#tho going for a mecha design is so hard

[theogm-art]

Im going around asking my favorite mech artists "how to get better at drawing mechs", so now i'm coming to you! What is your approach to drawing mechs, what was your path into learning how to draw em? And how could someone get better at drawing mechs? Thank you for your time and attention

Hello ! ^^

For me, I started drawing mechs 4 years ago. I was just starting to draw again after my big depression era (like 4-5 years without drawing anything after artschool) =w= I kinda had to start from scratch. So, to help me, I started drawabox.com .

I did the first lesson, pulling lines and drawing straight, which helped me a lot gaining confidence in my hand. I ended up drawing 250 boxes . It took me something like a month and a half, doing 10 boxes in day, not everyday, but most of the week.

This was important, especially with mechas, because it teaches you to draw in 3d, to give volume to your shape, and because most mechanical stuff is pretty much boxes piled on top of each others, it's pretty geometric.

At that point, I was already dusting myself of the rust in my drawing muscles, but what really finished it is doing the March of Robots 2020.

I did like 25 mechs in almost as many days, until I started getting comms. And since then, I haven't stopped. ^^

(also a year later, I got a dm from Tom/Abaddon and got hired to do mechs for LancerRPG x)

Of course, between all that, I did sketches, studies. I tried doing 100 hands but didn't finish it. etc

But for mecha, specifically, I think one of the first things you have to understand is that it is a language of symbols, that is different from organic forms. This obvious difference between mechs and humans, one could say, is that humans are soft volumes and mechs are hard surfaces. But , not only is that not necessary the case (you can draw a mech soft and circular), but it is more about filling in with symbols, shortcuts that bring to mind the idea of the mechanical.

I am not an engineer. Most artists that do mechas and robots and vehicles and hard surface are not engineer and/or do not have that knowledge. (some do but my point is it's not required). Which means that, as an artist you have to fake it by learning those symbols, that bring the IDEA of a mechanical form. This is about using the brain of the spectator/viewer, their knowledge of what mecha looks like, so that you can meet halfway.

You learn those forms by studying. There is no shortcut here. You have to practice, not only your hand, but also your eye, in looking at your favorite piece of mecha media, and replicate them until you can pull them from your brain without reference. (always use refs tho, you don't have use 100% of your brain all the time.)

I am a very DETAIL-oriented artist. It's one of the thing people compliment me on and/or hire me for. It's far from being the only approach in mecha (plenty of great artists doing great concept arts of mecha with few details) . The more details, the clearer you'll have to be, and the more time you'll have to spend on the art. Especially lineart for me. BUT details help a lot convey those symbols and forms and shapes that immediately call MECHA in the brain of the viewer.

Another thing about mecha, is that since it is NOT organic, there is 1) lots of repetition of shapes and symbols, which you are 100% allowed to copy-paste (i do that all the time) , that makes you gain a lot of time.

and 2) SYMMETRY (it's not always the case, you can have an asymmetric design which can be far more interesting) because it's a robot or a mecha or whatever, designed therefore by human hand in-context. Symmetry makes it harder for me, personally, drawing a 3/4 angles or in perspective etc, symmetry is tough. Symmetry of shapes from one shoulder to another, symmetry of details etc. That's probably one of the harder part when you work in 2D. Cause you have to understand perspective and foreshortening and all that.

But yeah, because it's inorganic, hard surface requires a better understanding of perspective, because straight lines are easier to read therefore the viewer will have an easier time at clocking wonky mistakes.

I could go on, about design and function, and aesthetic. but i'll stop there. This is basically how i started plus some other stuff. The rest you'll pick up along the way.

Thank you for asking ! =w=b

[aviancataclysm]

IM IMPATIENT. AO3 SAYS I WILL GET MY ACC LIKE NEXT WEEK. heres the decode sickfic (might change a little by the time i upload to ao3) it's mid by my standards tho be warned i wrote this in like today while doing stuff like class and riding the metro

title (subject to change): get decoded idiot /aff

word count: idk more than 3

content warnings: emeto and fainting

a/n: triple spike divider is pov change :3 also this was written prior to design being finalised so not all of it fits hcs

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Everything hurt.

Another player had bested them in combat. They bowed and accepted defeat. The player left carrying with them the mark of around a thousand attempts. All of this was normal. Nothing out of the ordinary.

But everything hurt. Why did it hurt? Sparring with the players didn't usually hurt this much. Nor did it hurt in the ways it was doing so.

DeCode trudged to a corner and sat down slowly. They ran a self examination program and waited. Their internal cooling fans whirred, spinning alarmingly fast.

The program finished its execution and returned the results. It seemed like they were overheating. Why were they overheating in the first place?

The android curled up further into themselves. Their head was pounding.

Another challenger approached. They just wanted to be left alone, but they didn't exactly have a choice here. The one rule for levels is that they must not turn down any challenger no matter the circumstances.

They got up, felt the ground spin but soon steadied themselves with the nearby wall, and set the area up for their cogs and spikes.

This player did not succeed in besting them today. The little icon got frustrated after accidentally hitting a spike right before DeCode's last attack, the minicube maze.

After the challenger had left, they felt a wave of exhaustion wash over them, with the unpleasant company of what seemed to be nausea.

As they dragged their feet back to the corner for even just the slightest bit of relief from the discomfort, they began to notice how hard it was to process anything in their mind. It felt as if their hardware was dunked into soup. Not even good soup at that. It would be the kind which Killbot made that one time for the mecha levels' annual meet up despite none of them being able to eat nor taste anything. It ended up going to Kenos because they collectively agreed it would be funny. He had suffered food poisoning afterwards according to Zodiac. Silly people.

They essentially collapsed into the corner and felt how cold the wall was up against their forehead.

The world was in a haze. Someone was shaking them. The person was also saying something, apparently.

"... ode! DeCode! What happened, what's going on?"

That voice sounded familiar. The person felt familiar.

It was impossible to think straight. It was impossible to think at all. Their software stuttered and they twitched, blank eyes still staring at nothing but the ground. An electric buzz escaped them as they did so.

The person kept shaking them. They got dizzy from it. Too dizzy. They leaned over and threw up what probably was some sort of engine oil. It did not help anything at all.

It was so warm. Too warm. Their fans were not enough for the job. They began to hyperventilate as the system's last resort to cool down.

And before they knew it, they were out. Unconscious.

∆∆∆

Death Moon was freaking out when she saw DeCode pass out in front of her eyes. She paced around in circles while muttering to herself about what to do.

One of the crows on her shoulder whispered to her in an arcane tongue, and she widened her eyes and nodded. She proceeded to carry her best friend all the way past the areas where levels normally hang around in. Ignoring the odd looks from the players, she dashed down the stairs leading to the treasure room where the Mechanic's workshop was.

Upon entering, the Mechanic confusedly stared at the witch and her unconscious friend.

"I've got no time to explain, please take a look at them!" Death Moon pleaded with a sense of urgency.

The Mechanic sighed and pulled out a cord, which was later connected to DeCode via a port somewhere near their neck on their back.

Death Moon tried to peek at the lines of code and messages that were displayed on a nearby monitor. She did not understand most of it, but she knew what error messages looked like, and there were a lot of them rapidly flooding the screen.

"Well, seems like malware," the Mechanic explained nonchalantly. "I'll work on it but it'll take time. Go back to your level page now."

"Will they be okay...?"

"Yes, they'll be fine. Now go already."

With unsure footsteps, Death Moon walked out from the workshop.

[otakween]

Digimon Tamers - Episode 18

These episodes are starting to feel more predictable/formulaic than the first 10, so I probably won't have as much to say. Aside from some nice Ruki moments in the opening scenes, not much happened on a character development/emotional level. Mostly action.

Taomon is definitely my fave perfect level. Design still slightly jank tho (mainly in the arms).

Notes:

Ruki's mom continues to be kinda a flop, not listening to her daughter's feelings at all. The photographer sucked too! I guess he's never worked with children before...I probably woulda panicked too.

Random HYPNOS lady fanservice, because why not? I guess they were just trying to be like "look, she's a normal person doing normal person things!" but honestly, did we learn/gain anything from that scene? (I did like seeing her chunky Nokia-style phone lol)

Ruki's back-sass amused me. "What kind of elementary schooler walks around at this time of night?" "This one." Her mom had it coming tbh. Also, she doesn't really try hard enough to stop Ruki from going off in the middle of the night on her bike. Doesn't she have a car she could follow her in? I know Japan is safe but still...

Vajiramon actin' kinda yandere towards Renamon lol. What exactly does telling someone they have "beautiful data" mean? Can digimon see each other's stats or is he just calling her aesthetically beautiful?

I was annoyed when Renamon was like "What is this 'God' you speak of?" and Vajiramon failed to give any sort of satisfying answer. I wanna know dammit!

So they can digivolve to perfect level with a card slash but...only sometimes. In this episode Growmon and Galgomon conveniently "didn't have enough energy." I don't get why they can't just digivolve all the way up to perfect from the start, but oh well. I don't need to see that many digivolution sequences anyways...

Taomon's design is wonderful. I especially like the mask-like face, the swishy clothes, and the calligraphy brush attack. Only thing I don't really like are the weird, dislocated looking shoulders. They kinda remind me of Evangelion mecha shoulders...

It felt weird seeing Vajiramon get defeated because he had way more speaking lines than your average enemy digimon. Not that I felt that sorry for him, it just had a greater sense of "they're killing a living being." (I know they don't see it as killing).

I like to imagine that Renamon was blushing off screen when Ruki called her "beautiful." She got a lot of compliments this episode! lol

[rin-yellow]

YESSSS THIS EXACTLY

Such wildly different feelings to the mechs and the settings too.

Including the ways the mechs are constructed, like Btech lets you customize the mechs, but to a point. The Battletech pilots are like knights whose armors are heirlooms built from lost technology and every fight usually means some priceless relic of ancient history is almost inevitably demolished each time whereas the Armored Core pilots are corporate dogs whose mechs are custom built and optimized for each situation in order to most cost-effectively beat the faces in of anyone who dares prevent their employers from maximizing their profits.

Also the GEOMETRY OF THE DESIGNS. Obviously in a doylist sense this is because Battletech's most famous mechs used to use (dubiously illegally) licensed Kunio Okawara designs (iirc) and so any further properties had to essentially use those as a starting point (leading to that boxy look we know and love), and Armored Core is VERY MUCH something that Shoji Kawamori laid the groundwork for. Yes I know Btech also used Kawamori's Macross designs as some of the unseen too, but more people probably remember the fact that the Shadowhawk is literally fucking Dougram lol

Iirc, it's kind of where that classic "American vs Japanese mecha" meme comes from. The one I will not be posting here because I'm pretty sure there was some racist stuff in that meme, sadly.

But like,,,

The Battletech mechs are very big and clunky looking with a real "this robot will STOMP on you" kind of vibe, whereas ACs have that speedy look that gves Jetplane vibes, and 'coz jetplanes are always so far away alot of ppl I know of tend to underestimate their massive sizes as well.

And so like the AC mechs give that insane feeling of adrenalin through and through because that's like what the pilot is feeling, the mech kind of IS their surrogate bodies and their fighting this insane battle of spiky meyhem for like three more seconds to live, essentially. Whereas the Mechwarriors have this slow "I'm in a walking piece of LITERAL HISTORY" vibe because they're built like old brick houses that real estate workers try to demolish in order to build a McMansion with a big ole' "I was here for 200 years and I'll be here for 200 more" kind of attitude towards themselves where every step is just YEAH it's a bigass robot and YEAH it's slow but that doesn't mean that the step isn't gonna shake that metaphorical real estate worker so hard that she'll find the true meaning of whatever awful winter holiday you wanna celebrate in your big stompy robot.

Idk where I was going with that.

But also AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I have not played the 6th armored core game yet I'm sorry,,,, I'll do it soon at some point but my ass is broke and waiting for it to go on sale. I've played the old PS2 and PS3 games with my brother tho and that's literally where I've gotten the vibes from lol. But I've seen a BUNCH of ACVI posting recently so I get the gist. Been loving the fanart I've seen circulating and I lowkey can't wait to get my claws onto the game in order to contribute to that.

Mechwarrior 5 was a bundle of fun though. Ik some ppl didn't think that but I thought it was. As were the old games those were great, even if some of them I had ta play a shitty emulator copy of them lol.

But yeah both games are insanely good.

(Just waiting on someone to finally make a game about combining mecha because I seriously have not been able to find a good one of those lmao. 'Coz we got the slow mechs, we got the speedy mechs, but where tf are the smol mechs that smash together to become bigger ones lol.)

mechwarrior and armored core both bring so much to the table

mechwarrior is most often about strategizing an effective squad to survive and endure an onslaught of equally potent enemies and your skill as a pilot to simultaneously evade and do you best to keep damage from accumulating too heavily in any one spot while you’re also lining up and landing your own shots, and it ends up feeling like this beautiful slow waltz with the enemy as we close the distance and then drift apart as we both try to get into our optimal firing range and out of theirs while pressuring them with whatever you can. and (my favorite) endurance missions will last as long as you and your squad can survive, until you pull out due to significant damages or running out of ammo, whichever comes first. mechwarrior is a marathon, with an emphasis on strategic use of resources to make it to the end

armored core is a sprint. it’s making the mech that will smash through whatever is in your way faster than it can shoot at you because if it’s already dead it can’t hurt you, and it’s about constant brutal high pressure fights with enemies in every direction and prioritizing what’s more important in any given second and keeping an unconscious awareness of where everyone is relative to your very quickly changing location and it feels so much like the intense gundam fights. if mechwarrior is a waltz armored core is dance off where the loser dies

different vibes. both good.

[ultraclops]

Semi-Live Blogging: Finale Time!

With reaction images this time!

Adoradad

TRAINING EXERCIIISE

Adorabat's practicing her screaming! Bet that's gonna come in handy later.

"Fneh!" Wow what an introduction Eugene

His design is like? Really cool?? He looks practically nothing like Adorabat tho. And why does he have a spade on his stomach instead of a heart??

Badgerclops drew him with a giant ass mustache lol.

Adorabat takes banjo lessons? More importantly, Eugene thought she was at a banjo lesson FOR 8 MONTHS?!

"She scares me" lol

Adorabat ran away from home? Why?

"I thought you were a ward of the state!" Remember when everyone thought Adorabat was an orphan? Yea.

"I thought you were my conscience!" Badgerclops...you've lived with Adorabat for a year...went to her school...AND YOU THOUGHT SHE WAS A PIECE OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS?!

...why did Badgerclops use Adorabat as monster bait...

I expected to hate Eugene but he's actually really cute and interesting?? Aside from the fact he thinks Mao Mao & Badgerclops are criminals. Love to see him again sometime!

Wow her dad has a whole badass mansion!! Why doesn't she just stay there...

Oh...her mom died...that's why he's so protective of her and was so upset when she left. Also her mom looks amazing & I wanna see a flashback episode with her. For some reason I can imagine her sounding like a deeper version of Scoops?

Aww Adorabat's room is super cool! Also Eugene cracking the door for her asfgjkl

"Do you think that monsters attacking the city are gonna - wait, does that have peanut butter in it? " (Cuts to MM & BC eating ice cream while crying) That's a perfectly rational reaction to losing your adoptive daughter

"I can keep it together!" (Cut to Mao Mao trying and failing to shovel ice cream in his mouth with his helmet on) NSADGEDHAMADH

Wait a second. Mao's eating mint chocolate chip ice cream. ISN'T CHOCOLATE TOXIC TO CATS?!

"But you said I was part of the team!!" "Then you're...off the team."

Adorabat crying while showing Eugene the picture OUCH MY HEART...

"I used to go exploring in those caves with Mom all the time..." I'm guessing those are the caves from the promo?

"She wasn't afraid of anything!" " Well Adorabat definitely takes after her mother...

"And then one day, Sonara didn't come back with you." Ooh her name's Sonara!! Pretty!! I can't tell if they chose it cuz it sounds like Sonar or because it means "pleasant sounding"

Glad to see Adorabat's still a die-hard metal fan, even with Eugene

Oof Mao isn't taking this well at ALL if he's pretending Adorabat's molt is her...

OOH SHIT ADORABAT RAN OFF TO THE CAVES - wait a minute no she didn't. OH NO EUGENE WENT TO THE CAVES

Ooh there's Sonara's looking glass, bet that's gonna be important

Yay Adorabat saved her dad!

Damn Adorabat must be super traumatized after basically watching her mother die. No wonder she tried to murder Boba-Chan!

Oh the only way to stop the monster is by screaming!

(Mao Mao hears Adorabat scream) "ADORABAT?!" ADOPTIVE DAD POWERS ACTIVATE

Ooh her mother's figure appears over her when she says she's not afraid of anyone...maybe her spirit's inside of her or something?

REVENGE TIME BAYBEY

HOLY SHIT ADORABAT FUCKING MURDERED THAT THING

Eugene & Adorabat both apologized to each other I...

"You can't just leave without the most fearless member of the group!" YAAY ADORABAT'S BACK (Also how are we gonna explain to Eugene Adorabat's scared of the dark?)

"I'll mess 'em up real good! So good, their mommies and daddies won't be able to recognize them when I'm done..." Daaammmnnn...

"She scares me :)"

I wonder...is Sonara really dead? Or are they gonna pull a Kipo & have her still be alive but in a different form?

Badge-A-Fire explosion

Uhh...where is Badgerclops? And why is Mao Mao on the top bunk?!

Of course Badgerclops is petty enough to install a fake monster alarm on his laptop to wake Mao Mao and Adorabat up.

"This is a super-serious work meeting, as you can see by the fact that I haven't provided any snacks!" No snacks?! This must be a serious issue!! /s

"As you know, I am a creative genius. Sometimes there's so much natural creative genius that my brain overloads, and I enter a heightened state that I call 'Ultra Focus'..." Oh so basically like hyperfixation?

"...where I break into a creative sprint, inventing super-advanced technology at supernatural speeds, unparalleled by anyone in the entire field of science." Okay maybe only a LITTLE bit like hyperfixation...wait a second, IS THAT WHY BADGERCLOPS IS SO TIRED ALL THE TIME?!

Uhh did he get his arm stuck in the front door? HE TOOK THE AEROCYCLE?!

"...I forget everything the next morning." Remember my headcanon that Badgerclops represses his memories? Yea...

"Which is why it's not my fault and I don't think I should be criticized :D" TBH I screamed with laughter at this scene solely because of the expression he made

...HE GAVE THE SKY PIRATES THE GEM CELL?! I mean he clearly wasn't thinking right when he did it BUT STILL?!

"Oh hey, I told you I'd use that weird elevator thing!" Dude you LITERALLY used it in Ultraclops. What are you talking about.

"If the Sky Pirates had the Gem Cell, they would've used it already!" That is a fair point ngl.

Umm...did Badgerclops give Adorabat a BOMB?!

Tbh if my friend woke me up in the middle of the night with weird-looking eyes and handed me a timer while saying something about an explosion I would DEFINITELY not go back to sleep afterwards...

I'm sorry, IS THE WHOLE VALLEY GONNA BLOW UP?! WHAT THE HELL DID HE MAKE?!

Mao wiping Badgerclops' tears I'm

A paper towel dispenser? Well that's not that bad - IS THAT A GIANT PAIR OF PANTS?!

Ooh it's not a shock collar it's a translator!! That makes a bit more sense... "I HAVE NO REMORSE OR CONCEPT OF EMPATHY!" ...if the monster doesn't have remorse or empathy how does it know what those words mean...

Badgerclops keeps telling Mao Mao & Adorabat not to criticize him...hmm...I wonder who criticized his inventions that made him that way...*cough* HIS MOM *cough*

"Are all your inventions this weird?!" "YOU'RE WEIRD!!"

IM SORRY DID BADGERCLOPS BUILD A DANCING MACHINE INTO MAO MAO'S BONES?! HIS BONES?! AND HE MADE ADORABAT A SECOND MEGAPEG?!

What in the absolute hell is going on dgaadhdagdadga

Okay but when Badgerclops clutched his head and started shaking when Mao Mao asked why he made those things...I FELT THAT IN MY HEART I FELT THAT IN MY SOUL

Ngl this scene really hit home for me cuz that's how I act when I have a breakdown...

The timer went off but nothing blew up - WAIT, IS THAT A REPLICA OF MECHA HOSSORAFFASNAKEARANG?!

"Initializing Totally Humane Knockout Procedure." (Proceeds to slam the Sheriff's Dept. into the ground) ajdajdgdad

Ooh...ohh they're on some sort of water park...ride...thing??

"And if I didn't want us to get out, then I made sure we couldn't...with super-strong shoe things." But there isn't any on Adorabat, can't she just squeeze herself out?

Ooh I'm getting Pirates of the Caribbean vibes

There's the Gem Cell, it must be powering the ride! Also the robotic arm slaps Mao's hand the same way Mao slaps Badgerclops' hand in Flyaway skkkk

"My amazing creativity is finally gonna destroy us all..." "Hey, at least we'll be destroyed together!" Fair point, fair point

The shoosh returneth

"I always loved inventing." So he was an inventor ever since he was little? Daww.

YOUNG BC IS SO ADORABLE!! He has a lil medical patch instead of an eyepatch which is def more accurate to real life...but what's the vest for? Protection in case he falls? A pressure stim?

That figure's def his mom since they rejected his ideas & he mentions she was mean to him. Also the theory that his mom's a villain seems a bit stronger since they straight-up hand him a tool kid + a set of blueprints with no regard to his safety...

"Also there was a bunch of other kids at school and some other people throughout my life who mocked me relentlessly." THEN WHY'D YOU TELL ADORABAT YOU COULDN'T RELATE TO HER WHEN SHE SAID NO ONE WANTED TO BE HER FRIEND?! (Also I noticed literally all the kids are other badgers, so I'm assuming Badgerclops grew up sheltered like Mao Mao did.)

So the Ultra Focus is basically a really weird coping mechanism to deal with all the abuse and bullying he went through? Holy fuckkk

"They only made fun of you because they were jealous. Happened to me my whole life!" Umm...

"Even the dance chip I surgically implanted in your brain?" Excuse me the dance chip that you WHAT

"I love you-" HE SAID IT 💗💓💗💓

"I'm finally around people who love and understand me..."

Wait did the cannon misfire? DID IT BLOW A HOLE IN THE GROUND?!

OH HE ACTUALLY DID CREATE AN ANIMATRONIC BAND?! I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE!!

"Take it away, Boss Hosstritch!" (Distorted garbling)

Oof Mao caught all the water

"We hope you all enjoyed being Badgerclops' friend." 💞💕💞💕

Not that anyone cares but I noticed there's a picture of some of the Sweetypies on the monitors, meaning 1. Badgerclops tested it out using them first, or 2. Badgerclops just likes those Sweetypies for whatever reason. Tho that makes me wonder why he'd choose Pinky of all people...

THE SKY PIRATES WERE INSIDE THE ANIMATRONICS THE WHOLE TIME?! THE MAN BEHIND THE SLAUGHTE

Zing Your Heart Out

Why are they giving out rotten sushi??

"HOW DARE YOU LAUGH AT ME EATING SOMETHING GROSSLY?!"

Ooh god Chester's gonna be super freaking annoying in this episode, I can feel it.

"What's blue and smells like red paint? Blue paint!" BAYBEY

Jesus what a prick. GET HIM MAO MAO

Ngl that background's really pretty...

Oooh no the Ruby Pure Heart's being weird again. Ooh no.

FUCK YEA ROAST HIM BABY - Did Adorabat's eyes turn purple because the Ruby Pure Heart gave her powers?

Oh so the siren in Badgerclops' robo-arm is a backup monster alarm?

More Sky Pirates - and the Pure Heart's being weird again...

"I'd tell you but despite your height it'd go right over your HEAD!" Asdfgghjjk

"For someone with two brains, you're not very BRIGHT!" EVEN BETTER

Kevin said he was raising money for a school trip, then for a trip to the hospital...which one is he raising money for?!

"SILENCE PANCAKE, LEST YE BE BUTTERED"

OOH NO SHE ATTACKED MAO AND BC

"IT FEELS LIKE THE WEIGHT OF ONE THOUSAND PLANETS!!"

"One second, I'm getting mad, and the next thing you know-" Is she freaking possessed??

Wait, is the Pure Heart TALKING to Adorabat?! How?!

Cluckins you don't ask people what's wrong with their eyeballs...even if there is something wrong with their eyeballs

"I CAN'T FEEL MY SELF-RESPECT!!"

The pure 'oh shit' on Marion's face when Adorabat turns to her

Half of the people she insulted showed up to her party! Didn't that mean she loved them?!

Oh god not this bitch again - nvm, thanks Adorabat

"Taking over the castle and ruling Pure Heart Valley forever does sound nice..." This is starting to remind me of that one AU where Adorabat turns evil, becomes the ruler of the Sky Pirates, then convinces them to kill Snugglemagne and becomes the queen of Pure Heart...she isn't gonna kill Snugglemagne, is she?

What did Adorabat tell Snugglemagne?! I WANNA KNO

Why is Pinky stealing teeth...reminds me of this

NO BC DON'T EAT THE TEETH

"I...hate myself! Therefore, I'm invincible!" So the trick to not getting your ego destroyed...is to not have an ego. Sounds reasonable.

"Your bug platter, my king?" Genderfluid Adorabat rights

"Mao Mao, your head looks like a CROW!" (Mao Mao caws) IT WAS A LIE HE ISN'T A CAT HE WAS A CROW THIS WHOLE TIME-

"It looks like a half-melted ice cream cone!!" That is...a strange way to describe your own neck...

"Well, I'm...bad (◡‿◡)" Kinda weird that the canonically depressed character can't even cleverly insult himself

...why does Adorabat's skin smell like old cantaloupe

OH SHE IS POSSESSED!!

HOLY SHIT MAO WAS GONNA FUCKING MURDER ADORABAT TO SAVE THE KINGDOM?! THANK GOD HE SAW HER JOKE BOOK, HOLY SHIT

Positivity outweighs negativity!

"WHERE DOES A 800 POUND GORILLA SIT?!" "Where ever it wants!◝(⁰▿⁰)◜" Curse you for making me laugh...

OOH NO THE JOKEBOOK! - Wait nvm Mao remembers Adorabat's jokes!

I think the reason they used that joke is because it represents Mao Mao and Adorabat - Adorabat is blue, and she wants to be like Mao Mao, who wears red. What is BLUE, and smells like (is similar to) RED paint?

YAAAY HE BROKE HER FREE FROM MIND CONTROL!! And did BC get Thanos snapped in the background?

"Thank goodness you're alright! We almost..." Fucking murdered you? Yea

"Might we have our crown and kingdom back, yes?"

"Sorry for being such a monster today." "You're a monster everyday." Is that a joke because she was today's villain, a reference to Sleeper Sofa or foreshadowing?

I hope Mao Mao and Badgerclops decide to investigate what's up with the Heart in Season Two, cause I highly doubt they'll let Adorabat getting fucking possessed go under the radar.

The visual gag of Mao trying to stomp out his ice cream cone like a cigarette is perfect. This is peak comedy everyone else go home

WHOOP CHESTER'S ASS GUYS

Strange Bedfellows

"So, your name is Boss Hosstrich, but you're not actually the boss?" How long did it take him to realize that

JFC Mao & Orangusnake are REALLY hellbent on killing each other huh...at least the deputies and the other Sky Pirates have common sense.

Hahaha nice Dragon Ball Z reference - and they both got crushed by the monster! Lovely.

...did Mao seriously think he died and went to heaven?

So does Orangusnake breathe through Tanner or do they both breathe independently & Coby can feel when Tanner can't?

Dang those skeletons remind me of the Steven Universe Future episode Growing Pains. And why is Lucky inside of Orangusnake? "THAT WAS MY LUNCH, JERK!" Ooh that's why.

"They're full of these tiny, little cracks or, as they're known in the medical field, 'whoopsie-boo-boos'." AGSADGASGADGDASG

Damn their skeletons are just gonna freaking evaporate huh...

"The doctor said I was very brave :D"

Ooh shit the Deputies and the other Sky Pirates met at the same elevator, are they gonna fight - nevermind, they're still calling time.

JESUS CHRIST ARE MAO & ORANGUSNAKE EVER GONNA STOP?!

"You don't have the guts!" "I have a million guts." That is...mildly concerning

"Yeah, I wanted to be a baker, before I realized I liked hurting people so much." Then why doesn't she just like, help Muffins or something?

Tbh I thought Ratarang was holding a gun and I'm glad it was just a weirdly wrapped banana

CONE OF SHAME. CONE OF SHAME. CONE OF SHAME.

"Aww, y'all shouldn't have - this is empty." "Just like my heart when you injure yourself!!" He loves him sm...💓💓

"Why didn't you bring me weapons?!" "Because this is a hospital, and I'm a good boy (◡‿◡ )"

"I really feel like this could be a turning point in their relationship." (Mao and Orangusnake proceed to try and kill each other again) *sigh*

Ngl Mao & Orangusnake constantly repeating themselves is getting super annoying.

That hospital bed beeping is giving me flashbacks to all the times I went to the hospital for seizures...

"You know y'all could live like this, like, all the time if you didn't go around hurting people, right?" "Pssh! Tsk-tsk, boy. You know I gots to hurt people." Uhh you guys should really listen to Badgerclops he knows what tf he's talking about

UUhh, whose egg is that? "MAMA" ASGagddahDh

Of course they had to land in freaking CEMENT to realize that maybe they shouldn't kill each other

Did Mao just deflate like a ballo- oh nvm there he go.

Boneless Mao. Boneless Mao.

And Mao saved Orangusnake!! By...breaking every bone in his body somehow.

"I'm the kind of hero who wants to save you so I can fight you later...at the right time and place." Just gonna file this along with the credit score scene from Perfect Couple in the 'Orangumao' folder.

Is Badgerclops duct taping Mao to the stretcher? I mean, at least he won't move & hurt himself again but geez

Tbh Zing would’ve made a better finale than this ep. At least it had a sequel hook

[psychoticenjolras]

ok so im watching gunbuster for the first time and it’s really really good. i love the character designs and the mechas and the terrible terrible science and elevator jazz soundtrack. im also kind of worried about this time dilation stuff cus last episode they just spent an hour in space and they came back and it had been 6 months? is this gonna happen every time? i’m experiencing a level of existential dread i feel may be overblown for a 1989 anime about highschool girls flying space robots (it’s moderately cutesy so honestly i dont think anything that big with it is gonna happen especially since kazumi just kind of randomly threw it out there like it was no big deal but honestly im slightly (read: incredibly) afraid of the like whole concept of space time dilation so interstellar actually really bothered me lol.) ANYWAYS

the girls are really cute? especially noriko oh my god but there’s like a certain wild level of drama right now i wasnt expecting. i know kazumi didnt expect much from her in the beginning but when she did the lightning kick i thought she changed her mind about noriko and they were friends? but somehow now seeing her continuing to work hard is making kazumi not want to work with her? she did kind of surprise me with the fight with proto-asuka tho i was like wait i thought u were the mature big sister but u abandon ur post to fight with ur space rival 😂 it was really cute, i like that about her

but like i know kazumi is being honest when she says it’s for noriko’s own good bc kazumi seems to be a genuinely good girl, but what does she think is going on bc noriko was studying? rude lady

[softgrungeprophet]

two specific games i was looking forward to seeing more of for the xbox showcase but the gameplay trailers have mostly left me with a lot of question marks

redfall is especially question mark-y for me cause i can’t figure out what it’s going for at all.... and it seems like it’s lacking the kind of visual design that i associate with a lot of arkane stuff. like, i haven’t deathloop has STYLE you know? and prey and dishonored have STYLE. even setting redfall in massachusetts like there’s surely something you could do with this? but the gameplay itself also seemed to mostly be shooting which is also... boring. but i guess we’ll see what it’s actually like when it comes out since obvs sometimes even gameplay trailers don’t really do a good job reflecting what the game is really like to play... we’ll see, we’ll see

starfield mostly feels like there was this brief excitement when the trailer started and then the trailer continued and i slowly found myself going “....ah.” it really does have NMS vibes, which is like, i LIKE no man’s sky, i own it on two platforms. but this doesn’t really look great? like oh cool robot! oh. okay. it’s like... what if no man’s sky was fallout i guess? idk i was more excited for this game before i saw the trailer. hopefully it’s good! i don’t think it looks great. even graphically it’s mostly kind of boring looking—just the same realistic graphics with no good color grading or framing or anything..... i’m sure very specific areas and times of day will look nice but i saw a lot of bland grayness in that trailer

obviously it’s VERY bethesda but the “no man’s skyrim” jokes suuuuure are nailing the vibes i’m getting

on the flip side the character creator looks pretty good (i mean, actual fat people??), the spacesuit design is really solid for evoking a hard scifi aesthetic, and the prospect of a ship designer that lets you customize the colors of your ship also is fun! but........... idk man something about it is just not capturing me.

also man devs are out here making mecha farming sims but still not singleplayer story-based rpgs about mechs?? it’s like they do everything BUT that—well, at least i have you, titanfall 2 singleplayer story mode....................is it so much to ask for more story based games that let you pilot a mech tho....

man i wish anthem would have been better, and also not multiplayer

[dirtreally]

Following up with my own ranking:

14: ikebukuro. Durarara took place here. I dont really remember any other distinctive characteristics about this place except there were a lot of cop cars and we ate at a good as fuck cheese place

13: Ueno but its not uenos fault. We got to the zoo at like 1pm and it was so fucking hot they brought all the animals back into their non-public enclosures by like 3pm. There was a japan-pakistan friendship fest and nearby there was an indonesian cafe that i thought was run by a japanese guy who really fuckiny loved indonesia and my girldriend didnt tell me he was literally an indonesian guy until the day after so i literally began believing that all the worlds men could be brothers

12: kichijoji: we travelled like 45 minutes for a blue hamham popup store that was just like a singular shelf in a bookstore (this is fine. many pop up stores are like this) and then after that we went to a restaurant that let me be laid up with my girlfriend while eating eggs with rice but there was like. barely any meat or anything else other than literally eggs with rice. i love egggs and rice but this was a little too real for me.

11: akihabara: extremely demonic location. we went there like 3 times and couldnt find anything cool the first 2 times (i have a brain disease that means i am extremely particular about what Touy i would like) but like after i googled really really fucking hard i found a toy store that mainly has mecha toys and got some transformers. i resent it a lot less now that i know that you just need google really fucking hard and just find some store on the off-street that focuses entirely on some stupid niche bullshit. i wish girls band cry had b etter merch other than acrylic stands (extremely awful type of merchandise i fucking hate acrylic stands so much) and a bunch of t shirts with shit written on them

10: asakusa: i struggle to really remember anything about this shit but we barely spent any time here anyways so

9: shimokita: when we got to the train station there was a huge as fuck bocchi the rock billboard that said WELCOME TO SHIMOKITAZAWA which is fine because the whole time we were going there i was like hey yo do you think bocchi from bocchi the rock will be there hey do you think bocchi the rock will signtheir autograph hey hey. i wish i could have spent more time here and bought more clothes but OH WELL

8: akasaka: we kept passing by this fucken like. wallsticker that was a life size silhouette of what we thought was an anime girl squatting but the silhouette was completely fucking indistinguishable and we didnt know what it was until we went around a corner and saw that it was part of a whole ass harry potter building and part of it was covered by those wallstickers but not of like. harry or whatever it was all miscellaneous beasts and mermaids and robots. i had zero idea of what any of these guys were meant to be cuz all of the silhouettes were extremely confusing and ive never seen any animal or robot or whatever in harry potter. is this what we're really doing now??? are we pretending that harry potter has silhouettes??? thatt it has character designs????

7: harajuku: soooooooooooooo fucking crowded. i wanted to check out like a gorillion thrift shops and sneaker places but this shit is just soooo crowded and such a meme location my girlfriend got overwhelmed after like 3 stores. i got a cool ass jacket im about to start being annoying about irl tho

6: Shibuya: if you go to the Youth Malls and shit you will see a bunch of extremely cheap badly made clothing. nonetheless those clothes will be quite cute and have swag. if you go to the other malls youre gonna see some clothing that will make you look like the bad extremely rich guy in a cyberpunk movie and it WILL costt you 1000 dollars a piece. i kind of wish i could buy a shit ton of clothes here from the latter category but if i ever have that money you should kill me.

5: Shinjuku is crowded. literally every memory of this place i have is blasted out by the fact taht it was very crowded.

4: Sumida: tokyo tower was here and its rpeddy cool but also if youve already lived in a b ig city for an extended period of time the coolness is destroyed by how fucking crowded it is. you will not be able to bask in the vastness of tokyo freakin city or how small everything looks at all. its fine. also there is a toilet at the top of the tower and its fucking insane that they pipe water that far up. if youre in tokyo tower and you have to pee you should just piss yourself. hokusai museumw as good as fuck

3: ginza: expensive. we went to hakuhinkan toy park and hm. every time i see an article thats like YO THIS STORE IS HUGE AS FUCK and we go there and its like. the store IS technically huge but thats cuz its 7 small floors stacked on top of each other i feel a little disappointed. it IS huge dont get me wrong but it doesnt hit as good. we also went to itoya which is a stationary store but it is extremely dedicated to like. guys who scrapbook and write letters with fancy ornamentation nice as fuck and not BITCHES who burn through 10 sketchbooks a year. whatever we got my girlfriend a nice dress here and i finally got to try rare steak (every time i try to get my meat rare in singapore the waiter looks at me weird so i have given up on doing this at home).

2: nakano: i know our waitress was a transgender woman. i know it. also rin literally agreed with me when i said it.

Jimbocho: saurrrrrrrrr fucking good. so many cool bookstores. wish we couldve spent more time here going into alleys and shit. i facking love books with pictures in them. the japanese national museum of modern art had a really nice painting that made me a lil emotional but i cant find a good, high quality image of it on google images :( that shit really hit different irl. also i saw my second live rothko and i still dont get it. sorry.

SOOPER SOOPER SPECIAL TIER: Chiba for wonfest. I actually thought i was gonna die queueing up to enter this shit cuz they makw you wait in a parking lot with no shade or fan or anything and even the queue is ctowded as fuck so everyones body heat is blasting off each other AND it was literally 90 minutes of this shit but once we got in wonfest blew my fucking mind so hard it didnt matter. The industry booths were Fine but the indie halls were legitimately insane. You would just walk for 2 minutes and then randomly encounter like a sculpture or garage kit or whatever that was insanely inspired and then it turned out that the guy who made it is just Some Guy with like 470 twitter followers. I saw so much crazy shit there i legit felt like i was witnessing the aesthetic cutting edge of SOMETHING. I dropped 200 dollars on these insane statues by some chinese guys that were sellinh like anatomical models of humans and bulls and shit and they had a whole thingy explaining how the process for sculpting these was scientifically informed and used 3d scans while also applying a degree of artistic license to establish plane clarity and make them useful reference tools for artists. Actually almost teared up looking at some of the models that shit was beautiful man

Tokyo districts we've visited RANKED:

14. Akibahara: inhospitable for human life. only place in Tokyo where they not only spelled out why they specifically had 24hr surveillance on escalators but they felt the need to put signs reminding you on every available surface. so many signs telling you to Speak Up if you think someone has been molested. genuinely felt like an insane person there but at least my girlfriend found a Transformer there (we did discover that Akibahara is vastly more approachable when you get off the main roads)

13. Harajuku: this one also felt inhospitable for human life but in like an extreme gentrification way instead of like Literally Not Made For Humans way. very weird walking through THe Clothes District and finding no clothes I wanted. almost all of the food vendors were selling extreme overpriced meme foods but we did find a surprisingly good katsudon place

12. Shibuya: the Scramble ! nowhere else in Tokyo played as much Western music. clothes were either Y4k for some shit that looked like it would disintegrate in 5 days or Y20k for like. some canvas with stains on it. a robot served me a mid as fuck highball

11: Asakusa: It was insanely fucking hot the day we happened to be in Asakusa so maybe I'm not judging it entirely on its own merits but kind of an insane area in which to exist. Very touristy (largely towards people natively from Japan/Tokyo) ergo very expensive. Maybe if we had spent longer there I would have liked it more but for now my most vivid memory is of the rickshaws which my girlfriend pointed out were almost exclusively used by Japanese people

10. Ginza: This was not unexpected in any capacity but everything is so expensive here. Ginza was the only location we visited in urban Japan where we could walk for an hour and not encounter either a vending machine or a convenience store. "Do rich people not need to drink" - my girlfriend

9. Kichijoji: We bought Blue Ham Ham here and then ate at one of those restaurants that lets you pick from a selection of raw eggs to eat with rice which was good as fuck

8. Akasaka: kind of nothing here but bars, office buildings, and an entire block dedicated to Harry Potter so we didn't do anything of note here. Yu Gi Oh Curry !

7. Nagano: Pretty unremarkable except for having a mall full of old stuff but we went to some shitty hole in the wall where we were served by someone my girlfriend described as "definitely transgender" the moment we left the restaurant

6. Shimokitazawa: We saw some cool clothes here and like 15 seconds of an indie band playing in a building. Kind of the most insanely hipstery area in Tokyo by a huge margin like astonishingly so. Only time I saw anything be specifically marketed as vegan in Japan

5. Shinjuku: Shinjuku, or at least my personal experience with Shinjuku, is sort of hard to describe. It was the first district in Tokyo that I'd seen after leaving the airport and it imposes this vision of a city that is incomprehensibly vast and dense. I don't think other districts dispelled this image but Shinjuku is by far the most successful at affirming it

4. Ikebukuro: Kinda like Akibahara lite which makes it a lot more tolerable. I could not stop saying "are you inspired with lust for Irish women yet" any time we encountered a location that was even slightly notable. I don't think either myself or my girlfriend ended up buying anything here but we went to a nice restaurant so it all worked out. There's something charming about the police outposts that seem to be present on every 2 blocks and the number of cameras randomly scattered about

3. Ueno: We rly only saw the zoo here (it was mid) but upon stepping out into Ueno park we discovered a Pakistan-Japan Friendship Festival where we watched some women dance and bought some good as fuck sweets

2. Sumida: Quite cutes :) we spent a lot of time wandering around residential areas which always make me feel way more amiable towards an area. Skytree was cool though I probably wouldn't pay for it again. Katsushika Hokusai museum was very cool.

1. Jimbocho/Ochanomizu: We went to the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and walked around for 1 million years looking at books and posters and various other items and got some lovely coffee. Wonderful place

SPECIAL MENTION: Chiba: I got a really bad sunburn here

[deltaengineering]

Spring Anime 2018: Lightning round

I didn’t get around to full writeups this season, but here’s the condensed version. It’s a weak season (the weakest in years) with very few surprises anyway.

3D Kanojo Real Girl

What: Otaku loser lucks into girlfriend.

+ Loser is actually a loser, and how

+ Heart seems to be in the right place

- Writing is clunky

- - some of the most amateurish production values this side of Clione no Akari and I don’t think this is made by one guy

Verdict: no

Akkun to Kanojo

What: Short. A guy is rude to his naively cute girlfriend and then stalks her.

- - Creepy, unfunny and dumb

Verdict: naw

Amanchu! Advance

What: Sequel. Ostentatious anime characters enjoy chilling on the beach.

+ Actually chill most of the time

+ looks and sounds good

+ somehow even more gay than before

- - @_@

- - 8D

Verdict: I watched the first season and enjoyed it more than not, so I might as well.

Alice or Alice

What: Short. Siscon 4koma comedy with a lot of fanservice.

- - Creepier, unfunnier and dumber

Verdict: hell naw

Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari

What: Best I can say is that it’s an otome instaharem of shounen fightmen invading Marimite.

+ makes so little sense it’s sometimes funny

- makes so little sense it’s mostly just baffling

- little chance to become legit

Verdict: nope

Caligula

What: What indeed. Virtual idols overwrite reality, a Persona clone ensues.

+ Denpa stuff is actually disorientating and creepy

+ Makes somehow even less sense than Butlers and in a more funny way to boot.

- Still a bunch of nonsense that will probably not pay off in the long run

- - Protagonist spends the first episode being a Sagrada Reset-class blahmancer.

Verdict: 3 ep rule since it’s still a better Persona than the actual Persona and the dude has little time to do stoner philosophy once shit hits the fan

Comic Girls

What: Hidamari Sketch without the charm, a basic comedic Kiraralike where the joke is that the girls embody manga genres.

+ High production values, pleasant to look at

- Typical Kiraralike cast with little personality besides the blindingly obvious

- - Full of jokes that get old before the setup even starts

Verdict: Not worth it

Cutie Honey Universe

What: Ancient proto-mahou shoujo series by Go Nagai gets its fourth or so anime adaptation.

+ Some choice sakuga cuts

+ Generous helpings of Go Nagai sleaze at its finest

- Design is a weird mishmash of current and 70s

- Does not even attempt to explain anything about the show

Verdict: Mainly aimed at existing fans, of which I am not one. If it turns out to be a classic I’ll hear about it

Devils Line

What: Some Tokyo Ghoul-ish thing about the vampyr police. 

+ Probably not half a dumbass fighting shounen

+ nothing too offensive

- nothing particularly interesting either

- looks are completely bland

Verdict: I have already forgotten everything about this

Dorei-ku The Animation

What: Magical devices gives people mind control powers. Everyone’s an asshole.

+ Some actually good character writing

- Trying to be Kakegurui and failing, just too tame for its outrageous conceit

Verdict: Has potential but doesn’t appear to take advantage of it

Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory

What: Sequel to FMP and it’s still FMP.

+ More serious than basic FMP

- FMP is inherently too silly to attempt seriousness

Verdict: Fumoffu is the only acceptable FMP

Fumikiri Jikan

What: Short about couples(?) at a railroad crossing

+ Reminds me of Tsuredure Children

+ Seems a bit more clever than the usual comedy short

Verdict: At 3m/week, why not

Gegege no Kitarou

What: Truly prehistoric spoopy manga for children about kids who fight youkai.

+ Actually a little spooky

+ Nekomusume

+ Unapologetically for children, but with oldschool charm

+ Does a good job of modernizing the subject matter

Verdict: Pretty good, I’m in

Golden Kamuy

What: Taciturn Ainu girl and tough guy hang around in frozen 1900s Hokkaido to nab some gold.

+ at least sounds like it could have potential

- Does a good job of making its unique setting seem not particularly interesting

- not as bad looking as incensed manga fans allege, but certainly not a feast for the eyes

- okay, that CG bear tho

- - I’m not feeling much character chemistry, which is an absolute killer for this specific setup

Verdict: Probably not

Gurazeni

What: Mediocre baseball pro plans his retirement money

+ not actually about baseball much

- - actually about baseball finances, which is even less interesting

Verdict: Weird but not in a good way

Hinamatsuri

What: Dadfeels show about a yakuza middle manager that gets a girl with superpowers dropped on his head.

+ Nitta being a yakuza thug makes for good comedy

+ Seems way less wish-fulfilmenty than most shows of this type

- Yeah speaking of which, could lose itself in Maidragon-style sameyness

Verdict: I’m feeling it for now

Hisone to Masotan

What: Air Force clerk becomes dragon pilot/emergency food supply. Yeah, the Japanese Air Force secretly has a dragon squad masquerading as F-15s.

++ Psychedelically unhinged dragon vore bonanza

++ Looks really great

+ Secretly a mecha show, but without mecha baggage; Kawamori is involved and it shows.

+ Mari Okada writing means strong characters

- Mari Okada writing means high chance of eventually going into the weeds

Verdict: Either way this is going to be a ride

Isekai Izakaya - Koto Aitheria no Izakaya Nobu

What: Another anime about a Japanese restaurant that connects to a fantasy world.

- Less interested in worldbuilding than Shokudou, and yes I actually enjoyed that aspect

- 100% about Japanese barfood instead

- Weak to nonexistant characters

- - styled like Japanese daytime television, hope you enjoy text plastered all over the screen

Verdict: Isekai Shokudou S2 where

Juushinki Pandora

What: Postapocalyptic robot vs. space monsters fights for the Chinese market.

- Just a bunch of anime characters doing anime things

- - truly hideous

Verdict: I’d rather watch MuvLuv and I’m not watching MuvLuv either

Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

What: Bland girl gets transported to youkai world where she gets macked on by the boss and opens a restaurant.

- Barebones otome harem setup, though shockingly not based on a Vita game

- another fucking cooking show

- - Nothing’s romantic like possessive creepy assholes

Verdict: Nope.

Last Period - Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari

What: Mobile RPG adaptation that advertises the game to you while making jokes how terrible gacha and grind is. Hey, Konosuba was popular right?

+ Certainly ballsy

- not really funny besides that

- - I already know mobile RPGs suck, but thanks for the heads up

Verdict: Fuck off and take your smug with you

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These

What: Spess men playing spess chess in spess.

+ Credible and respectable

+ Makes LoGH ultrafans mad because it’s not ugly enough

- space war seems like a video game, both visually and tonally

- if it adapts the whole thing, it will take forever

Verdict: Promising, but there’s always the old one which is at least complete. No reason to watch this particular version right now.

Lupin III Part V

What: Lupin is in ur cloud, stealin ur bitcoins.

++ Classic Lupin feel

++ Ruthless modernization of the bells and whistles keeps it from feeling overly familiar like Part 4

- Comes across as desperate occasionally

- Action is extra unexciting for some reason

- Looks nowhere near as good as Part 4

Verdict: It’s entertaining, so why not

Mahou Shoujo Ore

What: Comedy about a bad wannabe idol that works as a buff male mahou shoujo for the yakuza.

+ Core idea is amusing

- - spends most of the time on anything but the core idea, such as hilariously pointing out how it is indeed a cartoon

Verdict: I’ve tried and not picked up much better mahou shoujo parodies

Mahou Shoujo Site

What: Girl is bullied all day at school and beaten up all night at home, becomes a magical school shooter

+ Certainly effective at setting a, um, “particular” mood

- - relentlessly mean and nasty

- - simply no fun at all, with little reason to believe that that’s going to pay off

Verdict: Not looking for a bad time right now.

Megalo Box

What: Classic underdog sports story about a boxing jobber looking for the big break, now with more cyborgs.

++ looks amazing

++ cinematic-level direction and storyboarding

+ doesn’t reinvent the wheel as far as story goes, but it’s classic for a reason

- Overreliance on dog metaphors is already getting out of hand

Verdict: Would be stupid not to watch this

Nil Admirari no Tenbin - Teito Genwaku Kitan

What: Actual PS Vita otome harem about a bland girl with the power to see evil books, which impresses a bunch of handsome combat librarians.

- takes itself far too seriously

- not a looker

- I can’t remember a single character

- - pacing is criminally turgid

Verdict: I know better otome harems.

Omae wa Mada Gunma wo Shiranai

What: 4koma short about how Gunma is weird and Gunma people are even weirder.

+ It’s like a bizarre perversion of a tourism anime

- 4koma jokes

Verdict: Mmmmmmmaybe?

Persona 5 the Animation

What: High school kid finds himself in a weird woke fever dream. It’s P5, you know what it be.

+ Kawakami

- P5 is too known and too long to make a good anime

- serious issues don’t work with the residual Persona silliness

- Not very well made

Verdict: I’d rather watch a LP (or Caligula)

Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori

What: Chill boys run a chill cafe

+ very chill indeed, totally works as iyashikei

+ characters are all likeable, even brings the moe in an ikemen show

+ Suwabe! With glasses!

- Iyashikei always has potential to drift into boring sludge

Verdict: I’ll take that chance

Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru

What: JRPG dudes fight monsters and argue about payment

+ Opening narration is so stupid it made me laugh

+ No seriously, “we changed the Planck constant and now there’s fucking dragons everywhere”

+ a few decent buddy cop moments

- - Rest of the show is just as stupid, but the laughter went away

Verdict: Durr hurr

Souten no Ken Re-Genesis

What: CG men with no neck make frowny faces at each other

- story is vague and hard to follow while at the same time just being an excuse for poses and fights

- - looks like an absolute butt

Verdict: stay far away

Steins Gate 0

What: Sequel. Okabe is sad that Chris is dead.

+ Epic twists will be coming... eventually.

+ Punished Okabe is a better character than he ever was before

- - Rest of the cast is still a bunch of hateable wankers, and even Okabe will be going back to his catchphrase eventually

- - nothing happens in the first two episodes besides establishing that Chris is a Tamagotchi now

Verdict: Possibly a hatewatch but seems to be too dull for even that.

Sword Art Online Alternative - Gun Gale Online

What: Catgirl with pink P90 totally puts serious operators in the PWN ZONE.

+ Main character’s IRL identity seems funny

+ evades most of the memetic SAO failings

- adds a lot of failings of its own

- egregious gun- & tacticool wank

- - boring as shit

Verdict: yeah, guess

Tachibanakan To Lie Angle

What: Unimaginative fanservice 4koma short, but this time it’s yuri so that makes it okay.

- - no, it doesn’t

Verdict: *snore*

Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai

What: Regular Anime Dude™ chances upon a weeaboo princess from Europe and her weeaboo bodyguard.

+ Looks real nice, Doga Kobo delivers

+ anime original, so there’s a chance of it ever going anywhere

- Just about the least interesting setup ever

- - comic relief guy friend is tremendously annoying

Verdict: Nozaki-kun was better.

Uchuu Senkan Tiramisu

What: Short. Some sort of mecha parody.

+ Gundamian masterpiece names like “Vulgar Hummer” and “Pubic Hair”

- not actually funny beyond that

- - at all

Verdict: Seems totally pointless, but what do I know about anime comedy

Uma Musume - Pretty Derby

What: School sports show about horse girls that are also idols

+ Premium production by PA Works

+ Lively and colorful

- awful, overwrought gacha game character designs

- characters are as generic as they come

- the setup is just Kancolle again, but without the “escort” pun

- something this wacky shouldn’t be so predictable and boring

Verdict: 3 ep rule, but 3 eps have passed and it didn’t grab me. So no.

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

What: Adult otaku meet at work, fail powerlevel stealth check, fall in love.

+ Well written characters once you look past their gimmick

+ Much more respectable than most shows with this exact idea

+ Doesn’t lean on references

- Will have to put in some hard work to make it last

Verdict: I don’t want to like it, but I do. At least so far.

[whotookcheesuschrist]

Some excerpts from the playthrough

I was pretty close to getting chills from that intro. That is the most atmospheric video game intro I’ve experienced thus far. All the way from the menu to the actual game. Fucking damn. (Apart from maybe Dragon Age Inquisition.)

Made it through the first part on the first try. Saved. It didn’t save as far as I thought it would and I had to do it again, failing four times. :-(

“Behold, my amazingly rendered abs. And flat-ass face.”

You can tell this is game was a first attempt in many things; such as delivering awkward, awkward lines.

There is a mission briefing mimicking VHS tapes and I fucking love it.

Whuh... COLONEL DID YOU KILL HIS DOGS? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

So... that was intensly antagonistic of a character who have up to this point been delivering barely any support apart from diet-coke Sun Tzu.

Speaking of Sun-Tzu...

As of writing I’ve finished MGS2, and there’s a certain related part of that that I will get into on a later date, but this one, more than what’s to come, reminds me of that police interrogation in The Venture Bros.

YOUU SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

In the most threatening way possible, say the words: Follow the mice.

These controls are hUaORRIBLe

In one way, yes, it adds to the difficulty without being forced, but good fucking god, trying to figure out which direction I’m supposed to push the stick while pressing up against a wall is a nightmare. And having to stand still while shooting and not being able to move while aiming at all is... not very user-friendly design. Thank God for auto-aim

In a similar vein, a third-person shooter with the camera angle being from what we Norwegians call bird perspective is a bit of a challenge

The game play is still pretty dope though

Bee tee dubbs, the ex-Fox unit is hereby dubbed the Suicide Squad

(I would totally play a super-hero video game with that kind of lay-out of the villains and the hero. I think this could actually transfer to comics as well, the way the villains are set-up, introduced and used.)

First meeting with Metrosexual Noodle Eastern.

"I love to reload during a battle! There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber." — Revolver Ocelot, Metal Gear Solid.

I bet you do, Ozzie

This game is not complete without a ninja.

There’s a masturbation joke lying in there somewhere.

So far this game has been surprisingly Not Gay. Except from Snake’s sick abs, but then comes Otacon and fucks my shit up on so many levels.

Johny’s grand introduction: Face down, ass up

Meryl... I really like Meryl, but she is so obviously one of the “not like other girls”, tomboy-ish archetype that isn’t really all that useful. It’s pretty sad, because we see her kick ass. We know she can, so it’s a little sad that she isn’t properly utilized.

Poor Otacon.

The ninja was depressingly easy to best. I know the TWEETHT!! that comes later with this guy, but man, you’d think it’d be more of a fight.

OH. MY GOD. Let me count down how many ways Otacon’s introduction is gay.

After being saved from death by katana, Otacon stares at Snake downward-up. When the camera stops, we get a damn good shot, yet again, of Snake’s Sick Abs.

“You’re uniform is not like the others...”

The disappointment in Otacon’s voice upon learning that he was not the goal.

The symbolism of Otacon literally coming out of the closet.

Snake sitting with legs crossed like a fucking femme fatale as he and Otacon catch up to speed

Snake inspecting Otacon, crotch on up

Snake walking up to Otacon until he’s one foot away, laying his hand on his shoulder and asking “you okay?” in an uncharacteristic, caring voice: and Otacon being weirede out by it, commenting: “What’s wrong, getting all friendly all of a sudden...”, to which Snake just awkwardly backs away and says “uh nothing, just... glad you’re okay”

Forget Meryl, Hal’s your love interest and we all know it.

“I’ve been therapied into not having an interest in men and no one can break the spell at all none at all nuh-uh...” And of course Snake is going to prove them wrong. Eww. Call it a product of its time, but still, gross.

Bee-tee-dubbs, Otacon and Snake discussing Meryl’s low-pixelated ass strikes me as hilariously “no homo”. I’m pretty sure, given how Hideo is on the subject in later games, that all of it is intentional. Subtext included.

Psycho Mantis, stop dissing my game stats

Poor dude. Seriously, that is a sad and solid backstory for a character

“Riussiain lieady rieportyingk in on wieapions” I like her tho

Man, this game... In all of the silliness it is STILL on-point with its social commentary. Nastasha’s talks about the START programs, nuclear disarmament, the money involved, the ultimate plan of the Foxhound members, nuclear programs made for short-range launches... All of these are things that I’ve seen in the news this week, and what goes on in the game takes place in the year 2005. Not to mention us becoming more and more desensitized to violence and warfare. It is frightening to behold. I wish I had it in me to talk about all of this at length, because there is really a well of subject matters to discuss here.

Once again I experience a video game trying to impose on me that, in the story, something is urgent, but in reality, I have hours of backtracking if I want to.

I... kinda like the voice they gave Sniper Wolf. And that she’s Kurd; it is nice to see that Hideo remembers a little history. And it brings a little variation in a very formulaic artistic industry.

There is nothing so jarring as video game characters talking specifically about the controls on your PS controller. Abs are still sick. I like the little touch that this death will be different from the others, and set you somewhat back in progress. Not enough for it to make an impact, but I appreciate the effort; the game is present even on its own metalevel

Otacon, you sap. Oh and thank you for massaging my arm, Naomi

If Johnny were ever to be in a Rambo-parody the first movie would be called Johnny - First Brown

My old enemy... Stairs...

OTACON DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT SUBTEXT MEANS

My tactic for handling this: laying down land mines whenever possible and run like a pussy.

Sniper’s demise, the entire scene for all parties involved, is pretty heartfelt still you two should kiss

I have literally played Die Hard.

HUHHHH! THE PLOT THICKENS! WE’VE BEEN BETRAYED!

Vulcan Raven has no sense of humor. I am big man McLargebeef. Fear me.

One of the greatest things about this game is the boss fights. All of them are different and interesting, fun to play. Same goes for the rest of the game: nothing ever gets to the point of being samey.

I mentioned atmosphere earlier, and oh how I do love this for keeping it throughout. This feels like a beautiful tribute to the 80′s action movies, in tone and spirit as well. This is what the 80′s style tribute that we’ve seen lately really ought to be: specs of hilarity and ridiculoussness mixed with complete sincerity and genuine, dark depth, without getting to caught up in aesthetic.

Metal Gear Chicken.

How can anyone survive working on that thing.

I wonder what Ocelot really thought of Liquid.

GAAASP! MILLER IS BRITISH! OH NO!

Liquid is just an asshole, but if that was his upbringing I feel a little bad for him. No wonder he hyper-compensates.

Snake takes these news surprisingly well

Snake being made into a weapon, robbed of information that he really needs: this game makes his feelings and responses, however douchy, feels quite earned

I am fighting a giant mecha and this is STILL a stealth game.

Okay that... that surprise from Gray Fox actually was a surprise. And what the fuck is he MADE of.

So Richard Dawkins is to blame...

           OF COURSE-

SHIRTLESS BATTLE! OVER A WOMAN!

“MACGYVEEEEEEEEEER!”

Surprise bitch I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me

Liquid’s death is surprisingly evocative for me. I really do feel like Liquid’s plan is more important to him than anything, because he that desperately needs to prove himself in the light of his “father”.

...

                    ...

          ...

          ...

          ...

          .                           .                         .           

          WILL YOU           SHUT UP

BTW I made it through without sacrificing Meryl. I’ve learned what happens in the other ending, and it is pretty dumb how that one leads so much better into the next game than the other. And while on the subject

Woah, yet another twist. Although knowing what I do about Ocelot now it is hardly that surprising. The impact of this is still satisfying and intriguing, because there are things in the game that for someone who isn’t already completely familiar with them seems a bit weird. The reveals here makes some things falll into place, and I am surprised that the game actually did specifically build up to a sequel

It strikes me that I haven’t talked once about the performances. While there are a lot of them that don’t go all in, you gotta give David Hayter props for this, as well as several of the others. This must’ve been so very strange to work on for all of them: not quite a translation from a japanese work, not quite American either, giving this exposition-heavy dialogue a unique life of its own

And the game naming Snake after him is a very cute touch, one that I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t thought of before. And no one could give Snake the layers of believable capability and apparent ineptitude better than he. IQ of 180 my ass.

GOD that ending dragged on.

[wofuru]

Voltron legendary defender ask game

~Voltron Legendary Defender Ask Game~

Tagged by my lovely lady @seiteki9​  (Yes you are love, don’t even try to tell me otherwise)

How did you discover the show?

Well ... I’m an illustrator and have been selling for years in conventions with my gf @seiteki9​. Along the line (I think when S2 came out) I heard about it by clients who asked me for goodies from VLD. It took a while before I checked the serie because I thought it was juste another mecha anime and I’m usually not into these really. So at some point, since it is on netflix and all AND when I learned it was made by the same studio as Avatar last air bender ... I gave it a shot. And oh boy did I fell head 1st into this show. Sheith is my life now, thank you. 

Was it love at first sight or did it take you a while to get into the the show?

1st sigh. I think it took .... 10 minutes. I fell in when Keith rescue Shiro and makes that so tender expression recognizing him on the table and unconscious. 

Do you have a favorite episode?

S2 ep 1 is definitely among my favorite ones that’s for sure (Gee guess why huh) and I think the trial at the blades of mormora would be there to. But it is hard to decide, this serie is so amazing in general and also so much sheith moments >_< 

Do you have a favorite Paladin?

Shiro, yeah, totally. Keith in close 2nd. 

Do you have a favorite Lion? (If it’s different from your fav Paladin, why?)

As dork as I am, I would say Black. Not because she is the head, but also because of the evolution between her and Shiro and the whole complicated relation/story with Zarkon. 

Do you have a favorite Villian?

Hmm ... I think that would be Zarkon. I love his tragic story. How he came to be, but also how much of a dangerous man he became. What goes around him and also we know where he’s going. 

Do you have a favorite Alien Race? (Recurring and/or minor)

I do really love the galras in all their glory and bad sides to. I mean they are mostly brawl over brains you know. Their designs are all so interesting, but also I love how their mind set has been presented so far (since we don’t know much about the culture yet). I think in 2nd would be the balmerans (I’m not sure who it’s written). They look so awesome and their story is so sad and interesting at the same time. 

Favorite side / other character(s)- Rebels, Generals, Blade of Marmora, Garrison, etc?

I love Shay and Narti ( ;_; ) so much. 

Also Lieutenant Ozar looks like such an interesting character (yeah I know you guys are wondering who’s that lol) 

How/Why did you join the fandom?

Falling face 1st into Sheith, I looked around for some fanart here on tumblr and it slowly went from there. I decided to join Sheith Big Bang that is currently on going and it’s been really fun so far. 

Care to share your favorite headcanon?

I really like the basic idea of Sheith pre-kerberos (not being a couple back then at all tho) where Keith was like this teen kid wrecking havoc everywhere for no reason. Not bullying people, but just losing his shit every so often because he was angry all the time and then Shiro met him and decided to take him under his wing, to get in his life even if he had to force his way in / tame the beast and just believe in him and giving him what any human deserves which is a sense of belonging somewhere and be loved for who they are. 

What do you think is the best part of the show?

The characters. Their lives, how they are. All the little details we can catch on all the time, but also these elements in the show that you just don’t see anywhere. I love that they made it so we could see representation and good values teaching to people seeing this serie. How a character can be so cool and not just a comic relief while being an overweight character OR a straight guy that is someone who takes care so much of his own body and appearance without it being weird OR a genderless character (or someone who doesn’t care) that despite her size is such a kickass character OR you know someone who’s so strong for everyone all the time but with such deep scars that you wonder how he keeps going OR a child who was abandoned again and again and how his life goes on. And I’m not talking about the multicultural elements (Allura not being just this pompom stereotyped girl but a woman of color with such an big temper while being such a variety of things and stories). Oh, and please, myore love for Coran people, he’s or favorite uncle. 

Any hopes and wishes for future episodes / seasons?

Please Shiro be safe, come back to us and PLEASE be the black paladin again while Keith comes back to red. I loved the old roster of paladin (no offense allura, I just loved you more while being the pilot of the castle and a diplomat and now an alchemist O_O !). I’m so praying they don’t end up doing like in the old series where Shiro just becomes the blue paladin because he’s emotionally compromised or whatnot and disappear in the background like being the black paladin is the highest title, which no ... it’s not the case and its not a competition. Also poor shiro worked so hard to bond with his lion to just ... be thrown away again ?! 

Do you think you’ll stick it out until the end of the show?

Oh I will. If my worse fears come to be, I’ll cry my world, but I’ll stick to the end. 

Tag your friends or someone you want to get to know better: @escaleamare  ?? (no pressure lol)

[nyxqueenofshadows]

alright feeling a lot more coherent and completely done with the game now, thoughts below the cut. there were originally 3k words of notes (yeah, i know) and i've cut it down a bit but it's still kinda long. a good chunk of it boils down to #justiceforyasuko tho

akiyama ‘what’s cracking’ shun

i love that komaki and kamiyama are just kind of *there* ig they realised that 3 isn't super accessible for teaching you about mechanics and where to find shit so they doubled down on it in this one (same for putting if7 dude somewhere not out of the way)

cutsceneeeeeeeees wowee they’re longer than i remember. maybe it’s just cos there’s a few individually long ones clumped in together right at the start.

so, the hana rape joke. ‘joke’. i think i appreciate that it’s not in the english version of that conversation, and that version of the conversation flows a lot better, but like, it’s still there, in the spoken dialogue. they had the chance to remove it from the game entirely at the source when they putting the remasters together and they didn’t. (admittedly those two voice actors were and are very busy, but still). it’s not the only thing like this in-game (and they’re not limited to akiyama) but i just don’t understand why it’s there. to make akiyama seem like (more of) a knob? to make him funny? then again it was written in what, 2010? so. idk. i’m not the person to talk about this but it bothers me.

actually just take that entire paragraph as general ‘akiyama is terrible to women’ statement with this as an example. making/encouraging women to work to work in the sex industry (and then shaming them when they don’t want to), the whole thing with yasuko, it just keeps going. buddy, i want to like you, but you make it *so hard*. (is it just this game in particular that feels especially rough on women or am i being kinder to the others than i should, with all the yasuko and haruka stuff later it feels worse)

i like that you can go underground and on the roofs. the underground car park has really good sound design, in that it triggers the exact same tense liminal feeling that actual underground (and multi-storey) car parks do in me.

idk if it’s an intentional detail, but before the first chase sequence on the roofs that leads to the iconic hana scene kicking the dude out the door, when akiyama is like kido-chan i can take more punishment than you, get you of here, kido has absolutely no difficulty leaping the fence and akiyama really struggles. ofc this is akiyama who can barely run a block before his lungs give out, but idk, if they meant it then it could be good foreshadowing.

the soundtrack slaps. whatever the track is that plays while the plot wants you to go and do smth important and do it now (nervousness), absolute banger. raindrops and pure love in kamurocho? perfect. that one jazz track that plays during the substory with the money-bathing family and the one with the car thieves? banger

having said that do wish the song distribution among the hostesses (and hana and haruka) was better, i like raindrops but it has loads of singers compared to just one (or none!) for a few of the others

HANA-CHAN queen, ‘nuff said. she does that entire running section in heels and leaves akiyama in the dust where he deserves

hold the fucking phone why does elise have a massive jellyfish tank at the back? is it real??? who does the upkeep??? i know akiyama has plot armour infinite money but that cannot be cheap

saigo cracks me up, his and akiyama’s banter is really fun. is the bipedal mech a metal gear reference or am i making shit up and it’s just Generic Mecha

genuinely think i hate the akiyama/yasuko kiss more than the kiryu/kaoru one. i disagree with the kiryu/kaoru one but i can see how it got there and time was devoted to building up rapport between the two. what the fuck do akiyama and yasuko have. unexplored longing for a failed love? failed opportunities for character development? it's been three days, guys! come on!

related but it feels like this is the first game where they actually tried to engage with women as a concept, with hana’s worries about her being dateable and yasuko talking about how she felt left behind and not listened to by the men in her life (and uh whatever haruka has going on but i’m not touching that), and i’m not sure they succeed anywhere, which is a shame.

i’m so glad mack is in more than one game, he’s great.

the substory with the fake akiyama and where hana dresses up really cracked me up, especially when akiyama was like ‘your real name is suzuki?!?!’ and when the guy does the funny sprint at the end asdfghjkl

MINAMI queen, ‘nuff said. minami version of get to the top when. so sad he’s only in one game, he deserved more (also for some reason before i knew anything i thought he was in 5 and not 4, idk why)

saejima ‘that’s a fuckin’ army’ taiga.

okay yeah rubber bullets this etc. etc. but i do like that none of the people saejima shoots bleed but when saejima gets shot he does. they committed to the bit.

mugwort!

saito the prison warden just does not fucking die, what is that guy made of????? is he secretly an rgg protagonist or what

it’s kind of rare for a side character to have the multi-game redemption arc thingy that hamazaki’s got going on but i really like it, i wish they did it more often (and fleshed it out some more).

not touching the scene with haruka and saejima. nope. (kiryu, buddy, what the fuck)

objectively hilarious that you spend the entire first half of saejima’s part as the scary killer, everyone runs away from you or beats you up (or realises that you’re a nice dude, really) and then literally the first substory you come across has saejima meow at a cat. perfect, no notes. same for his revelations with the wood carving, never gets old

naming the cats is the most difficult decision in the entire game, why do this to me (actually no the hardest decision is dressing the hostesses to make them look even remotely good, the pickings are slim)

i really like how similar but different saejima and kiryu are. where kiryu is kind of exasperated and confused but goes along with it whenever he gets drawn into anything (in the side content anyway), saejima is grouchy about it and *will* make it your problem, usually by way of asking for more money (fair) or aggressively encouraging them down a better(?) road in life or cleaning up their act. (kids and cats are the exceptions to this rule.)

also all the incidental dialogue you get when you try to enter most businesses is great! makes me want to actively try all the businesses, something i never normally do (usually i just find the nearest)

the little bit of the for faith melody in the background of the ‘balls out’ scene (the first one) with kido was a great touch

i think saejima’s cutscenes are my favourite so far, they did a really good job at some of his more subtle expressions (the exhaustion when he walks into the coliseum for the first time, the face he makes when majima takes his off his eyepatch, etc.). plus his last lot of scenes all with majima are sooooo good, those plus coming off the back of receive and bite you MMMMMMM almost enough to make me forget the fucking awful hide from the police sections

also idk what they did with majima’s tattoos in this one but they’re super reflective and almost have that glow in the dark quality, looks pretty cool ngl

alright cop time

actually wait before that i said this in my 3 notes but the translation team are really out there just wholesale making shit up. most of the time it’s like eh whatever but sometimes i do a doubletake cos it’s so different to what was actually said. those last cutscenes with 2jima are a perfect example, i swear they took the absolute bare minimum of those two scenes and just wrote their own version. like there’s a bit where in the translation where saejima asks if majima lost his eye over him, which isn’t out of character or unreasonable to ask but it’s also *not what he actually asked*. he asked if there was *any connection to what happened 25 years ago* which to me is not the same thing. also saejima makes that connection later in the conversation anyway so it kind of covers the same ground? idk, again, i’m a learner, i know fuck all and i’m sure there’s a reason the team made this decision and other ones like it, but i can’t see it from here.

alright, cop time for real

 everyone’s ‘end chase sequence’ phrases are fairly normal, there’s some energy there but nothing extreme, and then there’s tanimura’s asdfghjkl oWARI DAAAAAAA asdfghjkl kills me every time. his ‘revelation’ one is similar, he sounds like he’s fallen out of a shounen into the wrong universe (oh so his one when you throw a bottle at someone is perfectly normal sounding, so the fuck happened with the other one asdfghjkl) OH and don’t get me started on his karaoke interjections

yasuko should be incredibly interesting, why is she the most dull character in the room in every scene she’s in. rgg please learn how to write women and not kill them (in all senses of the word)

i’ve been completely sucked into tanimura’s side content, the stuff with nair and investigation into his own parenthood is really interesting, to the point the only reason i stopped was cos i couldn’t get the next bit to trigger. i kinda wish at least some of this was main content (like what they did with shinada in 5), cos i bet there’s a good chunk of players who just won’t engage with any of the side content at all and will miss all of tanimura’s character development

katsuragi creeps me out

okay finished the nair stuff and the stuff about his parentage, A for both, i had a lot of fun doing them and couldn’t wait to learn more. kinda wish it had been longer but there’s already a lot going on anyway so probably for the best (but more nair please yes and thank you)

tanimura has a lot of fun heat actions, like an unreasonably large amount. on the other hand pulling off saejima’s is an absolute pain and makes me want to bash my head into a brick wall

the boat chase section is so bad, oh god. it feels like a first draft. controls are bad, gameplay is bad, visuals are bad, AND it’s entirely pointless cos you end up basically in the same place you started anyway. 0/10, snowmobile section in 5 please be an improvement

i feel like the english translation misses out on the nuance that sugiuchi didn’t want to be an honest cop, he wanted to be a cop. a detective. as in explictly not yakuza. that’s how he sees himself (and what he says repeatedly), not as a crooked cop but just a yakuza, and it’s why he’s envious of tanimura. it’s kinda there in the english but it’s just not the same imho.

kiryuuuuuuuu

the opening section with hamazaki is great, i love the little journey he goes on of being like ‘we need to save the tojo clan’ to ‘i didn’t realise you’d moved on, i’m sorry’ and it really works for me. idk, i like hamazaki a lot (he didn’t have to die tho rgg, why do you always kill off the good characters smh).

haruka in those bits too, she’s having the very natural experience of realising that your parents aren’t always right, but in a more extreme circumstance. i wish she didn’t just vanish immediately after hamazaki says he’s leaving tho.

so funny to me that there’s this pretty emotionally charged moment of haruka and kiryu arguing and then it’s just like, ‘you’ve unlocked a hideout!’ asdfghjkl

saito can suck my fucking toes, i hate this boss fight i hate it i hate it i hate it

this is turning out to be the game where kiryu feels the least like kiryu. so that scene in new serena, where he and yasuko talk over her motivation and drag date into their shit for literally no reason, one, how does kiryu know that she committed murder? was that their in-flight conversation or what (or did she tell them on just meeting them? dunno which is weirder). and two, he’s so unhelpful during that conversation. some of this is down to rgg having yasuko be a plot point and not a fleshed out character (let her say her feelings!!!) but some of it was just kiryu being uncharacteristically rude.

OH but the detail about saejima wanting to be a teacher, very nice. fits in with his character and his side content and all feels very good.

love komaki, him working out how to use phones and the internet purely to keep up with kiryu’s blog is great, i’m gonna miss him after 5 (tho he’s in infinite wealth?)

all of kiryu’s side content is just ‘remember this guy from anywhere up to four games ago? guess what he’s doing now!’ and it’s kinda nice but coupled with the fact that kiryu’s revelations are just akiyama’s again with no changes (bummer, i was looking forward to new ones), maybe they couldn’t come up with much new for him? idk. WAIT NO okay well, *yes*, but it also introduced us to BE SPICY superhero man, i can’t fault it for that

speaking of people from kiryu’s past adventures, did they make gary bigger??? i swear he was not that tall. oh and his walk is gay as shit for some reason, good for him

y’know what, i’m not gonna bother with anymore comments on the translation, it’d take up too much space. assume my response about 50% of the time is ‘huh???’ and we’re all good

are you telling me that akiyama of all people doesn’t know kiryu on sight when there’s a bunch of people who know his appearance well enough for him to have impersonators on the regular??? this is the start of rgg making people fight for no reason other than rule of cool(?), isn’t it. also not this fight being the easiest one in the game asdfghjkl hilarious, same energy as the majima/nishiki fight from 0

it frustrates me so much, yasuko has all the pieces of being a really interesting character, and yet nothing happens with them. so much of the game hinges on her but it never feels like it. we’re told she’s killed many men for her brother’s sake, but we never get any flashbacks on that. we see her kill katsuragi but that’s massively overshadowed by everything else in that scene. she says that her brother’s all she’s been living for (and that she intended on dying for him. ish. it wasn’t written super well) and that should tie in really nicely with how she acts in that last section, but it just doesn’t? *sigh* i feel like i’m always coming back to yasuko but how can you not! why didn’t we get a saejima and yasuko reunion scene? it’s a huge moment, for both of them, and yet it happens off-screen and with absolutely zero change in either of them afterwards. she was wasted in this game. she deserved better.

cannot take the money coming up the lift sequence seriously at all, like, there’s so many cases. did you not have any bigger ones to put them in??? did a couple unlucky guys have to arrange all of them in a nice neat cube in the cold (also it’s snowing. in march. not that it can’t snow in march but i just feel like i’ve been blasted back to y2). ALSO was arai just standing there like when’s it my turn, when’s it my turn asdfghjkl

oh my god the kamurocho hills section and following cutscenes are so loooooong guys could you not have cut this somewhere in the middle

OH but, love the scene with kiryu and saejima on the roof. their interactions are some of my favourite in the series anyway, but it’s great. kiryu starting down his more depressed route which’ll carry through 5 of him trying to live life the way he wants and not being given a chance (partly due to his chronic ability to say no), plus a flip of this scene in 5, excellent. not sure saejima believes what kiryu says there (about having no choice etc.) but i’ve got no proof so *shrugs*

finale is so eh to me. like, none of the boss fights (except maybe arai) feel super thought out, like munakata makes sense to be there ofc but the actual fight itself is Not Good. the little wrap-up cutscenes at the end are nice enough (except for thin hana, bring me fat hana back) but i wish the kiryu and saejima one was maybe split into two? or fleshed out some more? idk. i’m ill i’m not here to be lenient anymore asdfghjkl

last bits post-finale, table tennis is a weird minigame but i’m here for it even if it’s kinda odd, and the hostess maker and dojo minigames can go die, they’re so unfun to play and not worth the amount of hours you have to sink into them.

i'm DONE ish almost. thoughts coming at some point when i'm less ill

[attract-mode-collective]

Undefined Behavior Is My Famicase Game Of The Year 2018

It's that time of the year, in which METEOR throws an art show featuring fictional Famicom cassettes.

Now, I'm a somewhat hard to impressive individual, though I was able to find a record number of carts (about 20) that I not only found pretty to look at, but which also got me wishing that they were playable. A self-produced requirement that may seem silly to some, but hey, that's just me. Anyhow, here's the rest of the bunch...

BTW, a bonus mention for @brent_ashe's entry, for also designing the packaging...

It's also that time of the week, in which I go over all the stuff I tweeted the one before. So! Sticking with fake games for bit; Ikea is finally publishing games for the PS4 and the names alone sound a lot more interesting than their offerings for the Xbox 360 (via @campbellbird148)...

I wasn't joking about the 360, cuz case in point; hopefully Grand Theft Alex improves upon Grand-ma's Auto’s flaws (the load times were atrocious; via kotaku.com)...

Anyone else remember that Genesis game that would have starred only the female members of the X-Men? (via segacity)

Sticking with old game mags, we've got another cover to cover tour of an entire issue, courtesy of Chris Alamio at Classic Gaming Quarterly. And this one's a good one; Nintendo Power #7, the one with Mega Man 2 on the cover...

... It's a great watch; Chris makes the same observations and asks the same questions you have also also made, back in the day (and have since long since forgotten). It's also perfect for a lazy Sunday. You know, how video game magazines used to be?

Yet another thing I miss about game rags are the ads. The sillier the attempt at being shocking, the better (via oldgamemags)...

Today’s recommended reading is a survey of all the times Mortal Kombat graced the cover of game mags during the 90s (via retrovania-vgjunk)...

Behold the IRL inspiration for Allen Snider, from the forthcoming Fighting EX Layer (via mysterious0bob)...

I REALLY wish Fight Zone, a mid-90s UFC rip-off) had lasted long enough to at least spawn a really bad tie-in video game for the Jaguar CD (or Nuon via lordmo & lordmo again)...

Forget dragon punches, forget hurricane kicks, forget fireballs… none are as effective as the most devastating blow of them all: heartbreak (via newkidsonmycock31)...

For perhaps obvious reasons, I try to avoid anything related to politics, but as someone who is part Korean, this image strikes a serious cord (via basedsatan)...

It’s funny how I’ve never even come close to thinking about what it'd be like to have a real deal shield from Legend of Zelda, until getting a decent look at one, and then all of a sudden (via retrogamerblog)...

It’s practically summer weather here in NYC, which is the perfect weather for some Flying Power Disc (aka Windjammer) action + related attire... tho going outside & not playing video games is also an idea I guess (via miki800.com)...

I want… no... I need this Astro City shirt from GAMESGLORIOUS (via miki800.com)...

They also have a Mega Drive shirt featuring some sexy girl, which I’d be more into if it was someone I recognized… like Tyris Flare, Blaze Fielding, or Amy Rose (via @GAMESGLORIOUS)...

As someone with a brain crammed full of ultra obscure Sega knowledge, I still had zero idea about the existence of their Video Driver system...

Meanwhile, did you know that Chuck E. Cheese's origin is grim af? (via @topherflorence)

A fresh coat of paint always does an indie cab good (especially if it’s been in a DIY space for several years; via @DBAArcade)...

Cuz it’s been a while since I posted random arcade pics (via duchamp-is-innocent)...

It’s Virtua Fighter 1, 2, and 3 (well, technically, it’s 3, 2, and then 1; via gaijira)...

Not sure what the games are in this instance (the one on the right is something for the Neo Geo, that’s all I know; via b0mbass)...

"vaporwave arcade" (via alext)...

Hey, arcades in the US can be pleasing to the eye as well, make no mistake (via sadboyxclique)...

That feeling you get when you come across an assortment of arcade machines, and you realize The Simpsons is included (via gamefreaksnz)...

Nothing fills me with such unbridled joy like arcade pics circa the early 80s (via retropopcult)...

Another snapshot from the golden age of gaming in the United States (via tvgame)...

Meanwhile in Japan; Space Invaders was insanely popular everywhere, including the US, but in its homeland, it was on a whole different level (via videogamesdensetsu)...

I’m a sucker for any “detailed” interpretation of what the Space Invaders look like… I also love buttons based upon shmups (via miki800)...

Not that anyone has asked, but if I had to choose my fave shmup ship design, I would have to the SA-77 from Silpheed...

... That last image is from videogamesdensetsu, BTW/FYI. Also BTW/FYI: my affinity for Silpheed's SA-77 naturally means that I wouldn't mind a miniature replica on my toy shelf.

Like this one (via my homepage, fort90.com)...

Or this one (via dannychoo.com)...

Am not as into the SA-08, aka the ship from the very first Silpheed (the Sega/Mega CD version is actually a remake), yet this model is neat nonetheless (via @musuke_twit)...

Revisiting that old blog post of mine, to get that Silpheed model pic, reminded me of others based upon Radiant Silvergun & Ikaruga that I’d also love to get my grubby mitts on...

I also still need to get my hands on this transformable Vic Viper from Zone of the Enders, even if I’ve never been super fond of its ship form (a moot point given how I’d probably keep it in its mecha form; via zakgaigar)...

I believe I’ve highlighted this R-Type kit not all that long ago, but when you repost pics as much as I do, it’s easy to lose track (via shmups)... 

So all the pics above, of ships that soar among the stars, engaging in wars, were all tweeted on a single day. May the 4th to be exact, due to the fact that I didn't have anything directly related to Star Wars Day handy. With this Star Fox gif being the most popular of the bunch (which again I might have shared already once, a long time ago; via k-eke)...

This past Friday also marked the grand re-opening of The Rodney Shop!

And also making a grand return was the man who redefined what's musically possible on a Game Boy, who came back to redefine what's musically possible on... a calculator? (via @Nullsleep)

Time for a bonus track: if there was an adaptation of the film Escape From New York on the MSX-2, this is what it would sound like...

Please enjoy this pic of a Super Nintendo controller covered in vaseline for whatever reason (via kotaku.com)...

And last but not least, a question: is there enough background info on the game Alien Solider to justify a near 20-minute video? The answer: yes... 

[yonrei]

Hello there my lovely dears~ So time has come for me to try once again to open commission! Some things have changed, some not! One thing that has changed are: slots. First I'll opend 5 of them, if I'll manage them in satisfactorily time I open next five slots. Second thing: price reduction, I think these one are more resonable to go with. And the last is more likely for Patreon, these who support me there will gain some reducion, for exemple free from BG, free shadings on flat color option and more. So for now thats all for more question ask me in comment below~ Here we go~ ------------------------------------ WHAT I'LL DRAW OC, OCxCanon, Fanart Male, Female, nonhuman, kemonomimPets, animals, fantsy animals, Mecha, fantasy, sci-fiArmour, weapon etc Meme, character sheet/ designYuri, Yaoi Smut, Nudity, Ecchi, Hentai Gore   WHAT I DON'T DRAW Anthro/Furry (tho depending, so ask me about it, I like but suck at drawing it >.>) Offensive/Racist ThemesFetishes ------------------------------------ TERMS •Please fill the commission form and send me via note on DA. •After acctepted commission and claiming the spot, I'll give you my e-mail for pre-pay. •I have right to decline creatian requested commission before actepting it, if I don't feel comfortable with it. •Please wait patiently for your commission to be done ♥ •Deadlines aren't available, I'm sorry. I have sometimes creatian situations I can't avoid. •Prefer only  links/pictures reference. •Hentai commission will include extra cost, with be decided on by me after filled commission form. ------------------------------------ PAYMENT I acctep PaypalI acctept points (1 USD = 100 points) <---- the second one only on Deviantart. If you will pay via points- please use widgetIf you will pay via PayPal, send commision payment as "goods and service" no shipping reqiured" First half of payment after I acctept the commission form and you will claim the spot (and I'll be close to drawing your order), second half of payment before reciving finished art ------------------------------------ COMMISSION TYPES: 1. SKETCH: Bust - 3 USD add character + 2 USD Half Body - 6 USD add character + 3 USD Full body - 8 USD add character +4 USD ------------------------------------ 2. SKETCH (COLOR): Bust - 5 USD add character + 3 USD Half Body - 8 USD add character + 4 USD Full body - 10 USD add character + 6 USD ------------------------------------ 3. FLAT COLORS Bust - 8 USD add character + 5 USD Half Body - 10 USD add character + 6 USD Full body - 15 USD add character + 8 USD ------------------------------------ 4. FULL COLORS Bust - 18 USD add character + 10 USD Half Body - 25 USD add character + 15 USD Full body - 30 USD add character + 20 USD ------------------------------------ OTHERS: Background: Simple: 0 - 10 USD Complex: 15 USD - 35 USD Dakimakura one side - 40 USD (one side) NSFW: 15 USD - 60 USD (15-20 USD nudity, 25- 40 USD light yaoi/yuri/hentai and light gore 45-60 USD yaoi/yuri/hentai(with some extras) and hard gore) Character design: 35 USD - 60+ USD (depending what you realy want so the price is more or less) Sketch pages/design/mangas etc: 70 USD - 120 USD (depending what you realy want so the price is more or less) ------------------------------------ COMMISSION FORM: Type of Commission: (bust,half body, etc) Name: (your username) Payment: (points or PayPal) How many Characters: (...) Character/s References: (links) Personality Info: (few words) Character/s Age: (preferd) Details/Extras: (Any wishes/exemples?) Pose etc: (description/ image/ free/optional) Background: (no BG/simple/complex/you have anything in mind?) Universe:(Naruto/Bleach/One Piece/D.Gray-man etc) Notes: ( Others) ------------------------------------ For more NSFW check my Tumblr or ask me for more samples. As well check my dev galery for more SFW check my galery on Deviantart ------------------------------------ SLOTS TAKEN: First batch 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Second batch [CLOSED FOR NOW] 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ---------------------------

[galimatios]

sci fi ya au musings from twitter thread mostly nts

maybe i do want to write YA science fiction ya with gay and all my favorite self indulgent tropes and also plugsuits

I HATE MYSELF I IMMEDIATELY HAVE SCENES IN MY HEAD . ITS BEEN TWO GODDAMN SECONDS. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHO THESE CHARACTERS ARE YET tjinking about those rooms in that one ep of black mirror where youcan program jt tk show whatever you want on the walls. maybe projection of virtual reality vs reality as a major motif. simulations and distance... long distance relationships during a war in space action too... have to think about an enemy but maybe we rag on capitalism a littlle maybe some conglomerate is fighting a proxy war using aliens vs the govt the protags are in the military for theme.. war sucks bye but also theres dynamics i want

UM I CAN PUT BIG MECHA INNNNNNNN YEAHHHH anyway i want 2 loyal dog dynamics to juxtapose w eachother + platonic soulmate type protag duo, best friends , one girl one boy, theyre both equally important, some SHIT happens and theyre forced on different sides at some point one loyal dog is treated well, like an equal, will follow x to the end of the world the other is Not treated well. i want to explicitly make that relationship abusive so i can point at it in the text itself and have other loyal dog be like , that's not love. abandoned loyal dog gets adopted by main duo, ends up in a relationship w one of them (whichever one makes it gay), im ship girl with side character who inspires tf out of her, sort of like. theyre competitive and the side character is light years more skilled but girl wants the challenge, wants the chase, is fueled by the prospect of catching up so "wait for me" LAYS DOWN NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS HAVE NAMES OR DESIGNS OR ANYTHING BUT IM ALREADY ATTACHED TO THESE CONNECTIONS mc pair: one techy soft boy nerd who just wants to protect his family so thats why he agreed to help develop/operate tech bc he thinks this is how he can help headstrong pilot ace girl who has no one but wants to prove herself and make a name for herself so she'll be remembered she wants to win glory for herself and comes off as super confident but actually she's just. asuka evangelion except she doesnt crash and burn so bad bc she has the boy who sees thru it, you dont have to try so hard probably happens after a fight where she's reckless hes not one to get mad but this time he's pissed bc she was exceptionally close to dying, yells at her, why do you keep trying so hard to die kinda snaps her back to reality he wants her to rely on him more bc that's what hes here for anyway loyal dog defects from enemy + meets this pair after other loyal dog suggests he joins the crew, tech boy is kind to Everyone but loyal dog FORMERLY AN ASSASSIN ???????? TYPE?? SNIPER?? develops baby crush girl sips her drink :3c

I HAVE TO THINK MORE ABOUT THEM BC OH NO THEYRE CUTE but girl is chasing after some nb femme prodigy who she's rivals with and admires for more than just her skill theyre both emotionally constipated idiots tho so its like. (hand touch) thats enough for 100 years there is. so much tension. and prodigy seems so perfect on the outside but is actually in some kind of super strict fucked up program bc of her skill, and she hated it and is suffering ace pilot is the one to barge in headstrong and fuck everything up and get her out of there girl believes prodigy is amazing. really. incredible. a part of her feels like she'll never catch up . but even so watching prodigy walk into the unknown unflinchingly resolute ... it's both sad in a way bc she's being left behind but also she wouldnt have it any other way bc she thinks forward is the only way prodigy should be facing. its what inspires her. that strength ... h they definitely settle down together in the future tho bc i need ththattt

"when this is all over" said the prodigy, "come find me" this is so self indulgent anyway plotwise once both the govt and the enemy r revealed to be equally bad the main cast defect to a revolutionary group. they will Not win within the span of the novel but theyll have a small victory, very les mis one day more flavored, and even if they did not win they stood for something they believed in, did something to try and tell the truth... also i need more of a cast so i can kill characters off nice now all i have to do is fill all this in with world building and action and stuff and ill have a novel so many sci fi things have done the 2 pilot mind sync emotional thing right so if i do the same thing no one knows if i took it from one franchise or another i need to twist it around a little but i may have ideas haha i can. totally make this a part of my fucking huge sci-fi au really wanna call main girl lane and main boy khemrin . .. i cant unsee the girl as rey flavored so shes ending up w red hair and irish, but boy is SEAsian with a huge family, loyal dog who defects is african, prodigy is asian, other loyal dog feels south american prodigy... astrid is her real name but she may have a codename fsr? idk why i feel it. icarus? assassin defector... something that starts with an o or a d other loyal dog... i need to think but i also need to figure out the personalities of their respective pairs inserts minh as evil one. done. maybe mephis adjacent character for the... no mephis doesnt care abt anyone BUT hed be a great side character OH god what if au jonah and ambrose oh boy. FUCK jonahs probably there for some special task bc hes. attuned to some shit idk

I GUESS IM GONNA DEVELOP AMBROSE MORE ive only written him as a young adult but as a teen hes angry and rebellious and got drafted, ended up being a simple foot soldier but he meets jonah and a lot changes jonah's there on top secret bullshit, same program as astrid definitely has some shit to do With Experiments. astrid has enhanced eyesight/coordination on top of being an ace combat pilot, i think jonah might be able to open up warp gates or limited pocket space mephis is evil scientist who doesnt care abt casualties

I'm thinking about unnamed pilot lesbians and i am. enamored immediately holy shit god they're both so goal oriented and focused but once the fighting is finally over they finally allow themselves to embrace the intensity of their emotions for eachother and i am fucking perishing they were essentially raised as child soldiers so it's this clumsy process of trying to figure things out for the first time, this kind of innocent but intense and blooming love between two hardened soldiers, the years of war coming away when they're together for the first time actually fuck i did name them but i'm still not sure about ace pilot girl? i want to name her lane or something monosyllable, maybe i'll revamp raine and make her this oc instead... either way i'm just. ugh. UGH. FUCK. holy shit they love eachother so much

I"M GETTING REALLY FUCKED UP ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THE PRODIGY (ASTRID) DYING IN THE LINE OF DUTY or well at least goes missing, presumed dead but raine just... doesn't believe it. astrid can't die. she's too amazing. there's no way fucking. huge disbelief. she refuses? raine going on a near suicidal self-appointed mission against commander's orders to rescue her, khemrin tries to hold her back but he can't, she' fucking gone speeding off on one of the fastest scouting ships she can hijack raine finding her alive but barely conscious in a damaged cockpit floating in space for who knows how long, raine unable to open the hatch and get to her but anchors her ship to hers, NOT EFFECTIVE BUT HER ONLY REAL CHOICE w/o compromising the air seal. makes the journey back astrid barely makes it to the space equivalent of a truck stop (unaffiliated) and raine calls for backup in panic and tries her best to tend to astrid's wounds an feed her and she's fucking PANICKING but trying so hard to keep it together astrid wakes up and raine's crying i don't have anything specific its just really soft and raine never Does this god when they meet again after the war, raine running her fingers over the scar left from astrid's helmet shattering h raine in a tux and astrid dressed like a princess and raine kissing her shoe sorry im gay bye

[junkobears]

are you still taking ask memes ? may I ask for kiibo, and (sorry for this but I love the salt) saihara ? oh, and a girl,hm.... ibuki !

Haha I’m always up for doing the character ask memes, anon. Maybe one day I’ll have done one for EVERY POSSIBLE DR character...? Prepare yourselves for V3 spoilers as usual, duh.

Kiibo

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang | meet me in the pit iruma you robofuckerhogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (none, robots aren’t people and the sorting hat doesn’t work on them! ...okay for real I’d say Ravenclaw? purely cuz he’s quite logical and analytic I suppose... also dumb about social cues since robot.)best quality: I honestly really love his robophobia gags? And his general insensitivity regarding social situations and people in general? I just find him super endearing, hilarious at times, and I always smile when he had some focus. Plus his JPN voice is super soothing. worst quality: Isn’t really particular relevant in V3 until the very last chapter... I think since Kiibo’s supposed to be the audience stand-in that he should’ve been a lot more involved with the main story/investigations. The audience really that content to not properly RP with their self-insert???ship them with: Iruma, Shirogane, Akamatsu, brotp them with: Mecha-Nidai, Hinata, Souda, Fujisaki, Nanami, Mioda (for his singing FTE)needs to stay away from: Oumamisc. thoughts: Would say Kiibo has the best English VA by far, narrowly beating Iruma and Akamatsu. Also he’s a really good deconstruction of the Naegi/SHSL Hope Archetype and I’m glad he actually sacrifices himself at the end to save the others, since that’s what should’ve happened with Naegi a long time ago. Even tho I hate the fact the survivors of V3 lived, haha. I can appreciate Kiibo’s gesture.

Saihara

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (shouldn’t be a debate tbh... he basically solves all the V3 cases. hufflepuff would also fit since he’s bland as shit... actually this is insulting to MY pottermore sorted house, wtf me. he’s ravenclaw ok)best quality: With the hat I think his design is actually quite nice. His blushing sprite is cute I guess. worst quality: WHERE. DO. I. BEGIN. Really fucking bland Naegi/Hinata blend? Gets Akamatsu reduced to his love interest, killed off and replaced by him for the sake of his ALREADY-DONE-A-MILLION-TIMES-IM-SO-BORED character arc? Really goddamn annoying fandom who has a shit fit everytime someone dares to dislike him? Does nothing throughout the whole game but the entire cast is forcefully wedged up his asshole and canon over-hypes him? I could go on. He is EVERYTHING I DESPISE about this series rolled into one package. I’m salty as hell and I won’t stop.ship them with: Absolutely no one.brotp them with: ^^^needs to stay away from: Akamatsu, Ouma, V3 in generalmisc. thoughts: His design post-hat looks really awful, the ahoge is so unnecessary and rapidly defeats the point of “being an unconventional protagonist” (Which still makes no fucking sense, Kodaka/fandom). It genuinely makes all of his sprites look so WEIRD... Also why is he in the MC spot in the trial room if Kiibo is the V3 MC in-universe??? UGH I hate this shit so much.

Mioda

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (i picked this one because mioda’s so peppy, genuinely wants to be good friends with her classmates and is always trying to keep up morale, and is hard-working even if her music sucks. she also is very helpful and intuitive, see: her FTEs. idk, she doesn’t really fit any of the other houses as well IMO.best quality: Probably the best ‘comic relief’ character in the series, IMO. I laughed so much everytime she was on-screen. And I like how she’s allowed to be just more than that as well, mostly in her FTEs but she has some insightful scenes in the main story as well.worst quality: Again, not the most plot-relevant character. This actually doesn’t bother me personally and I think she died at the right point in the story, but I would’ve at least liked a flashback to the scene where Tsumiki kills her. That case felt lacking and it could’ve been benefited from that detail (same with Saionji).ship them with: Imposter, Hinata, Tsumiki, Koizumi, Sonia, Pekoyama, Maizono, Akamatsu, Irumabrotp them with: Kiibo, Leon, Celesneeds to stay away from: Ropesmisc. thoughts: Her Death Metal song is defs one of my fave tracks from the series overall, haha. Fuckin’ love her horrifying style.