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What is the 'Family Guy' of anime?

This is the hardest tumblr ask of all time. I feel like I'm being graded.

Tentatively, I think my answer is My Hero Academia. At first blush they don't seem that similar, but I'd present the following points of similarity:

A period of peak cultural relevance that lasted not quite a decade

both are widely considered to have EITHER (depending on who you ask) either have been good at one point and then fallen off OR have never been good at all. Thinking they're *still* good is a relatively rare opinion, moreso for Family Guy I think since I still run into the rare MHA apologist anecdotally

Huge amount of in-jokes that no one who has not seen the series would get that the remaining fanbase repeats incessantly

Merchandised to hell and back

ONE OF the big names in their field, but much like Family Guy forever stands in the shadow of The Simpsons, My Hero Academia is forever shadowed by the likes of Naruto and Dragonball Z

annoying sex pest character (Quagmire for FG, Mineta I think his name is for MHA)

increasingly elaborate fight scenes as the seasons go on

Green as a major color of the lead character (Peter Griffin's pants / Deku's uh....most of him, honestly)

This is not an airtight case by ANY means and I'm open to hearing other opinions, if someone else has one that they think they can make a good case for I'd love to hear it, genuinely.

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Tre I started reading the One Piece manga. So there's never gonna be a better time, just saying >:]

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So you wanted metallic rouge to be yuri? That’s what one of your screenshots shows.

I wanted Metallic Rouge to be coherent.

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What is your favorite yuri self-ship

I need to be her loving housewife.

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What are your top five dragons?

I've thought long and hard about this, and I've come up with a list that I think is pretty good.

Spoilers for, honestly, like, a couple things below the cut. I've tagged the post accordingly.

5. Raijin, my Dragonite from Pokemon Violet

(Obviously this isn't specifically a picture of Raijin, my Switch is sadly batterydead at the moment, but this is about what she looks like in my head. Anyway!)

Somehow or another, Dragonite ended up being the very last Gen I Pokemon I'd never caught or trained in any way. I'd caught all of the others in SOME playthrough of SOME pokemon game over the years, even the ones people generally don't love or tend to forget about. (I will be a Lickitung apologist until the day I die.) I'm not sure why I avoided the Dratini line for so long. Some general subconscious backlash? I can't really say for sure. Anyway, I caught Raijin off the coast of Paldea in Violet and she quickly became essentially the ace of my team. As it turns out, Rain Dance + Thunder with an Electric terra type is a pretty good combination.

4. Black Hole Dragons, from a Dungeons & Dragons homebrew sourcebook

I looked and looked and to my IMMENSE frustration, could not find a copy of the old-school D&D homebrew sourcebook that these things are from, but please trust me and hear me out here.

Black hole dragons as depicted in this book, a truly ridiculous bestiary of appropriate foes for Epic-level adventurers, were bizarre snaking collages of geometry that could grow to be larger than the size of the visible universe and erase people from existence by breathing on them. After encountering these when reading these sourcebooks at the impressionable age of uh....like, 23, vanilla D&D's usual array of chromatics and metallics don't do a ton for me anymore.

3. Nicol Bolas, from Magic: The Gathering

This guy.

This fucking guy. This is how you do an impossibly powerful doomsday villain right.

Nicol Bolas is a dragon who's also a dimension-hopping wizard. As part of what is by my estimation one of Magic's last good sets, he also kills a bunch of faux-Egyptian deities and takes their place as the divine ruler of an entire dimension. This guy fucking rules and every single card that's ever had his name on it is awesome and if you disagree, well, that's good for you, because WoTC killed him right around the time they decided to make Magic boring forever.

2. Falin Touden, from Dungeon Meshi

No, she counts. Get back here.

If I stopped to count all of the ways I thought Falin was an amazing character we'd be here all day, but very briefly I find her arc and her interesting liminal role in Dungeon Meshi's narrative super compelling, and I find her characterization very, very relatable, and not entirely in a way that reflects well on me.

But as a *dragon.*

As a DRAGON

Falin is still one of the best to ever do it. The original Red Dragon is a very cool and pivotal part of Dungeon Meshi, and I love that too, but when Falin is fused with it by Thistle we get what is just honestly one of the most memorably bitchin character designs of all time, a ludicrously hot capital MG Monster Girl, and a huge driving force for the rest of the story. Not to mention Ryoko Kui clearly put a ton of thought into how she would work, since a key flaw in her design (so to speak) is what eventually leads to her being saved. I love her to pieces, and the form Falin finally gets at the very end of the story is honestly super cool-looking too! Although it's less dragonny than this one.

The Dragon, from "Dragon"

headspace-hotel's "Dragon" is one of my favorite poems of all time. It's easily the best tumblr post, and while I don't read a ton anymore, it's definitely one of my favorite overall pieces of literature.

I realize that being so brief in the top entry makes this a little anticlimactic, but I can't bring myself to rob the poem of its impact. I linked it there, so please go read it. More than anything else on this list, it's made me think. Beyond simply thinking it's an absolutely great piece of work (which it is), it's very meaningful to me. A reminder that the danger is still present in our time.

Some honorable mentions: the rest of the Dungeon Meshi dragons, every dragon from the Souls series and from Elden Ring, Paarthurnax from Skyrim, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Godzilla, Beast Machines Megatron, and Odious, the Green Dragon who turns into a giant d20 that I bought from Hasbro Pulse a year or so ago.

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what are your two favorite traits of women

Two! Two whole traits! The women reducer returns, gracing me with double the single trait they gave me last time. And yet, woe, I must still say it is not nearly enough. Not to capture the infinite prism of light that is wondrous femininity.

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what monster do you want to see the dungeon mehsi crew cook up?

Mitch McConnell

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Could you draw a doodle of your favorite pokemon and respond with it to this?

So I was prepared to answer this very self-deprecatingly, but given that I have never tried to draw a Hatterene before---and indeed, I basically never draw at all---I think this actually came out shockingly well. I will admit I traced official art for reference first, but the entire actual picture I did by just kinda eyeballing it.

POV: Your death approaches.

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How would you live your life if it was devoid of friction?

In a slippery fashion.

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What side are you on the "colour that should represent poison in media" debate? Green or purple?

I have always been torn about this, but I think ultimately I fall on the purple side of the debate. It is mostly just on the basis that purple is a cooler color, but also I think it being the color that Pokemon uses for poison gives it some amount of precedence.

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Are you a blorbo

Your girl thinks I'm her blorbo. >:)

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You find yourself grocery shopping and all of a sudden a french gentleman with a rapier approaches and throws one of his glove at you. "Have at thee" As you look around you, a crowd of eager onlookers have completely surrounded you two in ring made of peoples. What do you do in this situation?

I smirk. He smirks back.

"Pierre." I say. "It's been a long time."

He adjusts his cap with the tip of his sword looking very elegant and french as he does so. This, of course, is Pierre Le Franchgais, the legendary Eiffel Swordsman and one of the 27 Great Sword Lords of Europe. As one of the Great Sword Lords of North America, I am of course unable to decline his challenge, and I raise my arms to the sky, and begin the sacred chant to summon my own sword.

"Ihre Übersetzungssoftware ist nicht korrekt installiert!" I intone, as black rainclouds begin gathering within the grocery store itself, and rain begins to fall, drenching the fresh produce. "Bitte kontaktieren Sie so schnell wie möglich einen Techniker."

In my hand, in a flash of black lightning appears the magical zweihander known as The Owl-Killing Sword, so called for its ability to slay an owl, even if the owl is at rest or sleeping. It is a blade black as the night itself, as tall as I am, and covered in glowing blue runes from a forgotten tongue once spoken by the Headbanger Giants of Nebulous-13.

"The battle is joined." I say to Pierre.

"Hon hon hon." He responds.

We step forward toward each other at almost the exact same moment, a beautifully synchronized dance of singular super-sonic motion---so super-sonic one might mistake either of us for hedgehogs at a glance---and as we pass by each other, one of us cuts the other. For a moment, no one is sure who has cut whom, but in a single midnight-black flash of thunder, and with the sound of a clap of lightning, a massive split opens on Pierre's chest. He coughs up a glob of a deep red substance. Not blood, of course, as a true Frenchman, his bodily fluids are 100% pure wine.

"Sacre bleu." He chokes out. "You have come far from our last bat-tel in the War of le Sun Lords."

I grin. It's cocky and I know it is, but when you've bested a swordsman who challenged you in a single stroke and he doesn't know that you've been fucking his wife on the regular for 3 years, it's hard not to be. Still, better to let the man die with dignity.

"You've improved too, Pierre. Don't be hard on yourself."

The crowd begins to hoot and holler at my display of vast basedness and humility, but then, Pierre grins again.

"Indeed, mademoiselle….I have!"

Suddenly, the gushing wound running up the length of his chest explodes into four nimble tentacles of pure elemental wine-energy.

"Mon dieu!" I exclaim, for there is no other response to such an overwhelming display of Frenchness.

Thinking fast, I parry the first of the wine-tentacles, but a second lashes me on the shoulder as I deflect the third and fourth with my body, diving in front of an innocent bystander who happens to be an almost ontologically sexy older woman. I grin through the pain and she swoons in gratitude.

Turning back to Pierre, I regard him with disgust. "So, you too have sold your soul to Marshall Macron and his Vested Order. What did he offer you? Just this paltry command of wineblood? Did he promise you a share of France once he's fully conquered it? WHAT DROVE YOU DOWN THIS DARK PATH, PIERRE?"

"MON CHERIE....IT WAS YOU!" He points, accusingly, in my direction, both with his finger and with one of the wine-tentacles. "I know that you have slept with Bella-Marie all these years! I know that my child is not my own! What else would drive a man to such depths? You think I care for Monsieur Macron? NON! I care only for your HEAD, on a SILVER PLATTER!"

With fury, he wraps one of his wine-tentacles around his rapier, and wildly hurls it at me. I deflect only barely by invoking my Pennsylvania Dutch Golden Finch Technique---drawing a hex sign in the air to repel the blade---but this leaves him an opening to lunge at me with all four tentacles.

He has me pinned down! I'm on the ropes! But of course, fury is its own weakness, and I invoke the Ancient Southeast Pennsylvania High School Self-Defense Stance, and knee him in the balls, which causes him to reel back in pain.

This opening is enough. I invoke my ancestors; the great Keenich Amos Amos, the witchy swordmistress Lady Iron-fig, and call out to the spirits of the Headbanger Giants of Nebulos-13. I throw my sword; it impales Pierre through the throat and vintage Brunello floods the produce section, mixing with the thund'rous rain. Disgusting; he wasn't even honorable enough to replace his blood with a French wine.

As Pierre lay defeated, many beautiful women in the crowd including but not limited to the one I saved earlier swoon over me. I have defeated one foe, but know many more battles lay ahead....

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the little burst of joy I felt at seeing my post reblogged by someone w the url 'yurisorcerer', a rozenmarine icon, and a fucked up yukari (affectionate) header image....

Aw thank you! I'm so glad to hear that.

To be honest I don't entirely feel that I've earned the Rozenmarine icon (I've only played a little bit of Little Goody Two-Shoes, I really need to get back to it) and was thinking of changing it, but I'm glad it sparked some joy in your day.

And as for Touhou, well, it's a long-term fixation of mine. I think I've had that banner for years at this point. Gotta love Yukari wilding out.

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Can you make a cool title with alliteration for a story about a hungover sad Santa who was blackout drunk for 9 months of the year but gets his Christmas spirit back after meeting a pretty man who he marries after they safe Christmas together by speed-running all the prep required in the last 3ish months left?

I actually do not think I could, no.

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Pick a series you like and insert a "saying the name of the series out-loud" that you think would have been awesome.

I'm not the hugest fan of it or anything, but I do think that a scene in DanMachi where Bell asks another character "is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon....?" would be peak.

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Your main ability is super fucking terrifying. I shall consider you the scariest person on Wizardblr.

Thanks! I bet you're very scary too, though. Just keep believing in yourself. Or, if you're a girl, find another girl who believes in you.... 😏

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