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post-canon concept where minimus finally gives up on the idea of writing an excruciatingly exact book of rules that will explain how to live life on the basis this uhhhh doesn't work, and instead takes up ttrpg design as a hobby, resulting in the most unplayably dense yet technically balanced game of all time. attempting to read the lookup tables might result in a breakdown. nobody is sure if it's supposed to be a parody subtly mocking obnoxious rule lawyer types or not.

Shinichi's friendship with Hattori Heiji is SO important to me.

Like, up until now in the manga we see him around Ran, who's his best friend, but... she's also the one he has a major crush on, and she's a girl, and the series is still early on so teenaged boys, no matter how nice, are kinda sexist. Other than Ran there's Sonoko, who's more Ran's friend than his, and his teammates in the soccer club. There's also Agasa.

Except... as said, Ran's his crush, Sonoko isn't his friend (they don't exactly get along much at first), his teammates in soccer only really play sports with him, and Agasa is much older.

Then he shrinks, and he has... well, he so far only has Agasa he's telling the truth to. And he has the Detective Boys in school, but they're little kids he's babysitting almost. His relationship with Ran is strained by lies and how she's treating him as a kid (and she has to), and he's unable to talk to anyone he knew from high school.

Enter Hattori Heiji, who is not only his own age, but someone who can keep up with his reasoning as he's coming up with things - not just after he's started to explain it all. And when he becomes someone In On The Secret... as much as we make fun of him for messing up with "Ku- Conan" all the time, I see it as kinda important, in a good way, too - because it proves that at no point does Hattori looks at him and sees "Conan" first before he sees Kudo Shinichi.

To Hattori, he is always Kudo Shinichi.

He respects him fully when he's shaped like a child, and Shinichi knows that Hattori will continue to treat him the same once he's returned to his normal body, too.

30TH GUNDAM FIGHT WEEK ONE: FAVORITE CHARACTER

SUMIISA SEKIHA LOVE LOVE TENKYOUKEN

same voice actor! naoki makishima~

new lancer game means new girlfail

quick painting of elita-1 from the transformers one trailer

Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

Really quick sketches of the Shuffle Alliance nerds as I try to get used to drawing them

Some personal project stuff I've been taking my sweet sweet time to work on. Say hello to Sun, NA and Kabili (K)

Spoilers for both Gundam 00 and Kamen Rider W!

Tfw you're an nb computer person stuck in mind palace purgatory after vaporizing your body for your precious friends

Toa Tahu, the man who invented surfing

Screenshot edit but I put human Deckerd in there

the fact that the intention in the early issues of MTMTE is explicitly that magnus is supposed to fill a similar role to the one batman has in early issues of justice league: international (comically straight-man character who is very much in the wrong genre compared to the c-lister losers around him) makes me surprised there does not seem to be even one au where the minimus/magnus thing is him as the most law abiding vigilante superhero ever. like. please it would be so funny i think can you IMAGINE