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[dr-ultimatum]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

(Day 31 - Halloween) The very last day! Thanks for following throughout OC-Tober. I wanted to do an ensemble piece for Halloween, but this kicked my ass so hard that it'd take until *next* Halloween to finish! I'm really happy we decided to do this challenge. It's unfortunate that we fell off near the end, but I learned a lot! Here's to another month filled with fun drawings!

I recycled the angel and devil prompt, but I had to. I had to. You must understand. I didn't meet all of my October goals partially due to hubris and sickness, but I'm optimistic for the future that the next update will be a very fun one. Happy Halloween!

(Psst, below is the backstory for their costumes)

Masanori: "They were out of Mario and Luigi costumes, really? And they only had *that* in stock? Honoka: "yea pretty much" Funny how that happens.

[complacentpigeonpropaganda]

This one's just for me, sorry.

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Mo Murder / Masanori Sasaki fans.

[imasallstars]

CINDERELLA GIRLS U149 ANIME

　Episode 03 “What is something that doesn’t get wet, even if it sinks into the sea”

The members of the 3rd Entertainment Division are starting to grow impatient of the Producer since all they’ve been doing so far is back-to-back lessons. Just then, he comes across “SUGA-MIN☆TV”, a popular streaming channel run by the same productions’, Shin Sato and Nana Abe, and starts thinking up a plan. And that plan was for Shin to teach the others how to shoot a video!

Miria’s over the moon at the thought and, while Shin is rather reluctant, she starts the stream anyways...!?

STAFF

Script: Maoki Murayama

Storyboard: Masanori Takahashi

Direction: Masanori Takahashi

Animation Director: Akihiro Sueta, Satoshi Koike, Hiroya Sasaki

[dcrewatch]

Detective Conan Rewatch: Episode 940

Episode 940: “The Missing Girlfriend”

Before watching this episode, on a scale of 1-10, how much are you looking forward to seeing it again?

5! Last week was pretty decent, maybe this week will be too?

Favorite screencap:

Ran: “I’m not an expert or anything, but I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to bungee jump with a cable attached, Conan-kun!”

Favorite moment:

Maki’s action and Ran’s quick thinking rescuing Conan.

Aww.

Least favorite moment:

Between this and being thrown out of the window of an airship, I’m honestly surprised (non-canon) Conan hasn’t developed a fear of heights.

What's one thing you noticed/realized about this episode that you hadn't before?

A blink and you’ll miss it detail; there’s a contact lens holder in Kaho’s apartment.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this episode?

Again, pretty decent! 5!

Celebrate it!

Since I don't have access to a tablet and am too lazy to scan a drawing, have a (not exactly) summary haiku.

Girlfriend gone missing

Possibly suicidal

Find the hidden truth

Next Episode: Episode 941

Previous Episode: Episode 939

[hjamesp]

[myramglina]

Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter (Official Video) (Short Film with A-1 Pictures & Crunchyroll) from Porter Robinson on Vimeo.

Shelter tells the story of Rin, a 17-year-old girl who lives her life inside of a futuristic simulation completely by herself in infinite, beautiful loneliness. Each day, Rin awakens in virtual reality and uses a tablet which controls the simulation to create a new, different, beautiful world for herself. Until one day, everything changes, and Rin comes to learn the true origins behind her life inside a simulation.

Original Story by: Porter Robinson

Music: Porter Robinson and Madeon

Storyboard Animation Director: Toshihumi Akai

Character Design Drawing Director: Megumi Kouno

Cast: Rin - Sachika Misawa

Original Pictures: Megumi Kouno

Motion Picture Examiner: Tomoko Miyata

Motion Pictures: Tomoko Miyata Mizuki Matsuda

A-1 Pictures Satomi Tabuchi Mika Sugiyama Seira Yamagishi Kanna Hirayama

ingresA P.A.WORKS StudioGokumi GIMLET LIDENFILMS Osaka LIDENFILMS Kyoto ASAHI PRODUCTION Anime-R Snowlightstaff

Color Design: Kazuko Nakashima

Color Setting: Yuko Watanabe Mai Yamaguchi

Finishing by: Asuka Yokota Mayu Morita Ayaka Nagai Kyoko Hara Ayaka Murakami Akane Edagawa Ayaka Suzuki Mana Hokuto

2D Design Work: CAPSULE Yohei Miyahara Kaori Seki

Special Effect: Aya Kubota (Graphinica)

Art Director: Yusuke Takeda (Bamboo)

Art Board: Bamboo Harumi Okamoto

Background: Bamboo Takamasa Masuki Tsukasa Kakizakai Izumi Hirabayashi Surok Chong Ryusei Nishino Takumi Sasaki Aya Sato Michiko Nakamura

CGI Creator: Yuusuke Noma You Fukuda Shigeru Horiguchi

Director of Photography: Yuya Sakuma

Shooting: Takeru Ogihara Ayaka Shimizu Satsuki Takahashi Taichi Nishikawa Sachiko Ito

Editing: Akinori Mishima (Graphinica)

Sound Recording Director: Akiko Fujita

Sound Effects: Takahisa Ishino Sound Mixer: Naotsugu Uchida Sound Editor: Chiharu Kawasaki

Sound Production Manager: Yusuke Watanabe Sound Recording Production: HALF H.P STUDIO

Production Manager: Kenta Ueuchi Eri Nakayama

Special Thanks: Kumiko Honma

Executive Producer: Porter Robinson

Producer: Vincent Shortino (Crunchyroll) Takuma Sugi (Crunchyroll) Masanori Miyake Akira Shimizu Takamitsu Inoue

Animation Producer: Yuichi Fukushima

Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

Lyrics :

i could never find the right way to tell you have you noticed i've been gone? cause i left behind the home that you made me but i will carry it along

mm it's a long way forward so trust in me i'll give them shelter like you've done for me and i know i'm not alone you'll be watching over us until you're gone

when i'm older i'll be silent beside you I know that words are not enough and they won't need to know our names or our faces but they will carry on for us

shelter out now - smarturl.it/shelterstream

north american back to back tour this fall. shelter tour - sheltertourlive.com

stream shelter spotify: smarturl.it/shelterspotify apple music: smarturl.it/shelterapplemusic deezer: smarturl.it/shelterdeezer google play: smarturl.it/sheltergoogleplay soundcloud: smarturl.it/sheltersoundcloud

itunes: smarturl.it/shelterdownload

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[pkjd]

A second key visual and PV for the original college rugby anime “number 24” has been released. It’ll have its broadcast debut in January 2020.

-Synopsis-

"Natsusa Yuzuki entered university expecting to be the rugby club's ace, but he can no longer play rugby due to certain circumstances. Ibuki Ueoka is a senior who also quit playing rugby. There is also Yasunari Tsuru, Natsusa's junior who finds him disagreeable. On the other hand, another junior, Yuu Mashiro looks up to Natsusa and follows in his footsteps. Last, there is Seiichirou Shingyouji, Natsusa's childhood best friend. This is an original rugby anime of former teammates who fight together in matches of Kansai's university rugby league."

-Staff-

Director: Shigeru Kimiya

Series Composition: Rika Nakase

Main Character Draft: YukiKana

Character Design: Saori Sakiguchi

Studio: PRA

-Cast-

Natsusa Yuzuki (CV: Kengo Kawanishi

Seiichirou Jingyouji (CV: Ryouta Suzuki)

Ibuki Ueoka (CV: Junichi Yanagita)

Yasunari Tsuru (CV: Shouhei Komatsu)

Yuu Mashiro (CV: Ayumu Murase)

Gakuto Zaitsu (CV: Hinata Tadokoro)

Ikuto Yufu (CV: Shinnosuke Tachibana)

Taisei Uchinashi (CV: Makoto Furukawa)

Ethan Taylor (CV: Kazuyuki Okitsu)

Madoka Hongou (CV: Souma Saitou)

Kazutaka Hongou (CV: Kaito Ishikawa)

Fuuga Saitou (CV: Takuya Kodama)

Yayoi Tsuzura (CV: Aoi Ichikawa)

Sunao Konoe (CV: Masamu Ono)

Tsuugen Sasaki (CV: Shinnosuke Murashima)

Li Honghin (CV: Yuuki Inoue)

Makoto Someya (CV: Kentarou Kumagai)

Ren Tamashiro (CV: Mizuki Chiba)

Pongsaklek Yunu (CV: Ryuuma Kuno)

Takumi Hidaka (CV: Shougo Yano)

Toranoshin Higashizaka (CV: Daichi Kanbara)

Yuuki Koreeda (CV: Masanori Kobayashi)

Shinya Ishigami (CV: Yuuta Hayama)

via: number24-anime.com

[bastart13]

i dont really like asking on tumblr(clunky imo, captchas) and i feel like ive asked this question before but it never sent for some reason?? idk anyway i wanted to know more about your original dr characters(52nd season) esp ami cause i like her :)

I don’t remember getting this ask, so I assume it must have sent incorrectly or something.

But thank you for the interest :D I wrote little bios (under the cut due to how many characters there are)

Manahiko Tachibana-Ultimate BakerHe’s spoiled sweet from growing up in a rich household where he got everything he wanted. His only skill in cooking is with baking. If he tries anything else, it’s an ungodly mess despite following the instructions. He likes how other people enjoy his food, going around the poorer neighbourhoods so he could cheer people up and be praised. He likes the attention he gets from helping others so his selfless actions are always a bit selfish.

Hanko Sasaki- Ultimate Watercolour ArtistVery mellow and hard to keep focused on anything for a long time. Most of her pictures are unfinished. She’s kindly and supportive, liking to see art in the small good things that people miss. She’s very observant. She’s also a dreamer who’s often lost in fantasies, particularly of romance.

Sohashi Shimizu-Ultimate BodyguardHe’s quiet and stoic, being very difficult to get a reaction out of. He hides that he’s partially blind for fear of people not hiring him as it in no way inhibits his awareness or ability to protect people. He loves listening to quiet sounds and touching soft things so he grows an attachment to children and small animals very quickly. He’s self-sacrificial in his job which is an issue with his over-attachment.

Keiji Yamazaki-Ultimate BoxerA bit vain and very lazy despite being a fantastic athlete. He’s not overly bulky but has a very quick metabolism which allows him to compete in lots of different weight groups. He’s a natural talent so he finds it hard to find the motivation to train without someone pushing him. He’s quite reliant on other people to make decisions.

Toshi Kamiya-Ultimate ClocksmithHe used to be a highly arrogant person who believed himself to be the best, however when his arrogance led to his brother getting into a serious accident he developed serious anxiety that made him withdraw. He seriously wants to get better but he never learnt how to handle himself so he flip-flops between being very arrogant and brash, and quiet and nervous. He’s quite bad with other people because of it despite being pretty extroverted.

Tamotsu Arakaki-Ultimate FirefighterTamotsu is very brave and acts like a traditional superhero; valuing justice, putting other people before himself, and trying to save other people. He’s friendly and supportive but somewhat closed off personally. Getting close to other people, but not saying much about himself. He doesn’t put much value on himself due to his former abusive family before he ran away and was taken in by the woman in charge of the fire station. He takes debts to other people very seriously and would never break a promise.

Nori Himura- Ultimate Forensic ExpertShe’s intelligent and proud. She uses her talent to keep herself busy rather than to help people. She can be very uncooperative because she acts apathetic about other people, thinking herself superior. It’s very hard to get her to care about anything so she kind of just goes along with the moment regardless of her environment.

Yumi Oono- Ultimate HypotistAn intelligent and comforting young girl. She likes harmless pranks such as adding funny quirks through hypnotism. She can be quite self-absorbed despite being a good listener, prioritising herself over others.

Hitomi Tsukino- Ultimate JewellerA very kindly girl but fiercely independent. She was refused from being able to join her family’s business so she created her own jeweller from scratch, ending up beating out her family’s almost single-handedly. She doesn’t like being told she needs help or can’t do something. She’s very charismatic and savvy when it comes to other people.

Masanori Rin-Ultimate JudgeHe has a firm sense of justice and that things will turn out alright for people who act rightly. He can be a bit naïve but that naiveite means that he goes into everything with no preconceived ideas, allowing him to be impartial. He doesn’t tend to do things himself but he’s great at organising and helping other people with their tasks. However, he won’t make any decisions unless he’s sure that he has all the information which makes him a bit slow.  (He and Katsuo grew up together)

Eri Ohayashi-Ultimate LuckShe’s very superstitious and nervous. She’s dependant on her lucky charms and breaks down when she faced with unlucky events due to her family telling her that she was a curse when she was born. She’s reserved and doesn’t really like being around other people so she can strictly control her environment.

Katsuo Kaneko-Ultimate SurgeonA very frugal and greedy boy who’s only in it for the money due to his poverty-stricken upbringing. His emotional detachment allows him to stay calm and he gets annoyed very quickly at people who lecture him as he’s very stubborn about how he goes about things. He’s honest and straightforward with people most of the time. (He and Masanori grew up together)

Misoko Nakashima- Ultimate TailorShe looks cold and intimidating but she’s very sweet in personality. She loves traditional romantic acts and themes. She’s very proud in her skills as a tailor but wishes she could design more despite her lack of creativity. She’s a bit insecure and irritable when people criticise her designs.

Aimi Yoshida- Ultimate Voice ActorA bit of a prankster who loves throwing people off with her vocal range and laughing at their reactions. She’s generally sensible when it comes to important things except for money where she throws all sense out of the window and is very impulsive when buying pretty things. She’s a bit of a moocher when she’s run out. She likes having fun with other people and finds it hard to be alone. (Fun fact: she’s trans in reference to  Madeleine Joan Blaustein)

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I removed some books today.

I think of myself as a minimalist, but that doesn’t happen to be true. I have acquired more books than I will ever read. They still sit, stacked and unreachable, in piles by the walls, two dozen books tall and sometimes two books deep.

I don’t think I know where they all came from. I think more came from online than from any physical store. I bought them from Abebooks, the sales search platform that Amazon owns now. Abebooks tell you the names of the sellers, but they seem unconnected to any real place.

From Better World Books. From Thrift Books and Bookbarn. From Silver Arch Books, Motor City Books, Free State Books, Sierra Nevada Books, Yankee Clipper Books, and the Atlanta Book Company. From Green Earth Books and Housing Works Books. From Goldstone Books and Powell’s Books and Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries. From Satellite Books and the Orchard Bookshop. From Blue Cloud Books and Hippo Books and Wonder Book.

They’re from all over, from places you’ve never been, places you’ll never be. They’re names on a box. But then there are the books from more intimate places, intimately connected

From library’s old bookstore, which sold paperbacks for fifty cents, hardcovers for a dollar. From the basement of the old independent bookstore down on Front Street, where they sold remaindered and overstocked books marked down with red-orange tape. From the thrift store across the street, which charged too much.

From the Chapters at the mall in your hometown, or the Chapters and Indigo in the places you’ve been to, from the shelves of marked-down items where you looked for bargains, for the books you knew you should read, and all the books you never would. Places where you could drink sweet cream and coffee and pretend to read.

From the Borders in Syracuse, where you idled while the family went to the fair, where they always said they were going to build the largest mall in America, but never did. There was another Borders in South Florida, where they were stripping fixtures from the walls because the books had not sold, and so the Borders had to be. They still have bookstores. I’m not sure what they sell now. Postcards, I think.

The books still in my room had postcards from people I will never know, dedications to people I will never see, business cards from people who have moved on to other work. But their spines are unbroken, their pages unmarked. I guess I wanted them that way. I bought them like that.

I sometimes worried they would break through the floor. I would wake up to the collapse of everything I have ever owned as I plummeted a few short feet to my death. I guess it would probably take longer than that. I would have to wait for them to crush me. That mass of books would fall on me, blotting out the light. Crushed beneath nearly everything I have ever owned.

That’s what happened to the clerk Toshiko Sasaki in John Hershey’s Hiroshima, who was seated at her desk on August 6, 1945, in front of a couple of bookcases from the factor library:

Everything fell, and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness. The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

Miss Sasaki made out alright, although not so well as to not ask the question “If your God is so good and kind, how can he let people suffer like this?” But then, I have more books than she did.

I removed some books today. I still have more I want to remove. I just don’t have the boxes for them. I took the boxes I did have in the back of my car to a mass-market thrift store, where they will end up on the shelves by the leather jackets. 

Perhaps they will end on some other shelf, like a postcard from somewhere unknown, in someone else’s memory. But I don’t think they will. I don’t think they’ll sell. There aren’t enough people here who spend money pretending to read.

I don’t know what will happen to them. I suppose they will pulp them. Or perhaps they will end in a landfill, crushed beneath their own weight, suffocating beneath the earth we have made for them until life reclaims them.

I wrote out a partial list of the books I threw out. I don’t know what it says about me. There’s a double significance here: These are books I bought, for some amount of money, but these are also books I am throwing away, because I asked the question the woman told me to ask, which was whether they sparked joy, and I answered no.

Those books in the photo are the books that have not yet been thrown away. Here, below the fold, are the books that have:

Judith Fitzgerald’s Sarah McLachlan: Building a Mystery

Mordecai Richler’s Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!

Jonathan Coe’s The Rotter’s Club

Misha Glenny’s McMafia

Joinville and Villehardouin’s Chronicles of the Crusades

Michael Ignatieff’s The Lesser Evil

Russell Dalton’s Citizen Politics in Western Democracies: Public Opinion and Political Parties in the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, and France

Richard Finn’s Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan

Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi

Fox Butterfield’s China: Alive in the Bitter Sea

Anthony Sampson’s The Changing Anatomy of Britain

Masanori Hashimoto’s The Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective with the United States

Donald Keene’s Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism

Andrei Shleifer’s Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia

Peter Newman’s The Secret Mulroney Tapes

Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital

Lesley Downer’s The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan’s Richest Family

Harold Vogel’s Entertainment Industry Economics

Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers’s Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector

Donald Harman Akenson, Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus

Philip Ziegler’s King Edward VIII

David Wessel’s In FED We Trust

Robert Dallek’s Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961--1973

David Halberstam’s The Reckoning

David Bell’s The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

Kevin Phillips’s The Cousins’ Wars

Yirmiyahu Yovel, Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Adventures of Immanence

Michael Oren’s Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Lawrence McDonald’s A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

Richard Posner’s The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy

William Chester Jordan’s Europe in the High Middle Ages

William Cohan’s House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Linda Lear’s Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

Allan Brandt’s The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

Garry Wills’s Head and Heart: American Christianities

Sarah Bradford’s Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain’s Queen

Andrew Gordon’s The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853--1955

John Ardagh’s France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society

Bob Woodward’s The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House

John Julius Norwich’s Byzantium: The Early Centuries

Taylor Branch’s Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963--65

Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker

Tim Blanning’s The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648--1815

Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid

Karl Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism

P. D. Smith’s Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon

Richard Rhodes’s Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race

Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street Years

Alistair Horne’s Harold Macmillan, 1957--1986

Taylor Branch’s The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President

Ian Kershaw’s Hitler, 1936--1945: Nemesis

David Grossman’s To the End of the Land

Sean Wilentz’s The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

Philipp Blom’s The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900--1914

Jacob M. Schlesinger’s Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Postwar Political Machine

Peter Jenkins’s Mrs. Thatcher’s Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era

Martin Lawrence’s Iron Man: The Defiant Reign of Jean Chrétien

Marin Lawrence’s Chrétien: The Will to Win

Alastair Campbell’s The Blair Years

Tony Blair’s A Journey

David Kennedy’s Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End

Kate McCafferty’s Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl

Martin Wolf’s Why Globalization Works

Charles Fishman’s The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How It’s Transforming the American Economy

William Easterly’s The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Karel van Wolferen’s The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation

Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime

[dr-ultimatum]

Masanori Sasaki, Ultimate Police Officer (2/15) He wants to rid the world of evil.

[elfamosodemon]

Bonus Stage: Obscure VGM 3

Breath of Fire III - Without a Care (Akari Kaida) 

Sonic 3D Blast - Gene Gadget Zone (Act 1)  

JET de GO!2 - Jet Stream (Shu-Nakazawa) 

XG2: Extreme-G 2 - Lumania

Roommania #203 - My Mashu (YUKI / Tomoko Sasaki) 

Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon S - Pluto's Theme (Takanori Arisawa) 

Ultimate Card Games - Winter Morning (Zbigniew Siatecki) 

No One Lives Forever - Untitled (Becky Kneubuhl)

Nobunaga no Yabou Ultimate Collection - Beyond the Auspicious Clouds (Yoko Kanno) 

ADVANCED POWER DoLLS 2 - Quiet Afternoon (Hiroto Saitoh)

Mario Party - Mario's Rainbow Castle 

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - Flirty Time (Jake Kaufman) 

Jack Nicklaus Turbo Golf - BGM 02 

Sega Bass Fishing Duel - Track 14 

GRAN TURISMO 5 - Passion (Yuki Oike) 

Enthusia ~ Professional Racing - A Doze (Masanori Akita)

Vampire Savior - Feast of the Damned (arrange ver.) 

The Sims - Neighborhood (Marc Russo) 

[labyrithn-blog]

akkorō  has  been  bristling  all  day,   a  dog  with  its  fur  on  end  and  teeth  bared  toward  the  world.   (   Well,   mostly  just  toward  Sakon   —   who  is  one  of  the  few  people  in  this  accursed  camp  whom  he  hates  above  all  else,   and  yet  whom  is  the  only  person  that  he  could  have  entrusted  with  his  task.   )

———   Master  Shima.   I  have  a  favor  to  ask  of  you. Oh,   so  that’s  what  you  sound  like  under  there!   I  owe  Masanori  five  copper  pieces.   I  thought  your  voice  would  be  deeper. I  will  pay  you  ten  in  recompense,   for  your  assistance. You  really  are  just  like  him,   aren’t  you?   No  wonder  he  favors  you. He  does  not  “favor”  me.   That  is  why  I  have  come  to  you,   Master  Shima.

The  memory  is  so  unwelcome  that  he  holds  his  bachi  far  too  tightly,   slices  one  of  the  strings  of  his  shamisen  clean  in  two.   Of  course.   He  has  never  been  suited  to  the  arts,   can  not  comprehend  why  he  tries  so  hard  to  learn  how  to  play  this  instrument   ———   or  why  he  wasted  so  much  of  his  time  crafting  such  an  unworthy  weapon  for  Mitsunari  when  he  ought  to  have  been  training  to  protect  the  man  with  his  own  blade.

I  need  you  to  deliver  this  to  his  quarters. Oh?   What  is  it?   and,   why  me?   Why  not  one  of  the  servants? I  do  not  trust  them   —   not  with  this   —   and,   I  know  that  you  will  not  arouse  suspicion  for  entering  his  quarters  at  leisure.  —   because  he  “favors”  me,   is  that  it? Yes.   You  are  his  most  trusted  strategist.   Why  should  you  not  seek  him  out  in  the  privacy  of  his  quarters  for  a  discussion? Do  you  envy  me,   Master  Sasaki? Whatever  I  feel  for  you  is  immaterial.   I  need  this  delivered,   without  fanfare  or  identification.   If  you  do  not  wish  to  assist  me,   I  will  ask  someone  el— Just  give  it  to  me.   I’ll  deliver  it   —   and,   you  can  keep  your  copper.   I  don’t  help  for  money   ———   and,   just  between  you  and  me   ...   no  one  here  would  question  why  you  were  in  his  quarters,   either.

Behind  him,   the  flap  of  his  tent  thwips!  open,   and  he’s  on  his  feet  before  he’s  even  fully  aware  of  it   —   fingers  furled  ‘round  the  hilt  of  his  blade,   eyes  narrowed  to  threatening  slits  at   ——— 

❝   My  lord.   ❞   

Wide-eyed  surprise,   now,   and  he  takes  a  knee,   inclines  his  head  respectfully. 

You  made  this?

That  damned  fool!   he  thinks,   grips  his  blade  tighter  still.   What  was  the  point  of  his  help  if  he  still  told  Mitsunari  that  it  was  me?

❝   No,   my  lord.   I’ve  never  made  anything.   I  am  no  craftsman.   ❞   He  watches  Mitsunari  handle  it,   reverently,   running  his  fingers  along  the  edges  as  though  he  wished  to  imprint  the  shape  of  it  upon  his  memory.   ❝   Do  be  careful  with  it,   however.   Whoever  made  it,   it  does  not  appear  to  be  made  well   —   and,   I  would  be  a  very  poor  bodyguard  if  I  allowed  my  lord  to  come  to  harm  due  to  shoddy  craftsmanship.   ❞

Mitsunari  says  nothing,   as  he  is  wont  to  do   ———   simply  sets  the  tessen  down  so  that  he  might  take  a  knee  to  match  Akkorō,   takes  his  face  between  his  hands  and  captures  his  lips  within  a  kiss  that  is  so  soft  and  so  sweet  that,   for  a  brief  moment,   he  forgets  that  they  are  not  equals   /   forgets  that  he  has  no  right  to  cup  Mitsunari’s  face  the  way  that  he  does,   or  to  return  the  kiss  with  as  much  fire  as  he  does.   (   Ill-fitting,   for  a  water  beast.   )  

❝   Mitsunari   ———   ❞

You’d  best  tell  me  who  told  you  about  today.

He  laughs,   a  boyish  giggle  that  has  no  place  between  these  men  of  war,   touches  their  foreheads  together  and  allows  himself  a  moment  to  simply  revel  in  the  other’s  presence.   No  wonder  he  favors  you. 

❝   No  one,   my  lord   ———   and,   this  time,   I  am  not  lying.   I  overheard  Masanori  and  Lady  Nene  discussing  it,   and  I  am  so  grateful  for  you  beyond  imagining  that  I  could  never  have  allowed  the  day  to  pass  without  doing  something   ———   and,   since  you  are  always  so  insistent  upon  fighting,   I---I  thought  that  I  might   ...   try  my  hand  at  smithing.   Your  tessen  is  beautiful  beyond  compare,   but  it  is  always  wise  to  have  another  weapon  hidden  at  your  back.   I   ...   apologize  if  I  have  overstepped  my  bounds.   I  simply  wanted  to  do  something  to  show  you  how  much  I   ———   how  much  I  love  you,   Mitsunari.   I  hope  that  this  is  a  happy  day  for  you.   You  deserve  nothing  less.   ❞   @jiboshohoho   /   from  here!

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RETRO VGM REVIVAL HOUR - STAGE 72: Mascot Games

Ever since Super Mario Bros. hit the NES in 1985, Nintendo’s red cap wearing mustachioed hero has reigned supreme as a prominent face for his company Nintendo and video games as a whole. With the introduction of Mario and its success came a new sub-genre of video games, dubbed the “mascot platformer” in which a colorful character would hop, run and swim his way through vast and colorful worlds filled with Unique characters and challenges that await the player upon popping in a cartridge.

Through the years, there have been plenty of games that have come and gone that tried to emulate Mario’s success, with many developers introducing fresh, new characters that have tried their hands in surpassing Mario in popularity.

It was during this time, the mid 80s through the late 90s, that mascot video games were a big deal. It seemed that Every game studio had to have a mascot. Some were very well-known, others not so much, and some were even easily forgotten as quickly as they were introduced. To put it bluntly; For every Mario, Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog there were a hundred Bubsy the Bobcats, Glover and Aero the Acrobat.

Although the success rate of this video game genre can be hit or miss, we can never dismiss their involvement throughout our gaming experiences growing up and more importantly the Music that these games provided us within each new world we encountered.

So this is why THIS STAGE of the Retro VGM revival Hour we are covering some of the best Music from various unknown, forgotten or in certain cases HATED mascot Video games.

So get your Power item of choice and be ready to encounter weird, unique and interesting worlds filled with amazing music just for you. Let’s get started!

                            Full track listing:              Game – Composer – Title – Company

1.) Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind – Matthew Berardo – “War of the Woolies, Woolering Heights & Hill Stream Blues“ – May 1993 – Accolade – SNES, Sega Genesis & Windows PC

2.) James Pond: Underwater Agent – Richard Joseph – “License to Bubble, Dangerous Cave & Title Screen (alternate)“ – 1990 – Millennium Interactive – Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes & Sega Genesis

3.) Blinx: The Time Sweeper – Mariko Nanba, Keiichi Sugiyama & Naofumi Hataya – “Boss battle, Tom-tom attack & Final boss (momentopolis)” – October 7, 2002 – Artoon/Xbox Game Studios – Microsoft Xbox

4.) Glover – Rob Lord, Paul Weir & Mark Bandola – “Title Theme, Boss Battle (Guardians of Atlantis) & Boss Battle (Frankenstein’s Monster)” – November 16, 1998 – Interactive Studios/Hasbro Interactive – Windows PC, Nintendo 64 & Sony PlayStation

5.) Rocky Rodent – Rikei Hirashima – “Highway Runnery, All This Climbing For an Egg! & Something Quirky“ – September 18, 1993 – Irem – SNES

6.) Awesome Possum… Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt – Earl Vickers, Doug Brandon & Nu Romantic – “Dr Machino’s Domain & Boss battle“ – November 25, 1993 – Tengen – Sega Genesis

7.) Aero the Acro-Bat – Rick Fox – “Circus (Act 2), Circus/Funpark Boss & Museum Boss“ – August 1, 1993 – Iguana/Sunsoft – Sega Genesis, SNES & GBA

8.) The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (Fantastic Dizzy) – Matt Gray – “The Forest 2, Zak’s Castle & Mine Cart Ride“ – April 1991 – The Oliver Twins/Codemasters – NES, MS-DOS, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Commodore Amiga, Sega Game Gear & Amiga CD32

9.) Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure – Matt Furniss – “Title Theme & Sewer City“ – November 18, 1994 – Interplay Productions –  Sega Genesis & SNES

10.) Alex Kidd in Miracle World – Tokuhiko Uwabo – “Main Theme, Swimming & Scopaco Cycle (Unused)“ – November 1, 1986 – Sega – Sega Master System

11.) Croc: Legend of the Gobbos – Karin Griffin, Martin Gwynn Jones & Justin Scharvona – “Snow Island, Underground Overground (Area 1) & Chumly’s Snow Den (Area 2)“ – September 29, 1997 – Argonaut Software/Fox Interactive – Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn & Microsoft PC

12.) Ristar – Tomoko Sasaki  – “Shooting Ristar, Du-Di-Da!! & Greedy Game (Theme of Kaiser)“ – January 1995 – Sega – Sega Genesis

13.) Bonk’s Adventure – Tsukasa Masuko – “Round 5, Boss 1 & Boss 2“ – December 15, 1989 – Red Company & Atlus/Hudson Soft – TurboGrafx-16, NES, Game Boy, Commodore Amiga & Arcade

14.) Jersey Devil – Gilles Léveillé – “Root Canal, Chemical Wasteland Boss & Opening (PAL ver.)“ – December 12, 1997 – Megatoon Studios/Ocean Software – Sony PlayStation & Windows PC

15.) Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel – Rick Fox – “Title/Map Screen, Beach & Factory (Stage 1)“ – October 1994 – Iguana Entertainment/Sunsoft – Sega Genesis & SNES

16.) Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension – Patrick Phelan & Neil Biggin – “Candy Land, Tool Land & Boss Theme “ – October 1992 – Gremlin Graphics –  Commodore Amiga CD32, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis & SNES

17.) Wild Woody – Ron Thal – “Minotaur Maze, Bonus Round & The Pit“ – September 1995 – Sega – Sega CD

18.) Ty the Tasmanian Tiger – George Stamatiadis – “Bull’s Pen, Beyond the Black Stump & The Gauntlet“ – October 9, 2002 – Krome Studios/Electronic Arts – GameCube, PS2, Microsoft Xbox & Windows PC

19.) Punky Skunk – Harumi Fujita & Yasuaki Fujita – “Boss Theme, 8th Stage Theme & Final Boss Theme“ – November 1, 1996 – Ukiyotei/Visit – Sony Playstation

20.) Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back – Christophe Fevre – “Title Theme, Desert Experience & On the Foxy Trail“ – 1991 – Titus Interactive – Commodore Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Game Boy & GBA

21.) Rocket Knight Adventures – Konami Kukeiha Club (Masanori Oouchi, Aki Hata, Michiru Yamane, Masanori Adachi & Hiroshi Kobayashi) – “Stage 1-1 (Kingdom of Zebulos), Boss Theme & Stage 7 (The PIG STAR!)“ – August 6, 1993 – Konami – Sega Genesis

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Detective Conan Rewatch: Episode 939

Episode 939: “The Dangerous Fossil Finding Trip”

Before watching this episode, on a scale of 1-10, how much are you looking forward to seeing it again?

4!

Favorite screencap:

Yamamura: “Oh yeah, got this case closed.”

Agasa: “But you didn’t do anything...”

Favorite moment:

Yamamura’s ending statement to the culprit catching everyone off guard.

Least favorite moment:

Hey man, not cool. D:

What's one thing you noticed/realized about this episode that you hadn't before?

According to the document, the “moon droppings” are from the shell of a “Vicarya” which seems to be the name of an extinct subgenus of snail.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this episode?

Actually, despite the excessive amount of poop jokes, this one was fairly interesting to me. 5!

Celebrate it!

Since I don't have access to a tablet and am too lazy to scan a drawing, have a (not exactly) summary haiku.

Fossil finder dies

Poisonous gas in bathroom

Blackmail was motive

Next Episode: Episode 940

Previous Episode: Episode 938

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