mseirtaku
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"You kiss your dad on the mouth?"
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Me watching travesty that was Kung Fu Panda 4.
Under 'read more', I have my full (unsolicited) thoughts on the fourth film - warning, I don't have much good to say about it 〔´∇｀〕;;
SPOILERS! + LONG ASS POST!
So... I'll start with the positives, because honestly, I do love aspects of this movie.
Any scenes featuring Li and Mr. Ping are the absolute highlights of this film. Love them, ship them, hilarious chemistry between them. I'd watch a whole film dedicated to just them.
Though not as funny as the previous films, it’s genuinely funny, like, some jokes are deadass hilarious. (See above for example lol)
Genuinely, the main villainess, the chameleon, has such a cool design and Viola Davis provides such a good voice for her. The animation whenever she transforms is so cool.
Jack Black as Po is just so charming, you can't help but find Po so likeable.
For what little we saw of Tai Lung, he was a treat to see.
Great animation, lovely scenery, love the little animation flairs during the action scenes
Alright, now time for the negatives... Which unfortunately there is a lot of. I’ll go step by step and build up to the bigger picture I’m trying to visualise here.
The Kung Fu Panda
Po’s character arc was pretty much complete at the end of KFP3, when he has his epiphany and finds that his true self lies in not restricting himself to one label, but by embracing everything that makes him Po. His identity by this point is very well realised. Unfortunately in KFP4, the tacked on conflict of him needing to retire the Dragon Warrior title and choose a successor just… Doesn’t make sense for his character at this point. Not to mention, the movie repeats a joke ad nauseam where no one knows who Po is, or of his adventures, jokingly chalking it down to a ‘regional’ tale. You’d think the literal saviour of China would be well known. The world-building feels so much smaller for it. Unfortunately, this movie is very determined to undermine the impact of the last three movies, all to prop up the wisecracking and super cool shitass Awkafina character. Sorry, not sorry, but Zhen is a terrible character just for that reason alone. If Kung Fu Panda wanted to pass the torch down, Tigress or even Tai Lung would have been a much more compelling option, seeing as both were telegraphed to be potential Dragon Warriors in the past. Speaking of…
Tai Lung
Man… The trailers got my hopes up that KFP4 would feature a long awaited redemption arc for the OG villain of the KFP films. Instead, he’s delegated to a cage for half his scenes, and received the barest minimum of character arcs in the finale. Granted, he was still entertaining to watch, but he was totally under-utilised.
To continue the topic of identity, the film missed the chance to ask this: “Who is Tai Lung without his kung fu?” All his life he’d been raised with huge aspirations to become the best kung fu master, and to eventually gain the dragon scroll (which he was denied.) In KFP4, the chameleon summons him from the spirit realm, and drains him of all his kung fu skill. Therein lies the missed opportunity for a compelling character arc, now that he’s been cast out as a supposedly useless body into the real world. And who better to help him figure out his identity other than Po himself?
I could go on forever about the various fanficy rewrites and plot ideas, but I don’t want to let this get any longer. So I’ll talk about one more topic.
The Chameleon
I love her design, I love her voice acting, but compared to Tai Lung, Lord Shen and even General Kai… She’s simply a weak villain. (Too small to learn kung fu… Really?? With characters like Mantis and Viper who deadass exist in the same franchise???)
‘I’m the Chameleon! I do nothing but change!’ holds such potential for a far more interesting backstory. Instead of being rejected for her size, suppose that it was seen by many king fu masters that she simply didn’t possess a true spirit of a kung fu warrior. As explained in this film, their abilities are harnessed in the spirit/soul, not just the physical body. Perhaps she didn’t want to work for those abilities properly. She wanted the easy way forwards. She didn’t want to put in the proper time and effort to become a master of the craft. Spurred on by what she sees as rejection, she learns sorcery to take on any number of identities of kung fu masters. So many identities she could use to fool herself into believing she was someone talented and gifted in the art of kung fu. But it’s only a lie she tells herself. And so, she takes the drastic action, and decides to start summoning these masters from the spirit realm. But even as she slowly grows in power through the course of this film, maybe a strong sense of imposter syndrome starts to set in. These powers aren’t truly hers - what value does a carbon copy of something original have? Nothing. She never properly worked for them and made them her own.
Anyways. I’m almost done writing.
Quick fire round of criticism;
Akwafina’s shitass character
Furious five just tossed aside except for a non speaking cameo. Tigress got done so dirty - if there are gonna be like three more films, they should have been about her
WHAT DID THEY DO TO LORD SHEN’S CHARACTER MODEL
The goofy-ass way he was attacked and then thrown into the cage, the disrespect lol
Li (the victim) and Lord Shen (the genocidal maniac who destroyed his village and killed his wife) somehow existed in the same space and did not get into a conflict.
Why does Kai still exist in the spirit realm? I thought he was literally skadooshed to be extra double dead lol. Like spirit literally eradicated
Akwafina’s shitass character
The villains bowing to Po feels super unearned given how under-utilised they were. I can see it working, just not in the plot we got in the end
Po’s character feels weirdly dumbed down, it’s hard to put my finger on it
Fart joke :(
The innocent and cute but secretly psycho baby bunnies are the definition of anti humour. They’re so fucking obnoxious and cringey
For some reason, the character designs of new characters feels super incongruous and out of place.
The Dragon Warrior isn’t an inherited title, it was given during a time where China needed a hero. Why does it need to be passed down?
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That’s all I have really. Sorry for straying so much into fanfiction territory, but it’s an integral part of my criticisms. I could honestly write forever, but I mainly wanted to share this silly redraw of the Tai Lung meme using Lobster and I’s silly Kung Fu Panda Hetalia gijinka crossover AU nonsense lol
If you read this all the way to the end, congrats! And sorry - I never do long text posts like this lol
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Out of the ashes, grows new life.
#hetalia#hetalia world stars#hetalia cardverse#hws Indonesia#hws Taiwan#hws India#This is the same personal cardverse AU I posted art for a few months ago <3
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@bluelobstersdev and I's Kung Fu Panda x Hetalia crossover AU that I spent 2 weeks drawing.
So worth it.
#hetalia#kung fu panda#hws korea#hws vietnam#hws indonesia#hws malaysia#hws philippines#hws japan#hws thailand#hws india
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The Protectors of Happiness are Macross City's biggest defenders, mainly against the Super Brit Bros! Fight crime and save the city in this Hetagame demo!
Made for the Heroes and Villains Hetagame Jam by MsEirtaku and @resoyani 🤍
Download link here for the demo HERE! (Google Drive)
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Woahhh I can finally post the piece I had for the @veiled-identity-zine Imposter zine!
Hope youse enjoy this piece~
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Gdi @sundried-tomatoes I love ya too friend asjsksk this is such a surprise 🥺 \(//∇//)\
Shoutout to my good Irish friend @mseirtaku, who draws genuinely lovely fanart (tw gore and body horror for a few jsyk) and has interesting takes on the UK bros, also just a great friend overall. Lova ya! ^^
♥♡∞:｡.｡ Positivity for @mseirtaku ｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆
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The Ultimate Imposter zine has at last come to fruition! Please check out everyone’s art, they’re absolutely amazing (and mine too, which I shall post when I am allowed heehee~)
Hey, all! We have wonderful news—the zine has been released!! There are two different versions you can download PDFs of (a singles version, where each page is on its own, and a spreads version, which resembles a book) as well as a zip file of our merch (wallpapers, a sticker sheet, and an icon)!!
Thank you all so much for your patience, and for sticking with us as we've worked on this project—and an especially big thank you to our wonderful mods and contributors!! We couldn't have done this without you <3
Now, without further ado—the zine itself!! The link leads to an itch.io page that describes the zine, lists off our mods and contributors, and finally, has a download button for each version of the zine and the merch zip!! Happy reading~! <3
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A cardverse AU I've done sketches for quite a while ago~ Mainly focused on each royal family!
#hetalia#hetalia cardverse#hws ancient egypt#hws egypt#hws turkey#hws china#hws india#hws taiwan#hws vietnam#hws south korea#hws singapore#hws greece#hws ancient greece#hws rome#hws germany#hws germania
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Hark! Eir is back at it again with immigration trio nonsense!
My entry for the HWS Anthology zine - it was originally going to be a comic, but I missed the deadline and whipped this up quickly lol
#hetalia#hetalia world stars#hws ireland#hws romano#hws lithuania#hws america#immigration trio#hws anthology
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Junji Itou inspired Hetalia art that were used as first place awards in the Hetaphobia jam that I hosted last year! It took so long to draw them all, and I'm still so proud of them to this day~
#hetalia#junji itou#hws singapore#hws vietnam#hws belarus#hws philippines#hws ukraine#hws taiwan#hws russia#hws latvia#hws malaysia#hws england#hws niko niko#tw gore#tw body horror
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hey, super cool to find an Irish hetalia fan! I’m always on the hunt for fans from different countries; I’m always curious what they think of their respective countries’ characters. I saw from your posts that you already love Ireland’s character, but what about his relationship to Northern Ireland? And do you have a human name in mind for Ireland?
Oh hey! Thanks for approaching me about the subject, that’s always flattering~ 😙
North and Ireland… Now there’s an interesting pair that I believe deserve more interactions in the manga beyond Ireland’s debut issue.
From what we’ve seen already, Ireland is very fond of North, calling him his little buddy/partner.! Unfortunately, we see that this relationship is very one sided on Ireland’s part, as North doesn’t really reciprocate Ireland’s feelings beyond half-hearted, non-committal answers.
Surprise surprise! North ‘betrays’ Ireland by palling up with the UK bros! And Ireland is still upset about that to this day, especially with the whole Brexit deal that went on. (By the way, the scenario down below is so not a dream, Ireland's coping so hard.)
Now we move off of canon, and and go to my opinions~
While North is very standoffish to Ireland, I think he does care for him. However, he just prefers the company of the big family unity that the Brit Bros appeared to be. And quite frankly, he had a lot in common with them from the get-go.
Now this is the historical Hetalia bit lol
From the late 1500s to the early 1600s, the British attempted to establish several plantations in Ireland (move British people onto Irish land and give them land and titles to effectively make them more influential than the native Irish already living there.) Overall these were very unsuccessful, aside from one, which is the Scottish Plantation of Ulster (Ulster being the area that encompasses what Northern Ireland is now.) ((Which most likely explains why North is attached to Scotland in particular in the strips))
From then on, a visible divide in Irish culture was created, which can be seen in how Ireland and Northern Ireland interact with each other in their strips together. Fundamentally, they just can't relate to each other anymore, despite Ireland's attempts to be buddies with North again.
I think this interpretation of Ireland and North’s relationship so far makes perfect sense to me, I love how Hima wrote these two lol
The one thing I would personally headcanon is that North is much physically younger compared to the rest of the British Isle characters, like 17 years old or so, and that he only came about into existence around the time of the plantations. From that, I personally think Scotland is North's father figure (which I totally need to draw art of 🤍)
That was a lot of chatter, I could honestly write a dissertation examining the nuances in their relationship~ The names I use are these:
Ireland - Ruairí mac Cumhaill (Rory McCool in anglicised format)
North - Conor O'Neill
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England and his teeny tiny baby boy.
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An alternate teacher to Chisa Yukizome in class 77-B - magical miracle teacher Usami!
Miss Usami has been assigned the teacher to the strange class of students that is 77-B. Luckily, she is peppy, optimistic, and ready to get everyone to bond over the coming year…!
Or not, seeing as everyone in the class initially finds her to be an annoying pushover.
However, as the months ticks on by, and hope starts to slowly give way to despair, the students all start to realise too late what a wonderful teacher they have, especially in her death.
However, her personality lives on, specifically within the Usami AI programmed to help guide all the Remnants of Despair back to their normal selves…
…Well, until that went all wrong, of course.
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Waiting to be picked up from the liminal playplace.
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🐯 Big Cat Brothers!🦁
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"Based on our interactions thus far... I believe I've felt something inside you."
"This judgment is not rooted in logic, but rather something akin to human intuition."
#danganronpa v3#drv3 keebo#tw gore#drv3 spoilers#Keebo#I don't care if there's canon to the contrary#I enjoy my headcanon that Keebo was human prior to the events of V3 and this is the fucked up process
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