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okay so contrary to what many fans feel like (even me for the longest time), i'm actually starting to feel quite okay with the door thing being dragged out. solely bc we are watching teenagers in real time. It was anaïs' first ever crime and she was stuck between two of the people she loves most. i wouldn't have known what to do either at that age. I honestly feel like it's really realistic that she walked around with it for that long. okay granted, im still pissed at some of the writing choices, bc they made Bobbie loose all of her well roundedness as a character and im still pissed af they added that SA storyline. and the fact that it's again the black girl that has to take everyone into consideration. like pls how much shit did they throw on her this season? (maybe bv we called ada's season a snoozefest?? idk?) but i'm really feeling okay with everyting. between a&b too. They've reconciled and honestly there's still a lot they have to figure out, but i'm fine with that being something we'll see snippets of in the next season. i'm trying to channel my inner 16 yo. If i would have gone through the same shit they've encountered i wouldn't be where they are. they are actually willing to listen and grow!! we've seen this in bobbie and their friends! i'm actually so done with the narrative that everyone is shitty to anaïs. they're only just starting to navigate their way into adulthood. they've been noticing shit! shit man i was a depressed fuck going out with fake ID's and at one point i fell in love with a girl while still dating another. but still hella insecure and i was pretty bad at making friends irl so i spent most of my time on here. my life was freaking messy too. as a viewer it's easy to want shit resolved or see progression sooner bc it's more entertaining to watch. but i feel like they've done a great job taking in consideration we are watching them in real time. (if we forget how shitty the wtfock team is with their social media, i'm begging again, hire one of us pls). idk i'm just really happy to see this kind of representation in an original season. let's not forget we all loved sobbe, zoenne and like in other countries the other remakes bc it was tried and tested!! Imo wtfock had really redeemed itself after ada's season and they've taken notes from druck and skam france. good notes. end of rant.
That's actually a very interesting take, I haven't thought about it this way tbh. I think my biggest problem was that they added dramatic plots and dragged them out, just to resolve them in 1 minute clips, like why was there so much build up just for it not to matter in the end? And with the door plot, my biggest issue was that we saw the same conversation over and over again, but tbf, like you said, it kind of makes sense for Anais to act this way, i just wish theyd put more emphasis on her dilemma, if that makes sense, and if we had more social media, maybe I would've felt differently Also I felt like they put too much importance on Hanne and Bobbie instead of Anais, the actual main, because we had lots of plot lunes for her established in the first season, just to abandon in the 2nd half, and quickly resolve them last minute, and let's not even talk about the sa plot, that was so unnecessary
Tbh, I also think Anais season is way better than Adas, especially the first half of the season, it was more entertaining to watch, and the plotlines were all connected with eachother
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Forever Falls Prologue
Synopsis: A year has passed since that one fateful summer. Seasons have come and gone and now Dipper and Mabel return to where their journey began for another unforgettable summer in Gravity Falls. Some things changed while others stayed the same. Families growing with one or more new members, friendships formed, and love blossoming among many things have happened. And new mysteries around the corner.
Since that summer, Dipper and Mabel face the consequences of their choice of having not only their minds erased everything of who they were, but having much of those memories returned thanks to the efforts of their friends and family. However, despite their best efforts, the Mystery Twins face memory issues that’ll affect the rest of their lives. And the power they wield in their beings since Bill, like it or not, became a part of them. Now it’s up to them with what they want to do with it. Together.
A/N: Hey all! Been a good while since the last story. Life happens as usual, but I am back and getting into the swing of things again and keeping the promise of a sequel fic to OBWHF. There is something else I want to add as well. There are going to be some changes to the story and a few less notable characters. I honestly don’t want them in the story anymore for this au such as Fiddleford’s raccoon wife. And this story will be significantly shorter than the first. After this story, that’ll be it in terms of giving this a conclusion as I, Vulpixen, have been moving on to different stories but I'm still going to write Gravity Falls related stories. Hope you all enjoy this one. The character Adeline Marks belongs to @hntrgurl13 and @scipunk63 (Purpledragon6 on AO3) and thank you.
Here's the family tree with the Pines going forward as they'll make an appearance in future chapters:
Stanley and Carla ---> James and Jessie Pines (41)
Stanford and Addi ---> Shauna, Shannon Pines (30) and Shifty Pines (37)
James Pines and Tara Grayson ---> Cormac (20), Arya, Aria, and Anais Pines (16)
Jessie Pines and Lillian Prescott ---> Tanya (22), Stanley Jr (17) and Tyrone “Ty” Pines (15)
Cormac Pines and Evangeline Tremblay (engaged) ---> Xavier, Colten, Gweneira “Gwen”, and Rose
Shauna Pines and Marcus “Spriggs” Valdez ---> Quincy Pines (8)
Shifty Pines and Tate McGucket ---> Isaac McGucket (15)
Shannon Pines-Bone and Clyde Bone (married) ---> Drake Bone (6), Conner and Connie Bone (4, adopted).
Tanya Pines, Frederick "Fred" Palovich, and Kyle Harper ---> Cadence Pines, Matthias and Mordecai Pines
Prologue on Ao3
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Night in Piedmont, California…
It had only been a week since Dipper and Mabel returned home after that eventful summer they had with their extended family, and all the adventures they had together. Dipper and Mabel had returned to school for their eighth grade year. There was a stark difference between the towns. Piedmont is nowhere near as small as Gravity Falls; too many faces seem to blend in with one another and can’t distinguish someone in a crowd almost.
And there was the challenge of remembering old friends and classmates. Hell, even navigating through their middle school became a maze of unfamiliarity in their eyes when they should be able to know the campus by heart in the years they’ve attended. Nothing much changed with the school, physically, but specific landmarks they’d recognize became a blur in their vision.
Dipper and Mabel remembered on the fifth day the concerned looks they got from their peers who’ve known the twins for years, or at least seen their faces, asking them if they’re alright when the pair couldn’t recall which class to go to next they shared. And didn’t recognize the faces of the teachers who’ve started teaching them, and the other students. Something that warranted a parent-teacher conference. Something Alex and Dana Pines find concerning as well.
Now, Dipper compiled a list of reminders on his notepad for himself and Mabel to use if they were to forget again, turning on alarms on their phones in case they forget the list. Mabel slept soundly with Waddles on her pastel sheets. Dipper rubbed his tired eyes and thought of his grunkles and graunties, considering the idea to call them for advice. He took his phone and pushed back the intrusive thoughts to not call them and speed dials the number. He lets the phone ring until he hears Stan on the other end.
“He-Hey, Dipper!” Stan greets on the other end of the phone. Stan, Carla, Ford and Adeline have yet to make their trip out to Antarctica, but will be soon. “How’s it hangin’? Are you and Mabel adjusting alright at home?”
Dipper lets out a tired sigh. “Things are going pretty well, but when it comes to things like school, we’re still getting pieces of those memories in middle school back to us.” Dipper picked up the goodbye letter Wendy gave him and Mabel, looking at it as he misses where his and Mabel’s lives changed forever. For better and for worse. “And it’s been overwhelming and… we miss you, Grunkle Stan, and the rest of the family.”
Stan let out a husky sigh. “It’ll be okay, Dipper. If not right now, it will be later. I really can’t imagine how much the memory wiping affected you and Mabel. Wish we were over there to give you two a hug, but pretend we’re there, giving you and Mabel a big one.” Stan couldn’t see it, but Dipper smiled at the mental image of everyone there with him and Mabel again.
“Thanks Grunkle Stan, that helps more than you know right now.”
“It’s no trouble, Dipper.”
“Have a good night. Don’t want to keep you up.”
“Alright. Night, Dipper.”
Dipper placed his cellphone on top of his dresser, inserted the cord of his charger in it, and falls asleep in his bed, hoping tomorrow will be better.
Within Dipper and Mabel’s dreams...
Dipper found himself within his own dream, fully aware like he and Mabel discovered not too long after coming back home. He gazes upon the world he created for himself in his dreams: orderly, filled with many creatures he’s come to learn of within a forest, and town nearby. The sky was cloudy and there was a breeze. Dipper takes a walk on the brick road he created towards the town when suddenly, a colorful pastel door poofs into existence and out comes Mabel and Waddles.
“Dipper!” Mabel exclaimed and her pig squealed in delight. “Took you long enough to get to sleep.”
Dipper laughed with ease to see his sister, making his dream brighter as the clouds disappeared. He opened up about what was on his mind.
“I was talking to Grunkle Stan before bed. I miss him and everyone in Gravity Falls. The memory lapses, and Bill’s power. We’re more fully aware within our dreams than we’ve ever been and can manipulate and enter other dreams too, I bet. Something we haven’t tried. Yet..” Mabel listens to her brother and thinks. Instead of trying to distract him like she would have before, she expresses her own feelings.
“I know exactly what you mean. I miss them too and these powers, like Uncle Maurice warned us about, are pretty cool when used the right way.” Mabel makes a family photo appear out of thin air.
It had everyone in the large family present in the photo: James and Jessie, Stan and Carla’s grown twin children. Tara Grayson-Pines, James’ wife and mother of their own children, Cormac, and the triplets Arya, Aria and Anais. Lilian Prescott and Maurice Pierce-Pines, Jessie’s wife and husband and parents of their three children Tanya (who is expecting a child of her own), Stanley Junior and Tyrone.
Then there’s Shauna, Shannon and Shifty, Ford and Adeline’s own grown children where the latter had been adopted long ago.
“Yeah.” Dipper sighed sadly while looking at the picture and he got a bright idea. “You thinking what I’m thinking, Mabel?”
“We should totally use our powers to traverse distance and enter the dreams of our friends and family?” Mabel paused and showed her bright grin. “Heck yeah!” Neither knew if it would be alright to just appear in their loved one’s dreams, but they won’t know unless they try.
Dipper and Mabel together manifested a door to appear before them. The twins held hands as they entered through the door together with Waddles in tow, closing upon the three entering. They enter what appears to be a central hub within a cosmic landscape containing many, many doors -- unique to each and every person -- that lead to a multitude of people and animals' dreams. The twins have their mouths agape in wonder of it all. Dipper, Mabel and Waddle’s feet were no longer touching the ground as they simply floated within the space.
They almost didn’t know where to start.
“So many doors!” Mabel’s voice echoed, making her giggle. “It would take an eternity to open them all.” Dipper gave his sister a telling look that she shouldn’t do it. “Which is something we don’t have!”
Dipper created a console with his mind before him and his sister and pet pig with the intent to make searching for their family member’s dreams less of a hassle. He touches the sphere of the imaginary machine and inputs the names of each person into the memory. Then suddenly, he felt a jolt of shock run through his head that made the console turn staticy. Mabel felt it too as she held her head.
“Ah!” Dipper groans. “There’s… there’s someone I’m forgetting!”
“Me too!”
Waddles, being quick to act, used his pig brain to create the scrapbook from nothing with his mind from memory, squealing and showing it to the twins with his hooves turning the pages for them. Dipper and Mabel squinted at the image of the whole family gathered, voices echoing in their minds that told them of each one; starting with the older and young adults and then to the teens and a young child. Stan; Ford; Adeline; Carla; Jimmy; James; Jessie; Shauna; Shannon; Tara; Lillian; Maurice; Spriggs; Tanya; Cormac; Stan Junior; Arya; Aria; Anais; Tyrone; Isaac; and finally Quincy.
Seeing all their faces and names in the picture, it brought back memories of all the adventures they had together. For better or for worse. Their adventures with their Grunkles and Graunties, learning the deep and dark secrets of their family members, and how they all became closer through the best and worst moments of that summer. It hurts that Dipper and Mabel were looking at the picture not too long ago, only for their mind to have blanked their memory. They’ll never get used to this.
It brought a sense of relief to the twins as they started to remember everything again. Dipper finishes the process of making the doors of each family member appear before them; each door is unique and set apart from one another that reflects the person they belong to. Dipper and Mabel didn’t hesitate to start from the oldest members to the youngest members of the family.
The first dream Dipper and Mabel and Waddles enter within their montage of dream-hopping is Stan’s. Stan dreams of the adventure at sea with his brother, wife and sister-in-law onboard the old Stan O’ War; they'll soon get to go on. Stan fights sea monsters, pirates, and singing shanties no matter how bad his singing was. Dipper and Mabel were pleased with what they were watching and got them excited to see more, but they had to move on to the other dreams and left through a door they created. Stan took notice.
In the next dream, that being Ford’s, and the twins and pig watch to see Ford dreaming that he ended Bill before Dipper and Mabel could make the deal with him. It brought some unpleasant memories in the twin’s minds so they quickly left as soon as they came. Ford, too, took notice of Dipper and Mabel’s departure, presuming to him that it means Bill’s power has begun to manifest within them.
Dipper and Mabel move on to their grauntie Carla’s dream where she is in a field of white and purple flowers with the sun in the horizon still in a permanent sunset, creating a lilac sky above. The twins find their grauntie sitting on a red and white blanket surveying the land before her. Carla appeared younger with her wrinkles nowhere to be found on her face, her gray hair back to its original brunette, and a flower in her hair. Then suddenly, a younger version of Stan appears, in a red suit and tie, his own brown hair in a mullet fashion, and a bright smile on his face. It endeared the twins while watching Carla interact with the dream version of her husband. And then, Carla and Stan began to age until they appeared as they do in the real world. Dipper and Mabel found it time to leave and move on to another dream.
The twins and pig find themselves in Adeline’s dream. The scene depicts a forest on a summer’s day with the sun shining through the trees. There was a noticeable amount of deer that grazed on the grass and stags butting heads against each other. Dipper tries to look for his aunt, but he sees that familiar blonde doe nearby who was utterly frightened and running away from the yellow demon triangle that cackles madly. This is a nightmare. Dipper and Mabel exchange looks, knowing what they felt to do was right, and fly to catch up to the triangle and Adeline. Dipper and Mabel punch the triangle together and put an end to him tormenting their grauntie. The twins and Waddles leave quickly before Adeline has the chance to approach them as she returns to her human self.
Dipper and Mabel and Waddles enter inside the dreams of their uncle, James Pines. The twins and pig watch him appear to be comforting a younger version of himself after pulling him out of the Bottomless Pit, looking no more than ten, and tending to the wound on his arm that will leave a mark. James reassures himself that things will get better for him. Something James needed to tell himself time and time again. Healing is not a straight road. Witnessing this made Dipper and Mabel feel relieved it wasn’t a nightmare, but a healing dream. They take their leave for their next dream.
Jessie was fighting her own demons within her dreams. Dipper and Mabel watch their aunt fighting against a shadowy manifestation of Thistle Downe in his ragged siren form. But Jessie wasn’t so much as fighting and showing that boastful confidence she often gave off, but running away from him in fear within the setting of the Woodstick Festival at night and no one but her, Thistle, and the twins and pig present. Dipper and Mabel knew they had to do something for her, too. Mabel makes two axes appear before Jessie on the stage and Dipper warns his aunt to get them and gives her morale in encouraging her to be much stronger than him. It gave Jessie enough motivation to run up to her axes, raise them high, and charge at her nightmare, cutting him in two. But before Jessie could thank the twins, they vanished.
Inside Tara’s dream, the twins and Waddles immediately witness Tara herself running across a vast distance within the woods in pursuit of an elk in her wolf form with red fur. Tara was getting closer and closer to her target. Mabel verbally encourages her aunt to keep going, but realizing she spoke, she covers her mouth. Tara reaches her goal and a bright light flashes, Dipper and Mabel’s cue she was waking up. The three take their leave to the next dream.
Within Lillian’s dream, Dipper and Mabel and Waddles find themselves on a highway on a moonlit night. And driving on that endless highway was Lillian riding on a polished white Harley wearing a pink helmet, having the time of her life, driving with no destination in mind. It was just Lillian and her train of thought wandering with not one obstacle coming into view. Seeing they were not needed, Dipper, Mabel and Waddles take their leave.
Dipper, Mabel and Waddles enter inside Maurice’s dream, finding it wasn’t like the other dreams and nightmares of the others they entered through thus far. It was the living room of the house he shares with his wives and sons. Maurice himself, a tall man with long blond hair, bushy beard and orange eyes was watching tv on the sofa. He turns and faces the twins and Waddles with a welcoming smile on his face.
“Oh hey, kids!” Maurice waved at them. “I see you figured out the dreamscape.”
“Sure have, Uncle Maurice!” Mabel took a seat next to him. “We’ve been missing you guys so we thought to see you all in your dreams.”
“We’ve only been going in their dreams, no one else's.” Dipper joined his sister and pig on the sofa.
“Good.” Maurice turned off the tv to give them his undivided attention. “I’ve been watching how their dreams have been playing out from here without interfering. I’m no dream demon, but I can see other people’s dreams of my choosing from within my own dreams. And I’ve seen what you have been doing.” Dipper and Mabel frowned, believing they were in trouble for it.
“We were trying to fix the ones with nightmares. Is that bad?” Mabel asked.
“I don’t think so, but I’d be careful. What happens to you in the dream will affect you in real life, too. People’s nightmares can get pretty nasty. It’s not your job to try to fix anyone’s dreams. You two deserve a break.” Maurice lets out a sigh as he can’t stop them. “But I know you guys will want to try all the same.”
“We don’t like seeing them go through those terrible things.”
“No one does. It’s up to you what you want to do.”
Dipper and Mabel nod at each other and get up from the sofa.
“Thanks for having us here,” says Dipper, keeping in mind what he said.
“It’s all good. Stay safe in the dreamscape.”
“We’ll keep that in mind,” Mabel smiled as her, Dipper and Waddles take their leave.
Within Spriggs’ dreams, Spriggs himself was flying across the forest as a fairy on a sunny day, resembling a Spanish moon moth in terms of the colors of his wings. Spriggs was carrying a piece of metal with gloved hands as he brought it to what appeared to be a metallic gateway of alien nature. Spriggs was engrossed in his work to not notice the twins and Waddles nearby behind the pine trees in working on his project. Dipper was interested in where it would lead. Soon enough, Spriggs finished and turned on the gateway and shines a great blue light upon activation. Spriggs flutters into it as if compelled to. But before he could enter it, Dipper, Mabel and Waddles see everything turn white and fading, a familiar occurrence when they were in Stan and Ford’s dreamscape all those months ago.
Dipper, Mabel and Waddles couldn’t get into Shauna’s door when it faded away from their view. It was telling she must have woken up that got Spriggs, her husband, to wake up as well. They hoped she was okay as they entered into their aunt Shannon’s dream.
Shannon’s dream was a spectacle. Dipper, Mabel and Waddles found themselves at a night club full of colorful lights, upbeat music, and familiar faces that danced on the floor or mingled at the bar. At the center stage, Shannon was the center of everyone’s attention as she danced with what appeared to be her boyfriend Clyde. She seemed happy and in her element. Mabel was digging the music and dancing with Waddles. Dipper, too, nodded his head to the beat of the music. But it didn’t last long with Dipper focusing back on the rest of the dreams he wanted to visit before the night ended. He tugged Mabel’s sweater, taking her out of the groove and followed him as did Waddles.
The next dream is Shifty’s. Shifty dream involved himself exploring a vibrant field of an array of colors Dipper, Mabel and Waddle have never seen in their world. Trees that stretch towards the red-orange sky with a blue sun shining above them. Definitely not of their world. Was it a genetic memory? Much of Shifty’s origins still remains a mystery. It is unlikely Shifty himself will ever know, but these kinds of dreams leave him to wonder what could have happened all the same. There wasn’t much the twins and pig could do but take their leave.
Within Tate’s dream, he was fishing out in the middle of Gravity Falls Lake. Everything was quiet, save for the ambient sounds of nature around him and the light breeze on a sunny day. The perfect day to fish. But he wasn’t alone as his adoptive son Isaac was fishing with him without a care. They waited for something to happen, but nothing of significance. It was just a pleasant time without disturbance. They couldn’t blame him for desiring this after everything that happened. Dipper, Mabel and Waddles leave the dream on a positive note.
Tanya’s dream was another story. Tanya, an intersex young woman with long blonde hair and partially toned skin, faces across from her a huge wolf with piercing yellow eyes and black as night fur. It was a face off. Dipper and Mabel knew better than to interfere in this as Waddles cowered behind Mabel, shaking in fear. They watch Tanya approach the wolf slowly. She was afraid, but she had to face it. Something unique to her since her lycanthropy awakened and began throwing her off her composure. On top of being pregnant at that.
“Okay, bud. This is how we’re going to do this.” Tanya stares down the wolf who gave her his undivided attention. “This body is my own. I don’t want you to do anything that could harm me and my child, or any children I have after. We share control of it. Got it?” The wolf narrows his eyes before he gives a snort as if agreeing with her. “Heh. Simple as that.”
Seeing as Tanya has it handled, Dipper and Mabel leave along with Waddles.
Within Stanley Junior’s dream, it was much more vibrant and quiet as if they were in a painting themselves of an open field next to a lake on a bright sunny day with little clouds in the sky. It didn’t take long for the twins and Waddles to find the sixteen year old boy who resembled much like his grandpa Stan as a teen, with the exception that his brown hair reaches to his shoulders and a full beard on his face he let grow out. Junior was painting a picture on a canvas of Dipper and Mabel and Waddles, having felt their presence the second they entered his dream.
“Oh! Hey Dips! Mabs! And Waddles, too.” Junior turns to face the trio with a smile on his face. “Dad told me to anticipate a visit from you guys.”
“Junior, your dream looks so pretty,” complimented Mabel.
“Why thank you. Ever since, um, you know, I became more aware within my dreams and can make it whatever I want it to be, for the most part.” Junior makes the finishing touches of the painting, showing it to them when he turns the canvas around for them to see. “What do you think?”
“Awesome!”
“You captured our likeness!”
“Thanks!”
“We’ll be heading off here to see Ty’s dream, now, before our alarm wakes us up,” said Dipper.
“No problem! It was nice seeing you again. It’s only been a week and we all miss you guys.”
“We missed you, too, Junior!”
Dipper and Mabel waved goodbye to Junior as they left for Ty’s dream next.
Inside Ty’s dream, the tall black boy with blue eyes, plays a white violin before a crowd of anonymous people with his right arm intact. Ty wearing a clean black suit and shoes. The melody on the strings was sorrowful and contemplative. Tears were shedding from his eyes when he concluded his song. On the final note, Ty let lightning strike him in a great flash of light, but he was unharmed and appeared renewed by the electrical energy brought upon him and his being.
Ty was aware of Dipper and Mabel’s presence and walks up to them, his right arm fading away as he greets them with a small wave of his left hand. “Uh, hey, guys. Did you like the performance?”
The twins nod, showing sad smiles in making a quick glance at his missing arm.
“We loved it!”
“It was electrifying!”
This made Ty laugh a little. “I’m glad to see you two and Waddles again. We all miss you back home.”
“We missed you and everyone, too, Ty.” Mabel smiled.
Dipper couldn’t beat around the bush about it any longer. “Ty. How are you holding up without your arm?”
Ty glanced at where his arm was and showed a small smile. “I… I think I’ll be okay. Just not right now. Carrie and Fiddleford are helping me build a better prosthetic. Which is good since they’re hella expensive, normally, even with health insurance.”
“Hope it works out. Let us know how it goes.” Dipper and Mabel take their leave with Waddles and wave goodbye to their cousin.
Within Cormac’s dream, the albino werewolf, with a long scar across his nose, was running across a grassy plain with no destination in mind on a full moon night in the middle of nowhere. It reminded the twins of Lillian’s dream. But this time, Cormac does come across a pack of wolves he joins. Cormac and the wolves howled together that sounded melodic and it seemed to carry a long distance. It was as if he and the others were singing. Dipper and Mabel leave the dream pleased with what they’ve seen.
Within Arya, Aria and Anais’ dreams, more often than not, share the same dreams. No one knows why this is, but their strong bond could be a factor. This dream was no different tonight. The teenage werewolf triplets were enjoying themselves at the lake, a similar scene Dipper and Mabel saw before when they were saving the girls from their nightmare induced by the mares. A recurring dream. Arya was hesitant to go into the lake water, but Aria and Anais take each hand and all go together, reassuring their sister she’ll never be alone. Dipper and Mabel get closer to the end of their adventure. Only two more left.
Inside Isaac’s dream, the teenage boy with long golden hair was looking at his reflection in the mirror. Despite having said he wanted to accept the image he was born with, he hated the possibility of looking like his biological father Preston Northwest, a man he’ll never call his father after all the horrible things he committed. A face he is ashamed of looking at. He missed what he used to look like, before the raccoon shapeshifter lifted the spell she placed on him as a baby to look like someone else. A complicated situation for not only Isaac, but for the family he was raised in. Isaac placed his forehead on the mirror and sighed. Dipper and Mabel walk up to him to share some reassuring words.
“Hey, man, it’s gonna be okay.”
“No matter what you look like, you’ll always be you, Isaac. No one can take that away from you.”
Isaac lifted up his head to face himself again and brightly smiled at Dipper and Mabel. “Yeah. That’s right. I’ll try to keep that in mind. Just needed a reminder.”
With that seemingly settled, Dipper and Mabel and Waddles travel to one last dream.
Quincy, the young boy of age seven, was having himself a good dream in playing with his friends he made during the fateful summer. Dani, Jack, Kylie, Jill, Gus and Sebastian, kids around the same age as him and unique in many ways. The boy in the green shirt sprouted full green butterfly wings to fly without a care in the world, and all his friends flying with him in his pleasant dream where the sun shines bright in the sky over a flowery field in perpetual spring time. Dipper and Mabel marvel at the dream being shown, and Waddles takes delight in eating some flowers.
Dipper smiles and lets out a sigh of content.
“I think this is a good dream to leave off on.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other --”
The sound of their alarms rang that cues their adventure’s end in the dreamscape.
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Dipper, Mabel and Waddles awoke from their adventurous slumber, greeted by the sun that begins a new day. It was thankfully Saturday and they’re in no rush to get dressed yet.
Dipper and Mabel’s cell phones, however, became the first thing they had to address as they started to ring and ring in addition to text messages from their family members. It was going to take a bit of time to answer them all.
But there was one question they had on their mind: how was Shauna doing? Shauna, Shannon’s fraternal twin sister, having woken up before Dipper and Mabel could enter her dream. The twins imagine Shauna not having been well after what happened during Weirdmageddon, having been tortured alongside her siblings and parents by Bill before she and everyone else in Gravity Falls were rescued. In addition, residual trauma in her teens at the hands of Bill, or from scenarios unrelated when it had to do with her college friends and their adventures.
The first call they answer is from Ford.
“Kids!” Ford began. “Do you two have any idea what you’ve done?” He didn’t sound angry at the slightest, more so astounded by what the twins accomplished.
“Enter your dreams and everyone else in the family; save for our parents and grandpa?” answered Dipper while scratching his head.
“Yes! Kids, with this power, you have to be careful how you use it.” Ford paused to form his thoughts before saying. “Like Bill, I imagine you both would be more vulnerable in the dream and mindscape while visiting each person. If you get hurt in there, you get hurt in real life. I’m thrilled about this and… concerned, not going to lie.”
“Yeah, we get that. We talked to Maurice in his dream and we’re going to be careful with this power. We didn’t enter anyone else’s dreams besides you guys. We missed you.” Mabel replied while sitting next to Dipper in joining the conversation.
“Good, good. We all miss you, too. Looking forward to seeing you both during the holiday breaks.”
“The only dream we didn’t get to enter is Aunt Shauna’s. Is she going to be okay?”
The twins hear an audible sigh on the other end and a heavy pause until Adeline’s voice could be heard on the other end.
“After what happened to Shauna and Shannon’s eyes years ago, it was so traumatizing to Shauna she was having night terrors and couldn’t sleep at all. There’s reason to believe it’s happening again because of what Bill did to us. To put it short, he hurt us in more ways than one.” There was another pause. Adeline collected her composure to bring up the unpleasant topic. “Please don’t feel you have to fix everyone’s dreams like you did with mine and likely others. You and Mabel have already done so much. We know how to handle this with Shauna. Rest assured, she will be okay, even if not right now.”
Dipper and Mabel exchange concerned expressions and Mabel was the one to respond. “Okay, Grauntie Addi. Keep us updated, okay?”
“We will.”
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1 & 15, baby 🤍
book you’ve reread the most times?
I’m gonna be pretty basic (for a tumblr user) and say crush by richard siken! I’m not that good at rereading books because there’s just so many new ones I’m always looking forward to reading… I gotta get into the habit of rereading stuff more since I almost always end up loving it even more on a third or fourth read
recommend and review a book
The best thing I read this year was A spy in the house of love by Anais Nin (sorry if you’ve already read this). Her prose is so lush and impressive, it had me immersed immediately. It was so interesting to read a book about an unfaithful woman, especially since it’s very introspective and emotionally intelligent. I really just thought Nin did a wonderful job at making the reader understand this very sensitive and complicated female character that is navigating love and desire. Anyways, I love infidelity <3
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For FanFic Ask: N, R and S, please.
Thank you for sending in! Now the ramble:
N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
Wasn't sure when reading if this one's about my own stories or others' stories which I still hope will get an update! There's so many but now a few come to mind:
The Moth and The Flame , an Aegnor/Andreth modern-AU I read years ago but still think about. There are some fantastic soul-wrenching flashbacks from the First Age, and a sweet story for Aegnor and Andreth, and a plot! A couple other *well loved* characters in The Silmarillion make an appearance too.
Between the Rivers: A Tale of Haleth was such a delightful Caranthir/Haleth read and I still hope for a continuation, after all these years.
And! Red and Black (to say nothing of Ginger Cat), a brilliant Maedhros/Berúthiel fic! I love how they made it work.
If it's my own stories... sometimes all of them I have this Maeglin/Idril fic called 'Within these walls' which I keep wanting to get to but never quite manage!
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
I grew up on classics like novels by Alexandre Dumas and the Brontë sisters so I think that must've left an imprint. The Professor T himself is one, from whom I also allow myself the profuse use of ';' nowadays. I'd read anything by Terry Pratchett and I love the style of Milan Kundera, Neil Gaiman, and more recently Madeline Miller. There are so many others I'll probably only remember after I post this hah!
On fanfic side, yessum. Antiheld(@pickingfightswithsprites) wrote a LOTR fic that is still an all time favorite in characterization. Ithilwen of Himring with a wrenching Maedhros series. Others that come to mind are Ohtze, Dawn Felagund, Anais Lacquestar, Tehta, Ziggy
S: Any fandom tropes you can't resist?
We gotta bulletize!
enemies to (friends) lovers - the evolution to the payoff! The tension! The romantic angst!
found family - characters met/were thrown together by some dire circumstance or other and stuck together through good or ill, sometimes despite insurmountable differences, and grew to care for each other? I'll crawl on my knees.
The sunshine and the grump - they're different, but the differences are exactly what the other needs? Yes more
Isekai/trapped in another world/portal fantasy - MC lands in an unfamiliar place and has to navigate the situation, with funny/dangerous/sweet/angsty results? I'm game.
I have others, I bet
Thanks again!
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LAZARUS: FAMOUS AU
OTHER HEADCANONS:
Navigator, Peregrin, & Alodia Anai all live together, especially after their father, Rikard Anai, & their brother's, O'Hara Anai, deaths. They know of at least 9 other siblings through Rikard.
Navigator's mother, Zofi Andron, & Peregrin's mother, Odona Tierney, are also 80s movie actors. Finding each other through their sons, by the early 2000s, they've became another famous Hollywood couple.
Navigator Anai & Cinna Endeel were childhood friends, but lost contact through the years. Their reunion was on the set of their perfume ad. The ad became notorious because of their natural chemistry, the steaminess of the ad, & it begin giffed & shared for months to years after the ad first aired. The two of them are often hired together now due to their chemistry.
Cinna Endeel used to date choreographer, Levi Elisedd. The two of them together were a favorite of photographers, magazines, & tabloids, after how "close" the couple were willing to be in public at clubs, restaurants, or the street.
Cinna has one damaged eye due to a fight in her young adulthood, causing one pupil to forever be dilated. Often, people will think she has two eye colors, but it simply can't adjust.
Arturo Huerta, while not famous himself, after he's accompanied his daughters so much to their sets, interviews, & events, & after he's been filmed so often caring after them, he's been asked to join Leonor & Emmeline's interviews. He's genuinely famous for being a good father, & meme-worthy reactions. He first became a meme after he got lost during a red carpet event & couldn’t find Lenny or Emme.
Emmeline is legally blind, & often hired for her eerie looks, with wide greyed-over eyes & dyed white hair. Later, she also began acting in Spanish, American, & Asian dramas. Because Arturo stays with her for travel & drives her to each of her sets, all of her work has been especially PG. If a change is suggested, she'll remind them her father is there.
Atticus Prior, already 6' by his pre-teens, became an early model due to his height, almost white eyes, naturally white hair, & facial scars. Nimm Aldanar is one of the main designers that styles for him. He still must be bribed to do underwear modeling or anything close to it.
Currently, Naje Menarev stars in over 1000 videos on Youtube analyzing her interviews & singing to see if she's part of the Illuminati.
The 1980s was Rikard Anai, Noa Niedra, & Rishla Ilesar's time together, became famous alongside each other. Rikard & Rishla remained longterm friends until his death. Noa & Rishla also used to date while Rishla still ran her show in the 90s, however, the fact was unknown by most until the late 2010s. Neither kept it a secret, they're just private.
Rishla Ilesar is the primary person calling out & trying to bring down Enric Evas & Kai Montrose, with episodes focused on them alone on her show. She is also prolific for clearing out pedophilia & abusive directors & writers in Hollywood, many even before they become famous.
Rishla once generally worked as an actor, before moving onto directing & producing.
Alodia, once found by her full brother O'Hara Anai as a child, now lives with her half-brothers Navigator & Peregrin while she works on both movie sets & attends college.
Living with her brothers, Alodia’s shaky videos of them arguing usually go viral, especially when it's filmed at 7am in the kitchen, they've barely woken up, she does close ups on their faces & her face with Mii music playing. In a few shots, you can see her girlfriend, Chance, drinking milk out of the carton by the fridge.
#lazarus tag#character: atticus prior#character: bellamy evas#character: navigator anai#here we GO#this is random and not random order#edit#hcs so we actually get our shit for aus written down#the rest of them in the other posts when i make them#character: emmeline#lazarus post
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ok i am the only one who doesn't sees nothing het/straight in clement, and why i have the feeling he might be the next season main. imo
I mean he could be queer you never know now a days. I actually think s10 may be a split. I think we may get a backstory to redouane and either Clement or anais. I can see clement creating a young fan base on his looks and Anais may be the typical Emma season but more in-depth meaning someone that is questioning what direction to go after school and if school is even for them. The thing with clement is he is an open book so Shirley/Deb can basically write anything they want for him. So sometimes I feel like writers prefer that then having to pick up prior storylines. Redouane is unique because both his parents are doctors and he wants to do a creative field. I feel like this is such an important topic lots of kids are getting pushed into traditional subjects because the pay and chances to blow up in an artistic field is so slim. It'd be nice to see someone try to figure out how to navigate school pressures especially because once again redouane is a moc but he isnt poor, or in need and in many ways is the "ideal" 1st/2nd gen citizen right? but thats also an absurd notion but i do feel like a lot of immigrants families feel they have to live up to situations like this. So idk..... we will see...... I actually dont mind any of these characters but Anais excites me the less.
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Character Introduction: Finley Vasquez
“Yo, Finn, you got a minute?” Reagan called over her shoulder. While she, Ingrid, and Anais were busy checking the map, Finley sat crouched on the sand like a bird with just the soles of her feet touching the ground. Other than pausing to push her glasses up her nose every few minutes and her eyes scanning vigorously on the page, Finley didn’t didn’t move.
“You guys...” They were shocked to find that her voice was genuinely cracking and unstable from the lump developing in her throat. She rubbed the side of her arm against her eyes and then used the blue sweater tied around her face to dry it. “They’re gonna kiss in this scene. They’re really gonna make it canon. Can you believe it? Kayame has been waiting so long for affection, and now...” She dissolved into tears, rubbing the palms of her hands into her eyes.
“I thought you were kidding about bringing that manga out here for her,” Reagan lifted her hand over her mouth and spoke in Ingrid’s ear.
“I didn’t. She snuck it out herself. Poor girl.” She whispered back.
“I’m sorry, this is bonkers,” Finley sniffed and stood from the sand, wiping the sand off her skirt. “My dad never lets me read manga at home. He says it’s not actually literature and a proper girl reads, like Ingrid does.” She motioned to Ingrid, who looked a mixture between flattered and concerned.
“Finley, you know you don’t have to keep comparing yourself to me. Your dad is--”
“So thanks!” Finley said loudly to cut her off, flashing a thumbs up. “I’ll finish it on the way.” At everyone’s concerned looks, her eyes dropped and she shoved the book into her bag. “Let’s just keep moving.”
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Name: Finley Vasquez
Nickname: Finn
Age: 19 (and has been for eighty years)
Sexuality: Lesbian
Likes: Books of all kinds, sweaters, tea with nine sugars, sand castles, whip cream from the can, math, making gifts, fireworks, magic, cats in hats, paper football
Dislikes: The Cat in the Hat, cold hands, showers, too many zippers, white after labor day, deep water, horror, burping, colored contacts, extreme sports
Backstory: Finley was one of the few people whose entire family was compatible with the immortality virus sent down by the Ganymedes decades ago. She was busy at college ignoring her father’s high standards when the attack came, and after a long and reluctant journey of finding her parents, she discovered that they had assumed leadership of a town called Noere. As the mayor’s daughter, a lot of responsibility of keeping things running smoothly is put on her shoulders, and she is expected to look neat, act neat, and be discrete. Underneath her poise, however, there’s a warm-hearted girl who loves pop culture, even though she’s been told most of her life to suppress her passions. Skilled with using chains as a weapon, she’s the group’s navigator and personal tidbit machine.
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#sky of sinners#character introduction#character intro: finley#finley vasquez#MY OCs#my wips#my writing#sos
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Is One Piece sexist?
Since the beginning of times One Piece has received lots of criticism because of the way it portrays women. It stands out like an anime that objectify them. And this comes more than anything because of the very voluptuous drawings that Oda is constantly climbing in intensity.
Yes, there is a character that is constant and actively acting as a pervert around them (Sanji), but this doesn’t work as a special criticism towards One Piece, as in most popular shonen manga figures a character that fulfils this role (Roshi in Dragon Ball, Jiraiya in Naruto, Minoru in Boku no Hero Academia and so on). But the exaggerated designs of the human body are enough for some people to argue that One Piece’s mangaka actually has particularly sexist tendencies. As a person who is really tired of the way women are represented in the entertainment medium, I’d like to make some dimensioning about the subject. My thesis is the next one: One Piece is not as sexist as people think (meaning more than other mangas) and actually makes some really good choices from which other mangakas could learn something.
I could start this little essay posing that Eiichiro Oda actually draws over the top and hyper sexualized women AND MEN. So this would mean that isn’t a matter of sex. However that’s not my main argument. So instead I’ll say that the way he draws bodies actually isn't as important… to me, in order to decide either he is sexist or not. Oda could be doing it because the industry is pressuring him to do it, maybe that’s the way he learned to draw women over the years or it could be that it’s part of the weird style he wants his world to have… I mean, One Piece is a weird show with pretty unorthodox designs in general.
What to me is more substantial in the matter of sexism, and is super upsetting for me to see as a woman, is the significantly lower quality of female characters compared to male ones, which is super present in other famous shonen mangas. Nothing yells at me that a men has retrograde ideas about women that his inability to imagine a decent female character. Especially in works that feature super interesting and compelling men. In that case if there isn't a woman in the main cast who I can say “Omg! She is so cool”, to me, is really saying that the creator of the manga just can’t imagine women being cool. They are unable to process the simple fact stated by George R. R. Martin (2018) (Who comes from another area but really accomplished the desired task with characters such as Daenerys Targaryen, Arya Stark and Olenna Tyrell) when someone asked him how he was able to create good female characters and he responded: “I submit… it seems strange that I have to say this as sort of a weirdly radical statement… but women are people and they’re driven by the same desires that drive men I think”.
If we took the female characters of the main cast of One Piece and totally get rid of the giant breasts and the minuscule waist what is left? Amazing characters with compelling personalities and incredibly badass backstories. Nico Robin has always been one of my favorites. She is probably the smart one; although a few have a skill or profession (mechanical or navigator), she is the only one we can call an academic, a scholar who plays a vital role in the main plot of One Piece (To find the One Piece for god sake!). And she definitely has one of the most tragic and interesting backstories of the crew. She is also hilarious! Which is important in a manga that rely so much on absurdist comedy. Even though she is very straight-faced, she makes super dark comments in moments in which they are completely inappropriate. And those kind of mixes just makes her an interesting, complex and well-crafted protagonist.
In the case of Nami, I would like to highlight the fact that she has a complete backstory (And therefore, a complete arc) sustained over women who totally kick ass. I won’t go deep on that but c’mon! This panel alone is a thousand times more empowering that the attempt in Avengers Endgame to show “girl power”.
So, again, I’m not trying to say that One Piece doesn't sexualize women (It does… and may also be sexualizing men, which is another topic). What I am saying is that One Piece is able to highlight the fact that women are able to have (and often do have) extraordinary qualities that overshadow those that have to do with their physique. And sadly that is not such a common accomplish in modern media in general. I still watch a large portion of recent films that fails at The Bechdel test. So I appreciate realizing that someone was able to fulfill the basic requirement of creating women who are also interesting, complex and ridiculous twenty years ago. And instead of closing the debate around One Piece and sexism and sexism in media in general, my intention is to add a layer to a debate that hopefully will continue existing as long as it takes to have a decent representation of women.
Anais Díaz
References
Martin, G. [Aegon Targaryen] (2018. May 24). George RR Martin on Writing Women [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGmctvlITtI
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Best Anime of 2019- Top 15 Anime you can watch
Whether or not you’re searching for one thing with superhero aptitude, a horror-inspired thriller, or a romance with a bit comedy blended in, 2019 has all you want. To whittle down the seemingly countless collection of animation that the 12 months already has to supply, we’ve put collectively a listing of the very best anime exhibits of the previous couple of months.
Also check: Best Anime to Watch – Top 30 Anime of 2018
The very best upcoming 2019 anime embrace reboots of classics like Fruits Basket and Boogiepop Phantom, new seasons of fantastic exhibits like Mob Psycho 100 and Chihayafuru, and all-new variations of sizzling manga like Osamu Tezuka’s 60’s traditional Dororo, in addition to the newer sequence, The Promised Neverland. It doesn’t matter what you are in search of, there’s one thing to get hyped about on this 12 months. So, with out losing any extra time let’s begin the present!
15. Aggretsuko (Season 2)
Rarecho and Fanworks’ Aggretsuko was a breakout hit when it premiered on Netflix early final 12 months. A lot in order that we’re now handled to yet one more new season, this time crammed with much more pleasant surprises and twists than the primary.
After we final left Retsuko, our plucky steel karaoking crimson panda protagonist, it appeared as if she was in a reasonably great spot between her work-life and precise life. Certain, her job as an accounting clerk nonetheless sucks and her love life — or lack thereof — might depart one thing to be desired, however Retsuko got here out of the challenges of that first season a stronger, wiser, and extra assured younger girl keen to say her price, converse up for herself, and extra keen to behave on her personal wants and wishes.
Season 2 finds Retsuko tackling new, albeit acquainted challenges within the type of Anai, an aggressively hypersensitive intern below her tutelage, the intrusive helicopter parenting of her personal mom who insists on her discovering a accomplice and settling down, and a brand new love curiosity with a stunning background. An immensely satisfying continuation of the primary, Aggretsuko Season 2 is one in every of 2019’s must-watch sequence.
Launch date: June 14
Director: Rarecho
Animation manufacturing: Fanworks
Watch Online on: Netflix
14. Rilakkuma and Kaoru
Rilakkuma and Kaoru follows Kaoru, the present’s titular 20-something workplace employee, as she navigates the challenges of her job, residence life, the expectations of her household and friends, in addition to the imprecise however palpable expertise of melancholy and ennui that accompanies younger maturity, all whereas caring for Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma, and Kiiroitori, two anthropomorphic bears that starting dwelling with Kaoru and her pet fowl, respectively.
The present is notable for being one of the vital current and distinguished examples of stop-motion animation in anime, a method too typically marginalized to a distinct segment inside the anime trade, however no much less expressive and spectacular. A captivating slice-of-life comedy with coming-of-age components, each the sequence’ writing and animation are glorious. It is hardly stunning provided that the previous is credited to Naoko Ogigami, an award-winning Japanese comedy writer-director, and the latter to key animators comparable to Katsushi Bouda and Shigeru Okada, lauded stop-motion artists.
At its coronary heart, Rilakkuma and Kaoru is very similar to Netflix’s 2018 sequence Aggretsuko: taking the beloved mascot of a industrial model and centering them on the coronary heart of a honest and affecting exploration of the inherent loneliness of younger maturity and the worth of real, persistent friendships. For this alone, Rilakkuma and Kaoru shines as top-of-the-line anime of 2019.
Launch date: April 6
Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi, Kunihiko Ikuhara
Animation manufacturing: MAPPA, Lapin Monitor
Watch Online on: Netflix
13. Sarazanmai
Let’s minimize straight to the purpose: Sarazanmai is one in every of, if not essentially the most weird, idiosyncratic, visually audacious, and thematically evocative anime to air in 2019. Describing simply precisely what the hell Saranzanmai is to somebody who has by no means seen an anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara (Revolutionary Lady Utena, Pengiundrum, Yurikuma Arashi) is about as tough as it will be to explain the idea of ‘water’ and what the hell it means for one thing to be ‘moist’ to an alien.
However, put merely, the present follows three middle-schoolers — Kazuki Yasaka, Kuji Toi, and Enta Jinnai — as they’re remodeled into kappa, amphibious beak-faced demons, after releasing Keppi, the guardian spirit of Asakusa, from the statue containing him and by chance insulting him. To return to human type, the three are tasked with exorcising “kappa-zombies,” malicious poltergeists, by performing elaborate dance numbers in a liminal dimension to steal the zombies’ shirikodama, magical spheres representing human want, by forcibly eradicating them from their anuses. That’s the tamest, most perfunctory description of what Sarazanmai is about, and it solely will get stranger from right here on out.
Ikuhara is understood for writing exhibits with socially-conscious premises powered by avant-garde visuals laden with labyrinthine ranges of subtextual depth, and Sarazanmai isn’t any completely different. Even realizing that, nothing can fairly put together you for the surprises this present has to supply. If nothing else, know this: It is likely one of the most daring, earnest, and empathetic sequence to air this 12 months, and save for having watched one in every of Ikuhara’s works up to now, you received’t see anything fairly prefer it.
Launch date: April 6
Director: Nobuyuki Takeuchi, Kunihiko Ikuhara
Animation manufacturing: MAPPA, Lapin Monitor
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll
12. Fruits Basket
Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket is a perennial favourite amongst followers of shojo (i.e. ‘younger girl’) manga for its charming slice-of-life storyline, empathetically rendered characters, engrossing relational dynamics, and earnest, offbeat humor, and the sequence’ early ’00s tv adaptation much more so.
This 12 months’s reboot, produced by TMS Leisure and directed by Yoshihide Ibata (Kill La Kill, FLCL Progressive), is a meticulous and loving tackle the supply materials that champions its dedication to telling the unique manga’s story in full. Fruits Basket follows the story of Tohru Honda, a hardworking and optimistic excessive schooler who’s taken in by the Soma clan, a reclusive household whose members every carry the reincarnated spirit of an animal from the Chinese language Zodiac.
Whereas balancing the calls for of faculty and her new function as a surrogate member of the Soma clan, Tohru grows as a younger girl whereas inadvertently facilitating the expansion of every of the family members, tightening bonds that vacillate between the familial and romantic. 2019’s Fruits Basket is a disarmingly endearing romantic comedy with simply sufficient twists on the method of the style to drag in newcomers whereas satisfying longtime followers of the unique.
Launch date: April 6
Director: Yoshihide Ibata
Animation manufacturing: TMS/8PAN
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll, FunimationNow
11. My Roommate Is a Cat
My Roommate Is a Cat is the anime model of Rooster Soup for the Soul if there ever was one. The gist of the plot is baked into the present’s title, however this slice-of-life goes above and past in delivering heartfelt, entertaining life classes that concentrate on “the feels” with predatory accuracy – particularly for those who’re a fan of cats.
Subaru, a 23-year-old author with agoraphobic tendencies, occurs upon a stray cat whereas visiting his dad and mom’ graves. He brings her residence, drawing inspiration from her for way over only a novel. Typical hijinks ensue, however My Roommate Is a Cat seeks to elicit extra than simply the occasional snicker or smile. The present cleverly switches between the views of man and cat, shedding mild on how they interpret the world, and heartfully shows how particular person actions can so strongly have an effect on others.
Collectively, they develop and be taught, turning into extra empathetic towards one another and the individuals of their lives. Don’t be stunned if you end up laughing, crying, and soul-searching throughout a single episode.
Launch date: January 9
Director: As Futatsuya
Animation manufacturing: Zero-G
Watch Online On: Crunchyroll, VRV, and Funimation
10. Boogiepop and Others
The newest anime adaptation of Kouhei Kadono’s influential early aughts mild novel sequence, Boogiepop and Others, is an anthology swirling round Boogiepop, a vigilante alter-ego of excessive schooler Touka Miyashita that possesses her physique in moments of mortal disaster within the battle towards a cadre of otherworldly creatures with ties to a shadowy entity recognized solely because the Towa group.
As a sequence, Boogiepop and Others could possibly be finest described as a slow-burn supernatural thriller thriller dotted with adrenaline-spiking sequences of horror, motion, and suspense set towards a backdrop of gorgeous metropolitan vistas. As an adaptation of not solely the primary novel in Kadono’s sequence, however a number of of the sequence’ different celebrated entries comparable toBoogiepop at Daybreak, Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator, and Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion, the sequence is a must-watch for longtime followers of the Boogiepop and a super level of entry for anybody new to and curious concerning the franchise.
If that is not sufficient to maneuver the needle, the sequence is being produced and animated by the identical director and workforce answerable for 2015’s satirical superhero smash-hit One Punch Man.
Launch date: January 4
Director: Shingo Natsume
Animation manufacturing: Madhouse
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll, FunimationNow
9. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Tailored from Koyoharu Gotōge’s ongoing Shonen Bounce manga sequence, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba follows Tanjiro Kamado, a younger charcoal service provider turned demon slayer, as he units out on a journey of discovery and revenge to not solely avenge his household’s grisly homicide, however to discover a remedy for his youthful sister Nezuko, who survived their household’s assault solely to be remodeled right into a feral half-demon with an aversion to daylight. Ufotable is maybe finest recognized for his or her work on the Destiny franchise, a byzantine darkish fantasy sequence famend for its dazzling battle sequences and digital animation; happily, these qualities carry over to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Whereas the present won’t be as thematically-nuanced or poignant as, say, Dororo, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a powerful shonen journey sequence in its personal proper and is bound to attraction to any fan of Naruto or Black Clover and stands as one of the vital well-animated fantasy chanbara sequence to return out this 12 months.
Launch date: April 9
Director: Haruo Sotozaki
Animation manufacturing: Ufotable
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll
8. MIX: Meisei Story
Tailored from Mitsuru Adachi’s 2012 ongoing shonen baseball sequence, itself a semi-sequel to Adachi’s 1981 sequence Contact (which acquired its personal critically-acclaimed anime adaptation in 1985), MIX: Meisi Story facilities on the journey of two step-brothers, Touma “Tou” and Souichirou “Sou” Tachibana, who, following within the footsteps of Contact’s Tatsuya Uesugi, aspire to guide their middle-school baseball workforce to win the nationwide Kōshien baseball match.
Although not solely other than what one would anticipate from a run-of-the-mill shonen sports activities sequence, MIX shines amongst its contemporaries on the advantage of its charming solid, stunning animation, and creative implementation of fourth-wall breaking transitions and tongue-in-cheek narration. Tou and Sou’s dogged dedication to see their approach to victory is earnest and provoking in a means not not like that of a season of Pokémon — not stunning, given the truth that MIX’s primary author, Atsuhiro Tomioka, is understood for his previous and ongoing contributions to a number of seasons, movies, and specials of the Pokémon sequence.
When you’re searching for a wide-eyed enjoyable, inspiring, and visually spectacular sports activities anime this 12 months, and are not essentially sport to attempt to make amends for over 100 episodes of Ace of the Diamond, MIX: Meisi Story is an ideal selection.
Launch date: April 6
Director: Odahiro Watanabe
Animation manufacturing: OLM
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll
7. Midnight Occult Civil Servants
Miyako Arata is a younger civil servant newly transferred to a seemingly inconspicuous division within the Shinjuku Ward Workplace. Although led to consider his job might be an earthly and bureaucratic one, the unsuspecting Arata quickly realizes that the obligations of his new function are something however.
Assigned to the Nocturnal Group Relations Division, Arata and his coworkers Sakaki Kyouchi and Himezuka Search engine optimisation are tasked with appearing as liaisons between the world of people and the world of the “Anothers,” otherworldly beings imperceptible to those that lack an intuitive aptitude for the supernatural.
With a likeable solid, engrossing moment-to-moment drama, and an aura of thriller full with a handful of peculiar twists and revelations, Midnight Occult Civil Servants is an entertaining city fantasy-meets-workplace drama nicely price carving out the time to look at.
Launch date: April 7
Director: Tetsuya Watanabe
Animation manufacturing: Liden Movies
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll
6. That Time I Got Reincarnated as Slime
5. One Punch Man (Season 2)
The comic-heroic saga of Saitama, a self-proclaimed “hero for enjoyable” who possesses the absurd superhuman capability to defeat any adversary with one punch, was an near-instant hit amongst anime aficionados for its outlandish animation, breathtaking battle scenes, and unflappable deadpan humor.
Ever because the first season of One-Punch Man premiered and blew everybody’s face off in 2015, followers have been eagerly anticipating the following, and after a 4 years wait, it is lastly right here. Followers and critics of the primary season have been curious as to how the change between manufacturing studios and workers from Madhouse, who selected as a substitute to supply this 12 months’s Boogiepop and Others, and J.C. Workers would have an effect on the general high quality of the present’s animation. To make sure, the absence of director Shingo Natsume and the deft skills of animators as Sejoon Kim and the legendary Yutaka Nakamura are definitely missed right here, however contemplating the season’s tortured manufacturing and limitations, J.C. Workers nonetheless handle to ship a serviceable follow-up that strives for the over-the-top bombast and comedy of the primary season and misses by only a hair. Nonetheless, extra One-Punch Man continues to be extra One-Punch Man, and for those who’re a fan of the sequence, it is definitely price using out this season if solely to wash in its flashes of superior spectacle.
Launch date: April 9
Director: Chikara Sakurai
Animation manufacturing: J.C. Workers
Watch Online on: VIZ, Hulu
4. The Promised Neverland
The Promised Neverland follows 11-year-old Emma and her finest buddies, Norman and Ray, three of 37 orphaned kids who reside on a mysterious walled property known as the Grace Area Home. Below the watchful eye of their caretaker recognized merely as Mother, the kids are afforded the very best that life can supply.
Gourmand meals, plush beds, immaculate white outfits, and ample play time whereas they wait to someday be adopted by a loving household. Nevertheless, the quiet idyllicism of Grace Area is swiftly shattered when Emma and Co. bump into a darkish secret which underlies the Home’s very existence. Horrified by their discovery, the three conspire to flee with the remainder of kids into the surface world, because the machinations of each their caretaker and Grace Area’s mysterious benefactors transfer steadily to completion.
With a premise that feels like a cross between From The New World and Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel By no means Let Me Go, The Promised Neverland is an engrossing fantasy thriller with deft animation, savvy modifying, and a taut environment of mortal horror juxtaposed towards a disquietingly cheerful exterior.
Launch date: January 11
Director: Mamoru Kanbe
Animation manufacturing: CloverWorks
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll, Hulu
3. Kaguya-sama: Love is Struggle
Within the “contest” of romance, the one that falls in love first — or “catches emotions” as the children say these days — is the loser. Or at the least, that is the premise of A-1 Photos’ Kaguya-Sama: Love Is Struggle. Tailored from the favored ongoing manga of the identical identify,
Love Is Struggle follows the story of Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya, two genius-level college students attending the illustrious Shuch’in Academy, who quietly harbor emotions for each other. To this point, so boring. However there’s a twist: As a result of an ill-fated mixture of entrenched class consciousness, emotional immaturity, and poisonous adolescent satisfaction, neither Shirogane or Shinomiya will acknowledge their emotions for the opposite.
Fairly than healthily course of these feelings and discuss issues out like, y’know, adults, Shirogane and Shinomiya as a substitute elect to orchestrate an elaborate sequence of public conditions to drive the opposite to admit their emotions first in a bid to save lots of face. The result’s a romantic comedy infused with the depth of a psychological thriller that’s equal elements hilarious and infuriating for all the proper causes.
Launch date: January 12
Director: Mamoru Hatakeyama
Animation manufacturing: A-1 Photos
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation
2. Mob Psycho 100 II
Coming sizzling on the tail of the sequence’ breakout debut in 2016, Mob Psycho 100 II carries the torch of its predecessor’s pedigree as one of the vital hilarious, kinetic, and aesthetically eclectic anime to air in current reminiscence, pushing that envelope even additional in its second season.
With most, if not all, of the unique workers from the primary season returning for this outing, together with animator Miya Sato, whose masterful “oil on glass” animation has distinguished so lots of the earlier season’s stand-out sequences, the adventures of layabout con artist Reigen Arataka, his formidably highly effective protege, Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama, and their poltergeist sidekick, Dimple, proceed to ramp up as Mob journeys via adolescence within the face of ever-more perilous stakes.
Other than its adventurous animation, whip-sharp comedic timing, and spectacular motion sequences, Mob Psycho 100 II is a touching coming-of-age story of the connection between a mentor and his pupil, and the way the 2 assist every to develop into extra mature, earnest, and better-adjusted people. Come from the pyrotechnics, keep for the waterworks.
Launch date: January 7
Director: Yuzuru Tachikawa
Animation manufacturing: Bones
Watch Online on: Crunchyroll
1. Dororo
Within the midst of a horrible plague on the top of Japan’s Warring States interval, Lord Daigo Kagemitsu of the Ishikawa province enacts a pact with 12 demons so as save his area and safe a path to a way forward for wealth and energy. In alternate, every of the demons gather on Kagemitsu’s debt by taking physique elements from his newly born son — his limbs, his eyes, his tongue, his pores and skin — till the child is rendered right into a horrifying testomony to his father’s sins.
Years later, the boy, having survived his father’s try and get rid of him out of disgrace, grows as much as develop into an itinerant swordsman named Hyakkimaru with a prosthetic physique, swords for arms, and the extrasensory capability to “see” demons.
Tailored from Ozamu Tezuka’s authentic manga and anime from the late ‘60s, Dororo tells the story of Hyakkimaru’s quest to slay demons, regain his humanity, and be taught to like and divulge heart’s contents to different individuals in a time of immense cruelty with the assistance of his companion, an orphaned thief by the identify of Dororo.
Produced by Studio Mappa (Youngsters on the Slope, Yuri on Ice, Banana Fish) and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Rurouni Kenshin, Hunter × Hunter ’99, and Cellular Go well with Gundam Unicorn), Dororo is an anime as viscerally violent as it’s heartbreaking, and a sequence that shouldn’t be missed.
Launch date: January 7
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Animation manufacturing: MAPPA, Tezuka Productions
Watch Online on: Amazon Prime
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