#gate keepers

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Gate Keepers

©️ Kadokawa Shoten 1998

Image sourced from psxdatacenter.com

[oldinterneticons]

[satoshi-mochida]

Playthrough of the Gate Keepers PS1 SRPG(Part 2/Final).

Years ago, back when G4/Tech TV was still around(the original one), they used to air anime late at night, one being Gate Keepers 21, and I later found out it was a sequel series to Gate Keepers, which started as and was adapted from this PS1 game. 

The story is set in 1969, a period of time in which Japan is experiencing intense economic and social development after the end of World War II in 1945. Unbeknownst to humans, alien/interdimensional beings have emerged with plans to take over the world by sending numerous agents to wreak havoc in cities, turning people into robotic minions. They are referred to as "Invaders".

In an attempt to confront the Invaders and defend the planet, an elite but highly secret organization of peace-keepers called the Alien Exterminating Global Intercept System (more commonly known as A.E.G.I.S.), was set up with special funding from the government. They rely on the ability of "Gate Keepers", who have the power to open dimensional "gates" of a paranormal energy that give them their superpowers. These superpowers are the only weapons that have any effect on Invaders.

Although A.E.G.I.S. has branches around the world, the series focuses on the Far East division in Japan. The headquarters of the Far East branch of A.E.G.I.S. lies beneath Tategami High School, a facade created by the organization to mask the active recruitment of new Gate Keepers. Since many of the candidates were High School students, the location allowed the agents to be enrolled in school and be available for a mission at a moment's notice.

It seems the two share similar stories, though some characters are replaced or not included at all in the anime.

There doesn’t seem to be a fan translation for this, unfortunately.

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It’s been well documented (and you’ve probably experienced the same) that we live in a now culture, where we not only desire instant gratification but become upset if we have to wait. This idea can extend to God, whom we treat as our servant or a genie, becoming little Umaru-chans, expecting our desires to be fulfilled this instant. Scripture expresses, however, that waiting on the Lord is wise, and failing to do so may lead to calamity. Join Mike this week as he shares these thoughts and much more on episode nine of The Power of God and Anime podcast!

Anime Trivia!

In the anime Gate Keepers, Ruriko Ikusawa has the ability to heal using her gate. What is her gate called?

Podcast Notes

Today’s episode was brought to you by Goddess Aqua’s Herbal Tea!

Mike is headed to watch My Hero Academia: You’re Next tomorrow! Are you planning to watch the movie, too?

Nickel City Comic Con‘s fall edition is this weekend. If you’re attending, you might run into Mike!

In today’s Songs That Tell the Story, Mike sings “While I Wait” by Lincoln Brewster.

Bible verses we mentioned or that inspired discussion in this episode include Psalms 27:14, I Samuel 13:8-9, and Romans 4:18-20.

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Featuring copyright-free music (license code 9OFBY6IDSRWODYKF) from Uppbeat (“Funk Tank by Soudnroll), and edited by Dennis.

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UGH SOMEBODY SEDATE ME

[kucukbiroyku]

[geezerwench]

Anon, you be you and you do you. AO3 has room and plenty of it. I find it interesting that AO3 doesn't ask what your ethnicity / race / nationality / religion / political party / high school graduate / degree holder / otp / notp / fandom(s) / favorite color is before allowing you, me, us to post our stories.

But who does? People who bully and censor and try to gatekeep.

Good on you for rewriting and planning on putting your story back up.

I'd do it just to piss people off.

Something that's always stuck with me is Stitch's followers dogpiling me for writing a Jewish Star Wars AU. Basically it was an AU where Finn was space Moses, the last of a noble Force-sensitive family who made sure he survived the destruction of their planet, and when his Force abilities awakened he went on to fight to free the other Stormtroopers. Stitch didn't like that I went in a Finn/Hux direction wherein Hux was a double agent embedded deep in the First Order, sabotaging it from the inside.

I was called a Nazi. I'm Jewish. I was called anti-black. I'm Beta Israeli, black and Ethiopian-American and proud. I was called a Pick Me POC, I was sent pictures of starving Ethiopian children, I was sent Holocaust pictures, people flooded my comments on AO3 - this was before it had a block feature - and even after I deleted my tumblr the hate bled over onto my other social media accounts. I was called slurs, I was told I should've starved to death, people told me my "Jew money" wouldn't buy off people this time, and I got hit by enough people calling me a monster, a bad person, etc. that I took the story down just to escape them.

Stitch only mentioned me once. Just once.

I think the real issue they have with AO3 is that at any point you can be blocked, comments can be turned off, people can find themselves unable to keep clawing at you again and again. You can make it so they have to be logged in to send their threats and then you can report them. They can dogpile "bad" fans all they want, but there are consequences for their actions. I was 14 then and easily intimidated. Many people on AO3 are not either of those things. You can't harass them off their own platform. And when you try, you end up being booted off of it instead.

The real reason Stitch doesn't like AO3 is that it's designed to protect authors, including "Pick Me POC" and "POC TOO" (get it, it's funny because it's like #MeToo, Stitch is oh so hilarious). It protects those of us who are neither white nor onboard with all of Stitch's opinions and, more broadly, not onboard with purity culture, respectability politics and people's demands that you change your content to match their idea of what a respectable fictional story looks like.

This is not about racism. It's about kicking people who are "wrong" aka write anything they don't like off of AO3 for pure, morally good, self-righteous reasons that they tell themselves make them not the bullies here. It's about control. They want you to do what they want or leave.

I've been rewriting my old fic and I'm planning on putting it back up sometime this year.

No, antis, you don't get to bully black people off of AO3 and call yourselves anti-racist and act like you're moral guardians. To be a moral guardian, you'd need some morals. If you don't like the site's policies, get off of it. I am entitled to my space on AO3 just as much as anyone else. I am not Less Than, and the fact that my own people were the ones telling me I was has permanently made me suspicious of alleged anti-racism campaigns in fandom. I know who these people are when they know there won't be consequences for their actions and they're not people I'd trust to run a bake sale, let alone a fandom archive.

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Yikes! That's quite an experience for a 14-year-old!

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They hit her with a frying pan :(

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casual conversation between merman and lighthouse keeper totally not falling for one another 🌊 yes, I have a little MerMay AU going on for my Tav, Úna and Gale 🌊

[purichou]

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i just think Paige needs to learn how to share

[csphire]

If you're the type to go out of your way to shit on someone's else's Tav or Durge's looks or say they shouldn't be with a particular companion because of how they look odd together-basically policing someone else's game and enjoyment of it in the fandom-kindly fuck off and feel free to block me too.

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that adam guy or whatever

[adraveins]

following Shovel's advice to get past the mirror, and the correct answer is also the one that is most true for Wyll..... how you don't have to pass a check to convince him to use the tadpoles' abilities, you just have to wait for the second dream and let him talk himself into it..... 'you seek to survive' comes before 'you seek power'... characters who are so devastatingly good but still hunger for power regardless because power is control and survival in a senseless chaotic existence..... Wyll's frustration with his father for compromising with the worst of the city, and his inability to follow in his father's footsteps, and yet! he follows in those footsteps all the same, in his own way. and so on and so forth. you understand

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