#im love jojo characters in very specific ways

[steeltwigz]

Saw a post abt the Sonic movies that was like "plz filter negativity posts better" which is GOOD AND TRUE you should be doing that. Ok. But then they kept going to imply that the criticisms of the Sonic movies are all entirely Personal and Ignorable and not like. Usually abt the horrific copaganda, misogynistic writing, and Paramount's disgusting zionism.... Guys a lot of ppls problem w the Knuckles show wasn't JUST a bastardization of Knuckles' character or thinking Wade was annoying or whatever, but like was focused on the grotesque Zionist message from that one episode 😭😭😭 you can enjoy something and still recognize that it has intrinsic and huge glaring flaws and talk abt them. I think actually you Should be speaking up abt the misogyny, zionism and propaganda the SCU supports and discusses, ESPECIALLY if you like the movies! Its important to be able to recognize these things in media and admit that even media you personally enjoy can be deeply problematic, instead of hiding it away and pretending those HUGE FLAWS aren't issues actually....

[biggie-chcese]

rain code age headcanons because i have literally only ever been choosing ages based on what's funniest but now i wanna cast away my grand layers of irony and be genuine for a moment. also. this goes pretty in depth so be prepped for the long haul when you click read more lmao.

spoilers for the whole game below and it's because of one specific character iykyk

Yakou - this man has the soul of a guy in his late 40s going through what would be his midlife crisis if not for the fact that he's fully aware he passed the midpoint years ago. but that soul is trapped in the body of a guy who doesnt look a day older than 28. what moisturizer does he use? i doubt he even uses anything other than that 13 in 1 shampoo. anyway, i think he's 32.

Halara - 26. nothing really to justify this other than they've got that mid 20s swag but 25 didn't feel right. adult enough to be as competent as they are yet young enough to look like that. moving on.

Desuhiko - 19. i think he's the youngest of the NDA because. well. idk man have you read his dialogue? he's got a whole lot of growing to do and is still very lost on his direction in life. he's giving 'bitch fresh outta high school (or in this case, detective training) and relishing in his freshly obtained freedom."

Vivia - 28? yeah i got nothing for this i am going purely on vibes here. 28 just feels right.

Fubuki - 23. she's clearly still a bit young but is also clearly a grown ass adult who wasn't raised right so i think this makes for a happy medium, especially if she's already been on some worldwide adventures n shit before the game. works out quite swimmingly methinks.

Kurumi - 18. for my personal comfort bc we'll get to yuma later but im not gonna sit here and ignore the way the game constantly grovels at the audience's feet to ship them so id rather she not be any younger than this. anyway, more about her: she tends to hold her own as an informant with more competence, maturity, and effecience than most of the NDA. but she also has a pretty childish black and white view on things, like believing her beloved detectives are always right (girl if you were real you would be ENTRENCHED in stan culture oml do NOT get into minecraft youtubers) but i've... seen 18 year olds on the internet that are exactly the same so whatever

Aetheria girls - putting them all at 17-18 because, based on honorifics, they are treated as upperclassmen by their peers in the Japanese dub. i think waruna is the youngest and kurane is the eldest.

Yomi - 25. he has that vibe. old enough to be taken seriously as an adult but young enough to act like That™. yknow?

Martina - 32. she's giving older woman sexy librarian vibes and generally carries herself with a certain level of poise and maturity but is also a freak in a way that can best be explained by being a woman in her 30s. not elaborating on this

Swank - 41. to me he's like those awful surly businessmen who go to cabaret clubs to drink and smoke their office job woes away and cheat on their wives. but he also has extreme mafia boss swag about it so i kinda love him for that. dunno what this has to do with age tho. moving on.

Seth - 22 because he's giving youngest brother. i think he's the youngest of the peacekeepers in general. guillaume definitely bullies him about this.

Dominic - 34. bro is built like a jojo character what else do you want me to say. he's still got that youthfulness about him that makes me think he's still not going through his midlife crisis, so i wouldn't place him any older

Guillaume - 23. guillaume is so girlypop manic pixie dream girl core that she's definitely got the energy of someone who is young but also strikes the balance of being someone who has a job and a mortgage. dunno how she does it. id like to think she isnt even much older than seth but still bullies him for being the baby of the peacekeepers. do u understand my vision. please. they have so much annoying coworker potential.

shinigami - idk like 1000. she's a death god who cares.

yuma - okay. yeah. look i dont give a singular fuck about age discourse- headcanon whatever you want- but from looking at canon material i genuinely think that he could not possibly be any younger than 21. 20 if we wanna push it. yes, i know he looks young. i have eyes. but also, im in my 20s and the most common thing people tell me when i reveal my age is "oh, i thought you were 15." one time a person asked me if i was 12. at my job. that i was actively working at. i was 20. adults can look young, and contrary to the classic 1000 year old loli dragon trope he doesnt act overtly childish. he acts like a normal fuckin guy. yes he cries but like. you wouldn't in his position? bro speedruns lifelong trauma so skillfully that he's backwards long jumping into alternate universes where everything is somehow worse. i'd be freaked out if he didn't cry. also im aware that the child prodigy detective trope is a thing and that kodaka has written that before but... he was number one three years ago. and the training takes two years. which means, if he is a minor in the game's present day, he started working at the WDO at 12 and became number one at 14... at the oldest. have you ever met a 14 year old? forgive me for not suspending my disbelief here. and really the kicker for me is that yuma has a line where he says he's not sure if he's drinking age (which would be 20 in japan), but you know who would be sure? you know who knows yuma's age better than yuma?

makoto kagutsuchi - this megacorporation CEO has a fully stocked minibar installed in his penthouse. <- sentence i cannot bring myself to believe if it's about a child. since i also cant picture him becoming CEO at age 14 without yomi at least once angrily pointing that out (he only ever mentions that makoto is an outsider, or has his head in the clouds), id like to think both him and yuma, at their youngest, earned their top spots at their respective organizations at 18. it keeps their gifted kid syndrome and young prodigy-ness without making things comically ridiculous or uncomfortable for the sheer amount of sexual situations yuma gets put into.

anyway that's my silly little ramble on age headcanons. this was actually really fun to think about. shoutout to kodaka for leaving out the ages. funniest choice he could've made

[coochellati]

Team Bruno fr, I think I was sold pretty quickly and he only got better and better for me haha-

It’s pretty funny because if I’m watching anything with someone and they see me taking notes they’re usually a bit confused but curious about what I might be writing down haha. Usually it’s never anything that important to the story (unless it’s some major detail I don’t wanna forget) and it’s just me just taking notes about traits about the characters I like.

Here, I’m happy to share a couple of my silly notes! I think this shows a pretty accurate variety of the stuff I was noting:

How it started😭😭: “Ok wow Bruno’s little partners are completely insane.

This guy in blue is super superstitious

Fugo acts all calm but he has QUITE a temper

Little guy is just learning. And also incredibly angry.

Abbacchio.”

“Bruno has a good heart🥺🥺”

I wrote out the bit of backstory they revealed about his childhood, which is one thing, but as I was scrolling through my notes looking for interesting examples I noticed I even wrote down a note about how Bruno weighed a little bit more than Prosciutto, I guess I just found that interesting lol.

And I found a special fondness for his place in the other team member’s backstories, but specifically Narancia’s. Bruno’s a specific character type I’ve always admired. I know I won’t be the best at explaining it but I loved that part about how he yelled at Narancia about joining the mafia, but he wasn’t really angry and was just trying to protect him from a life he might regret. One of my favorite scenes for sure. I love that kinda thing.

AND the way his face softened when Narancia swam after them, he was so. Happy. Please. Let Bruno be happy more often-

And I lost it at the “Arrivederci,” scene during the Grateful Dead arc, it was actually so cool and I feel like just watching that scene raised my own coolness by 5%.

Ok trying not to ramble too much but I especially appreciated his reaction to Abbacchio’s death. Watching the leader character having to be strong for the team, but inwardly it’s hurting them so badly-

And to end it on a lighter note, even before I had started jjba I always had a fondness for Bruno’s design since I considered it super iconic and cool. It was neat to finally get to actually see him since he was one of the few Jojo characters I actually knew by name before watching.

And of course the occasional: wow Bruno is so hot when he *insert various hot Bruno moments here*

Fell so hard for him, wow. I do enjoy a few Jojo characters, my other really big one being Rohan, but like. If I had to pick one to actually be with how could I Not pick Bruno-

Anyways thanks for listening to this little ramble about things I ended up writing down about Bruno❤️ and I’m so glad you liked the sketch! He’s fun to draw~

Ack !!! I’m sorry this took me so long to answer 😭

I love how you’re annotating Golden Wind. I wish that I took more notes on Bruno while watching.,,.,,.. Next rewatch i think i will do that,.,.,..

“Little guy is just learning. And also incredibly angry” 😭💀 IM DEAD

Okay, I’m glad you wrote down that Bruno weighs more than Prosciutto, because I totally forgot about that. Cool fact to know.

On the topic of Bruno’s role in Narancia’s backstory—I’m going to recommend you read Purple Haze Feedback. (Here’s a link to the translated story!) It’s a novel that takes place after the events of Golden Wind. The story follows Fugo as he attempts to redeem himself in Giorno’s eyes. The best part is that PHF expands on everyone’s backstory—especially for Narancia, Bruno, and of most of all, Fugo.

PHF is not written by Araki, but there’s original illustrations from him within the novel. So is it canon? Eh—it’s semi-canon. Because this was written well before the anime came out, there are some minor contradictions to the anime’s version of the story. PHF lines up fine with the manga. …So I guess you can choose if it’s canon or not. (I like to pretend it is.)

PHF isn’t very long. I read it straight through in about 4 hours. (I could NOT put it down.)

Anyway!

You know what’s funny? I also adored Bruno’s design before actually watching part 5. And then I watched it and the same shit happened to me. We’re absolutely twinning in this scenario. 😩

…And full confession, I’m also a Rohan stan. I need that narcissistic asshole to put me in my place.

I’m always happy to listen to anyone’s jojo info dumps! You are always welcome to ramble here :)

thanks for the ask! <3

[k-simp]

Which movie or TV characters do you feel like you can relate to the most?

I love you for asking me this bro, I just gotta say that I love when tumblr ask me questions that are literally the same fucking questions I be talking to myself about in the bathroom or in a private setting, and pretend I'm in a Q&A session, interview or podcast.

Thank yall for asking me questions

Anyway, there is a huge ass list I'm actually kinda overwhelmed about answering this question,

B U T

There is 2 characters in particular that sums up me PERFECTLY, these 2 characters are my top two "if you were a cartoon character would would you be?"

REAGAN RIDLEY & REN HOËK

Idk how to even go about it cause it's been a while since I've watched both shows and idk if i can go into detail about how these 2 are like me and I'm not saying it to be like

"Omg yassss there wittly just like me teehee^^"

No I mean these 2 are ME

There both psychos with logical anger issues, surrounded by IIIIIIIIIIDIOOOOTS, intelligent but stupid and silly at the same time, can get pervy sometimes, trauma, get or have no bitches, workaholics, and introverted and stuff.

Its been a while i said, but i remember when I started binging Ren and Stimpy and WHEN I SAW THIS SCENE, IM WAS SO HAPPY CAUSE THIS IS WHAT I SAY TO MY SIBLINGS ALL THE DAMN TIME

With Reagan, there's so many moments she shocked me hard as well, you gotta watch the show.

Heres some honorable mentions to the most relatable to the least relatable along with reasons why I relate to them

(There's more reasons why, i know there are, I just can't remember too well)

Squidward Tenticals: Artist, never in the mood, spoils himself, sick of everyone but has a heart

Spongebob SquarePants

2. Spinel: Got replaced without a care in the world, wants to be loved, silly, sweetheart, sad inside, looks just like my self insert OC

Steven Universe

3. Principal Scudworth: Very creative, silly, very fucking funny, miserable, wants to be appreciated

Clone High

4. Mojo Jojo: Pretty much like squidward, Spinel and Scudsworth with some OCD, intellectual neodivergent

PowerPuff Girls

5. Herbert West: Highly ambitious, devoted to his work, jealous bitch, asexual, neodivergent, loves his work and wants someone that can truly rock with him but everyone keeps fucking up, doesn't want people getting in the way of his craft

Re-Animator

6. Blitz: Horny af, miserable and lonely af, silly, wants love, accidentally hurts alot of people's hearts but helps alot of other people and have a good heart and just tryna get by.

Helluva Boss

7. Albert Wesker: I don't know much of his character besides his over all lore and stuff and I wanna play the games so I'm not spoiling myself too much but he's ambitious, wants to change the world, dedicated to his work and wears black all the time. But the lines that spoke to me were: "Every day, humans come one step closer to self-destruction. I'm not destroying the world, I'm saving it!"

"We shall meet again before the conclusion of this drama. Then you will learn of the history... I will write for this world."

Resident Evil 5 (specifically this version)

8. Dr. Nefarious: Got bullied for being nerdy by the people he works with, works hard for his group, silly, talks to himself/has dairies, workaholic

Ratchet and Clank the movie (this version specifically)

8. Hisoka Morow: Very mysterious, lonesome, kinda lonley but doesn't say it or show it, silly and giggly, laughs to himself and is happy by himself, indiffrent, chill but will tweak the fuck out, and separates ourselves from groups, both hyperfixate for people with great qualities, diffrent and has great potential, loves bubblegum, resourceful and both struggled in poor times.

Hunter x Hunter 1999 (the 2011 too, but I personally love and connect more with the 1999 version)

9. Ryuk: Silly, laughing all the fucking time, gothic, bigback

Death Note

I hope this sums it idk💀

[imagine-shenanigans]

who are your favs from jjba and fe3h btw? any particular reasons why?

FE3H - i have very specific favs but a lot of characters i love in general so,

CLAUDE CLAUDE CLAUDE CLAUDE | I love Claude with my entire ass heart he’s so good!!! I relate to him to an extent and he’s peak romance. He’s like... just so good? He’s high romance and I’m so goddamn weak. I fell for him the moment i got through his dialogue for the first time. I’d originally been going for Dimitri/Blue Lions before I got the game, and my friend vice versa, and then we both started playing and realized we were going for each others brands instead

Hil-da! Hil-da! Hil-da! | My giiiiirl. She’s not my biggest fave i’ve ever had so to speak, like i don’t go quite as feral over her, but I fucking adore her. She’s funny, and sweet, and she’ll kick your ass! I would let her run into the middle of battlefields during my first playthrough and she’d just DESTROY enemies. Can you imagine how big her biceps have to be? imagine. Anyway I find Hilda very funny, sweet, and relateable, she’s the “girly girl” trope that’s done right, in my opinion. She’s never shamed for it, just for being lazy! I love her tho like honestly what an icon.

I would straight die for Auntie Manuela and her pack of rabid children. She’s so good... she’s got her problems but i for one think she’s hysterical, and i would adore being her friend. 

Most of the golden deer are my favs, so I’m gonna branch out on my next one - Dimitri is an angel. I relate a lot to him and his experiences, and I just want him to be happyyyyyy

JOJO- i’ll try to limit to one/two per part fjaksdljfalsk

...j...jotaro.... I’m weak for this big dorky dumbass, he’s peak tomfoolery like he seems so put together but you look in his brain and its that one scene in spongebob where its the brain spongebobs and they’re screaming and trying to burn everything in a panic. 

Josuke!!! I’ve got dumb bitch protag love disease so like every jojo i’ve fallen in love with except johnny i’m sorry buddy and Josuke is like, top tier on that list. He’s so good!! He’s just the right amount of “boys will be boys” mixed with feral, and prettyboy vanity. I love him. And he’s so kind????? Like yeah sure he’s done some PRETTY FUCKY THINGS ADMITTEDLY, REMEMBER THAT DUDE HE TURNED INTO A ROCK? YEAH. but yeah! Im love him.

Okuyasu is tied with Josuke and I”m love him very much. He’s so sweet!!! You just KNOW that whenever you look at him he’s got elevator music going on in his brain. He’s an angel - a big slightly dumb but extremely well intentioned angel who is extremely reckless and the same mix of “boys will be boys” and “feral” (also i mean the good boys will be boys like all of them colelctively sharing the same brain cell while doing stupid shit like Rowdyboy Jousting)

JEAN FUCKING PIERRE POLNAREFF. i love this big dumb himbo with my entire heart and i will literally be in tears if i think about him too much because he’s too fucking good. I could crawl into his arms and shove my face into his giant ass tits and die happy. He could lock me into a headlock and my heart would nut so hard i’d die. I want to sit in his lap and paint our nails together while talking about the latest dumb gossip we heard in between the commercial breaks of masterchef/kitchen nightmares/hell’s kitchen/chopped/cutthroat kitchen and then get too into the show and forget our nails arent dry and fuck them up while we’re yelling. 

Guido Mista owns my entire ass he’s so fucking dumb at the same time he’s scarily competent. I accidentally mirrored his color scheme in my stardew valley outfit last night without realizing it and my friend (it was finch.... always finch) called me out and i felt extremely scandalized. Let me shove my leg into mista’s face, telling him to feel, and he asks “what did you shave?” before i cackle “NO!” and we both lose our shit together. I want to fall asleep on his shoulder on a long car/bus ride/during a movie and have him be too overwhelmingly romance-horny to be able to deal so he stays in the exact same position for like two hours despite really having to piss because he refused to wake me up. I wanna play with his hair and call his hat penis shaped to make him angry. 

Foof is my fave p6 character (all the rowdygirl squad GOOD tho...) she’s just. she’s just so good. how can you look at foo fighters and not be overwhelmingly in love

Weather Report is my extremely horny on main fave i just want him to get real close in my face and ask if i want chinken nungnets for dinner before moving away like it was nothing but i get so overwhelmingly horny that pucci has to exorcise me

Diego Brando and Dio Brando both own my ass HARD. I have horrible horrible taste in men. Need I say more?

Yasuho is an angel and i will protect her with my life. 

Gappy and I are in Yasuho protection squad and we cry over her every action no we do not take constructive criticism.

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after having so many ppl on twitter come and try to explain anasui's character to me, then watching eps with him in it and talking to a friend im watching through jojos with iv decided

im still not very into him, i dont hate him i dont, i think he has some character treats i find endearing but between his overall character and the way some of his hyper serious fans act, its hate to truly like him

but uh, i think all the interpretations iv seen of him are a lil bunk and off the mark for me

i think for me the way i think he is best seen is how he is! I think some deep grime can be glanced from his backstory that could make him complex. i think he ultimately isnt a good person. He knows it.

I think a huge issue for Anasui is that, he is delusional, in the way he talks about himself and the people around him and the relationships people have to themselves and him is like this whole ideal world he's built in his head and a lot of his fans fall for it.

Anasui to me feels SO much like he vaguely heard about Jolyne and built up this image of her in his head. Then held on to it so tightly and decided to make it this thing that will change who he is, a part of his plans to put things in the right place to make it a how he wants.

but the biggest issue is that i dont think he actually likes Jolyne. like

i think he likes her, admires her and maybe loves her in a way. But i dont think he's in love with her like he tries to be. Because it feels like an act, it feels like he's trying to be in love with her and convincing himself that he's head over heels.

Because unless he's playing up this romantic gesture of how in love he is with her and using flowery words over his feelings about her, he doesn't seem to like her o rhow she behaves or her personality traits and quirks. I think he only likes the general idea of the kind of person she is and in a way, somewhat wants to be her and has made himself think he wants her.

His relationship to Jolyne is one he made up in his head, he built her up in his mind on the things he's seen and heard of her from afar and put her on this pedestal. Then when he gets close to jolyne and she isnt how he see's her, he seems upset and usually does things she doesnt like or want because he's assuming things about her and her wants, and trying to put together this specific image of himself for her even if its not the one she's seeing because it doesnt really exist. He wants to be a knight in shining armor to her while she literally isnt a damsel in distress, shes just a person! a strong person to! who has formed a network of friends and loved ones who are supporting her and anasui is just this late addition trying to force a place for himself in this relationship in an inorganic way.

Then under the flowery way he talks about Jolyne, he speaks so possessive and strange about her. And not even always in the 'creepy possesive boyfriend way' sometimes its in the way like a kid who doesnt want other people to change the story in the game he's playing.

The way he talks about her, AND A LOT (if not every character) he is around for an extended time he talks about them like tools and pieces he is using to put the world he wants together. Its especially easy to see in the way he treated Foo Fighters. To Anasui Foo is someone he can easily use as a tool to get what he wants, to him they are not a person and when foo does something he doesnt like he is much meaner and obvious about disliking people disobeying him or calling him out in comparison to when he is behaving in front of jolytne. Anasui is possessive and controlling of his environment and doesnt treat people like people.

(also may i add that if Jolyne knew the way anasui was treating Foof i think she would have been mucH meaner to him)

I think anasui just isnt a good person, and thats great. i can love a character like him who is flawed and kind of a bad person! Anasui could so easily have nuance and maybe some deeper level to his character, but ultimately not be a very good person. Because it wouldn't just be him! this applies to different degrees on the other Stone Ocean characters, in fact just a lot of Arakis characters in general. a lot of them are kinda not great people who in their choices and connections to others make themselves flawed but good hearted people or flawed and wicked. For Anasui i think he thinks he's knows he's a bad person, but thinks if he can put the right people in the right places around him then he can be a logically good person. If someone like jolyne could look at him with love and trust, then he could be a good person. But Anasui isnt in love and doesnt know how to love jolyne and Jolyne was never going to be able to fall in love with HIM.

IDK, again this is just kinda mushy half ass thoughts i was having while talking to daisy about anasui, she was much better spoken about these feelings on anasui

Ana just driVES me CRAZY between how much i dont really like him but still end up thinking about him because i feel like theres something there to analyze but its not all the points ppl brought to me. BUT MAINLY its because so many of anasui fans (not all of them, and tbh its nearly only twitter anasui stan fans) are so crazy and they see Anasuis delusional ass self and hear what he's saying and fall for it too! they fall for him and his words hook line and sinker! idk man idk! i feel crazy

[outpost-31]

Atlas' Diamond is Unbreakable Music Post

Hi mutuals. Here's that post of songs that remind me of the jojo cast. Diamond is Unbreakable for this one

* it's important to note this is NOT what I think they'd listen to by the way. this is songs from my playlists that remind me of them!! keep that in mind. if that was the case this would be drastically different

anyways under the cut this is very long.

[In order from the wiki, missing a few characters I could not possibly come up with songs for]

also some of these I'm explaining because I dont know if they're stretches or not but they make sense to ME ok. ok

Josuke Higashikata

Diamonds and Pearls - Prince

[Self-Explanatory]

I Want You - Savage Garden

[First ending song, etc etc. Just makes me think of him. Also this song was about a gay dream and.. Fits]

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen

[Self-Explanatory]

Surprise of Summer - ANRI

[Self-Explanatory. Good song]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

[Self-Explanatory]

Notes: I'm a Josuke enjoyer but for some reason I'm awful at assigning him songs im sorry

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Koichi Hirose

Harvey - Her's

[Self-Explanatory. Yukako]

Can't Sleep Love - Pentatonix

[Self-Explanatory]

Under Pressure - Queen

[Self-Explanatory. Also, Echoes.]

Buttercup - Jack Stauber

[no comment]

Chinese New Year - SALES

[I.. Cannot explain]

Notes: In a bit of a rush typing this one up. I have literally no idea im so sorry Koichi. love you though, man

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Okuyasu Nijimura

Harness Your Hopes - Pavement

[Fairly self-explanatory.]

Second Hand News - Fleetwood Mac

[. yeah]

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

[Self-Explanatory]

I Can't Handle Change - Roar

[ Backstory. Keicho. Hurts really bad but still makes me think of him]

This Year - The Mountain Goats

[Fairly Self-Explanatory but don't think too hard into this one. Definitely not a perfect fit]

Notes: For some reason this was actually really difficult??

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Rohan Kishibe

Vincent - Car Seat Headrest

[Self-Explanatory]

papercut - Liana Flores

[Self-Explanatory.]

Radio Ga Ga - Queen

[. yeah sure]

Oh No! - MARINA

[sniff. i dont know what do i say. take it with a grain of salt.]

Dead Weight - Jack Stauber

[are we gonna talk about how depressing some parts of his character and backstory are..]

Notes: Rohan winning the title of morioh's miss crazy bitch of 1999. i've never hated relating to a character more

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Jotaro Kujo

Swimming Pool - Marie Madeleine

[..Mostly Self-Explanatory.]

I'll Never Smile Again - Tommy Dorsey

[ :( ]

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths

[Self-Explanatory. Upsets me, but self-explanatory]

Sea, Swallow Me - Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd

[Self-Explanatory.]

And The Tide Rushes In - The Moody Blues

[Self-Explanatory.]

Notes: Surprises me how few songs I had to compare to him. Something about him in Part 4 makes me sad, though. He's matured, obviously, but the difference between 3 and 4.. I don't know it's depressing. Hope I captured that

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Joseph Joestar

Super Freak - Rick James

[Self-Explanatory]

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

[Just makes me think of him. Tomoko?]

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

[...mmmm.]

The Bidding - Tally Hall

[I sighed really hard through my nose when I typed that one.]

Bye Bye Bye - NSYNC

[Sir fix your messy-ass love life. ]

Notes: Very difficult to think of songs specifically that fit him in only in Part 4, so this is just general for his character. I refuse to ignore what he did so.. whoops

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Hayato Kawajiri

Lifeline - Jack Stauber

[mm. Self-Explanatory. Also, bites the dust.]

Turn the Lights Off - Tally Hall

[Just reminds me of him. Self-Explanatory.]

Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead

[Self-Explanatory.]

Childhood's End - Pink Floyd

[Self-Explanatory]

Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

[A really obvious choice, but..]

Notes: I wonder if the Speedwagon Foundation offers coverage for therapy costs

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Reimi Sugimoto

Oblivion - Grimes

[Self-Explanatory I think? But if not. Several of the lines just remind me of the way she described the night of her death. There's several other things too but]

Old Friend - The Walters

[Uhhhh I genuinely don't know. Rohan ig? it's just sweet to think about (SHOULDN'T HAVE TO STATE I DONT MEAN THIS IN A SHIPPING WAY BUT IM SPECIFYING ANYWAYS JUST IN CASE.) ]

Dream Sweet in Sea Major - Miracle Musical

[Cannot explain. Just reminds me of her]

Pet Sematary - Ramones

[Self-Explanatory]

rises the moon - Liana Flores

[Self-Explanatory]

Notes: A bit difficult for me to figure out, but I think these work well enough. She herself is quite upbeat but everything surrounding her is incredibly tragic and I want that to get across

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Mikitaka Hazekura

Space Oddity - David Bowie

[Very obvious pick, but reminds me of him. Also just a fantastic song]

Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead

[Self-Explanatory]

Pools - Glass Animals

[CANNOT explain. Just makes me think of him.]

Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles

[I have no clue how this reminds me of him. Just go with it. The vibe of the song I suppose]

Spring and a Storm - Tally Hall

[Mostly Self-Explanatory]

Notes: There are actually alot more songs I wanted to include for him so these may not be the best picks but. Tried to stick with 5

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Yuya Fungami

Speed King - Deep Purple

[Deep Purple song. Referenced in his design. 500 other things. Good song]

Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine

[Not self-explanatory but I will not explain]

Rattlesnake Shake - Fleetwood Mac

[Self-Explanatory]

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

[ " My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed " ]

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

[Self-Explanatory]

Notes: He just has a.. Very specific. Energy.

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Yukako Yamagishi

好き好き大好き(Suki Suki Daisuki) - Jun Togawa

[Ok listen to me. LISTEN. Not because this song has become associated with anything ' yandere. ' But because Jun described it as completely earnest, raw, intentionally over-the-top expression of her actual feelings about being truly in love. There you go. The intensity and sincerity of it remind me of her (though specifically her first appearance, not later on). Cool? Cool.]

Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart - Mitski

[Fairly Self-Explanatory. Post her first appearance, Koichi avoiding her out of fear and her distress over that because of this person she's put on a pedestal ignoring her, etc etc]

Sports - Beach Bunny

[Self-Explanatory]

the daughter of the fish and the ram - The Scary Jokes

[Self-Explanatory. Reminds me of the Cinderella arc and particular.]

I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams - Weezer

[Ok even though I've heard this song so many times over the years it still baffles me it's Weezer. Anyways self-explanatory]

Notes: Honestly I didn't want all the songs I picked to revolve around romance or something because that's not all of her but considering that's what her motivations end up being. slightly difficult, really.

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Toshikazu Hazamada

Burnout - Green Day

[Self-explanatory for 15 different reasons]

Caroline, Please Kill Me - Coma Cinema

[Something something the meaning of the song. Self-explanatory]

all i want is you - Rebzyyx

[fucking. yeah]

どう考えても私は悪くない! (Dō Kangaete mo Watashi wa Warukunai!) - Koshiro Fukumoto (?)

[what am i supposed to say. I dont know. don't look at me. yeah its the watamote ending what do you want me to say]

Rock Bottom - Modern Baseball

[Self-Explanatory]

Notes: I genuinely despise this guy I want to push him into oncoming traffic (and I dont mean that affectionately) and I'm sure you can tell. It's mostly this specific genre of music bc it reminds me of him sorry

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Tonio Trussardi

Good Day - Tally Hall

[I cannot explain.]

Who You Are - Tally Hall

[Something something PHF being disowned by his father going off on his own to do his dream. Being his own person separate from his family]

That's Amore - Dean Martin

[I don't know, it's cute and silly. He's Italian. I wonder how many times his restaurant has been used for cute dinner dates]

Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega, DNA

[Self-Explanatory.]

Just Breathe - Pearl Jam

[Pearl Jam song. mostly self-explanatory maybe? Just the light tone of it.]

Notes: This man has the most comforting smile I've ever seen. Love him. It's genuinely a shame he was part of a one-off episode, it's nice to have a character who only wants to help people. Hard to find songs for, though

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Aya Tsuji

Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

[Self-Explanatory]

She's A Rainbow - Rolling Stones

[Self-Explanatory]

Beauty School Dropout - Frankie Avalon

[Self-Explanatory]

Beauty Is Empty - Mars Argo

[The entire EVERYTHING with Yukako]

When a Woman Is Around - Unloved

[.. I cannot explain]

Notes: Mara your help is greatly appreciated, I wanted to give this woman the lovely songs she deserves

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Yoshikage Kira

Ruler of Everything - Tally Hall

[Fairly self-explanatory]

Fitter Happier - Radiohead

[The eerie unsettling tone. The lyrics remind me of his speech.]

I Hold Your Hand In Mine - Tom Lehrer

[Everybody who has ever heard this song ever compared it to him for obvious reasons so this isn't a unique choice by any means but.. It's commonly compared for a reason. Self-explanatory]

Terrible Things - April Smith

[Self-Explanatory.]

A Well Respected Man - The Kinks

[Self-Explanatory but... Ironic, really]

Notes: I hate this guy but hell do alot of songs fit

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Akira Otoishi

It's Electric - Metallica

[Self-Explanatory]

Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company

[Self-Explanatory. Also this song UGHH I LOVE IT]

Punk Rock Classic - RHCP

[RHCP song. that whole ' desire for recognition/fame through his musical talent ' thing. How INCREDIBLY hard this song goes. Very him]

High Voltage - AC/DC

[sighing deeply and taking a sip of my soda. self-explanatory. trying not to put songs specifically because they mention electricity or rock but some are so nice it's inevitable yknow]

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

[cannot explain. just think about it with him and get back to me ty]

Notes: THANKYOU BASIL FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE WITH THIS ONE I WAS CLUELESS. Love this guy but I have no idea what works

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Keicho Nijimura

Blue Monday - New Order

[Self-Explanatory. Backstory]

Bullet With Butterfly Wings - The Smashing Pumpkins

[Self-Explanatory}

Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier

[I can't exactly explain. Just how he's been dedicated to his mission for so long and done so much it would be impossible for him to turn back. That it's all his cause and whatnot. ]

Little Guns - Oingo Boingo

[I think it's.. Fairly obvious.]

Chop Suey! - System Of A Down

[Honestly any song that sounds like this I could compare to him. Also uh. several reasons.]

Notes: I haven't been able to forgive him ever since the " you always held me back " thing but.. Still a very interesting character. I won't insult him.

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Toyohiro Kanedaichi

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

[*crushes my soda can on my forehead* i have no clue man]

I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel

[Self-Explanatory.]

Island in the Sun - Weezer

[yeah sure why not

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

[A very blatant choice because it's the name of his stand but there really isn't alot else to put. Plus, kindof fits.

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

[...tower]

Notes: I have no idea what songs to pick for him I'm sorry.

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Terunosuke Miyamoto

Goldfinch Nocturne - ROAR

[The gentle, mournful tone. Something something the lyrics about loneliness. Just the first character I think of when I hear this song. Definitely a bit of a stretch but hey.]

Icicles - The Scary Jokes

[Feels fairly self-explanatory]

New Normal - Jack Stauber

[mmmm. also, the khalid song by the same name]

Just Another Day - Oingo Boingo

[Self-Explanatory]

My Time - Bo En

[Self-Explanatory, mostly. Also something about it matches his general vibe I don't know how to explain it]

Notes: Free him. Thankyou dearly allay (? im so sorry I don't know what to call you, lmk) for sending me your playlist to help with this.

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Tomoko Higashikata

The Other Woman - Lana Del Rey

[… Unfortunately, self-explanatory. Her story really does upset me if I'm being honest]

Hidden in the Sand - Tally Hall

[joseph.]

He's Mine - MoKenStef

[A bit ironic but, hey. Also this song.. God]

Kisses of Fire - ABBA

[Self-Explanatory]

I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

[ Self-Explanatory ]

Notes: Deserved so much better. Also that first song I almost didn't wanna put because it plagues my heart but. Fits

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Shinobu Kawajiri

Jobless Monday - Mitski

[Self-explanatory. Fits her very well.]

Oh to Be in Love - Kate Bush

[Self-Explanatory]

Me and My Husband - Mitski

[More Mitski. Self-explanatory though, again. A bit sad and ironic because the song really isn't about anything close to a happy relationship and.. Mm]

Sentimental Lady - Fleetwood Mac

[Self-Explanatory]

This Charming Man - The Smiths

[I don't have anything to say]

Notes: Shinobu you break my heart into pieces. My stomach hurts when I imagine the mourning she'd have to go through.

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PLAYLIST

[mintbees]

Honestly just clicked bc it said [hands you the mic] so only mild panic rn, but wanna let you know your style is super cool and love your drawings :))) Any particular artists inspired it or self-developed?

dw its fine im giving the mic for a reason speak up!!!

but seriously thank u thats so sweet of u to say!! I cant specifically name that many infleunces but growing up borderlands 2 was like. THE artstyle for me

This shit still rules so fucking much. Don't think it shows through much in my artstyle cuz my art is very "clean" and borderlands artstyle is messy and grimey. In terms of how it draws faces and its general style though? still absolute goals.

another really big inspo that goes way back and is making a real big influence rn cuz i bought one of his artbooks is alphonse mucha!

his artstyle and colors and eye for composition are fucking legendary and i love his work so so much. Though his works lacks the emotion and story that i always like in other artists, his artwork is almost trance inducing to me. i wish i could draw women as beautiful as he did.

Last one i can remember being a big influence this past year or so has been hirohiko arakis work on jojo!

jojos artstyle is an.....acquired taste that u kinda have to get into but GODDDDD. the crazy color palettes and poses r so fucking good. Araki basically made me go "fuck. ive GOT to get good at drawing weird poses" and showed me that when u use color palettes you can just throw the entire base palette of the character out the window if u want which was kind of an eye opener for me. shoutouts to araki fr.

so ye thats kind of the artstyles/artists i can point out and say im inspired by!! i personally sadly dont think u can see much of this back in my art yet though. Spent most of my teen artists years admiring amateur artists online instead of actual professionals and all. which isnt a bad thing! but you dont learn that much from it and it definetely stumped my artistic development for a while.

sorry for the super long tangent but i hope this answer helps! So yeah mostly self developed with a few big influences/inspirations

[surpriserose]

Top ten video game characters!!

OUUYGHHHHGGHHHHHH YESSSSSS this is gonna be so all over the place but yzyahsisjqk

1. Samara mass effect i literally like i can analyze her for hours if i didnt cry everytime i thought about her too hard LIKE!!!! shes a mom!!! Shes got so much guilt!!!! SHES FUNNY!!! BUT ALSO SHE GAVE ALL OF THAT UP AND JUST TRIES TO HARD NOT TO FEEL EVEN THOUGH SHE FEELS SO MUCH AUVVHHHH

2. Ann takamaki from persona 5 god... like shes everything like every other character projects so much onto her and shes going through so much because of it so she just isolates herself and it makes it worse and im trying to be vague because its so heavy but shes just nice she cares so much and shes gay okay not canonically but 🤨 and augghhh i just hate persona 5 because they ruin that all immediately. Also junpei iori would be here for persona rep instead but oughh i dont remember most of persona 3 anymore

3. Mirage from apex legends....im sorry hes just a funny little guy and he's SO fun to play and hes 😳

4. Vivienne from dragon age inquisition....god shes so pretty and shes got such an interesting perspective on all the dai conflicts because shes mastered things the way they are and shes like a chessmaster kind of character if you know what i mean and bioware doesnt know what to do with her so they fuck her over and everyone hates her and theyre fucking wrong shes my wife shes the pope shes a girlboss

5. Im gonna give this as a general space to the men i half remember from my parents playing video games so like leon Kennedy and chris redfield resident evil and dante dmc....whats the name of the guy in prince of persia???? That guy

6. Ouughhhh okay female eivor/kassandra from assassins creed odyssey and Valhalla respectively....they are not very deep characters but um 😳 they are very muscular women who fucked their way across greece and England in my playthroughs so...

7. Okay........im sorry for this one.... francis york morgan from deadly premonition......hes got jojo character vibes in that hes weird in very specific GENUINELY weird ways because the writer is just genuinely weird and also ripped off twin peaks and i can appreciate that

8. Zelda/sheik from ocarina of time...... gender 🥺👉👈 also so so so so so fun to play when they were still combined in smash

9. Your partner and grovyle from pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky/darkness/time....LIKE i have so much nostalgia for this game and like....theyre actually well written im sorry its so weird to say that but pmd has the most dedicated fanbase for a reason <3 also ur partner and ur pokemon avatar are gay parents at one point so

10. Sombra overwatch 😔😔😔 IM SO SORRY to keep bringing up the hold overwatch used to have on me but sombra is so pretty and gay and stirs up shit for no reason and shes so fun to play she makes people so mad i love her

[spamtonsbigshot]

this the man you kin?

Ah welcome back my good friend! I am now going to write another essay in response <3 You have oh so kindly sent me an image of Risotto Nero at a gamestop with the text “Hello I want to purchase one copy of Animal Crossing New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch please” and I appreciate this, thank you. In this essay I will explore Risotto Nero, explore the act of “kinning”, and then combine both of these and come to a conclusion.     Risotto Nero is a minor character in the hit series “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure”, specifically being presented to us tits out in Vento Aureo as the head of the assassin team. Stand: Metallica, and it makes shit like weapons out of the iron in your blood, funky jelly beans, 8/10 would eat one. Pop one I’m my mouth like a tic tac. Anyway, this goth BDSM clown met a rather unfortunate end all too soon. I would’ve like to have seen more backstory on this guy. Like, whys he got his fat tits out all the time?? What led you to this choice sir???? Oh yeah his sclera are probably tattooed too so thats neat. Probably watches Tokyo ghoul the mother fucker. Man probably had a mullet in high school too. That is canon in my mind.     Now, lets talk about “kinning.” Kinning is definitely taken pretty seriously by some people, trust me, ive seen it, but good for them honestly. But our internet funnypeople have warped it to “Yeah i think theyre just a little bit neater than the rest of them and i also relate to this one thing they said” and thats also valid as hell. But you see, this is where we run into a problem. I do not relate to this BDSM Jester. Oh yeah why do people call him a BDSM clown when he’s very clearly a jester?? hes got the funny bells and striped pants like???? anyway. This man is much too edgy for me, but i can appreciate the aesthetic and outfit.    Finally, here is my conclusion of which i will repeat 5 different ways with different phrasing, I Do Not Kin Risotto Nero. This man’s character is incredibly unexplored and i really wish we saw more of them. All i know is he and murolo probably dated and are also fake divorced but then they get real divorced for the sake of love <3. @ Araki give us more Nero please and thank you. Oh yeah this dudes also seen for literally 2 fucking episodes and is basically killed on accident.     I shall now close this essay with a thank you as this has given me something to do at 11:39 pm, so thank you Dio very cool <3. Second, I kin Fugo and you know this very well. Third, thank you to any other motherfuckers for reading this and I am trying my best <3 thank you and goodnight except im not actually sleeping but you should be. Drink some water too <3 

[theropoda]

3, 4, 6-8, 11, 13-17, 19-22, 26-30 uwu

WOO LAD THAT’S A LOT THANK U!!! this got long and i wrote an essay or two LOL so im putting it under a readmore!

3: Best game you’ve ever played? WEEEELLLL.......let me preface this with two things: one, i am a FAKE GAMER as in my laptop is not at all made for gaming, it’s piss poor, so a big chunk of games i’m interested in is because i watched a playthrough of them lol. i have a 3ds but only 3 games on it (animal crossing new leaf, tomodachi life, nintedogs & cats). second, i’m very bad at choosing favorites of things.....BUUUUT .....i choooooose, in no particular order, OFF, pigeonetics, elder scrolls oblivion, pathologic classic HD!! i’m more than likely forgetting a few though, so sorry about that

4: Worst game you’ve ever played? as i said above, cannot choose favorites, neither can i choose whatever the opposite of favorites is but...uhh, does lif even count as a game? like lif, the stupid little furry flash game i remember playing on some shady website. it was surprisingly very active with a BUNCH of people there but i kept dying like every 5 seconds....AWFUL

6: A game that’s changed you the most? WELL define Changed.....ummm aha first thing that comes to mind is OFF. it’s one of those things where you never knew you wanted something so fucking bad until you saw it--and it’s like that for me. i NEVER knew i loved that odd, surreal, colorful, “looks playful and simple in some parts but incredibly violent and unnerving in other parts” aesthetic til i played it. like aesthetically i love that game to BITS and something about it just stuck with me til the end of time.

later in life (meaning, past year or so) it changed me because it taught me a lesson about storytelling and creative endeavors. a very useful lesson. which is: things don’t really need to have a meaning. stories, art, music, writing, whatnot, while it CAN be deep and meaningful, while you CAN use it as a way to communicate with the world about all kinds of heartfelt things, it can also be...nothing, really.

once i, as usual, got ridiculously overwhelmingly sad about small things. specifically seeing other people around me come up with all kinds of deep and meaningful characters and stories, sometimes putting them into webcomics or writings of theirs, and they were all so well-thought out and detailed and what i envied most was people put a lot of themselves and their experiences into them, venting and coping through them, whilst also making these larger-than-life grandiose complex stories and worlds and so on and so forth.

it made me look at my own ideas and get mad/frustrated at how shallow they were. but then i remembered OFF and i felt better because Fun Fact, mortis ghost has a now-abandoned dA account and if you go through the comment section on his profile, he answers a lot of fan questions and he mentions several times that the game didn’t really have a “meaning”, it didn’t really have a “deeper story” or moral or anything, really. i’m paraphrasing this but i vividly remember him saying “i wanted to make a game, so i did”.

that made me feel a lot better because it made me realise that sometimes art--especially stories, in my case-- doesn’t NEED to be DEEP or have MEANING...sometimes it can just BE!!!! sometimes it really can just be all about AESTHETICS like who GIVES a shit if there’s a hidden meaning if you take the first letter of all of your characters’ names and put them backwards, sometimes all that matters is if they just VIBE with you y’know....

yume nikki is similar in this regard bc that game doesn’t have any story other than “collect egg” and yet it’s so impactful. that game doesn’t have a story or meaning it just IS........ :) GOD THATS SO LONG IM SORRY ABOUT THAT but yeah. funny violent ghostbusting baseball man is a game that changed me :)

7: A game you’ll never forget? OFF AGAIN LOL,,, it’s just so memorable because of how unique it is. visuals, soundtrack, story, everything is so memorable. unforgettable. oh god you can tell how much i love this damn game can’t you

8: Best soundtrack? yakuza 0, OFF, there is a picture (another game by mortis ghost, again composed by alias conrad coldwood who also composed OFF), pigeonetics (the entire soundtrack of which is here), jojo’s bizarre adventure all star battle and eyes of heaven, silent hill 2 & 3, undertale....probably forgetting more but all of these...earcandy

11: Hardest game you’ve played? i am a shitty gamer so this is Most games i’ve played lol!! but uhh..well you see. hardest game i remember playing as of recent is pathologic classic hd in which it’s...not only hard to understand what any character is saying at any given time lol but also, i don’t think it’s HARD it’s just...you need to focus. you REALLY need to fucking focus and pay attention in this game. so i wouldn’t say its HARD, but i’m only putting this here bc it’s in recent memory.

i say recent memory because the true answer is susceptible to “yeah, but now you’re older, it must not be so hard.” as in if i played it now i think i’d have a way easier time. but when i was around....10-12 years old i had several ps3 video game adaptations of animated movies and i had SUCH a fucking hard time with them. g-force, bolt and up in particular were fucking HARD. like genuinely, the hardest time i had EVER had in my live playing video games is tied to these three fucking games. g-force and bolt ESPECIALLY. one particular level in bolt took both me AND my sister around a year to fucking finish.

again, i was baby, so i bet i’d have a much easier time with them now that i’m 17. but for now, in my experience, bolt and g-force for the ps3 were harder than pathologic classic. i think icepick lodge should take a few notes for them for pathologic 2.

13: A game you were the most excited for when it wasn’t released yet? STREETS OF KAMUROCHO...i spent the entire day of its release anticipating its launch lol

14: A game you think would be cool if it had voice acting? hmm..most games i like and know about do have voice acting so i dunno....i guess it would’ve been kind of cool if morrowind had like, full proper voice acting. but i can understand why it only voice acted things like greetings and battle insults because GOD that game is SO...complicated...and as a result, the conversations are so lengthy and text-full. playing morrowind is really like a goddamn book! if it was voice acted i’m sure all that information would have to be shortened bc i know no one is going to fucking voice act two whole paragraphs

15: Which two games do you think would make an awesome crossover? pigeonetics and yakuza in which instead of being about the criminal underworld it’s about shady and unethical pigeon clubs, breeding, racing, etc etc...a lot of illegal shit does happen in the world of pigeons especially when it comes to racing; prized racers have been kidnapped and held for ransom before. and then there’s Avian Cucking: The Sport, where people breed the sexiest pigeons (horseman thief pouters), release them outside to seduce other people’s sexy pigeons, and bring them back and keep ‘em, drama ensues. will kiryu ever escape his past as a professional pigeon-napper, and find solace in his new life as a pigeon hobbyist? find out now by playing YACOOZA......

JOKES ASIDES i don’t know i really don’t....umm, pigeonetics and animal crossing somehow?? :O... like, instead of managing your own town it’s managing your own loft!...orrrr, the jojo games (all star battle & eyes of heaven) with yakuza, because i think they’re somewhat similar because they’re both haha Wacky Silly AND serious over the top fighty-fighting.....or maybe a crossover with OFF and discover my body, which, despite being an incredibly short and obscure indie game i still love to bits for what it’s worth. WAIT ANIMAL CROSSING AND MINECRAFT THAT WOULD FUCK SO HARD OH MY GOD

16: Character you’ve hated most? From what game? i can’t think of any character i like, HATE...with a burning passion.. there are a few i dislike or have a complicated relationship with though.. i’m not interested in the series anymore but ouma from drv3...i’ll admit that he is a bit fun sometimes, especially in the very early beginning he’s a likeable brat but as the game progresses he becomes more irritating than anything and i have an issue with him in regards to writing, despite the fact that i have never been awake in any english class ever lol. it’s too long to put in this already long post but i’ll keep it at that. if you like him, well, good for you for finding joy in something i couldn’t! but he just doesn’t do it for me.

AH I JUST REMEMBERED....MINE......FROM YAKUZA 3....maybe i’d change my mind if i watched a playthrough of y3 again, because i think you always absorb something better on your second watch (tho i honestly Dont have the energy to do that all over again, the yakuza games are too fucking long), but i really hate his writing. spoilers for y3 but, i think mine’s writing, alongside other things in the game, were super messy...and a big part of why i hate him is that not only is he one of those “could’ve had great potential but fell flat” sorta guys but also his love for daigo is seen as some fans as good gay rep and i?????/.............um....WELL let’s just say that, i think people nowadays will see any gay character ever in any circumstance and say it’s good gay rep just based off the fact that A Gay Character exists....he was Not, good gay rep imo....he was not, let alone, Good. .........

17: What game do you never tell people you play? can’t think of any games i wouldn’t tell people i play.. idk exactly what this question’s asking. does it mean what game you don’t tell ppl you play bc you’re embarrassed about it...? i’m not very embarrassed by any of them. the only thing that comes close, i guess, is uhh lioden and wolvden. i’ve only interacted with those communities a LITTLE TINY WEE BIT, yet of what i’ve seen it’s a goddamn dumpster fire and i’d never want to be associated with them lol

19: Which game do you think deserves a revival? i’m well aware it’ll never happen and that it’s more a wet dream than anything but...PT/silent hills..... on a more realistic/”could happen” note, PIGEONETICS!!!! SERIOUSLY, it’s an amazing game about amazing animals and it teaches genetics in a very simplified and efficient way!! genetics is SO hard for me to understand, i fucking hated studying it but this game really helped me understand how it works AND its super engaging and interesting!! HOWEVER, of all the pigeon genes we know of, only a handful were seen in pigeonetics and i’d LOVE a sequel that employs new game mechanics AND new genes!! i wanna learn about bronze and stencil genes! i wanna learn about phenotypes like grizzled and pied!!! genes like sooty and dirty!!! @ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH GENETICS DEPARTMENT PLEASE IM BEGIGNG YOU

20: What was the first video game you ever played? earliest memories of Gaming involves me at my aunt’s house playing two games: super mario brothers and some kind of trapeze game. i don’t remember anything else though

21: How old were you when you first played a video game? i can’t remember but i must’ve been REAL tiny.... 6-9 years, maybe??

22: If you could immerse yourself in any game for one day, which game would it be? What would you do? immerse myself meaning go into their world...? huh....on one hand i’d like to go in the world of yakuza 0 to play in the arcades and do whore related activities but i’d also love to go into the world of animal crossing (and i’m pretty sure i’d be some sort of generic dromaeosaurid in that game!!) and shop, chat with villagers, do chores for them, go fishing, bug hunting, eat delicious fucking food like the apples mangos peaches cherries etc etc.....OH AND FOSSIL HUNTING THAT’S THE BEST PART!! though it would definetly be a little weird, to be a little dinosaur and finding a fossil of a...little dinosaur....i guess the non-sentient species went extinct and the dinosaur i am is some kind of, descendant of a sapient non-avian dinosaur that survived the k-pg extinction event...oh but who cares all i want is a cool little ambulocetus fossil or something. and some cherry pie :)

26: Handheld or console? my old ps3 just went kaput one day years ago so i haven’t used it in years so i can’t compare well... but i’d say handheld, because it lets me like DO stuff more...would love to get a console one day, a ps4 maybe but i’m kinda worried it’ll make me stay in one room all day wasting away my time when there’s other stuff i can do, y’know? but something handheld like my 3ds, on the other hand...i can do stuff with it. i can take it to my room and play it between breaks i take as i clean the room and fold my clothes, i can watch something on the tv and play the game during ad breaks, i can take it outside too if it has charge to last me a while! so....handheld i guess

27: Has there ever been a moment that has made you cry? yakuza 0 and undertale in particular have ALMOST made me fucking bawl with many of its moments....yakuza 0 especially, after that Fucking Ending i had trouble sleeping because oh my fucking god. video game people SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

28: Which character’s clothes do you wish you owned the most?

29:  Which is more important, gameplay or story? HMMM....well, if i were to play a game with a shitty story but really good and fun gameplay i’d probably continue playing it for the gameplay. but if i played a game with shitty gameplay but an interesting story, there is a chance i’d play it more for the sake of the story but also i might just quite and see the rest of the story on youtube or something. i’m more likely to go through a boring story for fun gameplay than go through boring gameplay for an interesting story, so i guess gameplay is more important to me....that is, WHEN i actually own and play a game as opposed to when i just watch someone play a game because i don’t own the game but wanna know abt the story lol

30: A game that hasn’t been localized in your country that you think should be localized? i have no idea how video game localization really works....but i assume localizing a game in india would mean something like, removing content according to cultural norm and also somehow translating it into the 22 official languages..? or just two or three language if it’s tied to a particular state, which seems way more doable. i honestly have no idea? i’ve never interacted w the indian gaming community that much to be honest, all i know of it is of the video games i’ve seen sold in some game stores and a few whispers about like solid snake or whoever from my school’s cafeteria....the most popular games here, to my knowledge, are those very streamable games like fortnite and PUBG and your call of duties and whatnot. those generic shooters. and even then, that honestly isn’t the “indian” gaming community bc this country is so FUCKHUGE, it’s just tamil nadu. one state.

soooo, according to what little i know of gaming interests in where i live, i don’t think any of the games i like should be localized here bc i don’t really think there’s an audience for it as far as i can tell :( maybe animal crossing? it’s a fun little games for all ages and i think it has a chance of becoming popular here, so maybe that is worth a shot! but i can’t think of any other game that i like that really has an audience here (other than Me lol)

[weebviews]

Weebviews: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run

Publish date:  Jan 19, 2004 to Apr 19, 2011

Status: Finished!

Chapters: 95

Genres:  Action, Adventure, Mystery, Historical, Horror (???), Shounen, Supernatural

Author:  Araki, Hirohiko

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Welcome BACK to yet another JJBA review! I finally finished part 7, and let me tell you it was absolutely amazing. I really get why this part is sometimes labeled the best part.

First off, Johnny is a really great Jojo. I can’t say too much without spoiling, but his development was really great, and I was really amazed by his character overall. I know he’s supposed to be just (BIG SPOILER IM SO SORRY) alternate Jonathan, but he really was a freakin great Jojo. The evolution of his stand was also great and it showed how he matured and grew as a protagonist!

Second, G Y R O Z E P P E L I ! One of THE BEST Jobro’s and was AMAZING. I cannot believe this man can go from an absolute crackhead to a beautiful Italian man. The way he was designed was really great, and he is another reason to just love both universe Zeppeli families. His whole backstory was also just really great too, love the man

Third, the story was very interesting. Very very different from the original Beat Dio! Beat Pillarmen! Beat Dio! Beat Kira! Beat Gangboss! Beat Pucci! kinda thing. The story was fun and fresh (to me at least lol) and I enjoyed it. Kinda like the rest of the Jojo’s, it’s just a repetitive same thing, but this one was filled with fun fights and I’m eager for it to become animated!

Lastly, THE ANTAGONISTS. Specifically THE LAST TWO ANTAGONISTS. JEEZ! D4C’s ability, and the main antagonist?? Gave me HIGH BLOOD! The TRUE ANTAGONIST? MADE ME CRY

THE ENDING?? HEARTBREAKING AND SOBBING

I would HIGHLY recommend reading Jojo’s, it really is a great series, and Araki is really working some magic!

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MAL: 9.22/10

PER: 10/10!

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Here’s some volume covers! I DO NOT OWN THEM

[katribou]

ive been angry in past weeks with nowhere to direct it so yay!! a disillusioned anon i got is going to take the hit!! thank you dumbass!!

so! when it comes to drawing you may use wacky palettes. and thats good and fun, i love me some colors. sometimes you may use colors like orange or yellow as skintones to make stuff pop, instead of making them the more realistic spectrum of browns and tans and etc that exist in the real world. 

now, we are aware that it is derogatory to call asians yellow! yes! still frowned upon! bad! REALLY don’t do that!! before i say anything else, let me tell you! that i myself am literally half chinese! my mom and her family literally were born in! and came over from! hong kong! i dont feel like i should have to tell you all these details about my life!!!!!!!!!!!! because you are not entitled to them!!!!!!! but anon pissed me off so i feel like i guess i have to justify!

so! growing up and existing as half chinese, i’m still very sensitive to racism against asians! believe it or not i did experience some of that shit in gradeschool! even tho!! i’m not even!!! fully asian!!! unfortunately i grew up in a very white whitey white town so!! guess we had it coming lmfao!! i’m digressing

i was accused of being Problematic by lovely anon here (who went all the way to send these messages to me on my fucking splatoon blog where none of the content there is even related to what was being critiqued (aka my jojo art) probably to take advantage of the fact i have anonymous messages switched on over there and dont here on my main) because i use yellow as a skintone on asian characters.

that may sound bad by itself but it is only bad if you are EXCLUSIVELY USING YELLOW on asian characters. whoa wha?!?!?!!?!?!?!? im sorry if your small brain cannot comprehend that concept

LETS TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF MY WORK THAT IS APPARENTLY SO PROBLEMATIC ON THIS FRONT

behold. some of my mob psycho art. wowie! teru all the way on the right portrays how i feel at the moment because a clown in my inbox got the better of me and is causing me to write this longass novel of a post

all of these characters are fully japanese! 100% asian! oh no, hold up, some of them were drawn with yellow palettes for their complexion! WAIT A SECOND!!! IS THAT...? Unproblematic Because As You Can See i portray asians in a variety of colors for skintones and not just yellow as people who are historically racist towards asians generally refer to them as? CORRECT!!!!!!

i will say that i would understand if there are asians out there who are uncomfortable with this artistic choice because of this history in the racism against asians. but i firmly stand with the belief that doing so is only a problem if (1) you only use yellow as a skintone when you are drawing asians and/or (2) if you reserve using yellow as a skintone JUST for when you are drawing asians.

i obviously do neither and im not calling myself perfect on any level but calling me problematic for this is just plain INCORRRECT.

anyway. sorry. i know i said i wasn’t going to acknowledge this anon’s messages unless they showed a face, but after some thinking i’m like. man. if others are this disillusioned maybe i need to say some shit. to teach The People or something

also anon if youre out there i just want to let you know you sounded extra stupid here specifically

trish una...............

is literally fully italian

[coochellati]

Hey, Jovia ^.^ I’ve been following your blog for a while now and I absolutely ADORE it. Your rants and everything are literally my safe space, I’m just as obsessed with Bruno 🥹🤧

I want to share with you something maybe less typical to your usual head-canons. It’s related to that scene where he ascends to the sky and he says sth like “I’m only going back to where I was supposed to be. I’m simply returning to how I once was”. Do you ever think Bruno might actually be a spiritual person? Not in the religious sense necessarily (but it might explain something, since he’s Italian and most likely a Catholic). But I find that scene quite symbolic to his character - let’s be real, it’s one of the most majestically-portrayed deaths in Jojo (might be biased, right, but can you not be when it’s about him? 🥲). I like to think that he might have some faith - whether in some god or simply the universe. He shows this multiple times in the show, but I think his sense of faith and spirituality shows the most in his optimistic thinking. He sees the light even on a dark path (and, sometimes, he’s the light himself; to others) and tries to be moral, even in his area of “work”. If some kind of faith doesn’t drive him, then what else?

This turned into a long rambling. Anyway, I’m curious to hear your opinion!! Stay safe ✨

Hi!!! Thank you so much for reaching out!! It makes me feel incredibly honored that you think so highly of my blog and consider it a safe space 😭🩷

Ooh!!! This is a good one; I love getting all philosophical over Bruno.

Oh my god his ascension scene is fucking beautiful. I too think it is the most majestically-portrayed death in JoJo’s. Yeah.. okay. im Biased too…. Still though. I can’t think of a more beautiful death. And the SOUNDTRACK. Ascensione is so perfectly composed. It sounds like something Debussy would write. (It’s also in Ab major; my favorite key signature. 😩 Ab major just feels… so emotional.) I don’t listen to it very often though because it makes me burst into tears. 😭 Also the VISUALS. Can you think of a JoJo’s death that’s objectively more beautiful than Bruno’s?

(can you??? CAN YOU??)

I agree with your thoughts! I too believe he’s spiritual. Like you said, I don’t think he follows a specific religion, but it’s shown he believes in fate, which is a higher power, in a way. The idea of fate is highly associated with religion, so the chance of him believing in something is pretty high. You’re right, there’s a chance he could be Catholic, considering that 79.2% of Italians are Catholic (this data is from a Eurobarometer poll from 2021.) But I don’t get Catholic vibes from him… (what even are Catholic vibes?? LOL I don’t know, but Bruno doesn’t have em.) His ability to see light in dark things is also very correlated to religion.

Araki himself is somewhat spiritual, I’ve heard. He went to a protestant school when he was a kid, but he isn’t a Christian now. People speculate he leans more towards Deism now. Since Araki’s beliefs no doubt influence JoJo’s, I believe Bruno approaches religion the same way Araki does. Of course, Bruno is his own character, so he may not follow what Araki believes, but he is Araki’s creation…

So yeah, those are my thoughts! Thanks for sending me this; analyzing this man is my favorite pastime! :)

[tfw-no-tennis]

hunter x hunter thotz so far

soooo ruth and i started watching hunter x hunter woohoo finally! we’re like 10 or so eps in so i decided to collect some thots below on what i think so far (i havent rlly been spoiled so im interested to look back on this once ive watched more)

first off i love gon sm, hes immediately so endearing...hes just a baby!!!! just a little baby boy!!!! hes just so cute and good, im so not ready for him to get put thru the wringer later on as ive vaguely heard happens

the first few episodes were really fast paced which i enjoyed and thought was for the best. the characters came thru really strongly and i feel like we heard juuuust enough about the setting, premise, and what a hunter is 

i wasnt expecting leorio and kurapika to show up in the FIRST EP lmao that surprised me. i love so much how the three of them like IMMEDIATELY became a family unit in like 3 eps lmaoooo it was like ok here are 2 parents and their son bam. also leorio and kurapika having a showdown on the boat (which didnt end up happening) was a wild ride 

i have like zero fucking idea what a hunter is and the more they attempt to explain the more confused i get. its honestly kind of hilarious how little sense it makes. to be clear this doesnt detract from my enjoyment of the show at all (if anything it adds to it)

oh my god fuckgin hisoka is the worst he hasnt done much but i hate him so much already. good villain writing/design so far, hes so hateable

ruth every time hisoka shows up: WE HATE UR PUSSY BIIIITCH 

the character design in this show is....a lot lmao. ruth and i decided its a cross between soul eater, jojo, and one piece in terms of aesthetic. the designs are certainly unique and so many of them are just so ugly hvbjafdbdskgs it reminds me of that post thats like ‘masterpost of jojo characters who look busted as shit’ lmao

i already love this show a lot tbh like the way its structured so far has been kinda atypical for a shounen, at least in terms of fights - we really havent seen a lot of fighting yet. also nen hasnt shown up yet and its reminding me of stands not becoming a thing in jojo until p3 lmao 

anyways in litrally ep1 i already loved the 3 main characters we saw...leorio is a wild dude, i love him sm, especially as a fellow medical binch who wants MONEY. like, thats literally me. and kurapika is also wild, like damn they rlly just dropped their backstory in ep 1 huh. like we rlly are jumping right into this 

also when leorio said he was a teenager i was like WHAT???? just like evryone else which YEA omfg. i cant believe hes that young lmao. kurapika too

so leorio is one of those 19 yr olds who looks 40 and kurapika is the type of teen who looks like a 12 yr old

and KILLUA i love him sm also....hes an adorable assassin catboy and hes perfect. i love how quickly he and gon hit it off (tiny bfs.....) and how hes just like, this extra as hell 12 yr old with a SKATEBOARD and ASSASSIN SKILLS and then he sees gon and is like guess im gonna fall in love 

i gotta talk abt gon again i just love him. hes so polite and cute and kind and good, i just love him...wht a good protag. his motivation is just wild too, hes like well my dad abandoned me to go off and be a hunter (which he isnt even mad abt, what a nice lad) so im gonna do that to see what the deal is

i love how gon (just like the audience) doesnt really know what a hunter does/is and just goes into the exam totally blind lmao. also the fact that his skills seem to include jumping good, being speedy, having the energy typical of a 12 yr old, being a weather sniffer, being nice, and having good instincts/constitution as a result of having eaten random grass and forest shit growing up...amazing. 

is this gonna turn out to be one of those things where its like, wow theyve been using nen this whole time without realizing! tht would honestly explain a lot lmao 

i really enjoy how like....semi-normal the power levels are rn? while also being all over the place and wack as fucks obvs (like hisoka dissolving that guys arms in his first appearance was A Lot, as well as all the card stuff hes done..). like the part wher that blue guys (evil franky one piece) punches the ground and it leaves a crater and everyones like !!!! wow wtf thats unnatural! that literally threw me off bc that kinda thing is so normal in anime lmaoooo. but i like that thats the starting point bc it leaves a lot of room for power escalation w/out it getting too out of hand 

specifially our protags are starting out pretty low on the Shounen Badass scale - especially gon (and leorio, tho i kinda predict he wont be as fight-y? what with him being premed)

i find it kinda hilarious how killua hasnt done too much (aside from murdering those 2 randos in like half a second) despite being so clearly skilled...like when they have to do the 5v5 fight thing in the tower, i wouldve thought hed be the first up cause hes so badass but nope

actually thats what i find interesting - i was expecting all 5 (or maybe 4, we’re in the middle of leorio’s ‘fight’) of the fights to be physical smackdowns but so far nope, theyve been very cerebral. that bodes well, w/how smart the fights have been, bc i doubt the fights will get stale tht way 

tho they might be kinda frustrating sometimes - there are times when u DO just wanna see a good ole fashioned shounen beatdown yknow. but we do get enough of that now (and im sure we’ll get plenty more) to satisfy (like kurapika decking fake-franky) 

oh also the opening. its so charming and cute and i love the song...its also so hilariously basic and classic - like one of those typical 2000s anime openings where theres stock run cycles of all the main characters and theres a little animation of all the characters fighting together (and that fight doesnt actually happen, its just for the op) 

also love that leorios the only one who doesnt fight in the OP, instead getting saved from death by gon lmao. im curious if he’ll end up fighting at all (i assume a little?) and if he’ll use nen (probably healing type nen?) 

also i already wanna fistfight ging for abandoning his perfect angel son. also leorio is literally gons dad already, they even look alike wow 

that guy hanzo has done basically 0 things so far but i rlly like him already, im curious if thatll change. also sorry for calling u ‘hanzo overwatch!?!?!?!’ upon first viewing my guy 

tonpa is str8 up so annoying pls leave u pathetic loser 

tho it cracked me up when he and Evil Mr Clean were facing off and starting getting all detailed/shaded and i was like o shit is he actually badass. are we abt to see like a nen battle or st. but no....lmaooo

i found it interesting that leorio didnt really admit to wanting to be a dr at first...hes such a good dude, he kinda just let kurapika think that his motives were superficial and greedy when in actuality theyre selfless

also wanting to be rich can be a rlly interesting character motivation and i love when its done right

oh my god i cant believe it took me this long to mention the hilariously edge ED....like holy shit, its so 2000s, the song sounds like its been re-recorded like 40000 times bc of how bad the audio quality is, or something, idk how to describe music but its hilariously specific in tone and its rlly funny to see shots of the main characters smiling while this screamo whatever plays in the bg....wow. 

also s/o to killua for being king of edgy with that ‘tear of blood’ shot

i rlly like how much of the plot, especially the early hunter exam stuff, is moved along simply by gon being a good kind polite boy. 

love the fact that he and leorio and kurapika (and later killua) all team up without even saying anything...i love that, most shounen would have them be like ‘che, i cant team up with anyone, i have to prove myself ALONE or my victory wont be EARNED’ or w/e idk. who knows that might happen later but rn i love how they all effortlessly work together (and how they all contribute - without each other they would have all failed at different points) 

oh man also killuas first appearence was so funny when he drank a bunch of tonpas poisoned drinks and was like [smirks] tch, loser, im immune to poison. get dunked on. [skateboard away] i love him so fuckgin much 

omfg that part where killua looks all shoujo/kawaii and is talking abt how hes gonna kill his family or w/e and gon is just like ^_^? i love they

HOOOOLY FUCK I ALMOST FORGOT, BUT 65% OF THE REASON I MADE THIS POST WAS TO MENTION HISOKAS THEME LMAOOOOO his music being like fuckgin, spanish guitar/traditional mexican type music is sooooo goddamn funny to me for some reason, like the first time it played i was like ok whats going ON with this spanish guitar lmao but then i figured out that its his theme and god thats so funny 

hisoka is also so fuckign jojo like he could so easily be in jojo. he and dio would be the fakest best friends ever and would constantly try to kill each other on the lowdown and shittalk each other constantly in private but be super sweet to each others faces. also they would hatefuck. no im not taking criticism bye 

i rlly love everyones backstories also, and i find it interesting that weve gotten to hear/see at least some of all 4 of the MCs backstories. theyre all compelling and interesting and i cant wait to dive in further 

also calling it now but kurapika is totally gonna get way too absorbed in revenge and get fucked up/disregard their own life (maybe in the style of robin in one piece?) we’ll see but i feel like it aint gonna end well. i could be wrong, i really havent been spoiled at all, thats just my guess 

hbahjfbshjf the ep that was called ‘hisoka x is x sneaky’ was SO funny that reads like a dora the explorer ep title 

also i had no idea the ep titles were formatted like that w/the x’s and thats rlly funny 

ok but the part where leorio - who seems to be pretty bad at fighting - tries to fight hisoka - whose literal first appearence involved him effortlessly dissolving a dudes arms - is so fucking funny. leorio rlly b a premed w/no brain cells....same bro. 

also i loved the Cutthroat Kitchen portion of the hunter exam and how not a single contestant was any good at it lmaoooo. do they not have the cooking channel in hxh-verse earth 

ok i love how the main characters are all intuitive in different ways depending on their own skills, like how killua can immediately guess that kurapika has never killed anyone before after they didnt kill evil-franky

kurapika joined killua in the Edgy Corner during that part also. like, they both have legit reasons to be edgy, but the shots of kurapika sitting in the darker tunnel part was kinda funny

also killua, a literal 12 yr old, calling out kurapika for being a murder virgin was pretty hilarious 

ok also i didnt know that madhouse animated hxh which is rlly funny but w/e i love the animation especially the occasional chibi parts and the facial expressions (like killuas ‘i love murder’ catboy expressions) 

oh also when killua murdered those 2 guys and his hand was all vein-y and his nails were pointy, his hands looked like hisokas do...i wonder if thats a legit connection or it hisoka just b getting his nails did 

kurapika talking abt how even seeing a regular spider makes them rlly angry was both very sad and kinda funny. kura u have so many issues god bless 

kurapikas smackdown on evil blue franky was fuckin dope tho. and the red eyes reveal was SPOICY 

rlly love how the individual fights highlights the characters strengths/morals/motivations/whatever....the writing is already really strong tbh 

ugh ok ive ranted enough this is a Lot lmao its so disorganized but w/e 

basically i love this series so far and im rlly curious whatll happen next. also everything seems pretty chill and upbeat so far (relatively) and i know this shit gets dark and im NOT FUCKING READY. 

til next timeeee

[vulture-jack]

What are some of your favourite anime shows and movies? I'm trying to get into more anime

On paper my favorite anime is Mob Psycho 100. Its an easy recommendation, and imho just straight up one of the best anime ever made. Ive never watched something and been like "wow this is better than mp100". Specifically season 2. Before season 2, Space Dandy was my on paper favorite anime. Space dandy has a raunchier sense of humor that isnt gonna click with everyone, but I love it and like, as art? Its criminally underrated. If you are more familiar with english than Japanese this is also one of the few times when I will STRONGLY reccomend the dub.

Im also like head over heels for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Its a blast. Its so much fun to love jojos. Its a gift that keeps on giving. Its not for everyone, but its for me and i think it radically changed both how I perceive and create art. (Part 3 onward no comment but like. Part 1 and 2? Dub kinda Awful. Nearly stopped me from getting into jojo.)

Those are my current Big Three Things I love. All are artistically unique, high energy, wacky, and over the top so I definitely have a Type. On to some others I enjoy.

Some low key or dramatic shows I enjoy are a Place Further Than The Universe (i cried lmao), Mushi shi (i think ill always wish there were more mushishi. I could watch mushi shi forever), Yuru Camp and Flying Witch (two God Tier aesthetic iyashikei shows), ive only watched the first season so far but im weak for period drama and I really loved Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju s1, Shiki is a good horror anime I didnt expect to hurt me the way it did. Ill put sports anime here and say I have too many Yuri on Ice prints not to include it despite its flaws, and recently really loved Run With The Wind (great cast dynamic). This year Ive really loved the remake of Fruits Basket as someone going into the series p much blind. I need to finish Silver Spoon but the first half is <3 (same author as Fullmetal Alchemist!)

Speaking of FMA for action/adventure FMA Brotherhood is an obligatory recommendation. HunterxHunter is great, and i ADORE the cast of Boku no Hero Academia (and the rest of the show). This year Im enjoying the hell out of Demon Slayer Debated reccing this as it puts the Problematic in Problematic Fav but fuck it I LOVE Kill la Kill and if you can get past the fanservice (and i dont blame you if you cant or just plain dont want to) its so goddamn good. I dont wanna make a new category for these but recently I loved Zombieland Saga. And Ouran High School Host Club is a long time favorite. I also love Yugioh DM but like. Thats not something i generally recommend to people as its not really a great watch experience, its the characters that keep me there, but theres very little time made for th3 Good Stuff (i only pray one day it gets the Brotherhood treatment.) Im leaving out a lot honestly like. Megalobox is dope as hell. I enjoyed Fate/Zero even with like no knowledge or interest in Fate as a whole. Im probably gonna remember something I adore after I post this and be frustrated with myself. Like Anohana! Or Soul Eater! I mainly tried to only count shows ive either finished or finished a whole season of. Like im really loving dr stone but its like 8 episodes in.

MOVIES. Uh. Every Mamoru Hosoda movie Ive seen so far (missing a few) but especially Wolf Children. This director is REALLY good at making me cry.

Recently saw Maquia When The Promised Flower Blooms? 10/10 would sob uncontrollably in the theater again.

I liked a Silent Voice a lot. Especially how it like...visualized the main characters isolation. And that amazing subtle character animation. Really gorgeous movie.

I dont think I need to recommend ghibli movies to people but special shout out to my personal fav Mononoke Hime.

Satoshi Kon as always is worth looking into if you havent, ive only seen Paprika and Tokyo Godfathers at this point and the latter is my favorite of the two.

For some cute kid friendly stuff Arashi no Yoru Ni and You Are Umasou are uhhhhhadorable. Also the little witch academia short movies. If you like those check out the show.

Making this post also makes me realize how much stuff I WANT to watch or need to finish. (Like Red Line and K-on and Psycho Pass and Steins;Gate. All stuff i feel like id recommend if like. Id seen all or even half of it)

I watch a large variety of genres from dark psychological horror to cute girls go camping so I tend to tailor my recs to the person who is asking, but I tried to make this a general purpose collection of favorites lol. I def left some stuff out because typing on mobile as almost as unreliable as my ability to recall Things I Liked.