since she's studying and finishing the shirt of Kitty Section. On the last scene before it ended, Marinette brought Max to their house to play video fames with her parents. I want to focus on this part a bit. Marinette has the coolest parents ever! I feel like I can finally see myself with my future family, playing video games with my kids as our bonding. Haha I mean, look at that! Only few parents give time to their children and bond with them--not to mention having the same interest as their child, playing video games, but the Dupain Cheng's... They're so cool! My words are not enough to express how cool they are. They're the ideal parents! I won't take back what I said last time that the "Dupain Chengs never cease to amaze me!"

Alright! I hope this helped freshen up and notice the small things on the episode. I'll look forward to the eng dub and for the upcoming episodes!

[taekwondorkjosh]

I think I have something to add to this if anyone is interested: examples. The question was “why couldn’t why couldn't a young healthy fighter take advantage of all that body strain and easier injuries that could cripple an old figher despite their experience?”

Two warriors meet on the field of combat in a duel. Both show up in the same armor, wielding the same weapons, ready to fight. Lets say its swords. The master swordsman in their sixties, if they kept up with reasonable exercise and drills, will be a little less physically powerful, a little less fast, and less able to go at it for minutes at a time, than the dedicated up and coming swordsman. However, when the fight starts, the experienced swordsman will spot openings that the less experienced swordsman has not yet learned to close. The experienced swordsman, can let a blow glance off their helm, or parry a little harder than necessary, and keep fighting effectively.

But only against other similarly experienced fighters.

Against the Master, the Experienced but Young swordsman will make a mistake early on, and the Master will destroy them. An opening the youngster has yet to close will be found, and taken advantage of, and the Master will end the fight.

In Martial Arts its all there too. A master martial artist will see a strike coming, move just enough as necessary, access the counter, and put the new warrior down. No matter how strong you are, how many hits you can take, a Master knows how to take you down regardless.

If it was a Boxing Match, or a UFC match, if that’s what you’re looking at for fighting inspiration? Yes, a master martial artist who is older will go down most of the time. Those fights, if you zoom out enough, are about Endurance. How many hits can you deliver, how many hits can you take, etc. That’s why they have rounds, and go for minutes at a time. The Master will not thrive there.

An example of this practice done well is Uncle Iroh in Avatar: THe Last Airbender. We almost never see Iroh go All Out, because he is Too Old For That Nonesense. It is only with the power of Sozin’s comet we get to see him let loose and show us how powerful he really is. He pulls no punches. We see Iroh, throughout the show, fight Technically. Smarter, creatively, using surprise and his enemies mistakes against them. I think he calls this situation out by name, honestly! He’s asked to fight Ozai, and he says “I don’t think I can beat him” in slightly different words. And this is why. Iroh would not be able to find an opening to exploit before his body simply gave out under the assault. We see Iroh take out young warriors with little experience in the fire nation guards and young earth benders throughout season 1. he fends off Azula’s firebenders in Season 2 and holds off some of the Dai Li at the end of that season. But these are short bouts, with specific conditions for victory that aren’t “put everyone down” you know? Escape, distract, redirect, that’s what we see him doing.

In stories, in battles and combat, you could make an old master who has that same strength and durability. Tekken’s Heihachi, for example. That’s a video game first, however, not a narrative-focused story with stakes like A:TLA.  That could be a great antagonist or threat too. Someone who is equally intelligent AND able to take a beating on par with the hero?

Michi said it well at the end there: The name of the game is brains. Brains, even in a straight up fight, will find openings, weaknesses, and know the correct counter to whatever the younger fighter throws at them. They won’t be able to take as many hits, but an experienced fighter will know this going in, and will only need one to end the newcomer. In a boxing match, you can’t chop a wind-pipe when their chin is too high, or kick them in the nuts because they forgot to pay attention to their thigh positioning. But a master fighter will see that, and do it while the youngster is eagerly trying to throw the hardest right hook they can at the master’s face.

I'm trying to understand something that seems a bit contradictive. On one hand, you say old experienced fighters can easily beat young fighters solely through their experiences. However, you also say the more someone is in combat, the more wear and tear they have. So, why couldn't a young healthy fighter take advantage of all that body strain and easier injuries that could cripple an old figher despite their experience?

Congratulations. You’ve hit on the crux of most traditional martial arts narratives—the dangerous old timer versus the young up and comer.

The young have youth and virility at their physical peak. The old have experience and wisdom.

The Aliens vs Predator 1997 card game had a great reference about old fighters. It’s a line I really like, “a bit slower, a lot smarter.”

I’ll be completely honest, it’s difficult to really grasp the vast gap experience creates until you’ve had your ass handed to you by a guy pushing seventy. Or watched him shatter a wooden baseball bat with his shin. Or watched him float through the air nimbly like a butterfly with more agility and grace than you will likely ever manage.

The funny thing is that the old, wise martial arts master on the mountain isn’t just a trope or a joke. A person who has been training for forty to fifty years can be equal parts breathtaking, terrifying, and unforgettable.

It’s true, there’s more wear, tear, and strain on a thirty year old that’s been fighting for a decade than an eighteen year old. The problem is you’re just thinking about the physical body and not the experience they’ve gained fighting and surviving for those ten years beyond what their initial training offered. What they’ve learned is the difference, because the dumb ones and the unlucky ones are all dead.

A lot of writers have this problem with writing more experienced warriors and, ironically, a lot of young fighters have this problem with experienced warriors. They both have the problem of thinking the fight starts when the violence starts, and that all violence is force on force. If you think about your fight scene (and violence in general) like you’re clashing two action figures together, obviously the younger, less damaged toy is going to hold up better. The older toy is more likely to break first. Unfortunately, life isn’t that simple. Also, if you’re just clashing action figures, your fight scenes are going to be really boring.

The name of the game is brains. One of the most decisive aspects of combat is control. Controlling when the fight happens, controlling how the fight happens, controlling the speed of the fight, and ensuring the fight happens in the place of your choosing are all part of an experienced warrior’s repertoire. Depriving your opponent of their advantages while boosting your own is strategy.

This is why the experienced fighters often end up as antagonists because they’re best able to pressure the protagonist to learn and grow. Only by learning new techniques, to fight smarter, not harder can the protagonist defeat their antagonist.

The more experienced your fighter is, the more likely they are to be fighting smart. You’re right, they can no longer rely solely on their physical advantages but they’ve been gaining in time while they’ve been losing to time.

-Michi

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Top Fives

Top 5 Bucket List:

1. Meet an Eskimo [ ] 2. Blow up a helicopter with a bazooka [ ] 3. Meet Mick Foley and get his autograph [√] 4. Hug a huge brown bear [ ] 5. Touch and see lava [ ]

Top 5 Strengths:

1. My Faith 2. My Resilience 3. My Charitable Tendencies 4. My Drive 5. My Creative Capabilities

Top 5 Weaknesses:

1. Sleep 2. Women 3. trust. 4. My Competitiveness 5. Comedians

Top 5 Dreams:

1. Be a Priest or a Deacon 2. Be a Director 3. Be a DBT Therapist 4. Be a DIT on good wholesome Cinema 5. Be a Trailer Editor for Catholic / Christian content

Top 5 Movies:

1. Syriana 2. A Beautiful Mind 3. Michael Clayton 4. The Dark Knight 5. The Shawshank Redemption

Top 5 TV Shows:

1. Avatar: The Last Airbender 2. Whose Line Is It Anyway? 3. Lost 4. How I Met Your Mother 5. The Simpsons

Top 5 Mini-Series:

1. Band of Brothers 2. The Pacific 3. The Company 4. Kingpin 5. Looking For Alaska

Top 5 Animated Films:

1. A Goofy Movie 2. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 3. Ratatouille 4. Wreck It Ralph 5. The Lion King

Top 5 Animated Series:

1. Avatar: The Last Airbender 2. Gargoyles 3. Justice League: Unlimited 4. Beast Wars 5. Animaniacs

Top 5 Directors:

1. Gus Van Sant 2. Martin Scorsese 3. Paul Thomas Anderson 4. The Coen Brothers 5. Adam McKay

Top 5 Actors:

1. George Clooney 2. Christian Bale 3. Leonardo DiCaprio 4. Edward Norton 5. Brad Pitt

Top 5 Actresses:

1. Felicity Jones 2. Kristine Froseth 3. Isabela Merced 4. Anne Hathaway 5. Kate Winslet

Top 5 Heroes:

1. The Hulk 2. Batman 3. Iceman 4. Silver Surfer 5. Professor X

Top 5 Villains:

1. The Joker (The Dark Knight) 2. Zaheer 3. Amon 4. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3 5. King Joffrey

Top 5 Plays/Musicals:

1. Les Miserables 2. The Glass Menagerie 3. The King and I 4. The Seagull 5. Miss Saigon

Top 5 Books:

1. St. Antony of the Desert 2. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 3. The Alchemist 4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 5. Monkey: Journey to the West

Top 5 Bands:

1. Brand New 2. Sublime 3. The Get Up Kids 4. The New Amsterdams 5. Thrice

Top 5 Rappers:

1. The Game 2. Nas 3. Eminem 4. Notorious B.I.G. 5. Kendrick Lamar

Top 5 Songs:

1. Be Thou My Vision 2. Amazing Grace 3. Desperado - The Eagles 4. Play Crack The Sky - Brand New 5. Message in a Bottle - Attalus

Top 5 Cities:

1. Lourdes 2. Berlin 3. Palawan 4. Manhattan Beach 5. Orange County

Top 5 Games:

1. Tekken 2. Chess 3. Scrabble 4. Mario RPG 5. Sim City

Top 5 Animals:

1. Bear 2. Beaver 3. Pelican 4. Wombat 5. Big Blue Whale

Top 5 Foods:

1. Sinigang na Baboy 2. Ribeye Steak 3. Prime Rib 4. Pork Belly 5. Loco Moco

Top 5 Snacks:

1. Ritz 2. Coffee and Toffee Almond Crunch Haagen Dazs 3. Hershey’s Toffee Almond Bites 4. Dorito’s Nacho Cheese 5. Starburst

Top 5 Saints:

1. St. Joseph 2. St. Anthony of the Desert 3. St. Syncletica 4. St. Dismas 5. St. Margaret of Castello

Top 5 Life Changers:

1. The Spiritual Exercises 2. Jim 3. Landmark 4. Dr. Tucker 5. Sweet Bump It Video Agreement

Top 5 Life Influences:

1. American Beauty 2. Magnolia 3. Sublime 4. The Get Up Kids 5. Brand New

Top 5 Crushes:

1. The Botez Sisters 2. Felicity Jones 3. Jessica Alba 4. Ariana Grande 5. Isabela Merced

Top 5 Favorite Things To Do:

1. The Eucharist 2. Holy Hour in Front of the Blessed Sacrament 3. Spend Time In Deep Focused Meaningful Prayer 4. Reading The Bible 5. Catholic Spiritual Reading

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

Omniverse

read it on the AO3 at Omniverse

by SuperDomo360

21XX A.D. Mysterious objects from before creation itself have resurfaced, resulting in a series of events spanning time and space. Past, present and future, and even different timelines and dimensions would eventually find themselves pulled into a journey across the Omniverse. (Rated somewhere between T and M, mostly for language)

Words: 346, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Adventure Time, Aliens vs Predators Series - Various Authors, Amalgam Comics, Asura's Wrath, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra, Banjo-Kazooie Series, Ben 10 Series, Bloodborne (Video Game), 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, Code Lyoko, Codename: Kids Next Door, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Crash Bandicoot (Video Games), Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos - Fandom, Cuphead (Video Game), Danny Phantom, Dark Souls (Video Games), Darkstalkers (Video Games), DCU (Comics), DC Elseworlds, Dead Rising, Devil May Cry, Dexter's Laboratory, Die Hard (Movies), Dragon Ball, DuckTales (Cartoon 2017), Ed Edd n Eddy, Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Evil Dead (Movies), Ash vs Evil Dead (TV), Fairly OddParents, Fairy Tail, Fallout (Video Games), Family Guy (Cartoon), Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XV, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Ghostbusters (Movies 1984-1989), G.I. Joe - All Media Types, Godzilla - All Media Types, Gravity Falls, Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, .hack - All Media Types, Hellboy - All Media Types, Hellsing, Highlander - All Media Types, Hunter X Hunter, Indiana Jones Series, Invader Zim, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Jurassic Park - All Media Types, Kingdom Hearts, King of Fighters, Klonoa (Games), Lego - All Media Types, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Rockman | Mega Man - All Media Types, Rockman X | Mega Man X, Rockman DASH Series | Mega Man Legends, Metal Gear, Metroid Series, Minecraft (Video Game), Monster Hunter (Video Games), モンスターハンター ストーリーズ RIDE ON | Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On (Anime), Mortal Kombat - All Media Types, The Mummy Series, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Naruto, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, NieR: Automata (Video Game), OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, One Piece, Persona Series, Persona 4, Persona 5, Planet of the Apes (Movies 1968-1973), Plague Inc. (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Power Rangers, Powerpuff Girls, ReBoot (TV), Red vs. Blue, Regular Show, Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), RoboCop - All Media Types, RWBY, Samurai Jack (Cartoon), Scooby Doo - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Soul Calibur, Soul Eater, South Park, Spawn (Comics), SpongeBob SquarePants (Cartoon), Spyro the Dragon (Video Games), Star vs. The Forces Of Evil, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Steven Universe (Cartoon), Street Fighter, Sword Art Online, Team Fortress 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Tekken, Terminator - All Media Types, The Simpsons, Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Tremors - All Media Types, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Warcraft - All Media Types, World of Warcraft, 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Other

Characters: Original Characters

read it on the AO3 at Omniverse

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Katsuya Terada / 寺田 克也 - Part 1: 1987-1993 http://cacazan.com/ http://katsuyaterada.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/katsuya.terra.terada Terada has worked on about 50 games in the past 30 years. He became famous in the West in the early 2000s with the release of the movie Blood: The Last vampire for which he designed the main characters, his cover girls and his huge artbook "Rakugaking". Paradoxically, nowadays , outside of Japan, his name is more often attached to the Zelda series, one of his earliest works -- from 1989 to 1995, he was a regular contributor to the North American magazine Nintendo Power for which he did many artworks, including illustrations for Link's Awakening and A Link to the Past. On a related note, some of his Link's Awakening artworks seem to be exclusive to the official German player's guide. Games pictured above: 1) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Shinjuku Chūō Kōen Satsujin Jiken / 探偵神宮寺三郎 新宿中央公園殺人事件 (FDS - 1987) 2-5) Sorcerian System Scenario Vol. 2: Sengoku Sorcerian / 戦国ソーサリアン (PC-88 - 1988) 6) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Yokohama-kō Renzoku Satsujin Jiken / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 横浜港 連続殺人事件 (Famicom - 1988) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Kiken na Futari Zenpen / 探偵神宮寺三郎 危険な二人 前編 (FDS - 1988) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Kiken na Futari Kōhen / 探偵神宮寺三郎 危険な二人 後編 (FDS - 1989) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni... / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 時の過ぎゆくままに… (Famicom - 1990) 7) Blue almanac / ブルーアルマナック, AKA Star Odyssey (Mega Drive - 1991) 8) Prince of Persia / プリンスオブペルシャ (SFC - 1992) 9) Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, AKA Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest / ファイナルファンタジーUSA ミスティッククエスト (SNES - 1992) 10) Bishin Densetsu Zoku / 美神伝説Ｚｏｋｕ Bishin Densetsu Zoku / Zoku: The Legend of Bishin (SFC - 1993) Games he has worked on: Note: I omited a few games such as Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection, Culdcept II: Expansion and Culdcept 3DS which reuse designs/card illustrations from earlier games.

Alteil / アルテイル (browser game - 2004) card illustrations and chara design for 4 EX Villains Battle K-Road / バトルクロード (Arcade - 1994) character illustrations Bishin Densetsu Zoku / 美神伝説Ｚｏｋｕ Bishin Densetsu Zoku / Zoku: The Legend of Bishin (SFC - 1993) cover art, illustrations Blue almanac / ブルーアルマナック, AKA Star Odyssey (Mega Drive - 1991) cover art, manual illustrations Busin: Wizardry Alternative, AKA Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land (PS2 - 2001) chara-design, illustrations, cover art Cristopher Columbus / クリスト��ァー・コロンブス (SFC - ~1993 - canceled) illustration Culdcept II / カルドセプト セカンド (Dreamcast - 2001) card illustrations (with others) Culdcept Saga / カルドセプト サーガ (Xbox 360 - 2006) card illustrations (with others) Dual Heroes / デュアルヒーローズ (N64 - 1997) character illustrations, in-game illustration, "Virtual Gamer Design" Fate/Apocrypha / フェイト/アポクリファ (cancelled MMO - year unknown but the project was covered by a book published in June 2011) chara-design for 2 characters (Berserker and Lancer) Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, AKA Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest / ファイナルファンタジーUSA ミスティッククエスト (SNES - 1992) manual illustrations (North American version) Final Fantasy XI / ファイナルファンタジーXI (PS2, PC - 2005) promotional illustration featured on postcards available at the FFXI Summer Carnival 2005. Final Fantasy XI Tsuika scenario "Ishi no Miru Yume" / ファイナルファンタジーXI追加シナリオ 『石の見る夢』, AKA Final Fantasy XI Additional scenario: A Crystalline Prophecy (PS2, PC, Xbox 360 - 2009) illustration Galak-Z: The Dimensional (Windows, Mac, Linux - 2015) enemy-designs (with others) Kengō 2 / 剣豪2 (PS2 - 2002) cover art, illustrations, chara-design Kitakata Kenzou Sangokushi / 北方謙三 三国志 (PS2 - 2001) Cover art, illustrations Knights Contract / ナイツコントラクト (PS3, Xbox 360 - 2011) promotional illustration La-Mulana EX (PS Vita - 2014) Illustration Lord of Vermilion / ロード・オブ・ヴァーミリオン (Arcade - 2008) card illustration x1 Maten Densetsu: Senritsu no Ooparts / 魔天伝説 戦慄のオーパーツ (SFC - 1995) chara design, illustrations, cover art Nanatama: Chronicle of Dungeon Maker / 七魂 クロニクルオブダンジョンメーカー (PSP - 2009) cover art, illustrations, chara design Onimusha Soul / 鬼武者Soul (browser game - 2012) chara-design (Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Shingen) Prince of Persia / プリンスオブペルシャ (SFC - 1992) cover art Ryūteki go sennen: Dragons of China / 龍的五千年 Dragons of China (Saturn - 1997) Chara-design Sangokushi Taisen / 三国志大戦 (Arcade - 2005) card illustration x1 (EX005 Zhang Liao) Seifū no Kyōshikyoku: The Rhapsody of Zephyr / 西風の狂詩曲 (Windows - 1999) cover art Sengoku Efuda Yūgi Hototogisu Ran / 戦国絵札遊戯 不如帰 -HOTOTOGISU- 乱 (PSP - 2008) card illustrations (with others) Sengoku Efuda Yūgi Hototogisu Tairan / 戦国絵札遊戯 不如帰 -HOTOTOGISU- 大乱 (PSP - 2010) card illustrations (with others) Sengoku IXA / 戦国IXA (browser game - 2010) Simple 2000 series Ultimate Vol. 12: Street Golfer / SIMPLE2000シリーズ アルティメット Vol.12 ストリートゴルファー (PS2 - 2003) illustrations, chara-design Sol Divide / ソルディバイド (Arcade - 1997) illustrations, chara design Sorcerian System Scenario Vol. 2: Sengoku Sorcerian / 戦国ソーサリアン (PC-88 - 1988) cover art, illustrations Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Early Collection / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 アーリーコレクション (PS1 - 1999) cover art, illustrations, chara-design Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Ghost of the Dusk (3DS - 2017) cover art Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Innocent Black / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 Innocent Black (PS2 - 2002) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Kiken na Futari Kōhen / 探偵神宮寺三郎 危険な二人 後編 (FDS - 1989) cover art, illustrations, chara-design Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Kiken na Futari Zenpen / 探偵神宮寺三郎 危険な二人 前編 (FDS - 1988) cover art, illustrations, chara-design Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Kind of Blue / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 Kind of Blue (PS2 - 2004) original chara-design, illustrations Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Mikan no Rupo / 探偵神宮寺三郎 未完のルポ (PS1, Saturn - 1996) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Shinjuku Chūō Kōen Satsujin Jiken / 探偵神宮寺三郎 新宿中央公園殺人事件 (FDS - 1987) cover art, illustrations, chara-design? Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni... / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 時の過ぎゆくままに… (Famicom - 1990) illustration, original art Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Tomoshibi ga Kienu Ma ni / 探偵神宮寺三郎 灯火が消えぬ間に(PS1 - 1999) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Yokohama-kō Renzoku Satsujin Jiken / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 横浜港 連続殺人事件 (Famicom - 1988) cover art, illustrations, chara-design Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Yume no Owari ni / 探偵神宮寺三郎 夢の終わりに (PS1, Saturn - 1998) Tekken 5 / 鉄拳5 (PS2 - 2005) extra costume designs x3 (Ling Xiaoyu, Raven, Ganryu) Tekken Tag Tournament 2 / 鉄拳タッグトーナメント2 (PS3, Xbox 360 - 2012) extra costume design (Kunimitsu) Virtua Fighter / バーチャファイター (Arcade - 1993) illustration Virtua Fighter 2 / バーチャファイター2 (Arcade - 1994) illustrations (later reused for Virtua Fighter Remix) Virtua Fighter Remix / バーチャファイターRemix (Saturn - 1995) cover art + an untitled unreleased game for which he designed the characters

To be confirmed: Lunatic Dawn / ルナテックドーン (illustration featured in Zenbu, probably a fanart) Marvel Trading Card Game (DS, Windows, PSP - 2007) maybe the game reuses pre-existent illustrations Optical Axis / オプティカル アクシス (line art dated 1992, not sure if it's a game)

I don't know if Terada has worked on the Tantei Jingūji Saburō series since the PS2 episodes, apart from the recent 3DS game for which he created the main illustration. Of course, since he designed the main characters of the series, he is probably credited in some if not all of these games. Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Akai Chō / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 赤い蝶 (DS - 2010) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Fukushuu no Rinne / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 復讐の輪舞 (3DS - 2012) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Fuserareta Shinjitsu / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 伏せられた真実 (DS - 2009) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Hai to Diamond / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 ～灰とダイヤモンド～  (PSP - 2009) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Inishie no Kioku / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 いにしえの記憶 (DS - 2007) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Kienai Kokoro / 探偵 神宮寺三郎 きえないこころ (DS - 2008) Tantei Jingūji Saburō - Shiroi Kage no Shōjo / 探偵神宮寺三郎 白い影の少女 (GBA - 2005)

Other video game related works: Note: One of his Alteil illustrations is featured on the cover of the book Alteil～神々の世界『ラヴァート』年代記 オフィシャルガイド.

Arc System Works 25 Shūnen Kinen Kōshiki Character Collection / アークシステムワークス25周年記念 公式キャラクターコレクション (artbook - 2013) guest illustration Assassin's Creed art Exhibition (exhibition - 2011) illustration Dragon Quest 25th anniversary (2012) illustration Fire Emblem : The complete / ファイアーエムブレム ザ・コンプリート (artbook - 1996) guest illustration Gunbird / ガンバード () guest illustration featured in the artbook Psikyo Illustrations KG Sengoku TURbuhā / KG 戦国TURぶはあ (book related to the Dreamcast game Sengoku Turb) illustration(s) Sengoku Blade / 戦国ブレード () guest illustration featured in the artbook Psikyo Illustrations The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Nintendo Player's Guide (Guide book - 1992) illustrations The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening - Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater (Guide book - 1994) illustrations for Zelda 1, 2 ALTTP and Link's Awakening The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening - Nintendo Player's Guide (Guide book - 1993) illustrations for Zelda 1, 2 and Link's Awakening Virtua Fighter 2 Ten Stories / バーチャファイター2 テンストーリーズ (comics - 1997)

Nintendo Power contributions: #1 July-August 1988 - Gauntlet #3 November-Decermber 1988 - Ultima #5 March-April 1989 - The Adventures of Bayou Billy (to be confirmed. Terada is not credited but the illustration has his distinctive art style) #6 May-June 1989 - Dragon Warrior #7 July-August 1989 - Dragon Warrior #8 September-October 1989 - Dragon Warrior #9 November-December - Dragon Warrior (Nintendo Power Strategy Guide) #12 May-June 1990 - Crystalis #12 May-June 1990 - Ninja Gaiden II #15 July-August - Ninja Gaiden II (Nintendo Power Strategy Guide) #16 September-October 1990 - Dragon Warrior II #18 November-December 1990 - Castlevania III 1 #19 4 Player Extra - Gauntlet II #21 February 1991- Ultima Quest of the Avatar #23 April 1991 - Sword Master #27 August 1991 - Dragon Warrior III #30 November 1991 - Final Fantasy II #31 December 1991 - Actraiser #33 February 1992 - Ys III #38 July 1992 - Magic Sword #39 August 1992 - Contra Force #41 October 1992 - Double Dragon 3 #45 March 1993 - Zen #46 April 1993 - Dragon Warrior IV #47 May 1993 - Koei #52 September 1993 - Final Fantasy Legend III #54 November 1993 - Ultima Runes of Virtue II #59 April 1994 - X-Kaliber 2097 #62 July 1994 - Secret of Mana #63 August 1994 - Secret of Mana #64 September 1994 - Secret of Mana #65 October 1994 - Illusion of Gaia

Sources: Falcom Chronicle (Sorcerian, Seifū no Kyōshikyoku) Fate/complete material IV Extra material (Fate/Apocrypha) Psikyo Illustrations - Psi (Battle K-Road, Sol Divide, Sengoku Blade, Gunbird) Rakugaking (Prince of Persia, Nintendo Power, Tantei Jingūji Saburō, Prince of Persia) (p12, 18, 322, 357, 449-451, 496, 850) Koko 10-nen / ココ10年 (Street Golfer, Knights Contract, Sengoku Efuda Yūgi Hototogisu Ran, Assassin's Creed, etc.) Virtua Fighter Maniax Zenbu (Nintendo Power, Dragon Warrior Strategy Guide, Blue Almanac, Dual Heroes, Sol Divide, Bishin Densetsu Zoku, Battle K-Road, Tantei Jingūji Saburō, 1 untitled game, Prince of Persia) Alteil: https://login.alteil.jp/al2CardDB/list.php Busin http://i.mtime.com/tmdmlgb/blog/3439230/ Culdcept series: http://www.culdceptcentral.com/index.php Final Fantasy XI: https://www.famitsu.com/pcent/news/1220014_1341.html http://elemen.jp/ff11/contents/goods/etc.html Galak-Z https://twitter.com/17_BIT/status/834692786096058368 Kengō 2 http://www.genki.co.jp/game/ps2/kengo2/02.php Kitakata Kenzou Sangokushi: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20010615/mfac.htm Mirai Ninja by Katsuya Terada https://twitter.com/Yoshi6054/status/609579957988098049 Sangokushi Taisen http://gr.qee.jp/02_st/st2/ex/ex05.html Sengoku Efuda Yūgi Hototogisu Ran http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20081010/irem.htm Sengoku Efuda Yūgi Hototogisu Tairan http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/271/271180/ Sengoku Ixa http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/384590.html Tekken 5 http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20050318/tk5.htm