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#bwark#pkmn leaks#can we stop labelling a bunch of devs as terrible for literally just writing mythology that didn't even make it inti the game and wasn't#supposed to be seen by the public#esp the people naming and shaming the person who wrote them like jesus christ there's literal doxxing going on rn can we be mature#and like i said last night we have our own fair share of fucked up fairy tales and folklore in the west#so this discussion is giving the vibes of ''anime is uniquely perverted unlike our pure and innocent western animation''#like why are we singling out japanese mythology here lmao#ofc you're allowed to be uncomfortable with the leaks. i am and im definitely glad they were scrapped. but can we also be mature about it#it literally is not as big or horrible on gamefreak's end as people are making it out to be#it was scrapped for a reason. it was too much for this video game for children. can we move on or are people gonna make the same unfunny#joke about it#ask to tag?
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let her go
#homestuck#vriska serket#terezi pyrope#vriska#terezi#vrisrezi#mic_art#screencap redraw of that one utena scene woohoo#vrisrezi and utenanthy dont share many similarities but there are some interesting parallels that can be drawn#like theyre all characters who are devoted to the respective roles they think they have#utena needs to be a prince and vriska needs to be a hero#terezi needs to cast vriska as the villain so that she can be the one to bring her to justice while anthy#is resigned to her role as the rose bride and is cast as a witch by others (and herself in a way...) to justify her suffering#im too tired to put into words all the other shit rattlign around in my brain but something something vriska society violence princes utena#something interesting to note is that in the rgu stabbing scene utena is walking to the left while is hs vriskas walking to the right#which i think is mostly a cultural difference due to english being read left to right while japanese is read right to left#changing which direction is percieved as forward#which could be read further into but could also just be the natural flow of the scene or whateevr#idk i need to peruse ohtori.nu again i looooove reading utena essays
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SAILOR MOON S: Episode 18 - 「芸術は愛の爆発!ちびうさの初恋」
#animeedit#sailor moon#sailormoonedit#oldanimeedit#harumichi#haruka x michiru#smedit#wlwedit#haruka tenoh#kaioh michiru#ep 107#bssm#bssmedit#pretty guardian sailor moon#bishojo senshi sailor moon#sailor neptune#sailor uranus#michiru kaioh#tenoh haruka#HI YES THIS BLOG IS ALIVE im trying to juggle trying to make gifs for this sideblog and the other fandom one lol#i had to change some of the translation bc the context was slightly wrong...#japanese is such a hard language to translate into english sometimes#also coloring anime is so difficult sometimes im really not used to it#especially old anime haha
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she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh
#one piece#trans!sanji#sanji#kiku#yamato#ワンピース#I'm practicing my japanese shhhhhh#(日本語のペラペラ人:俺は文法とか書く方とか間違ったら教えてください😅ありがとうございます)#translation:#Yamato: I'll be able to get as strong as Oden?#Sanji: Probably... 🤔#[meanwhile Kiku is remembering the time in the hot spring]#(Sanji: Nami-chan!!!)#(Nami: Shut up!! The women's bath is supposed to be a peaceful place!)#Kiku: I am also ⚧️ ... o.o#(y'all english speakers had me all to yourselves for a decade it's about time I start to also sometimes make stuff in my next language lol#notably for media *from* that language#same as it made sense to make fan content in english for [american superhero franchise we don't talk abt anymore] back in the day#(happy seasonal reminder that Ren Is Not A Native English Speaker and This Is My 5th Language hi 😅))#while looking up reference for this I learnt that the straps to tie back the kimono sleeves are called tasuki#also I decided yamato get big muscles cause he got them kaido genes in im (I also gave him his dad's young-man-facial hair)#the more I do transition projections for one piece characters while tryna adhere to the style the more I learn that sometimes stylisation#uses bones less as literal determinants for where things go and just kinda exaggerates shapes based on vibes alone instead#meaning trans characters' bones wouldn't literally stay looking the same in that stylisation in the way they do irl#they'd get exaggerated differently based on what the surrounding stuff is doing#I still think oda's transition demonstration when we first met iva was unreasonable even with that in mind tho
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Lapin the thuuurddd boom boom lapin the thiiiirrrdddd
#yea i started drawing them as furries#yea lupin is a bunnie because lapin and also because hes basically bugs bunny#yea zenigata is an akita . obvious reasons#yea jigen is a wolf and fujiko is a pedigree kittie and i cant decide on goemon#someone on twitter drew him as a japanese weasel and that makes sense but i still wanna think of my own idea#im kind of leaning towards something that swims like an otter. because reasons#who woulda thunk the furry would start drawing his favs as anthro animals. wrow#my art tag#lupin III#lupin the third#inspector zenigata#jigen daisuke#fujiko mine
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i mean he's got all the outfits now might as well show them off
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jjk atla!au with @philosophiums
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#itadori yuuji#yuuji#fanart#jjk fanart#jjk atla!au#atla!au: art#atla!au: illust#lmhs#listen . i would have done cool action poses for all 4 elements i had every intention to do all of them on one page#but there just..... arent any good kicky airbending stances i scoured high and low :((((#2 be fair i mean waterbending ws also tricky to make Leg-centric but i had a vision so i think i made it work :>#but by the time i got to air i got tired ! i gave up ! sue me !#everything is handstands and arm motions smh dont they know i have an Agenda. didnt they read the lore scroll.#im sending a strongly worded email as we speak#plus yuuji doesnt like airbending so when u rly think abt it im doing it for him <3#i think this pose is more in character than him using his airbending in combat#sorry 2 airbender yuuji enjoyers ! i do not like drawing him in the outfit !#the air acolyte robes only look good on toge and yuuta change my mind . u cant i will die on this hill#anyway earth and water r fine buut him firebending looked cooler in the sketch . th outfit looks better from the front but what can u do :/#also i wld like 2 thank those japanese pose catalogues of schoolgirls doing martial arts and Also the cinderace pyro ball swsh animation <3
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So yeah, 'Ranma 0.5' or something like that..
#im so happy its getting a remake!!!#i know im like more than a week late but sorry i was busy#and yes this is redraw the artblock sadly hasnt left me :'(#ANYWAYS RANMA!!!!#one of the series of all time fr#ranma 1/2#ranma saotome#akane tendo#ryoga hibiki#p chan#shan pu#«i like this spelling better than shampoo idk its far punny and fun that actually spelling out the pun#also thats how its actually spelled in the japanese ver of the manga#musu#«same goes for him too#ill only be using these spellings while tagging my own posts though since 'shampoo' and 'mousse' are the most popular spellings#and it would seem kinda out of place lol#my art#yucaillusts#god i love them sm#also if you want try to see if you can figure out which art this is a redraw of ;)
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hes a japanese mexican i dont make the rules
#my art#bnha#boku no hero academia#my hero academia#eraserhead#aizawa shouta#bnha eraserhead#hes a japanese mexican bc i am & he is my favorite BYYEEEE#never bothered keeping up with the manga since it sucked but id look at leaks to see if my man was up to anything interesting … but alas#also im always like 🤨 when ppl say he suckin on applejuice pouches like thats just IN brand vitamin pouches !!!
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25 Ji, Akasaka de (2024) I 1.04 "Wanna rehearse our kiss scene?"
#at 25:00 in akasaka#25 ji akasaka de#jdrama#jdramasource#uservix#userfaiza#userrobin#usersugar#userrlaura#asiandramasource#asiandramaedit#moonlightsdream#userlera#userharu#bl series#japanese bl#niihara taisuke#yuki shirasaki#nagumo shoma#kazuma yamase#when nagumo shoma pulled that face in the third gif i knew I was gonna be fucked up after this scene#he does the pining look so well - that's an ACTOR right there#didn't see it coming that they were gonna have the first kiss in this show so they got me ngl#also please tell me that kazuma is gonna get a love interest of his own - im begging on my hands and knees!!!!!!!!!!!!#and they kinda ate this kiss scene imma be honest#mywork
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i knwo a lot of people like the aos cadet and dress uniforms but i do Not and am actively trying to think up alternatives…… with tos kirk though lmao sorry
#anyways. tos kirk thiugh#ive never tried to draw this man younger until now. hm#star trek#captain kirk#james t kirk#also the into darkness grey ones theyre actually way worse than 2009#like if we’re gonna stick with modern/current common cuts why not at least do something a little more different with the paneling or#color blocking or whatever#theres a tiny bit of interest w the paneling but over all just looks like if you took a japanese school uniform and westernized it and#made it worse#the all red is fun though ill give it that#the grey ones from into darkness have absolutely nothing going for them though#anyways of course costuming will always depend on the time period that it is made. but it looks sooo 2010 i mean this in a bad way#also whatever fabric was chosen for ghe red ones pisses me off idk#anyways i dunno anything about fashion. im just drawing things
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Me 2 years ago: i love the bonds the demigods share with each other & some with Radagon/Godfrey/Rennala, but it’s kinda sad no one seems to be particularly insane about Marika :(
Fromsoft pre-heating Messmer in the oven: hey-
this image has changed the trajectory of my life
like, it might not be apparent before but i've never been normal about Marika for one bit... so a demigod with a whole ass giant statue of her cradling a baby in his boss room (also, that's the most LOVING depiction of Marika so far in the entire game) + the first one to outright calling her Mother ?? M A N
also all the “unwanted child” thing is pure fan speculation so far. no one in canon is saying he's unwanted. yes he carries all the symbols that are against the Erdtree but have you considered ...... they are trophies ....... of all the forces he had slayed to protect his Mother ...... how about that .........
EDIT to add that the throne he’s sitting on in the poster is actually also in the boss room, it’s just tiny af against the gigantic Marika statue behind it.
What’s his deal that is so insane … just a lil guy chilling in front of a colossal statue of his mom cradling baby him
#the weapon that the fire giants were impaled with bear resemblances to his spear... *stare*#not them microwaving Marika's “mom's best boi” for 2 years#like at first i still wasn't sure if his mom is really Marika#but that twitter user doing god's work and just expose da statue in his boss room aksfkajf#also in Japanese interview Miyazaki outright said he's “Marika's child” like hell IM NOT NORMAL#er brainrot
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.He knows just what it takes to make a pro blush.
#jackie welles#cyberpunk 2077#street kid v#male v#valentinos#gianluca vargas#.im playing with Portuguese(?) language on so it's a whole new experience and i love the VA.#.also tumblr makes these look like dogshit quality man smh makes me mad.#.its weird tho bc with like takemura his voicelines where he speaks japanese(?) are still the same but the rest is not so idk.
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"I like Akechi-kun!"
For a fic my friend is writing~
#persona 5#p5#shuake#akira kurusu#goro akechi#ive literally never seen any part of this game thats not shuake#im just a p5 fan by proxy#so please do not come after me thank you dsjlfdsf#also ignore how i did not bother finding a japanese onomatopoeia for the first panel lol
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Ganbare, Todoroki-kun!!
tribute to an old fav and excuse to draw the deku laugh for tododekuweek day 4: crossover! no filter & og 'Ganbare Nakamura-kun!!' cover ->
#attempted that 90s anime filter that was all the rage 2 yrs ago but idk i dont think i did it right lol hence the no filter version#this is half of a set with an ochoizu version btw! -which will be done..... at some point#tododeku#tododekuweek#shouto todoroki#izuku midoriya#todoroki shouto#midoriya izuku#shoto todoroki#boku no hero academia#my hero academia#bnha fanart#mha fanart#izutodo#ganbare nakamura kun#im sure someone already did this years ago but idc lol#do y'all remember when this was a drawing trend? loved that. love this series- truly fundamental shounen-ai#also lets all ignore my sloppy kanji <3 my bad handwriting extends to japanese i fear :/#olly art#bnha art#tddk
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Sigh…
#jujutsu kaisen#anime fans will never not be weird about japan lmfao#like a lot of the stuff these ppl be going on about aren’t specific to Japan at all#it’s usually just basic morals and understandings you’d hope that most ppl would have like#rambling#‘did you know that the Japanese don’t feed dogs chocolate because it makes them sick :0?!’ ass shit 😭#also gege did cool he wrote one of the best characters of all time he kind of came up 😭 im not even being biased despite being a Gojo girl#gege did his thing but did he know what he was going to unless upon the world bro#gojo IS the hydrogen bomb bro
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Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise
In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.
Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.
I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!
Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.
In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:
I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."
Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.
I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.
This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.
There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:
When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!
By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.
It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:
(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)
If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.
Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:
Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:
No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol
So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.
And yet no one spots that she's female.
Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.
Let me explain.
She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.
But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:
I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."
Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.
Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.
One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:
Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)
And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:
Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.
Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol
There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:
After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.
So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.
May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.
Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."
#blue eye samurai#mizu#racism#bes#I am truly disappointed that we didnt get absolute confirmation that Taigen saw Mizus bound chest and just didnt think it was a big deal#but I still think that scene is making a point#again I dont think most people take the glasses jokes seriously#but its been bothering me ever since I first saw them#I really dont think Mizu just looks like a 100 percent Japanese person...... with blue eyes#and I bet that will be made even more obvious when she goes to London where Im sure she will meet plenty of people#who are more than happy to point out their observations to her#also I ran out of room in this post to go into it but this is also what made Mizus marriage an absolutely doomed prospect#Mikio talks about wanting to find the right creature for his lord and well... a mixed race woman is the right creature huh#he just needed a little push imo#getting kind of sad at the thought that Ringo is the only person in Mizus life who knows her whole identity AND accepts it wholly
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