#why not ... keep the names of the og japanese??
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so im not sure if anyones interested, but, i went through quite a bunch of totk critiques by people who were also very disappointed with it and thought id share my favorite videos i found (granted, i only really wachted those that youtube recommened and its mostly .. white men... things like the orientalism problem are not mentioned at all for example, maybe ill update this post if i find any more diverse voices)
i dont agree with every single point and also dont know most of the channels (aside from the big zelda theory guys) so i judged solely by what they mentioned in those videos and the quality of it (like the audio .. bc i cant listen to bad audio)
in no particular order, also they talk about or use footage of the literal ending stuff so if you arent done with the game yet, better leave these for now
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(the following one is a podcast thing by multiple zelda theory guys, there some stuff you can skip at the start thats just kidna random things, but the video is marked with chapters)
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(theres some mention of some things not making sense, like the sonau only being two, and ithink thats kinda bc the english translation was weirdly vague about that, in the german version its much more directly said that they all died out and only rauru and mineru were left of them;
also mentions of how unfitting it is to call the enigma stones "secret"stones in english might come from a similar thing; in german they where called "Mysterienstein" which would be translated as mystic/mysterious/enigma- stone
just wanted to mention that since the vast majority are gonna play it in english only and the stuff online is also dominated by english)
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#totk#ganondoodles rants#not really#but it kinda fits in the theme#some things are a lil too complainy for complainings sake#but overall those are the ones i felt spoke about alot of the broader problems#Youtube#also i dont ... like the english translations of these games#and im not a fan of the english voice acting either tbh#idk whats with zelda in particular#and i dont want to shit on translators#but man#some weird translation choices have done active damage in the whoe lore department#plus its jsut kinda .. weird and unecessary at times#why call it gloom?? miasma sound way more connected to malice and actually menacing#secret stones??? why?? mystic or engima is right there plus its confusing bc they .. are not secret at all??#makes stuff complicated too bc im using the words i know but in english almost every name is totally different#why not ... keep the names of the og japanese??#i know german is guilty of changing stuff too#but my point stands
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since i’d already played the original trilogy approximately seven million times in french, i finally got round to playing french apollo justice instead. just finished it and hoooo boy was this localisation just as interesting
just like in the og trilogy, the entire thing now takes place in france (presumably paris, though they didn’t specify in this one). at least there aren’t earthquakes this time so it doesn’t feel quite as surreal.
apollo’s “i’m fine!” catchphrase is now “tout va bien !” which means “everything’s fine!”
some of the names have been translated again. for example, trucy is now called “Vérité” which not only is the french form of the english name “Verity”, but it also is the literal french word for “truth”, which gives some dialogues a double meaning whenever they’re discussing the truth. “Vous dites... la vérité... Apollo Justice... ?”
they did not change lamiroir’s name. they did however change machi tobaye to “Tomas Kashkash”, make of that what you will
in the first case, phoenix and kristoph use formal pronouns when addressing each other in court, and informal pronouns outside of court, which is fun. by the final case they’re exclusively using formal pronouns since their friendship has pretty much ended. (it’s a similar case with klavier and daryan, who switch to formal pronouns when they’re trying to be serious/professional and when their friendship starts to splinter.) (apollo and trucy use informal pronouns on each other pretty much the whole way through.)
trucy says “Mééééééé !” a lot
she also calls apollo “Pollo”
wocky kitaki (”Willy” in french) is my fricking favourite oh my god. he speaks in such verlan-ified slang i had to painstakingly decipher every single thing he said. i love him. when he said “sakom” i felt that 😔✊ he’s nigh-incomprehensible just like he was in the english version. absolute king.
in order to make wocky so iconic they apparently had to sacrifice klavier though, because in this version he is english. ENGLISH. AS IN, FROM ENGLAND. usually the french localisation takes its cues from the english version so i thought they’d keep him german, and then when he started calling people “miss” instead of “Fräulein” i thought maybe they’d made him american, like he was in the original japanese version, but NO IT TURNS OUT HE’S JUST ENGLISH??? LIKE FROM ENGLAND????? U WOT M8 JOLLY GOOD OLD CHAP CHEWSDAY INNIT????? I’M FROM ENGLAND, THIS IS THROWING ME OFF TOO MUCH
and they didn’t even commit to the englishification!! he barely says any english stuff at all! he sometimes says “miss” or “mister” and that’s... about it? he doesn’t even have any “Achtung, baby!” equivalent!! he calls apollo “M. Grand Front” which yeah means basically the same thing as herr forehead but it’s entirely in french so what’s the point?? god if you were gonna curse him by making him from freaking england then at least go all the way?? at least his “Objection !” sounds cool i guess...
and his name is “Konrad” in this version. that’s fine because “clavier” means “keyboard” in french (like the thing you type on) so i get that it would have sounded silly. but imo they should have gone in the opposite direction and picked a random english word to name him then. they should have named him Stapler or something. why’d they give him a normal name. he is Stapler Gavin in my heart
ema calls him “minet pailleté” btw which yeah pretty much just means glimmerous fop. (she studied in england too in this version WHY THE FRICK IS EVERYONE ENGLISH)
there were some fun french puns, such as calling phoenix apollo’s “mentor” (french for “mentor”, if you couldn’t guess) and then calling him “menteur” which means liar and sounds very similar
“I killed a man named “Smith” with a bottle because I am an evil human being.”
#ace attorney#apollo justice#aa4 spoilers#or however the heck people tag their spoilers idk#random stuff#i know i wrote like three entire paragraphs just about klavier but it completely blindsided me okay#oh sorry i meant ~Stapler~#also his vibes in this french version are like slightly... sluttier. idk how to put it#maybe it's just a quirk of the french language who knows#the only example i can think of off the top of my head is#he said he almost had to do a strip-tease to get through borginian customs#that was his literal wording. he literally said that. he said strip-tease#i mean i know he said something similar in the english version but IT WASN'T QUITE THAT#oh yeah and he called his guitars his conquests instead of his lovers#for an ace attorney he sure is a guitarfucker huh#there were other things but i can't remember right now#anyway that's a little treat for you if you took the time to read my nonsense tags
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i cannot tell what is going on over there in mortal kombat. is your ship incest now? is this a dread pirate rogers situation? no idea!
buddy you really think I would be enthusiastic over fucking incest? If anything Im celebrating that its not. Its more a inter-timeline dread pirate rogers situation yeah
ok so for the actual explanation, three names you need to know: hanzo hasashi, bi-han and kuai liang.
For 30 real life years aka mortal kombat's entire runtime, hanzo hasashi has been scorpion: yellow ninja with fire powers, his whole deal was that he has been killed and came back with the only goal to take his revenge (either for himself or for his family that was also killed, it depends)
He was killed by bi-han aka sub zero, blue chinese assassin with ice powers. BUT bi-han is only sub zero in a particular instance: in the first tournament of mortal kombat aka always the first game, where he gets killed by scorpion. He comes back in following games as a literal shadow of his former self, and without ice powers. he never stays sub zero for long.
enters kuai liang, bi-han's younger brother who's also a cryomancer, who took the mantle of sub zero in the second game and has stayed the most consistent sub zero for the entirety of mortal kombat.
Theres been two timelines for mortal kombat, the og one going from mk1 to mk: armageddon (mk7), and the second one going from mk9 to mk11. Its a bit more complicated than that but im sparing you the details.
the og timeline has its moments (like scorpion deciding to protect the new sub zero to atone for killing his brother, even going so far as to switch sides and kill the big bad in his mk3 ending bc sub zero was on the opposite team), and the second timeline has even more (the mk9 sub zero ending and every single one of their shared scenes from mkx (mk10) to mk11) that makes the two enjoyable as an item. Its a fairly popular relationship in the fandom and their whole deal also happen to be my cup of tea idk what to tell you there. When people say "subscorp" it means kuai liang/hanzo as they were both the definitive sub zero/scorpion.
anyway we are at the dawn of a new timeline in mk12. and even tho its not the first mortal kombat soft reboot, as they already did that in mk9, this one is WHOLLY shaking things up. Mk9 was new but it kept for the most part the og backstories, dynamics and storybeats of the og timeline, with only some twists there and there to keep it fresh.
Mk12 drops the bombshell among other things that this time around, scorpion and sub zero are brothers, and if you think they mean "brother-in-arms" NO ed boon is very adamant to let everyone know every interview that they're blood brothers now, they have the same father and everything, and that their shared storyline is no longer a story of revenge, but a brotherly conflict of ideologies. Confusing and dark times (this was mere months ago).
Later the sub zero gets revealed to be bi-han, and now this begged the question: who is scorpion? He is dressed in yellow, have fire powers, and a literal scorpion tattoo. For many people it meant it was hanzo: he's been scorpion for 30 years, why would it change now (even tho this raised a lot of question like why is he now part of his enemy clan, why would he still be japanese and has a japanese name if his now brother and father are chinese, and so on). For others, the fact that this scorpion had: 1) kuai liang's brother, 2) kuai liang's dynamic with said brother, 3) kuai liang's face (as his face model was really similar to his mk11 one), 4) kuai liang's position in his clan, and in a later trailer revealed to also have 5) kuai liang's best friend, and 6) kuai liang's dynamic with said best friend, meant that uuuuuuh, maybe it was kuai liang. Even tho the guy named "Quick Freeze" in chinese had now fire powers.
Anyway this has been making me insane, if it was hanzo it had LITERALLY NOTHING in common with hanzo but the yellow outfit and fire powers, if it was kuai liang it was such a wild departure from kuai liang as we know him that this might as well be another guy completely. This guy is supposed to be the definitive sub zero but he cant fit that role anymore, he has fire powers.
Flash forward to last night, back on friday they revealed three mk trailers at comic con, and to keep the promo train rolling, they were invited by ign for an interview on saturday, and among the people there was yuri lowenthal aka smoke's new voice actor (let me remind you that smoke is and has been kuai liang/sub zero's best friend for both timelines). One of the dev was talking about smoke's role in mk12, and says this:
"We are playing up the relationship he had with Kuai Liang- uuuh Scorpion. Um. and-"
Its an accidental slip up so this is still to take with a grain of salt until we get actual footage confirmation that kuai liang is scorpion in mk12, but also come on, you cant fuck up that badly with context, kuai liang is scorpion in mk12.
And considering how HARD theyve been marketing it as "scorpion and sub zero are brothers now!" and not "one of the sub zero brothers is scorpion now!" Im guessing this was supposed to be a big reveal for later. Oh well.
Anyway now we know who sub zero is (bi-han), we know who has the mantle of scorpion this time around (kuai liang), and now the only person MIA is hanzo. Many people, me included, hope that he's narratively retired chilling somewhere and is enjoying life with his alive family for once, dude's had a hard life.
and to answer your question, no, its not incest now because hanzo is still unrelated to the sub zero brothers (tho one of them is scorpion now), and "subscorp" remains safe bc its really, again, more about kuai liang and hanzo than the ship of "scorpion" and "sub zero" regardless of who they might be.
#I SWEAR im not as ship-obsessed as I sound. I SWEAR my enjoyment of mk is more than Ninjas In Love.#if anything Im hyped for the quality subz bros content (even tho. again. one of them is no longer subz) we might get#did you know they never interacted on screen when they were both alive? wild.#anyway yeah. hope this helps. I hate mortal kombat btw#good morning#we poppin bottles#tagging later#anon
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I don’t think it’s very fair for you to try and knock others from reading Miguel’s OG run because truthfully that’s the only place you’re going to get his full character since every run after that is just “Let’s place him in different time scenarios to fix other people’s problems”. I’ve read ur reasonings and some of the issues I just don’t see and that’s coming from someone who’s ALSO half Hispanic and had similar family experiences. Idk I guess comic Miguel is rlly important and relatable to me and you shouldn’t turn others away from having that potential connection too. :/
NAH LOL it is *not* the only place to get his character truthfully -- his character is not consistent between runs, or between comic and movie! Not even Pdavid's runs have an unified version of Miguel since he just becomes an author self-insert after one point. The way Pdavid writes '92 Miguel - Gabriel is also shamelessly almost the same as he wrote Bruce Banner - Rick Jones. (another series where he ended up being pushed off the book after he started making really weird decisions; and notice these last two are white guys, which is how pdavid depicts Miguel all the time.)
I haven't even told people to not read them. In multiple posts i say 'read the first ones to see how it is, stop when you get annoyed, look up summaries, don't feel obligated to treat it as canon because it isn't.' If anyone feels threatened by this they should examine where that defensiveness is coming from.
I'm gonna be real with you that's like saying "the only way to REALLY understand Miles Morales is to read his ultimates run." You know, the one where his mother gets eaten alive by Venom, his dad thinks he's at fault for killing her and nearly beats him with a cane, where the closest thing he has to peter is a clone named jessica drew, and that eventually gets completely retconned in a universe explosion so main universe Miles can be rewritten. Do you remember seeing any of the things above in ITSV? Would you call them *the only real way to fundamentally understand Miles as a character?*
I keep seeing the rhetoric that 'real fans' have to subscribe to the very first script of these characters and that somehow enjoying their ATSV versions is fake-stanning and that is just... not true. That's not how comics work. Our most iconic, definitive, memorable traits for MANY of these superheroes have come from subsequent comic runs, rewrites, feats of adaptation and the interaction between fanwork-becoming-canon. Even uncle Ben's 'power and responsibility' schtick is NOT an original part of Peter's first draft. That came from re-imaginings and rewrites.
I'm really, truly not a fan of the argument that 'relating to parts of a character' completely absolves the text from criticism. It's not a good comic. It barely tries to be latino rep and frankly, I'm not going to praise it for just placing a label on him and doing nothing with it. I don't care for this white man's truth. It's racist and creepy and I should be paid reparations for having to read a storyline where the same girl gets paired up with two different brothers and then their father just to end up getting killed for a sexier token love interest. I am constantly frustrated by the argument that new fans should be forced to read it and potentially get turned away from comics forever; it's one of the worst offerings you could give them. 90's Marvel and DC are a public fandom joke and nearly led the market into bankruptcy!!!!! (Marvel filled for loss in 1996. IT WAS BAD. That's part of why the whole 2099 line went up in flames! The money was going down the drain.)
I've been a comic reader for a long time and I just can't give them blissful innocence passes like that. The current editor-in-chief at Marvel did yellowface and pretended to be a japanese man for years to write some shitty superhero weeb comics with no accountability whatsoever. He still has a job. RUNNING the company!
And here's the thing: I like Miguel too. I have a shitty family and I empathize with that but I KNOW he deserves much better than to be confined by white people's scripts and fetishes. I *want* him to have a chance, multiple chances even, to be completely rewritten and remolded by latine voices without the need for them to constantly refer or tie back into that white man's work; It is our right just as any other.
ATSV throws away most of Miguel's baggage, and straight up refuses to refer to the weird indepth sludge pdavid had going on; the artbook doesn't mention these first comics or most of his runs, they actually talk about other groundbreaking sci-fi concept work and the idea of basically rebuilding the landscape from scratch, and I am deeply thankful they do that. One of the biggest themes of the movie *is* that the idea of comic canon is fraught and full of holes, and that we should subvert it into joyful and honest expressions of these characters' cultures. These are movies that begin with the Comics Code Authority stamp, a censorship marker that among other things explicitly prohibited the positive depiction of pro-civil rights narratives and homosexual relationships, and actively turned their nose at protagonist black characters — & proceed to rip it to shreds. That's what we should be doing!
#miguel ohara#miguel o'hara#spiderman 2099#atsv#spider man: across the spider verse#spiderverse#marvel comics#spiderman#meta tag#miles morales
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Silver, SENA butchered this game so much already but I'm more disappointed at some players who can't see the nuances are changed.
For example: Cloud! (Japanese) vs Please don't do this! (English) when Cloud is attacking Tifa.
Seems like it means the same thing right? SENA knows that but do you know the nuance that got lost?
It's more intimate way of Tifa trying to wake up Cloud back to his senses. Calling a name is intimate, it's personal. She wants to reach in, wake him up! Meanwhile the latter is distant and cold compared to his name.
The painful one is that like many other lines that have a reference function in remake that were omitted, this one gets tossed out as well. Why? Remember when Cloud said in OG "I remember you calling my name" in the lifestream and everywhere else in particular to real cloud? Well, that's tossed in eng. We could have had this as a fond thing to look back on but it's gone. SENA took this away from us again. Cloti has a thing of calling each other's names. Something remake omitted for cloti, Tifa's name.
It's painful for me to see this. Nojima writing a script and thinking about the depths he wants to emphasize are all lost in terms of cloti and SENA deliberately causes a stir in the fandom for theory makers and fueling crack shippers' delusions. English players only look stupid. May this backfire a lot on SENA. I don't think too much on the fanfic BS. Maybe I'm crazy but I just want their ass set on fire already. I hope they fck up so badly they finally stop ruining every other franchise. I'm saying this because at least we have translators who help us guide our way to the real intention.
+ I don't recall if it was tifa or cloud who said " I remember you calling my name" but either way, both sides call eachother when they're reaching out. It's still a great call back for all their intimate moments. Repetition makes it an iconic thing they just have.
It gets worse, they keep removing refs to his "not interested" catchphrase, like do y'all not understand what a catchphrase is? The reason everybody teases him about it is because he says it all the time, so removing him saying it or people teasing him about it is just stupid.
Sena translation team needs changing. I can't believe after the bullshit we got in Remake they pulled the same crap again in Rebirth. I don't wanna play a fanfic version of the game FFS 🤦♀️🤬
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Yuichi Usagi - what's in a name?
I read "Senso" over the end of March and the last week and reviewed a bunch of interviews again and man i dunno how to post abt it but it seems that Yuichi Usagi is actually intentional as naming? And yes, Yuichi can be a last name also, but is still mainly read as a first name.
Like specifically it seems that it’s a reference to the ending of “Usagi Yojimbo: Senso” in a similar way to how the rest of the show is also intentionally an homage to that story as it’s main source of inspiration.
“Yuichi” commonly has the meaning "heroic first (son)" (雄一) and in the japanese subtitles, Yuichi is spelled as both 雄一 and ユウイチ - Yūichi. So let's take the japanese subtitling as additional canon as that’s how the character’s introduce themselves. (I'll link this Japanese-Names website as an online source for now since I'm not fluent in it myself.) The subtitles are based on the english dub of course, but it seems the japanese dub is similar on the name introductions for the most part (not a native speaker myself so I can only guess).
Spoilers for Senso if you haven't read it. I recommend you do, if really nothing else. It’s a really nice mashup of sci fi in Usagi Yojimbo, in a very “War of the Worlds” type clash. I really loved the foreword comic and the illustrations before the story. It's a really good story. Here’s a nice spoilerless review of it.
So from interviews we know that the Samurai Rabbit crew was inspired by and drew influences from six-issue book Usagi Yojimbo: Senso - you can see it in how the Makkine were designed and episode references (S2, ep 9 "Eggs!" - the falling martian ships are called eggs in “Senso”) and mainly the story outline of aliens invading edo-period japan.
So why give Yuichi Usagi a first name as a last name?
We see this backstory in "Willow Branch" in season 2.
The sword was lost. That is a storyline they included to make an interesting story out of it but to also connect the show and og comic in a different way. A "passing of the torch" in some sense, but also literally what the comic tells us about og Usagi and his swords. In Senso: "They are my soul. Pass them down to your firstborn… then to his [...] then down the line…” And in the show we see that Willow Branch is found and recovered by Yuichi and the sword accepts him as the next in line. The firstborn son.
So from this we can make the fan-theory that perhaps in the show canon, Miyamoto Usagi’s family maybe named their next firstborn in line Yuichi, to honor their forebear Miyamoto Usagi's last wish, again if we're going by the thought that this was inspired by "Senso". (Jotaro being his last surviving member in this verse possibly, we don't know here bc it's intentionally left vague to not spoil series-only viewers + keep the mystery open for anyone who decides to read the comic after the series for the first time). It could even be a possibility that they just kept that as a surname for sentimental reasons, because the family had women as first-born children for so long (if we assume based on Usagi's auntie and missing parents), but they wanted to keep that memory going for as long as possible, since the sword was lost shortly after Miyamoto saved Edo from Kagehito’s plan a 1000 years before Yuichi’s time. But that’s already just speculation from me as a fan of the cartoon.
And before die-hard comic readers swoop in, yes, in Senso the swords are not lost, but again, it’s an alternative universe story situation for the people making the show, and I find what they did was interesting.
The comic’s ending is tied into the world of “Space Usagi” as well, without spoiling it too much, which is a storyline Stan did in a space opera setting. The connection between being inspired by Senso which is tied to this story may also be why so many interviews and articles call Usagi Chronicles as inspired by Space Usagi directly, since both are spin-offs that take place in a distant future.
Or you know, it could also just be that they wanted an easy-sounding name for their main character to call that wasn't only Usagi, since they have two in the series: their own and the original.
But all in all, whether the name comes as a reference to the original comic, or from simple use of a common name, it can’t be ignored that this is just how the show calls it’s main character.
But you can still call him Yuichi, as that is what both the crew (his creators) and Stan Sakai call him when talking of both tbe Usagis. (Or, in the case of Stan, "my Usagi" and "Their/Samurai Rabbit/the show's Usagi") It could be that out of respect for the work the crew put into his series, Stan didn’t suggest more naming conventions for the character because he already liked the work and story the crew did. It could be that they put a pin in it at first and then got used to it as pre-production continued. Could even just be that he loled it right away. But I don’t find it that useful to speculate on that as much, because the cartoon we have is already made and finished how it is and well, we don’t know the exact authorial reasonings from the show crew side much, so Yuichi Usagi it is.
Though also, the way that his names are used in the show (Auntie mainly calls him Usagi and family usually adress via 1st name, Yuichi is never used mich beyond introductions) and how it's used in the interviews when talking about Miyamoto Usagi as well, it feels like they meant to give him two first names, and couldn’t decide on a surname-sounding last name so, Yuichi Usagi was left in the final script. But that's just my guess as a fan and viewer again.
Maybe other fans have had similar or better discussions about it? It would be interesting to know if the show has more japanese fans and how they find this, for example. What they think about how the show introduces him as Surname-Given Name, but then every other character switches to just calling him Usagi right away. In japan, people usually use last name+ honorifics when they have just met. But both Usagi's new friends and Usagi himself switch to first-name basis after their first day meeting each other and going through a few fights. Is it just because the show has a mostly western audience(my assumption), and we're meant to use his given name as an audience to be more familiar with him... or is it only because he's a rabbit and some of the characters (like Lord Kogane) don't really care more? Perhaps a 1000 years into the future, they've partially lost the use of some traditions?
In any case, it doesn’t feel like the show made that big of a faux pas naming Yuichi the way they did. Ould be that my guess is wrong and it wasn't as deliberate a reference to Senso. It seems a much higher possibility that they thought of that, thought it sounded nice and then kept it because it was an easy way to call him differently from comics-Usagi during production itself, but still getting to call him Usagi in the show-proper.
This is just me basing this on official interviews and the Senso book, but this just seems more likely than them picking a random name with no meaning to it. Of course, I could also be wrong, but based on interviews along, the showrunners and creative team seem so genuine in wanting to give the comic a good show that it doesn't make sense that they wouldn't research it. Or at the very least, ask about it from Stan himself or even just get a note from him about it, since he reviewed everything else. Candie and Doug (showrunners) even mention (in Comic Book Couple's Counceling podcast interview) how they really wanted to go deeper with research this time and art director Khang Le mentioned how they took a lot of cues from modern japan as well, from their research trips there.
I know this probably won't put any future discussions/rambling about this to rest among other fans, but well, just some thoughts on this. While I think it's probably kind of silly of me to be writing long essays abt a cartoon show I like, I do think it sort of warrants more discussion abt how we talk about characters and how we refer to them. For another show i'm a fan of for example, the character has an official name and a nickname, but the show itself consistently only used the nickname to let the reader be familiar with her. While characters like teachers and enemies might refer to them with their given name, even her full name, their family and friends mainly use the easier nickname. But it seemed that the reverse happened with that show's fandom, as the more unique given name became more used than the nickname the show itself gave us. And this was sorta the same thoughtprocess I had here with Usagi Chronicles.
Anyway, this has been a post x3 I meant to make this shorter and just about Senso, but I sorta started rambling more after the auntie and generations of female Usagi descendants theory x3
edit 5.05: fixed some grammar and sentence logic mistakes! added clarifications where ref was missing (CCBC podcast)
edit 13.06: I looked up the spellings for Yuichi as a last name and while it's similar, based on how it's written in the show, this supports my previous reading still. It still seems like it's meant more as a title almost, the same way naming would have been in old norse for example "Ivan's son" would become "Ivanson" or in english-language names, "Miller's son" would become "Millerson" (patronymic). So again, maybe Yuichi is meant as "first son" as the first name, but Usagi is his namesake because the family still wanted to honor their common ancestor, Miyamoto Usagi. That's the possible in-world reasoning, but with how much this crew put into the show, I wouldn't be surprised that they thought the same thing, that it's a nice way to reference the book Senso they were insired by, but also Miyamoto Usagi the character, who they were inspired by.
#yuichi usagi#miyamoto usagi#samurai rabbit#usagi chronicles#aghht srtuc posts#aghht fantalk#long post#UY senso#senso spoilers#fan essay#english is not my first language#so there may be some grammar or sentence structure errors here and there#texty#been writing this for a whole week#tagramble#will give this a readmore link later#samurai rabbit netflix#srtuc#this is 7k words girl HELP
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(Some of) My retrospective grievances Bakugan
I loved Bakugan growing up--and for the most part, the first two seasons hold up. That said, I did want to mention things about the series that I wish they'd done better. Some of it's nit-picks, and some of it is stuff that really annoyed me. I don't recall everything, so be sure to let me know if I misremembered some things!
There's NO WAY Dan, Shun, and Runo were 11 years old (in the Japanese version; they were 12 in the English version, which is still unbelievable to me). I'd buy that everyone on the team was 16-18 and Marucho was 12.
I wish the parents and more adults in general were more involved in Bakugan. Magical creatures and cards that put you in another dimension fall from the sky and it's mostly just young people who use them? It feels like parents would at least be more concerned about what's going on, but Dan's parents aren't super involved--heck, I remember being surprised that he had a dad! That's something we never see from Yugi (whose dad is always on a business trip) and Ash (whose dad is a mystery).
Terrible treatment t of female characters. Julie, Alice, and Runo were great members of the team, but they were essentially removed from the show in season 2 because Drago only wanted to involve Dan. That'd be fine, but Marucho tagged along too, and Shun found his way there, too--and the male/female ratio was thrown off enormously, because we got a lot of new male characters, and very few new female characters.
Give more information on the location of the characters. Julie is from Australia and Alice is from Russia. Aside from missing accents, I'd have liked to have seen how Bakugan affected the different countries/cultures.
More backstories for the characters. I recall Shun's backstory and how it ties into his relationship with Skyress, but everyone else deserves that, too--plus it'd be neat to see how his traditional background (with his grandfather being a ninja) affecting his relationship with Marucho, who comes from a rich and modern family, as well as his friendship with Dan, who is also more modern.
Too many side characters who don't return for season 2 onwards. I always hated that we had fun characters like Chan Lee, Billy, and Klaus who are just written off later. It would've been fun to see them become bigger characters as the show went on rather than smaller ones.
Marucho and Shun keep getting new Bakugan. I'd have enjoyed it if the original 6 Bakugan returned to the team and they got Bakugan as well--namely because Ingram and Elfin were the only good "replacement" Bakugan for Marucho and Shun. The girls can just have their OG bakugan like Dan, or they could have two (their OG and a new one) like Shun and Marucho--though I guess technically Marucho would have 3 because of Angelo/Diablo.
Why is it that only some Bakugan can talk while the rest only let out animalistic? I kinda wish they all could talk, as well as not having duplicate bakugan with different elements.
The Vexos needed more backstories and didn't have to die. For a kids' show, this felt like a needlessly grim fate for them--and an annoying one if you grew up with the English dub, since they're just lost in another dimension rather than dead. It's Yu-Gi-Oh all over again--except the original and 5Ds had every right to be that dark. They could've just been imprisoned and we could've learned about more of them outside of Spectra and Gus. I really loved Lync and Alice, as well as Shadow and Mylene's chemistry, as well as the parallels between Volt and Baron.
Ingram's gender. This is more of a dub issue. To my understanding, Ingram is male, though in the dub, he was referred to as female for the first half of the anime with a female voice actor, and then male in the later half with a male voice actor. I'd be fine if he was NB or genderfluid, though if I had to pick between male and female, I'd prefer if he was male, given that Shun already had Skyress as a mother-figure, and Ingram could represent Shun's insecurities.
No one's gonna explain that moment between Drago and Percival in episode 26 of "New Vestroia"? That's the most surprising rivalry-turned-(almost) romance I've ever seen.
"Gundalion Invaders" was basically "New Vestroia" but with less interesting characters.
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I watched Goncharov 2 so you wouldn't have to
I love seeing Goncharov have this weird renaissance on tumblr. It’s like when we all decided to get collectively obsessed with Dracula and the Epic of Gilgamesh. but did you know there's a sequel??
granted it's pretty obscure, like Eighties Bulgarian Treasure Planet levels of obscure, but you can actually watch the whole thing on YouTube for free. I can't even find the original poster, just this shitty DVD cover from Amazon:
FUN FACTS ABOUT GONCHAROV 2
released in 1985, long after anybody would've given a shit about the original
features none of the original cast (except, weirdly enough, the guy playing Andrey's driver, despite Andrey himself being absent)
SOMEHOW passes the Bechdel test
was apparently produced by Benito Mussolini's kid???
the movie starts with a weird, pointless nightclub scene with a ton of characters who get shot dead and are never seen again. it went on for so long I genuinely started thinking this was a Troll 2 situation, where somebody slapped completely unrelated movie's name on this for free clout; but no, this is actually supposed to be a sequel! the plot is that Goncharov's brother, who is also called Goncharov, just wants to sell flowers in Milan but his uncle Vladimir Espinoza (lmao) finds him and drags him off to fight a Galician crime lord named Iago for reasons that aren't clearly explained (and shamelessly rip off the Rocky training montage while they're at it). His Designated Love Interest™ is “Marina”, (imagine a Costco knockoff of Sofia with way more cleavage), whose job is to get kidnapped a lot. She sadly doesn’t get any sapphic undertones aside from a couple weirdly horny scenes with a nameless assassin masseuse who is inexplicably called “the Algerian” despite being portrayed by a Japanese actress (yikes).
The dialogue is so truly awful I strongly suspect English was not the writer's first language. At one point Uncle Vladimir tells his nephew to “gouge out their livers like a beak of the mad kestrel”. I'm 100% certain the guy playing him was hired for his weird resemblance to Al Pacino and not any acting talent; he delivers every line like there's a gun to his head but he also swallowed 30 Ambien. Iago is supposedly Spanish(?) but played by one of the whitest guys I've ever seen (Xander Crane, who has an objectively cooler name than his actual character — dude sounds like a Bond villain). He does a godawful fake accent and keeps accenting the wrong syllables. The part where he screams GON-CHAAAAAA-ROV!! has to be seen to be believed. The mangled English also makes the torture scene unintentionally hilarious, especially when Iago asks “Are you trying to f**k me?” and creates 20x more gay vibes than every Andrey/Goncharov scene combined.
some moments (ex. not-Sofia and Uncle Vlad keep mentioning Katya, but they talk about her like she was this Goncharov's lover) makes me wonder if they started the screenplay before watching Goncharov 1 all the way through, and it was supposed to be about OG Goncharov but they had to quickly rewrite it to be his brother instead. I really hope that's true cuz it would be hilarious and explain why they made a sequel to a movie where most of the characters die at the end.
Aside from (holy shit) Val Kilmer as one of Iago's bodyguards, no one involved with this film has worked on anything else you've ever heard of. The writer isn't even listed on IMDb, and Giuseppe Stromboli's entire filmography consists of this, a kids' cartoon called Spaghetti Briefcase and a bunch of weird Italian chewing gum commercials (which are also on YouTube btw). Matteo JWHJ pops up in the credits as a producer so I can only assume he was desperate for cash.
so yeah. Goncharov 2 is objectively terrible and problematic and lacking in gay vibes or juicy Goncharov lore, but if you want something to get drunk and laugh at with your friends it's got you covered
join me next time and we'll talk about the Goncharov director's cut
#i worked hard on this please reblog it lmao#goncharov#unreality#(neither of these movies exist it's a tumblr meme)#a post by me™#long post
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The Brilliant Fool
Normally when I write here about a Transformers character, it’s a character who has some significance to me as – well, honestly, as an example of a kind of person I could be, growing up. Blades gave me a lesson about quelling the want for violence inside me and also how defensive violent bf /softboy medic bf was a top tier pairing, and Dinobot gave me lessons about dying well in the face of oblivion, a lesson that I thought I needed really soon when I got it. There are Transformers I love because of jokes, Transformers I love because of association with toys and there are some Transformers that I love because they are, through no fault of their own, completely useless doofuses.
Let’s talk about Wheeljack
Wheeljack is an OG Transformer. Not only was he present in the original TV series, he was the first ever Transformer to be animated, the first one to appear on a cell and the first one to say or do anything. Wheeljack was also in this privileged position because he was from an earlier time, an earlier toyline, one of the diaclone toys that needed minimal changes to come on over. And not only was this the 1980s but this was a Japanese toy from the 1970s, so his toy was a really nice model that was also, coincidentally, made largely out of die-cast metal and had all sorts of lovely detailing and stickers that you could use to show how good you were at putting on stickers unless you were a fumble handed gallumphus like myself.
Don’t worry, I never had a Wheeljack, but I knew someone who did, and that toy was nice.
Anyway, Wheeljack as a character was one of the huge cast of Transformers who got a personality written up in what feels in hindsight like filling out a spreadsheet, where the writer got a picture of a character and had to devise a name and personality for them and keep moving, while also doing everything they could to keep them from overlapping with one another, which, of course, they did. Did you know that Grimlock (A t-rex) and Fortress Maximus (a city) and Brawl (a little guy about the size of a VW bug) are all listed as the strongest Autobot? Making sense of these original bios was like digging through Biblical harmonisation, but at least Transformers admit they’re making stuff up.
Anyway, Wheeljack got given the personality up front of being a crackpot mad scientist working for the good guys, which meant you took an archetype normally full of potential malice and potential goofiness and then just stripped out all the malice. Wheeljack in G1 was a guy who would invent things, and those things would have to be useful to pretty much only anyone in exactly one episode. This meant Wheeljack was either solving the problem of the episode by techno-babbling up a device that would fix it, or causing the problem of the episode by techno-babbling up a device that unfixed something, and sometimes both.
Wheeljack served a good, steadfast, mechanical role in the story of the show and to that end he hung around a lot. He also had a really easy face to animate – rather than flap a mouth or move a visor, his face lit up when he was talking, which meant you just changed its colour. Real convenient, real nice when you wanted to have him talk at length.
But this is just ‘why Wheeljack showed up a lot,’ it’s not by any means an explanation as to why I liked Wheeljack. What I like about Wheeljack is instead something created in the negative space of the character by what the people making it didn’t intend to do.
Here’s how it cooks out. First of all, Wheeljack is an inventor who is memorably depicted screwing up and eating dirt, regularly. He’s an inventor but it’s easy to feel like his hit rate is half and half, and a bunch of the things he makes have the weirdest solutions to them and ways they work. It’s not true in the comics, mind you, those are written a bit less for, y’know, four year olds in the 1980s, but the ‘crackpot inventor’ element sticks around.
The other thing is that Wheeljack’s disguise sucks.
It’s not that he doesn’t look like a car, he sure does look like a car! But Wheeljack doesn’t turn into ‘a car.’ Wheeljack turns into a sports car.
Well, so what you may say, it’s not like sports cars are that rare.
And then I go, he turns into a Lancia Stratos
And you’d interrupt me, comically, — Well, okay, no you wouldn’t, you’d say what and I’m embellishing for the bit — and say, hey, no no, see, you’ve got a specific name for it, a model, that means it got made in some degree of mass production,
And I respond with yeah, we know how many of his type of Lancia Stratos got made. He’s the Group 5 Lancia Stratos. He has specific racing regalia on him for sponsor material. Because he didn’t copy ‘a car’, he copied a race ready Lancia Stratos Group 5. There were only 500 Lancia Stratos made, and only a small number of them – like, less than ten – were ever put into racing colours, and then they were deomissioned. Imagine if while trying to blend into a location you picked the disguise of ‘recognisable celebrity,’ or maybe tried to blend in at the zoo as an endangered animal of which they knew they only had two. This means Wheeljack was in a position to scan the Lancia Stratos Group 5 (which wasn’t run in many races after it failed!) and then drove around after it left!
It plays into the way that his inventions seemed to fail a lot, or seemed to work in weird ways. It depicts a person who has somehow a skillset that’s suited to making big, impressive, technically challenging accomplishments and not a goddamn lick of sense about what he can do with it. This is a guy who can invent a teleportation machine and his idea of how to use it to solve the war is to let humans move more quickly to and from the base to update them on what the Decepticons are doing. This is a guy who makes a blender with a frappe setting that retasks a satellite. This is a guy whose first appearance on screen is using a machine he built that then immediately backfires and sets the tone for him for the rest of his life.
Wheeljack is one of my favourite Transformers, but only in the way that I love to watch the way fans talk about him, because of the beautiful alignment of super genius and fantastic idiot.
Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!
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Can you tell us about your Raven?? He seems like such a cool lil guy :D
Sure!
I inspired his outfit off of Japanese streetwear, which was an incredible idea by my friend @coffee-coloured-crow (shoutout to him!)
I decided to keep some aspects from his og design, but twist them just a bit (the cape, rope, his eye, and the slippers on the baby design.)
As for the jacket patches, each one has a correlation with death in symbolism. The skull and crossbones, just death in general. The plague doctor being death and disease. A black butterfly can symbolize just death, the specific death of a family member, or just a bad omen predicting death or injury. I gave him these patches because he’s the typa guy to go all in on the symbolism. He’s Death’s child and he isn’t going to let *anyone* forget it, he’s proud to be the child of Death.
I also gave him some raven feathers, some messy misplaced ones as a baby, and two attached to his cape in his late design. This is because I headcanon Raven can turn into an unkindness(a flock) of ravens using his magic! It’s much messier when he’s first figuring it out as a child, which is why the feathers are sticking out of his clothing that way. Though he does get the hang of it as he gets older, he keeps two feathers pinned to himself because he thinks it’s a nice aesthetic choice. It also fits his name, go-figure! (Best be sure he’ll make jokes about that.)
And with the black consuming his bones from his fingertips and neck, yet some more symbolism. Since he is the son of Death, it doesn’t only represent the slow pursuit of death in a mortal’s life, but it has physical purpose too. It grows more and more into his bones as his life goes on, and as it grows, the more powers he gets. He mostly gets his powers from his father(Reaper) because of this, but he isn’t exactly overjoyed about it. He *is* proud to be Reapers son, but he doesn’t want to be a complete copy of him, that’s the trick. He wants his *own* powers, and not just one where he can turn into birds whenever he wants. He wants *more*!
He eventually begins to try and twist these powers into his own, trying to use his own unique magic to change them. No matter how hard he tries, they don’t seem to change. He eventually learns that he needs to find his own self before his powers start to take their own shape, because most of his life he lived in his father’s shadow.
He has to go on a classic journey of self-discovery, but it’s not really a “journey” per-say. He tries to learn from his little sister, Shino! She was very quick to seperate her identity from being “daughter of death” and he spends more time with her to figure out how to do that himself. He keeps it a secret but Shino eventually finds out because of the suspicious amount of time he’s giving to her. She teases him and all that, as siblings do, but she helps him. Eventually, he finds who *he* is meant to be, and his powers form. As for what those powers are…??? Idk yet💀
Depsite finding his true self, he still keeps the death imagery and symbolism on his clothing, because he still has a duty to uphold. He might not take is as seriously as his big brother Goth, but he might as well take advantage of it and make a killer outfit. That’s what he thinks, anyway.
Also, thanks for the ask! This is the first time I’ve gotten one, and it was really fun to answer. Hope I satisfied your want for info about this silly guy!
#utmv#utmv sans#underverse#undertale#raven sans#infodump#ship child#afterdeath#geno x reaper#heehee#this was fun#feel free to ask me anything else#I’ll answer to the best of my ability
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Just here to contribute another franchise that has very similar looking fennec fox like carbuncles! Final Fantasy! (tho the FF ones come in a lot of colors)
There are!
The reason most carbuncles have red forehead gems is because "carbuncle" is an old byname for a red gemstone, from the latin 'carbunculus' meaning 'little coal'. However, garnets and rubies can come in all sorts of colors, so why shouldn't carbuncles?
It is wild to me how, despite being vaguely described in most myths, and even the most popular publication I could find (Jorge Borges' 1957 Book Of Imaginary Beings) describing it as "nobody ever saw it well enough to know whether it was a bird or a mammal, whether it had feathers or fur", most fantasy carbuncles seem to fall into one of three categories.
The Fennec Fox
(Final Fantasy, 1992. Cardcaptor Sakura, 1998. Pokemon, 1999. Yugioh, 2007. Elona, 2007.)
Interestingly, a lot of "classic" carbuncles are green (shiny espeon is the same lime green as the Final Fantasy and Elona carbs). I originally thought espeon's fox/cat looks came from it being partly inspired by the nekomata, but seeing that the earliest FF summon has the big ears, I'm now willing to bet that espeon owes a lot of its heritage to the final fantasy monster. That happened a lot, back in the day. A monster shows up in Final Fantasy, other critter makers treat it as public domain, despite how tenuous the connection to the original folklore monster may be. Kinda funny, because Final Fantasy frequently did the same thing to dungeons and dragons.
The Armored Fella
(Dnd, 1978. Pathfinder, 2010. Never Satisfied, 2015)
A classic lad! The oldest fantasy use of the creature as I can find, all the way back in White Dwarf #8, though it'd see print in the Fiend Folio of 1981. My theory is that dnd took inspiration from the Book of Imaginary Beings, then Final Fantasy went on to keep the name and the gem, but the rest of it is all original creature design. And, I can't really blame the fuzzy friend for sticking in pop culture more than the shelled version, (they probably sell more plushies) but I'm actually a big fan of this og carbuncle species.
The Little Guy
(Madou Monogatari 2, 1990. Magic Knight Rayearth, 1993. Digimon, 2001.)
The mascot type. Thought to be established in 1990 by the Puyo Puyo mascot, most cute little anime friends with a gem on their forehead can trace their ancestry back to the nineties japanese subspecies. Interestingly, two of these are creations of CLAMP, an all female manga artist group. In fact, the mascot of Magic Knight Rayearth actually shares it's name with the pen name of one of the founders, Mokona.
#sorry for the long post I just had never seen the ff5 version of the summon#I think it might be the earliest instance of the fluffye ear carbuncle!#thank you for the important help in my quest#still digging in the mythological side of things#but at this point I'd feel safe saying very few fantasy carbuncles draw any inspiration from the south american creature#and instead from either the Final Fantasy or dnd version#dnd#dungeons and dragons#final fantasy#final fantasy v#yugioh
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guess who started writing, fell asleep, and woke up to write more?
anyways have Arven being the owner of a Rotom Phone that has a Rotom that is more likely to cause deliberate mayhem, because not all Rotom Phones have Rotom that behave well. Sometimes, you get one that demands SANDWICHES in exchange for proper good behavior - for a good hour or two.
Also rip Jacq, Koraidon might be the most interesting thing around to observe, but having to fetch anything from them while it’s displaying some weird sort of nesting behavior (hence the defensiveness) sure is gonna be a hassle.
Anyways, good luck with that. Also we’re like some months away before Penny returns from Galar and the OG Player character (who is a younger child here, and doing her own thing) shows up in Paldea. Make what you will of that. :V
also do not correct me on Clavell’s name, seeing as the name itself IS the Spanish word for Carnation, and if I want to reflect that well, it MEANS we gotta get rid of the second L - which is the way it’s spelled in Spanish, so don’t mind me (It’s also the way it’s most commonly spelled in other languages, especially the original Japanese, so idk why they decided to add the second L to the name, given the name’s origins and the setting in the Iberian Peninsula and the language’s rules about two Ls versus singular L).
The only reason I keep the spelling here is because I can’t always explain myself like I can in my writing, so OOP. But just know that this is why I say I am gonna flip flop between English names and Japanese, as well as Spanish (because some of the Spanish names overlap more with Japanese, versus the outliers English can have due to past localization choices).
#klonoa writes#its 6 am#arven#pokemon#pokemon scarlet and violet spoilers#pokemon scarlet and violet#no manches (fanfic)#scarnoa (oc)#feel free to ask me about scarnoa#or anyone in this blurb really
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Hi, before I explain my post, I want to say something important.
• What you see my blog has become a major overhaul. And despite the changes, I decided that my 2nd account will be now my artwork blog with a secret twist.
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#Onthisday: Jul 5th, 2010
Title: Wing Zero Pocoyo & Epyon Kirby
Here are their temporary armored suits for Pocoyo 🔵👶 & Kirby ⭐ before they gave it to someone else. (Namely Shane, ExiaFan453's OC, who owns armored Wing Gundam & Wing Gundam Zero, including the Custom variants)
And the reason why I did is because of my childhood in the early 2000s, when I remember watching Gundam Wing & Gundam Wing Endless Waltz on Toonami (on Cartoon Network Philippines) 🇵🇭🤖📺⬛⬜. There's also televised in the U.S., as well! 🇺🇸🤖📺⬛⬜ Did you know that? Man, I could never forget their excellent English dubs per character (as much as I loved their Japanese dub w/ subtitles, as well). In fact, I did purchased a faked Gunpla HG Gundam Nataku/Altron EW model kit, which is sadly long gone.
Nevertheless, let's bring down their stats:
Wing Zero Pocoyo
Came from the: XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero (Anime TV Ver.)
Armament(s):
• (2x) Twin buster rifle/buster rifle
A double-barrel type Buster Rifle. It has more than twice the power of the Buster Rifle equipped by the OG armored Wing. It is a type directly connected to the generator so rapid fire is also possible.
• (2x) Beam saber
Slashing equipment for close combat. Since it adopts devices made of Gundanium Alloy in every part; the power, function, durability, etc. are exceptionally improved compared to those of ordinary armors. One apiece is stored in the shoulder armor on both shoulders.
• Shield
A shield made of Gundanium Alloy. In addition to being applied with anti-beam coating, it is equipped with Wing Vulcans on both sides. The tip of the shield can also be extended to damage targets.
- Wing Vulcan
A pair of vulcan guns built into the sides of Wing Zero's shield.
Special Feature(s):
• ZERO System
An interface for achieving the "perfect victory", developed to make the pilot keep up with a machine performance. Since it seriously affects the physical functions and mental state of the CD member, a person without strong mental strength can't control it.
• Search Eye
Focused on data gathering. When the antennas and main cameras do not suffice, the their eyes comprised of the large jewel on its chest is used to gather visual and radio-wave data.
Epyon Kirby
Came from the: OZ-13MS Gundam Epyon
Armament(s):
• Beam Sword
The primary weapon of the Epyon, it is connected directly to the suit's powerplant via a cord as opposed to running on its own internal power source. This allows the length and the intensity of the beam blade to be adjusted according to the situation, and at maximum level, it can inflict damage severe enough to destroy objects as large as the Space Fortress.
• Epyon Claw
Mounted on the forearms. In combat, they can be used to tear through enemy armor.
• Epyon Shield
A small shield mounted on the left arm, its surface has been treated with an anti-beam coating to provide protection against beam attacks. It mounts a heat rod at the bottom.
- Heat Rod
A segmented whip-like chain housed in Epyon's shield. It can be used to trip or entangle opponents, and even cut through mobile suits when heated. A single swipe with this weapon can destroy up to three opponents.
Special Feature(s):
• Epyon System
A modified version of the deadly ZERO System installed in the armored Epyon. Known as the Epyon System, it operated the same as the armored Wing Zero's ZERO System, but the member wears a special V-helmet on their head when using the system. Any technical differences compared to the ZERO System is unknown.
• Search Eye
Focused on data gathering. When the antennas and main cameras do not suffice, the their eyes comprised of the large jewel on its chest is used to gather visual and radio-wave data.
Kirby - Kirby Series © Hal Laboratories Inc./ Nintendo®
Pocoyo - POCOYO™ © Zinkia Entertainment S.L
Armors (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) - Gundam Series © SUNRISE, Sotsu
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Castlevania franchise is truly cursed.
Unlike other video games which come with own movies showing the Canon and belong to either same company or sister company, Castlevania never got its own animation movie or series made in the 90s.
Its original owner died.
It has changed hands.
It ended to be a thing long time ago.
Then it went into a weak pair of hands.
Then it got robbed by leftist Ellis and the theif gang from those pair of hands.
It got totally fucked.
Fanbase is divided into three, four groups.
New era idiots view woke Fuckflix show is the OG Cv. ( Some think they can like both equally. Its OK if you differentiate BUT where is the acknowledgement that Fuckvania is in every way a total opposite to Classicvania in terms of everything? Why do you blend the two when the two contradict so much ? And why do you bash those who do not overall like your garbage show? )
No one strong enough was there to guard it.
It puzzles us why Japanese animation companies never bothered to assemble messy canon lore and give CV fans a proper animation.
Cv is really cursed like the names it used in its games. Nothing to say about it anymore. Pointless to be upset.
In this platform, we were bashed for pointing out truths about Netflix and its leftist impact on CV. Warren Ellis bastard is a leftist who reflected his views on the cartoon ( the script writer and the sex offender ). We were called all sorts of names for calling out on changing source material and woke gay washing race swapping shit. We were tagged alt right for writing about the practice of DEI ( Divesity, Equity, Inclusion) in Netflix and other Hollywood companies. We were asked to be nuanced on our takes on CV. It confused us at first. Then we got educated on the right wing values and the left wing values of your country. And we came to find that shitty US people is very polarised in thinking. Its people showed us that. They forgot the universal values. That they are far from nature. Truth is, we do not even belong to the shitty United States to be leftist or alt right in the first place huh !
Just like old vania fans across the world, we too are original Cv fans and we strongly support respect of any Canon not just Cv, good story writing, neutral stance on entertainment portraying universal norms and values accepted by all instead of the garbage, left politics brings. We see fans keep complaining about cv and other unfortunate franchises that got butchered.
Nuance ? What nuance are you talking? The DEI shit is literally in everything you are currently consuming. There is no nuance. Real reason fans are upset is because of that DEI SHIT.
Anyways, the only thing we can say to true Vania fans is : Donot be offended or hurt for the pathetic situation Cv got. It really will keep being a cursed tragic franchise until it goes to " good set of hands " and has a brand new remake of cartoon.
That is only how Cv can see light of the day.
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I should be asleep but any headcanons for OG JB? (Also may I draw him as long as I show it?)
headcanons for OG JB? i mean. he’s my OC technically so i can make any of them canon any time i want… let’s see…
- he really likes rubber ducks. he keeps one in his briefcase and leaves it on his office desk for comfort at times. if his tie wasn’t striped, it would have duckies on them
- he’s half japanese (i don’t Usually assign races to characters, just places where they might come from)
- his real name is Jasper Judgeman, something that’s been completely forgotten in his reality and Gregory House
- everything about Judgement Boy was created to make fun of OG JB. red face, jagged teeth, clown nose, etc.
- OG JB did not get along with anyone in the hotel in the few weeks he was there. he would get visions of the guests’ pasts (similar Judgement Boy’s power) and see what they’ve done to get to Gregory House, and he was horrified. he would even get violent with them at times
- he’s been arrested a few times in his reality, mostly for public disturbance and indecency
- in his reality, OG JB didn’t really have friends either, he was more focused on his job and never got close with his coworkers
- he really likes spicy food! whatever makes his face feel like it’s on fire, he’ll eat it!
- he’s 5’7. really not that tall
- OG JB has a few medical conditions which had him in and out of the hospital in his younger years, so he has a bit of a distain for hospitals
- his hair is naturally that color. yeah, the red and the blonde. i don’t know why either. but he Does style it
-the rails on the ceilings of Gregory House only appeared after OG JB disappeared into his room/The Factory
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I gave my 3D artist sculpted resin cast head, based on Leon S. Kennedy from (OG) Resident Evil 4, “real” hair. It was always my desire to have him with actual fiber hair. I politely asked the artists if he would be willing to create a sculpt for me, without the sculpted hair, bald, without any hair. He said he would, so I happily jointed the group order, and even advertised the group order on a few places. Bringing a few more people on board. Then, once I had already paid and the head sculpt was more than halfway done, he said he wouldn’t make a head for me, without the sculpted hair. T___T;;;
I didn’t want to be an a-h0le, so I just agreed to keep the sculpt. There were so many other issues along the way, but I love (RE4) Leon so much, I was willing to let it all go. I wasn’t happy with how large the head was sculpted. What is the point of loving Japanese video game characters, and wanting (custom) figures based on them, if the proportions and likenesses won’t be like in the games (when you’re actually paing for a custom)? At least, as an obsessive fangirl, that’s how I feel about certain characters. It was always a dream of mine owning an accurate LSK RE4 figure (IMHO, HT’s one is pretty bad), that actually looked like he does in (the original) RE4. Of course, I was lucky to get GT Sephy, they get their proportions more or less, accurate, even if Sephy’s paint apps were night and day compared to the prototype’s. At least his head is tiny, and he is pretty tall.
I made a wig for a custom Leon I was working on many years ago (maybe a decade ago?). I was using a HT’s actor sculpt, whose name always escapes me. I made a terrible wig for that head, with handmade sewn wefts and a stretchy cap. I am not super thrilled about having to make tiny wigs; I loathe making sewn wefts more than anything. I can’t control the hair bulk as much as with glued wefts, the latter are so easy, anyone can literally make them. However, glued wigs are not my favorite, but because they are easy and I can kind of control the bulk, I prefer them now. Regardless, I decided to dissect that old wig I made for my first 1:6 custom Leon S. Kennedy figure, in order to give this figure hair.
I wasn’t sure it would look good, since this one does have sculpted hair and a huge notch on top of the head were the front bangs are meant to be glued in. That’s why I went with sacrificing a wig, I will no longer use, than to make something new just to go to waste. I feel like I am pretty happy with the outcome. I didn’t need to sand the sculpted hair, although it does add a bit of bulk, I feel like the shape of the hair now is a lot closer to Leon’s hair in the game. I jus wish the fiber wasn’t as strawberry blond, and was a bit more ash-blond (dirty-blond), like Leon’s hair appears to be in the OG RE4 game. I may or may not try again, if I find the right fiber, in the right color.
I am happy for now, I took so many repetitive photos, because this head makes DamToys RE2R Leon’s body look like a narrow shoulder HT body. It’s so huge, the neck looks super slim, as narrow as a person who’s not healthy or aging poorly. My fav... I have a very dark, dry, sarcastic sense of humor. I probably rub some people the wrong way, my favorite is self-deprecating humor. I would insult myself first, before ever attempting to do so to anyone else, and I would probably not even try -- I have zero energy left, as a forty-one (thousand) year old fart, I prefer preserving energy towards things I enjoy. I like to collect toys I find appealing, and some physical features are not appealing to me; as a short, bony old-person who doesn’t suffer from super thin neck (yet), I prefer wider necks on my “healthy” athletic looking male figures/dolls. That’s not going to be possible, with his head, unless I am willing to have him on a massively large body, I won’t find appealing for him. (:
I edited the shoulder joint in one of the photos. I wanted to do more, but I was lazy. I don’t mind them, but I also know that censorship when it comes to pieces of plastic on many of these places is strong. Real actual flesh of any kind or part, no problem. A slightly visible anything that might be suspicious on a plastic toy piece, that may or may not look human, huge no! DX
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