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Martial Master Asumi ch.32 thoughts
[And Then There Was One]
(Contents: speculation - cancelation)
I wonder how I would have taken the news that MMA was ending had Cipher Academy not ended at the same time?
I wonder how I'd be reacting if I hadn't been told prior to the previous review?
I wrote last week's fresh off of that news, so I almost feel like I already did my end-of-series review
I almost don't know what to write here, but I owe it to this series and Kawada to at least try
Like with Cipher Academy, the roadmap that we skipped is pretty well laid out here - we see the key opponents that Asumi would have needed to face in the J-Future Cup (Takanori obviously being one of them, and I'm willing to bet would have been the final one), we see that Baku had a violent and deadly past that likely would have been a major revelation that raised the stakes for the entire series, and finally we see Asumi vs. Kazuro, with Kazuro's bloodlust manifesting as fire to complement Asumi's water. I don't remember if I predicted that specifically, but it doesn't come at all as a surprise
I definitely would have liked to see other characters show off their bloodlust like that, and I think it's a tremendous shame that no one ever got the chance to. I don't have a good idea of what it is that prevented the series from catching on, but if I had to guess, I think it might be that it established itself as a continuation of Hinomaru Zumou without matching the level of escalation quite quickly enough
To illustrate: Hinomaru revealed the concept of bloodlust around chapter 60-ish as I recall, while Asumi did it around chapter 20; now that we know that they're using the same mechanics, we would expect to see it being used by other fighters just as quickly rather than having it sprinkled through, but the only glimpse we ever got of it after that was from Okiba. I think since Asumi reached the professional stage in about an eighth of the time it took Hinomaru, then we as the audience should have been given a glimpse of how the ceilings of the professional worlds compared
The moment we knew Kunisaki was here, I think it would have helped if we had gotten to see him fighting. Maybe we could have seen the fight that inspired Amagaki, or the first professional bout we saw could have been one of his rather than Okiba's one-sided beatdown. The sense of escalation was fine for me, but maybe it felt too laid back for everyone else. Hinomaru fans know that we could be seeing people with lightning coursing their entire bodies, why are we only seeing Asumi splashing a little bit of water?
Like I said, this is just my best guess, but I think the connection to Hinomaru established too strong of an expectation that wasn't really being delivered on. That said, wow did people not give it any time to do anything with it! It's been what, a quarter year since we saw Asumi enter bloodlust mode?? That's nothing! We only got to see two fights since then! But I guess maybe people were just impatient?
Or they just...weren't up for reading an MMA manga? Maybe MMA's not that popular in Japan? I think Hinomaru Zumou found a really good niche cus sumo itself is big, but also from how Kawada portrayed it, kind of dwindling. It seems like sumo is having a harder time connecting with the youth, so maybe Hinomaru helped bridge that gap, or appealed to the fans who felt like their favorite sport wasn't as popular as it should be?
Or maybe there are too many MMA manga. I don't read any, but I've seen a few here and there like Teppu, so maybe the market's oversaturated with them and I didn't realize it
There are so many possible factors, but in the end, knowing what to blame wouldn't really change the fact that another one of my favorites is gone. It's especially disheartening because of how Kawada seemed to take the news, berating himself in the author comments this week. Maybe his tone was more light-hearted in Japanese, but calling himself an amateur and blaming himself for his own failures leaves such a negative taste in my mouth. I hate to see an author I love get down on himself, and it makes me so worried that he's going to give up, like I said last week too. I want to see his work again; his art style is so pleasing, his choreography is great, and his character writing is fantastic. I think it would be a tremendous loss to the art form if he were to quit, but alas, he will never hear me say that. I hope someone feels like I do in Japan and sends him a nice, heartfelt letter expressing how much he means to people like us, and that we'll get to see him again as soon as possible
I'm going to stop here, lest I work myself up into a lather. I know I pretty rarely had engagement on these posts compared to UU and CA, but I hope that the few of you who read them enjoyed yourselves, and I hope it deepened your experience and appreciation for the series like it did for me. Hope to see you all again with Kawada's next work
Until next time
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Garak goes into heat and doesn’t explain it to Julian cause he’s embarrassed, but Julian is totally convinced this is just some weird role play and so he’s just loving life
(Wow, Garak, round 8 was pretty intense! We’re done though, right?)
#my best friend and I talked about this so I made the sketch months ago#Garak is yowling about laying eggs and is clawing at the walls like an animal#and Julian is just happy to be there#my art#star trek#ds9#deep space nine#elim garak#julian bashir#garashir#deep space 9#shitpost#sorry for my kinda messy handwriting
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Finally got around to doing some redraws of THE BEST lower decks episode!!!! No I am not biased
#ignore that the screen recordings i took are the CRUNCHIEST thing you'll ever see#I know I'm like 5 months late#sorry y'all#left my animation stuff at home so I could focus on school#so I've been sitting on this idea for a hot minute#ds9 is a drug to me#girl help how do i tag this#deep space nine#quark#kira nerys#lower decks#star trek#animation#fanart#not described
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I’m so excited. I finally ordered the HDMI port conversion connector for the Nintendo Wii and it’s coming TONIGHT
#NINTENDO WII YOU’RE GETTING BACK IN BUSINESS FINALLY#skyward sword and animal crossing and Wii sports I’m coming for you#personal#this thing was nine bucks and it took me three months to convince myself to just buy it#but now that I did I’m so excited
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oops i thought about scavengers reign too hard again and now i'm going to lie down and die oops oops oops oops
#ragsycon exclusive#how did it come out LAST YEAR#what do you MEAN it's not a foundational piece of science fiction animation#what do you MEAN i watched it for the first time nine months ago#what do you MEAN most other people i know who have watched it came out of the viewing experience thinking 'yeah it was alright'#WHAT DO YOU MEAAAAAAAAAAN#kamen and the hollow. sam and ursula. levi. FUCKING LEVI!!!!!!!
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I get the basis for the "all dogs are good dogs" thing but at the same time I think it's becoming dangerous not to acknowledge that in actual practice, not all of them are good dogs. police dogs are not good dogs. dogs with severe aggression issues whether due to upbringing or genetics that pose a danger to people are not good dogs. I've seen shelters straight up re-adopting out large dogs with a multiple bite history that have been returned several times for attacking someone's kids or pets (but Tank is the biggest lovebug in the world, we swear, those people just didn't understand him), I've seen conversations about police brutality derailed because nobody will hear a single bad word about the good doggos that are actively trained to maul people and give false positives so cops can search your car and harass you. even the police robots that are now having guns attached to them get sympathy because they kind of look like dogs and get called dogs.
like don't get me wrong I love dogs. but if a dog regularly causes harm and endangers people it is not fulfilling the societal function of a dog and it is not good.
#shelter social media will be like 'snugglebuns has been in the shelter for nine months and we can't imagine why :('#and then you go to the dog's page and snugglebuns can't be around kids cats dogs small animals or hats and has 'nipped' three people
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sick and twisted that i made this like nine months ago and then was never able to finish it so it was left in my wips folder for all this time
fran @freetobeafcknriot beloved i'm so sorry, you did all that work and For What i promise to keep trying but like,, i have no idea what to do anymore o(╥﹏╥)o
this was directly inspired by this post by @quicksilver-castiel and alex i am so sorry ahsgdja
#supernatural#midam#my art#i am so upset about this it's almost kinda funny except it's not hakjshdka#krita kicked my ass for nine months straight and i was so close to commiting to buying an actual animation program#because the guilt of not finishing this actually kept me awake at times ajkshdka#so... yeah :')#i will keep working on this because that's just the kind of person i am#but if anyone has like. any advice i will owe you my life and sanity for the rest of my existence <3
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Sweet girl
#she likes being pet now!!#also she’s SEVEN POINT NINE POUNDS#my animals#petblr#dogs#dogblr#cicada#cada bug#five months
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WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME BURROWS END WASNT FREE
#I DIDNT TALK TO ANYONE ABOUT IT BUT STILL. SOMEONE SHOULDVE WARNED ME BEFORE I GOT COMPLETELY INVESTED#I know next to nothing abt dimension 20 I’m pretty sure I just saw a post abt burrows end specifically MONTHS ago and was like 👀👀👀#opened a tab with the first episode to watch later and promptly forgot about it#until last night! having a bad night and was like hrm what if I just watch smth#and I’ve been reading watership down recently!! finally got my own copy bc it was my favourite book when I was like NINE#so I am fully primed to fall in love with a story abt little animals rn and man#I am OBSESSED with this and also realising yeah I’m at a point where I could get very into tabletop rpgs now#what if. what if I just get dropout. what if I just do that. would that not be fun. I would like to see the stoats do stuff#i am so in love with Ava and her player and I understand so much more about brennan lee mulligan now. and VIOLA#viola may be my favourite character I’m obsessed with how she interacts with other characters.m#i NEED to know what’s up with thorn’s cult thing. and also thorn. what is going on there#hrrgrhehh the thing that’s holding me back is I’m allergic to subscriptions#impermanence. even though I know it’s fairly unlikely I’ll wanna watch it again any time soon I don’t like the idea that I’d have to like#in a couple years pay for it again or not be able to bc I can’t afford it even though I already paid for it once#I’m a books + cartridge games guy and it shows.#okay. I will chew on this. the price is not unreasonable and I have coincidentally also been looking at make some noise clips#it does not help that I basically never watch things but my favourite podcast is also ending within the next month (2 episodes left)#and this IS primarily audio so I could cook + watch mayhaps. and I’ve heard good things abt all other d20.#they have a 20% off first year deal on. annual would make me less stressed long term if I end up liking this bc cheaper + choice premade#and would also mean I can do it now and not feel bad abt wasting the first month bc I won’t be able to watch much for a few weeks#fuck it I’m allowed to make frivolous purchases sometimes I will simply swallow the subscription distaste#more stoats >:)#that aside all the players are incredible I’m pretty sure when this is done I’ll wanna watch other seasons just to see what else they do#okay go do the thing I believe in you you can spend money sometimes#luke.txt#update I downloaded the app. I am putting off the decision for another day now bc it’s 1:21am and I have not been thinking clearly <3
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(What should the dad's reaction be?)
baby fever!
#imagine that chibi picture in anime where the ghost leaves someone's body because they are so shocked#and then he'd recover and buy loads and loads of baby products on internet websites#he's the parent who overprepares to exhaustion#he'd want Lleu to take things easy and wouldn't even let him carry a milk carton to his room#he'd run lots of unnessecary tests on Lleu's body too#if he could he'd stuff Lleu in his bed and wouldn't let him leave for the next nine months#answered asks#medlleu
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My brother crying because there was no one pice episode this week
Me a bsd fan: that’s rough buddy
#we all know how long those nine months were#not to talk about monthly release#bsd#bungou stray dogs#brother#anime
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Me celebrating the end of Nine Realms season 6 in June only to wake up after my exams on September 10 to see that season 7 drops in four days
I know what I'm going to be doing in a week's time
#i'm going to jump into a toaster and hurl myself into the ocean#IT'S BEEN THREE MONTHS. SEASON 6 DROPPED THREE MONTHS AGO. SEASON 7 IS RELEASING IN LESS THAN A WEEK#FORGET THE JOKES ABOUT MAPPA LOCKING UP THEIR ANIMATORS IN A BUNKER- DREAMWORKS IS ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL ENTIRELY#why does this show still exist. please. no one wants to watch this. good god.#i just recovered from all my exams are you telling me i have to spend my midsession break crying over this fucking dumpster fire#nine realms but legit#agnirambles
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Man I can't believe I had the chance to go to a performing arts school up through middle school and I fuckin quit after 6 months just because I got bullied. BRO YOUR HOMEWORK WAS POETRY!! YOU HAD TO PRACTICE DANCING TO COTTON EYE JOE AS YOUR BIG UNIT TEST. GYM CLASS HAD A CIRCUS UNIT!! YOU HAD A WHOLE DAILY CLASS ON IMPROV!!! YOU FOOL!! YOU ABSOLUTE IMBICILE!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A YOUTUBER!!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE TWEENAGERS GETTING LOADED BY MAKING SHITTY YOUTUBE SHORTS IN 2008-14!! But noooOoooOOOoo little miss Noellie (who WANTED TO GO!! who worked SO HARD and sent in an application essay and did an INTERVIEW to get in!!) couldn't handle disruptive classmates or little scuffles and petty grudges and general Attitude of the other students and cried to mommy to put her back in public school. I am EATING MY HAIR over what Could Have Been. I COULD BE SOMEONE'S ANNOYING YOUTUBER!! I could be a DISGRACED DISNEY CHANNEL STAR!! I could be an America's Got Talent winner! A mild to moderately successful comedian! I could be making short films!! But no no no precious thin skinned baby me heard a few new cus words and watched a teacher get heckled and begged to give up The Dream in favor of?? Quiet math tests?? I am such a fucking quitter I quit everything the second it gets too hard I always take the out as soon as it's offered what's my fucking damage.....
#I had SO MUCH POTENTIAL and I SQUANDERED IT!! weak ass third grade PUSSY! Your life could have been SO SICK!!#or you could at least be addicted to cocain or something interesting like that!! Boring ass goody two shoes always just staying home doing#NOTHING bitch make a REAL FRIEND go to a God Damn PARTY live a little instead of just hiding in the closet eating saltine crackers for years#waiting for it to be quiet outside before you ever even toed the line#mentally ill self-isolating motherfucker#you could have shrugged it off you could have GROWN A PAIR and FOUGHT BACK but you just ran and cried for mommy#victim complex little bitch baby always whining and exaggerating and making shit up fucking LIAR I am you and I KNOW what you did and I know#you knew it wasn't the truth and you regretted it the moment it came out of uour mouth but once you'd said it you just swallowed it back and#doubled down incriminating or discrediting others with your lies. For why? Because you didn't like them? You could have ruined someone's#life you wouldn't have hesitated mayhe you did and don't even remember because you cant keep your mouth shut with your pants ablaze#manipulative little shit and to WHAT END? Pity? Sympathy? Attention? Entertainment?? What was even going on in your stupid ugly head?#This is a callout post for my third grade self that possessed demon ass evil nine year old. That kid drowned anthills in olive oil and#poisoned a wild animal once. That kid cut plants just to see if they oozed. That kid modified her whole ass personality on a dime for a boy#she had a crush on. INSTANTLY dropped a LIFELONG CULTURAL ALLEGIANCE (thats what football teams were like back then in our town) because he#said he had the opposite allegiance??? What the fuck? girl had NO integrity none zip zilch.#No empthy either that kid looked at everyone else on earth like they were friggin space aliens and she was the only one with Real feelings.#bitch literally thought like 'I have Feelings they just have Reactions' bitch what the fuckkkkk#that nine year old was fucked the hell up!!!#and for literally NO REASON!! No cause!! Just born fucking evil and weird. jesus fuck.#Evil ass bitch caused her autistic brother months of nightmares and then laughed about it and wrote poetry about how evil he was because he?#was a kid??? Normal sibling rivalry taken way way way too far defamatory ass statements#and this girl had NO CONSEQUENCES because she could lie and manipulate her way out of ANYTHING she had the baby eyes and the helpless charm#and played dumb soooo well . read people like some calculative evil AI scanning their faces for microexpressions and overanalyzing each word#choice like holy shit. its not That Deep. pretentious shit trying to play 5D chess on a checkers board.#Manipulating shit just to see what happens?? zero awareness?? no asking just skipping straight to testing for yourself??#'What happens if I step on this' it fucking breaks 'what does that taste like?' it's not fucking yours to mess with 'if I hit this person#how will they respond?' they'll be upset use your goddamn judgement you are NINE not TWO do you even care a little about any other person??#Are you just living in some other reality???#callout post for the fucking demon child inside of me#im so goddamn problematic I'm so so so deeply mentally disturbed and broken for no reason
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Lee Yeon deserves a fucking break more than anyone else in the entire world and that's the tea
#dude went through emotional turmoil on all sides for 600 years only to have the cause of said emotional turmoil repeat itself#he deserves a normal life more than anyone else and his biggest battle should be against the dentist and not some other supernatural evil#lee yeon#tale of the nine tailed#oh also cant believe i forgot#he literally died and came back to life#and was stuck in suspended animation in a river for six months where it was implied he was conscious
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[From beta wiki and The Red King novel respectively] Don’t let nine year olds run off into the desert and embark on rituals after their alien dogs die!! That’s honestly parenting 101
#Tuvok and his historically hard time controlling his emotions my beloved....#He had this - then the Jara thing - then he tried to be a Vulcan nun and that didn't work either#Guy who can't help loving people (and animals) no matter how hard he tries not to <3#I can't believe his parents looked their son in the eye and said 'Animals don't have souls sooo....' religious upbringing Tuvok REAL#Nine Year Old Tuvok: -deeply upset that his pet died- at le ast she's in heaven now...#His Parents: -sucking their teeth-...........about that.........#Also did he TELL hi s parents he was embarking on a ritual or did he just LEAVE??#He comes back after apparently four months and they're like yo u can't just GO do a ritual in the desert kid you have CLASS...#we put up missing persons holoflyers what the HELL....#also yeah I'm reading through free previews of star trek novels now bc I realized they have Tuvok content#ref#novel experiences
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