#meh rep

[pseudofujo]

"This Boy Caught a Merman" (2012 OVA)

As a beginning to this blogs more serious content, I would like to share with you all a one-episode OVA with a unique visual style and a story that, while crunched together in a single 28-minute episode, still manages to be heartwarming and charming in its own special way.

You can watch this OVA here(zoro.to) or here(9animetv.to)

They say look before you leap and make sure you can swim before you go in the deep water, but when a picture of his late grandfather falls into the ocean, Shima jumps in after it without thinking. Nearly drowning as a result, he is instead saved by a very perfect stranger... one whose strangeness extends to only being human from the waist up! For Shima, who's always felt like a fish out of water himself, it's more than just a revelation, and the young man and merman quickly begin to bond in ways neither anticipated. And yet, it's going to be far from easy sailing. After all, Shima and Isaki aren't just from opposite sides of the tracks, they're from entirely divergent species, and swimming in separate gene pools may make maintaining a long term relationship a whole different kettle of fish! (Source: Sentai Filmworks) (sourced from zoro.to)

This OVA is quite visually interesting, despite its limited animation. It uses a mixture of bright, almost neon colors and unorthodox patterns to add texture to things like hair and environments. It uses these unorthodox visual components to convey certain situations, such as going fully black-and-white for a scene where the main character(Shima) is feeling stressed. The character designs, while the art style itself is a bit strange, are interesting to look at nonetheless, and kept my attention throughout the entire thing. Shima does look quite young in comparison to Isaki, but I suppose you eventually just have to get used to that when it comes to shounen ai and yaoi.

Despite the 28-minute runtime and noticeable sacrifices the producers had to take to fit that, the two main leads manage to have decent enough chemistry. It feels a bit forced, and some emotional scenes between the two seem like they came much too quickly and ended way too smoothly. It's forgivable, but I believe that it would've benefited from a 3 episode OVA instead of a 1 episode OVA, at the very least.

The portrayal of feeling inadequate to one's parents is handled okay, which is miles more than I expected from it.

Overall, it was an enjoyable watch. I most likely wouldn't watch it again, but I would recommend it to someone else if they seemed like they'd enjoy it.

The gay rep isn't super present in this one, the two leads kiss and say that they love each other, but it doesn't come across as 'OoOoOOOooOoo gay couple!!!!' which is OUTSTANDING for 2012. I'd say it's pretty good, for what it is.

It gets an extra .5 point because it referenced Hans Christian Anderson.

Final Rating;

3.5/5

[moonkhao]

#🖤🩶🤍💜 

WANDEE GOODDAY | EP1

[paynomindtotheinsanity]

halloween is approaching! i think it'd be neat to see your take on zim & dib's costumes, assuming they'd be willing to celebrate :)

[arttsuka]

Sometimes I try to gaslight myself into thinking that I liked the newer season of a show, that it was fine. Only for a year or so to pass and I can finally admit that it left a lot to be desired and wasn't as good overall.

[campbyler]

thoughts on dancing with our hands tied 👀 (deep blue but you painted me golden etc etc etc)

eh i mean dancing with our hands tied isn’t even that ‼️📣I COULD’VE SPENT FOREVER WITH YOUR HANDS IN MY POCKETS PICTURE OF YOUR FACE IN AN INVISIBLE LOCKET YOU SAID THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE WORLD THAT COULD STOP IT I HAD A! BAD FEELING! AND DARLING YOU HAD TURNED MY BED INTO A SACRED OASIS PEOPLE STARTED TALKING PUTTING US THROUGH OUR PACES I KNEW THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE WORLD WHO COULD TAKE IT I HAD A! BAD FEELING!‼️📣

[bloggingboutburgers]

I saw the ask about ace at pride and it reminded me that Yasmin Benoit will be the first ace grand marshal at the New York pride parade this year!!!

Oh for real?? That's awesome!! And honestly if the US does something to lead the way, that gives me hope my country may follow through some day in the future TwT That's typically how it happens

[amayikes]

They're rolling out tumblreddit 🤙

[dunkelrotzuschwarz]

dear god... ich will ein buch, nur ein einziges, ok i'm not even asking for much..., das gute ace rep hat und charaktere, die nicht krampfhaft quirky und entweder fucking rude oder kinda boring sind... nur ein einziges bitte! ah und, if that's not to much to ask for, geschrieben von jemandem, der... dialoge kann...... und eine story schreibt, die irgendwie... sinn ergibt (nur ein bisschen wirklich i can suspense my disbelief und alles aber... ja mainly einfach bitte keine komischen bus-stories mehr it happened twice now ich kann das nicht mehr)

[fresaconcremas]

That moment making Samarina content so often made me realize that I'm a lesbian

I mean thanks funger for the gender and the girlkisser title wtf /j /lh

[galadrielette]

Does getting the last reblog comment in before being blocked count as winning?

[jocelynships]

I just need to get past this week, then I’m on vacation for a week (probably will not be very active on here or discord just a heads up!)

Then two more weeks of waking up early.

Man. I can’t wait to be able to sleep in.

[bramblepaws]

paulo x daisy: boring. boring as hell.

paulo x daisy x david: extremely based and swag

[fumagus]

I saw Strange World today!  Very Marnie-core, and just pure, fun action.  A solid 9/10.

But I also had the misfortune of hearing Crisped-Rat Mario right before.

[octuscle]

I hope you can help, you're the 3rd Chronivac support rep I've been directed to. I am unable to make changes with my Chronivac. I swear, the first rep's English seemed to get more broken the longer I was on chat. The second rep seemed better, until he connected to my account. Then he seemed much more interested in describing his musk and farts than my issue! Hopefully you are more competent.

I deeply regret if not all of my colleagues do meet the standards we have set for ourselves at Chronivac Inc. Let me look at your case.

As far as I can tell, you have chosen the "Change my interlocutor according to my wishes" setting. This, of course, can have an impact on the person you talk to at Chronivac…. Fuck! hehehehe! have you seen my boner. Dude, I didn't know it cud get that big. Bruh, actually we are not allowed to jerk off at work. But I'm at least officially still on da way to work… Hopefully it's allowed in da car.

Fucc' can u turn on ur camera, bruh? do u want 2 watch meh jerk off? id b lit if i cud cya doing it 2. Dude, wasnt i wearing a shirt earlier? and wasnt tht a fam van just now? ayy lmao, a mustang goes much better w/ tht tank top.

shit, cuming rn. Dude, did u have sum kinda problem? Can i help u w/ something? then maybe checc bacc w/ meh l8r. Fuuuuuuck!

Pic of me found @447am 

[musclesandhammering]

Glad somebody else finally said it 😭

Yall ever argued with a heller about dean being canonically straight, and they Say some shit like

"Cas confessed he was in iove with dean"

It's like, Okay?? And?? That proves nothing about dean

[triviallytrue]

so yeah i finished NGE

What a show! Can honestly say that I liked it more than I was expecting to. Usually it takes me a couple months to fully decide how I feel about something though.

Let's start with the ending. I had to google some things to tie up loose ends, but once I did I was pretty impressed by how well everything tied together. There were a lot of hidden details that I had missed during the first watch, and the supplementary material cleared a lot of things up for me.

I don't really see how the show's ending and the movie can be reconciled with one another, but it seems like a lot of people regard them as two separate possible endings.

I think the show's ending was unacceptable as a stand-alone, but after watching the movie I appreciate it as a more upbeat end to Shinji's journey. The movie is a lot more complete, but it's also a huge bummer - everyone loses! Instrumentality fails so Seele loses, Gendoh dies and doesn't reunite with his wife, so he loses, the angels all get defeated, and the Third Impact does happen and devastates the planet, so humanity loses. Maybe if Shinji knew how badly the world had been devastated he would've decided instrumentality was the lesser evil.

Or maybe that's too realism-brained and I'm supposed to be thinking about it more metaphorically. Meh.

In retrospect, I find myself unimpressed with Gendoh. He seems to have managed to fail upward by harnessing/exploiting more talented people than himself, all to fail at achieving a selfish and uninspiring final end.

Misato... well. I think I misjudged her initially due to a mixture of internet rep and those early jokes about Shinji being her boyfriend - I don't really think she had any grooming intentions toward Shinji. I think she found herself in the rare "what if a white person had to say the n word to defuse an atomic bomb" scenario. She was dying, she was out of options and faced with the extinction of humanity, and she took what she thought was her best shot. It wasn't pretty, but neither was the Third Impact, and if Shinji had gotten out there before Asuka was beaten, maybe it could've been avoided.

Various parts of the show felt rushed to me. Ritsuko's relationship with Gendoh (how does this man pull this hard? inexplicable), Suzuharu not dying but then essentially being treated as dead the rest of the show, various aspects of Rei's arc, Kaworu only being there for a little over an episode - there's so much to this show, and I think it would've been better if they had more episodes to tease some of the knots out.

I'll talk about Rei, Asuka, and their respective relationships with Shinji on a different post.