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monsoon-of-art · 1 month

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What are your main inspirations. I love your art.

You have no idea about the can of worms you just opened-

Truthfully; a lot! I take inspiration from everything and everything. That's what artists do :) but there's a very very long list of books and shows and movies I've watched/read that have stuck with me.

As a child I had a weird bunch of VHS tapes, video games, and books. Mom and Dad was a comic collectors, and dad was a musician so I got a lot of interesting songs too. Some notable bangers are: Yellow Submarine (the animated movie), the sonic movie, a few episodes of Pokemon (the one I remember most is the island of giant pokemon and when Pikachu gets ramen), and Spyro. I also watched a fair share of Disney and Pixar, Bug's Life and Nightmare Before Christmas being my favorite.

Sonic is definitely what I remember drawing the most, tbh. My first OCs were fan children! But animation was my absolute favorite thing ever, and I wanted to draw so good-

Once I was in my early to late teens, I got my fingers on the Internet, (and learned to pirate) my horizons broadened! My favorite artist at the time made a comic called Random Doom, a slice of life comic about their gen 4 team, and I literally would not be here today without them. They have no idea I exist and I'm happy with that. I haven't followed them in years but I remember them fondly. Another big artist I followed (and still do!) is Bechnokid! Her art is such an inspiration to me, even now! I want to steal it and put it in my mouth

Other notable things: the first two how to train your dragons, glass animals, Spiderverse, Cartoon Saloon, You Are Umasou, Indie Horror projects too long to list, Don't Starve, Lord of the Rings, old fairy tales, MegaMan (especially the Mangas drawn by Hitoshi Ariga), Steven Universe, the original Teen titans, Avatar the last Airbender, Bobs Burgers, Futurama, and honestly probably so so so so much-

#idk how to tag this #i definitely missed things

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cosplayinamerica · 7 months

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Anime conventions and their Yamato roots

by Dave Merrill

“Conventional” (ha ha) wisdom says that the first American convention devoted to Japanese animation was Project A-Kon 1990 in Dallas, Texas. This prototypical event was instigated by a group of Texas anime fans gathered under the banner of Star Blazers’“Earth Defense Command,” a Space Battleship Yamato fan club that grew to embrace all of Japanese animation. As of this writing, Project A-Kon is preparing for its 20th show.

But was A-Kon the first anime convention in North America? No. Not even close. For years, we’d seen references and offhand comments about a “YamatoCon” that was held in the Dallas area years earlier. Were these references true? Our crack team of researchers donned their explorer togs, dusted off their pith helmets, and began the harrowing search for enlightenment. Well, to be honest we sent some emails. Here’s what we found…

The first YamatoCon – that is to say, the first American fan convention devoted to Japanese animation – was held on August 13, 1983 at the Harvey Hotel in Dallas Texas. This one-day affair was the brainchild of Mark Hernandez, Don Magness, and Bobb Waller, each of whom had experience in the Dallas comics/SF fandom community and each of whom put up their own hard-earned cash to make YamatoConhappen. Scheduled the next-to-last weekend before school started, Mark Hernandez remembers the planning being as simple as getting commitments from dealers, finding a venue, and setting a date. Yes, it really is that easy to start a convention.

Programming consisted of the first 26 episodes of Star Blazersrecorded off TV, shown in continuous order (minus commercials, of course) and a bonus Yamato film. This 13-hour Journey to Iscandar (“It was a long day,” says Mark) was a primary attraction at YamatoCon, 1983 being a time when VCRs and blank VHS tape were expensive, collections of Star Blazers on video were hard to come by, and the experience of watching Star Blazers outside the morning or afternoon UHF timeslot was a draw in and of itself.

Star Blazers on video wasn’t the only activity, of course. Like other conventions past and future, YamatoCon had a dealers room consisting of 22 tables of for-sale memorabilia. It might sound small by the standards of 25 years later, but we must remember that anime merchandise of the day – what was available in the States, anyway – hadn’t achieved the tidal wave proportions it would reach in the wake of Robotech, to say nothing of the total saturation of the post-Pokemon, post-Sailor Moon years. Anime merchandise in 1983 consisted chiefly of books and model kits. Roman Albums, Anime Comics, black and white manga volumes, the occasional manga weekly, and other publications streaming from Japan in the wake of the Yamato Boom battled for the anime fan dollar alongside model kits from Yamato, Crusher Joe and My Youth In Arcadia…not to mention the endless ranks of giant robot kits from unseen shows like Mobile Suit Gundam, Dougram, Ideon, and something called Macross.Along with the remnants of late 70s super-robot merchandise sold here as Shogun Warriors, the anime con dealers room in the early 1980s was far from barren. In fact, I still waste my money on that sort of stuff.

Also available at YamatoCon were copies of Mark Hernandez and Don Magness’s Star Blazers fanzine Argo Notes. Future EDC officer/contributor, fan artist and “Between Galaxies” author Logan Darklighter won the model contest with, naturally, a Yamatomodel. It proved to be a pivotal day in Texas anime fandom. Approximately 100 attendees and 8 dealers made the show an unqualified success. Don remembers it this way: “I remember we got to the hotel early and set up the rooms, then went out to breakfast. When we got back, there were 3 young men sitting on the front steps, one of them had a convention flyer. Mark asked if they were there for the con, and they said they were. We went inside and out of their hearing range and had a little celebration. 3 people had come! We had no idea that the place would soon be packed.”

A showing of 100 might not sound like a lot in today’s numbers (“that was about 100 more than we expected,” said Don). However, when considered against the attendance at general SF conventions in 1983 – a time when your absolute largest cons MIGHT draw five or six thousand attendees and your typical Dallas or Atlanta comic book show maxed out at three – YamatoCon‘s ability to nail down that many dealers and customers is commendable.

The show’s importance went beyond the one day; people across Texas and indeed, across fandom as a whole, who were unable to attend or who heard about it after the fact were spurred into action by the mere fact of YamatoCon‘s existence. That such a thing could happen – that Americans could organize and hold a successful anime convention – was both revelation and reassurance. Anime fandom was going to be more than just a video room grudgingly tacked onto the local Star Trek show or a half-page of merchandise in the back of the latest issue of Fangoria.

READ THE REST HERE https://ourstarblazers.com/vault/317/

#Fandom history #anime fandom history #convention history #con history #anime cons #Yamato Con

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cadinmingming · 7 months

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I spotted a Yo-kai Watch reference in the wild. And by "in the wild" I mean a 2021 Netflix adult animated series meant as a homage to the late 80s/early 90s.

Saturday Morning All Star Hits, also known as S.M.A.S.H. (can't believe nobody ever did that), presents every episode as the vhs recordings of an early 90s cartoon block, in wich two twin brothers host different cartoons parodying those from the time like "Denver The Last Dinosaur", "Carebears" and "Thundercats", among others. As you can probably imagine by me calling the series "adult" at the begining, said cartoons turn out to be way darker than their inspirations (alcohol, drugs, depression, blood), and different bad things start to happen behind the scenes and even on-stage as the tension between the host twins gets worse.

Spoilers I guess.

The last episode hints at the passage to the late 90s/early 2000, with one of the new cartoons debuting, Slingers, being a parody of the "collect them all" kind of toy commercial cartoons from that time. I bet you already guessed "Pokemon", but it actually draws more heavily from "The Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers" and.... and...

The protagonist is CLEARLY supposed to be Nate Adams aka Amano Keita from Yo-kai Watch, specifically his design from the third game.

And it's weird. I suppose from the makers' point of view Pokemon and Yo-kai Watch are part of the same trend, and don't get me wrong, they are both monster collecting games... but the episode is clearly referencing the "pokemania" from the late 90s/early 2000s, while Yo-kai Watch's release and peak at popularity are synonimous with the 2010s.

Then again I'm probably among the very few who would notice let alone care. Still cool to find a YW reference when I was less expecting it. The series will probably be a delight for those nostalgic for that era of popular culture too. Watch the episodes during actual saturday mornings for maximun inmersion.

#yokai watch #saturday morning all star hits #90s #80s #saturday morning cartoons #yo kai watch #yo-kai watch #saturday morning tv #netflix #nate adams #amano keita #80s nostalgia #90s nostalgia #adult cartoons

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thefloatingstone · 11 months

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Do you think anime today are made with too many safety nets? Like gone are the days where something experimental or risky (risky in terms of something not seen before)

Yes but I think it's also a ratio thing.

In the entirety of the 80s, 256 were released. In 2022 ALONE 106 anime were released. There is a VAST amount more anime released today, and as a result, a good majority of it is extremely "safe" from a business point of view.

However I think the biggest culprit for this is simply one of money. 1980s Japan was going through an INSANE economic boom. On top of this, the "Straight to VHS" market hit the scene in 1983, which enabled anime to be able to show things which were technically illegal for Japanese broadcasting. Because straight to video anime were not technically broadcasted. This is why OVA from this time period tend to be as hyper-violent and sexual as they are. It was the first time anime actually had the medium in which it could show those things and this new freedom had many anime studios go to an extreme just to explore these new possibilities.

These days, anime animators are paid less than what's considered the legal minimum wage in Japan. But because anime is such a huge profit for Japan, the Japanese government overlooks the breaking of worker's rights. Animators in japan have not had a wage increase since the late 90s, and many of the artists who work on animation make about $400 to $500 a month. While also being expected to live in Tokyo (one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in) and essentially work 24/7 to make deadline. It's reaching a point where, because the people funding anime do NOT want to spend more money but their animators are actively dying from being overworked, have started outsourcing the animation part of anime to overseas studios like the Philippines because they don't have to pay as much. Or their NEW fun little tactic which is to hire amatuer animators off twitter from young kids who REALLY want to work in anime as their dream who are easier to exploit and misuse because they are young, inexperienced, passionate and naive. WATCH OUT FOR THIS. It's becoming more common.

Most larger anime shows also know their main money won't come from broadcast or even blu-ray sales (although Blu-ray sales are EXTREMELY important as far as an anime's success goes) the REAL money comes from merchandise sales or a push of sales in gacha games that are tied to the anime in question. Basically the way Pokemon works at this point. Where the games only exist to justify the existence of merchandise.

So the producers of anime want shows that they know will translate well into merchandise sales. The big merchandise target which these companies like tend to be men aged 18 - 25 who don't yet have families of their own. Because they tend to have a lot more disposable income. However, as things have changed and shows like Sailor Moon have proven, women are also willing to spend large amounts of money on merch. But due to the social structure of Japan, statistically women are less likely to spend the same amount of money because society pressures them more to work towards starting families and focusing their money on building households. (something Japan itself puts extreme pressure on especially with their declining birthrate but even before this just through their traditional family values).

This is why if you compare the amount of shoujo and Josei anime that come out per year versus the amount of Shounen and Seinen anime, it's not even CLOSE in numbers. And what shows MIGHT appeal to women just as men tend to still have cute girls in them to push figurine sales.

It's created an extremely hostile environment where artists simply do not have the means to actually be creative because they are being bled dry for no money.

BUT, because of the sheer number of anime that release per year, it IS more likely to have hidden gems come out made by people who genuinely have a great passion for what they make. It's just that before these would be the anime that outshines everybody else, but because there is just SO MUCH shovelware anime, it can be a little harder to see in the crowd of 5000 isekai and gacha anime.

The industry is not in a great place right now in terms of a creative environment. But it doesn't mean quality isn't there. It's just the quality anime won't be the "biggest" anime of the season or the most talked about or the one you see the most merch for.

Except for Mob Psycho 100. MP100 is GENUINELY one of the best anime to come out in the last 10 years. It uses experimental mixed media in its animation, the animation itself is top tier, and its story and characters are extremely unique for the anime medium.

ALSO! there is an anime coming out for one of my favourite current running manga "Kaiju No. 8". Monster Number 8 is part of a new breed of manga that's part of a branch of Shounen Jump called "Jump+". Shounen Jump has for DECADES demanded its manga writers provide a chapter PER WEEK for publishing. Similarly to anime, this bleeds manga artists dry and leaves them often with debilitating health conditions due to overwork (I have a manga by Satoshi Kon where he talks about getting Jaundice while making the comic due to overwork).

Jump+ on the otherhand works differently. The manga do NOT update per week but have larger gaps between updates with short breaks sometimes by the artists.

AND GUESS WHAT???

IT MEANS THE QUALITY OF THE MANGA HAVE GONE UP!

WHAT A SHOCK!

Anyway apparently Kaiju No. 8 is getting an anime adaptation and I am extremely excited.

(He's upset because he pissed through his nipples on the street)

Seriously tho. Kaiju No. 8 is about a 30 something year old dude who works as "monster clean up" which is basically the guys who have to mop up the guts of whatever Kaiju the heroes blew up that week.

until he accidentally becomes exposed to something which gives him the ability to shapeshift into a monster. He reapplies to the Kaiju-fighting division being one year under the cut-off age, an entrance exam he has failed multiple times in the past, but gets in this time (but barely iirc. It's been a while since I read the beginning. (of course if the defense division ever sees him in his monster form they will kill him which is probably not the smartest career move but I mean WHAT ELSE IS HE SUPPOSED TO DO?)

AND THEN THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP HAPPENS.

Where his hero buddies who find out he is also a kaiju have to help him BOTH fight the monsters attacking the city while ALSO keeping his powers a secret from the OTHER officers in the division. Specifically his best friend who then pushes himself to be BETTER at the defense thing specifically so his friend (who's named Kafka by the way because of course) won't transform to protect him and potentially get himself killed by the defense division.

It's so good. Please... I am weak for power of friendship stories....

Everybody protects each other and care about each other so much...

I just hope the anime can get something good out, because already from the sneak peaks we've seen, the quality seems to be the same level of mid most major anime have these days. But hey. At least it's not CG.

#C-Puff answers #long post

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darktypedreams · 10 months

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I actually want to get into Pokemon and we're friends now (UwU) so you seem like the person to ask:

How? I only have a steam deck but I suppose they make emulators? Or do I need a switch?? Also which game? I religiously watched the same like 10 VHS's of the anime as a kid but I wasn't able to start playing video games till recently in my life because of vision/vestibular issues 🫠 I also can only play 2D/isometric games still but I think most Pokemon games fall into that category??

UwU

Most of them do, yes! A lot of the recent games have 3D elements, so maybe it would be good to start with one of the older games, for which they do have great emulators. My first Pokemon game, in around 2012, was Leaf Green on an emulator. I love that one because it's got a great retro vibe and just includes the original generation of 151 Pokemon. It is also exclusively 2D top down, so it should treat your vision well. I'd say no need to commit to getting a Switch unless you find yourself really wanting to jump into a more recent game. (I personally am a big Eevee fangirl, so I played Let's Go Eevee on Switch and loved it!) I haven't played every Pokemon game though, so definitely read other opinions than mine! :)

#asks #pokemon

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asknarashikari · 9 months

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Kari, thoughts on Ash Ketchum?

I'm quite fond of the guy. I was honestly quite sad when I heard he was going to be retired as the anime protagonist. It's just so hard to imagine Pokemon without him, you know? I started watching the show on-and-off when I wasn't even his age, and now I'm nearing thrice his age XD

I still have a very vivid memory of the first time I watched Pokemon as a little kid. It was at a family reunion, when I was like 6 years old, maybe even younger. The adults decided that the best way to make us 20ish kids behave was to put something on the tv in the family room. They decided to put on an episode of Pokemon- specifically, Pikachu's Goodbye, on VHS (because yeah I'm old enough that those were still a thing when I was a kid).

I remember it vividly because practically all of us were bawling when this happened:

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And I'll be honest- I also cried when I watched the final episode he and Pikachu were in. I actually cried right from the start because of Misty's departure and the hug between her Psyduck and Pikachu. And of course his victory over Leon made me feel all the feels.

So, thanks Ash, you made me cry the first and last time I watched you on the show :))

#pokemon #pokeani #ash ketchum #ask #lowder-the-koopa

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harukadrawsthings · 1 year

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Did you hear about Ash leaving the Pokemon Anime? The new protagonists, Riko and Roy have been revealed.

There's a theory going on about Riko being Ash's daughter, sharing a hair pin and also from Kanto. What are your thoughts on Ash leaving and the theory?

I don’t even know where to start. I’ve cried as I was watching the last episode of the arc and cried again minutes ago. Your ask actually got me spoiled in the middle of the afternoon. At first I was in denial but some seconds later I felt that someone just gave a hard punch to my stomach. I got disoriented for hours because of the unexpected news but I had to watch first the last JN episode AND the announcement right after to really process what you were telling me. I was drawing a sketch because of an illustration that I’m preparing to offer for Christmas to some kids of the neighbourhood, but I had to stop because I was not in mental conditions to continue, without any exaggeration. And thus everything got confirmed. As much trivial it can be such a negative reaction towards a fictional show/character’s disclosure, what’s not trivial is how much of an impact it was to witness the beginning of a journey that would last a quarter of century.

The Pokémon animé appeared in my country in October of 1999 and I was a child in primary school when the first episode has aired on TV. It was how I was first introduced to one of the most influent franchises ever in the videogame and animé-culture world and I was one of those lucky people that could witness in first hand the social impact that it spread to every child of my generation and even early teenagers. I vividly remember the moment of watching in a bulky CRT-style television running late to Professor Oak’s laboratory and choosing Pikachu as his partner. How their relationship started rough, how they ran away from an angry Spearow flock, Ash staring to that mysterious high relief with the three mythological birds and an Arcanine, Team Rocket’s first motto at the Pokémon Center, crossing Viridian Forest and hiding from a Beedrill swarm and having a freshly evolved Butterfree save everyone, how Pikachu learnt to use the Thunderbolt move for the first time, and so on. Everyone at recess was so obsessed about this new show, I remember to circle two school students with Game Boy Color systems connected with a Game Link cable because they were having a Pokémon battle. While it happened in 8-bits we could picture the battle like if it was a TV show episode. Unfortunately, I could only buy my first Pokémon game six years later but in that time gap I collected Pokémon cards, stickers and Tazos (super popular collectibles in the Iberian Peninsula back then and the first years of the new millennium) and these were my first Pokédex; this is how I originally learnt all the names and types of the 150 Pokémon. Closer to the time I could buy my first game, I could experience Pokémon Blue and I remember being obsessed in trying to locate Mew in the game, believing there was a hidden item somewhere in Kanto that could access it.

Ash is directly responsible for my first exposure to a world that would change me forever and contribute to shape me up to the person I am today. He gave me extra motivation to follow an artistic field, contributed to expand my love for videogames, he increased my interest towards Japanese culture, animation, and mangá, he helped me to grow sensibility towards wildlife and nature, he helped me to meet new friends, and he provided me fun and positive memories in these 23 years every time I could catch episodes or movies on TV. He was there at the end of my childhood, he was there my whole teenagerhood, he was there in the start of my adulthood in my train trips to faculty and I could begin watching the series in depth (because I couldn’t have the VHS like other kids and the channel schedule was quite cruel as well so there were a lot of episodes I missed). However, every time I was lucky to turn on the television and see that Pokémon was passing, I knew my morning breakfast was instantly going to taste better watching Ash’s adventures and seeing new Pokémon!

At first, I was very critical about the character. I didn’t like his arrogance and I was finding questionable how much merit did he have to get most of the Kanto badges because he lacked a lot of technical knowledge. Despite of this I admired his bravery, love for every living thing and determination to chase his dreams. Following up over two decades of animated content it’s incredible how much Ash has grown as a Pokémon Trainer and a human being. This fills me with lots of pride and joy and I can only congratulate Ash for all his achievements. I learnt to love Ash and nowadays I’m one of the first people to defend because I equally learnt how misunderstood he also was.

In these latest five years in particular, this boy of Pallet Town has been a vital piece in my life to counter the negative effects of a depression I’ve been going through for a longer period. Today is with great sadness that I learn he’s preparing to follow his lifepath out of our eyes and the TV screen. The most important message he has given me since a child that had freshly learnt how to read is that no matter how many obstacles there are ahead of you, to never give up chasing a dream. This is something I’ll continue to carry on ever after Ash leaves the screens.

I’m still in shock because although I knew this day would eventually happen, I didn’t think it would be now in early 2023. I’ll need some time to digest all these overwhelming news (piled up with Ash and Goh going separate paths*, I still think they could have travelled together). Ash’s departure feels like part of my childhood being taken away or leaving as well and it’s a very stinging feeling. I had hopes for the writing team to explore Ash’s life post-WCS alongside with Goh as they would explore Paldea region but I believe this was already too much for the team to work with. I can’t hide my disappointment for the disclosure that it was decided in the end but there’s nothing it can be done now. I hoped to see more of Ash, Goh, Chloe (I’m very happy she’s now a Research Fellow in the laboratory!**) and even the Cerise Staff or Team Rocket after this, but I believe this is now part of the imaginary of the fans through fanfiction and comic strips from now on. Although Pokémon Journeys is far from being a perfect arc, it’s by far my top favourite ever of the show, introducing us a formula that in my opinion was being so needed since 2006 with the arc happening in Sinnoh region. A world-travelling formula that was giving much more creative freedom to the writers, opening many possibilities with the massive material that exists today in now nine generations of Pokémon games. One of the biggest highlights for me was the creation of Goh as a co-protagonist who I’ll be forever thankful that he was brought to the screens and for also being such an important part to my life in these latest 3 years. He’s sharing a special corner in my heart next to Ash and I’m determined to cosplay as Goh in an event happening in a few months (I’m just waiting for the commissioned wardrobe to arrive). I want to homage one of the best human characters ever written for the show! The Japanese arc might have ended but I’ll still have the Portuguese dub to watch in the incoming months. I can still enjoy Ultimate Journeys for some extra time.

As for the future animé coming once the mini-series end (in March 2023 perhaps?). I wonder if the JN formula is the way they’ll go on this incoming new generation of protagonists and animated stories, I have plenty of questions going in my head, but I’ll leave them for later. Only time will answer them, and I’ll be around to follow what they’ve prepared for us, but I must applaud the studio’s courage to take such a bold decision to change one of the most recognisable protagonists in the history of animated fiction. I think it's quite a stretch to go now on board for that theory when it's not even confirmed if the timeline and the universe is the same as Ash's.

Ash Ketchum will be forever in my heart as a dear childhood fictional character that has given me so many years of joy and it was such a pleasure to walk this path along with him. I’ll miss him very much. I’ll certainly talk about him to younger generations to come. Thank you so much for all the memories and for being a great inspiration to me and millions of people in the world. You’ll be forever a legend and a Pokémon Master Trainer!

I take the chance to inform to all my followers of my Satogou AU that I intend to continue to bring content despite of this unexpected bomb released by Anipoke. As far I still have ideas, inspiration, time and public actively interested to read more stories and interact with them/me, I’ll continue to draw. Right now I feel that I need a good night of sleep because I feel that I was hit by a truck. My spirit needs a long healing as I feel a void inside me like I never had before because of fictional world. Nobody saw this coming and it's definitely not the Christmas season I envisioned. I'm in a genuine state of shock, what a Friday!

(*) - Ash and Goh meeting themselves again in future is something that will happen and no one cannot convince me otherwise.

(**)- It's finally safe to use the headcanon I was pondering to move forward for a long time which is to make Chloe become a Pokémon Palaeontologist!

#satogou au asks #pokemon au asks #pokemon asks #harukadrawsthings asks #I wasn't ready for this japanese bomb at all #pokemon #anipoke #anipoke spoilers #pokemon journeys #pokemon ultimate journeys #pokemon journeys spoilers #satogou

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waterloggedsoliloquy · 6 months

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for the ask game: 3, 6, 16, 19

3 was answered!

6.) speaking of tv adaptations, why would yours get cancelled? (other than capitalism)

i dont get this question bc short of ending it early outta burnout every single reason i can think of a show getting cancelled is due to capitalist pressures or motivations

16.) imagine the entire story takes place but in the meantime the characters all also have tumblr. what kind of (terrible) tumblr posts would happen?

all of them are consummate posters. its the hs dna.

sicely: barely any blog presence. stays in their lane. fandoms include star wars, fallout, firefly, buffy, pokemon. likes all of antheas posts. has a sideblog for their comics and music.

anthea: flowers, recipes, web weaving. in troll-classic fashion posts wrong things to piss off her friends sometimes. keep em guessing. fandoms include sailor moon, cardcaptor sakura, ptutu, fullerverse

ari: blog is 50% journal for schoolwork/personal research, 50% x files and doctor who fanfic. other fandoms include psych, fullerverse, death note, pathologic

lucerne: runs a character askblog and also has a surrealist webcomic that went viral that people are obsessing over what it could possibly mean, if its ironic, or what the author is trying to convey and who they are. lucerne aint telling. Fandoms include OTGW, Gundam, Akira, indie and foreign horror films.

opal: im sorry to say that opal would believe misandry is real and would dedicate a not insignificant portion of his blog to it.Is physically incapable of not interacting with things that make him mad so hes constantly getting into dumb bullshit fights. Fandoms include Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, JJBA, one punch man, steven universe.

jiro: anime gifsets and dedicated liveblogging. Sends anon hate on opals behalf to his enemies, getting him in the crossfire and then hes all like WHATD I DO TO WARRANT THIS as if its not abundantly obvious its him doing it. Fandoms include gundam, nge, akira, star wars, sailor moon, hxh

diane: actually uses her blog like a Web-log. posts long diary entries about her interests, essentially mini-essays, at regular intervals. fandoms include steven universe, gravity falls, otgw, hilda, she-ra, mlp.

fred: reblogs poetry and ceramics inspo mostly, posts his own ceramics progress shots and screenshots of his animal crossing towns. fandoms include gravity falls, otgw, mlp, sailor moon, pokemon

19.) describe the sillies you think about but that dont go in the story.

ari and anthea are in a silent prank war and have been for as long as anyone can remember. they have rules that they adhere to rigidly, despite never having discussed them with each other ever. if in each others presence they will deny such a war exists, but will talk about it privately. opal and sicely are making a webcomic on a rudimentary geocities page, it has over 100 pages. lucerne and jiro watch mecha anime on vhs in his basement playroom. diane keeps bringing home wild animals as pets and fred keeps secretly releasing them bc he doesnt want a fucking squirrel in his house. midas collects snowglobes and those little glass animals. araceli will stop mid-fight to infodump about cetaceans and her only friend for the past few years has been a talking bird she loves to argue with. thomas thinks canned coffee and a cigarette is a full breakfast and has a collection of vampire erotica

#cecil drawls #voidlycat #carousel waltz #THANK U CEE

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weirdthoughtsandideas · 3 months

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I do think Silver Fang/hopeanouli was more popular for the 90s kids, as back then everyone got VHSes and it got sold/rented in every store that had videos. So it got a cult status for those who grew up with it. Then it depends for the 00s kids. Some people I know born in the early 00s know exactly what it is, others have never heard of it.

I think you should do a survey if people know about it or not, I think it can be funny.

I know in Sweden too there's been so many shows in the 80s/90s that they dubbed but never aired on tv, and only released on vhs, so those shows got to be cult classics for those that happened to own them, while others never heard of them. With animes especially it seems like in the Nordic countries, they all dubbed a handful of eps of several animes and released on VHS (because, I know in Sweden's case, the television network "didn't understand" animes back then so they never aired them on TV, so you only could get them on tape. They have aired Moomins, Sailor Moon and Pokemon on tv ofc, but that was not until later), and the dubs are often hilariously bad but charming.

I do wonder if your knowledge also has to do if you like animes or not. I mean, as kids we might not have realized it was animes and just thought of it as "animated shows" (didn't know 90s moomin was an anime until really late lol), but I think if you're more into anime you're more likely to know it possibly.

I've asked my swedish friends born in the 00s, and lots of them have heard the name Silver Fang but fewer has watched. But when seeing people online, the 80s and 90s kids from Sweden seem to talk about it like it's very well known, just like finnish people who grew up at the same time. Apparently in Finland they have also translated the manga, so it seems to be the most popular there since they didn't translate the manga anywhere else in the nordic countries.

Anyway! Yeah! Let's do a poll!

"European" includes all european countries that is not the 4 already mentioned. I know Iceland is a nordic country too, but I realized I had clogged up the polls lol (and I think most people voting will be from Finland or Scandinavia, so they got the most options), so now Iceland is included with the rest of Europe.

#silver fang #hopeanouli

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fallensnowfan · 1 month

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Was talking with some friends about Akira Toriyama and I want to share some of the ways his works have left an impact on me.

Watching Dragon Ball Z on VHS tapes with my neighbors after school and on the weekends in the early 2000s are my earliest memories of his works, long before I learned what anime was. I've kept these stickers from around that time to this day.

I'm unsure if I still own the book they are from, or where it is if I do, though the joy I experienced from getting it is still just as vivid in my mind.

Beyond Dragon Ball, while I didn't play Dragon Quest growing up, it was a major influence on the Pokemon series, which was a Huuuuuge part of my childhood. I still own my original copy of Yellow version and many of the older games, cards, merch etc.

And playing my first Dragon Quest game last month really opened my eyes to just how much the series influenced, and still influences, so so so many RPGs, not just Pokemon, that would follow. It all leaves me feeling so amazed all over again at the legacy Toriyama has fostered. Rip to a true legend.

#akira toriyama #dragon ball #pokemon #dragon quest

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kyurilin · 2 months

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So back in October I posted some of my old DBZ art for the first time, and now here it is March and Akira Toriyama has passed away.

So I'm back with more and a story about the adventure it took my brother to get me into DBZ in the first place and why it now holds a special place in my heart.

Back when we were growing up, we weren't allowed to watch anime. It was one of the weird rules my dad set that to this day still has no explanation. At some point in middle school or early high school my brother got introduced to DBZ Abridged, and spent a few years trying to get me into it (and failing). I knew very little about DBZ but just enough that when I attempted to watch Dragonball Evolution I knew it was fucked up (also it was boring WITHOUT knowing everything).

But we'd play video games together, and after years of playing Super Smash Bros together, my brother knew the one surefire way to get me invested in SOMETHING DBZ.

And that was DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2.

The first five characters I chose from that roster to fight him as ended up being my favorites (hint: most of the art that's colored in this post is a character I picked in 2010 to play).

From there he got me interested enough to buy low priced DBZ VHS movies from Amazon (the Bardock special was $1.01 with 99¢ shipping in 2010, btw) and watch them. And then threw a Pokemon reference in Abridged he got me into watching that.

For the longest time, I was hooked on the random pieces of DBZ I could absorb, which meant watching the ever growing collection of movies we had, each new episode release of Abridged, and occasionally even watching bits and pieces of DBZ Kai. I even started collecting the manga for both DBZ and OG Dragon Ball. I didn't get around to watching the actual DBZ series until 2018 (my first watched anime series is actually FMA: Brotherhood because of this).

But it was something I shared with my brother and we had so much fun playing Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and 3 with each other. We've always played fighting games with random options in such a way that every first few matches we would just hit the random character button and play out whatever happened from there before finally playing as the characters we cared about. We would spend hours, especially with Budokai Tenkaichi 3, making our own tournament brackets and then playing them through. Each match would be fought by us, 1v1, and if one of the two characters was one we were good at, that person would get to play them. For matches that neither of us had a character to play, we'd flip a coin. We'd come up with our own silly rules for these tournaments and it was a blast. Once my brother almost won an entire thing as Kid Chi-Chi because he was really fucking good as her and even Omega Shenron's health advantage couldn't stop her. My brother could beat the shit out of Broly as Videl because she was so tiny it was hard to see her next to Broly.

I still don't watch a lot of anime, but DBZ is one of the four I do hold closest to my heart. And it's for a lot of reasons, like laughing with my brother as we decided to turn on The Lion Sleeps Tonight as background music for DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2 instead of the game's music (starting a tradition where wheneber we play fighting games we use our own playlist of music for it instead). It's for reasons like watching Abridged with my brother whenever the new episodes would drop, and being there for the Livestream premiere of Episode 60 after finishing all of DBZ only weeks earlier. It's for reasons like seeing Dragon Ball Super: Broly in theaters twice, and being so hyped to see not only Broly on the big screen, but Bardock who's been my favorite since day one. It's for reasons like the collection of photos I have of my brother doing Ginyu Force poses on a beach in 2010, for us pretending to give Goku energy during the series' final Spirit Bomb, for being so excited to see Android 17 back in DB Super. It's one of the things that I never thought we'd care about, but that I've cared about enough from the beginning that I made all this art in 2010, during our yearly beach trip, after only being a fan for a few months (the coloring came years later though).

And yes. There is a collection of poorly written DBZ fanfics buried both on my external hard drive and box of physical stories, but they're buried forever. There is a DBZ and a Dragon Ball fanfic by me on ff.net however so if anyone wants to see if they can figure out my 11/12 year old account, this blog has enough context clues somewhere to figure it out (maybe the DBZ one will get cross posted to AO3 and backdated someday who knows).

If it werent for Akira Toriyama and Dragon Ball, my brother and I would have had one less thing to bond over, and honestly? Wouldn't trade it for the world.

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