#read tsubasa online

[completeoveranalysis]

I’m sure you’ve answered this before but I can’t seem to find the response (Tumblr gets weirdly hard to navigate sometimes), so sorry about the repetition! But where do you read TRC? Getting the paperback mangas is way too difficult for me, but there are too many internet sources to choose from it seems. Or too little, if you consider how shady some can be. Thanks!

Don't worry, I never mind getting the same question - Tumblr is hell to navigate, even with all the tags in place, and I'm always happy to help!

I have all the physical volumes of Tsubasa, but if we're talking online options I've also purchased almost all of the ebook volumes through Comixology. Comixology is now dead, but! It was eaten by Amazon! So you can also purchase the ebook versions through the Amazon website and read them on the kindle app if you want to spend the money on it. The app... is not optimised for reading manga, but you can zoom in with pretty good quality!

This option isn't for everyone though so I've hunted down a past post with the same question to see what the other suggestions were in the notes. I personally haven't tried any of these websites so I can't vouch for how they work, but the options suggested by others are: batoto, mangakakalot.to, mangadex, tenmanga, and manganelo.

Libraries sometimes will also let you borrow the ebook versions of manga, if they don't have the physical ones, but the availability of that varies wildly depending on location.

I hope one of these will help!

[nottherailtracer]

I don't care that much about spoilers so sometimes I come across one by accident which would have been nice to not have been spoiled on but it's not that big of a deal and sometimes I spoil myself on purpose (there are faves of mine I wouldn't have started/continued if I hadn't gotten spoiled about something I thought would be interesting) and sometimes being spoiled on something gives me mildly to wildly wrong ideas about the story and how things get to that point and/or continue after it that it turns into a whole other experience.

[coredrill]

also okay so. i did watch gravion1 sometime last yearish and tbh it kinda got buried cause i was watching like 5 mech shows at once iirc and back arrow unsurprisingly won out and ate my brain and took precedence LMAO. and i honestly just kinda figured that zwei was a more thematic sequel a la diebuster/dynazenon and so when i got to the end of gravion1 i googled the ayaka thing cause i thought i missed it LMAO. however i DIDN’T so i’m kinda sad tbat’s spoiled for me BUT ALSO. watching gravion1 again ESPECIALLY post-braeburn with this knowledge is. oughoughghough

[putschki1969]

『Wakana 5th Anniversary “Prologue” ～Premium Online Live～』 Commentary

An exclusive streaming event was held for fan club members to celebrate Wakana’s 5th anniversary as a solo artist. She was joined by Hirotaka Sakurada on piano. Instagram post by Wakana | Tweet by Wakana

‖Event details “Wakana 5th Anniversary “Prologue” ~Premium Online Live~” Date: February 6, 2024 Time: 18:30~ Starring: Wakana, Hirotaka Sakurada (Piano)

Live Commentary Ohhhh, what a lovely throwback to see Wakana in her 1st album dress. She looks beautiful😍

1.揺れる春 (Yureru Haru): Surprised by how much I like Wakana's high notes here. Usually I am not a huge fan. Very solid performance. 2.翼 (Tsubasa): Saku-chan's piano arrangement is lovely and Wakana is slaying as she always does with this song. MC: Pleasantly surprised to see her taking a longer break to talk to us. I feared this would be a somewhat rushed event with just a couple songs being performed. She is even reading through some of the comments. 3.���の花 (Ai no Hana): *sobs* So happy to hear this again. It's one of my all-time favourites. Wa's voice was a bit shaky but she knocked it out of the park at the end. The oooh part killed me. Goosebumps all over. 4.アキノサクラ (Aki no Sakura): Hearing it live always makes me appreciate the song a bit more. Very nice! MC 5.オレンジ (Orange): The bridge was absolutely perfect. MC: Yay, we are gettng a Kalafina cover, honestly did not expect that. Wakana says she has a lot of fond memories of the recording when the three of them and Saku-chan all got together at the studio to record their parts. 6. 春を待つ (Haru wo Matsu): Waahhhh, this was even better than her performance from the "magic moment" live 7.標 (Shirushi): Always beautiful, especially in such an intimate setting. Her vocals are flawless here. MC: Now I need to get back to work so I can't continue watching. Will have to get back to this later. Thank God we are getting an archived version.TBC~ 8.金木犀 (Kinmokusei): First "Ai no Hana" and now "Kinmokusei"! Two of my faves. Unfortunately, this performance is a bit too shaky for me T_T Probably the weakest of this event, at least in my opinion. 9.Flag: Awwww, it's not a Wakana live without her screwing up some lyrics XD She handles it well though. She always sounds so epic at the end of this song. MC 10.magic moment: Never been a big fan of the song but this is a precious performance. The way she just couldn't figure out that final line and had to give it two tries. Poor baby!! She's so embarrassed. MC 11.そのさきへ (Sono Saki e): I kinda wish she had performed Toki wo Koeru Yoru ni (時を越える夜に) instead of this but oh well.

『Wakana 5th Anniversary Live』 Announced!

To commemorate the 5th Anniversary of Wakana's solo debut, a special band live will be held for the first time in 3 years! Once again, Wakana will be joined by Satoshi Takebe to deliver a unique live performance together with other musicians. Please look forward to it!

Title: “Wakana 5th Anniversary Live (tentative)” Date: May 12, 2024 Venue: I'M A SHOW (capacity: 398 seats) Starring: Wakana, Satoshi Takebe (Music Director/Piano), etc.

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

Hello, can I ask what do you mean "in canon it's impossible for Sherlock to settle down with a woman"? Like, as a fan of Holmes and always read the books since middle school, I'm kinda confuse here, I don't mean anything negative. Sorry, do you think Poirot (from Agatha Christie) is also queer?

Maybe because I grew up with very religious mother and lived in anti-LGBTQ country, I'm kinda slow in picking up subtext. Like until now I'm still kinda confuse with my friend who have ships from any fandoms (but I still love to hear and read her headcanons or fics about those characters)....

I really agree with you, I've seen many Holmes' adaptations (cartoon, tv series, manga) but Yuumori is clearly the closest to Doyle's works. Do you think the mangaka also love to read Holmes' books?

Story time! (Welcome to "Hyper answers asks like an old lady going on an hour long barely-on-topic tangent at the slightest prompting.)

I totally get where you're coming from, I was raised in like...knockoff Southern Baptist churches. Growing up, homosexuality was presented to me as a sexual perversion incapable of involving real love. It's kind of silly, but it's true: a ship was a big part of changing that for me. I read Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle as a teenager, and Kurogane and Fai had something that was inescapably romantic and beautiful but never strictly sexual (tho the potential is certainly there). Between that and an online community of LGBTQ+ adults who were incredibly patient and kind towards me even when I was suuuuper ignorant, I started to open up towards queer relationships as...well, just relationships. Relationships that can encompass sex and also encompass love and friendship and communication and partnership and all those other things I'd been taught were exclusive to monogamous straight people. And then, even as terrified as I was, I was eventually able to face the fact that I'd always had crushes on girls just as often as crushes on guys. So yeah, there's a reason Kurofai is my ship of all ships, the actual One True Pairing for me. Because it cracked open a door just enough that I could slowly lever it open the rest of the way. There seem to be quite a lot of anecdotes like this: women enjoying BL/mlm ships is often seen as fetishy (which can certainly be part of it) but for some reason I can't fully articulate it also seems to sometimes be a means for girls and women to explore their own not-straightness.

ANYWAY. SHERLOCK HOLMES. Tbh I'm not gonna go too in-depth because I would bet good money that there are a bunch of scholarly articles on Holmes' queerness. People have probably done their doctorate theses on this! Much smarter and more well-read folks than I have already covered the topic. For me, it really boils down to: he never outright expresses sexual or romantic interest in anyone (we must resist the urge to assume his respect for Irene Adler is romantic just because he is a man and she is a woman). He's almost certainly on the asexual spectrum. But when he does exhibit symptoms one might associate with romantic and/or sexual interest (particularly romantic, imo), it's always towards men (usually Watson, of course). For example, notable flirt John Watson saying that Holmes blushes at his compliments the way a girl does is...suggestive.

The whole thing is complicated by Watson being (in my opinion at least) an unreliable and sometimes downright petty narrator. He keeps going on spiels about Holmes being cold and heartless, only to turn around and describe him greeting his friends warmly and being emotionally moved by music and baby-talking puppies and charming old ladies. It makes Watson sometimes come across as one of those allo people who are so unable to conceive of a life without romantic and/or sexual desire that they start dehumanizing those who don't experience it. Alternatively and maybe more charitably, he just has a big ol' crush on Holmes, is understandably alarmed by it given the time period, and gets bitchy and defensive when he feels it might not be reciprocated.

But ultimately...do I think Arthur Conan Doyle sat down at a desk in the late 19th century/early 20th century and was like "I am going to write some ace queer representation for the tumblr girlies (gn)"? Obviously not. 😅 I do think he might have set out to create a character who very deliberately did not need to have the otherwise almost obligatory straight romantic side-plot. Holmes is never in any way set up as having a life headed towards marriage and children, in spite of how typical that was for the time. The companionship he does express a need and desire for comes in the form of another man. He's "lost without [his] Boswell." He sneakily buys Watson's practice out from under him so he'll be free to move back in and go on more adventures with him. He threatens violence when Watson is hurt. Etc etc. I think it's very fair to interpret it all through a queer lens, the quibble would be more in whether that queerness ever manifests sexually.

I definitely think the Yuumori creators have not only read ACD but also other fiction based on the stories, possibly even including some very old pastiches like this one. I love how seemingly nerdy they are about it haha! The series is full of easter eggs and callouts to other Holmesian works.

As for Poirot, I know very little about the character beyond a few episodes of the show I watched as a young'un, but that is not the mustache of a straight man (I'm joking I'm joking I have absolutely no opinion on that one! 🤣)

Thanks for the ask, and for actually reading this ramble if you got this far! 😅

[brokehorrorfan]

Kamen Rider Geats: The Complete Series will be released on Blu-ray on April 23 via Shout Studios. Its the 33rd entry in Toei Company's long-running Kamen Rider franchise.

The tokusatsu series aired in Japan for 49 episodes from 2022 to 2023. Hideyoshi Kan, Ryuga Sato, Yuna Hoshino, Kazuto Mokudai, Kokoro Aoshima, Tsubasa Sakiyama, Dai Goto, Nene Shida, Fuku Suzuki, Ryo Kitamura, and Shugo Oshinari star.

No special features are included with the eight-disc set. Read on for the trailer.

All Kamen Riders, past and present, are set to battle against unknown enemies and compete with each other in Survival Games, getting scores on the Desire Grand Prix. Each participant transforms into a Kamen Rider and competes to win the game by defeating enemies, saving people, and surviving. Hugely popular in the online world, these games are unpredictable and thrilling. Only true heroes who win the competition will be able to realize the world they have wished for!

Pre-order Kamen Rider Geats: The Complete Series.

[newgabeorder]

It's official. Laid-Back Camp is now an E/I program!

Here are the new lineup updates for T3 Express and Toon Time Theater for the weekend of October 18 & 19, but you don't have to take my word for it.

181024 (All Times PDT)

E/I: Educational & Informational

2:00P - SAILOR MOON ("A Crystal Clear Destiny", E/I)

2:30P - SAILOR MOON ("A Reluctant Princess", E/I)

Uzumaki Hour

3:00P - NARUTO (2002 series, Season 2, Episode 33)

3:30P - UZUMAKI (Episode 3)

Crime Time

4:00P - Moriarty the Patriot (Season 1, Episode 10)

4:30P - TIGER & BUNNY (2011 series, Season 1, Episode 9: "Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child.")

COMIC PARTY

5:00P - X-MEN (Season 2, Episode 25)

5:30P - attack on titan: junior high (Episode 11, rerun)

5:45P - DRAGON BALL Z ABRIDGED (Episodes 20 & 21)

2024.10.19 / 191024

E/I: Educational and Informational

6.0A - Bartender (2006 series, Episode 2, rerun. E/I)

6.5A - Laid-Back Camp (Season 1, Episode 3, E/I)

"Journey To Your Heart"

7.0A - Pokémon Master Journeys

7.5A - Rick And Morty: The Anime (2024 series, Episode 10)

Series Finale

Isekai Hour

8.0A - SONIC X (Season 2, Episode 29)

8.5A - TSUBASA: Reservoir Chronicle (Season 2, Episode 52)

Series Finale

The Haunting Hour

9.0A – PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA (Episode 12)

Series Finale

9.5A - CASTLEVANIA (Season 1, Episode 4)

Season Finale

SHONEN JUMP

10.0A - ONE PIECE

10.5A - BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS (Episode 5)

HAIKYU!! Double Dose

11.0A - HAIKYU!! (Season 2, Episode 41, E/I)

11.5A - HAIKYU!! (Season 2, Episode 42, E/I)

8 episode(s) more before season finale

KQED Plus Spotlight Show

Peepshow: Sat 8.5 PM PDT / Sat 11.5 PM EDT / Sun 0.5 PM JST

Spotlight Show: Sat 9.0 PM PDT / Sun 12.0 AM EDT / Sun 1.0 PM JST

9.0P - ROBOTECH: THE MACROSS SAGA (Season 1, Episode 1)

9.5P - Generator Gawl (Episode 1)

10.0P - SAKURA WARS: The Animated Series (2000 series, Episode 1)

10.5P - All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku: The Series (Episode 1)

11.0P - CITY HUNTER (Episode 1, subtitled)

11.5P - KEY THE METAL IDOL (Episode 1, edited)

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12.0A - Neon Genesis EVANGELION (Episode 1)

I figured I'd have to re-organize the lineups last minute because I read online regarding educational and informational anime, and I can confirm Laid-Back Camp is one of them. From the broadcast of Episode 3 onwards, it will be given the "Illuminating Television"* makeover complete with the curriculum board bumper and the "Now & Then" menu bumpers set at the Otonokizaka High School campus.

Illuminating Television is the brand name for educational and informational (E/I) programming. Originally, ABC's One Saturday Morning used such branding, and I am carrying it on for my tribute SatAM cartoon block, Toon Time Theater.

Also, I had to add back ONE PIECE considering the anime's 25th anniversary. Sorry DRAGON BALL Z KAI fans, but I plan to add the latter to T3 Express later down the road.

[cowboy-robooty]

Robooty Reviews: Yandere Kanojo (7/10)

My first manga I ever laid mein precious little eyes upon... hoo boy is this one nostalgic! You can definately see how it influenced my artstyle lol. It's incredibly charming imo and i fuckin love it. anyways this manga is about a yankee girl reina and her new nerdy boyfriend tanaka (who is most definately not a yankee) and them having slice of life swag together. It's all done in a 4-koma style but is incredibly charming with a delightful cast of fun characters and quite a few interesting dynamics + jokes! Just be careful, there two versions of this story, the print and online one and they contain the same plot but have different comics each. I recommend reading both since its kinda like getting more in between stories (except when it comes to the end with the more plot heavy stuff then they diverge a bit)

you know robooty okay GIRLSEME FOREVERR!!!! I LOVED REINA AND TANAKA AS A KID MMMM THEIR DYNAMIC IS SUPPPPPERR NICE I LOVE THEM THEYRE SO CUTE TOGETHER UWAAA!! I will say that when i was younger i struggled to appreciate tsubasa and hijiri properly, but now I quite enjoy their addition to the friend group. I also have always loved the cafe manager and his gay ass chef. I used to reference the pannel where he goes "okay now stand next to me so i can grab your ass every once in a while (itll keep me motivated)" all the time. I do appreciate how in the print version theres also the long ass baseball arc but thats just because i love baseball lol

but okay. imma be ngl rn guys. this manga scored a whole extra point or two purely because it has Ran and Kouichirou Ryuuzaki (reinas parents). Guys. They are the best fucking couple ever. I WISH THERE WAS AN ENTIRE SIDE MANGA FOR THEM THEYRE SO GOOD THEYRE SO GOOD UGHH I LOVE HUSBAND WIFEEEE!!! The yandere in the title is actually supposed to stand for "yankee-dere" (lol shows age doesnt it?) but its alright, because ran is a true yandere. Shes protective and smiley and cutsey and literally kills people and has a demon in her heart. and her husband kouichirou has a scary face and insane social anxiety so everyones terrified of him because he just stares at people but its because hes terrified of everyone else. ITS SO GOOODDDDDD!!!! SHES SO OBSESSED WITH HIM AND ADORES HIM AND HE LOVES HER INCREDIBLY DEARLY TOO GIVE ME THE FUCKING MANGA SPIN OFF THATS JUST THEM!!!! RANS INCREDIBLE I WANT HER TO BE MY GIRLSEME WIFE. AND I WANT KOUICHIROU TO BE MY BOYUKE HUSBAND BECAUSE HES JUST SOOOOOOOOOooOoO CUTE! I still draw fanart of those two... theyre amazing and adorable i love them...

ALSO THE YURI SIDE COUPLE. WELL... THEYRE IMPLIED TO BE YURI BUT OHHH MY GAWDDD. LOOK ROBOOTY DOESNT REALLY LIKE YURI AS IN I LIKE IT BUT I USUALLY DONT REALLY EAT IT UP BC I CANT GET INVESTED YKNOW? ME IN THE IDGAF WARS. BUT THIS YURI. SO. GOOD. I WANT MORE. MORE CHAPTERS. GIVE ME MORE FUCKING YURI. SUMIKA X NANAMI FOR FUCKING EVER UGHHH PLEASE GIVE ME MOREEEEE!!!!

Anyways, this mangas really good lol. I like it a lot, it isnt winning any nobel prizes but I find it quite charming and a really nice read when youre dicking around on the bus. The art is really good and the jokes land a lot and are quite funny ^_^ Please consider checking this one out guys!

[stampstamp]

So far I've been collecting Japanese translations of novels I love that are totally at an aspirational reading level (I'll read them when I'm retired) and manga in original Japanese that I can read if I concentrate but that gets exhausting, so I end up skimming it and relying on the pictures without realising. I'm going to try reading some titles from the Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko range to see if that'll help me improve my comprehension skills.

I wanted the Shinkai novelisations and Summer Wars but they were out of stock so I've ordered a Kaito Kid collection and an abridged Lupin collection.

I think I might try to write some English high interest-low reading level books one day because they really appeal to me. I had fun browsing the range of series under the KTB imprint; there are stories about phantom thieves that span over ten volumes. There's one about a survival school called 'Survivor' that looks cool. There are romance stories, school detective plots and death game sagas, too.

The most surprising series was Our Seven Days War - I'd heard of the 2019 anime adaptation, which seemed quite serious, but the series puts the characters in different scenarios each volume, like getting sucked into an online battle or getting stuck on a desert island. Seems like fun to establish a set of characters then put them in like 40 surreal situations.

[quickdeaths]

@chibitantei

Even for Tsubasa, walking through a bookstore carrying a picture of their own face - albeit obscured by their black surgical mask and their trademark sunglasses - was a bit much. But, Japan hadn't had many nationally-syndicated skate magazines, and even if the guys who'd asked them for a photoshoot and an interview had only worked out a deal with some shops in Tokyo for now, Tsubasa figured that they had as good a chance as anyone. That they'd opted to put Tsubasa on the cover without mentioning that detail was a little embarrassing, but they guessed if that helped it sell, there wasn't any harm in it.

There was one other thing that they meant to pick up, and the website had confirmed it was in stock. To the moment, though, Tsubasa hadn't found it. They regretted not just buying online. Meanwhile, everyone else in the store seemed so sure of where they were going and what they were doing - an isolating experience for the skater who vastly preferred Youtube documentaries and random website articles to paper and ink. Looking around from behind tinted glasses, they were intending to search for an employee who could help, only to settle on what looked like a familiar face only an aisle or two over.

Sidling up beside the detective, Tsubasa offered a chilled-out wave that morphed into a peace sign partway through. "Yo, Naoto-san," they said gently, careful not to make it seem like they were sneaking up on her. They'd left it up to the infinite possibilities of reality's algorithm, and seemingly been rewarded for it. They'd take that, for while Tsubasa prioritized other people's comfort and didn't want to come off as pushy, hadn't it kind of felt unfinished to leave things as they had in Akihabara? They'd sort of hoped to run into her again, even if there weren't any concrete steps they could, or would, take to make that hope more likely.

"Guess I ended up catching you outside of work like you said, huh?" If they'd thought it through, a bookstore was the kind of place that made sense to find someone like her - she seemed studious. They could imagine her reading serious literature, or some informative nonfiction books in equal measures. Either way, next to the flimsy DIY-style magazine under their arm, it was probably something way more impressive. "If I'm not interrupting, what are you up to?" They craned their neck, more than a little curious at what books she was looking at in the first place. "Checking out anything interesting?"

[sabrondabrainrot]

Share us your fics ideas please!!

I have sooooooooo many! (Also sorry it took me so long to answer this I didn't see my inbox)

I'm in so many fandoms and my brain is always thinking of found family or hurt comfort or fluff so it tends to all ruminate in my brain.

1-A Wildcards - a Persona x MHA crossover fic. I've started writing this one and it's in the works but the basic idea is, "what if ever persona protag is under one roof and all siblings and all are in school at the mha world." I have chapters and plans but it's hard to get fic motivation on this one at the moment. One of my theories also turned out right for MHA lore and I can't explain why but having my own theory proven right really took the wind out of my sails. XD

2. ff7 what if au - basically there's a theory me and a bunch of ppl online share where president Shinra has a bunch of bastard children and basically my fic idea is, "what if the bastards all grow up under one roof." So I'm currently doing research on characterizations for it. It's difficult for me to nail down Cloud's, Rufus', Evan's, and Lazard's personalities. I love Au's where ppl are brothers or grow up together. I don't have any plans for this other then the kids somehow help Genesis, Angeal, and Sephiroth not go insane but I can't figure out how I want to do that.

3. Simon Petrikov: Fionna and Cake Adventure Time drabbles - basically wanted to continue where Fionna and Cake leaves off and put Simon in the trauma cube where he gets to heal from his past. I also am a sucker when Trauma is blasted in 4k for everyone to see so the entire crew that cares for Simon also gets the trauma beam. I also realized Simon and Betty were never married so I decided that must be changed and wrote them a wedding. :)

4. Gohan's Wheel of Emotions - Another fic idea I've had for a few years now. I want to do a series where basically some kind of xyz machine goes wrong and Gohan gets split into a bunch of pieces and it becomes a race against time to put him back together. I was planning for his emotions to be wondering around. I want this to be teen era Gohan too because I'm a huge sucker for the Saiyaman ark. It's again just hard to find time to write it! I just want to write a cheezy little light hearted kind of self healing story.

5. TMNT turtle tot au - just a fun multicrossover baby adoption event. I'm currently writing this and have almost 2 chapters done! I love the idea of the 2003 turtles having a bunch of different aged turtles showing up at their doorstep. So they have to juggle sending everyone home while doing their best not to adopt anyone (spoiler alert the kids adopt THEM)

6. TMNT a KH/Tsubasa inspired story - I don't want to share too much on this plot but if you know about Kingdom Heart and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles then you can get the idea of what if might be about. :)

7. TMNT brainrot drabble - currently working on this one but it's an 87 drabble fic that was inspired by season 5's finale. but now that I'm writing it (it's almost to 10k now) I REALLY want to have it go past the show finale too because MAN the last seasons of 87 are GREAT angst potential. I'm a huge sucker for hurt comfort and this entire fic is kind of like hurt comfort lite.

8. Hetalia - I have so much brain rot for Hetalia but I find it surprisingly hard to write for. I want to do a bunch of silly Hetalia fics about America and his super strength. I love that little idiot because he's MY adorable little idiot. The show is also just so cute and funny it is a big guilty pleasure of mine.

9. Lout of Count Family / LCF stupid idea - basically what if Cale Henituse can sing but he only sings the silliest dumbest songs ever in the history of Rowoon. That's it that's the fic.

10. I have a silly idea for a big multicrossover between all the korean light novels i've read and various manhwa and danmei novels. Like, "What if all systems have a chat function and it connects you to other system users." So it would just be a casual chatfic comedy.

That's most the of the ones I could think of! :P

[b-else-writes]

The Great CLAMP Re-Read Part 4: Duklyon: CLAMP School Defenders

Part 1 (RG Veda) | Part 2 (Man of Many Faces) | Part 3 (Tokyo Babylon)| Part 5 (Clamp Detectives)| Part 6 (Shirahime)| Part 7 (X)| Part 8 (Chunhyang) | Part 9 (Miyuki-chan)| Part 10 (Rayearth)|Part 11 (The One I Love)

Let's go a bit backwards in time to their fourth work, Duklyon: CLAMP School Defenders. It ran from 1991 to 1993, concurrent with all series mentioned in my past review, and in the same world as Tokyo Babylon/ X. It feels like the real start of CLAMP's interest with shared universes, meta-textuality, and self-reference, because so much of this series is tied to your knowledge of their other work. Proto-Tsubasa? Maybe that's a bit too much credit.

Like Man of Many Faces, I had never known this existed. It had no anime adaptation (but 1 drama CD). It's out of print and was released in English by Tokyopop in the early 2000s, in two volumes comprised of 13 chapters. I read this entirely online and like with Man of Many Faces, am not likely to ever get a physical copy unless I feel like completing my collection. "Spoilers", in the loosest sense of the word.

Synopsis: Higashikunimaru Kentarou and Shukaido Takeshi are freshmen students who lead double lives as masked sentai superheroes Duklyon, protecting CLAMP School from evil! Aided by the General and the fiery Eri Chusonji, they've got to fight the fiendish Imonoyama Shopping District from world domination (and also keep being main characters in their own story!).

The Story: Listen, this is a gag manga in the purest sense of the word. It starts off mocking the repetitive nature of tokatsu and kaiju shows, which made the first volume a slog. Satirizing repetition by being repetitive is not actually funny. Volume 2 improved by introducing a wacky alien love triangle and more CLAMP self-referential humour, which did land. The manga overall feels random and aimless, and while the latter chapters do manage to pull things together, the earlier chapters really struggle. The satire isn't particularly striking or witty, it's meant to ~cRaZy and poking fun for long-term fans. I'd rate this below average. When it leans into breaking the fourth wall and mocking themselves, it lands. When it parodies Super Sentai by just...being Super Sentai, it's a poor copy.

The Themes: There are no themes here. This is light and playful and silly and a way for CLAMP to poke fun at all the genres they like. I have learnt nothing from this and I think Takeshi and Kentarou would be proud of me.

The Characters: One thing I'm realising in these CLAMP re-reads is 1) the strength of CLAMP's character writing elevates their weaker material, and 2) they copy earlier character templates into newer characters. Takeshi and Kentarou are prototype Watanuki and Doumeki "stop saying we're close but actually they're in love". And it is charming to experience the second (first?) time, especially the flash-forward at the end where they're married (almost). I prefer the put-upon, fourth wall breaking Takeshi between the two, but their dynamic really holds things together. Sukiyabashi is pretty good as a fail villain with even more fail hair. There's nothing deep about the characters, but they're entertaining and carry the paper-thin plot.

The Art: It's competently drawn, comprehensible visual storytelling, and the detailing on the Sentai suits are pretty well-done (though something about how the codpiece connects to the legs bothers me anatomically). I do love the tokatsu villain costuming, but otherwise the character designs are quite plain. It was actually a little difficult to distinguish Takeshi and Kentarou at first. Like Man of Many Faces, it's fine, it gets the job done, but its lacking compared to CLAMP at their best. The colour spreads aren't even that fun!

Questionable Elements: I do think it's funny this is the ONE CLAMP series where an adult person-teenager relationship is treated as gross, and it's (so far) the only one where the adult is a woman and the teenager is a boy. Something something ageism misogyny. But otherwise there's really nothing to talk about here. Eri is portrayed as a lovesick harpy but it's mild, as sexism in shojo goes.

Overall: I can see why Duklyon is an obscure CLAMP work. Where Man of Many Faces had sweet charm to carry it, Duklyon treads the more fickle ground of comedy, and it just doesn't always work. There's some genuinely funny moments here, and I do like Takeshi and Kentarou, but I don't think it's a necessary read for anyone but the most dedicated of CLAMP fans. CLAMP can write a really dumb funny bit when they want to, but that's about it.

[rz-jocelyn]

Itoshi no Hakana: "Musical Touken Ranbu" Cast Members who Attended "Itoshi no Hakana"

"Itoshi no Hakana" is the inaugural first production of Isamu Kayano's new theater unit "Akudo Kaigi". The actors of the production were personally chosen by Kayano-san, including Ryuji. Kayano-san also decided to come out of retirement as an actor and return to the stage after 20 years because he wanted to act with Ryuji.

Kayano-san has worked with Ryuji since the "Musical Touken Ranbu ~Trial Performance~" in 2015 (the first production in the "Musical Touken Ranbu" franchise) where Ryuji played Kashuu Kiyomitsu.

"MUSICAL TOUKEN RANBU" CAST MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED "ITOSHI NO HAKANA"

Torigoe Yuki (Yamatonokami Yasusada)

Takahashi Kensuke (Hachisuka Kotetsu)

Itokawa Yojiro (Urashima Kotetsu)

Kuroba Mario (Mikazuki Munechika)

Ohno Ryota (Team Kashuu Tanki)

Sugiyama Ryoji (Team Kashuu Tanki)

Sakiyama Tsubasa (Ishikirimaru)

Iwasaki Daisuke (Atsukashiyama Ibun, Bakumatsu Tenrouden)

Takagi Tomoyuki (Hijikata Toshiro)

Araki Kentarou (Minamoto no Yoshitsune)

Katayama Hironori (Atsukashiyama Ibun)

Arisawa Shoutarou (Izuminokami Kanesada)

Imari Yu (Nagasone Kotetsu)

Tamura Shin (Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki)

Tachibana Yuta (Buzen Gou)

Konishi Seiya (Suishinshi Masahide)

Kato Daigo (Yamanbagiri Kunihiro)

Kitazono Ryo (Kogitsunemaru)

Ishibashi Hiroki (Hyuuga Masamune)

Fukui Tomoya (Kuwana Gou)

Saeki Daichi (Iwatooshi)

Ohira Shunya (Imanotsurugi)

spi (Tonbokiri)

Okamiya Kurumu (Tsurumaru Kuninaga)

Makishima Hikaru (Ookurikara)

Raita (Oodenta Mitsuyo)

Nakao Masaki (Sohayanotsurugi)

Sadamoto Fuuma (Okita Souji)

Washio Noboru (Tokugawa Ieyasu)

NOTE:

[1] Torigoe Yuki has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Ehon Gappo ga Tsuji".

[2] Kuroba Mario has also co-starred with Ryuji in "FIVE", "please please please", "Sea Opening", "Genepro☆7", the Movie Theatre "Success Sou", "SPOOKY!!" and "Musical The Prince of Tennis".

[3] Ohno Ryota, Katayama Hironori and Nakao Masaki have also co-starred with Ryuji in the "Live Spectacle NARUTO"

[4] Sakiyama Tsubasa has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Ochanomizu Rock", the "Nelke Idol Stage" series and "Kamen Rider Geats".

[5] Araki Kentarou has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Genepro☆7".

[6] Tamura Shin has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Prince Shotoku's Kitchen".

[7] Konishi Seiya has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Musical The Prince of Tennis".

[8] Kitazono Ryo has also worked with Ryuji on "Castor & Pollux", the stage play that Ryuji wrote and directed. Additionally, he has co-starred with Ryuji in the "Live Spectacle NARUTO", the Online Reading "Lily & Rose" Vol. 01 and the Movie Theatre "Success Sou".

[9] Ishibashi Hiroki has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Warau Salesman" THE STAGE.

[10] Fukui Tomoya has also co-starred with Ryuji in "HiGH&LOW".

[11] Ohira Shunya has also co-starred with Ryuji as a member of Present◆5 in the "Nelke Idol Stage" series.

[12] spi is also a member of ZIPANG OPERA, the performance unit that Ryuji is in.

[13] Makishima Hikaru has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Outro Double" from the Double Drive series.

[14] Sadamoto Fuuma has also co-starred with Ryuji in "Jujutsu Kaisen" The Stage, the "Live Spectacle NARUTO", "REAL⇔FAKE" and the Movie Theatre "Success Sou".

[15] Nakao Masaki has also co-starred with Ryuji in the "Nelke Idol Stage" series and the "Live Spectacle NARUTO".

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

Novel sustainable electrochemical method converts carbon dioxide into carbonaceous materials

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major greenhouse gas emitted through various types of human activities. In an effort to decrease humanity's carbon footprint, scientists and policymakers across the globe are continuously trying to explore new methods for reducing atmospheric CO2 emissions and converting them into useful forms. In this regard, the electrochemical method of reducing CO2 to other carbonaceous forms like carbon monoxide, alcohols and hydrocarbon has gained considerable attention.

Against this backdrop, environmental researchers from Doshisha University, Japan led by Prof. Takuya Goto recently published a study in Electrochimica Acta that demonstrated one such method for converting CO2 into multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) using molten salts through sustainable electrochemistry. Their study was made available online, and included contributions from Dr. Yuta Suzuki from the Harris Science Research Institute and Mr. Tsubasa Takeda from the Department of Science of Environment and Mathematical Modeling.

Using a sustainable electrochemical technique, the research team facilitated the conversion of CO2 into MWCNT using LiCl-KCl melt. The molten salts were saturated with CO2 gas and semi-immersed nickel (Ni) substrate was used as electrode. The supplied CO2 was electrochemically converted to solid carbon at the end of the procedure. This green conversion occurred via a reduction reaction at the Ni electrode/LiCl-KCl melt/CO2 interface.

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[le-trash-prince]

I had the autistic impulse to map my fandom timeline instead of doing the dishes, so here is the result.

This is media in which I was actively engaging with fan activity, whether online or in person, for at least a good portion of the year. This doesn’t include everything that I read/watched at any given time. Some of these things I kept up with before/after I got into the fandom. And there’s a lot of things I read/watched/played that I never participated in fandom for.

2001 (aka the year I got unsupervised internet access): Inuyasha, Rurouni Kenshin, HP

2002: Rurouni Kenshin, HP, Tolkien

2003: Rurouni Kenshin, HP, Tolkien, AVP, Linkin Park

2004: HP, Tolkien, AVP, Bleach, Naruto

2005: HP, Bleach, Naruto, Star Wars, Yakitate Japan, LOST, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

2006: HP, Bleach, Naruto, LOST, Heroes

2007: HP, Bleach, Naruto, Transformers, LOST, Heroes, Assassin’s Creed, Kuroshitsuji

2008: Transformers, LOST, Heroes, AssCreed

2009: LOST, Doctor Who, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Star Trek, Fringe, Being Human

2010: DW, KHR, Star Trek, Fringe, Being Human, Sherlock

2011: DW, Star Trek, Fringe, Being Human, Sherlock, Tron, Marvel

2012: DW, Star Trek, Fringe, Sherlock, Elementary, Marvel, Hunger Games, Game of Thrones

2013: DW, Star Trek, Fringe, Elementary, Marvel, GOT, Pacific Rim, WTNV, The Hobbit, Once Upon a Time

2014: Marvel, GOT, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Pacific Rim, Attack on Titan, WTNV

2015: Marvel, HQ, GSNK, Pacific Rim, Attack on Titan, WTNV, Star Wars, Hakuouki, butai

2016: Marvel, HQ, Pacific Rim, Hakuouki, Mystic Messenger, Yuri on Ice, butai, Zero Escape, Daiya

2017: HQ, Pacific Rim, Hakuouki, YOI, butai, Touken Ranbu

2018: Hakuouki, YOI, butai, Touken Ranbu, Venom, BFU, Ossan’s Love

2019: Hakuouki, YOI, butai, BFU, Star Wars, Golden Kamuy, Guardian, Promare, Ossan’s Love

2020: YOI, NCT, butai, Star Wars, Golden Kamuy, The Gifted

2021: NCT, Thai BL

2022: Thai BL, Star Wars, Our Flag Means Death

2023: Thai BL, Murderbot, Pit Babe

Also I couldn’t figure out where to put Pokémon but it’s kind of just always there. Otherwise I think this is about as exhaustive a list as I can think of.

[tsubasaclones]

WHOS YOUR FAVOURITE CHARACTER??£??4*5**4

MINE IS KUROGANE I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

HE WAS WHAT TAUGHT ME ABOUT SELF-WORTH HES THE REASON I DONT HATE MYSELF

HES SO COOL I LOVE HOW HE STARTS OUT ANGRY AND UNHELPFUL AND THEN TURNS OUT TO BE ONE OF THE SMARTEST MOST SENSITIVE CHARACTERS IN THE SERIES

WHEREAS FAI IS A FUCKING MESS WHO SEEMS WELL-PUT TOGETHER AT THE START

ALSO

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE WORLD????? MINE IS PIFFLE WORLD I LOVE THE RACE SEGMENTS SOOO MUCH I READ THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND IMAGINED THE ANIMATIONS AND SOUND EFFECTS IN MY HEAD IT WAS SOOOO COOOLLLL!!!!

MY LEAST FAVOURITE WORLD IS THE VILLAGE OF SPIRIT BECAUSE FUCK THAT DOCTOR GUY ILL PUNCH HIM SO FUCKING HARD

my favorite character is a tie between clone sakura and clone syaoran they're both my fucked up little guys i can't choose

when i first read tsubasa i was just expecting it to be syaoran because i read cardcaptor sakura first (when i was 10 and reading random shit i clicked on online, not the best idea but lmao) and ccs syaoran is my favorite. but lmao

kurogane is great too though i love him thats my babygirl

as for my favorite world ummmmm it might be whatever that one was called. the one that was actually like a virtual reality/video game. because i realized recently that naming the restaurant "cat's eye" was some really fucked up foreshadowing