Thousands of years ago, there was a child who had immense psychic powers strong enough to shift reality, but was incredibly lonely with nobody like them to play with. They wreaked chaos across the land until the planet was near ravaged, causing the ruler to seal them away in a tomb for thousands of years, never aging until they once again broke free.
This is the main antagonist Yugi of the Toonami classic Tenchi in Tokyo, a character of which is the inspiration behind Eda, and now plenty of reason to believe the influence for The Collector.
I haven't watched the full anime myself, but I've seen enough and done enough research to know this is far beyond coincidence. I highly suggest looking up some clips online because it truly is uncanny.
The characters share the same backstory, the same motivation (wishing to create a world of their own in which to play), the same power set, express the same fears of doubting whether others are true friends or not and being all alone, and have similar relationships.
The Collector has King, whereas Yugi (the girl in question) has Sasami. Yugi tries to convince Sasami to come with her to create a world made for just the two of them, where they can play forever without anyone's interference. Sasami says they are just children, and wants to see her family and friends again. Yugi attempts to kidnap her and force her to comply for her own good, until Sasami tells her off and wonders how she could be so cruel. Yugi laments that true friends are fake, but lets Sasami go and retrwats (before she is promptly talked down and invited into the family, if she can learn to trust them).
Yugi's solution to her own overwhelming power is to be put into some kind of cryosleep chamber so she can age appropriately and reunite with everyone in some years' time. Sasami visits every night to tell a bedtime story about her day went.
Another interesting fact is that Yugi and the Empress who imprisoned her were once basically family, which is something speculated upon a lot within the fandom.
All of that to say, I could see a similar ending taking place in the Owl House given how alike the plots are already. There is also some intrigue in the way Yugi splits her personality, literally creating a more vengeful side driving destruction, and a friendly side she uses to play with Sasami. There's lots of theories that The Collector has split sides to themselves, and it will be interesting to see if that makes it to canon.
I just finished watching Scavengers Reign last night and what a fucking show. The most alien alien world I've ever seen in anything, but with a clear internal logic where everything fits together and feels like a real ecosystem. It's wonderful and beautiful and also contains every kind of body horror you can imagine and especially every kind of body horror you can't imagine.
It feels kind of funny to say this, but if I had to compare it to something, it actually feels very much to me like a grown-up version of Hilda.
Hilda is a show about a fantastical version of nature. People have a lot of superstitions about the various creatures and forces that Hilda encounters. Many of them are seen as pests to be scared off or dangerous monsters to be killed. But, whenever Hilda interacts with them, we come to realize that every creature in that show is either 1) just a different kind of people, or 2) just weird magical animals. That crucially doesn't mean none of them can be dangerous or that you don't need to be careful, but just that everything can be understood if you take the time, and most of it you can even make friends with!
Of course that's a pretty optimistic, kid's show friendly view of things. It's a very sweet show and a big part of the appeal is seeing Hilda befriend all kinds of strange things.
Scavengers Reign is a show full of horrors. It's an alien world with an alien ecosystem that humans just don't fit into. The show doesn't shy away from the fact that these creatures prey on each other. They parasitize each other (they especially do this). They live and die and new life grows in the remains. It at times feels like a nature documentary of an alien world, showing the beautiful and disturbing reality of the lives that these creatures live.
But despite all the scary and gross and dangerous things, they're still just creatures. Animals and plants and fungi and other much harder to classify things. And like anything else they can be understood, and you can learn how to avoid them or placate them or how to cure the wounds they inflict if that happens. And you can find uses for some of them too, ways you can adapt to this ecosystem and survive in it. It's a show about symbiosis in all the gory detail that entails. About adapting and growing and becoming something new. It doesn't shy away from the danger and horror of that but it doesn't shy away from the beauty and love of it, either. And despite everything I feel like the show is full of a sense of wonder and fondness for the setting.
But ANYWAY the point is that it's a really good show with a really unique setting and a unique perspective. It completely blew me away.
[This is based on how much I feel the voices matches his character, I have no idea of how does this languages work]
Japaneese: 8/10, I like it, but it could be better. The emotions are on point, but his voice isn't his.
Spanish: 10/10. Relaxed, mature, very Holm. When he is supposed to panic, he gets annoyed/upset with Kabru, but it works well (he doesn't want to put his undine in danger).
Latin American Spanish: 6/10, sounds too "teen". I can't explain it. Somehow he sounds like he's being sarcastic all the time when he's not that kind of character. And also sounds younger. Somehow.
English: 8/10. Relaxed, wise, but not Holm enough for me.
French: 7/10. The voice sounds like he's lacking of the emotion he's showing sometimes to me. He needs to relax a bit, why he talks so fast, is it all french?
Italian: 6/10 HE SOUNDS LIKE A CHILD. He's got all of Holm right but WHY LIKE A KID.
Hindi: 10/10. Idk I loved it. He sounds like him. Perfect. He sounds the right age, calm, and when he panics he sounds like he's about to cry and I love him.
Brazilian Portuguesse: 7/10. Not old enough to me. Too energetic maybe? Possibly a language thing but idk.
Indonesian: 5/10. Sounds like a babygirl. I mean... he is, but... Sounds wrong to me.
German: 9/10. Hard time with this one. His voice doesn't match his face, but the spirit is there. Also, too young.
Thai: 10/10. I loved. He sounds just right.
Arab: 9/10. This was a close 10 but he lacks of emotion on the panic scene so...
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imagine if lust learned your language fot you, just think about how much he could use that against you and how he'd call you soft nicknames like mahal o bitwin? -from your local country hiiiii!!
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One thing I love about mutant mayhem is that Leo has a crush on an April who’s not conventionally attractive. It almost feels like, because of the turtles’ isolated upbringing* he hasn’t been influenced by the popular western beauty ideals and just thinks this ordinary human is beautiful! And I think that’s really cool! Because she is!
*though they’ve clearly been exposed to celebrities and other pop culture so ?? idk lol
the worst part of living in the north east for the better part of my life is that i speak almost exactly in the local dialogue but still with my shitty american accent. fag and poof just means a smoke!!! im not homophobic im nicotine dependent!!! please just give me a cig!!!!
This is sooo highly specific, but I saw the first episode of season 2 of House of the Dragon two times by now and every time I hear Cregan Stark speaking my Skyrim infested brain goes KAIDAN????!!!!!
this came out around the same time as Liam Gallagher's first solo album, so it really is an utter coincidence, but the melody line, the distribution of lyrics over the instrumentation, and even the vocal delivery, sounds almost exactly like Liam's solo work