#midnight punch

[tiffycat]

I could eat that girl for lunch

It's a craving not a crush

[everth1ne]

Midnight Punch

I don't know why I missed this show in the summer season 😅 I've watched 5 episodes - already love this show ��

[faline-cat444]

I got this magazine...

...Due to learning about this piece of artwork in it

But it had a few other nice surprises in my field of interests such as a clearfile folder of the cover design separated

And the character reference sheets for the main cast of Mayonaka Punch(Suicide Squad Isekai was also here)

One of the included articles also seemed to be an interview for who is voicing Niffty in the Hazbin Hotel dub

[that-taters-my-tots]

Shigeyuki is a male name. Yuki gets really upset when you call her by it. Yuki itself is a unisex name. What I'm getting at here is that Yuki is MtF and that's her deadname.

[funny-anime-face-world]

Mayonaka Punch (2024)

[pridebicons]

lesbian live pride icon

requested by @your-neighbor-bear

like/rb if using + credit

[justaghostinthesea]

There are still no Mayonaka Punch fics on Ao3 and that makes me sad

[pleaseplaygrimfandango]

The Me at the zoo reference is probably the funniest part about this show

[nerdgraphicsdotcom]

hihi!! can u make mayonaka punch (midnight punch) stamps??

Mayonaka Punch!!

Sorry if this is super late, I can't see the date on asks 😭 BUT!! I really enjoyed making these, this anime looks super cute! lmk if you want other characters or different frames >:3

[uchuukaijugundan]

Mayonaka Punch

真夜中ぱんチ

(Anime)

Comedy by PA Works

Era: 2020s

Rating: A

Plot: At the same time Masaki, a vlogger with self control problems assaults one of her friends and collaborators live on air (twice) and is excluded from the group, Live, a vampire wakes up from a 20 year slumber with one thing on her mind - find the girl she saw in her dreams, who just happens to look suspiciously like Masaki. After meeting by chance in an abandoned hospital where Masaki was desperately trying to recapture her old streamer magic and Live was searching for blood packs Fallout style, she proposes letting Live feed on her if she and her vampire friends help her reach 1 million subscribers.

Length: 12 episodes

Thoughts: The single cour, 12 episode show trend is creating many problems in killing the potential of many shows, as any writer is in a "pick 2" position with character development, story development and preparing for the ending. While many shows suffer from that dillemma, Mayonaka Punch proved it is perfectly manageable. While it doesn't exactly stand out from the many "girls do stuff" shows other than the twist! most of them are vampires and the chaotic energy Live and Tokage bring to the table, it paces the story evenly in two halves, the first where we are introduced to and establishes the characters (Tokage is the last to join on episode 3, and she presents herself with her trademark subtlety), and the second part leading to finale, evenly split between the back 6 and front 6 episodes. The ending is absolute perfection on how it subverts the heightened stakes "they split up" trope in the most ridiculous way and unveils the cute reason Live obsesses over Masaki in just the final minutes.

Moving away from the "12 episode rant", this is a show that is driven mostly through Masaki's insecurities - it's implied she was a bit too controlling even before throwing a fist on air, she's even going as far as allowing a vampire to feed on her to beat her former partners, is easily overwhelmed by negative online comments (while being a hate magnet at this point, I guess that's not a fun combo), and almost ruining their videos by over-editing and hiding the chemistry the Banpai Manor inhabitants have together. Over time she does some self-reflection, particularly during her homecoming episode (one of the best, in part because Live goes feral in this one) when she has being a kinda shitty older sister thrown at her face at every opportunity. She's not a person you'd probably like to be friends with - the show makes it clear her friends had good reasons to kick her out - but little by little seems to be grasping her drive to create content slop is a detriment on her relationships. As for the vampires, we have the two gremlins, Live who is completely obsessed with Masaki, to the point of, worth repeating, going feral with the prospect of being in the house she grew up in (it isn't, but try telling her that) when she visits her at her mother's home after a couple of days apart and Tokage, the loud, degenerate gambler (I don't know how well these characters - I love - will age as we're entering the age of people losing their paycheck to a "can't lose" 3 way bet) of the group who for all that matters is the one who started to unlock the potential their potential as NewTubers so that she has more money for pachinko. Ichiko is more or less Live's personal assistant and who ends up doing most housekeeping (if not all, considering the others) and is heavily in debt for bad stock investments likely because nobody was there to say to someone who can't read kanji to not get into stocks, driving her interest on having a successful channel and Fu is the quiet one, and we get a really sweet story of forbidden love and dreams out of her past. Appearing frequently due to their antics is Yuki, who's the primary foil as she's in charge of keeping those four from revealing they're vampires.

While it has wrapped up pretty nearly, It has a way forward to a new season, with Masaki and Yuki joining the on-camera madness, so I'm curious if it's getting a second season down the line.

Recommended to: do you like cute gremlins doing stuff?

Plus:

Perfectly paced.

On-par gremlin behaviour by everyone involved, even more when garlic is involved.

Looks quite good, very solid on the character design.

Minus:

Nothing to speak of unless we're really done with just 12 episodes.

[onenettvchannel]

#OneNETnewsInvestigates: The Dark Truth behind 'Midnight Punch' anime series with a Suspected Female YouTuber, end up being bullied and suicide combined [EXCLUSIVE]

Trigger Warning: Potentially graphic and sensitive content. Reader's discretion is STRONGLY ADVISED!!!

TOCHIGI, JAPAN -- Probably the newest, and worst Japanese anime series, to come around has to be 'Midnight Punch', which premiered last month on Monday night (July 8th, 2024) on JOMX-TV 9's Tokyo MX.

Police identified the suspected teenage YouTuber behind 'Harikiri Sisters' named "Masaki", brutally punches two (2) high school students as content creator victims in a brazenly violent altercation in Japan. On the other hand, the female voice actress named by Ms. Ikumi Hasegawa, who voiced "Masaki", along with all episodic writers from a Japanese animation studio was in dog-piled trash.

People around the world, including Japan aggressively hated and criticizing this suspected female YouTuber after failing to reach 1 million subscribers on YouTube (a video-sharing platform under Google's Alphabet). Of course, people might say that we are not talking about the fictional site called 'NewTuber' but… This anime doesn't have any disclaimers for those offend online and attacking show creators to Progressive Animation Works (PAW) and this is neither a social experiment, fiction, nor real life. OneNETnews is on the scene for our investigative story.

Probably not many of us know that 'Midnight Punch' is an original Japanese anime television series that Progressive Animation Works is working on. Series composition is by Doga Kobo Shojo, with direction from Shu Honma, Hideaki Shirasaka as screenwriter, Ryota Arima adapting the character designs, and Hiromitsu Kijima composing the music.

A real-life story follows "Masaki", the one with a hot-headed suspected independent personality who gets roped into the world of YouTube, where she creates content for the site with her friend Ms. Live, wading through every trial and conflict born from her online presence. The anime takes a darker approach to comedy, not really a satire, and really makes fun of several areas of internet culture, including getting the pressure to go viral, the importance of subscribers, and the controversies surrounding cancel culture.

In a series premiere episode called "The Canceled Girl and the Sleepy Vampire", Masaki is unceremoniously booted out from their female group duos during both LIVE scandalous and apology video. Netizens in Japan are being insulted and bullied the suspect online, showing for a shamefulness act, aside 2 content creator victims of 'Harikiri Sisters'.

A few days after the incident, parting ways for 'Masaki' alone, moved to a new home to give peaceful safe space to the content creators -- these unnamed student victims. While Ms. Hasegawa and the episode writers of the show at Progressive Animation Works for 'Midnight Punch' are all terrible to produce new episodes due to democratic censorship and cultural sensitivity in the online world and traditional life. Animation style is great, with no problems noted.

That night, then going alcoholic, Masaki goes on solo mode and visits the abandoned hospital building if there will be ghosts, vampires or both. She had previously prepared filming on her mobile smartphone with a selfie-holder, just to document events during the night. Sometime later, we caught up with a vampire and energetic yandere protagonist named Ms. Live seeing in person to meet Masaki alone at this said place of an abandoned hospital.

The suspected female YouTuber made a run for it upstairs, then outside the bulkhead door in the above abandoned hospital building, while Ms. Live tried to save her but ended up too late to negotiate and failed to calm her down: "I don't care about that anymore! No one needs me anymore!", Masaki said in Japanese dialect.

Within this scenario, in the alternate episode, things are a lot darker than the actual one. She slipped in backwards and reported dead on the spot due to self-suicide, leaving her video who personally filmed by a suspected YouTuber 'Masaki' will be her last as part of the overnight investigation.

The YouTube channel of 'Harikiri Sisters' have now terminated and deplatforming their video-sharing platform due to a series of Community Guidelines strike, including Ms. Live herself, despite the fact from the insulted netizens and viewers are in violation under the Japanese law of Cyberbullying. The punishment for posting insults online can now include financial penalties of up to JPY300,000 (or nearly PHP120,000).

Per the inspiration of 'Goldwin Reviews' in the Philippines, since this point-of-view as if an anti-reviewer, this anime show will no longer be recommended and it needs to stop effective immediately by giving a public petition for the offended ones.

Although, the police in Japan were cuffed for maximum detention cell for Ms. Live, she be a legit vampire, energetic vampire protagonist, now turn into the potential alibi. Though for the voice actress of Ms. Hasegawa and episodes writers at PAW, the anime production team was now ready to step down without an apology if both of these sides are proven guilty.

Things will be remembered if the attacked YouTubers community like 'Masaki' is only to be alone, her free speech can compromise, and being suicidal from the online viewers on YouTube is yet to be censored out for this televised anime.

POSTER PHOTO COURTESY for REPRESENTATION: Kadokawa & P.A. Works via JOMX-TV 9's Tokyo MX BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SOURCE: *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikumi_Hasegawa *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Works *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonaka_Punch *https://www.animefeminist.com/mayonaka-punch-episode-1/ [Referenced Blog Article via Anime Feminist] *https://magicplanetanime.design.blog/2024/07/08/seasonal-first-impressions-mayonaka-punch/ [Referenced Blog Article via Magic Planet Anime] *https://iclg.com/practice-areas/cybersecurity-laws-and-regulations/japan *https://www.mondaq.com/technology/976226/cybersecurity-comparative-guide and *https://www.engadget.com/japans-amends-cyberbullying-law-to-make-online-insults-punishable-by-one-year-prison-172506289.html [Referenced News Article from EnGadget]

-- OneNETnews Online Publication Team

[everth1ne]

Midnight Punch

[faline-cat444]

Mark Mayonaka Punch as a series to get one of the official pieces of art as the girls driving around

[that-taters-my-tots]

I have come to you all with a grand vison...

Tokage has pierced nipples

[stillgotscars]

so is anyone ready to talk about the progression from “i think he knows he better lock it down or i won’t stick around ‘cause good ones never wait” → “i like shiny things, but i’d marry you with paper rings” → “all they keep asking me is if i’m gonna be your bride” → “are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?” → “i wouldn’t marry me either” → “i died on the altar waiting for the proof” → “even statues crumble if they’re made to wait”

[equinoxette]

she wants that cookie so effin bad