#i wish more comedies pulled this gag

[ryomens-vixen]

I don't even think I can handle Chucky!Sukuna, Can you?

Contains: NSFW, Comedy, Yandere Tendencies, Vulgar language, Non-Con.

Summary: Before Sukuna passed away he made you promise to bring him back by any means necessary, and you did... But he wasn't too happy about it.

Word count: Idk Sis... 🤷🏾‍♀️

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*CRASH*

*SCREAM*

"Ryomen you told me to bring you back by any me- AH!" Yup he was absolutely pissed, stopping your sentence by the chuck of a kitchen knife that pierced the wall just inches from your face. Seeing this angry little devil inside of a children's doll Scurry about the kitchen floor in a tantrum curses and insult was laughable, but you knew who you were dealing with at the end of the day.

"Kuna just calm-"

"Tell me to calm down again, and you'll wish you hadn't!" He pointed his stubby finger at you with an enraged scrunched up face.

"What in your right mind gave you the fuckin idea to do THIS it me? Huh? Is some kinda sick joke? My dumb lovestruck wife couldn't find an actual vessel?!" God he's so hot when he's pissed, when he's degrading you.

"W-Well I wouldn't say dumb-"

"Stop goddamn talking, god I can't hear myself think with you running your mouth~" he paced back and forth about the kitchen area thinking to himself meanwhile all your dumb little brain could think about was his hand wrapped firmly around your neck once the both of you could find a perfect vessel. Hell maybe even once that looked exactly like him, but what? All you could think about was the way he manhandled you all the time. Just thinking about it made you more wet than him degrading you just now- if only he wasn't in the body of a children's toy... Something bigger... Something you could customize like the dildo you begged him to customize in the same size and shape of his cock.

💡💡💡-!!!

"Kuna! I have an idea!" You swiftly picked him up, your perverted mind racing with the thought of customizing a body for him...a sex doll to be precise.

"Well you better make this shit quick I can't stand this picking me up bullshit much longer- Ouch!"

In your excitement you might have accidentally banged his precious forehead against the frame of the door to your bedroom. While snickering about your pervy and full proof idea of transferring his soul to the body of a sex doll. As much as he would absolutely love to entertain the thought sukuna was far too busy trying to hold his temper with you, but at the same time excited to take some anger out on you in due time.

Finally it was here the sex doll you spent a few thousand dollars on made in the same likeness as your late husband. You watched as Ryomen was getting use to his new temporary body, the silicone abs, muscles, cock. Two? You customized it was two? You weren't paying attention, but Sukuna was definitely smirking your way at the thought of you bouncing on both of his cocks. He also thought about fucking you dumb.. But it Would only make you more dumb and he didn't need that at all.

"Do you like it, Ryomen! I worked so ha-" Ryomen had swiftly grabbed a fistful of your hair, forcing both of his silicone cocks into your mouth shutting you up completely. "Hey.. Watch the tee- Ah What the hell~" Sukuna kept a tight grip on your hair as he fucked into your throat, He threw his head back letting out a deep groan pushing his cocks balls deep down your throat. Holding you there just the listen to the coughing and gagging you made, patting on his thigh trying to signal to him that you needed air.

"Fuuuuck~ If I wasn't plastic if I wasn't plastic I swear you'd be drinking my fuckin kids right now." He pulled out from your throat, dragging you once again by the hair and tossing you to the bed while listening to how you gasped and wheezed for air. The mere sight of struggle from his lovely, dumb, perverted wife just turned him on even more.

Before you knew it he had your wrists, and ankles all tied up, ball gag in mouth, while he pounded into both of your tight holes. Sukuna watched as tears streamed down your face and eyes rolled back- oh did he take pleasure in that.. Licking your tears from your eyes, yanking and tugging at back of of you head. Right now you were just a dirty little who're to him and he loved every bit of- just like you loved EVERY bit of him right? Right.

"Awww, Does my dirty bitch of a wife want me to stop? Heh I don't think so doll face, You're mine!" He only pounded deeper completely bullying your gspot isn't almost like you could feel him in your guts it felt so good, but it was so overstimulating. It was all too good until you felt a sharp stinging pain on your back causing a muffled scream to come out of you. Sukuna was literally slicing at his name into your back with scary accurate precision. "oh be fuckin quiet, don't you get it baby? I'm a good, fuck..., good guy like that stupid doll says- so I'ma breed and mark you like a GOOD GUY should~"

"Fuck that's so good~"

"Kuuu... N... Na.. ~"

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Gonna go do my make up for Halloween Bye!

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jujustsu kaisen x reader #jjk x reader #ryomen sukuna #jjk drabbles #ryomen sukuna x reader #sukuna x you #sukuna x reader #sukuna smut #kinktober

[nflstreetsanimereviews]

Anime Review: Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia

Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia is a very misleading show–not in the way that’s bad–in fact, far from it. It’s far more complex than what the title ‘Insomniacs After School’ suggests. When you read that name, it sounds like a lighthearted slice-of-life comedy. Kinda like how the band in K-On! was called Afterschool Tea Time. Most of this has to do with the ‘Houkago’ part, which in fact does translate to ‘After School’. I mean, a lot of the anime does have to do with insomniacs after school, but it isn’t one-dimensional as the title suggests. I’m perhaps the only person that thinks this way, perhaps I’m not. Thank goodness that it can be shortened to Kimisomu. The name ‘Insomniacs After School’ leads me to think that I’m about to watch a sketch anime. Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia does have its funny moments, but there’s a lot more depth than what the title suggests.

Ganta Nakami is a high school student who suffers from insomnia. As you would expect, it causes him to be crabby and generally unsociable. Searching for supplies near the school’s abandoned observatory, he discovers two things: the perfect place to take a nap, and a girl who's already taking one there. That girl, Isaki Magari, happens to suffer from the same condition–together, they establish the observatory as their resting spot. Sealed off from the rest of society, the dome offers comfort for both that no other place does. It also offers them the opportunity to get to know each other.

After getting caught in the observatory by a school nurse, Nakami and Magari re-establish the Astronomy Club in order to keep their sacred place. Not wanting to half-ass being in the club (and potentially having the observatory taken away from them), Nakami takes it upon himself to learn all about the world of astronomy. From consulting former club members for advice to learning how to set up a camera to take shots of the night correctly, Nakami leverages his inability to fall asleep in order to get better at his new hobby. Magari, while not taking as active a role as Nakami, is always there with him nonetheless.

Nakami and Magari are often accompanied by their friends. Nakami’s friends…or rather, friend, Tao Ukegawa is perhaps the only one, besides Magari, who understands him. Since they’re childhood friends, he’s seen Nakami grow from a youthful child to the lethargic teen he is today. Magari, being more sociable, has three friends who often come to her support when she needs help. Indeed, Motoko Kanikawa, Kanami Anamizu, and Mina Nono are there for her (and Nakami) when they need help with Astronomy Club-related stuff. Speaking of help, Nakami and Magari often go to their senpai, Yui Shiromaru, for advice related to astronomy. As a former member, she guides them–mostly by giving Nakami advice related to photography. The school nurse who catches them in the observatory, Usako Kurashiki, becomes the Astronomy Club advisor.

A good portion of the anime is spent showing Nakami learning about photography.

If this show isn’t a gag comedy about two restless high schoolers, then what is it about, you might ask? For one, Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia is a romance–one that keeps a steady pace all the way through. In a medium where ‘anime for dudes who get no bitches and stack no paper’ is more common than one would like to admit, it’s, unfortunately, less common to see an actual romance where the build-up isn’t ramped up to the nth degree from the onset, then stopped right before it’s ‘official’, meandering until the end of the anime’s run. Watching Kimisomu isn’t ever aggravating because there isn’t any hint of it being ‘wish fulfillment’ for either gender. It also isn’t edgy for edginess’s sake. There are no cheap tricks it pulls to try to keep you interested. The plot is interesting on its own.

What makes Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia great is that the connection that forms between Nakami and Magari is one hundred percent genuine. The connection they form is wholesome, but not to the point of it being vapid and obsessed with being ‘pure’. Insomnia is a condition that is hard to explain to others–it’s shown that even teachers don’t understand that Nakami can’t just fall asleep. It’s not as simple as ‘tiring yourself out’ to the point where you’re exhausted. Nakami and Magari have a common struggle. They’re the only ones that can understand each other. There’s a tinge of sadness that lingers while watching, knowing that Nakami and Magari don’t have a solution to their problem. But at least they have each other, which is enough in their eyes–they form a friendship based on mutual understanding.

Of course, insomnia isn’t really a condition that should be desired–but Nakami and Magari take advantage of it in order to do activities. These ‘activities’ usually involve pointing a camera in the sky and taking photos of the stars. In a sense, Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia is similar to Call of the Night. Other than the fact that insomnia plays a big role in both and both have romance in them, they aren’t that alike. If I had to pick which anime I prefer, I’d say Kimisomu. Again, they aren’t that alike, so comparing the two doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. 

Other than the genuine bond Nakami and Magari form, Kimisomu is worth watching because of the journey, or rather, multiple journeys, they take throughout the show. From Nakami’s solo trips out at night to nearby empty hills to sneaking out of a school camping trip, there’s never a boring episode. I’d compare it to Yuru Camp in this regard, especially since the two visit scenic areas often. Nakami and Magari even visit a tombolo, as they do in the second season of Yuru Camp. They unfortunately don’t visit the same one, however. What makes Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia worth watching isn’t so much what is said, but what isn’t said. It’s reliant on the viewer to notice these subtleties, which in all honestly aren’t that hard to notice. Kimisomu doesn’t fall into the trap of never escaping its comfort zone, but isn’t melodramatic for no reason. The premise of the anime looks dull, but the way it expands its horizons each episode keeps it interesting until the end. It’s a worthwhile watch if you’re into romance anime.

85/100

#kimi wa houkago insomnia #kimisomu #anime #anime review

[dialovers-translations]

DIABOLIK LOVERS BLOODY BOUQUET Animate Tokuten Drama CD “The Secret Behind a Demon World’s Wedding Reception ~Vampires’ Hospitality~”

Original title: 「魔界的披露宴の極意～ヴァンパイアのおもてなし～」

Source: Diabolik Lovers Bloody Bouquet Animate Tokuten Drama CD

Audio: Here

Seiyuu: Toriumi Kousuke, Kaji Yuki, Hirakawa Daisuke, Kimura Ryohei, Suzuki Tatsuhisa, Morikawa Toshiyuki

Translator’s note: I found this CD to be incredibly informative and interesting because it really does teach us more about the Demon World and its traditions. I genuinely had a lot of fun hearing them talk about the three different household’s various customs when it comes to parties and ceremonies. :3 Rejet should definitely make more drama CDs like these which combine light-hearted comedy with lore.

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*Rattle*

Yuma: Ahー As if practical lessons for home economics aren’t a pain in the ass already, I just had to be put into a group together with these fuckers…I couldn’t have gotten any unluckier…Geez. (1)

*Thud*

Yuma: Damnit! I would totally skip this shit if Ruki wouldn’t be on my case for it…!!

Shuu: Calm down…This really is a drag. I’ll be over there snoozing in the corner so you guys do as you please. Pwaah…

Laito: I genuinely don’t care about my grades either, but I don’t want that guy to give me an earful. 

*Rustle*

Laito: …But still. I wonder if the teacher wants us to fail by asking this group of people to come up with a menu for a wedding ceremony? Nfu~ 

Kou: My thoughts exactly! Yuma-kun’s still fine, but half of the Sakamaki’s and Carla-kun? That’s just outrageous! Haah…Ahー My motivation has hit rock bottom. Where is M-neko-chan…?

*Rustle*

Carla: Hmph! I believe that would be my line. I do not understand why I - the King of Founders - must work in the same group as a bunch of filthy Vampires. I fail to comprehend. 

Carla walks towards the door. 

Kanato: Where are you going? We are supposed to do a brainstorm session, remember?

Carla: I will only go and give an official punishment to the teacher who came up with this ridiculous idea. 

Yuma: Ahーah. Be my guest. Go ahead and throw away yer points by arguin’ with the Teach! I bet Mr. ‘All and Mighty’ Founder over here doesn’t give a flyin’ fuck ‘bout grades anyway.

Carla: …!!

Kanato: …Hm? He froze in place.

Kou: Fufu…Fufufu~ Could it be, you’re scared of losing points? 

Carla: …Silence, you lowlives! It appears that you wish to experience the extent of my powers first-hand. 

He begins to charge up an attack. 

Laito: H-Hey…! What are you going to do here at school…!? 

Carla: …As you wish, I shall eradicate you off the face of this earth…!

Laito: …O-One second! If you do that, you’d cause a much bigger issue which will result in much more than losing a couple of points!

Carla: …Ugh…Che…

He ceases his actions. 

Kou: Seems like Carla-kun’s actually pretty desperate for points, huh? Maybe he’s just as much in danger of failing this class as we are?

Carla: …Did you say something?

Kou: Oh no~ Just talking to myself~

*Rustle rustle*

Shuu: Pwaah…God…You guys are all so noisy. Can’t you be a little more considerate towards the guy trying to sleep and lower your voices? 

Yuma: Haah…? Why would we be considerate? Towards a NEET like ya!?

Kanato: Exactly. Pull yourself together and participate in the discussion. I would like to get this uncomfortable situation over with as soon as possible. 

*Rustle*

Shuu: Hm? …Kanato, do you have a fever, perhaps? 

Kanato: Haah? What nonsense are you spouting? That literally makes zero sense?

Shuu: Just the fact you actually said something reasonable for once…It’s kinda making me gag. 

Laito: Ahー Good point. Kanato-kun is known for being the ‘crazy’ one after all. 

Kanato: Haah…? What do you mean by that!?

Laito: Eh~? I mean, throwing unreasonable anger tantrums is basically your area of expertise at this point, no? So…Get it? Nfu~ 

Kanato: …

Kou: Ahー I think I get what you’re saying! When someone like that is actually willing to cooperate, it’s a little unsettling, isn’t it? Makes you wonder what happened for them to suddenly become so serious…Right? 

Kanato: Kuh…

Yuma: Oi…Aren’t we headin’ into dangerous waters right now?

Kou: Eeh~? But we’re only speaking the truth, right?

Carla: One does not change one’s inherited character and behavior so easily after all. Too late to try and deceive us now.

Kanato: …

Carla: Hmph…Just give up. 

Kanato: I never…meant it like that…

Yuma: …O-Oi!! Calm down, ‘kay? 

Kanato: …SHUT UP! I was only trying to be the voice of reason, wasn’t I!? Uuu…Uuu…!! So what exactly did I do wrong!? Uu…~~ Uuweeh…Uu…

Yuma: Ah, god…Ya guys really are a big pain in the ass!!

Shuu: You’ve only just noticed that now? 

Carla: You did not realize it at all? 

Yuma: Aah!? If you’re aware, then try and do somethin’ to better yerself, goddamnit! Ahー Fuck! We’re gettin’ nowhere like this…All of ya wants those damn points as well, right!? Then let’s stop wastin’ time on bullshit and just get on with it!

Carla: I do not like others telling me what to do. 

Yuma: Is that so? So you’re gonna take the role of moderator upon you?

Carla: I will kindly decline that offer. 

Yuma: …’Course…Anyway, imma hold the reins so all ya guys need to do is gimme yer input! Got it!? 

*THUD*

Kou: Ooh~ Look at you, Yuma-kun, actually showing us your best side for once!

Yuma: Che…Did ya really have to add the ‘for once’...? 

Laito: Well, I can’t wait to go home and do all sorts of things with Bitch-chan so I’ll cooperate. Nfu~ 

Shuu: Pwaah…So, what’s on the agenda? Hurry up.

Kanato: Uu…We’ve said it a million times by now…Haven’t we…? Uu…We have to come up with…a menu to be served at a wedding reception together…cook it…and then have somebody try it for us!!

Yuma: Why lash out at the very end!? 

Kanato: It’s your fault!!

Yuma: Ah!? Mine!? That must be some kind of misunderstandin’...?

Kanato: Shut up!!

Kanato continues to rage in the background. 

Kou: Oh well, leaving those two to do their own thing, you can always count on your quick-witted idol Kou-kun since I’ve actually thought ahead and invited over M-neko-chan to be our official taste tester! Oooi~~! M-neko-chan! Come on in!

You enter the room. 

Carla: …Oi, you. Weren’t you the one asking where she was earlier?

Kou: Oopsie~ (・ω<) (2) …I mean, where’d be the fun in spoiling the surprise beforehand? Besides, having me introduce her as my idol persona works way better from a commercial point of view! …I guess you could say that’s just how things work in this branch? 

Carla: …I do not understand. 

Laito: Well, Kou’s just shallow like that. It’s nothing for you to be worried about, Carla. …Well then, Bitch-chan, you can take a seat right next ・to・me~ Come here? Nfu~ 

Kou: Haah…? You’re the last person I want to hear that from. Also don’t you dare steal her from underneath my nose the very second she walks in!

Shuu: Oi…Both of you are getting way off-topic…

Kou: Ah…Whoops, my bad~ Slip of the tongue~ 

Yuma: …Ah, my bad. I guess I shouldn’t bother with this guy and just keep goーー Uwah!? Sow!? When did ya get here!? 

Kou: I called her over while the two of you were wasting your time arguing. 

Yuma: I guess you’re not wrong. …Anyway, let’s finally get to business. 

Carla: A menu centered around a wedding reception, was it? Well…In short, we should simply make something which you’d find served at the celebration? 

Shuu: And since this woman over here will be our taste-tester, we’ll have to base ourselves on this world’s standards. ーー Oi, you. What are wedding receptions like over here? 

You explain. 

Laito: Hmー So you gather around the table with close relatives? 

Kou: The food is often a mixture between traditional and Western cuisine!? W-What does that mean? 

You elaborate. 

Kanato: It has to be enjoyable to eat for the grandparents as well, you say? …So we actually have to make a wide variety of dishes? 

Carla: Scratch that.

Shuu: Agreed. 

Laito: Yeah…

Kou: I feel like trying to overachieve will only hurt us in the end. 

Yuma: Gotta agree that I don’t get the point of it. 

You frown. 

Kou: Hmー Now don’t look so troubled. For starters, we do have somewhat of a solid idea of what a wedding ceremony is like here in the human world. In short, what’s important is that the food conveys the feeling that you’re trying to please everyone to the best of your ability right? So if we manage to achieve that with our menu, it should leave you satisfied, right? 

Laito: Well, since we’ve got five Vampires and one Founder here, why don’t we try adding the element of human hospitality to our world’s dishes? 

Yuma: I mean, she’s the only one who’s gonna try it, so we can just make some minor adjustments to our cuisine to better suit her tastes, right?

Carla: Oi, please do not group us together simply because we both hail from the Demon World. Founders are their own distinct group. Obviously, our culture and customs are different as well. 

Yuma: Do ya founders even have wedding ceremonies? 

Carla: What do you take us for? Of course we do!

Kanato: Then teach us what kind of dishes are served at those. We only know the ways of our own family after all. 

Carla: Haah…While I do not like having to expose our culture to you fiends…It is for those sweet, sweet points. I have no other choice. Allow me to teach you. 

Kou: ‘Hooray’, thanks. 

Yuma: (mumbles) …Just tell us already instead of beatin’ ‘round the bush.

Carla: First of all, our celebration lasts three days and three nights in total. 

Kanato: …A whole three days and nights!? 

Carla: We congratulate the bride and groom through a ‘never-ending’ banquet!

Laito: No…But if it lasts three days and three nights, it isn’t endless, is it? It will end at some point.

Carla: …

Shuu: Laito…Keep those unnecessary remarks to yourself. 

Laito: Ah, sorry~ Couldn’t help myself~ Nfu~

Carla: Anyway, during those three days and nights, one must never have an empty plate. Once something has been eaten, it will immediately be replaced by a fresh batch. 

Kanato: So you could keep on eating, but the amount of food will never get less? 

Carla: Exactly. It is meant to symbolize that the celebrations will never come to an end. 

Kanato: That sounds wonderful…You can keep on eating and eating, yet never run out…Of course, that goes for the desserts as well, right!? 

Laito: Once again, it’s only for three days and three nights so it won’t last foreーー

Yuma covers his mouth. 

*Rustle rustle*

Laito: Mmphー!? Mmh…!!? 

Yuma: …You’re doin’ this on purpose, aren’t ya!? Keep yer damn mouth shut, seriously! You should know that guy is a tickin’ time bomb!

Kanato: What was that you said~? 

Yuma: Ahー Um…Well…Y-Ya know…T-There’s this legendary mushroom often referred to as ‘time bomb’ (3) which we found growing over at Karlheinz-sama’s castle, ya see!

Kanato: Oh, I see. That’s news to me. 

Carla: Oi, you two! If you refuse to take my story seriously, then…

Carla begins to charge an attack again.

Kou: C-Come on, calm down…! I-If not…You know, think about those points…!

Carla: …Tsk…Ugh! 

Yuma: …Anyway, we get the gist ‘bout it bein’ long with lots of food to feast on, but tell us somethin’ ‘bout the actual food itself! 

Carla: One of our traditional dishes is called the Founder’s special ‘Four Species Pudding’. 

Laito: F-Four species…? I’ve got a bad feeling about this…

Carla: We mince and combine wolf, snake, eagle and bat meat, bake it all together and then pour a special sauce on top.

Laito: …Bweh. 

Kou: Is that really good though…? Besides, don’t you have DNA of all of those four species yourself? 

Carla: That is exactly what makes it so delicious. It signifies the eternal bond with those four bloodlines. 

Shuu: Just having to listen to that made me sick to my stomach…

Carla: Also, ever since I came here to the human world, I’ve had this idea…

Laito: Yes…?

Carla: I believe the dish would work very well when paired with dry cured ham. 

Kanato: Dry cured ham…?

Carla: Of course, a luxurious kind such as Iberico ham. I’m sure they would go well together.

Kou: However, that’s something you came up with just now and not the traditional version, right?

Carla: …

Kou: Okay, let’s go to the next one!

Carla: You’ve heard enough already? We have plenty more traditional dishes. I would not mind telling you about them. 

Shuu: We’ve heard enough. 

*Rustle*

Shuu: ーー Oi. Mr. Violent and Mr. Annoying. How about you guys?

Kou: Are you calling me annoying? Geez, how rude! …Oh well, I’ll let it slide. We’re half Vampires, so we’ve never had to organize such an event.

Kanato: No parties or such either…?

Yuma: Aah…? Party? Did we?

Kou: I don’t think we’ve ever held any official ones but you know…Remember how we held a potato party the other day because we harvested way too many from your garden? 

Yuma: Ahー When we made all sorts of potato dishes? That counts as a party as well? 

Kou: I’m not sure but I guess it kind of does when you think about it…?

Shuu: A potato party?

Kou: Exactly! All of dishes down to the dessert were made using fresh potatoes! Even though everything was made from the same main ingredient, it never felt repetitive thanks to Ruki-kun’s amazing cooking skills! Right, Yuma-kun?

Yuma: Yeah! I put blood, sweat and tears into growin’ those taters so seein’ others enjoy them really made me feel like it was worth it!

Carla: …Sounds shabby.

Yuma: Haah!?

Shuu: Exactly. Who serves potatoes at a party?

Kou: Hey, don’t say that! I guess rich kids wouldn’t know, but it’s common all around the world!

Laito: Hmー I mean, sure? No point in fussing over the small details. Let’s just say that’s how the cookie crumbles over at the Mukami’s. Nfu~ 

Kanato: I suppose there’s big differences even amongst fellow Vampires. At our house, parties are much more grand and lavish. 

Shuu: Thanks to the Old Man who loves imitating human traditions. 

Yuma: In other words, you don’t have yer own traditional dishes? 

Kanato: Hm…For us, it would be…No, we do. I remember. …You know, the one Mother would make at every party.

Laito: Ahー I just remembered…Now that you mention it, I guess that would be the Sakamaki Household representative dish. …Hehe.

Shuu: Ah…That thing.

Carla: …What was it? 

Laito: How should I put it…You wouldn’t really call it part of our culture. If I had to explain it, you could say it was specific to our house’s situation? 

Yuma: Oh come on! Just explain it to us already!? 

Carla: If you say A, you have to say B as well. Now stop beating around the bush and explain!

Kanato: At every party, our three mothers would compete over whoever could make the best dish. 

Laito: Yup, exactly. She had never once cooked in her life though, so she should have just given up.

Kanato: I don’t want to speak badly of Mother but…I’d rather not have to eat that dish ever again.

Laito: Ahー I feel like my mouth is sticking together just from remembering it. Hehe…

Kou: S-Stick together…?

Kanato: It was oddly slippery…and sometimes grainy… 

Yuma: Slippery? Grainy?

Shuu: Some parts were rock hard as well. Even though it barely tasted of anything overall, at times it’d suddenly hit you with a kick of spice…then at the end left you with a bitter aftertaste. 

Carla: What kind of dish was that…!? 

Laito: …Good question. 

Yuma: ‘Good question’!? But you ate it, right!? 

Kanato: We did not choose to eat it, we were forced to. 

Laito: Exactly! Besides, we wouldn’t have even realized it was food if we hadn’t been told to eat it!

Shuu: I was left wondering who had put their trash on the dinner plate. …Haah.

Kou: Ahー I’m kind of starting to feel bad for them.

Yuma: Yeah…I guess even rich kids…don’t always have it easy, huh? 

Shuu: I don’t need your pity. …So. What dish are we actually going to make now?

Kou: Hmー If we put together the traditional foods from all three of our households, we’ll end up with a dish which looks like trash, consists of four different types of meat accompanied by side of potatoes all of which have a slippery, grainy and sometimes rock hard texture with a kick of heat to it and bitter aftertaste…?  

Carla: Oi! You forgot about the dry cured ham!

Kou: Ah, right right. Add some dry cured ham in there as well. …The expensive kind made from iberico pork…

Carla: …Perfect!

Kanato: That sounds…revolting.

Shuu: Well, we need to ultimately make it appealing to this woman too. I guess we can just randomly put some flowers on top to make it look all bright and colorful? 

Laito: I didn’t expect such a well thought-out idea from you. Girls love everything cute and pretty after all! Nice thinking.

Shuu: …Being praised by you gives me the creeps. …Haah. 

Kanato: Yes…

Kou: Roger!

*Rustle*

Carla: With that settled, I shall contact my Familiars right away to arrange the dry cured ham.

*Rustle*

Carla: …Hm? What’s the matter? 

You protest.

Carla: You want us to reconsider? Excuse me? Who do you think you’re talking to? 

Yuma: What’s the problem? We’ll make sure it looks appealin’ to ya!

You explain.

Shuu: You want to know what wolf and eagle meat tastes like? …Laito, do you happen to know?

Laito: Nfu~ Not・a・clue~

Kanato: Carla knows, right? Teach us?

Carla: Why would you ask me? 

Yuma: I mean, you’re the one who brought it up.

Kou: Exactly! You introduced it to us brimming with confidence! 

Carla: …I never did such a thing. All I did was mention it as part of Founders’ traditional cuisine. 

Laito: In other words…You’ve never tried it?

Carla: That does not matter! …Besides, I do not need you lot to make remarks about my dietary choices! You are all getting way ahead of yourself!

Yuma: I guess so. …Anyway, ya heard the guy. All ya need to do is eat the food we serve ya.

You beg them to be considerate.

Laito: Nfu~ You want us to make it taste normal at least? …Then would you please teach us what you understand by ‘normal’~? 

You frown. 

Laito: The concept of ‘normal’ is a tricky one to grasp, you see? It highly depends on the individual after all. …For example, you could walk around the manor stark naked and I would think it’s the most normal thing in the world. However, you wouldn’t feel the same way, would you? Nfu~

Kou: Excuse me!? You better not try to abuse the situation to get your sticky hands all over M-neko-chan! She belongs to me after all!

*Rustle*

Laito: Haah…?

Kou: Why are you getting mad over it now!? She’s been mine since forever, remember!? 

Yuma: …There they go ahead. 

Kanato: Ahー God…What is you guys’ problem!? I want to just get this farce over with already!

Yuma: Ahー I’m honestly ‘bout to lose my shit as well…Guys, cut it out alreaーー

Carla: I expected no less but I suppose that with this group of people, we will truly never get anywhere. …It cannot be helped. I believe we should fight it out after all. 

Yuma: How did a normal cookin’ class lead to all of this anyway!? 

*Rustle rustle* 

Laito: Bitch-chan obviously belongs to me…! I mean, we can easily find out by asking her body, right~? 

Kou: Haah…!? That’s what I said first though!

Yuma: Oh come on!!

Shuu: Oi, Yuma. Just give up. At this point, you’d just be wasting your time and energy. Pwaah…

Yuma: …Oi! Don’t be throwin’ in the towel and goin’ to sleep!

*Rustle*

Shuu: You really think I’ll keep up with this? I realize that no matter what I say, it’ll just fall on deaf ears. Why don’t you take a nap too? Pwaah…What a drag…

Yuma: Oi…! Wake up!!

*Rustle rustle*

Shuu: Zzー... Zzー...

Yuma: He already fell asleep…!? 

Kanato: Uu…Hic…And what would you know…!? Uu…Just melon would obviously be better…than wrapping dry cured ham around it…Sniff…

Carla: Hmph! It’s the combination of the two flavors which makes it so sublime. That is a truth which has existed since the dawn of time!

Kanato: I prefer melon by itself, okay…!???

Yuma: Ahー This is a lost cause…For some reason those guys are on an entirely different topic now. I can’t follow at all…Okay, what ‘bout the other two?

Laito: Heeh? I assume you know the exact number of panties she owns then?

Kou: Seven~! …Right, M-neko-chan!?

Laito: Y-You’re right…How!? That information is only meant to be known by a true pervert such as myself!

Yuma: There’s no point tryin’ to reason with them…Ahー What a pain in the ass…

Kou: Isn’t that obvious? As I’ve been trying to make clear this whole time, she belongs to m…Wait, huh!? Where is M-neko-chan!?

Laito: Bitch-chan, where did you go!?

You run over to Yuma.

Yuma: Huh? Sow? When did ya get heーー

*Rustle rustle*

Yuma: Oi, don’t tug onto my arm! Where are you takin’ me!? Ah…Ya wanna make a run for it? Guess that makes sense. Gotcha. I was just ‘bout to dip as well. …Heh. 

*Rustle*

Yuma: Come on, let’s get goin’.

The two of you run away.

Kou: Ah, Yuma! Wait!

Yuma: In yer dreams! Honestly, I don’t give a flyin’ fuck ‘bout my grades at this point! No way I’m stayin’ with this annoyin’ bunch any longer!

Kanato: Wait!

Laito: Bitch-chaaaan~ 

Carla: You are a hundred years too early to attempt to run from me!

Yuma: Shut up! You guys just fix this mess by yerself, goddamnit…!!

ーー THE END ーー

Translation notes 

(1) Yuma uses the term 貧乏くじ or ‘binbou-kuji’ which literally means ‘poor lottery’. I assume they used some kind of lottery system like drawing straws or numbers to decide which students would be in the same group together. 

(2) Kou says ‘てへぺろ’ or ‘tehe pero’, which is a typical comical expression often seen in cartoons and manga consisting of a character winking while sticking out their tongue. → (・ω<) It’s often used when someone makes a mistake and tries to kind of cover it up. (or as a way to feign innocence/ignorance)

(3) Yuma referred to Kanato as プチ切れボーヤ which literally means ‘young lad which is easily irked’. I translated this as ‘ticking time bomb’, not realizing that he would then later try and make up a whole story about it. I don’t know where the connection with mushrooms came from but let’s not question it. 

#diabolik lovers #dialovers #shuu sakamaki #kanato sakamaki #laito sakamaki #kou mukami #yuma mukami #carla tsukinami #diabolik lovers translation #diabolik lovers drama cd #drama cd

[ciaossu-imagines]

Heyy wishing you all the best in these tough times! Lets talk about our favorite group of delinquents! Which of the guys believe in paying for the entire date, and which of the guys believe in paying 50/50? Are any of them religious? Which of the guys are good at adulting (i.e. paying taxes/bills, etc.)? How about homra adopting a stray cat? I answered most of your asks and got 4 more left in my inbox, do you have any hc/thoughts about my AU?

Hey! Thank you so, so much for saying that and for the welcome and lovely distraction! And for answering all of those so quickly – I’m very impressed as I figured I wouldn’t be getting answers for a while, since I asked so many questions. I haven’t read all of your AU posts but now that I know that many are answered, it’s definitely going to be my before bedtime reading tonight, while I wish for sleep to actually set in haha. Plus, that way I can reblog and comment on them either tomorrow morning or after work tomorrow. Probably after work tomorrow, that way I can reread them again and get a boost of happy after dealing with a new coworker who is…troubling, to say the least. As far as your AU’s though, you know I think they’re godly. Can I just say though, in weird thoughts I’ve been having, your warehouse AU would make a great romantic comedy/gag comedy anime and I would totally watch that anime spin-off or read full on fics about that (the gag comedy is definitely HOMRA and S4 dealing with each other and the HR department). For your band AU, I go in between wishing it was a full out anime so I could hear all the lovely music (I don’t know many Japanese girl groups, so I’m not sure what they sound like, but I know quite a few Korean ones and wonder if they would sound anything like those kind of vibes and if so, which band sounds the most like the girl’s group) and thinking that it would make such a fantastic otome/stat grinding/rhythm game combination…and those are my weird thoughts on it. I’ll share more individualized thoughts on each post as I reblog, because they’re too good to just reblog and not leave comments on! Now onto the thoughts on our boys!

Which of the guys believe in paying for the entire date and which of the guys believe in paying 50/50?

I definitely think Kusanagi and Dewa would be the ones who steadfastly insist on paying for the whole date. Both men like to believe they’re ‘gentlemen’ and they would consider it against their pride as men to go dutch. Chitose pays, but he only pays because he’s definitely one of those dicks who would pull the ‘you owe me sex because I bought you dinner’ shtick. Eric would prefer to go dutch, just because he’s not exactly flush for cash, but if the person he’s on the date with definitely seems like they expect him to pay for everything (even though they’ve definitely ordered some expensive stuff), he’s going to do it to hopefully make them happy and make them like him more. He’s kind of easily taken advantage of in the dating scene, honestly. Bandou would pay entirely for the first couple of dates but would insist on either being treated occasionally in return or on going dutch after those couple of dates, while Shouhei and Fuji normally go dutch on dates, just so there’s no expectations and nobody feels like they might have been used for a free meal.

Are any of them religious?

I actually do headcanon Fuji as being quietly religious, having been raised in the Shinto faith. Chitose was raised Christan but defected from the faith. He still honestly believes in something, but he’s not sure he’d call it God and he’s no longer sure the Christian ‘God’ exists at all. Bandou was raised religious, but kind of goes in between observing and just completely ignoring religion, but I feel it’s something he gets back into more in his older age. Dewa, Eric, and Shouhei are all non-religious.

Which of the guys are good at adulting (i.e. paying taxes/bills, etc.)?

Surprisingly, Fuji is really good at adulting. He doesn’t have a lot of bills to pay, since he lives with his parents, but he does pitch in money every month from his work. He’s actually got a really healthy savings account, though he splurges on animal stuff for all the strays he picks up, drinks with the boys, and smokes. Dewa, of course, is the best at adulting. His main weakness, financially, is that he caves pretty easily when the other boys rely on him super heavily to bail them out of tight spots. He’s just really talented with numbers and budgets, so even doing so, he scrapes by every month with everything paid. Chitose is absolute crap as an adult and is normally the one that Dewa is bailing out. Eric really hasn’t had to be financially literate and he’s a terrible adult but god damn, he is trying, and he gets better at it bit by bit. Shouhei and Bandou are both about equally tied – some months all the bills are paid, other months there’s one or two that just don’t get paid because they used all the money up for fast food, drinking, and having fun. Oh well, is both of their attitudes, they’ll catch up next month. Both of them have been sent to collections at least once.

How about HOMRA adopting a stray cat?

Okay, but I actually have this exact topic added to the queue, hahahaha! Great minds and all, I guess, so I guess you’ll have to wait until this one comes out sometime in the next 40 days to read the full post.

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[coffeecat1983]

Down the Road pt 5 (Mario movie fanfic)

After a while, Tony left to go get pizzas from Punch Out Pizzaria, and Arthur went to the kitchen and began putting together a brownie mix. Tony said he'd get some from the store down the street, but Arthur insisted on making them fresh. Knowing better than to argue, Tony gave in. As Arthur worked, Marie came in. "Everything okay out there?" he asked. "All good, the boys seem to be enjoying the movie." Arthur could hear the TV as Down Periscope played. He and Tony had a special collection of comedy films and had been waiting to share them with their nephews, and it seemed to be working. Mario was laughing and Luigi's occasinal softer laughter could be heard just under his. "At least something's going right tonight." he muttered, putting the pan in the oven. As he set the timer, Marie snuck up behind him and wrapped her arms around him, resting her head against his back. Arthur placed his hands over hers, enjoying the quiet moment. The calm was soon broken as the front door opened. "Chow time!" Tony called out. Marie and Arthur joined them in the living room where Tony placed three pizza boxes across the coffee table. "We got one half green pepper, one half red," he nodded to the boys before pointing to the next box. "A veggie and half plain cheese for the ladies of the house," he winked at Marie, "with sausage and mushroom for us," he motioned to Arthur and both grinned as Mario made a pretend gagging sound, mumbling about pizza "being ruined by mushrooms." "Kid, you don't know what's good for ya!" Arthur said, grabbing a slice. Marie scolded him over not getting a plate, and taking her pizza, headed for the bedrooms. "Bria and I are having a picnic in her room so you boys can watch your goofball movies." she said. "Be sure to save us some brownies." In the middle of the next movie, as the group enjoyed the brownies that were still warm from the oven, Tony's phone buzzed softly. Arthur watched and saw his face fall as he read the screen before tapping out a reply. Another buzz, and Tony quietly tucked the phone back in his shirt pocket.

"Still talking. Really don't want the boys to hear this, Papa is involved now & mad at Gio. Both don't know about you. I'm keeping that secret. Will probably take one more day to get this smoothed out, will let you know." "Do you want me to come over? The boys are okay here." "Not yet.I'll come by when Gio is at work tomorrow. Love you all."

Things went well overall until it got late and the uncles unfolded the sofa bed while Marie got clean sheets and blankets. Mario was chatty, exchanging jokes about being folded up in the bed in the morning. Luigi remained quiet; his eyes held a haunted exhaustion. After wishing their family goodnight, both bros took turns getting ready for bed, with Mario first. Arthur and Marie went to their room, Tony meanwhile was in kitchen making a cup of tea. He was also listening in, making sure the boys got settled. There were soft limping footsteps in the hall that went to the living room. Luigi had changed and went to climb into bed, but Mario stopped him. "Lu, your braces." he gently pointed out. He dug into the overnight bag and pulled out the soft night braces, handing them to his brother. Luigi accepted them and sitting on the edge of the bed, slid one on and began tugging at the straps, quickly becoming frustrated. "What's going on, it won't fit right." he said. Mario took a look. "Heh, wrong leg," he pointed out. "Hang on." Before Luigi could protest, Mario was in front of him, helping him put on the braces and carefully pulling the straps. "Not too tight, right?" he asked. "They're good. Thanks Mario. Guess I'm too tired to think right." Mario gave him a hug. "Hey that's what I'm here for." Leaving the kitchen, Tony stood in the doorway. "Okay, the light over the sink is gonna be left on, we all use it like a nightlight," he explained. "G'night you two." "Goodnight, Uncle Tony." the boys chorused. "Remember, either of you need me, my door's open all night, got it? Even if it's just to talk, come get me." He made sure to lock eyes with Luigi as he spoke. A mix of 'sure' and 'thanks' were the replies. Retiring to his room, he changed and tried to settle in to read, but found he couldn't focus. Before he knew it, it was well past midnight and he was still up. Getting up, he quietly went down the hall and peered into the living room. In the low light coming from the kitchen, he could just make out that Mario was holding Luigi while his little brother cried. The two were talking, but it was too low for him to make anything out. Giovanni, you really don't know what you've done to your boys, he reflected.

To be continued....

By "CC"

(sorry for the multi-posts, remember my pieces are available in long format on Ao3)

#luigi #fanfic #mario #mario bros #super mario bros #lgbtq #mario fanfic #uncle arthur #uncle tony #coming out #hurt/comfort

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Review: Seed of Chucky (2004)

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Rated R for strong horror violence/gore, sexual content and language

<Originally posted at https://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-seed-of-chucky-2004.html>

Score: 2 out of 5

Seed of Chucky is, without a doubt, the most overtly comedic entry in the Child's Play franchise, specifically serving as writer and now director Don Mancini's take on a John Waters movie, right down to casting Waters himself as a sleazy paparazzo. It's a film full of one-liners, broad gags, gory kills that are often played as the punchlines to jokes, and most importantly, sexual humor, particularly in its depiction of its non-binary main character that is admittedly of its time in some ways but also a lot more well-intentioned than its peers, and holds up better than you might think for a movie made in 2004. This was really the point where Mancini being an openly gay man was no longer merely incidental to the series, but started to directly inform its central themes. In a movie as violent and mean-spirited as a slasher movie about killer dolls, this was the one thing it needed to handle tastefully, and it more or less pulled it off, elevating the film in such a manner that, for all its other faults, I couldn't bring myself to really dislike it.

Unfortunately, it's also a movie that I wished I liked more than I did. It's better than Child's Play 3, I'll give it that, but it's also a movie where you can tell that Mancini, who until this point had only written the films, was a first-time director who was still green around the ears in that position, and that he was far more interested in the doll characters than the human ones. The jokes tend to be hit-or-miss and rely too much on either shock value or self-aware meta humor, its satire of Hollywood was incredibly shallow and made me nostalgic for Scream 3, and most of the human cast was completely forgettable and one-note. Everything connected to the dolls, from the animatronic work to the voice acting to the kills, was top-notch, but they were islands of goodness surrounded by a painfully mediocre horror-comedy.

Set six years after Bride of Chucky, our protagonist is a doll named... well, they go by both "Glen" and "Glenda" (a shout-out to an Ed Wood camp classic) throughout the film and variously use male and female pronouns. I'm gonna go ahead and go with "Glen" and "they/them", since a big part of their arc concerns them figuring out their gender identity, and just as I've used gender-neutral pronouns in past reviews for situations where a character's gender identity is a twist (for instance, in movies where the villain's identity isn't revealed until the end), so too will I use them here. Anyway, we start the film with an English comedian using Glen as part of an "edgy" ventriloquist routine, fully aware that they're actually a living doll and abusing them backstage. When Glen, who knows nothing about where they came from except that they're Japanese (or at least have "Made in Japan" stamped on their wrist), sees a sneak preview on TV for the new horror film Chucky Goes Psycho, based on an urban legend surrounding a pair of dolls that was found around the scene of multiple murders, they think that Chucky and Tiffany are their parents, run off from their abusive owner, and hop on a flight to Hollywood to meet them. There, Glen discovers the Chucky and Tiffany animatronics used in the film and, by reading from the mysterious amulet they've always carried around, imbues the souls of Charles Lee Ray and Tiffany Valentine into them. Brought back to life, Chucky and Tiffany seek to claim human bodies, with Tiffany setting her eyes on the real Jennifer Tilly, who's starring in Chucky Goes Psycho, and Chucky setting his on the musician and aspiring filmmaker Redman, who's making a Biblical epic that Tilly wants the lead role in.

More than any prior film in the series, this is one in which the human characters are almost entirely peripheral. Chucky and Tiffany are credited as themselves on the poster, the latter above the actress who voices her, and they get the most screen time and development out of anybody by far, a job that Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly proved before that they can do and which they pull off once again here. Specifically, their plot, in addition to the usual quest to become human by transferring their souls into others' bodies, concerns their attempts to mold Glen/Glenda in their respective images. Chucky wants them to be his son, specifically one who's as ruthless a killer as he is, while Tiffany, who's trying not to kill anyone anymore (even if she... occasionally relapses), hopes to make them her perfect daughter. Their arguments over their child's gender identity are a proxy for the divide between them overall as people, building on a thread from Bride of Chucky implying that maybe theirs wasn't the true love it seemed at first glance but a toxic relationship that was never going to end well, especially since they never bothered to ask Glen what they thought about the matter. Glen is the closest thing the film has to a real hero, somebody who doesn't fit into the binary boxes that Chucky and Tiffany, both deeply flawed individuals in their own right, try to force them into, and series newcomer Billy Boyd did a great job keeping up with both Dourif and Tilly at conveying a very unusual character. Whenever the dolls are on screen, the film is on fire.

I found myself wishing the film could've just been entirely about them, because when it came to the humans, it absolutely dragged. As good as Tilly was as the voice of Tiffany, her live-action self here feels far more one-dimensional. We're told that she's a diva who mistreats her staff and sleeps with directors for parts, but this only comes through on screen in a few moments, as otherwise Tilly plays "Jennifer Tilly" as just too ditzy to come off as a real asshole. As for Redman, it's clear that he is not an actor by trade outside of making cameo appearances, as he absolutely flounders when he's asked to actually carry scenes as a sleazy filmmaker parody of himself. Supporting characters like Jennifer's beleaguered assistant Joan and her chauffeur Stan are completely wasted, there simply to pad the body count even when it's indicated (in Joan's case especially) that they were shaping up to be more important characters. There was barely any actual horror, to the point that it detracted from the dolls' menace. The satire of showbiz mostly amounts to cheap jabs at Julia Roberts, Britney Spears, and the casting couch, and barely connects to the main plot with the dolls, even though there was a wealth of ideas the filmmakers could've drawn on connecting Glen's quest to figure out their identity with the manner in which sexual minorities and other societal outcasts have historically gravitated to the arts. This was a movie that could've taken place anywhere, with any set of main human characters, and it wouldn't have changed a single important thing about it, such was how they faded into the background. At least the kills were fun, creative, and bloody, including everything from razor-wire decapitations to people's faces getting melted off with both acid and fire, and the fact that I didn't care about the characters made it easier to just appreciate the special effects work and the quality of the doll animatronics.

The Bottom Line

Seed of Chucky is half of a good movie and half of a very forgettable one, and one that I can only recommend to diehard Chucky fans and fans of queer horror, in both cases for the stuff involving the dolls. It's not the worst Chucky movie, but it's not particularly good either.

#seed of chucky #chucky #2004 #2004 movies #horror #horror comedy #comedy #horror movies #comedy movies #slasher #slasher movies #supernatural horror #queer horror #brad dourif #jennifer tilly #billy boyd #hannah spearritt #don mancini #john waters #redman

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Precure Day 225

Episode: Yes! Precure 5 Go Go! 27 - “Rin-chan VS the Monsters of Edo!” Date watched: 20 September 2022 Original air date: 17 August 2008 Screenshots Precure Metamorphose Gallery | Sky Rose Translate Gallery Project info and master list of posts

I ain’t afraid of no ghost

It’s summer in French Tokyo, and that means it’s festival time. But what is a festival without a test of courage? And who better to host a test of courage than the girl who’s afraid of ghosts?

Wait…

NOTE: This is an episode really steeped in Japanese culture and traditions, so it may not translate well if you’re not familiar with the ideas. I could write an entire post about the references and stuff, but I’ll just give a brief rundown during the miscellaneous section with some links for further reading.

The Plot

Rin and Komachi are preparing a test of courage. Rin is nervous because she doesn't like monsters.

Shibiretta mocks Anacondy for the invasion of Eternal and the defeat of Nebatakos. She snarkily suggests Anacondy should write a report.

Karen, Urara, Nuts, and Coco are at the festival. Nozomi, Kurumi, and separately Syrup are running late. The former group pairs off to find the others.

Shibiretta casts a spell. Everyone finds themselves in an Edo setting confronting Yokai. All fairies revert to their fairy forms and cling to whoever they're with as they flee from the monsters.

 Rin is extra scared but Komachi cheers her on, pointing out that their meeting point is still in sight.

Komachi has a plan to overcome Rin's fear in the process. They manage to scare off a skeleton with masks. Rin scares a ghost by pretending to be another ghost.

Urara & Coco, Karen & Nuts, and Syrup run into Nozomi & Milk. Kurumi points out they agreed to meet at the Torii gates.

RIn and Komachi make it to the torii but find Shibiretta there. She turns an umbrella into a Hoshiina, a karakasa kozo (jumping umbrella). Rin freaks out but they transform.

Mint says they won't give up, Rouge declares she's not scared. She does a combo on the monster.

The other girls arrive, Lemonade and Mint combo to toss the monster around and Rose finishes it with Blizzard. Rouge launches a Fire Strike at Shibiretta. She tries spinning it on her head but it burns her and she disappears.

The girls dress as monsters and scare the boys. Rin is a convincing ghost, and thanks Komachi for helping her overcome her fear, she's very happy. Komachi remarks that the ghost fits her perfectly. The others show up and demand to know if she thinks they fit their characters well, Komachi admits that they were chosen more for comedy.

They chase Komachi and the episode ends.

The Analysis

What I Liked

It’s a Rin-centric episode, so that’s an automatic win in my book. Furthermore, it follows up on a plot from last season about Rin’s fear of ghosts and monsters, which I enjoyed.

The various situations the girls found themselves in with the different yokai were great. Even if you could see the gag coming after 2 or 3 attempts, it’s still a worthwhile payoff.

Reverse scaring the yokai is a great spin on the formula and gives some more good gags.

Komachi and Rin are not a common pairing so it’s nice to see them get some focus together. 

Rouge overcoming her fear and laying into the Hoshiina is a great sequence.

What I didn’t like

I would have liked to see the actual test of courage course, but all we saw were the costumes.

On that note, I wish Rin had been given a full costume as a ghost, rather than just a wig. It’s possible that was a change of plans, given that Komachi had other masks with her.

I wish the girls other than Rin and Komachi had run into more Yokai. Everyone else got one encounter, ran away, and then met up with each other.

The fight with the Hoshiina was a bit odd. The girls ran, then had their triumphant speech, then everyone showed up, and they got beat up some more before pulling through with the winning strategy? You’d expect the speech to signal the turning tide of the battle.

Komachi says that Rin gives her courage, which I don’t think has ever been portrayed, and isn’t well shown in this episode either.

Miscellaneous

A test of courage is a challenge that can take many forms, but usually a group of people go to a scary or haunted destination at night and either take or leave a token to prove they’ve been there. In more staged tests, the path can be lined with props and people dressed as monsters, like a haunted house but outside.

There’s a lot of yokai on display here! Yokai are monsters from Japanese folklore, somewhat analogous to things like Mothman and Sasquatch in North America.

Rin and Komachi first run into what I believe are noppera-bo, the faceless travelers.

Karen and Nuts encounter karakasa kozo, the jumping umbrellas. The Hoshiina is also a giant one of these.

Urara and Coco meet a kijo, a female oni.

Nozomi and Kurumi are frightened by a rokurokubi, a woman with an extending neck.

Syrup is seen running from a group of chochin obake, or living paper lanterns.

Rin and Komachi later encounter a skeleton, which doesn’t seem to be a specific yokai. (The only skeleton yokai I found was a gashadokuro, which is giant)

Rin and Komachi also encounter a yurei, or a Japanese ghost, and that’s exactly what Rin is impersonating as well.

The costumes that Komachi gives to the girls at the end are as follows

Karen is a vampire

Kurumi is a cat

Urara is a nurikabe (a living wall)

Nozomi is a kappa ( a river spirit).

Komachi praises Rin a few times by calling her a Yamato Nadeshiko, which is a complicated term that basically means an ideal Japanese woman. It doesn’t feel apt to me.

Normally, individual transformations are done in roll order (Dream, Rouge, Lemonade, Mint, Aqua, Rose) barring anyone missing. However when Rin and Komachi transform, Komachi’s is shown first.

Milk transforms into her fairy form for the first time since episode 25. Not that long but still.

Conclusion

It’s a fun summer episode, similar to the ghost episode from last season but with a different take on events. I like how the yokai interact with the girls, and I like how the scattered girls manage to find each other once again. It’s super fun, but there’s not much to say beyond that as it's summer filler. I do appreciate that it coincidentally lines up with the spooky season as I’m writing this. Japan likes to do ghosts and spooks in summer as opposed to fall.

Next time, on Precure Daily, the third monarch makes their debut! Look forward to it!

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[kolbisneat]

MONTHLY MEDIA: August 2022

Ugh summer is drawing to a close and it all went by too quickly. Like it does every year. But here’s how I spent my time when I wasn’t making the most of this fleeting weather.

……….FILM……….

Prey (2022) Really great! Though my stress levels max out whenever there’s a best bud dog friend so I’d like to watch it again now knowing how it all plays out. Really smart setups and payoffs and everything felt earned. Just a joy to watch.

High Fidelity (2000) At first I was worried that John Cusack’s character was going to be celebrated but then a customer pretty swiftly takes him and his buds down a peg and I realized: the movie knows these dudes are awful. Funny in a way I wasn’t expecting and still disappointing that Laura ends up back with him. 

……….TELEVISION……….

The Bachelorette (Episode 19.05 to 19.08) I wish there were more opportunities for the leads to hang out and discuss what’s going on, but I get that it’s already so crammed full of stuff. While only 31, Gabby is a perfect example of why casting some sliiiiiightly older leads would be great for the series.

The Handmaid’s Tale (Episode 1.01 to 1.10) This is an exercise is sitting with sadness. It just...constantly feels so bleak. Though I will give that the small moments of rebellion feel that much bigger in contrast to the suffocating bummer of the world. Everyone in Gilead loses but it just takes longer for some to realize it. Oof.

Stranger Things (Episode 4.01 to 4.09) I wasn’t planning on returning to this series but after enough suggestions to check it out, I gave it a go. Pretty good! I was also warned about the Russian subplot and while I didn’t find it to drag too much, it was a reminder of just how many characters and different threads are going on. Wild that they mostly pulled it off and I’m now interested in the final season.

……….READING……….

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski (Page 112 of 315) Really insightful read into the psychology of sex and arousal and intimacy. It’s assuming the reader is a cis woman BUT I’m learning so much and the research applies to all bodies and orientations. I know I’m only a third of the way into it but I can’t recommend it enough.

Devil House by John Darnielle (Abandoned) Great title, great cover, and not at all representative of the contents inside. Not to say it’s not well-written or engaging. I tried to shift gears but I really wanted a good (maybe even a slightly pulpy) horror and the story is...not that. If you’re into following the creative process of a true-crime author, this is for you.

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu Collector’s Edition (Complete) I haven’t read much of Ito’s horror work but you can see it every once in a while in this collection. It also makes me realize how much comedy plays a role in horror as this book is also very funny in a way that doesn’t make it feel like a comedy. Like the humour just stems from life and not from jokes and gags, if that makes sense?

Chew Volume 1: Taster’s Choice by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Complete) So gross. I mean it’s a really creative setting and premise, but each issue had something that made me go “ew”. Maybe that’s the point? Very 90s gross-out and too-cool vibes.

……….AUDIO……….

Renaissance by Beyoncé (2022) Hey whaddya know, it’s really good. 

……….GAMING……….

Oz: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting (Andrews McMeel Publishing) This month the group dug into the library system, tried to find books relating to cults, and discovered the mayor of Munchkin is involved! Political intrigue followed and you can read all about it over here.

Neverland: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting (Andrews McMeel Publishing) The Mof1 group took a detour, found a very large crocodile, and decided to pull a Magic School Bus and explore the inner workings of this reptile. So far they’ve found the ear canal, lungs, and a stomach acid lake full of magic items and half-digested pirates! We have fun.

And that’s it. As always, I welcome recommendations and happy Wednesday!

#Monthly Media #Kolbisneat #Andrew Kolb

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Basically, it's Fairly Odd Parents in the Milo Coco style!

While we all wish that 'Fairly Odd Parents' didn't overstay its welcome, there was a time when we thought the show was more than "fairly" good. As a child, this Nickelodeon cartoon about average boy Timmy Turner and the magical adventures he has with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda granted me a lot of enjoyment in its peak.

What worked about FOP was how it managed to put fantasy creatures into a contemporary setting, it was able to apply cartoon based humour to the cyclical structure of a fairy tale. The show followed its own formula, which Timmy would use wishing to improve his life. But these wishes would lead to certain consequences, that way, it would work morals into its stories. It really showed what type of wishes a child would make if they could happen in our world. It played around with tropes, as the depictions of mythological beings and wishes turned out differently than you'd expect.

Its use of gag-related humour was both sharp and funny. The show could get tongue-in-cheek with how characters referred to plot points, like how the opposite circumstances happen. The designs are formed from geometric shapes and bold outlines, they still have a distinctive flare. The animators were able to magically bring life to these ideas with snappy timing. 

The characters were able to pull off these goofy lines with sincerity. Timmy was one the younger viewers could sympathise with and learn from. Both Cosmo and Wanda worked well off each other, as the dim-witted comic relief and nagging voice of reason. The other characters managed to leave an impact with their exaggerated traits, like the conspiracy nut Crocker. Who pursuits to prove the existence of fairies. Yet he reacts and fails in an over the top manner. Sure the writing could be hokey and the characters would become victims of 'flanderization', it still made up for it with a good balance of humour and morals. 

But after a brief hiatus, FOP introduced the fourth wheel to the main cast. When Cosmo himself gave birth to the fairy baby, Poof (yes....really). For many fans, this was seen as the point where the show jumped the shark through a giant pair of scissors (so to speak). Something definitely felt 'odd', but we all thought what could possibly go wrong? Well, the writing was starting to become less witty and charming, often relying more on pop culture and sophomoric humour. The character's flanderization became more apparent, as they were reduced to their exaggerated traits. The supporting characters were put to the side; while more main characters were added as it went on. Now I for one don't blame Poof (as I like his character design), and I do think the second half of seasons do contain certain gems if you know where to look for them. But when Sparky was added, that's when I felt the show started to run on fumes. Did the last 2 seasons need to exist? I ask you.

If there's any point where FOP lost any dignity it still had, it would be the live-action movies. What could have been a funny/whimsical coming of age story that passes the wand to a new generation failed to utilise it's characters. The acting is ham and cheese, the production values are camp; what may have been funny in the original series does not translate to live-action. And for what, to completely contradict the ending that 'Channel Chasers' had set up. They're not the worst trilogy of films, but still, they’re not the conclusion viewers would’ve hoped for. When you put them together they leave you so disenchanted, you wonder if the show was ever good in the first place. For many fans, this made them realise that the show (for lack of a better term) lost its magic.

If 'A Fairly Odd Movie' was good (or at least decent) and the series ended right there and then; people would probably hold FOP in similar regard to 'Phineas and Ferb' and 'Futurama'. Not necessarily as one of the deepest shows or comedy gold, but the series had a charm that was all its own. But alas, it just became another children's franchise. But it no longer became what we remember it to be. Sadly, Cosmo and Wanda kept their incumbency, until it was eventually put out of its misery. Even though I still look back fondly on Timmy's earlier wishes, the reputation of them and their creator have been forever tarnished.

With the news of a live-action retelling, maybe Cosmo and Wanda's story could be told in a different timeline instead. It doesn't have to stay in Dimmsdale. But that's just wishful thinking. 

Fairly Odd Parents belongs to its respected owners and creators.

#Original Artwork #fairly odd parents #cartoon #animated show #timmy turner #cosmo #wanda #crocker #vicky #nickelodeon #butch hartman #fan art #watercolour #tribute #series #retrospective #fantasy #magic #mystical #enchantment #humour #comedy #whimsy #version #interpretation

[anhed-nia]

And now that I've been positive about something that didn't demand it, I'm gonna be MEAN for no reason just to restore balance to the universe. I fucking hate this movie. Never has a tagline been so accurate. TRICK OR TREATS is one of these things that has remained in circulation long enough for me to wonder, like, do people LIKE this, and there's just something good about it that I don't get? Or is it just anomalous that it's still available enough to be on Shudder 40 years after its accursed birth? I'm not just irked that it's "bad", which it is, but because I have no idea what the fucking point of it is supposed to be. What form of pleasure am I supposed to receive from it? This is a movie that's loaded with sluts and blowjob jokes, but it's completely devoid of graphic nudity or violence or even proper swearing. You might point out that it's more of a comedy, as horror-comedies go, but it's also not at all funny. It features a (not scary) escaped homicidal lunatic, but most of that plays out as a long gag about how, if a big ugly dude puts on a frumpy dress and a stuffed bra, absolutely no one can tell the difference and randos will start trying to fuck him immediately. Ha Ha Ha. It's a movie that seems to be aimed at horror buffs, but the "special effects" basically amount to Halloween decorations and cheap prefab magic tricks for children, which gives you that suspicious feeling that the filmmakers actually kind of hate horror movies and think that you can put any stupid thing in front of a genre fan and get their unqualified, brain dead approval.

Also like, maybe this is a personal thing, but I'd say MOST pranks are pretty unfunny, and movies that prominently feature pranksters are almost unbearable. If you're going to anchor your movie to the idea of tricks and pranks, it really better be as outrageous as the setup of TERROR TRAIN (a movie that also isn't very good, but at least there was an idea in there somewhere); you really cannot ask me to pay rapt attention to, for instance, an endless scene of a snot-nosed brat duping his babysitter into thinking there's somebody at the door. Oh wow, the little boy uses a string to pull on the door knocker, oh boy, the babysitter answers the door, oh no, there's no one there. Lather, rinse, repeat. Ha Ha Ha. By the way, why is this frustrated woman running around in like a Joan Collins type of nightgown while she's both managing this unruly child and having to answer the door for trick-or-treaters every ten minutes? Who fucking knows. How much time can we kill by putting the babysitter on the phone with her inconsequential boyfriend so he can report in about his awful-sounding Shakespeare performance? You'll find out if you watch this piece of shit! (FYI the occasional appearance of cult favorite actors only makes you wish you were watching something better)

There's a lot more to be perplexed about behind the scenes, like the fact that the writer-director-etc also shot movies for Orson Welles, and great horror movies like THE TOOLBOX MURDERS (where's the horror in this movie?), and also a huge amount of porn (where's the damn sex appeal in this movie?). I vaguely worry that TRICK OR TREATS was just made as a simple excuse to create a starring role for the filmmaker's young son, which makes it seem innocent and like something I shouldn't spend so much energy bagging on, but it's just so un-fun, and vaguely insulting, that it's hard for me to just turn a blind eye. AND ANOTHER THING I really hate that the title is pluralized. You can DO trick-or-treating, you can BE a trick-or-treater, but there's no such thing as "trick or treats". It reminds me of when I watched NOTTING HILL a couple years ago (*John Waters voice* What was I thinking about?) and among other sticking points, I could not get over Hugh Grant repeatedly saying "whoopsies-daisies". I mean. What the fuck, guy? Why are you, an adult, saying that, but also it's NOT PLURAL. It's just "whoopsy-daisy"; sure, you'll find a few variations in an idiomatic dictionary, but not one that pluralizes both words. "Whoopsies-daisies" isn't even easy to say. How the fuck did you come up with that? I think I've finally drained my poison gland for this morning, so to leave on a bright note, here's my favorite part of NOTTING HILL. Just Hugh Grant's roommate's implausible shirt. I kinda want one.

PS I posted that NOTTING HILL review on Facebook a few years ago, because I thought it was fun and like one of the more publicly acceptable/accessible things I'd written, and indeed, a bunch of people found it pretty funny. But then within a day or so, I had to go to a friend-of-a-friend's birthday party where I was quietly informed that I was nearly dis-invited because it was the adult birthday girl's favorite movie and she just, like, didn't want to see my face after she found out what I had to say. So, never let it be said that my opinions are not powerful and of consequence for others!

#blogtober ramp-up i guess! #trick or treats

[thesffcorner]

Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor: Love and Thunder is the fourth installment in the Marvel Thor franchise, written and directed by Taika Waititi. It follows Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey of self-discovery, following the events of Endgame. After saving Sif (Jamie Alexander) from a powerful being who wields the Necrosword: Gorr, the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who, uh, slays Gods. Gorr’s next target is New Asgard where Thor is reunited with Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), as well as Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), now wielding a reconstructed Mjolnir and calling herself the Mighty Thor. Together, the trio + Korg (Taika Waititi) who has been traveling with Thor, embark on a mission to kill Gorr, rescue the children of Asgard from being kidnapped and preventing him from reaching Eternity. 

If that plot summary sounded convoluted, trust me, that was my best effort to streamline it. I haven’t even mentioned Thor’s travel with the Guardians of the Galaxy, or the other Gods in Omnicity or even the reason Jane has Mjolnir. This is by far the most convoluted and bloated Marvel film, and in a post No Way Home/Multiverse of Madness world, that’s saying a lot. 

This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy the film: I daresay I laughed out loud at multiple points during it, and didn’t notice the near 2 hour runtime. It’s popcorn entertainment through and through, with lots of cool visuals, a kickass soundtrack and a very Masters of the Universe aesthetic. The issue is that it’s style over substance, comedy approach really doesn’t fit the story and it’s darker themes, and the film struggles to maintain a consistent tone and vision because of it. 

This review will contain SPOILERS, so if you haven’t seen the film, pause your reading, watch it and then if you came out as conflicted as I did, come back to this review. 

What I liked:

There were a few things I really enjoyed in this film. First off, it’s genuinely, very funny. There are tons of gags from small things like Valkyrie advertising Old Spice, to running gags like the screaming goats, to massive set pieces like Thor’s conversation with the King of Gods, Zeus. There is barely a single moment where there isn’t some sort of joke on screen, and while that does definitely hurt the film in the long run, you can’t say it doesn’t make for an entertaining viewing. 

Waititi has a very “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to his comedy, which means that while not every gag will land, there are so many, and they come so fast that you barely register the ones that don’t. It’s an uneven experience for sure, but in terms of comedy, I’d say this film lands more than it flops. 

Another major component that I loved was the film’s visual style. It’s maximalist: bright colors, busy frames, ridiculously epic costumes and long, elaborate action scenes. There is an inspired section of the film where the heroes track Gorr down to his dimension of darkness that is so desaturated it borders on black and white, which is also where Waititi plays with scale and space. The planet is at once tiny and massive, close and far, and it feels like a bad-trip version of Wonderland. 

The scenes where Gorr is using his shadow powers to attack the heroes, especially during the Asgard attack and the aforementioned Dimension of Darkness, are truly haunting and border on horror. I wish Marvel would just buckle and make a proper horror film already: between this and Wanda’s scenes in Strange they could pull it off, if they would just let their directors commit. 

The acting is likewise stellar as usual. Though everyone is given a limited range of emotions (which is a major issue of the film I will talk about) they work well with what they are given. Chris Hemsworth has been playing Thor for over a decade now and he lives and breathes in this character. It’s at this point second nature to him. 

Valkyrie and Jane do well with their material, the former as an alcoholic who’s torn between her roles as politician and warrior, and the latter as a workaholic who is coming to terms with her own fragility and mortality. Once again, because of the film’s tone we don’t go nearly as in depth as I would’ve liked for any of these characters, but that’s not the actors’ fault, and they still manage to wriggle some pathos of what are otherwise shallow roles. 

The standout however is by far Christian Bale. He is amazing, equally tragic, horrifying and funny. He manages to strike a balance between the pathos and tragedy of his role, and the comedy, especially when he’s given scenes to lead. I desperately wish he got to play Gorr in a different, better movie, because his character has the potential to be as emotionally engaging as the best Marvel villains like Loki and Killmonger. 

Unfortunately, this brings me to: 

Ragnarok:

Thor: Ragnarok is one of my favorite Marvel films; it’s funny, it’s subversive, it turned a pretty one note villain like Hella into a very entertaining and at times justified character and it gave some much needed personality to Hulk. 

The main strength of Ragnarok was that in spite of having dozens of worlds and characters, it maintained a consistent tone and throughline, and used its comedy to advance the plot and arcs of its characters. 

However, my big gripe with Ragnrok, was that it often discarded the prospect of its characters processing the events and emotions of what’s happening in favor of jokes. Thor loses an eye, loses Mjolnir, loses his best friends, and later loses Asgard his literal Kingdom and home he’s known his entire life and he never gets a moment to just talk about it. Even Loki, who actually does get two scenes where he realizes that in spite of everything he loves Thor and Thor loves him back, and Odin never stopped thinking of him as anything but his son, isn’t given any real space to deal with everything that’s happened to him. 

In spite of it, Ragnarok still managed to be emotionally impactful, and funny. In this film, the comedy dominates, to the point where the characters are barely characters and have almost no development throughout the film. It’s overwhelming how much the comedy interferes with the story, pulling you out of the experience and deflating every moment of pathos with jokes that are unnecessary, overlong, or just plain dumb. 

These characters DESERVE to have their issues explored: Thor has literally lost everything; he doesn’t know who or what he is without being Prince of Asgard or fighting in wars and doesn’t know how to cure the soul sickness which he masks with humor and bravado. 

Valkyrie is a King, and now has to manage and protect literally every living Asgardian, along with a bunch of refugees, but she’s still dealing with the loss of all her sisters and her lover. She still intends to die in a battle and go to Valhalla to join them, even after becoming literal royalty. 

Jane Foster we learn has cancer, which will more than likely kill her. In spite of all her intellect and fame, in spite of dating a God and advancing science, she is alone and mortal. My personal gripe is that this film makes no effort to connect her cancer to the Aether that possessed her in the Dark World, but instead cribs Starlord’s backstory of her mother dying of cancer (something which, incidentally Jane would’ve been aware of before this film, and would’ve been something to tell Thor in their years-long relationship). 

And finally, Gorr, the God Butcher, hands down one of Thor’s, if not Marvel’s most interesting villains. Gorr is a man who lost everything to his fate: his wife, his daughter, his people and then learned that his God is weak, corrupt and evil. He was given a purpose to kill all the Gods and reach Eternity which would grant him one wish. He has every right to despise the Gods, seeing as in this very film most of them are shown to be cruel, cowardly and uninterested in the lives of those who worship them. 

I just described the characters in more depth than the damn movie. The movie even lampshades the fact that it keeps its characters so superficial,  by having Korg provide ‘humorous’ backstories and even LITERALLY spelling out Thor and Valkyrie’s motivations and internal conflict. It’s the most bizzare violation of “show don’t tell” I’ve ever seen, and it serves nothing other than to deflate what otherwise would have been an emotionally engaging scene. It’s so gratuitous it borders on Joss Whedon at his very worst. 

Which leads me to:

The Tone Problem:

Look. I know tone is hard. It’s hard to keep it consistent and even harder to switch between a lighthearted adventure film and a horror/drama dealing with child death, mass murder, religion and cancer. But it can be done and even done by Taika Waititi himself! He made Jojo Rabbit, one of the arguably best recent tragi-comedies that nails the humor as well as the horror and tragedy of its subject matter. 

So what the hell happened here? 

The comedy overshadows everything, to the point where it actively interferes with the story. The film is full of gags, most of them catered to children: lots of slapstick, lots of quips, Korg’s narration and even Thor and Jane’s romance, which feels very juvenile. 

But this isn’t a kids film. It’s a film that opens with the heartbreaking death of Gorr’s daughter from dehydration, and Gorr crying and screaming, covered in sunburns and calluses. 

We follow that up with the brutal murder of a God who absolutely deserved it, and even still when Gorr kidnaps the children of Asgard he torments them by breaking the neck of  snake-like creature and throwing the dead body at them. 

So what is it? Is this a horror-tragedy for adults or a funky comedy for kids? Kids love horror and tragedy too, don’t get me wrong, but the horror in this film will fly over kids’ heads and the comedy makes ose elements in this film remind me more of the inconsistent tone of Shazam rather than the Secret of Nimh. 

This inconsistent tone kills any ability for this film to be serious and truly explore the motivations and actions of its antagonist who is and could’ve been even more sympathetic. There is no room for genuine grief or anger when the film has to balance Russel Crowe’s Zeus with the worst “Greek” accent I have ever heard, and Valkyrie begging the Gods to save her sisters on the battlefield and her pleas falling on deaf ears. 

Gorr and Jane Don’t Belong Here:

What it comes down to the most is that Gorr, the God Butcher’s storyline isn’t a comedy and simply doesn’t work as a comedy. Gorr is a man who lost everything for his faith, only to learn that his God is immoral, corrupt and weak. He is killing ALL the Gods, and even if he changed his mind and asked Eternity for a different wish, he would still die, still leave his daughter alone and potentially in a much worse world than the one she died in. You simply can’t have the motivations and actions of such a character in the same movie with an extended gag of Thor fighting Heimdal’s son because he changed his name to Axl.

This same issue hits Jane. She makes a great addition to Gorr’s storyline: like him she too was gifted a weapon by the Gods that is slowly killing her, she too lost people because of the Gods, she too is a mortal who’s ascended beyond the abilities of mortals. The one scene in which Gorr and Jane are allowed to speak was excellent at juxtaposing these two sides of the same coin, but that’s all we get. 

Imagine instead if the story engaged with these themes: Jane being angry at being given all this power and all this might that is literally killing her. Her being resentful of tHor treating her decisions only in a way which affects him, ignoring her own wishes. Maybe even Jane agreeing with Gorr that the Gods cause more suffering to the mortals for no reward, or just the fucking commradery with someone who has the power to kill God but not bring his family back. 

There is even a brief scene where Jane seems to entertain the idea of getting to Eternity first so she can ask for a wish instead of Gorr, but we never get any follow up on this, and it’s never mentioned again. 

This leads me to another big problem:

No Consequences for Massive Actions:

Have you ever heard of the phrase “set up and pay off”? Or “every action elicits an opposite and equal reaction”? Well this movie hasn’t. 

Massive things are set up and never paid off. Who created the Necrosword? What’s its goal? We never learn. Why did Eternity speak to Gorr? We also never learn. 

Jane and Thor both learn that Eternity will grant a wish to the first person who opens its gate. They know Gorr needs Thor’s Stormbreaker to open the Bifrost and get to Eternity. So why don’t they open the gate, get there first and ask for the Necrosword to disappear? Or ask for the kids to return safely to Asgard? Or for Jane to be free of cancer? Or even for Gorr to get his daughter back? 

Instead, once they get to Eternity they ask for… nothing. Thor just hopes that Gorr, who was under the influence of the Necrosword and hates the Gods, remember, will just do the right thing and not kill every single God. Or destroy the world. Or give himself superpowers. 

Side-question. If all it took to get to Eternity was to find the gate and use the Bifrost to open it, and Eternity didn’t create the sword and didn’t ask for Gorr to kill the Gods to get to it using the sword (the sword itself is the one who wants the Gods dead), then why did Gorr even bother fighting any of the Gods? Why didn’t he just track Thor or Jane down, kill just them and get Mjolnir or Stormbreaker and get to Eternity?

Thor wants to gather an army to fight Gorr, and to do this the gang sneaks on Omnicity. When the Gods, namely Zeus, refuses to help them, Thor straight up kills Zeus and steals his lightning. He just… kills the King of all the Gods, in front of every powerful God, not just from Earth but from other planets too, and NO ONE, not a SINGLE person reacts! No one goes after the gang, Thor isn’t arrested or ambushed, literary nothing happens!

Yes, we learn in a post credit scene that Zeus isn’t dead, but even that scene is played as comedy, not as something that in every other film would get Thor and the gang EXECUTED. 

I already talked about how none of the characters are allowed to react to anything that’s happening to them. Thor lost everything, but no, he’s hung up on breaking up with Jane 8 YEARS AGO. 

Thor and Jane:

Speaking of, boy do Thor and Jane get the short end of the stick. First off, their romance feels incredibly juvenile. The way they act towards each other makes no sense for two adult humans in any reasonable sense of the word. Thor isn’t concerned that Jane can suddenly reform and lift Mjolnir, which for a long time was a source of his power, but that she is wearing his clothes? Jane doesn’t want to know what happened with Thanos? Where Thor was for all these years? If Asgard has magic that can cure her, like they showed they did in Dark World? No? She wants to know if he has a girlfriend? Really??

Also how many times will Thor learn the same exact lesson? I thought Ragnarok was where Thor realized he’s more than just the Prince of Asgard and Mjolnir, where he learned who he was and what he wanted? But now we are back to even pre-Ragnarok with Thor acting more like Starlord than himself. 

Thor was never emotionally dense, he was never unintelligent in that department: he was brash and arrogant, but he loved freely and openly in each film. In fact that was his main flaw, that he loved Loki even after Loki kept betraying him time and time again. He never once ‘closed his heart’; he deeply loves both Valkyrie and Korg, and he even loves the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers. This sudden character flaw is not only stupid, but it actively contradics the very core of Thor’s character. 

I believe that Jane buried herself in work to get over Thor, and ‘closed her heart’. I believe that Thor still loves her and would do anything for her. I refuse to believe that Thor of all people holds others at arm’s length or refuses to love fully. That might be Starlord, but it’s definitely not Thor. 

The Length:

My final point is more of a gripe, that unfortunately feeds into the rest of the issues. Too many scenes in this film are bloated, overlong and unnecessary. 

The Guardians for example. We didn’t need them: we could’ve achieved the exact same effect if instead of 20 minutes of Thor fighting with them on a random planet, they just dropped him off somewhere and we got the montage of him training and fighting. You could even strengthen Thor’s dumbass character arc, by being “I have to do this alone” as the reason why he left them. 

Then instead of the stupid distress call lineup, Thor can get a vision of Siff while meditating, be shocked that she’s even alive, go rescue her and maybe we could’ve gotten a scene of Gorr killing the God and chopping Siff’s arm off. That way Thor actually has a personal reason to go after Gorr instead of just “some of the Gods he killed were nice”. 

The entire midpoint with the Gods was pointless. Instead of the Omnicity bit Thor could’ve gone to Olympus and spoken to Zeus. Maybe even Zeus fought Gorr or whoever wielded the sword before him and defeated him, which is why Thor needs and wants his help. 

What I’m saying is that a solid 30% of this movie could’ve been cut and replaced with shorter, but better executed scenes and the film would be much better for it.

Conclusion:

It’s a movie that, much like its protagonist, doesn't know what it wants to be. It wants to be a comedy. It wants to be a serious drama. It wants to be a horror film. And yet, it commits to none of these, and as a result it’s unfocused, messy and feels like a first draft. I am very disappointed in the final result and am worried what that would mean for the future of the franchise. 

It’s still a fun film, but definitely one of the bad ones. 

#thor #thor love and thunder #marvel #moni talks #film review

[felikatze]

s11 ice chapter is DONE and wawo. it was good.

i'm gonna talk about the benign shit first cuz wawo this season had Stuff Going On. man.

the filler episodes were, as with the fire chapter, top tier. incredible. fantastic.

also hello. 2d animated sequences?? in my ninjago?? it's more likely than you think

ofc these episodes fulfill the purpose of torturing viewers by prolonging cliffhangers but the subject matter is well chosen.

the first one answers your cinemasins ding of "hey wouldnt all the villains attack ninjago now" to which the show says "no because they're too dumb to escape jail with pixal on the block." also again as with the fire chapter the episode was hilarious.

seeing how some two bit villains perceive the ninja. height of comedy. also the "who the fuck is fugidove" running gag because who tf is he indeed. and why does he hate jay of all ninjas the most.

ALSO THE FUCKING. DBZ PARODY???? JAY WALKER AS GOKU??? HELLO??? DID I SEE THAT RIGHT??????? sorry i was just not mentally prepared for that existing i just. i paused the episode and ate lunch before i could proceed. my lunch was a bowl of pretzel shaped biscuits. i also ate three whole potatoes today i'm good

the next "filler" (cuz it's not REALLY filler in the anime filler sense but i use filler to mean "does not advance the main plot in any way") ep deals with pixal and wu and pixal fighting the fucking preeminent is fun (they brought it back for a joke??? i thought it was gone after nya drowned it?? is this a different one without hydra capabilites?? did it jusz.... grow back or did nya killing it send it to the departed realm) but also the episode depresses me

pixal and wu DO NOT deal with grief good those two are depressed as hell. pixal almost kills herself because she a) knows she's the only line of defense left for ninjago b) can't go on without zane and like. okay. goddd. what the fuck. i wish pixal happy therapy.

WU ALSO LIKE. he def has that "it should've been me" survivor's guilt shit going on. he's so desparate to find them. like that one scene where he and pixal find the departed realm and he deludes himself into thinking the growls of the preeminent are the sounds of the land bounty. and then he doesnt want to lose pixal too....... i'm so emo abt this.

side note pixal before almost frying herself saying she loves zane as her last words and zane's recording having him say he loves pixal as his last words. I'M SO EMO ABT THIS FR. pixane are the only bitches i respect

MOVING ON TO THE MAIN PLOT

laaast time i speculated maybe kai just gets his powers back but he doesnt!! that's vry cool actually. he has to get some self confidence babeyyyy. it's funny how like. he manages to get fire again and immediatly gets cocky again but then the ice dragon shows up and his savior complex or whatever kicks him in the ass. hell yeah man.

nice setup for the climax where "oh look the ice dragon is an elemental creation" so he melts the thing and actually manages to save people for real this time. good for him

ALSOOO NYA. return of her s5 bane: not immediatly being good at stuff. CONSISTENCY!! we love to see it. vry sexy acknowledgement that ice is just frozen water, therefore shouldn't nya be able to control it? HELL YEAH SHE CAN! it's just vry hard.

mildly conflicted abt cole this season cuz. why set it up so that the traveler's tea can't bring them back only for cole to lose it anyway? it feels weird from a writing standpoint that the ninja never even notice. they could've easily just been told by like, sorla (is that her name? the wu stand-in), since at the end of the season she knows leaves aren't enough and cole pulls out the uh. berry.

the tea not working anyway undercuts cole's guilt over losing the tea i feel. bcuz the audience knows it would be a moot point if he'd kept it anyway. i don't think the mini-arc about cole feeling guilty over this is bad, it's good actually, but again! the effect just gets undercut cuz! yeah!!

that aside. rlly fun how cole dads krag. he threatens to revoke its (his?) gaming rights. i feel like cole still makes the ninja eat their veggies. it's sooo funny how he gets mad at them for talking shit in his dream. hello. my guy. you were dreaming.

3. akita. bark bark

next up. new characters. mainly akita!! woof. conceptually i find her vry cool. i love shapeshifters i think wolves are cool (<- is transgender)

i think it's great how lloyd reacts to her deceit cuz like. lloyd traumadumped to this random wolf and the wolf is a girl actually and god this random girl knows about his daddy issues now. he feels betrayed as he should bcuz otherwise s8 would feel for naught. lloyd got trust issues now babeyy!!! though he does forgive akita when its clear she had no ill intent and still needs help!! bcuz it's vry vry important that despite it all, lloyd's still kind

love the juxtaposition of revenge vs saving on akita and lloyd. and this isn't set up for shits n giggles it does actually result in conflict between the two when akita tries to stab zane and lloyd stops her, but still protects her from zane when that goes to shit.

i think her backstory segment was done amazing to answer all sorts of questions i wasn't even asking until they got answered, like why the fuck does zane have a castle?

her relationship to her lost brother is also a great parallel to everyone's search for zane. it shows the level of hope they have. akita has no hope, she believes herself to be alone. she wants revenge, and has no plans for a future after. why should she? she turned her back on her frozen home.

meanwhile, the ninja fervently believe that zane is still alive, and that they can find him. in the end, faith is rewarded with a happy ending. i'm happy that akita gets her family back, too. it's sweet, for one, makes the season less grim and more family tv friendly, for another, and ties into this comparison. even if she had no hope to start with, her efforts still weren't in vain.

the main downside to her character is her giving lloyd a kiss cuz like i UNDERSTAND that these two characters bonded a lot through mutual traumadumping and near death experiences but i do not think they had romantic chemistry and i will be ignoring this. thank you. lloyd remains unshippable to me.

sorry for mainly talking abt akita in conjunction with lloyd but these two characters spent the most time together this season and as such their plotlines are inextricable. thanks for understanding. moving on

gotta talk abt vex now i think. i like that he just sucks. he doesnt get an animal form cuz he's a distrusting selfish bastard. he's the cause of every problem ever this season. he just sucks.

he's the only one who tries to start shit with the formlings because they hate him for sucking and then the king tells him to fuck off thank god.

also how this bitch just??? gaslights zane?? like actual definition of gaslight gaslight??? hello???????????

zane..... zane my man. dear god.

first of all. i love villain arcs. i think they're sexy. i LOVE the scene where lloyd tries to get zane to remember desparately and then zane throws him in jail. that's good character conflict babeyyy!!

vex being all Gaslight Gatekeep ultimately takes the crux of all evil away from zane which i think is both the good writing choice for a kids cartoon and cowardly. cowardly because, gestures at above paragraph, and good writing choice because zane would never intentionally hurt people otherwise

the set up of the ice emperor really does only work because of the combo of evil advisor + corrupting artefact of great power

the flashback episode here did great work. obviously it can't depict zane's presumably gradual descent into madness over decades because it's one ten minute episode, but it still did a great job. it rlly hammered home that zane only used the scroll out of desparation, and was tricked in a vital moment. like we understand how zane got to being the ice emperor and it makes sense from a character standpoint, especially considering the frequently mentioned time gap that cannot be adequately portrayed in one ten minute backstory ep. more than one backstory ep would be too needlessly long though, so again ultimately the best choice.

s good ya

the twist itself was obvious see that one post abt zane's lil bright blaring blue gloves. like even tho i did get spoilered on it it's. ice powers. convenietly frozen staff. glowing blue eyes. the gloves.

the writers tried to red herring so hard with keitaro as the faceless prisoner and i respect that but frankly it did not work much. good on them knowing a red herring was necessary though cuz it sure was.

i love the detail of the ice emperor having to free his arms every time he stands up bcuz he froze himself to the throne by accident. adds flavor.

the final fight is sooo. goddamn it's good. like the aspheera fight it's plain fun to watch it looks amazing but i also love how it ends.

zane wins the fight. like with corruption arcs like this it's usually "hit friend over the head until good again" but none of lloyd's pleading or the fight itself did it. it was lloyd being helpless, it was vex gloating, and it was zane remembering his own mantra. he protects those who cannot protect themselves. THAT WAS SUCH A GOOD MOMENT FR. ZANE!!!! MY MAN!!!!!!! WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i liked this development can you tell. who cares if it's cliche or cheesy IT WORKS. the cheese always just works in this show. bcuz it's vry sincere. about its cheese.

side note i forgot to mention. it's super neat how the intro changes between red and blue to denote which realm the episode is set in!! so cool!

minor thing from last season: why does clutch powers use random german. the only fictional characters allowed to do that are klavier from ace attorney, and me. hey alter hör auf.

to summarize the ice chapter was amazing, i think this is the first time one of the ninja was a major antagonist? i love it. i want the writers to do it again it's just good.

next up is. the video game season? i know next to nothing about s12-15. i know it's another jay season because of that one very blue jay design with tboy swag i see art of. looking forward to it.

#feli speaks #ninjago posting #GOOD SEASON. i want more seasons of one ninja just going batshit i think it would be funny

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I Like to Watch | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

by Don Hall

I was never a fan of the 1960's campfest that was the Adam West Batman series.

Far more a Marvel fan than DC, I still read across corporations as I grew up. Like the kids who take gender fluidity and the message that Thomas Jefferson was first and foremost an enslaver so seriously, I took the stories of grown people with super powers uniformed in the clothing choices of gay strippers as full of gravitas. Goofy shit like the Spider Pig and Superman's improbable Kryptonian dog left me cold. These tales of heroism were a bit of the bedrock of my upbringing so having the characters as instruments to mock their very stories was like eating meatloaf with M&Ms in it. Just gross.

In the late seventies, I loved Christopher Reeves as Superman. Richard Donner did the unthinkable—he took the character semi-seriously. Sure, I wished Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor was more Evil Genius than Greedy Buffoon but it was more in keeping with my desire to see the comic book come to life. I then ended up hating the third and fourth follow-up films because they made mockery of the very thing I loved about the first. Richard Pryor? Really?

Then came Tim Burton and Michael Keaton. 1989's Batman was lush and bizarre but it took the characters as written rather than with a comedy-spin. Batman Returns was even better as the villains were full of gravity and horror. Then Joel Schumacher came along and gave us bat-nipples and Jim Carrey. FUCK!

In 2003, there was the beauty and wonder of Jon Favreau. Balancing the gravity of the superhero stories with a sense of wisecracking fun without highlighting either the inherent silliness of grown people dressing up in costumes to fight other grown people in costumes or the quasi-fascist message of justifiable vigilantism, he found the sweet spot. It worked. It worked so well that Iron Man spawned two dozen films and an interlocking universe of stories that mostly managed that balance.

That razor's edge between too much fealty and too much tongue-in-cheek mockery was tested by the grim, humorless DCEU films of Zack Snyder. No, the MCU had found the perfect mix. No Bat-credit cards or Mr. Freeze catchphrases and no washed out murderous Superman glumly being trolled by Congress.

Thor was a bit of an issue in this perfect mix. The first film took the Shakespearean qualities of self proclaimed gods (positioned as nearly omnipotent beings who claimed they were gods but weren't exactly gods… maybe?) and skirted the line of too much self-seriousness. Thor isn't a science-based warrior. He isn't a regular human imbued super powers by a super-soldier serum, gamma radiation, or a radioactive spider. The Asgardians are magical creatures so pulling Thor into the mix of the Avengers was an odd choice. Joss Whedon threw in plenty of wise cracks but few gags and Thor was seen as the outlier among a group of outliers. It worked.

The Dark World was a messy sequel and included space elves. Still overly serious and too plot heavy and complicated. Marvel appeared to be uncertain how to deal with this character but the commitment to a third movie was baked into the formula.

They hired crazy, funny director Taika Waititi. Known for his New Zealand hit What We Do in the Shadows—effectively The Office for vampires—Waititi had a more comic vision for Thor. Thor: Ragnarok was more in line with James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy than the previous two films. It was fun. It had Jeff Goldblum. It had the Hulk. Kooky alien sidekicks. Lots of gags. Hemsworth got to have some more fun. Because the shackles of straight-faced adherence to the pomposity of the god-thing had been removed, Waititi created a new playground for the character with potential for real development.

Via Infinity Wars and Endgame, Thor finally got to have some genuine blowback from his many losses. He decided to give up his throne to Valkyrie, decided to fly off with Starlord and crew, and went to go find his purpose in the universe.

Tee up Thor: Love and Thunder.

While the world may be oversaturated with too much MCU, I'm not. I am, however, thinking Waititi might need a break. He is almost the MCU Joel Schumacher. I was looking forward to this fourth Thor film but not quite as enthusiastically as I have been in the past. This has less to do with Taika or too much Marvel and more to do with why I love this universe in the first place.

I love the MCU because I learned to read with Marvel comics. I read them all with The Fantastic Four being my all-time favorite. At some point as I went from latchkey kid hoarding pulp magazines to the new kid who carried around copies of Moby Dick and I, Robot, I stopped reading comics. The switch came as Marvel expanded things and moved further from those superheroes who could be me if I was saturated by some radiation or born with a mutation to magical heroes and aliens. In the post-Endgame, Phase 4 MCU, I prefer Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Hawkeye over Wandavision and Loki for that very reason. Thor was never gonna be my go-to.

Thor: Love and Thunder made me laugh throughout; it also left me a bit sad. Waititi is crossing over from that beautiful balance into outright nose-thumbing at the more serious side of the stories. Sure, he introduces Jane Foster having Stage 4 cancer but it feels low-stakes. No one—NO ONE—with Stage 4 cancer looks like a slightly sleep-deprived Natalie Portman. The butt of so many of the gags is that, rather than Thor evolving from his earlier pain and incredible loss, apparently he's just stupid. A buffoon like Drax rather than, you know, Thor. Korg has gone from funny side character who is oblivious and cute to insufferable.

I recognize that watching people in LARPing costumes is sort of silly but previous films and streaming shows use color saturation in such a way to de-emphasize the fakeness of the uniforms. Taika films it so that Thor looks like he's wearing an obviously plastic breastplate with a velour cape purchased from a Halloween store. No Thor-nipples on the costume yet but I can see them coming.

A quick side note directed at those who find the latest MCU offerings as being too woke and ideologically offensive.

I started to watch Ms. Marvel, made it fifteen minutes in, and decided it wasn't for me. Not because she's a brown girl. Not because she is a Muslim character. Because it felt like the MCU Hannah Montana and was not a show created for me. I throw no shade at the show because I chose not to watch it. My issues with Thor: Love and Thunder have nothing to do with the queer characters or feminist leanings. In fact, I love that stuff but that's my choice, my subjective opinion. Along those lines, if your subjective opinion is that you don't like the movie because of these additions, my subjective opinion is that you're kind of an idiot. No one is requiring your attendance so go find other stuff to watch and piss off.

In Thor: Ragnarok, Waititi adds a hysterical moment with a theatrical troupe spoofing theatrical troupes and playing out the glorification of Loki. It's a short bit, it's pretty funny, and it forwards the story by underscoring the fact that Loki fucked over Odin and replaced him and Thor needs to make that right. In Thor: Love and Thunder the same troupe, the same gag, gets three times the screen time to do nothing for the plot except to mock the serious moments in the previous film.

That's why this movie left me a little less thrilled, a little less entertained, a little less. It felt lazy and self-congratulatory rather than an earnest approach to the characters. It felt like Joel Schumacher came in and said "Hey. I know the stuff Burton did was good but I really have zero respect for any of that shit. Let's get funny! Let's get a fat Zeus who speaks in broken English and take the opportunity to show Hemsworth's naked ass. Right? That shit is hysterical!"

#Thor: Love and Thunder #I Like to Watch

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Basically, it's Fairly Odd Parents in the Milo Coco style!

While we all wish that 'Fairly Odd Parents' didn't overstay its welcome, there was a time when we thought the show was more than "fairly" good. As a child, this Nickelodeon cartoon about average boy Timmy Turner and the magical adventures he has with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda granted me a lot of enjoyment in its peak.

What worked about FOP was how it managed to put fantasy creatures into a contemporary setting, it was able to apply cartoon based humour to the cyclical structure of a fairy tale. The show followed its own formula, which Timmy would use wishing to improve his life. But these wishes would lead to certain consequences, that way, it would work morals into its stories. It really showed what type of wishes a child would make if they could happen in our world. It played around with tropes, as the depictions of mythological beings and wishes turned out differently than you'd expect.

Its use of gag-related humour was both sharp and funny. The show could get tongue-in-cheek with how characters referred to plot points, like how the opposite circumstances happen. The designs are formed from geometric shapes and bold outlines, they still have a distinctive flare. The animators were able to magically bring life to these ideas with snappy timing. 

The characters were able to pull off these goofy lines with sincerity. Timmy was one the younger viewers could sympathise with and learn from. Both Cosmo and Wanda worked well off each other, as the dim-witted comic relief and nagging voice of reason. The other characters managed to leave an impact with their exaggerated traits, like the conspiracy nut Crocker. Who pursuits to prove the existence of fairies. Yet he reacts and fails in an over the top manner. Sure the writing could be hokey and the characters would become victims of 'flanderization', it still made up for it with a good balance of humour and morals. 

But after a brief hiatus, FOP introduced the fourth wheel to the main cast. When Cosmo himself gave birth to the fairy baby, Poof (yes....really). For many fans, this was seen as the point where the show jumped the shark through a giant pair of scissors (so to speak). Something definitely felt 'odd', but we all thought what could possibly go wrong? Well, the writing was starting to become less witty and charming, often relying more on pop culture and sophomoric humour. The character's flanderization became more apparent, as they were reduced to their exaggerated traits. The supporting characters were put to the side; while more main characters were added as it went on. Now I for one don't blame Poof (as I like his character design), and I do think the second half of seasons do contain certain gems if you know where to look for them. But when Sparky was added, that's when I felt the show started to run on fumes. Did the last 2 seasons need to exist? I ask you.

If there's any point where FOP lost any dignity it still had, it would be the live-action movies. What could have been a funny/whimsical coming of age story that passes the wand to a new generation failed to utilise it's characters. The acting is ham and cheese, the production values are camp; what may have been funny in the original series does not translate to live-action. And for what, to completely contradict the ending that 'Channel Chasers' had set up. They're not the worst trilogy of films, but still, they’re not the conclusion viewers would’ve hoped for. When you put them together they leave you so disenchanted, you wonder if the show was ever good in the first place. For many fans, this made them realise that the show (for lack of a better term) lost its magic.

If 'A Fairly Odd Movie' was good (or at least decent) and the series ended right there and then; people would probably hold FOP in similar regard to 'Phineas and Ferb' and 'Futurama'. Not necessarily as one of the deepest shows or comedy gold, but the series had a charm that was all its own. But alas, it just became another children's franchise. But it no longer became what we remember it to be. Sadly, Cosmo and Wanda kept their incumbency, until it was eventually put out of its misery. Even though I still look back fondly on Timmy's earlier wishes, the reputation of them and their creator have been forever tarnished.

With the news of a live-action retelling, maybe Cosmo and Wanda's story could be told in a different timeline instead. It doesn't have to stay in Dimmsdale. But that's just wishful thinking. 

Fairly Odd Parents belongs to its respected owners and creators.

#Original Artwork #fairly odd parents #cartoon #animated show #timmy turner #cosmo #wanda #crocker #vicky #nickelodeon #butch hartman #fan art #watercolour #tribute #series #retrospective #fantasy #magic #mystical #enchantment #humour #comedy #whimsy #version #interpretation

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words are meaningless

#hail caesar #brooklyn nine nine #brooklyn 99 #ralph fiennes #alden ehrenreich #stephane beatriz #andre braugher #ray holt #rosa diaz #hobie doyle #laurence laurentz #i wish more comedies pulled this gag #category: tv #category: my stuff #b99 s01e20 #category: film

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*Fans self*

There’s nothing hotter to me than wacky gag manga randomly have dark and creepy moments every now and then.

As much as I love the comedy in this series for the most part, I do wish they’d explore the dangerous side of things more often, just for a little spice! So this was really great.

Hinaichi becoming smaller the further she walks into this other domain is interesting. I think it’s either an illusion tactic to make her more feeble and easy to handle, or else a direct reflection of how young and weak she is compared to the beings that appeared before her.

Just as one of them tries take a bite out of her, a silhouette not unlike Hinaichi’s would-be assailants steps in. The enemy creatures ask who they are, and why they’re interfering - but the shadowy figure doesn’t answer, putting a tight grip on Hinaichi's hand as they pull her to safety (and losing their shoe in the process.)

With a gasp, Hinaichi finds herself back with Ronaldo and Draluc. She thinks she must have been dreaming and starts to ask Draluc about it, who’s response is a quiet smile that makes her drop the subject.

We’re left wondering what it was all about - but we can be sure that Draluc really did help Hina away from something because

THEY TOOK HIS FUCKING SHOE.

#manga spoilers #kyuushi spoilers #the vampire dies in no time #kyuuketsuki sugu shinu #tvdint #hinaichi #draluc #analysis #vampire #speed translation by me #manga caps