#saga volume 9

[ticktockheartstop]

Good morning to everyone except Brian K. Vaughan, because I just read Saga Vol. 9 and I am upset.

[pictures-of-yxl]

[brave-symphonia]

Love how Luffy just takes a nap and refuses to listen.

And from what I remember, he doesn't do anything from this point on, he's seen enough to know this town is in danger, but isn't going to force himself as Nami's savior just because he thinks he knows better.

So, it's simple. He waits for her to ask for help, and I really love that.

He could try to force his help onto Nami, but he waits for her to just drop the pretenses and actually admit she needs help, and once she does, he immediately jumps in.

[avenger-concerto]

RWBY V9 Episode 2

Weiss, Blake, and Yang: *knows they're in a bad situation and what's at stake but lighten up the mood whenever they can or take a breather when needed*

Ruby:

[onepieceanimals]

The great king of Anglemois...

[strqyr]

rwby has been acquired by viz media.

here's some interesting points from the FAQ:

What does VIZ have planned for the future of RWBY? VIZ is exploring the production of new chapters in the RWBY saga and we will make announcements as soon as we can. Has RWBY Volume 10 officially been confirmed? There’s no news yet on a new season of RWBY. Please follow the official RWBY X account and Facebook page for the latest updates! Will VIZ use former production team members in the future? Kerry Shawcross, series showrunner and co-creator, will be involved with the next phase of RWBY. Where will RWBY Volumes 1-9 be available to watch? Stay tuned for updates on where to watch! VIZ is exploring wider distribution for the series, including home video releases, additional streaming platform releases, and more.

[astralwukong]

Attention

If you only got Crunchyroll to watch RWBY and you’re about to cancel, do the following if you can/want to support the show:

- stream RWBY as much as possible until you can

- rate RWBY with 5 stars !!!!

- leave positive comments under the episodes

- before cancelling the subscription leave a like on the saga and on all episodes of rwby volume 9. if you can like older episodes that’s good too!

- when you cancel the subscription, you will be directed to a questionaire. try and stress the fact that you will renew the subscription when new RWBY is added.

that’s it, sorry for the cringy post, but i am desperate

[st-whalefall]

It’s also about Salem and Oz being the same

Deep Down, We’re Lonely Demons From Hell

Evernight vs. Beacon Tower -> they’re the fucking same

I have very specific needs (an animatic/amv of the song Scylla from epic: thunder saga that parallels Salem & Ozma as Scylla with Ruby as Odysseus that no one will ever make)

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The Krakoa Era Reading List Cherik Version (PART 3):

5. Hellfire Gala

This one confused me a bit since I expected it to be considered its own separate collection of stories. It was actually entirely contained within Reign of X. Not to be confused with the 2022 and 2023 runs which are separate and may be ignored for now. See the Part 2 of my Krakoa reading list for my thoughts.

6. Trials of X

The start of this series was my absolute favorite. You got the Trial of Magneto which was just a great story with lots of twists and fun characterization moments for Erik. It takes off immediately after the dramatic ending of the Hellfire Gala/Reign of X storyline, and you have the option to read only the parts with Magneto via the Trial of Magneto TPB. If you read this as part of the entire Trials of X collection there will be other side plots and issues dispersed throughout, which Charles and Erik will largely not be included in. Trial of Magneto is contained in Volumes 1-2 and Volume 3 is entirely skippable.

After this we get the continuation of the Nightcrawler/Legion vs Onslaught storyline, which was super trippy and a fantastic read. There are several mentions of Onslaught and Legion being half-brothers and Onslaught refers to his creators as "fathers" lol any mention of Onslaught being Magneto and Charles's lovechild just made me super happy. Legion's characterization in the Krakoa era is super endearing and there are several scenes where we get to see his unhealthy dynamic with Charles (mostly on Charles part lmao he is a terrible father, poor David was just tryna help 😭).

A moment of appreciation for these covers, I'm obsessed with them.

As for Cherik levels, the fact that their kid(s) are a large part of this story makes it worth reading, but we don't actually see Onslaught referred to as a son by either of them. He is more of a "thing" and a problem, which is fair bc he is literally the manifestation of both of their evils. There is a scene where the possessed!Erik is viciously protecting the possessed!Charles, which I really liked even though it was brief. Then the anti-Onslaught team (including Magneto) is chasing down a possessed!Charles cornering him in a clever trap designed by Legion. Once released from Onslaughts control we get this super cute panel:

Look at him holding Charles hand 🥰🥰🥰 They then immediately get vaporized and we hardly see them again for 5 whole volumes. Spoilers aside I really loved the solution to the Onslaught problem and thought the end of this arc was very satisfying! All of this was neatly contained in Volumes 4-5 of the Trials of X TPB, but there may be a collected version of just Nightcrawler and Legion's storyline that I'm unaware of. I hope so bc I really loved it and there's just WAY too many side plots that I don't care about even a little bit in the main collection. The Onslaught saga is distributed throughout Reign of X and Trials of X and it'd be great to see the complete story without interruptions.

As I mentioned, we then don't see Charles and Erik again until Volume 10. I had expected a resurrection scene bc they did both die but I guess that's implied to happen off screen? Anyways Volumes 6-9 I think there are literally only two panels that have either of them in it so safe to say you can skip those if you are only reading for Cherik.

Their inclusion in Volumes 10-12 are sparse with them mostly having their moments in Silent Council meetings and impersonations of Charles in the Hole™. They finally reveal what goes on in the Hole™ which was super interesting and worth reading imo. Also it's great to see them get along in these volumes, they finish each other's sentences and even when they disagree they are mostly civil XD

Overall some great stuff despite the long lull in the middle 👍 See the rest of my Krakoa reviews under #krakoa era reading list

[yyh4ever]

Yu Yu Hakusho POP UP STORE in Loft vol.4

~Makai Edition Battle~

AMNIBUS finally announced the details of the 4th volume of Yu Yu Hakusho POP UP STORE in Loft. Goods using new illustrations of the characters from the 3 Kings Saga, and special gifts and benefits are revealed. It's rare to have Shigure merch! The products will also be available by mail order on AMNIBUS online store.

→ Official Site: amnibus

→ Venues & Period:

Sakae Loft: February 17 to March 4, 2024

Shibuya Loft: March 16 to March 31, 2024

Umeda Loft: April 6 to April 21, 2024

→ Benefits: During the event period at each store, for every purchase of 2,000 yen of eligible products, you will receive a random illustration card (8 types) as a gift!

→ Goods:

Trading Can Badge (8 types)

Single item: 440 yen (blind) / BOX: 3,520 yen

Size: (approx.) Diameter 56mm

*Box Purchase Benefits (included in the box)

Venue: Hiei Square Can Badge

Mail Order: Mukuro Square Can Badge

Trading Bromide (8 types)

Single item: 275 yen (blind) / BOX: 2,200 yen

*Box Purchase Benefits (included in the box)

Venue: Yusuke Bromide

Mail Order: Raizen Bromide

Trading Acrylic Stand (8 types)

Single item: 880 yen (blind) / BOX: 7,040 yen

*Box Purchase Benefits (included in the box)

Venue: Youko Kurama Acrylic Stand

Mail Order: Yomi Acrylic Stand

Trading Acrylic Card (8 types)

Single item: 715 yen (blind) / BOX: 5,720 yen

*Box Purchase Benefits (included in the box)

Venue: Kurama Acrylic Card

Mail Order: Shigure Acrylic Card

BIG Acrylic Stand (8 types)

Price: 1,980 yen each (Yusuke Urameshi, Hiei, Kurama, Youko Kurama, Raizen, Mukuro, Yomi)

Price: 2,310 yen (Shigure)

Extra-large Acrylic Stand (8 types)

Price: 3,520 yen each (Yusuke Urameshi, Hiei, Mukuro)

Price: 4,378 yen each (Kurama, Youko Kurama, Raizen, Shigure, Yomi)

A3 Matte Processing Poster

Price: 880 yen each

Acrylic Keychain (8 types)

Price: 990 yen each

Desk Mat (4 types)

Price: 3,850 yen each

Chara Fine Graph (9 types)

Price: 14,300 yen each

Canvas Board (10 types)

Price: 5,500 yen each

Trading Acrylic Card ~Tactical Fashion (8 types)

This POP UP is also releasing a new good using illustrations from the POP UP STORE in Loft vol.3 - Tactical Fashion. One Kuwabara merch at least!

Single item: 715 yen (blind) / BOX: 5,720 yen

*BOX Purchase Benefits

Venue: Itsuki Acrylic Card

Mail Order: Kuwabara Acrylic Card

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 17/05/2024

Athletic Doctor

Season 1 Featured on: GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 1 Also on: SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials

Ripped by Psynwav

ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!!

I haven't slept in so long...I forgot what dreams were like.

Honestly - what better way could there be for me to celebrate the 365th main post on the blog, than to be fashionably late by a whole weekend? It's unfortunate, but...oddly befitting, really. Back when I was first starting out with the blog, I actually forgot about posting daily for a solid two weeks - and so, some old-ass posts like Chillin’ Like A Villain and (YTPMV) Bob​-​Omb Battlesources were made in quite a hurry retroactively. Nevertheless, it was on May 17th 2023, over on my main blog @melblur, that I suddenly decided that I wanted to write about one SiIvaGunner rip a day just for fun. After File Select Fusion Collab, I realized that it made more sense just to put these on their own blog, and with Snowball Park - Super Mario 3D World I moved everything onto here. It's all been a bit of a bumpy ride, is my point. But today, I've reached the big milestone that I was originally aiming for all the way back with Running Through Cookie Country - a year's worth of almost-always-daily posts on the weird and wonderful world of SiIvaGunner. And what better rip to discuss alongside this milestone than the channel's biggest hit, the milestone rip to stand above all others: Season 1's Athletic Doctor.

Now, I've been following SiIvaGunner since some of the earliest moments of Season 1, following along with the initial GiIvaSunner termination, the entire Reboot saga discussed in I Saw a Brainwasher Today, the Mashup Crusaders arc of Mr. Rental [B Side] ~ Out of Options, the channel ending of Epic Flintstones... Basically, I was there for just about the entire initial 9-month run, and have with but one Season's worth of an exception (Season 5) been following the channel damn near obsessively since. The point is that, through this, I have been able to follow the channel's most popular videos chart up and down with each passing month: I recall, for instance, how Nintendo GameCube Startup - Console/BIOS Music soared past all other rips back in the day and stayed on top for five month's time. That was, of course, before finally being surpassed by we are number one but with outdated memes over it and subsequently helping kickstart the entire We Are Number One meme trend (funny enough - you can actually find a youtube comment left by me on the rip in late December 2016/early 2017 expressing mild annoyance over the rip's popularity...). Athletic Doctor in comparison was of course always popular, but it took a while to truly climb its way up there - it was in the top ten, then top five, always rising, bubbling in the background. Eventually, starting with Season 3's premiere, the team decided to just make the rip the trailer for the channel for new viewers - where it still sits today, now as the far-and-away most popular rip on the channel.

I feel like the reason the rip became used as the defacto channel trailer, the reason it keeps being referenced in videos demonstrating what SiIvaGunner is all about, is pretty obvious. I've talked a lot in posts like Live and Ooooooooooooooh about how outright *effective* many of Season 1's rips were, and Athletic Doctor is the most prime example of that imaginable - it is a damn near pitch perfect joke executed shockingly well for the time of its upload in the channel's history. EVERYONE knows the music to Super Mario World, either through its usage in the game itself in the 90s, its appearances in games like Super Smash Bros. Melee in the 2000s and Super Mario Galaxy 2 in the 2010s - or just through sheer overexposure to it in just about any era of gaming YouTube. The game's soundtrack is the perfect blend of being immediately recognizable and incredibly easy to hum along to given the entire game basically only has three or so melodies, relying on its central leitmotif to a degree bordering on parody. Likewise as well, EVERYBODY knows Witch Doctor, either through excessive radio play, being a big hit with Alvin & the Chipmunks...or the 2007 Live Action Alvin & the Chipmunks movie that I myself grew up with, it's the kind of vaguely obnoxious (also arguably quite racist) nonsense novelty music that's incredibly appealing to young kids, the same way something like Crazy Frog or its ilk was in the 2000s as well.

Put simply, Athletic Doctor was a match made in heaven - and the joke is pulled off so expertly that it feels redundant to put into words. The Athletic Theme intro is iconic enough to where you're led into a false sense of security right off the bat, the melody swap is subtle enough as to not immediately be noticeable, making the moment you notice it even more noteworthy - only for the track's second loop to become a full-on mashup with the Witch Doctor track. Absolutely perfect escalation, just the right amount of buildup - but most importantly, it ends up actually sounding really good! The joke's great to be sure, very much like Live and Ooooooooooooooh - but I feel like the core reason why Athletic Doctor has continued to endure for so long on the channel, why it keeps getting remixed and referenced and paid tribute to on so many instances, is because it's just a genuinely good listen once the joke sets in. In other words, it is the purest distillation of SiIvaGunner's appeal - a joke so simple, yet pulled off with a magical appeal that remains even all these years later.

Through running this blog, it's that very specific appeal that I've wanted to try and encapsulate with the rips I cover, with what I write about them, to uncover that elusive magic of this dumb shitpost channel. Joel's big Grand Dad reaction that kicked the channel off is a good bit, to be sure, but its not a bit that could've lasted eight years and counting: In its earliest days, its easy to see how the channel could've just become naught but a novelty and fallen off the face off the earth once interest in it died. Yet through each year of the channel's life, with every Season that passes, it's evolved and adapted. Be it the spontaneous chaos of Season 1, the building storyline of Season 2, the mystery and nostalgia of Season 3, the sheer talent on display in the King for Another Day Tournament in Season 4 Episode 1 and the sheer joy of celebration found in Season 4 Episode 2, the whimsical experimentation of Season 5, the sudden introspection and moodiness of Season 6, the pure adoration and love for everything the channel stands for in Season 7, and the ongoing pure silliness of Season 8 - each period of this channel feels as if it's growing in a new direction, never content sitting in one place for too long - and yet the appeal of a rip like Athletic Doctor remains oh so core to the entire SiIvaGunner experience. The experience of which I've made my best effort to cover across all 365 posts on this blog. To show everyone the layers in which this channel goes in.

That's what I've been wanting to show you... but now, before I end this post, I want to briefly talk about what you've shown *me*. I know its a cliché thing to say, but really - it warms my heart EVERY time I receive messages about the blog. This all began as just a way for me to practice my writing ability, but suddenly I was having the actual rippers - the names that I'd admire from my MP3 player but hardly ever considered able to actually interact with - messaging me in private to express how happy my posts made them...not to mention the people in SiIvaCord discussing rips with me, digging into my writing, sharing anecdotes I'd never heard of, and everyone who requested rips genuinely eager to see what I had to write about them...like, again, its the biggest cliché on the planet, and I know this blog really isn't all *that* big in the grand scheme of things - but I never expected to even get more than five people actually engaging with what I post? To everyone, and ESPECIALLY to the silent majority reading my posts without a Tumblr account, the ones engaging from a distance - thank you SO much for validating all that I've done on here.

Now, there's still plenty of posts I have left in me, plenty of ones already in the drafts and unfulfilled requests well in the dozens. But like...tons has happened since when this all started 12 months ago. I got a summer job! I'm wrapping up what's hopefully my final three school courses! I've started listening to so much new music, expanding my music tastes, in huge part thanks to all the digging this blog has made me do! And, of course, getting to be this open about what's likely my absolute weirdest special interest has honestly made me feel more confident in myself as a person, made me a more outgoing individual in general. And so, to get all of my ducks in a row, to help straighten things out for a bit...I'm going to take a break from regular posting on here. I'm aiming for it to be no longer than a month's time - again, I have much I still wish to write about!! - but you'll of course still see me reblogging fanart and other such things on here just from using Tumblr casually. And hey - if you haven't already, I recommend you take the time to go scavenging through The Archive for daily posts that you might have missed! Having a blog with so much writing on it, so many posts, so much to discover for readers old and new...In a way, I've basically made it so that navigating the blog feels just like navigating the vast seas of the SiIvaGunner channel itself. And isn't that just the most fitting way to leave it all on - an ocean of posts, waiting for you to uncover them?

THAT SIIVAGUNNER TUMBLR BLOG WILL RETURN IN SEASON 2

[pictures-of-yxl]

[brave-symphonia]

If I'm remembering correctly, it's been stated this took Nami 8 years of robbing pirates to earn this much money, and it's been said to be an amount of money that seems almost impossible to raise over her life.

So, 100 million berries is seen as an obscene amount of money, and it got me thinking of the Sabaody auction.

Like, they have twice this amount by then, twice what's seen as impossible to raise.

And they still get helplessly outbid so easily, the amount of money the Celestial Dragons have, that they can just waste on something so horrible and something they willingly will cast aside after just a few days, it's horrible to see.

Like, the Celestial Dragons are clearly meant to represent billionaires, and I feel like this really shows it when you compare that.

Once again, five times what is seen as a massive amount of money for someone to conceivably raise, that's seen as money they can just throw away on something the Dragons see as something to just be thrown away.

Couple that with the fact that this thing they'll throw away is a living being, the Celestial Dragons are honestly just horrible all around, I would be surprised if I met someone who sided with them.

I know this is far ahead of Arlong Park, but I worried I wouldn't really come back to it later on, so I had to get it out now.

[harrowscore]

i was tagged by the lovely @rhaenyra-the-gracious - thank you! ❤️

rules: answer + tag 9 people you want to know better and/or catch up with

favorite colour? indigo... any shade of blue really.

last song? red right hand by nick cave & the bad seeds.

currently reading? last night i started assassin's apprentice, the first volume of the farseer saga by robin hobb. i read like, 4 books in a week lmao - yesterday i finished the aleph and other stories by borges, before that code name verity by elizabeth wein, and before that, in the dream house by carmen maria machado... as you can see i was quite busy 😅

currently watching? the sopranos! and the last movie i watched... i think it was the two towers; they reproposed the lotr trilogy in my city's major theater and let me tell you, seeing the fellowship and its sequel on the big screen was an Experience. my sister - who hadn't watched the movies in ages - cried like a baby during sam's speech at the end... and i was also quite moved, even though i know every. freaking. line and scene of those movies lmao

currently craving? some cold tea. it's so damn hot here, i can't stand it 🥵🔥

coffee or tea? despite what i said above, i actually prefer coffee (with unholy amounts of milk and sugar in it) to tea. estathé is an exception.

a hobby you would like to try? jogging! and horseriding - it's something i've wanted to do since i was a teenager - if only i had the money lol. some martial art would also be great for my self-esteem.

tagging: @mircallaruthven, @pontipines, @theatredelabsurde, @dwellordream, @franfinesheffield, @littlelattewanders, @feydrautha, @cafeleningrad and @caffeinosis (no pressure, of course!) 💜

[onepieceanimals]

A little rabbit that has absolutely nothing to do with the song <3

[electronickingdomfox]

TOS comics ranking

At this point, I've read all the TOS comics out there (or almost), so this is my personal veredict, from best series to worst:

DC comics

The best by a long shot imo. Also the longest running series. Set mostly after The Search for Spock (vol. 1) and The Final Frontier (vol. 2). The following are my favorites.

From Volume 1:

-The Mirror Universe saga (issues 9-16) by Mike W. Barr: It becomes a bit of "star wars, phaser pew pew" in the second half, but still pretty entertaining.

-The first Annual, also by Barr.

-Double Blind and The Last Word (issues 24-25 and 28) by Diane Duane: The first one is hilarious, while the second is pretty moving and spones-coded.

-The Paradise Lost saga (issues 43-45) by Michael Carlin: A payback for The Apple episode.

-The Dante's Inferno/Death of James Kirk saga (issues 48-55) by Peter David.

From Volume 2:

-The Trial of James T. Kirk saga (issues 1-12) by Peter David: The humor is overdone at times, but this author brings a unique freshness and originality to the series. The trial itself is absolutely hilarious, specially when the gangsters from A Piece of the Action show up as surprise witnesses.

-Once a Hero (issue 19) by Peter David: Kirk has to conduct a memorial for the redshirt that just died protecting him, and he finds out he doesn't know anything about the man. Brutal, honest, and has one of Jim's best speeches ever.

-The Class Reunion saga (issues 25-28), The Tabukan Syndrome (issues 35-40), A Little Adventure (issues 42-43) and the Time Crime saga (issues 53-57), all by Howard Weinstein.

-The Alone (issues 62-63) by Kevin Ryan.

2. Wildstorm

Only two TOS comics from this publisher (actually a branch of DC if I'm not mistaken): All of Me and Enter the Wolves. Both are pretty good.

3. IDW

I haven't read all of them, since some series focus on characters I don't care much about, like Gary Seven or Number One. From those I've read, the ones I liked the most were New Visions (made with photo montages from the series), Hell's Mirror and Mirror Images (both set, of course, in the mirror universe), Echoes (set in the TMP era) and The Primate Directive (a crossover with Planet of the Apes).

4. The Tokyopop mangas

There are three volumes. Some stories are fine, others are meh! Perhaps the second volume was the best.

5. The UK comics

Do they have a lot to do with TOS? No. The authors were not really familiar with the series. But they're bizarre, fun and have pretty art.

6. The newspaper comics

Some of the first story arcs were quite good, though it lost quality over time, specially in the art department. Set in the TMP era.

7. Marvel second series

Consisting of the Unlimited and Untold Voyages series, as well as a mirror universe one-shot and a crossover with X-Men. Rather generic. Haven't read the Early Voyages series, focused on Pike.

8. Marvel first series

These are quite bad. Set in TMP era.

9. Gold Key comics

Some stories are imaginative, but they could be about any characters instead of Star Trek and it'd be the same. This is a problem with the UK comics as well, but somehow I enjoyed the others much more.