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I really like those moments where Mob is like why are you being mean? Don't you know you should be nice? That you should always try to be better and nice and gentle and respect people? Why be mean and bad? You should know it is not correct. Come on let's do better.

And then like people do better and change. And I like how many people change and see they are wrong.

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Reigen says the most life altering inspiration things and 5 minutes later he's punching some guy in the balls yelling Sperm Smasher Punch

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some avril-inspired marcelines

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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

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yeah

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Amo mucho a Foofighters💚💚

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lesbian pride moment 😳🌸

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Practicing this angle again. Thought I'd draw Jolyne to make it more fun

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✌️

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Wonder Woman!

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Colored the cass doodles : ]

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Megan Thee Cujoh ✨🦋✨

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DUKE‼️‼️

And cowboy Duke because I love it 🤭

(I did a pt.2 to for the cowboy Duke nation 😉)

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CASS! and bruce 😁

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Help Hamza get his family out of gaza.

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Welcome to another round of W2 Tells You What You Should See, where W2 (me) tries to sell you (you) on something you should be watching. Today's choice: 侠飯〜おとこめし〜/Otoko Meshi.

Otoko Meshi (which we have been semi-incorrectly translating as "boy dinner") is a 2016 Japanese live-action adaptation of a manga about a yakuza boss who hides from the cops in this one loser's apartment and cooks for him.

If you're in the mood for something quick, funny, and curiously educational, this is exactly what you want to order. It's short -- ten episodes, each half an hour long. Therefore, this rec post is an appropriately short five reasons to watch it.

Let's cook!

1. Life Lessons with Yakuza

Japanese media has taught me that Japan keeps its yakuza around primarily to deliver important and slightly ironic moral instruction to its wayward youth. I refuse to be disabused of this notion.

Yanagiba Ryuichi is a scarred, tattooed, gruff leader of an organized crime syndicate. His introduction to the plot is getting injured in a gangland shootout on a residential street.

Wakamizu Ryota is the spineless, hopeless graduate of a third-rate college who lives in a building on said street. His introduction to the plot is failing at yet another job interview.

At first, it seems like having yakuza live in his apartment will be the death of Ryota. But no! The longer they stay, the longer they impart their wisdom about loyalty and self-confidence and resourcefulness! And that's what the yakuza are all about, isn't it? ...Hm, I've just been handed a note.

2. OMG THE FOOD

Don't watch this one hungry, is all I'm saying.

And you know what? Some of the cooking tips in there are seriously useful, especially if you've got limited access to cooking space, utensils, budget, and/or ingredients. One of the running sources of comedy in the series is that the Boss is fixing these incredible meals from leftovers in a puny studio apartment kitchen. Then he plates up his wonderful dishes and everyone spends like five minutes telling him in detail how good the food is, while he stone-facedly explains which parts of the cooking process produced these results. It's great.

The short episodes and generally comedic tone keep things from getting too emotional, but there's definitely a theme running throughout of how much food means to people. A lot of the dishes have stories behind how someone learned to cook them, or what the various ingredients mean, or how their specific preparation shows a person's character. So, you know, it's mostly a silly little thing, but it's got some real heart to it too.

...Honestly, the most unbelievable part of this whole "cooking with whatever's available" scenario is how Yanagiba only quietly endures how shitty Ryota's knives must be. No wonder he buys him some new ones right quick.

Hey, he likes the same kind I do!

3. Hino-san

The Boss' right-hand man is an absolute freak. He cooks. He cleans. He sucks at card games, so he has to clean some more. He rolls all his r's in a language that has no r's. He has very specific tastes in pornography. He has learned from American inmates how to cook something called "jail rice."

A couple episodes in, I was like, wow, I think this giant weirdo may be my favorite character? And yes, he remained that way to the end, folding laundry and threatening Ryota at every opportunity.

His fashion sense is incredible. Hands-down the best dresser. Silk suits and loud shirts, be still my heart.

4. The rest of the supporting cast!

This short series has an appropriately small main cast, all of whom are quite charming. Besides the three guys I've talked about already, we've got...

...two useless foodie cops with diametrically opposed tastes...

...a fujoshi love interest...

...a rich boy who's suspicious of his friend's new houseguests...

...and an otaku who mysteriously vanishes from the show halfway through. They never address it. They never explain it. He's just gone. He's so gone, in fact, they excise him completely from the intro and re-edit the group intro shots with him in it to be group intro shots without him in it. Inexplicable and hilarious.

(Apparently the reason is that the actor was arrested? But instead of cutting him from the whole piece, they just leave him in for the first five episodes, and then poof! Nothing. I guess the nerd dies on the way back to his home planet.)

5. A different ending credits sequence every time!

Don't touch that pause button when the episode ends! Every one has a completely different scene over the credits and a little fridge-raiding teaser for the next episode!

I love that kind of stuff. It would be so easy just to have the same sequence every time, but no! Here they let the actors riff silently for two minutes on whatever nonsense just happened in that episode while preparing/eating that episode's dish. They're adorable (and occasionally improbable) little vignettes that pack a surprising amount of character-building into tiny, dialogue-less scenes.

And then it's time to survey the landscape before going shopping!

Hungry for this silliness?

Unfortunately, this eight-year-old property is a little hard to get your hands on. Your best bet is at MyAsianTv.ac, which is fortunately one of your less sketchy free streaming sites. Otherwise, take it from me: It might just be torrent time.

I also found a site that has a couple more detailed recipes for some of the dishes in the show, and a second one that has different detailed recipes for all of them, in case you felt like cooking along but didn't know how much flour to use.

Itadakimasu!

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I saw this quote a while back and it stuck with me so I decided to make a drawing inspired by it :)