#destiny tag

[glassedplanets]

Can you do it, Drifter? Can you make the Man with the Golden Gun the villain in the eyes of those who would tempt the Dark?

redraw!

[oakstar519]

working title: may i offer you a nice egg in these trying times?

[prophecydungeon]

played through the opening bits of heresy and idk if we're comin back from this one lads gender neutral

even if i wasn't a drifter/eris hater..... man, eris getting schrodinger's-fridged for drifter manpain is a BATSHIT thing to put in a seasonal storyline. in a SEASONAL storyline. because either she schrodinger's-survives this season, throne world, blah blah blah, and none of the shit-tier angst mattered at any point except for Manpain, or she doesn't survive, and they've killed off another character in a seasonal storyline in a tremendously stupid way For Manpain. it's fucking rough out here. where's the woman who survived for years on the moon. where's the woman who faced down all three of the hive gods without flinching. This Is Not My Beautiful Wife. at this point i think i don't even really care how they "fix" this (ouuuouuouooohhh throne world! she was fine the whole time!) because the people directing this story are clearly making it their M.O. to dispose of one character to cause another Certified CW TV Show Tier Manpain. not even the vindication of oryx being back is saving this one for me rn. why did i have to listen to the guy we all know is down for cannibalism crying over a dead woman who got got in the stupidest way.

[gomagopowerrangers]

DESTINY RISING CLOSED ALPHA STARTS IN 48 MINUTES HARAGAHHARAGAGAHAA/pos

[jaycestaliss]

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[turnaboutstar]

THE TRIPS TO EUROPE TO SEE EDGEWORTH ARE ACTUALLY CANON????? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A RANDOM THING PEOPLE HEADCANONED

[m3llowm1sh]

currently in the middle of playing thru dual destinies and then i got to this line and immediately dropped everything to doodle this really quickly

[spacedebris1993]

@knightposting

Inevitable. Inimitable. Who else but her? What else but this? I started this weeks ago and finally got around to finishing it tonight. Having a very good time with the new season. obligatory aiat aiat aiat

[aslyran]

Visions

[alfheimr]

you feel real to me.

[ninthriven]

Micah-10 & Mihaylova

[oakstar519]

made an actually-half-decent doodle on my econ notes, decided to turn it into a very disappointed ghost

[destiny-islanders]

i get it now

[trialsofsaint14]

motel keychain designs I've drawn and made over the years

[jaycestaliss]

💐🌷spread the love to the people you’re glad you’ve found in this corner of the internet 💐

thank you destiny 💖💖💖

[ladyloveandjustice]

Okay, so ZENSHU is a new anime that FINALLY does something actually cool and meta with the isekai concept, following an animator named Natsuko who get's isekai'd into her favorite flop anime movie, which is destined to end in total tragedy for all the characters. She discovers she can do a magical girl sequence and animate something that will save the day (like the God Warrior from Nausicaa) in exchange for having to sleep however long it would have taken her to animate IRL (three days, usually). She starts saving the characters and and starts changing the narrative that way

This leads to possibly the best character arc of all time, where she meets the hero's love interest and the movie's quintessential damsel in distress, who is destined to get in trouble all the time and fridged at the end of the movie. (Her name is Destiny that's how destined she is).

...Only then Natsuko animates a cerval cat pro-wrestler to save the day, and Destiny is SO ENAMORED by it all she decides to get INCREDIBLY RIPPED and become a prowrestler herself, leaving her destiny as a love interest behind, her skimpy fanservice outfit transforming into a skimpy cerval cat pro wrestler outfit. She and Natsuko become friends, and she breaks off from this hero to forge her own path.

The story also kind of playfully interrogates how Destiny was underdeveloped and granted no agency by the narrative. She mentions having no friends and being lonely. She's notably awestruck when Natsuko says she's going to live and dress however she wants (in response to her baggy sweatshirt and cousin It hair being mocked):

And when she chooses to embrace her pro wrestling love, she echoes these words.

Destiny has this whole thing going where she's nobly forcing herself to marry this gross guy to open this orphanage, and Natsuko points out to her that this subplot makes no sense because she could just open the orphanage herself:

The narrative always framed it like Destiny couldn't do anything on her own, so it doesn't even occur to anyone until Natsuko brings it up. But once she realizes it, Destiny does decide to live how she wants and open that damn orphanage herself.

The show could have just had Natsuko hate Destiny (since she clearly also likes the Hero) or made fun of her and treated her as useless and awful, but instead it's made clear she IS a very sweet person, she makes friends with Natsuko, the show treats it as a thought experiment on "what if the classic Damsel in Distress fated to be Fridged learned she had agency and developed her own interests with the help of another woman?" It's a really light hearted take on the subject, but that's what makes it so fun.

Anyway ZENSHU is really good stuff so far, one of the few modern isekai that has rights, and finally one that plays with classic tropes in an actually interesting way. The director and screenwriter, Mitsue Yamazaki and Kimiko Ueno, are some cool ladies who've previously worked together on one of my faves, the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun anime, and their talent really shows here.