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mechanicalinertia · 2 years

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STMPD Recommends Bubblegum Crisis Fanfiction: Chris Davies' Best Of All The Years 2

I have been doing this for over a year, now. I'm certain of it. It hasn't exactly attracted big traffic, but it's been... funny. Cathartic. Entertaining to me, at least? Look, doing pointless things tied to Crisis is sort of my default mode, and it's not a good default mode, but it's my default mode so I'll cling onto it beyond reason.

Of course, I've been doing a lot less of these. One runs out of interesting fics to review when the fandom is basically a few dozen people on a Discord, a few hundred people on a subreddit, and some ageing Gen Xers who use neither (most of the fiction writers who I've cited, like Shawn Hagen, Bob Schroeck, etc). Or, well, there are still interesting fics to review, but reviewing them would not be a fun process for me. YT2032, Meat Jacket, the usual suspects. Obviously I wrote a well-received post about a common thread in a lot of those fics, but that doesn't exactly mean I reviewed a given fic completely, did I? Well, I'll get to them. Eventually. Someday. Maybe I'll transition to recommending various things that I read? Ranma fic, Edgerunners fic... sky's the limit at that point. Have I talked about doing that before? I have, haven't I? Well, to hell with that.

It's time to talk about Best Of All The Years 2, arguably the fic that got me into the concept of Priss x Sylia being a couple.

Now, look. BoatY 2(oh my god that is the funniest acronym ever that's incredible holy shit what the hell) isn't just a sequel to BoatY 1, it's a sequel to Together Again: 2937 Chapter, Davies' gigacrossover involving pretty much every big anime that ever was popular in America in the 90's. That means not just Sailor Moon is mixed in, but Tenchi Muyo, Dirty Pair, Ranma, Patlabor, Ah My Goddess, Gall Force, and a bunch of other things which are referenced in the story's gigatimeline. I mean, Together again 2937 is like 350 pages of script-format fic (I recommend downloading as a PDF and reading it that way), and then there's the 1996 chapter which is Ranma-centric (450 pages, I think), and then there's the incomplete Silver Millennium chapter - yeah, the stories move backwards in time compared to the order Davies wrote them in - and as such, if you think I'm reviewing that shit, prepare to be very fucking disappointed. Maybe in some later year, when I can explain everything that goes on in it without sounding like a Pepe Silvia-grade nutcase.

For now, though... well, Davies helpfully provides a summary of 2937 on the first part of the story, and the only thing that's really plot-relevant from Together Again is that, after saving Queen Serenity from an elaborate plot involving the Dirty Pair as puppets, Sailor Pluto allows Priss to save Sylia from the suitcase nuke she sets off inside GENOM Tower around 2040, dragging her back to the present. That's it, that's pretty much all you need to know (Well, besides the fact that Nene's dead, but that's not really important). That's it. I swear to god.

After that... Well, Priss lies that she's a clone because she's pissed at Sylia once it turns out Sylia was cyber-enhanced the whole time, and is nervous about having lost most of her memories past 2033 or so, there's a lot of relationship angst, a ghost intervenes, they make up, they make love, and Priss stays on as a hardsuited warrior while Sylia retires to be a detective. I don't know what else to tell you, other than Priss is drinking buddies with Sailor Mars and Ayeka from Tenchi - and was buddies with Shampoo from Ranma until she fucked off into deep space, but again, that's Together Again material. Oh, and Rally Vincent was Sylia's mother. Not sure if we're talking about blonde Rally from Riding Bean, or tan Rally from Gunsmith Cats, but I would have to assume the former considering that Sylia isn't, y'know, of dark complexion.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to talk about this one, isn't it? Mostly because there's not a whole lot there, it's over and done with in I'd want to say under twenty thousand words. And what is there doesn't quite reach the heights or depths of emotional heft that I want from PrissxSylia fanfic, because Davies seems to have decided that Shakespearian-level misunderstandings are key to their relationship troubles (Priss sings a song from ADP Files in recollections during Together Again 2937, and Sylia literally assumes that the song is about how much she sucks and gets all self-loathe-y about it). I want to say I've at least tried to base Priss and Sylia's friction in deeper-rooted misunderstandings about the other woman based off of warped things in their own worldviews, though whether or not I succeeded is really not up to me.

But BoatY 2 still has one good card to play, namely seeing from both Priss and Sylia's perspective what happened once Priss travelled back in time to bail her lover out, there in the bowels of Quincy's kingdom. There are some... interesting revelations on Quincy's part as to the true nature of the conflict Sylia has been waging. I won't spoil them beyond saying that they resemble Bubblegum Crusade's ideas about Quincy's ties to Sylia, and that you can just read part 1 and get them. For that, and that alone, flip through this fic.

#stmpd reviews bgc fanfic #bgc #bubblegum crisis #fanfiction #fanfic rec

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pizzakaiju-and-friends · 9 months

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Days 1

Deadman wonderland 3

Food wars 16 serie 3

Frieren 16 (pausa 5 gennaio)

Gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun 9😀😀

Goblin slayer 2 s2😀

Hajime no ippo 18 s2😃

Ken shiro 12

Kiseiju 1😀

Kiyo in kyoto 6😀

Migi e Dali 10😀

Mushishi 3

My little monster 3

My roommate is a cat 1😀

Natsume 10 s6😀

Overtake 1😀

Paranoia agent 4😀

Restaurant to another world 8s2😀😀

Space brothers 4

The apothecary diaries 12

To your eternity 1😀

Usagi drop 3😀

Ushio e tora 5

Violet evergarden 2😀😀

Vita da Slime ova2 s1

Yowamushi pedal 26

Yuru camp 9😀

Zankyou no terror 8

Zom 100 10😀

29 totali

Serie A

Hajime no ippo😀

Kiyo in kyoto😀

Natsume😀

Goblin slayer😀

Paranoia Agent😀

Migi e Dali😀

Restaurant to another world😀😀

Finiti:

Blue lock 24⛔

Boku no hero ova, serie 6⛔

Buddie daddy 12⛔

Campfire cooking 12⛔

Chainsaw man 12⛔

Conan 26⛔

Cyberpunk edgerunner 10

Dorohedoro ova s1⛔

Demon slayer 11 s3

Farming life in another world 12⛔

Galaxy Express

Haikyu 25 serie 4⛔

Heavenly delusion 13⛔

Hell's paradise 13⛔

How to keep your mummy 12⛔

Insomniacs after school 13

Itou junji 12⛔

Kotaro ⛔

Junji ito: maniac 12⛔

Mashle 12⛔

Mob 12 serie 3⛔

My Love Story with Yamada-kun 13⛔

Nana ⛔

Nier automata

Noragami s2 1 ova

One punch man ova 6, serie2⛔

Oshi no ko 11

Ping pong ⛔

Pokemon: mezase Pokemon Master 11

Samurai Champloo 26⛔

Sk8

Skip and loafer 12⛔

Serial Experiments lain

Spriggan ⛔

The tatami galaxy ⛔

Trigun 12⛔

The tatami machine blues ⛔

Urusei yatsura 23⛔

Yuri on ice 12⛔

Tomo-chan is a girl (serie 1)

Reborn as a vending machine (serie 1)

My unique skill makes me OP (serie 1).

My happy marriage 12 s1

Horimiya serie The missing pieces

Link click serie 2

The masterful cat is depressed serie 1

Dororo 3

Heidi

Play it cool guys serie 1

Beastars serie 2

Children of the wales serie 1

Run with the wind serie 1

N°6 1

Made in abyss serie 3

Erased serie 1

The yuzuki family serie 1

Pluto Serie 1

My new boss is gufy Serie 1

Wonder egg serie 1, special

Tokyo revengers 13 s3

Spy x family 12 s2

Troncati:

Baki

Bleach

Naruto

Summertime rendering

Street fighter

Inuyasha

Akiba maid war

Kill la kill

Kobayashi-san chi no maid dragon

Ace attorney

Claymore

Trigun anni 90

Mix

Berserk

Tokyo ghoul

Gundam

Caro Fratello

Cowboy bebop

Hello spank

Bungou stray dog

Nanà supergirl

One piece

Love rice

FLCL

Shaman king

Ranma

Orange road

Aot

Sailor moon crystal

Full metal alchemist

Sakura

Golden kamui

Gundam unicorn

Pokemon serie 2017

Gundam: the witch from mercury

Devilman

Banana fish

Michiko to Hatchin

Kuroko no basket🤔

Kenshin vecchio

Sasaki to miyano

Elfen lied

Jujutsu kaisen

Tokyo mew mew

Sweet reincarnation🤔

Cat's eye

Gundam: TUTTI.

Creamy mami

Yu hakusho

My dress-up darling

Love live

Jojo

The ancient magus bride

Ultraman

Cowboy bebop

Hunter x hunter

Maison ikkoku

Why raeliana enden up

Ai yori aoshi

The girl I like forgot her glasses

Denpa Kyoushi

Sabage-bu

Dragonball

Saint seya 2

Ryu 2

Black lagoon

Kyoukai no kanata

Neroi no one piece

The kingdom of ruin

Rurouni Kenshin

Tsurune special 1

Given 8

The yakuza's guide of babysitting 2

Anna dai capelli rossi 1

Undead unluck 2

Visual prison 1

Free 9

Undead murder face 2

Cagaster of an insect cave

Trapped in a dating sim

Monster 11

City hunter

Hanatora

Hyouka

Ron kamonohadhi's forbidden deductions

Vinland saga 12

A boy and her guard boy 6

Bastard 20

Gakuen babysitter 2

Attack number 1 20

Eyeshield 21 5

Ace of Diamond 12

Ao ashi 5

Pokemon horizons 1

Gintama 3

Bocchi the rock 4

Shirokuma cafè

A galaxy next door 5

Kuma miko 1

Cinderella chef 3

Non non biyori

Scott pilgrim 2

Noein

Atom the beginning

Ge ge ge kitaro 3

Monogatari 3

Dr stone 10

Fate/series 0

Outlaw star 1

Salaryman's club 4

Ai tenchi muyo 1

Ransie la strega 2

Digimon adventure 1

Violet evergarden 2

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justletmedrawfungi · 5 years

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Went to a fashion show with some friends...we go every year and have fun...I just like to wear black but this jsk is amazing

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Cape thingy fan plus friend

Shoes off brand

Jsk royal kitten

Bag off brand

Wrist cuffs off brand

Blouse is offbrand

Necklace Pluto muyo (he’s a cat )

Headdress bodyline with cat ears added

#haenulie #fashion lolita #gothic fashion #gothic lolita #eglcommunity #egl #lolita budget #rorita #bodyline #pluto muyo #off brand

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popculturebuffet · 3 years

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Ex-Arm: Forbidden Weapon Patreon Sponsored Review: Dead Eyes, Brain Jars, Can’t Loose (Patreon Review for Emma Fici)

Hello all you happy people! And i’m stepping out of my usual comfort zone today for this one. See usually I cover western animation and comics. I have nothing against Anime and Manga: I grew up reading Shonen Jump and watching Dragon Ball Z, Yu Gi Oh (Whose card game I still play a LOT), Yu Yu Hakusho (Which is still one of my faviorite shows to this day), Pokemon, Tenchi Muyo, and Ultimate Muscle among MANY others. I still want to finish Hunter X Hunter and Jojo’s Bizzare adventure and watch the shaman king and eden’s zero’s animes and manga wise i’ve enjoyed the fire force manga, what i’ve read of my hero academia, and Pluto, which is one of the best comics i’ve read period. There’s good stuff I just forget it’s there sometimes and let it stack into my already large watch queue.

So NATURALLY instead of any of the good stuff my first anime episode covered on this blog.. is one glorious clusterfuck of a bonkers premise, a clear rip-off of a much more popular property, and some of the worst animation I have ever seen. And it’s only not THE worst because this happened.

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Fun Fact: This show was written and drawn entirely by unpaid high schoolers. Prove me wrong.

Ex-Arm WAS made by actual adults.. but ones who had no experience in animation, but were confident they could make it work. And being NEW to a medium isn’t excuse. Plenty of people make the jump and land just fine with writers such as Saladin Ahmed, Rainbow Rowell, and Ta-Nehsi Coates all making the jump from novels to comics smoothly.

No the issue is clear arrogance: the crew was CONFIDENT they could make an anime without actually talking to anyone who had made one, let alone in CG. And suicidal overconfidence with no skill to back it up NEVER ends well when making a show. It’s how you end up with two seasons of a boy who just hit puberty’s dry erase markered abomination up there, and how we ended up with an anime that looks more like it’s own shodily made tie-in game than an actual show that aired on television and streaming this very year.

But it did so join me under the cut as I get into the weeds of one of the most hilariously bad things i’ve seen in my life.

So we open in 2020 with a mass of screaming color inverted people being pulled into the sky to their doom. I gotta give it to the Manga this is based on, they predicted EXACTLY how 2020 would go. Most Sci Fi really misses the mark. We still don’t have flying cars, actual hoverboards or super fighting robots, but we did have people floating to their doom thanks to some weird color inverted teenager so kudos.

We get our intro.. and it is a LOT. The song, Rise Again, is honestly incredibly forgettable.. which I find inexusable for two reasons. The first is while I may not watch much actual anime I listen to anime themes and english covers of said themes all the time. I know my stuff and this theme is just.. nothing. It’s literally nothing. I mean a series this stupid at LEAST deserves a triumphuntly bad or too good for it intro. In between just dosen’t cut it. The other reason is simply that the end theme, Diamonds Shine by Dizzy Sunfist, is glorious. It’s really damn good and would work as an OP.. which begs the question why they weren’t swapped. Were they trying to reward people who actually stuck around for the credits?

Speaking of credits while the opening theme music is unforgetable the opening itself. .is like the show itself hilaroiusly bad. Now most anime intros are utterly beautiful, long, gorgeous affairs with tons of exciting animation, sometimes hinting to the future sometimes giving a general ideas of things, really showing off waht the show is. Ex Arm is a bunch of clumsy animation interspresed with about 80 character intro cards like this.

Just the spinning awkward CGI intro that you’d expect from 20 years ago. It looks like the bastard child of those weird 90′s x-men animated credits

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And the breif intros of Spidey and friends at the top of Spider-Man the new animated series.... not one of the recent ones nor some revamp of the original but one made by sony in 2003 to capitalize on the first of the Sam Rami trilogy and to directly serve as it’s sequel... and even then THAT intro does this sort of thing better than ex-arm only having three and with sai dintro itself being really damn good

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The animation ALSO looks better than Ex-Arm.. and came out 18 years ago. And if you think well “holy shit this show has embarrassed itself a lot with just an intro”, well strap in because this show has not yet BEGUN to embarrass itself.

So we go back in time to 2014, a time when we were on only our second live action Spider-Man film series, a young Steven Unvierse had only just to begun to unravel the tangled mess Rose had left behind, and Gravity Falls had only just begun what would tragically be it’s final season.

And none of that matters to our setting as we head to a Japanese High School Classroom. Because 70% of anime and manga involve a high or middle school, even when your about to rip off ghost in the shell.

It’s here we meet Akira

... I haven’t even seen that movie, i’ts been on my to do list for years, and I know tha’ts TETSUO.

No akira’s that kid I showed before. You’ll know him by his near constant thousand yard stare that says “my brother puts a pinch of acid in my breakfast every day”

Akira is doing fine till his buddy tries to get him to do some sort of party related thing that involves phones, with Akira not having one because he’s technophobic. And I don’t mean someone who dosen’t LIKE phones or technology or it’ sinfluence on people and is trying to avoid screens and what not, I mean someone whose so ungodly terrified by just his friend HOLDING UP HIS SMART PHONE that he passes out with wavy lines and this look on his face.

Yeah while the cold open and intro were hilariously bad on their own terms... this is where the series REALLY lets the drugs kick in. Now a main character having some phobia or personality flaw or quirk is actually pretty common, either a sign of supernatural things or just something to make it complicated when the person coming onto them happens to be the thing they hate. Like say a guy dosen’t like bees, well guess who just because the selected mate of the hive queennnnn.. lucky bastard.

It’s a common anime trope, so it being present here isn’t a BAD thing it’ own. It’s not a trope that would make me WANT to watch a show, but it’s also one I haven’t seen enough in the anime and manga i’ve consumed to really judge. Conversely I can judge having sexual harassment or embarassment as a running gag, because i’ve seen it way too often even in fantastic works and it’s just creepy every time.

So the idea isn’t terrible PERSAY.. but the problem here is it’s not just some small fear or some nerveousness or something... the kid is having full on breakdowns, passing out from simply being SHOWN one of the most common devices in the world, and having to be taken to the nurse’s office... and the show tries to play it off like “oh you just need to live live buddy”.

That’s.. actually what happens: We cut to him and his brother talking it over , their parents having died because of course. First off i’m 100% convinced his brother is actually his dad and his brother-dad’s parents simply raised akira, because look at them

He looks old enough to be his dad. And Secondly his brother treats him having FREQUENT PANIC ATTACKS AND PASSING OUT OVER A VERY COMMON BIT OF TECHNOLOGY as “oh well your just a bit withdrawn bro you need to put one foot forward, jump in and live life to the max brosef, live it up bromigo, find your juliet bromeo”. I get people ARE that dumb about psychological issues in real life, it happens, but the SERIES ITSELF frames it like Sensei Brodad is right! If you wanted it to JUST be a self confidence issue and the techphobia tied into that then DON’T exaggerate it 98 degrees.

So Akira goes off into the night to the convince store and is targeted by a shadowy figure... and i’m questioning less WHY the guy is targeting our hero or has his photo.. and more the photo itself.

It’s clearly one of those little school photos you give out to your friends, which means Japan has those which is neat. But it also means they went to the trouble of STEALING some kid’s wallet sized photo of a teenage boy for the express purpose of kidnapping him to steal his brain. That will have SLIGHTLY more context in a bit but not much.

So one transition later Akira exists the convince store when he notices a bunch of hoods harassing another teenager wanting to take her away with them despite her being no. He dickers about it , not sure he can take three guys. .but decides to take his brothers advice and just leap in and do what he can anyway.. and gets hit by a bus as he sprints forward

I’d just like to contrast this with another anime I mentioned, one that ALSO got started when it’s hero got hit by a car trying to do something noble, Yu Yu Hakuso. See that series, for those unfamiliar with it, stars high school pun Yuske Yurameshi, the biggest hood around who frequently skips school, has an alcholic negglectful mom and generally seems like he’ll be a punk and out for himself his whole life. Then one day he sees a child nearly get hit by a car, and jumps in front of it to push the kid out of the way, dying, but going out doing something noble.

Both have the same idea: a character dies changing the way they are and their thrust into a new life because of it. The diffrence is context. Yuske finds himself in the land of the dead, guided there by the ever bubly and sarcastic botan. This ends up being a problem though: See as things were fated to go.. the kid would’ve been fine. A scrape or too but it would’ve been a one in a million freak miracle. No one EXPECTED Yuske to do what he did, nor to have such inner nobility in him. So Koenma, son of the god of dead King Enma, gives him a second chance: do some good deeds, prove he can be a better person, and he’ll let him come back. And he does, via some shenanigans. Not only that but seeing the people he lost gives Yuske a reason to WANT to come back: he sees his mom as neglectful as she was loved him, his only friend Keiko is devidsted and even his rival who he beat up all the time Kuwabara genuinely misses the guy.. it’s partly because he never got to kick Yuske’s ass but ‘tis clear he misses him. So by helping them, Yuske earns his way back, and while still a little shit, has come back a better person. The continued strangness after this is likewise linked: Koenma offers Yuske a job hunting spirits as his agent, since Yuske’s time dead means he can use “spirit” attacks, and see ghosts, which gets the boy much needed money, purpose and more friends.

My point is i’d rather be watching or reviewing Yu Yu Hakusho right now. My other ponit is that there it’s used for thematic reasons and gives us a credible ease into the plot. Here... our hero dies, he becomes a brain in a jar weapon thing, and while it MIGHT have some pathos later, ZERO minutes are spent on im dwelling on what he’s lost or reflecting as a character. He spends the rest of the episode understandably freaking at what the hell this is. Which granted is what yuske did for an episode.. but they also added in pathos: what he’d lost, slowed down took some time before getting into shit. Here their so impatient to get to the cool sci fi bullshit we get no sense of character for akira. He was afraid of machines and kind of nervous> That’s it. His death comes off as a black comedy because we didn’t really KNOW him before he got hit by a truck. If your going to put a plot device like this in your shitty anime, maybe check to make sure that i don’t know, one of the most storied ones period hadn’t done it better!

So we jump ahead past BOTH previous timelines to our main one of 2030 where two officers are intercepting a super weapon. Mokoto Arma and Minami. Arma is as the gag probably gave away is a ripoff of Mokto Kursnagi from ghost in the shell, an anime i’ve only seen bits of but a pantsless unitard wearing robot who works for the police.. I mean I don’t have to KNOW GTS and film like it’s my own child to connect the obvious dots. I have eyes. And i’ts okay to take inspiration from something but COME ON. There’s also a grizzled officer with a weird eye thing, if a diffrent weird eye thing. They were not subtle

Anyway Arma and Mini have obtained a super weapon in a briefcase , and we get a fight scene. And while the animation has been laughably lackluster so far.. here’s where it kicks into overdrive as man oh man this is one laughably terrible fight scene. It looks like Arma is just fumbling around at the speed of sound, got places to go gotta break up this arms deal, with hits either barely connecting or looking moe like slaps or the weakest punches. Nothing has any flow or impact, it’s just all so weak. And of course infamously one shot of Arma doing a flying attack with both knees.. looks like she’s hitting the guy with her crotch.

Yeah i’ts pretty lackluster and shows why MAYBE, just maybe making an action show when you don’t know how to animate, let alone do action is just POSSIBLY the dumbest thing to come out of this country since people started thinking “FUCK scientifically proven vaccines i’m gonna take horse dewormer!”

So our heroines end up outgunned, out manned, outnumbered and out planned so they need to make an all out stand and Mini suggests opening up the box.

We get a cut to Police HQ where all of the police, including characters who are in the intro but don’t get enough focus for me to pick out their names from the 80 other in the intro. The point is we find out what an Ex Arm IS: a high tech device that can do super powered stuff. Basically your standard justificatoin for superpowers. We see one guy mow down an army by being able to turn intangiable who looks...

So going back a bit, our heroes open the ex arm to reveal a round computer thing.. which of course has Akira in it, specifically his brain. Yes I wasn’t exagerating or making my usual clever quips when I made refrences it to it earlier, the premise of this is that they jammed some random high school kid’s brain in a super computer at some point.

Never forget that while Ex-Arm is stupid.. it’s also GLORIOUSLY stupid and the animation isn’t the only notably messed up thing about it.

So yeah Akira naturlaly takes this well as Mimi proves to be entirely stupid: asking him to boot up and then being obtuse when it’s VERY obvious this thing’s brain has no idea where it is, that it’s 2030 or that it’s not a WMD. His response to Mimi mentoining he’s in 2030 and the situation he’s in, being under gunfire with a sexy police android whose eye’s he’s seeing through and an idiot while his brain is in some weird machine sums up this show in a nutshell.

Including him being naked in the weird cyber space thing.. he’s just.. naked for some reason..

So our heroine, her peppy useless sidekick and brain boy run into the facility and are chased by phasing guy. They try hooking The Brain That Wouldn’t Blink into the computers but he can’t do it.. it was intiutive with Ghost in the Fanservice’s brain but not this and he’s too caught in his own head. The girls end up having to take a runner and run into creepy ghost hand man leading to another awkward fight scene.

It’s what you’d expect: the anime equilvent of this

So Akane ends up disabled forcing her to call on resting vietnam veteran face to help leading to this gem of a line

So Akira takes his brother’s words to heart, I wasn’t kidding about the framing and decides to leap into it.. this bein ga girls body. So yeah in TWENTY GODDAMN TWENTY a major plot point of this anime is “cis gendered male hops into female body and get it it’s awkward”

Let’s finish this this review is already days behind: so we do get an intresting finish as while Akira stumbles at being a lady super fighting robot, he does cleverly use his acess to the cameras and what not of the base to review the fight footage, realizing that the Phantom Meance here can’t see what’s behind him or sense what’s in front of him and thus tricks him into phasing a hand into the ocean. This is something I love about anime and why I keep coming back from time to time: the fights can be clever. Sure some are just shoutin gan dpunching, and tha’ts just as fun in the right context, but a lot are about strategy and trying to get your oponent to make the wrong move. It’s why I love jojo so much despite having only read the second and third arcs and seen part of the fourth: it’s all about clever stategy using unusual powers. This isn’t Jojo, by a long shot but it’s SOMETHING, which is more than the entire runtime of this episode has given me.

So with that our heroes are surronded by guns and Akira finds out he might of caused an apocalypse. Oops.

Final Thoughts: Ex Arm is really bad.. but damn was it fun.The anime is generic as hell mostly ripping off ghost in the shell but anything else it has, super powers run amok, cyperpunk, is all cliche, and it’s protagonists are all vacant arcytpes: Awkward teen hero, stoic fanservice badass, peppy girl. I’ve seen them all in other works and done better. There’s nothing to them and nothing good.

So why was it fun? Because it’s a perfect storm of elements that make something so bad it’s good: legendarily perplexing animation, an overconfident creative team who has no idea what their doing but presses on anyway, a plot that’s both uniquely bonkers and clearly leaning on several cliches. It’s everything that makes a so bad it’s good film great in an anime package. I don’t know WHEN i’ll get back to this.. but honestly while I went in meaning for this to be a done in one and Emma will be rolling on to something else next month for her patreon I will probably come back to this someday.

So if you enjoyed this review follow for the possible sequel among with aton of other great stuff and considering joining my patreon

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Thank you for coming, thank you for staying, thanks for reading’

#ex-arm #anime #crunchyroll #bad animation #hilaroiusly bad #ghost in the shell #yu yu hakusho

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ka-go-me · 6 years

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ROLEPLAYING HISTORY

The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to role play as, have role played as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten characters, just write down however many you can and tag the same amount of people). Aside from that, please repost instead of reblogging!

CURRENTLY PLAYING

Kagome, ~ Inuyasha manga series

Izayoi, ~ Inuyasha manga series

Inukimi ~ Inuyasha manga series

WANT TO PLAY

Deniona from Disney’s Gargoyles

Spider-Gwen from Marvel Comics

HAVE PLAYED (Most are NOT blogs, just what I’ve played over the years I’ll star the ones that are blogs)

from Inuyasha:

Inuyasha

Kikyou ✯

Naraku

Sango

Miroku

Shippou

Kagura

Kanna

Sesshoumaru

Rin

Jaken

the Shichinintai

Mama Higurashi

Jii-chan

Souta

Kohaku

Kouga

Ayame

Kaede

Goshinki

Byakuya

Tsubaki ✯

most of the villians

from Full Metal Alchemist:

Alphonse Elric

Riza Hawkeye

Roy Mustang

Winry Rockbell

from Rurouni Kenshin:

Takani Megumi

Sagara Sanosuke

Himura Kenshin

Shishio

from Gundam Wing:

Hilde Schibieker

Heero Yuy

Duo Maxwell

WuFei Chang

Trowa Barton

Quatre Rababa Winner

Dorothy Catalonia

Lady Une

Catherine Bloom

Sally Po

from Sailor Moon:

Sailor Pluto ✯

Sailor Chibi Moon

Sailor Moon

Sailor Cosmos

from Tenchi Muyo!:

Hakubi Ryouko

Sasami Jurai

Masaki Tenchi

Kirimitsu Mihoshi

Katsuhito Jurai

Miscellaneous:

Mayuri from Bleach

Robin from Witch Hunter Robin

Akane from Ranma ½

Asato Tsuzuki from Yami no Matsuei (Decendants of Darkness)

Misty from Pokemon

Renge from Ouran High School Host Club

Medusa from Soul Eater

Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth

Undertaker from Kuroshitsuji

Lulu from Final Fantasy X

Selphie Tilmet from Final Fantasy VIII

The Black Cat from the Marvel Universe Spider-Man ✯

Sam Winchester from Supernatural

Rose Tyler & River Song from Doctor Who ✯

Captain Jack Sparrow & Marieanna from Pirates of the Caribbean

Rogue from X-men

WILL/WOULD PLAY AGAIN

Alphonse Elric

Ryouko

Hilde Schbieker

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3 letras

3 amy (sonic)

3 fly

3 ken

3 max

3 ryu

3 taz

3 twf

4 letras

4 bart (simpsons)

4 bloo

4 cell (dbz)

4 dino (flintstones)

4 dosu

4 erza (fairy tail)

4 finn

4 gary (bob esponja)

4 garu (pucca)

4 goku (dbz)

4 hulk

4 ikki

4 jake

4 kiba (naruto)

4 kovu (rei leão)

4 lisa (simpsons)

4 nami (fairy tail)

4 odie

4 pein

4 thor

4 tobi (naruto)

4 vash

4 yumi

4 yzma

4 zuko

5 letras

5 ariel

5 babão

5 ben 10

5 billy

5 bosko

5 bouli

5 bratz

5 bucky

5 cosmo

5 dumbo

5 flash

5 gantz

5 gohan

5 gorpo

5 homer (simpsons)

5 jaken

5 jimbo

5 kiara (rei leão)

5 konan

5 korra

5 mandy

5 marge (os simpsons)

5 pingu

5 pluto

5 pucca

5 ranma

5 robin

5 seiya (cdz)

5 shino (naruto)

5 simba

5 sokka (avatar)

5 sonic

5 spawn

5 tsuna

5 venom

5 wanda

5 wilma

5 x-men

6 letras

6 aladin

6 avatar

6 bambam

6 barbie

6 barney

6 batman

6 bender (futurama)

6 bleach

6 brutus

6 cascão

6 catdog

6 chaves

6 chi chi (dbz)

6 coyote

6 darwin

6 dee dee

6 droopy

6 freeza

6 frozen

6 gambit (x-men)

6 he-man

6 itachi (naruto)

6 jiraya (naruto)

6 jirobo

6 kagome

6 katara (avatar)

6 krypto

6 leitão

6 lilica

5 lion-o

6 magali

6 maggie (simpsons)

6 marvin

6 minato (naruto)

6 mônica

6 muriel

6 mutano

6 naruto

6 nermal

6 o coisa

6 pateta

6 plucky

6 pocoyo

6 popeye

6 ravena

6 rupert

6 sasuke (naruto)

6 shazam

6 she-ra

6 shinzo

6 snoopy

6 stewie

6 tarzan

6 temari (naruto)

6 tigrão

6 totoro

6 trigun

6 trunks (dbz)

6 vegeta (dbz)

6 xavier (x-men)

7 letras

7 akamaru

7 aquaman

7 bakugan

7 batgirl

7 bolinha

7 carnage

7 catatau

7 chowder

7 ciclope (x-men)

7 coringa

7 cruella

7 deidara (naruto)

7 digimon

7 docinho

7 dodoria (dbz)

7 felícia

7 frajola

7 frajuto

7 gormiti

7 hamtaro

7 jaspion

7 kuririn (dbz)

7 leôncio (pica pau)

7 magneto (x-men)

7 mandark

7 megaman

7 mística (x-men)

7 muttley

7 noturno (x-men)

7 patrick (bob esponja)

7 pedrita (flintstones)

7 piccolo (dbz)

7 piu-piu

7 pokémon

7 shurato

7 sininho

7 the tick

7 tio chan

7 vampira (x-men)

8 letras

8 adão leão

8 anpanman

8 astro boy

8 beyblade

8 clifford

8 doraemon

8 flapjack

8 fudêncio

8 futurama

8 gaguinho

8 garfield

8 gárgulas

8 godzilla

8 hellsing

8 inuyasha

8 jade chan

8 jake long

8 jean grey (x-men)

8 kissyfur

8 lindinha

8 lula lelé

8 majin boo (dbz)

8 megas xlr

8 medabots

8 milhouse (simpsons)

8 moby dick

8 mr. magoo

8 mr. satan (dbz)

8 o máscara

8 one piece

8 os smurfs

8 os snorks

8 patolino

8 pé de pano

8 peppa pig

8 perninha

8 pica-pau

8 plankton

8 puro osso

8 ragnarok

8 robot boy

8 samurai x

8 shin chan

8 sr. burns (simpsons)

8 super pig

8 tiny toon

8 vingador

8 zé jacaré

9 letras

9 andy panda

9 arlequina

9 bananaman

9 barbapapa

9 batatinha

9 betty boop

9 bumblebee

9 cebolinha

9 clarabela

9 cyborg 009

9 death note

9 dom pixote

9 ducktales

9 eek the cat

9 eufrazino

9 family guy

9 florzinha

9 franjinha

9 gato félix

9 hey arnold

9 hortelino

9 kid vs. kat

9 lex luthor

9 lola bunny

9 luluzinha

9 mistureba

9 os jetsons

9 os oblongs

9 pepe legal

9 roy corrói

9 se liga ian

9 south park

9 stan smith

9 super sumô

9 super vaca

9 tico e teco

9 tom e jerry

9 tutubarão

9 wolverine

9 woodstock

9 yu-gi-oh!

9 zatch bell

9 zé carioca

9 zé colmeia

9 zeca urubu

9 mama cosma

10 letras

10 androide 18

10 angel beats

10 animaniacs

10 bob esponja

10 caverninha

10 chico bento

10 costelinha

10 cyberchase

10 draculaura

10 dragon ball (dbz)

10 frangolino

10 freakazoid

10 galaxy trio

10 hong kong fu

10 invasor zim

10 johnny test

10 juggernaut (x-men)

10 juniper lee

10 ligeirinho

10 macaco loco

10 manda chuva

10 mecanimais

10 mestre kame (dbz)

10 mike, lu e og

10 miss spider

10 mucha lucha

10 mulher gato

10 mutante rex

10 nossa turma

10 o demolidor

10 orochimaru

10 os anjinhos

10 os simpsons

10 pato donald

10 peixonauta

10 pernalonga

10 rato minuto

10 sailor moon

10 scooby-doo

10 shaman king

10 space ghost

10 speed racer

10 super homem

10 supernoobs

10 tempestade (x-men)

10 tenchi muyo

10 w.i.t.c.h.

10 wally gator

10 yin yang yo!

11 letras

11 adolepeixes

11 as trigêmeas

11 chilly willy

11 dinosaucers

11 du, dudu e edu

11 duck dodgers

11 duende verde

11 família urso

11 flash gordon

11 gasparzinho

11 joão grandão

11 johnny bravo

11 johnny quest

11 kim possible

11 lagoona blue

11 lilo e stitch

11 lula molusco

11 marsupilami

11 mickey mouse

11 moranguinho

11 o justiceiro

11 os 6 biônicos

11 papa-léguas

11 pepe le gambá

11 pixcodelics

11 polly pocket

11 presuntinho

11 rocket power

11 samurai jack

11 silverhawks

11 super choque

11 super dínamo

11 superamigos

11 thundercats

11 timão e pumba

11 timmy turner

11 tio patinhas

11 tocha humana

11 ursinho pooh

11 yu yu hakusho

12 letras

12 aizen sousuke

12 betty atômica

12 breadwinners

12 cavalo de fogo

12 charlie brown

12 charlie e lola

12 danny phantom

12 darkwing duck

12 dave o bárbaro

12 duelo xiaolin

12 eu sou o máximo

12 gato corajoso

12 homem de ferro

12 homem pássaro

12 homem-aranha

12 irmão do jorel

12 jambo e ruivão

12 jimmy nêutron

12 juanito jones

12 meany ranheta

12 muppet babies

12 olívia palito

12 os mussarelas

12 o pequeno urso

12 os super patos

12 os vingadores

12 peter griffin

12 peter potamus

12 phineas e ferb

12 quatro braços

12 riquinho rico

12 saga de gêmeos (cdz)

12 sr sirigueijo (bob esponja)

12 transformers

12 vinicius e tom

13 letras

13 a vaca e o frango

13 ana pimentinha

13 arqueiro verde

13 as múmias vivas

13 charley e mimmo

13 coelho osvaldo

13 coração gelado

13 corrida maluca

13 dick vigarista

13 ever after high

13 fate stay night

13 hunter x hunter

13 lanterna verde

13 liga da justiça

13 lola e virgínia

13 martin mistery

13 mulher-gavião

13 o clube das winx

13 o patinho duque

13 os flintstones

13 os herculóides

13 os impossíveis

13 os jovens titãs

13 os substitutos

13 os thornberrys

13 papai sabe nada

13 peter perfeito

13 pinky dinky doo

13 super campeões

13 turma do bairro

13 ursinhos gummy

14 letras

14 a família addams

14 a hora do recreio

14 a pequena sereia

14 a turma do bairro

14 as sereias do mar

14 batfino e karatê

14 bob o construtor

14 caça-fantasmas

14 capitão américa

14 capitão caverna

14 capitão falange

14 capitão planeta

14 carmen sandiego

14 dragon quest fly

14 família drácula

14 formiga atômica

14 fred flintstone

14 hora de aventura

14 irmãos metralha

14 leão da montanha

14 mestre dos magos

14 mestre splinter (tartarugas ninja)

14 monster rancher

14 o grande polegar

14 os 4 fantásticos

14 pinky e o cérebro

14 spiff e hercules

14 sakura kinomoto

14 sandy bochechas (bob esponja)

14 steven universe

15 letras

15 2 cachorros bobos

15 as super gatinhas

15 baby looney tunes

15 bernardo e bianca

15 caverna do dragão

15 esquilo sem grilo

15 ilha dos desafios

15 jay jay, o jatinho

15 maguila, o gorila

15 mulher invisível

15 mulher maravilha

15 professor utônio

15 samurai champloo

15 tartaruga touchê

15 tartarugas ninja

16 letras

16 a bruxinha sabrina

16 aaahh!!! monstros

16 brandy e sr bigodes

16 carangos e motocas

16 coelho ricochete

16 cowboys the moo mesa

16 dora a aventureira

16 happy tree friends

16 harvey, o advogado

16 josie e as gatinhas

16 penélope charmosa

16 penelope pussycat

16 princesas-do-mar

16 quadrilha de morte

16 surfista prateado

16 três espiãs demais

17 letras

17 bicudo, o lobisomem

17 brasinhas do espaço

17 corrida alucinante

17 dennis o pimentinha

17 esquadrilha abutre

17 galinha pintadinha

17 inspetor bugiganga

17 jorgen von estranho

17 olho vivo e faro fino

17 o poderoso hércules

17 o urso do cabelo duro

17 os castores pirados

17 os sete monstrinhos

17 sakura card captors

17 thomas e seus amigos

18 letras

18 a família camundongo

18 beavis and butt-head

18 escola pra cachorro

18 fullmetal alchemist

18 os cãezinhos do canil

18 plic, ploc e chuvisco

18 shura de capricórnio (cdz)

18 uma robô adolescente

18 ursinhos carinhosos

19 letras

19 a vida moderna de rocko

19 as aventuras de tintim

19 coragem, o cão covarde

19 o acampamento de lazlo

19 o quarteto fantástico

19 os defensores da terra

19 professor dingle dong

19 sheep na cidade grande

19 valentino troca-tapa

20 letras

20 a pantera cor-de-rosa

20 aventuras com os kratts

20 george o rei da floresta

20 historinhas de dragões

20 o laboratório de dexter

20 os meninos desordeiros

21 letras

21 os cavaleiros do zodíaco

22 letras

22 a nova escola do imperador

22 os pinguins de madagascar

23 letras

23 as aventuras de jackie chan

23 as meninas superpoderosas

23 as trapalhadas de flapjack

23 o fantástico mundo de bobby

25 letras

25 harry e o balde de dinossauros

26 letras

26 mosquito, mosquete e moscardo

29 letras

29 super esquadrão dos macacos robôs

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Anime NYC, Day One

It’s Anime NYC weekend! I’m here to cover everything for you – at least, everything I can get to. We’re starting early, though, as I’m typing this before the con begins. That’s because Seven Seas, which is not allowed to leave California due to some agreement with a lich, I believe, has announced a giant pile of titles every day this week, including some absolute stunners.

We start with Dragon, Ie wo Kau (Dragon Goes House Hunting), which sounds absolutely hilarious based on title alone. It’s a Mag Garden title that runs in Comic Blade, and a fairly recent series. As for the premise, well, I’d hate to spoil…

Do you like sports manga? Have you been thinking “I like sports manga, but there’s not enough fanservice? Where are my girls in swimsuits”? In that case, we have Harukana Receive, a beach volleyball manga that takes place in Okinawa. It runs in Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Forward, and has 4 volumes to date.

I greatly enjoyed My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness when it came out earlier this year, and so am delighted to hear Seven Seas has licensed the sequel, My Solo Exchange Diary, which only comes out in Japan next month. Judging by the title, it promises to be as emotionally compelling as the previous book (exchange diaries by definition requiring another person).

I have often begged for licenses from Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior, one of the more overlooked seinen magazines. And, well, OK, I asked for it. Now we have Wonderland, which manages to turn Alice in Wonderland into a horror thriller sort of deal, as humanity shrinks all of a sudden and has to fight to survive. The author may be best known over here for Fighting Beauty Wulong.

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom has been one of J-Novel Club’s breakaway hits, so it’s no surprise that Seven Seas will be releasing it in print. Get ready to hear about Machivelli’s The Prince a lot and ask yourself “Isn’t that Saber?”.

This should not be a surprise anymore given the number of classic titles Seven Seas has announced, but it still surprised me. Space Battleship Yamoto will be coming out as one omnibus manga! From 1974, it ran in Akita Shoten’s now defunct Bouken Ou magazine, though I believe Media Factory may have the rights now. The anime version may be better known to Western fans as old as I am as Star Blazers.

Udon still has the rights to Rose of Versailles, though it’s been significantly delayed. But Seven Seas teased us with two sort-of-related titles. The first is Versailles of the Dead, combining 18th century France with zombies. It runs in Shogakukan’s Hibana, and is from the creator of After School Charisma.

And we may not have Rose of Versailles yet, but we are getting a Ryoko Ikeda title, as we have Claudine! This single volume shoujo manga is considered a pioneer in the field of LGBT manga, meaning of course that it’s going to end unhappily for all concerned, like most pioneers of LGBT manga. Claudine ran in Shueisha’s Margaret, and will be complete in one volume.

Who wanted a combination of beloved fairy tales and survival game manga? Certainly not me, but there’s definitely a market for it, and they should be delighted with Fairy Tale Battle Royale, a Kadokawa title that runs in Gene Pixiv.

If you liked The Heiress and the Chauffeur, Seven Seas has a new shoujo series by the same author (and that also ran in LaLa from Hakusensha). The Bride and the Exorcist Knight is about a young woman who attracts demons, and the boy who rescues her… and then says they should get married. The boy’s age worries me (he’s apparently 12), but we’ll see how this is handled.

The biggest surprise so far (I may have to edit this when Friday’s titles come out) is the license of the Shin Tenchi Muyo novels. These novels expand on the past of the original OAV series, with one devoted to Aeka’s family, one to Tenchi’s grandfather, and one to Washuu. (Romanization may vary depending on when you got obsessed with Tenchi Muyo). These came out in the 1990s, and were on no one’s radar, so I was stunned. But I will absolutely pick them up.

Friday brings us the final Seven Seas titles. First we have Elf-san wa Yaserarenai (Plus-Sized Elf), a comedy manga from Comic Gum. Dieting elves seem to be the comedy du jour.

Ojojojo proves that the Dragon Maid author can still get things licensed, but at least it doesn’t seem to feature monster girls. Outcast girl meets outcast boy in this 4-volume series from Takeshobo’s Manga Life.

Lastly, there is Hanayome wa Motodanshi (The Bride was a Boy), an Asuka Shinsha title about the titular bride, who was assigned male at birth but has decided to transition, and her husband who finds out about this but falls for her anyway. It’s apparently autobiographical, and should appeal to fans of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness-style manga.

Now onto Anime NYC proper. After a bit of line wackiness (better signage was desperately needed), I got into the Exhibit Hall, grabbed a copy of Nekomonogatari Back (likely my sole purchase this weekend), and headed to the panel on Anime Fandom 15 years ago, run by Doug Wilder of Animecons.com.

It really is startling to see how far we’ve come in that time. 15 years ago, VHS was dying and DVDs were the new thing, but they were frequently high-priced and sometimes came with a box to hold the remaining volumes… which may not always have come out if sales were really poor. Streaming was being talked about, but that’s all. It was a physical media world.

There were magazines! Animerica, Protoculture Addicts, Newtype USA. Wizard magazine devoted part of its content to anime, which makes me sad as it means I have to remember Wizard magazine. You still had Toonami and Adult Swim, but ADV Films (remember them?) was starting up The Anime Network. We had the Lupin dub! Which changed so much dialogue it could have been a different series.

There were the usual gateways. Sailor Moon, etc. Gundam Wing was HUGE at the time. I noted from the audience that it was the Gundam series that attracted a lot of female viewers. Doug also discussed other robot series like G Gundam and Battler Aura Dunbine, which tried to sell itself as being similar to Gundam Wing, which… it wasn’t.

After this nostalgic trip, I toured the show floor a bit. Spoke to Mangagamer about the delays on the Higurashi re-release (their programmer is very busy with other titles, so Tsumihoroboshi may take a few more months.) Got a hot dog, because the days when I try to power through an entire day on water are long gone. Then camped for Viz, which meant seeing Funimation Favorites, which was fun. They’re excited about the Nichijou re-release.

Viz had a lot of people at its panel, though the only panelist was Charlene Ingram, their marketing director. Most of the announcements were things that had been mentioned at prior events, such as Infini-T Force and the Homestuck print omnibuses. A lot of anime clips, which the audience appreciated. The Terra Formars one was quite violent.

A big announcement was that Viz has partnered with Pluto TV, an app that allows you to watch various titles whenever you want, including Viz titles. They were also very excited about Osomatsu-san, the very popular comedy manga that sort of came out of nowhere this past year.

On the manga front, we talked about to My Hero Academia speedup starting in 2018, as well as the Vigilantes spinoff being licensed. The one new series that they announced was That Blue Sky Feeling (Sorairo Flutter), an LGBT series that runs in Square Enix’s Gangan Joker. It’s about a boy drawn to the school outcast, who may be gay but that’s not stopping our hero getting close to him. It looks quite interesting.

After the Viz panel I went to dinner with two friends at a pub on 46th street nowhere near the con, which I always recommend when you do NYC cons – the convention center is near absolutely nothing. Fish and chips were eaten, rum and coke was drank, and a good time was had by all.

Then back to the con for the One Piece 20th anniversary panel, which had a considerable line, but everyone managed to get in. (By the way, the con had about 20,000 people, which is not bad given it’s a first-year con. The panel was run by the One Piece Podcast, and the hosts were Zach and Kelly. They oddly tried to keep it a spoiler-free con, which was increasingly difficult as the panel went on.

A lot of the events going on in Japan for the anniversary were discussed. One Piece is big business there, with shops, restaurants (one restaurant is run by a guy dressed as Sanji, who flirts with the women but is hirrible to any male customers. That sounds… a bit too accurate for my taste) and the like.

There’s an exhibit at Tokyo Tower. There’s a kabuki show, though the lead actor recently got injured. One Piece is used in tons of ads – Coke, Nippon Ham, and a ludicrous ad in appalling Engrish for a pen, ending with “THIS IS A PEN!” declaimed. (That phrase is the standard opener for Japanese kids learning English.)

The live-action One Piece is in production for North America, and few fans seem excited, even with Oda supervising it. Too many people remember Dragon Ball… and Ghost in the Shell… and Death Note. Still, hope springs eternal. Oh yes, and they also showed the 4Kids opening – a surprising number of people grooved along. I guess it didn’t kill the fandom after all!

They had a history of the One Piece anime and manga over the years after this, which got increasingly vague as we tried not to spoil. Unfortunately, I had to cut out before the panel ended, so that I could come back here and write all of this up for you.

Tomorrow brings us Kodansha, Yen, and other assorted fun things. Who’s gonna be there with me?

By: Sean Gaffney

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