#unlike in the anime and manga

[leahthedreamer]

As your local anime watcher I am inclined to inform the fs community that a new skating anime has started airing.

Unlike YOI with all the Grand Prix antics and homoerotism, Medalist is about a young 11 year old skater trying to make her mark after starting late with her coach, a former flop ice dancer.

[neo-zone]

Shinji seeing dudebros praising Aizen for performing Hadou No. 90 without incantation before, said "hold my jazz album", and casually do the Hadou No. 91 without incantation too

[waxn-wane]

Ah of course, but what is Black Butler without the bridal carry?

That boy is soooo fake

[bonesdontmelt]

Jou's duel with Keith is really like... looking through a mirror darkly. They both use gambling cards. Keith is American, Jou is likely half (given his naturally blond hair). Keith at one point talks about being in such a dark place that you have to learn to enjoy being horrible just to survive it, and Jou was in a gang where he did the exact same thing.

Basically the duel is so interesting to me because Keith is kind of a What Could Have Been (negative) for Jou if he hadn't become friends with Yugi, and the parallels are delightful.

[crashoutnarumi]

i’ll forever mourn the Sukuna origin story we’re never going to get

[saphushia]

I would describe all four of those with very different body plan words. The first one I would describe as “swirl” or maybe “swarm”. The second one is so ball that is a ball of ever I saw one. But if you need anouther word for that body type maybe… dollop? Orb? Idk I think if anything that one should be ball and all the other balls should be something else. It’s Too Ball. The fourth one makes me think of a very abstract fish if a fish were also a plane, so maybe “fish” or even “finned”. Actually I like “finned” better yeah. That last one is molecular that was 100% my first thought when I saw it “oh what a weird looking molecule I wonder what this posts about”.

Anyway all of this is coming from someone who knows next to nothing about digimon, in fact it is only because I trust you as a digimon expert that I believe those are all from the same game(?) and not just four random unrelated drawings. Hope this in any way helps ^—^ d

ok so that is very reasonable and makes sense, but there's a couple reasons that i'm not splitting them like that.

firstly- i actually have 2 different filters relating to digimon's shape/look; body and appearance. body is relating to posture and limbs (ie upright, hunched, quadruped, taur, etc). it's basically the 'shape' pokedex category, but using words because i'm not sure how to code a drop down list with images, and i still need to have a word to use as a tag in order to filter the entries

appearance is what they look similar to (ie mammal, reptile, fish, ooze, humanoid, etc). originally, i only had appearance, but i was running into a lot of conflicts and conundrums in tagging digimon. for example:

on its own, i miiiiiight consider ancient volcamon (right) humanoid, as it's bipedal and has a fairly human-shaped head and arms, but it feels wrong to put it in the same 'humanoid' category as angemon (left) when angemon is just. a straight up guy.

then there's the case of something like these guys ^^^ i want people to be able to filter to just see these 'animal-like' digimon, but then these are also very different. so they're both 'quadruped', but in addition left is 'mammal' and right is 'reptile'.

so what i'm looking for is "body plan", and while "ball" makes sense for appearance (and i'm probably gonna add "ball" or "shape" or smth to the appearance tags, now that i'm thinking abt it), it doesn't succinctly describe the body/limb layout which is what i'm looking for

the other thing (and the reason i'm not just stealing the pokedex shape categories) is that digimon have. a lot. of body variation. so im having to make kinda broad categories in order to avoid having 30+ options, some of which containing only a single digimon, and making the dropdown list entirely unwieldly.

so i'm putting all of these in the same body category, because they all hit the same general vibe as 'wierd nonspecific thing that's pretty much just a face/head with no significant limbs'. i just haven't figured out what to call it

rn i'm leaning towards 'head' or 'limbless', but if anyone has suggestions then i'm still looking to see if there's anything better

[vouxq]

When you start an anime and then you find that it sucks because you thought it was interesting and then suddenly it has a weird ass plot and everything is ruined for you:

THIS HAS HAPPENED TWICE. WTF!

[toxicsugarz]

Marcille and Falin are just like Orpheus and Eurydice and in this essay I will

[what-the-fuck-khr]

october tenth

[yumedoca]

IVE WATCHED THE FIRST EPISODE IT WAS AMAZING

also that ed damn :')

[don-dake]

手塚治虫の未発表原稿を公開へ　晩年の漫画 「ミッドナイト」 原型

Previously unreleased early renditions of one of Osamu Tezuka's twilight manga series, 「Midnight」, to be released soon in June! (16 June 2023 to be exact!)

The collection, titled ‘Midnight: Lost Episodes’ (pub. by Rittorsha), consists of 11 chapters that will also include Black Jack's last appearance in 「Midnight」! Priced at ４，９５０円.

(Does that mean there will be a reprint and new publishing of the whole Midnight collection soon? One can hope! 😌)

[seal7035]

"We are at the core of the world."

[bbq-potato-chip]

the thing that i really. REALLY appreciate with kny is that they do follow up on their characters. (for the most part at least) everything connects and we really get to see the characters grow as people and just. yes character arcs!! yes!!

[burinazar]

I'm sure you've mentioned it before, but I was wondering who your favorite Made in Abyss character is and why they're your favorite? :3

I love all the main kids as well as many other characters so it's hard to choose but I think I'd have to say mine is Faputa. Not only is she a super interesting and cool character, but she's also A Creature. A little ball of fluff that can kill

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Thank you very much for the ask, anon! haha, "little ball of fluff that can kill"...yes, Faputa is great, and I think the main cast of Abyss is very endearing and very well fleshed-out. I was having a nice exchange on AO3 the other day regarding how GOOD the characterization of Abyss is and how it's often overlooked in favor of the also-extremely-good worldbuilding and plot, and why that might be, and was considering how it links together with some of my other Thoughts about ways this fandom is different from my other ones as far as what people are into (I need to finish the self-reblog I was gonna do about that on a recent related post actually). Anyway, pretty much the whole cast is endearing and/or enjoyable to watch in some capacity. But there is a definite answer as to favorite(s).

I put these up on my wall this evening, which may help to answer your question.

(Please note the scrolls. I missed the Amiami preorder period for those two because they closed earlier than the rest for some reason, but was able to get them from Suruga-ya eventually. They'll be on the wall at some point too.)

The story and cast prior to s2 I enjoyed in a, like, normal way, and then the Ganja squad arc hit me like a damn asteroid. These people...I've thought and felt and said so much about them, and after a year and a half I'm still brimming with something that feels like it has to be poured out, onto blank canvases and into the written word, and there's no end in sight. I have never had characters that were such good muses to me except perhaps for a couple I made up myself. Belaf has to be called my favorite at this point, but for a long time it was Vueko, and I really, really like Waz too; the manner in which these three characterize one another makes it a little painful to try to separate and rank them, but yes, that's the order. I dote on B and V in particular.

(Self portrait circa August 2023.)

At this point I have so much to say about them that being asked why I like them is hard to answer succinctly. Belaf is so, so sweet, but in an unusual weird, intense nerd way that I find incredibly endearing .....and then that kindness and strength of character fucking destroys him and it's tragic and beautiful and there is so much to pick apart in the manner and meaning of his transformation and his absolution, and it's also a great deal of fun to depict him as he was before. "Before" Belaf is such a fun sort of quirky nerd and his relationships wth Waz and Vue and Iru offer, like, SO much to turn over and look upon fondly, humor and friendship and loyalty and love.

And yet, when I write about his years of friendship with and loyalty and closeness to Wazukyan and Vueko and his parenthood and tutelage of Irumyuui and (note: hallucinatory) camaraderie with the other Ganja, hanging over my shoulder always is his downfall and it makes all of those things so much more beautiful, the tinny note of tragedy that is always playing at the edge of our hearing once we see it all and know how it must end.

(Another crispy fried self portrait from last year. I don't really draw myself these days at all EXCEPT in the context of making fun of my sages obsession.)

As for Vueko, since she's fairly popular maybe explaining her appeal isn't needed...or maybe it is, because it's so much more than the shy and gentle and somewhat silly person she is on the surface, it is so, so much more. Under the Layer of Fuheh she's made of steel --it's just that she's very, very softspoken, which people mistake for passivity and spinelessness. Even fans who purport to like her sometimes reduce her to victimhood and weakness. Perhaps because it's a misconception she clearly holds about herself, and a viewer can be forgiven for not putting together that Vueko might literally be the sage that acts with the most agency. There's so much more I can say that I love about her and her story, especially in the context of the other characters and the way she subtly skews some narrative and trope-related expectations, but I think that's the heart of it -- yes, she was endearing as soon as I met her, but when I saw the subtle yet unmistakeable strength under it all (and parsed that she never saw it herself, I think that little pop of tragedy really makes it hit for me lol), I think that's what made me adore her.

This next little bit might be kind of fucked up but what really makes that strength into something that haunts and compels me is that Vueko has so much determination and strength of character that she will unhesitatingly act to destroy the people she cares about very very much if she has decided at that moment that it is the best thing for them (Irumyuui, Belaf, Irumyuui again.) I can trace the real beginning of my obsession with these characters to when s2e8 aired and this is pretty much why.

So...yeah. Belaf and Vueko! Aaaand there's no way I can write about Waz here without making this post way too fucking long but.

One more shitty self portrait from earlier in the obsession should do it.

Yep!

[deus-ex-mona]

winter 2k24, huh~~~~~~ _(:3 」∠)_

[satinstarscosplay]

Don’t die on me aki