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rena-yume · 1 year

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Railgun for the ask

Also Bocchi the rock if u want

Yes

Toaru Kagaku No Railgun

Fav female character: either Mikoto or Kongou I genuinely can't pick they're both amazing

Fav male character: Gunha? Or Icchan's cat

Fav season: T, it was full of random nonsense but I don't remember S enough to judge (also Touma was in S more which is annoying), and T gave us Kongou and Misaki and Fre/nda screentime so kudos

Fav episode: don't remember the number but the one with Mikoto bonding with the clone then it died

Fav cast member: Mikoto, sorry Kuroko but not this time

Fav ship: Mikokuro!

Character I'd die defending: Mugino (the one that didn't get butchered by the writing)

Character I can't sympathize with: Accelerator. oh my god you annoying plot device

Character I grew to love: Misaki, thanks to T I hated her so much at first but now she's one of my favs lol

Anti otp: Kamikoto (Touma x Mikoto) it's super unhealthy and the fans should stop pretending it's not, also cringe thanks to Index being a thing.

Edit because someone reminded me: Kamikuro is THE worst ship to ever exist and I wish whoever made it a happy fuck you Kuroko is a lesbian (before anyone jumps at me literally across all LNs and 3 Index and 3 Railgun seasons and the manga she's only expressed feelings for females and more specifically Mikoto, there's no "she could be bi" it's been 19 years since the series came out if she's bi it's too late to show it)

Bochi The Rock

Fav female character: Seika aka older dorito

Fav male character: the doggo and mr. Mango box

Fav season: only 1 came out so 1

Fav episode: 11 I think? The festival one

Fav cast member: Ryo or Bochi

Fav ship: Seika x Pa-san x Hiroi (sorry Bokita but you're in 2nd place)

Character I'd die defending: Nijika our beloved sunshine Dorito

Character I can't sympathize with: thankfully no one, I like all characters

Character I grew to love: also no one XD, I immediately liked everyone

Anti otp: Ryo x Kita? I don't necessarily hate it but it does have toxic aspects so

Gimme a fandom

The ship part got salty in the Railgun one sorry about that lol

#couldn't help but ramble in this one #i love both series #resisting the urge to hate on Touma in every sentence #haven't watched Railgun and S in 7 years I hope I'm not forgetting something #bochi the rock #toaru kagaku no railgun #a certain scientific railgun #ask meme

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magical-xirl-4 · 10 months

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I'm just going to plug this video in here cause I remember I made it but I also think it's one of the best videos I've ever made. If you're a fan of Railgun I highly recommend checking it out, or if you've heard of it and are curious about it I'd say also watch it! It does have some spoilers so be wary.

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#a certain scientific railgun #toaru kagaku no railgun #raildex #railgun s #Youtube #amv

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frozenearthwife · 2 years

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Ruby is a rare type of protagonist

This is gonna be long, you’ve been warned!

I am a grown ass adult woman. I like female protagonists, I prefer watching them and relating to them, and always have.

I’ve watched a lot of animes since my teenage years, upwards of 400 last I counted on MyAnimeList a few years ago. I’ve been to Tokyo - twice - and spent at least 20 hours scouring the anime stores of Akihabara. I paid the Japanese mailing service to send a Saber figurine back to my home country since it was too big to bring in my luggage. (This one!)

Why does this matter and what does it have to do with Ruby? Read on:

During my years of being an utterly anime fanatic, I started to grow bored. After 400 animes, you’ve seen most of the plot twists. Most of the stereotypical personalities. All the classics have been watched and rewatched. The story beats, even if presented in a new packaging, becomes predictable.

You start to see the patterns, so to say. I’ve been hyped more times than I can count, only to be disappointed when yet another promising series took a predictable, cliché turn with its story or characters. It may not be sudden, sometimes it happens several episodes or even a few seasons into the show. So you never know for sure until having spent a lot of time watching.

There are a lot of GREAT animes with male protagonists, but how rare isn’t it to find one that does NOT build towards the guy being needing to become stronger than his enemies and winning some important final fight? (as is common in shounen in general)

As time went by I found myself getting more and more picky with what I wanted to spend time watching. I prefer shows with the cool, badass, strong girls, since those are the ones I enjoy watching and them being girls makes it easier for me to relate and enjoy their achievements.

Cool...

Badass...

...strong girls.

These are what I want. Finding them, however, can be tedious work, especially in the role as main protagonists.

In the anime world, there are some common tendencies with strong female characters:

1) The badass female character is either a side-kick to the male protagonist, eventually become overshadowed by a male protagonist, OR in some cases by some new girl, because heaven forbid any of the cool girls get developed beyond their one single character arc. (ex. Fate/Zero, A Certain Magical Index, Shakugan no Shana, Koutetsujou no Kabaneri, Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan, any anime with a harem, and so many others - they can still be good shows though, that’s not the point!)

2) There are great animes out there with great female protagonists, however they are usually either a) sexualized (ex. Kill la Kill) or b) shows geared towards kids (ex. Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, The Owl Hourse (yes, I’m putting this here even if it’s not an anime) or c) romance focused (ex. Revolutionary Girl Utena). I love these shows for other reasons though!

3) The actually great action animes with badass female protagonists that are allowed to develop and not be overshadowed by their crush/secret male protagonist etc. do exist, but are sadly few and far between. (Soul Reaper is pretty great with Maka, although BlackStar steals a lot of space, and I prefer the anime for this exact reason. A Certain Scientific Railgun was my fav for a long time, but sadly Mikoto is in love with the harem protagonist of the main show and gets overshadowed whenever he’s involved.)

And it doesn’t matter if the show is named after the girl(s) or not!

Here are two girls, each with their own anime named after them (Railgun/Index). Guess who’s the most important character who actually drives the main story?

Shakugan no Shana: Yes, Shana is the name of the girl. Guess which character gets the most power-ups and biggest development?

There’s nothing wrong with liking these shows, I mean I watched them too, and I enjoyed them for the most part... but sometimes I just... whish the dude would stay a side-kick?

So, first impression of RWBY was... cautious optimism?

When I first watched RWBY, because an online friend suggested it, I was surprised to find four strong female protagonists - and Ruby presented as the main protagonist what with the very first episode being named after her and there was no guy in sight.

Seems good? Even if the animation is super wonky. Ruby is cool. I like her. She has an awesome weapon too and is competent with it. She even bites back at people instead of becoming submissive. She gets saved in first episode yes, but it was by an adult woman after a woman took over the fight from Roman.

Also no fanservicy panty shots, suggestive angles and what-not? Seems promising.

But I’d seen this before. A show starts out with a cool, interesting, badass girl as the main protagonist. Then at some point some guy gets introduced, and it turns out he’s special, and she crushes on him, and then he gets stronger, and now she’s his side-kick, and more girls come along, and everything keeps scaling upwards forever (except the original girl), you get the idea.

Then the show turned into some hybrid of Harry Potter x Sailor Moon x high school anime spinoff wannabe with questionable quality? Okay, but maybe with these interesting girls and some cool plot it can work?

The Jaundice episodes seemed to fulfill the prophecy and I lost interest halfway through. Yes, even if the episodes were just 6 minutes long.

I dropped RWBY and didn’t touch it again for several years.

By this point V4 had just finished. I was bored one day, and I decided to give RWBY another chance.

Got past V1 and V2. It was better than I remembered. Got to V3 and... oh no, is Pyrrha gonna do the “stealing the protagonist role” thing?

Ugh. I hate when shows trade out their main characters for new ones because they can’t figure out how to develop the ones they already have. Pyrrha is fine, but I’m already commited to team RWBY you know? Pyrrha is so OP compared to the others, it won’t be fun watching her just demolish every single foe ever, especially if she’s gonna have magic as well. It’ll just be her special story along with her romantic story with Jaune. She is going to overshadow team RWBY and then what, is Jaune gonna come along and do the same to her eventually?

With little faith left, I pressed on to episode 9, 10, 11, and... holy shit.

HOLY SHIT!

They really did that, didn’t they? They really made me think they were incompetent, cliché writers and all that. That they were gonna focus on Pyrrha and Jaune going forwards because they had no idea how to tell a compelling story with the girls they’d already established as “main protagonists”.

And then they a) Killed off the “ace student” promised for greatness and b) destroyed the High School setting and c) Allowed the bad guys to win and d) Introduced an actual competent villain AND e) Gave new depth to team RWBY and Ruby in particular.

I was HOOKED. I realized RWBY is a show that allows its protagonists to take a backseat now and then, only to hit hard with the actual meaningful stuff. Developing and letting side characters shine as well, so that it doesn’t seem like team RWBY are the only characters with purpose in this world.

Cause no matter how special or strong or high on the political ladder they are, no character in RWBY has all the answers, nor do they have any means to actually stop Salem.

They still don’t!

Ruby has her silver eyes, but they didn’t “save” Beacon, or Pyrrha, or Penny, or Atlas. Actually, they may be more a curse than anything, now knowing about the Hound and what Salem can do to silver-eyed warriors. Not even a meaningful curse in the “I’ll become a cool vampire” type of curse, but just... horrible! No! Do not want this! Actually bad curse!

Ruby can’t solve this alone. She’s not all-powerful, she isn’t the shounen protagonist who always powers up in a pinch, she’s not the Maiden of all Maidens, she doesn’t always have the answers, she’s not Ozpin’s host or Salem’s Chosen or any of those clichés. That’s not the point of her character and the story we’re being told.

Ruby, like everyone else in this story, has to train, and learn, and fail, and do mistakes, and be wrong, and correct herself, and try again, and do better next time, and trust, take risks, experience loss and helplessness, and we have not seen the end of her development. I’m hyped for V9 not because of new fights, power-ups or what-not, but because I’m excited to see what Ruby has learned from their failures so far, how they’ll pick themselves up, and how they’ll try to approach the defeating of Salem.

Because at this point in time, they have no idea how to do any of it, and that’s what excites me most about RWBY and Ruby’s character in particular.

Ruby does not have all the answers, but she’s trying anyway, because the alternative is to give up.

She’s 17 years old and has been thrust into war against a foe that can’t die, into a role of leadership she has no grasp on how to handle. She’s trying to learn from those around her, imperfect human beings as they too are. She’s doing her best, and although she happens to have special Grimm-melting laser beam eyes, that won’t stop Salem. It won’t save Remnant from the gods.

“What are you?” is going to be a very interesting question to explore in V9.

Ruby is a rare type of protagonist because she’s not the answer to every problem, she’s not the Chosen One solely able to save the world. Yet she’s also not overshadowed or sidelined by someone else. Her story intrigues me more than anyone else’s, in any other show I’ve seen.

#RWBY #Ruby Rose #my precious child #RWBY has great writing #And I would pay to read the actual scripts #Or a book form of the scripts

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aeons-domain · 1 year

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Madison's Character Inspiration

where I pick 6 characters to yoink their storyline and personality with and glue it onto my OC 🤓 (half-joking there, but, they did serve as my core inspiration for Madison in a number of aspects)

Tagging the friends who also did theirs in the Discord server, as well as some other folks to do this with their beloved OC(s) and S/I(s) as well! No pressure by the way, do it if you want to! 💖 @emproleon (the OG!! Thank you for sharing this in the server ❤️) @amberswords @anikasenkujo @funnyvalentineswife @hand-domain @jellyluchi @papersirens @shaylistic @sweetsparklerain @trashbabyart @uminozerol @werewuffgoth @white-cherries @whitespirit91 @zizalovesyou

Empty template + Character inspo blurbs under the cut

Ruby Rose (RWBY) - In the very early days of RWBY coming out I fell in love with the young female lead who had a strong sense of moral justice. We've all had our fair share of young protagonists who aim to do a lot for the world they live in and that especially rubbed onto Madison especially in her younger teenage years.

Steven Universe - Steven is described to be optimistic, outgoing, and soft-hearted but also naive and socially oblivious. His journey of maturing throughout the series was something that I got a huge chunk of inspiration from when I was writing down Madison's backstory from birth to the various stages of her life. Madison does go through a similar matter like Steven where she carries heavy burdens at a young age and struggles to keep up with the demands made of her due to her inexperience with life and lack of emotional control.

Nana (Elfen Lied) - If you see art of Madi with horns on her head similar to Nana then I'm sure you can piece two and two together to see that they're of the same species (and personality too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ – ✧)). Madison is exactly like Nana in the sense that her empathy for other people's pains is what keeps her from conceding to the part of her genetics that desires to be homicidal. You've also got that bit of lore where Madison has gone through a part of her childhood where she was raised as a test subject in a research institute which I'll share more in the future.

Nancy Drew - The inspiration I got from Nancy and put into Madison's character is her ability to stay determined and help others when she can provide such assistance. I adore how resourceful and independent Nancy is and so I try to emulate that onto Madison especially in her older years. A fun fact is that Madison has a love for books in the mystery genre and reading the Nancy Drew series lead her to be more curious and critical of the world, mentally solving puzzles in her head that she can apply when situations call for a solution.

Akane Tsunemori (Psychopass) - Fun fact here is that Akane's VA Kana Hanazawa is my voiceclaim for Madison and I just love love looovveee Akane so much that I had to put her here as one of Madison's main inspirations! You've got that naïve to callous pipeline characters go through when they soon face the horrific realities of the world which definitely happens to Madison in her late teen and young adult years. Generally polite and respectful thanks to several etiquette classes she took up in high school, Madison earns the respect of fellow peers when they find that she is also intelligent, insightful, and compassionate. Despite having the means to enforce violence with her Stand or her vectors from being a Diclonius, Madison does what she can to deescalate a situation and employ less destructive actions, just like Akane in her former years as an Inspector.

Misaka Mikoto (A Certain Scientific Railgun) - Along with Mikoto and most of these characters, I think I really like the trope of "Friendly and easygoing character with great powers has keen sense of justice and wishes to keep the world safe, but wants to do so with peaceful/harmless means as much as possible….But then gets cold and unfeeling in the process 🙃" way too much that you can see the similarities in all of these characters' backstories and how I'll be incorporating that with Madison too sdkjbsjkd but! the same can be said for Mikoto too with how she does her best to help others to the point where she sacrifices her own wellbeeing for their safety.

#jojo oc #jjba oc #stardust crusaders oc #original character #madison adams #ok to reblog #oc talk

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astroboyart · 4 months

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Satoshi Iwataki, character designer and chief animation director for the 2019 Dororo anime, passes away at 60

Sources: Satoshi Iwataki's wife (via Iwataki's X / Twitter account), CBR

Satoshi Iwataki, a veteran animator within the anime industry, passed away on December 30, 2023 after a two month battle with an undisclosed illness, as shared by Iwataki's wife via his X / Twitter account. He was 60 years old.

Within the world of Tezuka works, Iwataki was very important for the animation side of the 2019 Dororo anime; he was the character designer, chief animation director (Episodes 1-12, 14-18, 20-24), key animator for Episode 24, and assistant animation director for Episode 19.

Iwataki also worked as an animation director on Attack on Titan, Berserk, A Certain Magical Index, Ghost Hunt, Inuyashiki, Hell's Paradise, Rage of Bahamut, and Garo: The Animation among other projects.

He was a key animator on several anime including Toradora, Spy x Family, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Seraph of the End, Attack on Titan, Dororo (2019), The Irregular at Magic High School, The Big O, Gunbuster 2, Zeta Gundam and Gundam ZZ among other projects.

He storyboarded for Attack on Titan, Seraph of the End, A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun S, Ghost Hunt, Rage of Bahamut, and Inazuma Eleven among other projects.

#Satoshi Iwataki #Dororo #Anime

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taniahylian · 7 months

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Take a look at the Railgun AU I made with my friend, @rena-yume!

Summary:

Kuroko's summer break wasn't exactly going as planned; after all, it wasn't just every day that she decided to investigate a series of strange attacks that had been happening around all of Academy City, only to find out that thousands of Mikoto's clones were created, and were being masacred in some sick experiment. But this information, as horrifying as it was, just made her want to help Onee-sama in any way she could... if that meant kidnapping the most powerful, genetically-engineered, esper in the city, then so be it.

This is a rewrite of Railgun S, in which Touma, Accelerator and magic don't exist, and Yuriko (kinda?) takes Accelerator's role in the story. A lot is changed, but of course some things remain the same. This is for my own entertainment, and to suit my and my friend's tastes, but I hope you like it as well.

#railgun #a certain scientific railgun #toaru kagaku no railgun #fanfic #au #misaka mikoto #misaka imouto #yuriko suzushina #raildex

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lexo-dog · 1 year

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So, people are filling out a questionnaire for the @sonic-oc-showdown, eh? Well, time to do that for Khalid!

Name: Khalid Shiva

Species: Snow Leopard

Type: Speed

Alignment: Chaotic Good.

Home: Anywhere with high enough elevations.

✨ How did you come up with the OC's name?

Claude Fire Emblem. I'm not even kidding.

🎓 How long have you had the OC?

I don't remember exactly, but at least 2 years, I think.

🌼 How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

19.

🍕 What is their favorite food?

Any sort of meat, or anything spicy.

🌺 Do they have any love interest(s)?

Nope! Man's single.

💼 What do they do for a living?

He's a vigilante for the most part, but he also does various odd jobs here and there to earn some extra cash.

🎯 What do they do best?

Fighting, obviously! He was trained in hand-to-hand combat for years! Why? Family tradition.

🎹 Do they have any hobbies?

Learning new languages, occasional guitar-playing.

🥊 What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

Loves: fighting, exploring, training, helping others. Hates: solving puzzles, thinking too hard, being stuck in one place for ages.

❤️ What is one of your OC's best memories?

Training with his mother! She's always been one of his role models, and for good reason.

✂️ What is one of your OC's worst memories?

Setting himself on fire with his powers when he first awakened them. His arms are still scarred from the incident, but those scars aren't visible due to the sheer density of his fur.

🧊 Is their current design the first one?

Sort of. Originally, he looked a bit more like a typical Mobian: shoes, no claws, more normal face, etc.

🍀 What originally inspired the OC?

I sorta made him out of necessity, but his powers were originally heavily inspired by those of Misaka Mikoto (from A Certain Scientific Railgun), and his looks were slightly influenced by Sogiita Gunha (from the same series). Other than that, he wasn't inspired by much.

🌂 What genre do they belong in?

Some sort of fighting game, or maybe something like the Dynasty Warriors series. He'd just work well in anything with fast-paced combat.

💚 What is your OC's gender identity and sexuality?

100% male, homoromantic/asexual.

🍎 What is the OC's relationship w/ their parents like?

He's on good terms with them. Frequently visits, and looks up to both of them.

🙌 How many siblings does your OC have?

None. Man's an only child.

✏️ How often do you draw/write about the OC?

Incredibly frequently... if you count roleplay servers on discord.

🧠 What do you like most about the OC?

Somehow, he’s both simple and deep. I still don't understand how past me managed that.

💎 Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

Ha! No.

💀 Does your OC have any phobias?

Yes. Fire.

🍩 Who is your OC's arch-nemesis/rival?

There's a certain genetic abomination I will not be naming whom he has beaten up before, and will be beating up again, in as many servers as it takes. Rest assured, she deserves it. She is technically his arch-nemesis.

And boom, there it is! One questionnaire, all filled out!

#socs poll #sonic the hedghog #sonic original character #sonic oc poll #khalid the snow leopard #socs: khalid

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