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love-sapphirerose · 2 years

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Naruto: Sasuke Was Right About the Hidden Leaf Village

While much of the fanbase tends to disagree with his actions, in retrospect, most of what Sasuke did had some merit and justification.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Naruto anime, making it the perfect time to look back on the franchise. Following the story of the titular character, Naruto Uzumaki, fans were taken on a wild adventure that ultimately ended up revolving around one friend trying to save the other from themselves. This friend who needed saving was obviously the infamous Sasuke Uchiha.

Sasuke Uchiha, while ultimately redeemed at the end of the story, is easily one of the most divisive characters throughout Naruto. As strong as he is, his behavior, especially towards Naruto, has led to the character's derision by fans. What's strange though, is that in many ways, the revelations that happen throughout the series pretty much prove that most of his actions were justifiable.

The Hidden Leaf Framed Itachi For the Death of the Uchiha Clan

Starting off with probably the most notable reason, Sasuke had every right to seek revenge against the Hidden Leaf Village for what it had done to his family. When he was just a child, Sasuke witnessed the massacre of his entire clan at the hands of Itachi, an event that set the stage for his character arc and acted as his main motivation throughout the series.

What makes this event so cruel isn't that the atrocities of that night were committed by his brother, but that the Hidden Leaf Village forced Itachi to do so. After receiving word that the Uchiha were planning a coup d'etat, Danzo went out of his way to eliminate the entirety of the clan, even though there were other methods available, such as Shisui Uchiha's powerful genjutsu. This is also ignoring the fact that the Hidden Leaf could have negotiated and tried to resolve things peacefully as well.

Instead of a peaceful resolution, Danzo manipulated Itachi into killing his family, stating that it would save the most lives, but also threatening to have Sasuke killed if he didn't do it. Feeling trapped, Itachi killed his clan, traumatizing his younger brother in the process, all in an effort to save him. To top it all off, not only was Sasuke not allowed to know any of this, but those responsible, mainly Danzo, weren't punished for their actions, even though the Third Hokage ordered him not to follow through with his plan. In the process of covering up the incident, the Hidden Leaf Village framed Itachi and made him out to be this evil villain that revels in cruelty, tarnishing his name forever.

No one loved Sasuke more than his brother, and the same was true for Itachi. Sasuke idolized Itachi and trusted him more than anyone else, which is why the betrayal hurt him so much. To make matters worse, Itachi went out of his way to torment Sasuke in order to push him to become as strong as possible. Itachi knew from experience just how dangerous it was to be an Uchiha in the Hidden Leaf, and wanted to make sure that Sasuke would be strong enough to protect himself without him there. It broke Itachi's heart doing so, something Sasuke only learned after it was too late.

He'd already killed his brother, only to find out that Itachi had spent his entire life trying save Sasuke from a similar and worse fate. He became the villain in Sasuke's life, hoping that his death would ultimately bring his brother happiness. If Sasuke killed him, he would become known as a hero of the Hidden Leaf Village, ultimately guiding Sasuke away from destroying their home. Even knowing that Itachi wanted Sasuke to be a protector of the Hidden Leaf Village, he couldn't shake away his anger towards it, and rightfully so.

The Hidden Leaf Had a Long History of Mistreating the Uchiha Clan

The issue that pretty much led to the vast majority of the events as far as Sasuke's journey was concerned was the Uchiha Clan Massacre. For a long time, the Uchiha had felt like the Hidden Leaf Village was treating them unfairly, as though they weren't really a part of the village, a sentiment that wasn't completely without merit.

By the time the coup was being planned, the Uchiha had already been pushed to the outskirts of the village, segregating them from everyone else. While this definitely had an "othering" effect, it wasn't the worst part of their mistreatment. This was all done alongside making them into the Konoha Military Police Force, a group designed to keep other shinobi in check and make sure they follow the law. While it was presented as a sign of good faith and trust by Tobirama Senju, it is also what led to the clans move, as it was decided that they along with the station need to be closer to the prison. This is also led to the Uchiha losing governing influence within the village.

In many ways, all of this was predicted by Madara Uchiha. While the main motivations of his belief were mainly selfish and derived from jealousy, Madara was still able to see the signs of where things were ultimately heading. He saw how the other clans in the village feared him and the Uchiha's power, and could see how this prejudice could lead to his clan's downfall. In a case of dark irony, the reason he and Hashirama Senju founded the Hidden Leaf Village was in order to avoid this exact situation. They both felt that if different clans could come together and create a shared home, leading to peace among all clans in all nations. Unfortunately, after Hashirama died, and even during his life, the Uchiha were still treated as a dangerous entity in the village.

This became more prevalent when Obito had the Nine-Tailed Fox attack Konoha. The Uchiha's Sharingan has the ability to control others, even the Tailed Beasts, through the use of Genjutsu.This meant that theoretically, any member of the Uchiha with a high degree of mastery over their Sharingan could have taken control of Kurama and stopped the attack, just like Obito did in order to start it. However, the village leaders in charge at the time forbade them entering the conflict, knowing full well the Uchiha were their best bet at quickly stopping the attack. It highlighted just how deep the mistrust ran, showing that to some, the Uchiha weren't really considered part of the village, because if they were, they would have been trusted to save their fellow Hidden Leaf citizens.

Quite frankly, the Uchiha Clan Massacre was entirely the fault of the Hidden Leaf Village, including the planned coup d'etat. The Uchiha were one of the founding clans that started the entire village system along with the Senju, yet were constantly treated as though they were dangerous and untrustworthy. There were many ways that their issues could have been resolved, but were all seemingly ignored because it would force the higher-ups in the village to view them as real citizens of Konoha. To make matters worse, most of the village's history seems to imply that Konoha went out of its way to blame their mistreatment on the Uchiha themselves, using them as a frequent scapegoat and justification to treat them unjustly.

Sasuke made a personal vow after the massacre to become an avenger. In that sense, the Hidden Leaf Village was always his true target. It was responsible for his family's death as well as framed his brother as some kind of sociopathic mass murderer. The franchise consistently went out of its way to show off the "good side of Konoha," but that was really all a lie. Regardless of what Naruto said or felt, Sasuke had every right to destroy the Hidden Leaf Village, and he honestly should have if he ever found the chance. In actuality, for all the characters trying to get Sasuke to see how they felt in order to convince him to stop, they hypocritically never once really tried to do the same for him. Hopefully, if fans watch it again, maybe to celebrate the anniversary of the anime, they will see Sasuke in a different light.

#sasuke uchiha #anti naruto #uchiha clan #anti konoha

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legendarywolf2022 · 1 year

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The Letter to Pierre Perifel

(To @tbgmoviecoverage from my friend)

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Dear Mr Perifel,

First, I want to say I'm your biggest fan of your latest movie The Bad Guys. Also, I am really happy to know that you also worked as an animator on other projects such as the Kung Fu Panda franchise, Rise of Guardians and even Monsters vs. Alien (honestly I think those last are underrated gems).

Anyway I want to apologize for bothering you like this, but since the tumblr "tbgmoviecoverage" canceled "submit and post" section I had no choice, but to ask you directly. Like I said before I really love your movie The Bad Guys. It has everything, charming anthropomorphic characters, heists, action, heartfull moments, really funny jokes and animation style like from manga comic. It's really amazing. But I couldn't help but notice some similarities with another concept I am familiar with. I am not talking about Zootopia, or Robin Hood, heck even not about Lupin the Third or Ocean 11 or any Tarantino's movies. No. The truth is that those similarities don't come from movies. They actually come from the more or less well-known video game franchise Sly Cooper.

Believe it or not there are so many similarities you could even imagine. There are heists, some car chases, foxy love interest on the side of the law (who is pretty much combination of Diane Foxington (be a fox, sassy, flirty with protagonist, sometimes quick to judge but understanding) and Police Chief Misty (temper and similar police status as inspector of Interpol), hero's narrating to us, side character who pretends to be good guy help protagonists until the reveal of him(or her) be the main antagonist who betrays them and put them in jail, villain who pretends to be a samaritan, villain who tries to prove be the greatest thief (there are many villains with different goals so that's why I mentioning it thrice). Some cutscenes have really great comic style, except Thieves in Times, that one is more cartoon style, but it's still cool.

The only difference I think they have (aside from location) are instead of 5 typical stereotypes of villain animals like snake, tarantula, shark, wolf it's actually 3 animals like turtle, hippo and of course a raccoon (who is actually a stereotype for a masked thief). And they only steal from others, because and I quote: "There's no honor, no challenge, no fun in stealing from ordinary people."

Fun fact: 6 years ago there was supposed to be a movie adaptation, but due to Ratchet and Clank movie failure, it never happened. Then there was a tv series idea, but it also ended up forgotten and as for the next game, nothing since Thieves in Times came and that was 9 years ago and it's only a speculation now considering the 20th anniversary is coming this year. But after the success of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and of course The Bad Guys, being the two of the top movies at the box office in weeks, maybe there is still a chance.

So I am asking you only two questions:

1. Was Sly Cooper one of your inspirations for your movie The Bad Guys? (If you know about this game of course)

2. If there would be a chance of making a movie or tv series adaptation of Sly Cooper, would you take a chance working on it as a director? (Because honestly, there is no other who I would trust with this but you. Like I said, your movie is a great example of how to make a great animated heist movie.)

You don't have to answer that second question if you don't want to. But I still want to know the answer to the first one. Again I apologize for bothering like that, but I assure you this will be the only e-mail you get from me. I just only want to know this. And the rest of my knowledge of Bad Guys production I will learn from a blog on tumblr I just mentioned.

So for final words: Congratulations to your successful movie The Bad Guys and wishing you good luck for future projects like sequel or tv series. You, Aaron Blabey, Damon Ross, Rebecca Huntley, Etan Cohen, all actors, editors, musicians, choreographers, animators, everyone who worked on that movie, you all deserved it.

Sincerely, one of your fans.

P.S. So Long Suckers!🐺😎

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Please share this to everyone who will get this letter to Mr Perifel himself to see it!

#dreamworks the bad guys #the bad guys dreamworks #dreamworks #the bad guys #mr wolf #sly cooper #sly cooper thieves in time #letter #letter to Pierre Perifel #Pierre Perifel

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honoka-marierose · 5 months

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Naruto is still going strong over 20 years after the anime first premiered around the world, and now the franchise is closing out the year with some special new Boruto franchise art for the holiday season! Although the anime first premiered over two decades ago, it's been one of the most successful anime launches ever with it even ranking as the most searched anime in 25 years with Google. Masashi Kishimoto's franchise has been successfully running in some form since that original manga run with Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine came to an end, so it's hard to think of a world without some kind of new Naruto release.

The story has not only continued through releases such as Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (and its own time skip sequel, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex), but the original anime is touting a comeback of its own that's currently in the works for a release some time in 2024. With everything that has happened with the franchise in 2023, Naruto is closing things out strong for the year with some special new art highlighting many of the happy families seen in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations for the holidays. You can check it out below.

What's Next for Naruto in 2024?

Naruto has a lot of projects now in the works for 2024 and beyond. Not only is there a new live-action adaptation currently being written, but there is a special return planned for the original iteration of the anime in production as well. Originally scheduled to release in Fall 2023 before being hit with a delay for an indeterminate amount of time, Naruto's original anime will be returning for a new slate of four planned episodes following a young Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura as they take on a new Team 7 mission.

Naruto has yet to confirm a release date or window for these new episodes as of the time of this writing, but thankfully there is plenty of time to read some of the new franchise entries that are currently running right now. You can currently check out the special Minato Namikaze one-shot manga that Masashi Kishimoto crafted for the 20th Anniversary and the ongoing Boruto: Two Blue Vortex timeskip sequel to Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. They're both available to read for free with Viz Media's digital Shonen Jump library.

What are you hoping to see from the Naruto franchise in 2024? Let us know all of your thoughts about it in the comments! You can even reach out to me directly about all things animation and other cool stuff @Valdezology on Twitter!

#naruto #boruto #naruto shippuden #boruto naruto next generations #boruto two blue vortex #shounen jump #anime

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winderlylandchime · 6 months

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I still cannot believe someone from Europe cares about my brother watching a tv show. Actually I still can’t believe anyone including you cares about him. But to explain how we/he watches the episodes: at the beginning i was in full control of the dvd cases because there are episode descriptions on them. And when you click on the episodes to play it also shows descriptions. So the way we at first did it for him to avoid any spoilers (his wishes bc he absolutely hates spoilers) was that he would close his eyes until the episode started. BUT then he started to care a lot more than he expected and tbh he was less high from his meds so I couldn’t win fights anymore so he wanted to control the dvd cases and the cds and all that. So he made me tape a piece of paper over the descriptions on the cases and then, like a fucking child, after I/he puts the cd in, he selects the ep number and then closes his eyes and either makes me press play or he hopes for the best and does it himself. One time he pressed play and one of the bts interview videos started playing and he covered his ears and screamed like a child until i turned it off. Anyway all he’s seen so far is the dvd intro with the episode numbers and nothing else. He hates spoilers of any kind so he’s treating this like his life depends on it. Few years ago when the Avengers movie came out (the one with iron man’s death) he didn’t leave the house for 2 days because he was scared of spoilers and he even deleted his entire social media cause of it l so this is not even the top 20 most dramatic things he’s done when it comes to shows/movies. So what I’m saying is, he has no fucking clue about episode titles or anything, so all will be news to him. And tbh I’m very happy about that because 1) in the ep descriptions Vic’s death is also revealed in a description later on so he’d for sure see it and 2) I completely forgot the 10th episode title and when I saw your response with the screenshot I actually felt relieved that he’s such a drama queen because I cannot wait for him to see that little moment so if itd be spoiled for him, id riot.

OH your brother has fandom blood running in his veins. His commitment to avoiding spoilers for his media is commendable. I had to do the same thing when I was traveling for the end of last season of RPDR (btw I adore Jinkx! Good taste brother anon!). (And then I realized that because I was abroad the WoW app would actually show the American franchise episodes and I could watch it.)

There are fans from Europe here on tumblr and the person I text with was on tumblr but deactivated while making me promise to keep them appraised of your brother’s reactions. We’re all invested because this is the most exciting thing to happen in the fandom since 2020 20th anniversary YouTube thing. And Gale didn’t show up so this is even better because your brother is wholly focused on Britin (sorry Scott ILY but no one cares about Ted). (Also remember the early days of the pandemic when we could just watch hours of our favs from an ancient tv show catch up?)

I promise that every single person is holding their breath for your brother to watch 510. His reaction is going to be everything.

#ask winderlylandchime #dear sweet anon #queer as folk #a straight man watches qaf us 2000 in the year of our lord 2023

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starlightmeadowbloom · 2 years

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🦝Happy 20th Year Anniversary Sly Cooper🦝

My best friend DisneyFriend made this for me and I wish I should have known as I did forget but I guess showing you this will be good enough.

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'Okay I know I said those pictures will be posted Saturday, but considering today is the 20th year of the Sly Cooper franchise I thought it would be fair that I least show a picture of our favorite Thievius Raccoonus in his gala outfit, you could say he is well-dressed for this special occassion😉.

The outfit is combination of both Sly 2 (slightly Sly 3) and Thieves in Time, with little addition from gentle-thief ancestors Thaddeus Winslow Cooper III.

Hope you like it. (Don't worry I will post the rest tommorrow😉)

And again Happy Anniversary Sly and thanks for everything (I Hope we will see more of you: games, tv series, toys, everything😁)'

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So hope all of you enjoy your sly cooper adventure!

And thank you DisneyFriend for this, I might use that for my bad guys au story.

#the anniversary #sly cooper #not my art #the bad guys #dreamworks the bad guys #dreamworks #the bad guys dreamworks #mr wolf #disneyfriend #the black diamond of the legendary wolf

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shihalyfie · 2 years

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Key Frontier writing staff roles and what parts they were in charge of

Following up from Adventure/02 and Tamers, and in honor of its 20th anniversary, here’s the Frontier version of the post!

Unfortunately, of the original Seki-produced “Digimon quartet”, Frontier is the one we know the least about production for, due to the fact its staff members don’t tend to be quite as talkative as Adventure/02/Tamers’. Because of that, we don’t have a lot to work with, and have to extrapolate from the little we have and the little we know of the writers’ other portfolios. That said, due to the general prominence of the “Digimon quartet” as a group, we do have a bit of information about it bundled in, and the fact said information is on print media has thankfully made it easier to preserve than websites that vanished off the Internet before being archived (Savers and Xros Wars...).

Note before we continue: As with before, this is only a small chunk of the staff involved in the series’ creation and story; this is also with a major focus on writing and therefore isn’t taking into account what must have also been major contributions from the animator and episode direction staff.

Seki Hiromi

Returning after Adventure, 02, and Tamers, for one final time as anime series producer (although most certainly not her final major involvement in the franchise), and known as the “mother” of Digimon anime as we know it. Because Kaizawa and Tomita aren’t particularly known for coming out in public much, Seki is pretty much our most consistent source of the majority of what we know about Frontier production. While it’s unknown to what exact degree she was involved in the story writing compared to Adventure/02 (where she was extremely involved to the point of making 02′s entire premise) or Tamers (where she seems to have been very hands-off other than providing some input here and there), since her focus is in character backstories and narratives, Frontier being a more character-focused narrative and Seki commenting often on said characters seems to imply that she was at least involved somewhat more than she was on Tamers, and interviews carry a nuance of her, Kaizawa, and Tomita often discussing the series collaboratively (all of their interviews pretty much consistently track with each other regardless of who’s talking).

In fact, it seems the story of how Frontier came to be left an impression on her to the point she repeats it almost as much as the number of times she’s mentioned how she came up with 02′s premise: Bandai came up with the idea of having the kids turn into Digimon, Seki went around asking people “I’m not a boy, so I wouldn’t know, but would boys really be interested in turning into monsters?” and everyone went “yes!” very enthusiastically, so she rolled with it.

Seki is known for being rather incredibly blunt and honest about things, so she’s been very straightforward about the fact things were already not looking good financially by the time Frontier had started planning, and that she had a feeling from the very beginning that Frontier was going to be the last series. As a result, her attitude towards the series is that she seems to mainly just be happy that the staff was satisfied with what they’d made and finished without any major regrets.

Kaizawa Yukio

In an incident that’s been cited multiple times over the years, after finishing up production on Tamers, Kaizawa gave a sentimental speech about how he felt like he’d “finally become a Digimon Tamer”, which touched her enough that she felt he was a good fit to be appointed again as well (in her words, she liked his “sensitivity”). Because Tamers was his first Digimon series, it seemed that he’d mostly left things to the other staff in trying to get a feel for it, so Frontier is said to be more in his comfort zone, especially in regards to worldbuilding (he’s consistently credited for this aspect and personally drew diagrams for it). On top of that, he was personally very attached to Flamon (who was originally intended to be Takuya’s base Spirit Evolution form) and was relieved they could at least reuse him in episode 22.

Kaizawa is the second most vocal about Frontier production after Seki, and although he hasn’t been quite as public as Kakudou was about Adventure and 02, he has spoken openly about the process of making Frontier's worldbuilding and the themes it involved, particularly about the Frontier kids having agency to “choose” compared to their predecessors. In line with Seki saying he seems to be quite the sentimental person, he does seem to talk about wanting both Tamers and Frontier to be “close to the children” and to inspire them in some way.

Although the fact he isn’t as public on the Internet means he hasn’t spoken about Digimon as much as Kakudou, Kaizawa is still pretty clearly fond of Digimon, and eventually went on to direct Hunters as well as participate on Xros Wars and Adventure: production. Much like Kakudou in Adventure and 02, Kaizawa likes to be involved in individual episodes even as a series director, but unlike Kakudou, he’s gone on to be series director for quite a few other things as well (most notably the 2007 series of GeGeGe no Kitaro and a PreCure series).

Tomita Sukehiro

Part of the reason we don’t know much about Frontier production is really that we don’t know much about its head writer, and he doesn’t tend to come out and talk much about it. We basically have only the one interview from the DVD box, and some hearsay from the other staff members.

What we do know is that he was brought on because Seki had apparently wanted to have him on for Adventure, but he was too busy at the time. Unfortunately, we can’t really tell how different that may or may not have made Adventure because its own head writer, Nishizono, also has only one interview that didn’t tell us a lot, and most of what we know about Adventure comes from Kakudou or the other writers who went on to work on 02 -- but it does seem that, like Nishizono, Tomita seemed to be big on giving the individual episode writers some degree of freedom.

It also seems that, on top of Frontier being “conventional” and “easy to understand” due to concerns that Tamers might have turned the kids off for being too difficult, another reason was that Tomita was new to Digimon and therefore it was advisable to make it easier for him to write.

Tomita’s one interview indicates that he’d put quite a lot of thought into the question of what "evolution" and "change" should mean in Frontier's context. Unlike Konaka one series prior, he definitely was very big on character backgrounds and backstories and worked on them with Kaizawa and Seki to the point of fleshing them out far more than what was in the series itself (although he encourages fans to come up with their own things even if they’re completely in contradiction with what he came up with). In particular, he pushed for Takuya to be a little softer and more compassionate than an average hot-blooded protagonist and for Tomoki to not get back at his bullies with violence; he also singled out Takuya as easier to get a feel for in writing and Junpei as one he particularly likes.

Tomita’s episodes for Frontier are the following: 1-3 (introductory episodes for Takuya, Kouji, and Tomoki), 9 (Tomoki and the forest), 10 (Kouji getting his Beast Spirit), 14 (Junpei getting his Beast Spirit), 22 (the one where Takuya briefly goes home), 24 (Volcamon vs. Junpei), 32 (Kouji defeating Duskmon/Velgrmon), 38 (Lucemon introduced as a threat), 43 (the return to Flame Terminal), and 49-50 (finale). Naturally, as the head writer, he was responsible for the biggest plot lynchpin episodes, but the characters he seemed to be most involved with were Takuya, Kouji, Tomoki, and Junpei.

Tomita also penned the movie (Island of the Ancient Digimon), which makes it stand out as a movie that was actually written by the original series head writer. This might be why the movie is so tied closely in theme to the original series, with only one extremely minor timeline contradiction.

Tomita retired from the anime industry in 2011 in order to start training junior writers, so as a result it’s unlikely we’ll hear anything more from him regarding Frontier, and future material was thus helmed by episode writers like Masaki and Yamatoya instead.

Narita Yoshimi

Another reason we don’t quite know a lot about Frontier production compared to previous series is that there doesn’t seem to have been a clear division of roles between writers -- testimony imples that there was quite a bit of organized collaborative effort between everyone. Even back in Adventure and 02, which involved throwing ideas in the collective pot to some rather absurd degrees, there at least was some rough attempt to assign certain characters to certain writers, and Tamers had Konaka basically leave entire character arcs to other writers without providing much input at all (most infamously, Maekawa basically doing the entirety of Impmon’s character arc). In Frontier’s case, even looking at the episode lists often doesn’t really show a clear role division, and we have no choice but to look at the writers’ other works for a look at their portfolio...but other than Tomita, Narita is the only episode writer to have never had any involvement in Digimon beforehand. That said, we do know that she would eventually go on to become an extremely prolific writer for Toei’s magical girl series PreCure, which does have several things in common with Digimon in regards to its character writing. (Well, Frontier may be the closest thing Digimon has to a magical girl series...)

Narita's episodes are 4 (Izumi's first evolution), 16 (Shutumon's first appearance), 20 (arrival on the Continent of Darkness), 25 (Asuramon vs. Tomoki with a dash of Karatenmon vs. Kouji), 30 (Velgrmon's first appearance), 36 (arrival at Cherubimon's castle), 41 (the beanstalk village), and 48 (Kouichi's sacrifice). It’s not really easy to pick out a pattern here, although it is notable that she seems to have been somewhat involved with some of the twins’ more dramatic moments, which may be why she wrote the twins’s tracks for the drama CD.

Yamatoya Akatsuki

Yamatoya is technically a writer for Adventure and 02 (a fact Kizuna and The Beginning advertising has liked to lean on), but he actually was only very minimally involved -- only a few episodes and a drama CD -- because he was busy working on Ojamajo Doremi. Frontier was the first series he was a regular episode writer for, and he would eventually go on to work on Savers; the fact he was eventually still regularly involved with Digimon as a whole was presumably the reason people didn’t really begrudge the sort-of-misleading advertising in regards to him and Kizuna, because it’s clear he still understood what the Digimon writing style was to some extent. Yamatoya is mostly known for his comedic writing, and he’s mainly made a name for himself as a writer for the very comedic series Gintama, but he’s also often praised for mixing his comedy with sentiment, and he still works on kids’ shows (especially Super Sentai) to this day.

Yamatoya's episodes are 5 (Junpei's first evolution), 11 (the introduction of Vritramon's spirit), 15 (Calmaramon's first appearance), 21 (Duskmon wrecks the kids), 28 (Ardhamon's first evolution and initial defeat of Mercuremon), 31 (the Trailmon graveyard), 37 (the final battle with Cherubimon), 40 (meeting Tomoki's bullies), and 44 (Gotsumon and Kouji's reunion). While there’s definitely some wacky humor in there (that Trailmon graveyard episode sure is a thing), there are some pretty dramatic episodes in there too, and some of Takuya’s best moments come from him.

Masaki Hiro

Notable for being the only person to be a regular writer for all of Adventure through Frontier. He’s also the only writer here with a Twitter account, so a brief Twitter thread in promotion of the Blu-ray revealed that, because he’d already gotten any remaining desires out of his system with Tamers, he focused more on making his writing from Frontier be more fun and exciting for the kids who were watching.

Masaki’s writing for Frontier is definitely quite the departure from his writing for the prior three series, where he was responsible for slipping in literary and cinema references he liked, building on lore a little, and supplying most of Tamers’ family drama and relationships. In Frontier, well, I’ll let the list of episodes speak for itself: 6 (Grottomon's first appearance), 12 (Takuya controls his Beast Spirit), 17 (Blizzarmon's first evolution), 18 (wacky Trailmon races), 23 (Takuya becomes one with nature), 33 (Kouichi accepts his darkness and gains his purified forms), 35 (debut of Hyper Spirit Evolution), 39 (the kids yeet themselves off the moon), 45 (return to Akiba Market), and 47 (beating the hell out of the Royal Knights).

Basically, although they don’t get quite as absurd as Urasawa’s in the last three series, Masaki is responsible for some of the series’ more absurd moments (perhaps fittingly, given that this was the first series Urasawa wasn’t on), and this is probably a big reason The Train Called Hope goes completely off the edge of absurdity at the end. But it’s not like he didn’t provide a healthy amount of drama either, and 33 in particular invokes the flavor of family drama akin to the kind he brought out in Tamers.

Yoshida Reiko

Yoshida penned all four Adventure/02 movies and was also a regular writer for those series whenever she wasn’t busy with said movies, but for Tamers, she only wrote one episode, and that was strictly because of her movie writing, but she made a full return as a regular writer for Frontier. (She eventually went on to become a very famous writer with an incredibly prominent portfolio for Kyoto Animation, and on the Digimon end she was also a regular writer for Xros Wars.)

Yoshida’s Frontier episodes are 7 (ToyAgumon), 8 (the Digimon kindergarten), 13 (meeting Seraphimon), 14 (the hamburger episode), 15 (Ranamon vs. Izumi), 29 (defeating Sephirotmon with combo attacks), 42 (the Village of Beginnings), and 46 (Nefertimon's library). You’ll notice that all of these episodes have a decidedly sentimental touch to them, which is something she’s very famous for (and yes, this means that she’s the one responsible for everyone’s favorite hamburger episode).

As a side note, you may notice that Izumi’s most important character episodes were handled by either her or Narita. This is most likely intentional, as it was a deliberate practice to at least try to have the female characters be predominantly written by female writers. This was actually attempted back in Adventure with Yoshimura Genki, but didn’t ultimately pan out, especially after Yoshimura settled into her role as the go-to for antagonist and villain writing; however, 02 still had some key Miyako episodes written by Yoshimura and Yoshida (most notably the Silphymon Jogress with Hikari), and it’s also the main reason Ruki’s character arc was given to Yoshimura to handle in Tamers.

Imamura Takahiro

Imamura was a regular episode director for both Adventure and 02 as well as the director for Diablomon Strikes Back; while he wasn’t involved on Tamers, he returned to direct the Frontier movie (and three episodes of Frontier itself), giving him a rather unique position in that he’s the only one to have directed two of the TV series-linked movies. Apparently he was somewhat of a last-minute grab at that too, but in any case, perhaps it explains why the movie is much like Diablomon Strikes Back in being so good at balancing out the ensemble cast.

#digimon #digimon frontier #shihameta

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pochqmqri · 8 months

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Following the premiere of the 20th anniversary PreCure film, "Pretty Cure All Stars F," in Japan, on September 15, Toei has announced plans to screen the film in several other countries, such as Italy, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.

This is a surprising decision, as although the most recent TV seasons of PreCure have streamed in countries outside of Japan, the films and basically anything else (ex. merchandise) usually don't share the same fate. Likely, Toei is capitalizing on the franchise's 20th anniversary and the film's opening weekend success, to propel international distributions. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come further.

In Italy, the film will be premiered at the Lucca Comics & Games convention in Lucca on November 2, sponsored by Toei Animation Europe. It is said that three special guests from Japan will be attending the premiere. Like most other European countries, the most recent seasons of PreCure are not officially streamed in Italy, so this is the first time in a few years that anything PreCure-related has been officially released there.

No further information is available for the release of the film in the other countries at this time.

#precure #pretty cure #anime #precure all stars f

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lexintothenex · 2 years

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Today - the 4th of November, 2022 - marks the 20 year anniversary of the Ratchet and Clank franchise. I wanted to draw something for the occasion, but I’ve been working on art trades and other personal stuff and unfortunately didn’t have enough time. In the absence of art, I will instead get sappy and sentimental over a videogame franchise. This is a love letter to my favourite gaming series of all time. 💌

I’m sure I’m one of the younger R&C fans - I was born nearly exactly one year after the first game had been released. As a kid in the mid-late 2000’s, I got into videogames past the PS2’s prime era, instead having one of my first proper gaming consoles be the next-gen PS3. As a little youngin’ at the age of 7 in 2010, I had my first ever adventure with Ratchet and Clank - the demo for A Crack In Time. And when I tell you I *loved* it, I absolutely mean it directly from the heart. I played that demo over and over again - fighting Agorians on Planet Lumos and spending every minute of my time finding hidden Zoni and Constructo upgrades over and over again. I never got tired of it.

In 2011, for what I believe was my birthday, my grandmother got me the full game. English is not my first language, and at 8 years old, though I did know a large deal of English (when you’ve been playing videogames for so long, you pick up on some things), a lot of the game was essentially gibberish to me. And yet that never deterred me. I loved it all the same. I’m sure I misinterpreted a large deal of the game as a kid (I distinctly remember thinking Alister was Ratchet’s dad, heh) - but nevertheless, I had so much fun, even with the language barrier.

My next game in the franchise was Quest for Booty (yes, I played Tools of Destruction last - so I essentially played the Future series backwards, haha.) This game, along with Tools, I got to play in my native language - becoming much more acquainted and familiar with the story and lore than I was beforehand. I only fell in love with the franchise even more as time went on. Heck, the first ever fanart I made of a pre-existing franchise was of Ratchet and Clank (had it not unfortunately been thrown out years ago, I would have shown it here).

And so the years went by. And I played the original trilogy. And I played the spin-offs. I played All 4 One, I played QForce, I played Nexus. I played Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale to get to play as Ratchet.

Sure, as I got older, my interest in videogames declined a slight bit - I never got a PS4 nor a PS5 because I knew I wouldn’t get much use out of them - but my love for Ratchet and Clank never faded. So I watched letsplays, I watched 100% completionist videos of the games I didn’t have the opportunity to play for myself. I watched display showcases of every type of armour and weaponry you could buy. I know the ins and outs of games I have never touched in my life.

It has been nearly 12 years since I played my first Ratchet and Clank game. And I am forever grateful I was introduced to this franchise. It was what singlehandedly got me into gaming when I was young, it was what got me into fanart, and heck, my dream job of being a concept artist stemmed from all of the amazing concept art behind the scenes of these games.

Thank you to Insomniac. For everything. Happy 20th anniversary, Ratchet and Clank. 🧡💙

#will be posting this on twitter later today too but #wanted to unleash some FEELINGS. augh #ratchet and clank #mine

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