This idiot is also from the from the 1983 Arco/Fleetwood toy line vaguely associated with the R-rated fantasy film The Sword and the Sorcerer. I have no idea what it is. It combines the features of a dragon, a unicorn and some sort of finny sea creature. It is probably the toy I own that most looks like a beast of heraldry. I like it. He features a particularly sloppy paint job and the green plastic is a pleasing tone. They say green is calming!

Castle Zendo - The Other World (Arco)

CÓMO?!?

Monastero Arx Vivendi, Arco TN, Italy,

Part of The Aficionados

Studio noa* (Lukas Rungger and Stefan Rier),

Photography: Alex Filz

Arco da Rua Augusta

Lisboa

foto: ismiguel

Absolutely adore how all of Agott's growth spanning across the whole series is finally culminating into what we've seen of her in past multiple chapters, and I love love love how Coco is at the center of it all, as she always has been.

The Silver Night Procession is, given the, ya know *gestures towards the mess that is Agott's family situation*, extremely important to Agott. In her mind, lot hinges on how she will be able to present herself.

Yeah, we had a Whole Damn Talk about this, but it's not like that desire to prove herself fo her family just poofs out of existence ya know? I'm certain Agott is very much aware her mother will show up any moment, if she isn't already at the parade, and hoping she can do something about impressing her, even if it's not Agott's sole reason for participating anymore.

And yet, the second she sees Coco locked up in terror

(which btw like, am I reaching or does this scarily mirror Agott's flashback to her younger self crumbled on the floor. I'm willing to put this on my brain grasping for angsty implications but I digress)

When Agott sees her she immediately rushes to her. Zero hesitation. Fuck her reputation and fuck her family, Coco being in despair is magnitudes more important.

And I just vibe with this so much y'all like, Agott is so ride of die for Coco. I don't know how many people ship them, personally I'm in the camp of "Agott has a crush on Coco the size of an ocean and it'd be very cute if they held hands more often" but they're just. Precious. And then Kamome Shirahama still didn't think we're cheering loud enough and drops the Arco/Orufrey parallel like.

*waves my hands around wildly* Are you seeing what I'm seeing. How else am I supposed to interpret this. Poetic cinema.

[redraw/color of a page from Witch Hat Atelier. There are two inset panels of Agate, lying in bed, expression uncertain. Between them is a panel of Coco in Agate’s imagination, smiling at the camera, lit from behind]

you know how it is

This two-headed dragon was part of the Arco/Fleetwood Toys line that was branded with the logo of the film 1982 The Sword and the Sorcerer (the toys hit shelves in 1983). This has more to do with the financial success of the film, which was a surprise box office hit making something like ten times its budget, and less about how appropriate the R-rated schlock was for kids (answer: not at all appropriate). Anyway, the toy line exists, is great, and at least the larger, hard plastic toys are not reflective of anything in the film. I don’t remember a two-headed dragon, anyway. He DOES remind me a bit of the troll dragon from Willow. He also resembles the design of the much larger two-headed dragon from Imperial Toys, which also came out in 1983. The possibility that one or the other is a knock off of a knock off is just too delightful for my little heart.

Somewhat unrelated, but the staging of one scene in The Sword and the Sorcerer does seem to have influenced one of the arena screens in the 1987 Commodore 64 videogame Barbarian, which has a banging soundtrack you absolutely should listen to.

Zendo (with Jipps and Mogs) - The Other World (Arco)

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'Arco' coffee table by Bannach

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