#having an anime protag moment fr

[duckduckngoose]

Don't underestimate trainer battles holy shit my entire Nuzlocke team is dead except one sheep

[tonberry-yoda]

I was wondering what you first thought of every straw hat pirate when they were first introduced and some you THOUGHT would join the crew(aside from vivi) but didn’t

AHEM

Bad news, I already knew who would join the crew prior, so I knew that there would be people not joining unfortunately

But onto the fun stuff!

Luffy - I went into one piece not knowing much. I knew it was some pirate show, but I went in completely spoiler free. My dad was like, hey, you should watch one piece, so I did one day at a cute 4am! When I saw the iconic captain, Luffy, I loved him immediately. I thought he was the perfect protag who was both goofy and had a lovely goal. I knew that I wanted him to be king of the pirates from the beginning and still love him just as much!

Zoro - When I first saw Zoro, again, I was spoiler free at the time, so this was literally me: ZAMN NICE BIDDIES DUDE. And I fell in love. I thought he was the literal perfect character to go along with Luffy's more goofy personality and I thought he was great. Not only that, but I love his english VA, so I was very happy to see him playing Zoro!

Nami - I'm a sucker for a good girlboss and I am a redhead, so I always see the redhead chicks and go THAT'S ME! But no at first I HATED HER I thought her motivation only being money was so stupid and I was like, come on, this girl is gonna be annoying?! I hate that. But then when her backstory came up I was like AHHHHH NAMI ILY, so yeah, I love Nami and have nothing but respect for my girly

Sanji - Ah, my lover boy. I fell in love immediately. I thought he was a great character because I actually saw him before I watched one piece and knew he was coming up. He was my blonde silly bf and my lil cook. I loved him right off the bat, perviness and all <3

Usopp - HELLO?! THIS WAS MY IMMEDIATE BOYFRIEND. Something about the lil pathetic cuties get my attention. I mean the lying part was not my cup of tea, but seeing how much he cared for Kaya was everything and he really deserved to become a pirate. I loved him from the moment he appeared and loved his outfit!

Chopper - He's me fr. I knew about Chopper, but didn't know he was from one piece, so I was very delighted to see this little raccoon dog roll up to the party. He had a lovely backstory and seeing him run from Luffy in the beginning was literally so cute and I have nothing but so much love for him <3

Robin - Literally loved her. I didn't care that she was a bad guy at first because I knew she was gonna join the crew. I really loved Croc, and seeing a badass woman beside him willing to kick his ass to exist was everything. I just felt so bad for her though when she told Luffy to just leave her to die and really, she needed the crew so much, so I was over the moon when she joined

Franky - my boyfriend hehe. I already knew about him and I am a sucker for the big USA men in anime. I knew a lot about him minus that he was a bad guy at first and was actually pleasantly surprised when I did find out! He is such a rounded character that needs to kiss Robin rn because I love them sm. But literally I would do anything for this cola loving cyborg

Brook - the strawhat I most anticipated for tee hee. I knew EVERYTHING and I mean E V E R Y T H I N G about him before he showed up. Backstory and all. Even after timeskip stuff. I am a sucker for skeleton characters (I'm writing a book that has a character that's a skeleton) and knew I was gonna love Brook. So seeing him in the show made me all giddy and he was another who needed the crew and deserves them <3

Thanks for the ask! This one was so fun and made me super nostalgic lol <3 (I started one piece about 2 years ago and haven't made it far, but it's my comfort anime)

[cassioppenny]

sorry 2 hear youre having a bad day X_X hope u feel better soon... anyway!!! what's loki's pokemon team as champion of kanto....OR. OR are any of the milesverse protags/rivals Gamers. if so what video games do they like to play......

SO SO SORRY I TOOK SO LONG I HAD TO DO SOMETHING anyway....

LOKI'S TEAM 🔥🔥🔥

yeah it's literally just a mono psychic team lol. as they're a psychic type themselves he finds other psychic types the easiest to get along with. her espeon is his bestie kitties moment!!!

as for the gamers...

red - his family owns a snes and a gamecube. the snes is in his and green's bedroom and he plays mother 2 on it ALL THE TIME. him and green play like mario kart and meele with blue on their gamecube sometimes

green - shitty horror games officianado. she starts a lets play channel post rgby and screams at freddy fazbear

blue - his family only has an old as fuck genesis that used to be his dad's. loves sonic 3. would be absolutely devastated if he learned about sonic.exe

ethan - lies about having "real" consoles like a ps3 and xbox 360 but only has a wii and a ds. he's pokemon scott the woz in terms of games taste

kris - HUUUUGE rpg guy kingdome hearts strongest soldier. also plays rhythm games because. miku.

lyra - doom.

brendan- guitar hero

wally - rpg maker horror 100% also utdr

dawn - also loves horror shit. knows the most obscure horror schlock imaginable. probably made an eight hour video on fnaf lore

lucas - banjo kazooie collectathon platformers he MUST collect everything or he's explode

barry - sonic duh

hilbert - fighting games, battle sims, or anything competitive in general

hilda - too busy on that comp battle grind to game🔥 she does play some battle sims occasionally if the battle subway is closed or she wants to battle online

cheren - literally anything hilbert plays so he can be better at it than him

bianca - the sims and animal crossing and harvest moon and stuff like that. also rhythm games because meloetta

rosa - she likes anything she can find. her parents wouldn't let her play video games as a kid because they were "too violent" so now she happily eats up and slop she can find a rom for. loves gta just to spite her parents

nate - okay so fortnite doesn't exist yet in bw2 but. fortnite. also cod i guess. he's that type of gamer

hugh - REALLY salty fighting game player. also animal crossing

serena - she used to be a huge fan of kirby before dying 💀

calem - he's a cod kid sorry

shauna - she usually plays more casual games like rhythm games or farm/life sims but she is surprisingly really into metroid. (she has a crush on samus (gee i wonder what her taste in women is))

trevor - puzzle games and farming sims!! also collectathon platformers

tierno - ddr OBVIOUSLY he likes other rhythm games too

selene - she LOVES mario galaxy. rosalina was her childhood crush (gee i wonder what her taste in women is)

elio - he only plays REAL games for REAL MEN (proceeds to play crash bandicoot)

hau - animal crossing i think he plays games to relax and chill out

gladion - unironicly shadow the hedgehog 2005. he thinks shadow is just like him fr

lillie - her mom didn't let her play that many games when she was little but she LOVES playing mario galaxy with selene. also she plays animal crossing with selene and acerolla real

gloria - loz twilight princess. there's a funny wolf and swords of course she likes it

victor - he's a kirby fan but one of those kirby fans who INSIST that kirby is actually super dark and not for kids

hop - loz botw. him and gloria argue which zelda game is better

marnie - i think she likes cool stylistic indie stuff like rpg maker games, utdr, ect. she doesn't like overly corporate lifeless feeling games like new super mario. she really likes the world ends with you she'd think the style of that game kicks ass

bede - wii sports💀

juliana - retro games and games with retro artstyles!! she loves old shit so much she bought nso just for the retro games (she doesn't know how to emulate</3)

florian - he likes a lot of games actually!! he wants to be a game developer when he's older so he loves learning about game design and how games are made.

nemona - battle sims, fighting games, action games, ect she likes high action stuff!! she'd be a god at dmc i think

arven - he only has his childhood ds that's on life support. yes he does have cooking mama

penny - rhythm games, jrpgs, rpg maker, fighting games, ect ect she plays a LOT of stuff. also unfortunately plays gacha games. me and her are both in miku gacha hell i think

carmine and kieran - they just have their grandparents old ass wii but dead god can have the most insane round of mario kart they have ever seen

[mizuribbons]

v3 liveblogging starts now

start of prologue - end of prologue

spoilers under the cut

:readmore:

here we goooo it's startinggg

"I'm the protagonist-" false information!!! besides you aren't even better than the real protag smh my head /hj

"a classroom?" No shit Mozart or whatever I don't know classical musicians well

that's a very weird pinching noise...

HERE COMES SHUICHI!!!! HERE HE COMESSSSS

HERE HE ISSSSSSSSSSS <3

*my dumbass kissing the screen*

haha butt /j

i should honestly be bonked for obsessing too much over a fictional character... actually two fictional characters.

something about Kaede saying shut up is the funniest fucking thing ever

gray guy's ass /j i do not have a crush on gray guy

"why me?" you signed up for this shit kaede don't act like you didn't (I know I know she doesn't remember blah blah blah)

slapping shit time

Kaede asking the door questions /j yes yes inner dialogue I know no shit

"what?" quote of the year fr

kokichi time

there he is

i accidentally skipped his dialogue waaaaaa

hello sir avocado man

there are 16 gayasses

hehehehehehehe ryoma so fucjing short lmaooo /hj

i don't like string cheese. actually i don't like cheese at all!!!

"we screwed up" the game makers screwed up when making you and your siblings except monodam he's the only good one

just realised my fav monokub is in front of one of my comfort characters and my least fav is in front of the other.... hmmmmmmm

damn maybe monokid mentioned hell at some point idk

kaede really flabbergasted at them being monokubs

yes you were fucking right no shit avocado

off topic but the monokub theme fucking slaps it's an absolute banger

sleepy ass bitch tbh wake up!!! wake up!!!!!!!!!

"forgot" you mean forgor???? they forgor lol

hello again Kokichi :)

"friggin'" you know you can say fucking this is Danganronpa after all

MLG horns + Sailor Moon transformation = V3 transformation sequence

"what am I wearing" clothes lmao

we waking up again soon

we already did this shit!!!!!!!!!

here comes Shuichi 2.0!!!!! insert autism creature yippee

he's so cute fr

aaaand here comes the music

monokubs are back I hate those bitches

i hate monokid most but he's so fucking funny, you're the monster actually why are you scared you lil bitch

wow monokid confirmed stuffed animal

first monokid boner of the game...

you calling the best people ever cretins?!?! honestly stfu monophanie sorry i am obsessed with fictional characters

sixteen sure is a number kaede

skipping the whole ultimate explanation I don't care honestly

monokid rager voice line count: 2

introductions for the second time, you love to see it

star kissing the screen again... that isn't even my fav character

"usually just piano freak" well that isn't nice

baby kaede still ugly as fuck tbh where's her nose and why does she already have a full head of hair even baby peko looked better and she didn't have a nose either

at least she grows up very pretty

"when did this get in my backpack?" 0.3 seconds ago!

smoothie :D

foreshadowing moment

yaaaaaa blueberry smooothieeeee

Kaede is such a hardcore lesbian

going to see avocado man again!!!

clearly you're the ultimate avocado

i forgot to type anything here when talking to Himiko but now I'm talking to Tenko

"you're so cute!" And you're a lesbian

Tenko said her first degenerate males im so proud of her

let's go to best character (Kokichi)

KOKICHI I'M COMING FOR YOU

HERE WE WRE

Here he IS

HE IS HERE

sorry I am very happy

we have all of the best boys in one room (and Kaede is there too)

how couldn't Kaede tell that Kiibo is a robot????

he did it he said "i will see you in court"

yes introduce yourself king!!!!!

he's so silly

HE SAID IT HE SAID ROBOT DICK FUNNY HAHA LINE

why is this man so fucking funny he has my brain in a chokehold

maki rol

hello short cat lover man

oops I forgot to go see miu lmao

news flash: everyone who wears pants is a PERVERT!1!1!1!11!!!1!! more at 9

"everyone knows that only pervs wear hats" himiko: 😐

she wants drugs

THERE we go now we can go see kork

gonna be honest sometimes I forget his name is Korekiyo and not just Kork

bro I don't think your teeth fell out they're definitely right there (also you can't... have... fingernails...)

monokid rager voice line count: 3

"walls are erected" 😳

the wall can be demolished just you wait

ah yes the exisals somehow have wives and kids

you can slap yourself Kaede but don't slap one of my comfort characters. that is a crime against humanity

space idiot time

"not just anyone can get up there" I can /j

here are the monoshits again

BRO PISSES IN THE SHOWER I know it happens it just gets me every time

BRO SHITS IN THE SHOWER again it gets me every time

hello mom aka basically just 2B from Nier (or so I've heard idk I have never played Nier)

time to meet our next autism creature

wonder what this guy's name is

found him right away! after 10 years

last one

im still pissed that instead of keeping it as a generic god so it doesn't offend any religion, they chose to make angie's god the real fucking Polynesian gods

angie still cute though <3

time to go gym lol

im like a cat with the zoomies

another reference thank you blueberry smoothie

honestly??? kokichi so fucking silly I love him (if you somehow couldn't tell)

i think it might be a killing game not sure tho

i will crush you guys with this here exisal

jabroni

hello motherfucker- I mean monokuma

"im not mad" he says firing a fucking lazer

yoooo they said despair

the songs in this game >>>>>

yeaaaaa rock paper scissors

imagine if monokuma ate monophanie

murder very sophisticated

yo the monokuma tongue sprite weird as hell

the rager voice line count is 4

nvm it's 5

*laughs to death*

honestly this is tiring me out but I gotta complete the prologue!!!

"a lie... more like fiction..." that's bc it is lmfaooooooooooo

the first character to attempt a murder talking about how they won't kill is so funny to me

damn they laughing

yes I know what game this is

prologue over guys we can go home now

[cafedanslanuit]

may i ask for more anime recs? hope your having a good day. :>

today has been... weird. slept too much and now i'm kinda anxious 🤕

but!!! my favourite anime right now is jujutsu kaisen! first season is already out and a prequel movie is coming on december! the story is just *chef's kiss*, the best i've read in ages. you end up liking the protagonist a lot, nad he's not the typical shonen mc in the best way possible <3

now it does have darker themes than haikyuu and tokyo revengers. it's a little more graphic and a lot of characters die fr throughout the story. so it's good to keep that it mind.

if you're looking for something more light-hearted, then i'd go with horimiya!! it's only 8 or 10 episodes and it's the cutest thing ever. made me punch the floor asking god why i'm single shsksjss

no but fr the characters are cute and the protags have development, you see them slowly falling for each other while still having a lot of funny moments. i love horimiya 🥰

hope you're having a good day too!

[transhitman]

My Actual Critical Thoughts on the DIU Movie, Unclouded By Gayautism Moments

Ok so I fucking loved it, and here's why. Spoilers for movie exclusive scenes.

First of all, I LOVED the look of the characters. I think the costume design was superb, ESPECIALLY Josuke. The modifications really made it feel like actual clothes someone would wear, but it managed to keep the Anime Bullshit vibes intact. The live media also added a lot to their outfits imo because of the way their clothes moved with them. It's a little thing, but animation rarely captures the way a bigass jacket flaps around. The casting was great imo. Josuke and Okuyasu actually looked like high schoolers (not sure if the actors were actually teens or what), and they looked... So Baby 🥺. Okuyasu especially... I loved him. My boy 🥺🥺🥺. And IDK if this is an unpopular opinion but I loved Jotaro!!! He looked like a dad and I appreciated it. I also liked the way they did his hat hair, like it was so funny. LOVED how his hat was tilted all weird like how it's always drawn. Loved the cartoony hair in general, actually.

Speaking of the Look, I loved the sets too!!! In the manga and anime the backgrounds were always kind of barren, and I get that Araki can't draw cluttered spaces every pannel, but it really did add a lot to the Higashikata and Nijimura households. Having all that background clutter really made the Higashikatas feel like a family to me. And, oh my god, the pictures Josuke drew as a kid 🥺🥺🥺. (While we were watching, my friend was like "he drew those like 2 weeks ago" and I lost it.) And UGH don't even get me STARTED on the catholic imagery in the Nijimura household. WHAT WAS THAT??? They made Okuyasu believe in God and I have no idea why but it fucking rules!!! Literally every shot of their house was like looking at a really fucked up Renaissance painting and it made me go crazy!!! MASSIVE fan of that.

Now the effects... I mean, for the most part they were pretty good. The Stands looked a little shaky at some points, but the cool shots and framing of their powers more than made up for it imo. Like the part where Josuke punches through those people at the store, and, like, they don't actually show CD at first was really cool. Speaking of not showing things, BAD CO'S INTRODUCTION WAS SO AWESOME. I LOVED it so much more in this. They did SUCH a good job really showing how gross and unpleasant the wounds caused by BC would be irl. It actually made me cringe a little, which is impressive, considering I rarely get grossed out by gore. AND!!! The fact that they used practical effects for Okuyasu's dad made me so happy!!! It looked pretty good and I expected it to be shitty cgi, so it was a real treat. CD and The Hand also looked pretty slick. I loved their textures... Which sounds weird, but it's true. CD had the whole faceted armor thing going on AND his flesh looked striated, which makes his otherwise kinda silly design SUPER cool (No offense, Mr. Diamond 😔). The Hand looked like a robot, which was so cool. He looked weathered, like his paint was chipping or something, which really added to his intimidating vibe. Overall, in terms of the anime adaptations I've seen, they did pretty damn good with the effects, and I think they really captured the feel of Stands as a whole.

But... The editing, unfortunately, took me out of it a few times. They had some REALLY great shots (CD's first instance of healing, Yukako's intro, really anything at the Nijimura household) but a lot of shots felt disconnected. Like motions got cut off, or you could tell it was a different take. It was kinda weird. I liked the OST when I noticed it, but nothing really stood out. The color grading was SUPER fucked in the first half of the movie, too. It looked very yellow, and I didn't like it, especially coming from a series as colorful as JoJo. There were also a few moments of overacting, but none of it was unbearable. Technically, it could use some work.

BUT. The plot was great. It was just a rehash of the Angelo and Nijimura arcs, but they pulled it off very well. They did a good job balancing the cuts with the additions. They replaced a lot of the inane JoJo bullshit with character development for the Higashikatas, which was galaxy brained fr. I actually Felt it when Josuke's grandpa died this time around. Josuke's relationship with his family in this version makes him a much more compelling protag. Not that he was bad before, he's my favorite JoJo so far, but he seems more driven now. His grandpa's death wasn't just forgotten about. And as for streamlining the story, spoilers but I was legitimately shocked when Sheer Heart Attack showed up at the end. I YELLED. I think that was a really good way to bridge to further in the story for a possible sequel, and it made Keicho's death more, for lack of a better word, Fuckt.

Speaking of, all the characters had really great spins this time. Josuke was like, a mama's boy who was trying and failing to be aloof, Koichi was more silly, Yukako seemed way more Unhinged, Okuyasu was like... an evil minion For Real (which I LOVED... He was very over the top Menacing at first), and Keicho was way more sympathetic. A lot of that last one was because of changed wording during his backstory section. His narrative was much clearer, and I actually sympathized with him this time around. His death also seemed more selfless because of the way SHA attacked them. Instead of just kinda knocking Okuyasu away, he ran across the room to push him out of the way. It makes the idea that he really did love Okuyasu deep down more believable. The little details really did add to the story, and it more than makes up for the stuff they cut out, which wasn't much in the first place.

All in all, it wasn't Technically a masterpiece, but I loved it and definitely recommend it if you're a fan of gay delinquents. Very fun, very epic, 8/10.

[bloodsbane]

HERE IS SOME OF MY HOT TAKES:

it was...... Okay

the animation is mostly fine. it’s kinda janky but you get used to it. i think it worked most when it was still, and if they had stylized things a bit more, and been a little more creative with the editing, it could’ve been really fitting and effective for the sort of story they were telling.

the biggest issue i had was the rearranging of plot elements. the movie had to cut some things due to time, but it stayed very true to the spirit of the book. the most they did was remove a few characters, but otherwise it was a really faithful adaptation. the miniseries keeps a lot of things from the book but puts them in weird, new places, seemingly for little to no reason. 

due to the above, a lot of themes and character moments/development are kinda muddled or completely disregarded. i think bigwig gets it worst of the ‘main’ cast, he’s not given nearly as much credit as in the book or movie and a lot of his personality is reduced to ‘pretty aggressive, mostly just a fighter’. 

they did this THING... where they made romance a much bigger element to things, but they weren’t actually, like, interested in, y’know, developing a romance in a good way. because of course they couldn’t, with this story; it’s not ABOUT romance. they end up shifting a lot of hazel’s motivations and attention in the latter half of the series to clover, who is his love interest now, and it SUCKS because it totally MISSES THE POINT of the fucking story, which is hazel learning to bring everyone together and bring out the best in every rabbit in their little group. hazel cares about EVERYONE, but he sounds really selfish and shallow bc they have him emphasizing how much he cares about clover, specifically. 

overall, they seemed to lose track of the ‘themes’ of the book, sacrificing key plot moments for the sake of changing things to make their take on the story more unique. biggest example of this would be the removal of the ‘there’s a dog loose in the wood!’ motif, introduced in the beginning and called back to at the very end, when fiver has his vision. also related: they don’t escape the efrafa rabbits by using a boat, which called back to blackberry having them use a log to float across the river to escape the aforementioned dog. and again, they fuck up character arcs, most notably bigwig’s. 

to offer some positives! first, they do hazel and fiver’s relationship well. i think hazel could’ve been done better, and again the whole ‘give him a love interest’ angle was a mistake i feel, but he’s serviceable as a protag. fiver is more or less perfect.

OH BUT FUCK I FORGOT, BACK TO A NEGATIVE RQ, THEY FUCKED UP ‘BRIGHT EYES’ AND DIDN’T HAVE FIVER GO TO FIND HAZEL, AND IM LIKE. WHY. 

did a mostly good job with efrafa and woundwort. changed woundwort’s backstory, which i found a little odd, but w/ the angle they play it, i understand why and i think it’s fine. his character is a little less... Solid, I guess, than in the books or movie. they made him a bit too vindictive, i guess? woundwort wasn’t sadistic, he was just totalitarian, doing what he truly believed was the best way to handle things, even if it meant being cruel. oops this turned into a complaint again.

i really liked the setting for efrafa, it’s a cool location that reflects well with the theme of the efrafa rabbits being unnatural (too much like humans). 

ALL IN ALL: episode 1 is fine, 2 is where things get messy, 3 is okay, 4 is mostly good. 

and i’ll say, i feel like they actually did an incredibly good job with the ending; basically everything following the siege on their warren onward is pretty effective (not including the bigwig complaint up above). i even cried a little at the end, heh. 

so i’ll say! if you like the book and the movie a lot, you may not like the miniseries that much, but i definitely think it’s worth seeing for yourself. if nothing else, it’s been fun seeing all the things they thought to change and speculating on why, and talking to friends who know about the previous iterations and talking to them about it. it may not be the best adaptation, but at least it’s trying, and i do hope it gets more people interested in the old movie and maybe even the book! from what i’ve heard, people less familiar with the story have enjoyed the miniseries well enough.

overall i just wished they’d maybe focused less on changing things to be ‘unique’ and tried to bring out what was good about the book, that the old movie didn’t have the time to explore. they couldve made a really compelling drama with all the relationship dynamics between characters, and that would’ve made personal arcs even more satisfying. honestly if they’d just re-framed it to be more interpersonal and made bigwig more of a main character like he is in the books, it could’ve been much stronger imo.

*KICKS DOWN THE FUCKING DOOR* WHO SAW THE NETFLIX WATERSHIP DOWN MINISERIES AND WANTS MY HOT TAKES