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So back in July. I asked my followers to recommend me what anime to watch in my free time. From the responses that I got, I compiled a list of animes that I either never got around to or simply never would’ve watched normally and promised to watch them all fully and personally review and rate each one. I finally finished them all so here you go!

Spoilers are below for the following:

Gunsmith Cats

My Bride is a Mermaid

Ping Pong the Animation

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

Mushishi + all seasons and movies

Planet With

Kokkoku

Chikyuu Bouei Kigyou Dai-Guard

Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru

Blue Submarine No. 6

Future Boy Conan

The way I score things

10: All time personal favorite. Strongly appeals to my personal tastes and sticks with me. 9: Nearly Perfect. Very enjoyable. Sticks with me. 8: A Great show with flaws that hold it back from a 9. 7: A solid good show. Enjoyable. May have issues 6: Decent, fine, average. I don't have any strong feelings for but kept me engaged to finish it. May even be seen as a good show but personally disappoints me in some way. 5: Mediocre. No strong feelings one way or another. Slightly dislike it, forgettable, and or boring. 4. Bad. There are flaws and they are apparent. Frustrating. 3. Borderline waste of time. Almost few or no positive things to say about it. 2. Garbage. No redeeming qualities other than being bad. 1. Personally offends me. *Just because a show is riddled with flaws doesn't mean it can't still score a 7,8,9, or even a 10 if a show aligns with my personal interests.

*Also if you recommended a show and I reviewed it weird or scored it differently than you please don’t take it the wrong way. Different media for different people and all that.

Gunsmith Cats: 8/10

Rally Vincent knows her weapons well, while her partner Minne May Hopkins loves to play with explosives. The pair run a gun-shop illegally and one day Bill Collins of the ATF, blackmails Rally and Minnie May into working for the ATF. Little do they know, that they are getting involved in a mission larger than they could imagine.

Gunsmith Cats is short fun series that I personally treated as a movie (since it was only 3 parts) based on the manga with the same name. Good episode 1 and 3 but a phenomenal episode 2. Very good action animation with likeable character designs. It was fun seeing an anime take place in a surprisingly realistic Chicago and was pretty light on American stereotypes. Unfortunately, I found the ending to be very anti-climatic and left more to be desired. Had the ending been better, the entire experience would’ve been far more memorable.

It has been brought to my attention that the anime adaptation cuts out a fair share of content from the source material which is why characters with histories with other characters show up throughout and talk to each other casually as if the viewer should almost even know who they are. Knowing that doesn’t bother me too much since I never read the manga but knowing stuff has been filled over or removed is a little disappointing. Would’ve loved some more Rally backstory and development though but there just wasn’t enough time for it.

My Bride is a Mermaid: 7.5/10

Michishio Nagasumi's life couldn't be any more normal. In an odd twist of events, during his summer vacation he ends up almost drowning in the sea. Luckily, the cute mermaid Sun Seto appears to save him. However, Sun is from a yakuza mermaid family and according to their law, if a human is to catch sight of a mermaid, either he or the mermaid must die. The only other way is for Nagasumi to be taken in as a family member, marrying Sun. In attempts to save both of their lives, Nagasumi asks for Sun's hand in marriage. Nagasumi's summer vacation reaped more then what he would expect, as he must now protect Sun from others finding her secret out.

Went in with mixed expectations but I found it to be a pretty funny parody rom-com. Admittedly, it had a rough start for me and I didn’t really find it all that funny until the setting settled into the school but I’m glad I stuck with it because once it hit its strive it was very enjoyable. Though I will say that there is quite a few instances of no-homo humor that annoyed me a bit but the show came out in 2007 and that was very much a thing rampant in media back then and I’m also able to look past that stuff and enjoy the rest. There were some really stand out bits that are going to stay with me for a long time. Very catchy opening and the 2nd ending song is really good; watched through that credit sequence fully everytime and never got tired of it. The english voice cast was super solid and I’m glad I watched it dubbed. If I didn’t watch it dubbed I would probably score it a 7 instead because I feel anime comedies are multitudes funnier in the language you know best and when you can pick up on the nuance in the way voicelines and jokes are delivered. Maki’s voice got on my nerves though but I wouldn’t say that it was the voice actresses fault for the character being the way they are.

Funny show aside, the final arc bothered me quite a bit. It was fun that the main cast got together to fight a greater evil but the seriousness of it all felt extremely out of place. The threat of rape directed towards an unconscious and unresponding Sun was WAY too serious from the wacky antics of the rest of the show. The show skirted on sexual humor at times but nothing prior ever got close in tone for such a massive shift in story direction. The way the final arc started also didn’t feel right because it needed to have the main character Nagasumi act extremely out of character and be comically antagonistic towards Sun for no real good reason in order to set up the following series of events. I’m glad nothing bad came out as a result of the final arc but it did leave a bad taste in my mouth in what should have been a celebration of all the past episodes. I absolutely didn’t like it.

After I finished it, I looked up the writer for the series Tahiko Kimura, and apparently this was the last series that he’s ever created with Artifact Red and Yo no na wa Zushio being the 2 series that he made prior and it’s quite a shame because you could feel their comedic writing improve greatly throughout the series and I could imagine that their next work would only continue with this rising stride minus what he wrote in the final couple of episodes.

Ping Pong the Animation: 10/10

Tsukimoto Makoto (nicknamed Smile) is a quiet high-schooler who's been friends with the loud and energetic Hoshino Yukata (nicknamed Peko). They're both in the table tennis club and are very good at it, though Smile's personality prevents him from winning against Peko. The club teacher however notices Smile's talent and tries to make him gain some sportive tenacity.

Ping Pong is an exceptional show. A beautifully and uniquely crafted coming of age story and one that certainly doesn't come along often. Nothing about Ping Pong felt ordinary while still telling a very human story and a very emotional and realistic one at that. It's hard to not recognize its artistic merit. Ping Pong also tackles an aspect about sports that you don’t see very often and that’s when does the sport you commit yourself to stop becoming enjoyable and how that not only changes you but how you treat other players within the sport and your loved ones as well. And that just because you’ve lost sight of yourself, your roots of what brought you into something, and your enjoyment of it. Doesn’t mean you can’t find it again, start all over, and still find happiness and/or purpose. In the words of tumblr user @pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird who is way more versed in writing than I am, “how the tradeoff between talent, practice, and who you are outside of your achievements can scar the spirits of kids, and what it feels like to wrestle with the tension between your core understanding of yourself and how others expect you to be”. And that “Every major character goes through massive restructurings of their fundamental sense of self and how they see others, and that every single arc comes to a well-rounded and satisfying end”.

Phenomenal soundtrack except for the song in the opening which was.. not great and didn’t really fit with the rest of the soundtrack of the show imo. Speaking of music, this maybe one of my favorite Kensuke Ushio works to date. Every song of his has so much personality and freshness to it and adds a completely other level to the show and makes scenes incredibly memorable and engaging. Ping Pong can be a little much at times and has a roundabout way of doing things especially in the middle. Wish I didn’t wait so long to watch this show but in the end, I’m glad I finally experienced it. Hard recommend to anyone and everyone even if you don’t care about ping pong because I know I didn’t going in. Currently 2nd favorite sports anime after Hajime no Ippo. You got to fall before you know what it feels to fly.

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia: 4/10

60 years ago, a young woman was left to die in the abandoned school building behind the exclusive Seikyou Academy. No one knows why. No one knows how. But the horrifying tale and the legends of the ghostly haunting that followed live on to this day. Perhaps it's not so surprising then, that among Seikyou's many school clubs is one for students interested in "paranormal investigations." What might raise more than a few hairs, however, is that the founder of the club is the ghost herself. Unable to remember how she died and trapped in the grey land between life and death, Yuuko latches onto Teiichi Niiya, a freshman who can inexplicably see her, and together they and the other unsuspecting members of the club begin to unravel the many dark mysteries that surround Seikyou. Will unlocking the secret of Yuuko's gruesome death finally free her? Or will her sudden close association with a mortal have even stranger repercussions on both of their existences?

It wasn’t going to be easy following up to a show like Ping Pong but dusk maiden of amnesia can be tldr’d down to I simply wasn’t the target audience for this kind of show nor is it the kind of romance story I tend to get invested in but even still, there were issues with it that were hard for me to ignore. Dusk Maiden is an oddly cutesy (if that is even the right word for it) show with a heavy paint layer of dark color pallets and a sinister atmosphere. While not a harem, it acts like a harem almost immediately off the bat with all 3 girls batting for protag-kun’s attention and affection for some reason for a good majority of the show. A lot of the deep meaning and seriousness of scenes are quickly undone by it’s inclination to fall back to boob fondling and ecchi tactics at any moment no matter the tone nor the seriousness of the scene prior. Everything just feels crazy out of place at all moments including Yuuko’s horny levels toward protag-kun and his varying levels of reciprocating love towards her.

For a romance-mystery-supernatural show, the romance between the members of the cast never felt genuine but rather convenient and unearned. Even though the main cast is a mighty number of only 4 characters, there is an extreme lack of communication between them at times and I feel a lot of the episodes get stretched out the way they do because of this on top of there being already a ton of miscommunication between them. The last 4 episodes finally get to the meat of the most important mystery which is Yuuko herself but by then my interest in it had already sailed.

Mushi-Shi: 9/10

They are neither plants nor animals. They differ from other forms of life such as the micro-organisms and the fungi. Instead they resemble the primeval body of life and are generally known as "Mushi". Their existence and appearance are unknown to many and only a limited number of humans are aware of them. Ginko is a "Mushi-shi" who travels around to investigate and find out more about the "Mushi". In the process, he also lends a helping hand to people who face problems with supernatural occurrences which may be related to the "Mushi".

Mushishi is an award winning anime that is also associated with having one of the highest ratings amongst anime even to this day. Now that I finished it, I can say it’s for a very good reason. I took my time with watching this one for it is told in a very relaxed and controlled manner but never does it step into being boring and uninteresting. Mushishi plays out a series of 26 very unique and stand alone tales like a storybook as we experience and solve each tale with the main character Ginko who is a calm, friendly, and well-versed Mushi professional. Mushi are spirit like entities that most can’t see but inhabit and interact with the natural world and with peoples lives. Ginko is a Mushi-shi who are travelers and free agents who treat said phenomena and help those who have gotten their lives entwined with them. The mushi range from being cute and harmless to being horrifying and nightmarish with each episode requiring different solutions in order to treat, prevent, keep at bay, and cope or live with.

Not every episode/story told is a happy one. Some are happy, many are bittersweet, and a couple stories are outright depressing and tragic. The show has been described by many as a cozy slice of life by many but I’ll be honest, I in good conscience can’t 100% share the same description lol. The show may give off unanimously chill vibes and it IS an adventure slice of life, but the show was ripe full of subtle anxiety inducing moments that glued me to the storytelling. I found myself being aware and attentive with my expectations prepared for the worst to happen at the end of each episode. Though I guess I still did overall feel at peace watching each episode despite this.

The show did a fantastic job pacing itself out. Telling 26 unique stories with each episode having a beginning, middle, and end without feeling rushed or too slow. Sorry that this mini review is getting on the longer side but it’s hard to talk about this show in a concise way because there is so much to unpack and talk about. 9 out of 10, would recommend watching but I’m aware it’s not for everybody. Wouldn’t be a bad idea peppering a little of it into your current watching schedule.

Mushi-Shi ZOKU SHOU: 9/10

The natural continuation of the series. Carries the exact same tone, vibes, pacing, and style of story telling of the first season. If I was put in a blind fold test, I wouldn’t know that this season was released 9 years after the first one. The set of stories this time around aren’t nearly as bittersweet as the first season and I did feel that Ginko was somewhat less involved with the cases this time around. I’ll just say it now, but I absolutely love Ginko as a character. Such a cool dude, love that guy. Before I watched the show I always pegged him as a dude that just keeps to himself, gets easily annoyed by other people, lays around and only spectates. But he’s like the complete opposite. He’s got so much going on, fantastic protagonist. He’s also problematic in that he makes smoking tobacco look cool.

Mushi-Shi The Shadow that Devours the Sun: 8/10

Hey the sun is pretty important dudes. When you see that frame of the doctors house and the sea, it’s an reliable indication that the story/episode is going to be a good one. I really enjoyed the scene where the show all the characters from the previous episodes viewing the eclipse.

Mushi-Shi Path of Thorns: 6.5/10

It was good although I can safely say that I won’t lose any sleep if there were no more Minai clan scenes or episodes from here on out. I think it was a good idea to make what would have been episode 11 and 12 into a special. Kind of disappointed in what I’m led to believe was the forbidden mushi or at least is the nature of the forbidden mushi. There was a lot of foreshadowing for it.

Mushi-Shi Second Season: 9/10

2nd season of the 2nd season. The clever bastard that recommended mushi-shi when I asked for a 26 episode or less anime full well knowing that I would get hooked into watching past the first season really got the most bang for their buck so far in terms of their recommendation lol. I kid though, Mushi-shi has been great.

Mushi-Shi SUZU NO SHIZUKU: 7/10

New lord dropped. Very bittersweet ending but still enjoyable. The quiet scene after the credits and not being given a title for the next episode invoked a unique sense of finality that I haven’t experienced in a long time.

Planet With: 5.5/10

Souya Kuroi has dreams of people with superpowers fighting a massive dragon in the sky, but his real life is almost as weird. He's had amnesia for about two weeks and been taken in by a maid and an anthropomorphic cat. When a UFO in the shape of a stuffed bear approaches Sorimasaka City and other metros around the world, he's startled to see seven rainbow-sparkling heroes zoom out to confront it – just like in his dream. Even weirder, the maid wants him to leave his shelter to confront these heroes and take the source of their power.

Planet With is a show that I otherwise would’ve never watched on my own accord but having finished it, I thought it was overwhelmingly alright. First, I need to get this out of the way right now; this show ain’t great looking. The CGI throughout the show is generally terrible, making action scenes have no weight to them in terms of actual combat and most actions that have the intention of looking cool and impactful end up feeling floaty and silly. The 2D hand drawn stuff is fine but doesn’t make up for the CG implemented in this show. Secondly, for a good chunk of the show the main character Soya sucks major ass. Imagine young Simon from TTGL but instead of being afraid and having low confidence he’s instead angry, dumb, and unfriendly. 60-70% of the time he’s either whining and complaining about something and we the viewer are stuck with him with usually no end to his whining in sight but luckily he does get better in the last 2 episodes when he becomes almost a carbon copy of a time skip ttgl Simon.

Another problem with having ugly action scenes is that this show tries so very hard to be hot blooded and almost Gurren Lagann-esq but is simply never cool and stylish enough to make it work. The intent is all there but it can never pull off the execution. You can tell this show came out in 2018 because it has aggressively bad bass boosted and out of place sound effects like fate apocrypha. On a positive note, Planet With was VERY bold in how it did it’s reveals. As weird as the plot was, Planet With somehow delivered it all in a easy to follow and engaging way, dropping a story changing plot point every other episode. Every character manages to get their backstory in even if it’s all done in a predictable and unremarkable way. Cramming all the elements of the story into 12 episodes as cleanly as it did is arguably one of the show’s greatest feats and honestly, I can’t believe it pulled it off. Lastly, I’m not sure how I feel about the way the show dealt with genocide and forgiveness but I think I’m simply not going to think to hard about it.

Kokkoku: 8/10

Juri Yukawa lives with her NEET father and brother, her retired grandfather, her sister and her young nephew. One day, her nephew and brother are kidnapped for ransom. Having only 30 minutes to meet the demands of the kidnappers, Juri, who realizes there is not enough time to prepare the money, decides to head for their rescue by herself with knife in hand when her grandfather uses a mysterious stone passed on in the Yukawa family to stop time. In a world where everyone and everything are inert, Juri and her father and grandfather run to rescue the two. But at the kidnappers' hideout, they soon realize they are not the only ones who can move about in this still world...

Took a month break after watching Planet With since I became more interested in playing videogames in my spare time but I finally managed to getting around to Kokkoku. Kokkoku is a supernatural thriller without the usual quick tense pace of a thriller. I found the premise and the hook in the first episode immediately engaging with each subsequent episode adding more clownery to the clown car up to the point where the climax felt like a final fight in a Jojo arc. There always seemed to be new problems arising with the exception of the last two episodes where the tension lessens and stuff finally cools down. The cast was likeable enough, maybe not the most exciting cast of characters but they all served their purposes. The villain was fun and everytime a bad guy was killed off it felt very satisfying to watch. And despite seeming like a weird confusing show at first glance, it was all very straightforward and easy to understand. I was hardly ever confused about what was going on and I greatly enjoyed the pacing of it all. I also watched the dub over the sub where I found the english voicework pretty well done even though I’ve heard better dubs before. Not once did I feel compelled to switch to subbed while watching. I overall really enjoyed my time with this show and found it to be fun watch despite its faults which I’m about to get into.

So first off and most importantly, the deus ex machina in the final episode is easily my biggest gripe with the show. A happy ending was well deserved but the way it happens is simply too convenient especially how well structured I felt the rest of the story was. Nowhere in the story was that blonde woman we saw in the first episode ever get hinted at being an un-aging wife of the man who made the stasis stone and the fact that she was there in Japan of all places to be pulled into Juri’s stasis and save her when she was about to fall into despair is the most out of nowhere plot development in the show. I kept assuming that blonde woman would show up and cause problems at the end of every episode since her entering stasis was one of the first things we saw when time stopped. Also the spirit dragon creature with the gouged out eye never appeared at any moment before the very end and it would’ve been cool to see that thing get hinted at beforehand for added mystery but there was never any mystery to it since it only showed up when the deus ex machina moment happened. I liked the happy ending but not like this lol. Dropping in such a virtuoso of plot knowledge at the very end is a big no no for me so I do feel like the well fought for ending that I was hoping for was stolen away in order of convenience.

Now some other random gripes. There isn’t a lot but there is a surprising amount of out place sex jokes for some reason and the credits felt a little tasteless opening up with Juri in her underwear for some reason despite that not being close to the tone of the show at all. A lot of the episodes end in dire cliffhangers that usually get de-escalated at the start of the next episode lessening their impact each time. I also felt that despite the high stake and dangerous situations that the family members found themselves in, I never felt that they were ever in any real danger. The superpowers of the family were too over powered for most of the bad guys to remotely handle and if things got bad I knew grandpa would teleport them out of there. Also unlike virtually every other review I’ve read for this show, I feel like I’m one of the few people that didn’t care much for the opening song and I rushed to skip it every time but it does stand out as an opening though I’ll give it that. I liked the show and had a lot of fun watching it all unfold but at the end of the day, I can’t help but feel like something was still missing from it all and I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Chikyuu Bouei Kigyou Dai-Guard: 6.5/10

Thirteen years after their sudden disappearance, an alien race known as the Heterodyne resurface without warning. To combat the Heterodyne, three office workers from the 21st Century Security Corporation operate Dai-Guard - a giant robot no longer regarded as an oversized paperweight. Unfortunately, Dai-Guard is somewhat obsolete and in disrepair. It's a tough job, but salarymen can also save the world.

So.. some of you may recall me praising Dai-Guard quite a bit when I started it and posting about it and such and I will still stand by that praise. This show has a very good start. It felt fresh, original, and fun to watch. Dai-Guard as a mech is a great design and is easy on the eyes even though it’s moveset was somewhat limited. It was easy to root for a shitty broken down mech described as a financial money pit mascot after it stopped being needed years ago. But Dai-Guard unfortunately doesn’t carry that momentum all the way through.

Dai-Guard isn’t a bad show by any margin, it’s pretty good for the most part but it plays it very safe and once it establishes its monster of the week formula it eventually gets pretty stale as it is predictable. You can jump from episode 11 to episode 23 and you’ll probably notice no changes in a characters dynamic to one another. You have a colorful cast of characters for the most part but they don’t really play off each other that much in terms of development. You’ll have an episode dedicated to one of the pilots sole character development and the next will be another and vice versa, never as a whole team. Relationships amongst one another mainly stay the same. They don’t seem to hang out with each other and for the most part are shown mostly together only when they are clocked in at work. And at the end of the day, while no ones positions in respect to another really change, everything else also doesn’t really change. The kaiju still do kaiju things. the military still does annoying military things, corporate higher ups be doing selfish corporate higher up things, etc.

The animation and the soundtrack is pretty good and while I noticed a drop in animation quality in some parts it never at all became distracting. I found myself also enjoying the Dai-Guard ownership politics between the company and the military and the fiscal responsibility for city and personal property damage after a kaiju is defeated. For a giant mecha show, the mecha fights aren’t always in the spotlight. Dai-Guard as a story is really invested in showing the power struggle behind the scene when dealing with city wide threats and catastrophes. It becomes quickly apparent that the biggest monsters are military boot lickers and greedy corporate suits that are so far removed from the common working class. Nothing is more dangerous for the protection of the citizens than big business cats calling the shots and an uncaring and by the code military choosing what’s best for themselves first and foremost. I do really like the idea of common workers being put into the role and responsibility of piloting a big ass mech and stopping kaiju but I just wish their side job as Dai-Guards pilots weren’t constantly challenged by the military higher ups believing that these three individuals that have consistently saved the day are some how not trained and practiced enough to handle the job instead of military dudes who have only simulation training. Also the show did jump between depicting the military as villains and heroes that it got hard to get a sense of where the writers stood when it came to the military. Some episodes the military were nothing but problem makers and others the main cast would smile and be relieved at the presence of the military. So that was pretty weird but I kind of got used to it.

Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: 6.5/10

Yuuna Yuuki is an ordinary second-year middle school student. She gets up in the morning, gets ready for school, goes to classes, participates in club activities, and has fun with her friends. But there is one extraordinary thing about Yuuki - she belongs to the “Brave Hero Club”. What does the Brave Hero Club do? Who is the mysterious being called “Vertex?” Yuuki Yuuna and her friends’ story takes place in Year 300, Era of the Gods.

I won’t lie, I was a little hesitant to start Yuuki Yuuna. It didn’t scream all that interesting at first glance and the only time of the day that I had time to watch it was at work around others which made me super self conscious of my surroundings. But in the end, I can say that it was a neat show with very pretty visuals that doesn’t ask for much from the viewer nor does it really set out to be this crazy unique original story. Yuuki Yuuna isn’t my first magical girl soldier conscripted into life or death battles under dubious contract circumstances rodeo but that didn’t really bother me because unlike a lot of other post Madoka Magica magical girl animes. Yuuki Yuuna doesn’t do it with malicious intent or for the sake of the edge™️. In fact, it’s almost the opposite. Yuuki Yuuna wants to be a cutesy hanging with the gals slice of life show more than anything, there just happens to be messed up magical girl elements and consequences looming at all times or at least that’s how I viewed it.

Now why did I score it a 6.5 and maybe not something like a 7? It’s because frankly I never felt any real attachment or care towards any of the characters. Most of the run time of the show is spent doing slice of life things with the five girls while they’re not fighting the vertex but I never found any of the girls really all that interesting. Just five playdough characters that are molded into any kind of narrative direction just to make me feel something when needed. But I guess if I were to choose, I found the health nut tsundere girl Karin the most enjoyable and her bloom form was the most cool in my opinion. While I’m still talking about the characters, there was also a weird amount of fanservice/ecchi moments for what are some of the most un-fanserviceable cast of underage characters you can get and I was grossed out everytime the show decided to focus on the girls butts or chests as if catering to an audience I greatly not want to think about.

In conclusion, I thought the show was fine and it had some pretty great reveals that hooked me back in throughout. While enemy designs were whatever, the fight scenes still looked very good and they were a nice visual contrast compared to whenever they were just doing club activities. I’m also not sure how Yuuki Yuuna has like five other season/spinoffs not counting a sequel season that’s a prequel but unlike Mushishi, I’m content stopping at one season and it would take an incredible feat of persuasion to change my mind otherwise.

Blue Submarine No. 6: 7/10

The once famous and well respected scientist Zorndyke has bred a new genre of living being, one that thrives on the oceans and lives to destroy humans. Zorndyke believes it is time that the humans were relieved of their rule of the earth. It is up to Blue Submarine No. 6 and the rest of the Blue fleet to put an end to Zorndyke's madness and creations.

PS1 CGI GRAPHICS PS1 CGI GRAPHICS PS1 CGI GRAPHICS PS1 CGI GRAPHICS PS1 CGI GRAPHICS! Blue Submarine No. 6 is an 1998 adaptation of the 1967 Blue Submarine No. 6 manga that has a little bit of everything. Within four episodes Blue Submarine has human struggles, out of place loud jazz music, sci-fi military submarines, gunboats, mermaid piloted mechs, talking whales, Warhammer goblins and orks, protags having trauma and existential crises, bad looking cg explosions, a girl in a skin tight bodysuit, very nice looking 2D hand drawn animation combined with incredibly dated ps1 cgi graphics, and violence. It’s like you take all these cool ideas and concepts and try to pull them all together into one cool experience. Now this might sound like one big mess of a show but I swear that it’s not, it was actually pretty enjoyable if you get into it.

That said, all the characters are kind of garbage ngl. They feel dated in how their written and some suffer being kinda 1 dimensional (sorry bodysuit girl). Zorndyke’s motives were sketchy at best but the way he’s presented, the presence he alludes, and the way others treat him. He very much reminds me of the character Kurtz in the book Heart of Darkness and I wonder if that was a possible inspiration for his character. Also I wasn’t expecting such cool monster human designs in this show and I felt that when the phantom ship crewmates were on screen I was watching warhammer ork boyz and it was very entertaining. The amount of promotional art of the mermaid humanoid girl made me think she was going to play a huge role in the show but I felt she could’ve done more honestly. She would show up like once or twice an episode for a couple scenes and that’d be it. Finally, the phantom ship has to be one of the coolest fictional ship designs I have seen in a long time.

Future Boy Conan: 8.5/10

July 2008. Mankind was faced with the threat of extinction. An ultra-magnetic weapon, far more devastating than any nuclear weapon known, destroyed half the world in an instant. The earth's crust was rocked by massive movements, the earth was thrown off its axis, and the five continents were torn completely apart and sank deep below the sea... The attempt by a number of people to flee to outer space failed. Their spaceships were forced back to the earth and vanished with their hopes shattered. But one of the spaceships narrowly escaped destruction and crash-landed on a small island which had miraculously survived the devastation. The crew members of the spaceship settled there, as if they were seeds sown on the island. After years, a boy was born. He was a new life in the desert, a ray of light in the darkness of the annihilated earth...

To end off the list, a highly influential but not necessarily highly rated show (during it’s airtime) amongst Japanese audiences in the late 70′s and early 80′s, Future Boy Conan. Though not made by Ghibli, it’s straight out of director Hayao Miyazaki’s animation sweat shop and knowing Miyazaki’s history of overworking his staff, it’s immediately understood that the artists and animators on board for this show were grinded to a pulp making this family friendly post-apocalyptic adventure beast of a story where the themes and story elements can easily be discovered in Miyazaki’s later works. If you know me well you’d know that I don’t like Miyazaki as a person but I admit he’s pretty good when it comes to putting out good anime. There’s a lot to talk about for this show because of how meaty and how much work and progression gets done each episode (each episode is 30 minutes). Out of the entire list of shows that were recommended to me, Conan has the most intensive amount of animation work done with nuanced and weighty animation from the way characters move, to the way character’s collide and interact with objects, and to the way characters traverse their settings. It’s all very visually impressive with a fun story to boot which makes me wish Miyazaki directed more series length shows before solely focusing on movies.

I don’t want to get into every narrative detail about the story because I’d encourage people to stop reading this mini review and go watch the show for themselves but the story is pretty simple and straightforward. Apocalyptic world, one island is nice the other not so nice, boy meets girl, girl meets boy, they really like each other, go to extreme lengths to save the other, some bad guys become good, lots of traveling, got to save super grandpa, you learn more about the world, human consequence and error, main boy is really strong, main girl has telepathy, bad guys want to harness solar power to resurrect world ending weapons from the past, etc. Nothing really extreme and complicated, in fact, it might be too straightforward for its own good. All the major plot points are predictable and expected. Aside from how Conan will get the job done you shouldn’t ever really be surprised how things play out. Like classic Miyazaki, there really isn’t really any narrative edge that hits you out of nowhere to keep things interesting or on your toes. Motives are clear and easy to see. It’s clear that this is a show that can be viewed at a young age while also enjoyed as an adult. And though I wouldn’t classify Future Boy Conan as a romance. The relationship between Conan and Lana is beyond endearing and is cute to witness. Many romance animes of today could learn a thing or two from Conan and Lana.

Personally, I found Captain Dyce while questionably stranger danger at points, stealing the spotlight with his weirdness and comic relief no matter how dire the situation. Aside from Dyce, no one’s character design really stands out and like classic Miyazaki, a grand majority of the characters present within the story are extremely plain and simple looking. You’ll get crowds of people but everyone in the crowd will have the same face and hair which gets a little uncanny to look at. I’d also like to mention that I was surprised at how violent the first half of the story was when it came towards the treatment of Conan and Jimsy. It didn’t shy away from child abuse and making sure Conan and Jimsy got ruffed up by the bad guys and put to work. Future Boy Conan also isn’t the show to watch if you have an intense fear of drowning because for a good portion of the show, they introduce a new terrifying and creative way of drowning almost every other episode either it being crushed under a sinking ship with no air, being lost at sea while hand cuffed arms to legs, somehow hand locked to a submerged anchor, trapped in a rapidly flooding mine, etc.

Finally and I need to stress this, Conan is a freak of nature. That boy may not be the most interesting of protagonists but the herculean level of physical feats he is able to pull off is wild and his insane physical strength though realized by other characters, is never once questioned. No surface too hard to climb, no ledge too narrow to grab onto, no object too heavy, no distance too far to jump or fall. You know they say all men are created equal. But, you at look at Conan and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true! See, normally if you go one-on-one with another wrestler you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But Conan’s a genetic freak, not normal! So you got a twenty five percent at best to beat Conan! And then you add Kurt Angle to the mix? The chances of winning drastically go down. See, the three-way at Sacrifice, you got a thirty three and a third chance of winning. But Conan! He’s got a sixty six and two-thirds chance of winning, cuz Kurt Angle KNOWS he can’t beat him, and he’s not even gonna try. So, Samoa Joe, you take your thirty three and a third chance minus Conan’s twenty five percent chance and you got an eight and a third chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take his 75 perchance-chance of winnin’ and then add sixty six and two thirds…percent's, Conan’s got a one hundred forty one and two-thirds chance of winning at Sacrifice! See Samoa Joe? The numbers don’t lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.

Thanks for reading ^-^

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This month on the podcast, returning guest Dave Merrill will be joining me to talk all about the legendary 70s classic Future Boy Conan! Finally, 43 years after it’s airing in Japan, we’ll be getting this landmark anime on bluray in North America thanks to Gkids. But what exactly is Future Boy Conan, and why should you watch it? We’ll tell you all about it! Got any questions, comments, or topics you’d like to hear us cover on the episode? Leave me a DM, comment, or send an email to [email protected]!

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maxwell-grant · 3 years

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I was gonna put the Spy Kids quote here but then I’d probably get an ask if they or Sharkboy & Lavagirl are pulp heroes.

Okay, jokes aside I can’t put it into words just how much I appreciate the feedback and reception I get from you guys, never in a million years did I think I would ever get the notes I get or the amount of asks I receive. I can’t believe I’m nearing 200 followers as is, that’s insane to me. I am eternally grateful that this place lets me finally put out my essays somewhere people will read them and that you guys actually humor my ramblings, and frankly I don’t think I’m ever going to find an outlet like this elsewhere. Please don’t hesitate to send questions.

But I’m gonna have to start rapid firing a couple of those 50 questions so they don’t pile up more, and for these “Is X a Pulp Hero”, I’m gonna start off by pointing that I made a chart specifically to address this question, to try and at least give the cat I let out of the bag a structure to work with so it doesn’t destroy the furniture (not that it ever stopped my cat). Although again, the chart is just a basic attempt to put this on working order, sometimes it really is just a particular vibe that a character or property gives off.

Anyhow, on a case by case basis:

Santa Claus: Not a pulp hero, waaay older than those, but has appeared in pulp stories (I mean, it’s Santa). There have been pulp stories that featured Santa, there’s a murderous Santa Claus in the canadian pulp Guy Vercheres, the Jimmieboy short stories had him meet Santa, and The Shadow’s killed at least one criminal dressed like Santa as well as posed for a holiday picture with the real one in Edd Cartier’s final drawing before he passed away, which is as official as a crossover could possibly get.

Samurai Jack: Maybe. The most directly pulp thing Genndy Tartakosvky’s done yet is Primal, that is just 100% cartoon pulp, the Conan/Lost World stuff bleeds through the screen. Samurai Jack is kinda near that ballpark but that’s because Samurai Jack has a zillion influences and pop culture references, most of it seems taken straight from comics. Pulp stuff is in there but that’s because pulps run in the blood of everything, and it doesn’t make everything pulp. The whole premise of Samurai Jack is designed for the contrast between an old-fashioned samurai coming to face and adapting to whatever wacky future nonsense and pop culture archetypes Aku’s throwing at him that week because that’s what they felt like doing for the episode. There’s gangsters and Lupin and Star Wars and historical fantasy and robot violence and...shit, it really is pulp, come to think of it. Still not gonna say a definitive Yes to Jack being a Pulp Hero but the vibe is definitely there and maybe that’s all that really counts.

The Belmonts: Maybe. There’s definitely Simon, because Simon is Conan. Julius Belmont also gives off a strong old-school adventurer vibe. The others are a lot more distant but they are definitely a lot closer to that ballpark than most videogame heroes, characters like Richter and Alucard wouldn’t look that out of place fighting monsters next to The Spider or Elric. Again, there’s not many actual connections to pulp properties or periods, but the whole point of Castlevania is that you get to cartwheel through graveyards and whip your way through exploding skeletons and Frankensteins so you can give Dracula a wedgie. So I’m gonna actually say a Yes to this one.

Scrooge McDuck: Yes. He’s in the chart already, and really I probably could have placed him in the True Neutral section considering Scrooge was created in the 1900s-1950s time period and was pretty explicitly modeled after a pulp magazine kind of adventurer.

The Joestars: No. I don’t consider Joseph a Pulp Hero in the first place, it’s really more Battle Tendency having an Indiana Jones globetrotting vibe than Joseph himself, I put the characters in the Radical Pulp Anarchy section as extreme examples to show how far you can conceivably stretch the term based on superficial connections. But I don’t get neither much of a pulp vibe from any of the Jojo parts besides Part 2, and pulp material has never been within Araki’s influences, and I obsessively catalogued all of them in my Jojo phase. You could maybe make an argument for Jonathan since he’s the old-school adventurer of the bunch, and maybe Jotaro since he’s both the wandering warrior type as well as Clint Eastwood in a school uniform, but at this point you gotta separate what’s “genre” and what’s “pulp”, and they can intersect without being the same thing.

Fast and the Furious: No. Pretty hard no, actually. I don’t think there’s even much of an argument there other than I guess they both have a reputation for being trashy low-class entertainment, but that kinda goes for way too many things to ever be placed under an umbrella term. The terms “high class” and “low class” don’t even really see much usage anymore in media discussion, they died and it’s a good thing we killed them.

Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Stratemeyer Syndicate was pretty specifically centered around hardback publications of juvenile adventure series, which means they could not be considered pulp characters in their time despite being from the 1930s, and in fact were pretty specifically defined as being the opposite of the pulp publishers of the period. Still, that distinction hardly matters much once people started talking about serial and radio and comic characters as pulp heroes, and currently a lot of what it takes for a character to be considered a pulp hero is just being from any kind of 1930s fiction. I wouldn’t include them in any listings but, you do you.

Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction: I mean, it’s kinda the big thing you get when you even look up the terms “pulp” or “pulp fiction”, by sheer osmosis it’s replaced the things those terms were created to define in pop culture popularity. It’s been forever since I watched it and I don’t particularly have any interest in watching any Tarantino movie, but I guess the fact that this is a movie with several different stories interconnected on crime drama and doomed love affairs and philosophical hogwash and bantering men of action is very much structured like a typical pulp magazine, which usually consisted on an anthology format that I suspect is what the movie may have been homaging. Either that, or it’s just named Pulp Fiction because it’s sleazy and gorey and shamelessly excessive and those are terms that are very much associated with the pulps, for better or worse.

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70s Anime Retrospective

i've watched about 26 different anime released in the 70s. At its best there were a few TV series that I stuck with for the enjoyment I got out of them. At its worst it was dropped after 1-2 episodes or after 30 minutes of a movie. There was a developed trend that formed thanks to the popularity of a few series and the rest attempted to follow suite, causing 70s anime as a whole to get a bit monotonous and difficult to get through.

The Lists

Completed

By nature of having been completed, anime in this list represents my personal top 10 of everything I watched in the 70s.

Everything will be ordered from most enjoyed to least enjoyed

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

Tomorrow's Joe (Movie)

Future Boy Conan

Rose of Versailles

Lupin III

Aim for the Ace!

Galaxy Express 999

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Lupin III: Lupin vs. Fukusei-ningen

Space Battleship Yamato Series & Movie

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

Miyazaki's first feature film as director!

Beautiful animation & proper Lupin depictions. A great place to start for anyone interested in getting into Lupin III. A classic.

Tomorrow's Joe (Movie)

Thanks to the movie being a condensed version of the TV series, I was able to get passed the notorious prison arc. It's pretty clear within the first few story beats that Joe is a bit of a rascal. The prison arc really exaggerates that character trait to cartoonish levels that will leave you scratching your head. I imagine the manga gets through this arc a lot faster than 20 minutes of "showcase the least amount of original source material" episodes.

Besides that, this is some great storytelling. Many different characters with different motives, priorities, philosophies, and ideas clashing together. An exploration of different types of rivalries through Joe and his different opponents.

Themes of doing your best, handling death, acting for yourself vs acting for other people, doing something out of pure enjoyment rather than for money, full devotion to a craft, and more.

Recognized as one of the top 10 greatest stories of all time in Japan and has influenced many, many stories to come. A favorite amongst the working class and political revolutionaries of the time.

This goes down as one of my favorites of all time. Highly recommend starting with the movie or skipping every other episode through the prison arc.

Future Boy Conan

Cool! Miyazaki makes a TV series! Hands down the best TV series of the 70s. This is mostly credited to the more modern episode count of 26 episodes (roughly equivalent to 2 seasons of anime today). Every episode is impactful and doesn't feel like a waste of time.

The story is a classic anime template of this era.. sci-fi, post nuclear apocalypse, and a fascist/totalitarian/anti-environmentalist group vs. freedom/tree-huggers. Very similar to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.... which makes sense since Miyazaki started writing the manga in 1982 (4 years after directing Conan).

As with pretty much everything Miyazaki has been involved in, the focus is interpersonal relationships and believable characters.

An enjoyable watch.

Rose of Versailles

An neat historical fiction story set during the moments before and the beginning of the French revolution. Gives me slight Legend of the Galactic Heroes vibes with how many characters there are. Sometimes gets hard to follow, but for the most part it's entertaining and considered a classic.

It also has the first bisexual & gender nonconforming icon with Oscar. A woman in the French military during the 1700's?? How does she do it?? Watch it to find out!

Lupin III

What's interesting about this series is that it rated incredibly poorly in japan on release. Apparently it was slightly darker and felt a little too 'realistic' to japanese audiences. The initial director, Masaaki Osumi, was fired for refusing to adapt the source material to appeal to a broader (ie. children's audience). Miyazaki and Isao Takahata were brought in as replacements and eventually the show was cancelled.

Because of this director swap, there is some controversy over which interpretation of Lupin characters is the "correct" one. For me personally, I find the Miyazaki's version more entertaining and enjoyable. There wasn't enough substance to the dark themes to really warrant their use. There's not much to being edgy just to be edgy.

This is absolutely not a TV series you need to watch every episode of, but it's similar to Future Boy Conan in that it has a much lower episode count thanks to its cancellation. You could also skip this entirely and start from Part II.

Aim for the Ace!

This is one of the most popular sports stories of all time and is still ranked within the top 50 best anime productions of all time on many japanese anime/manga polls over the years since it's inception.

This story is responsible for a tennis boom in the 1970s, became the template for many other characters in shoujo anime. The clumsy wallflower with hidden potential, the popular narcissist, and handsome coach with a tragic fate. Sound familiar?

Aim for the Ace has been re-interpreted so many times it became a cliché. One of Gainax's first works, Gunbuster - Aim for the Top!, is a sci-fi/mech parody of the story and one of my favorite works of all time.

This truly is a classic story and a treat to experience. (manga might be better.. up to you)

Galaxy Express 999 (film)

Winning the Japanese Academy Award for most popular film in 1980, Galaxy Express 999 has a unique story from the rest. A 10-year-old's journey to get what he thinks he needs and accompanied by a mysterious woman.

A fun watch! Can feel a little long, but overall an enjoyable experience.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Earth's government got you down? Tired of your incompetent government leaders wasting their time watching horse racing? Do you wish something could be done to stop the aliens from invading? Then join Captain Harlock and his merry band of "pirates" and do the work yourself!

This is yet another influential story created by the same people that made Galaxy Express 999. Robots with human souls, stoic & badass space captain with a cape, and a kid that just wants to go home to mommy only to realize fighting for what's right is better, and more can all be found here.

~50 or so episodes and can feel pretty long at times. Takes a lot of inspiration from Space Battleship Yamato with its own variations.

Not a super necessary watch, but definitely one to remember.

Lupin III: Lupin vs. Fukusei-ningen

Uhh.. I got nothing for this one. Don't watch this unless you are looking for something very, very weird.

Space Battleship Yamato Series & Movie

I'm honestly surprised this is was popular. The lost at space, stoic spaceship captain, macguffin, idiot kid that misguides his sadness from the loss of his brother into hatred towards everyone around him & has a crush on the alien woman tropes all started here.

As the first "anime first, manga later", Yamato is the reason anime became popular in Japan. The series went entirely unnoticed (and i can see why), but the film took off and acquired a cult following because of its more 'serious tone' (think blues clues vs. avatar the last airbender).

Where Masaaki Osumi's Lupin III failed, Yamato succeeded and set the new standard for anime.

It's probably worth a watch of the film if you're an anime history head, but is definitely not a required viewing.

Dropped

Devilman

uh.. this.. umm.. isn't devilman..

Mazinger Z

Go Nagai really only knows how to design one kind of person lmao. clearly the trend setter for super robot anime, but not worth 92 20min episodes.

Cutey Honey

Clearly Go Nagai is the king of anime TV series.. it's too bad the TV series of the 70s are incredibly weak.

One of the OG magical girl stories.

UFO Robo Grendizer

wow chill Nagai

Magnerobo Ga-Keen

the original darling in the franxxx with only slightly less less sexual connotation and a hilariously aloof main character. I bet kids loved this at the time.

Candy Candy

too much of a kid's show for me to watch even 1 episode.. let alone 115 of them.

Remi, the Nobody's Boy

what is it with anime dad's being assholes? At least Remi's new musician dad seems okay. This is probably good to watch if you're very young and need to learn the basics of morality. apparently this is more popular in other areas across the globe outside of Japan.

Cyborg 009

suffers from "too many episodes" disease. definitely inspired megaman and animation quality is pretty good compared to the other tv series. probably better off reading the manga instead.

Doraemon

Probably somwhere in the top 5 longest running anime of all time with 1787 episodes. Very, very much so a show for kids. it's pretty cute and very popular... but wow yeah no thanks.

Couldn't Find :'(

Tiger Mask

ughhh really wanted to watch this.. sports anime... king from tekken... wrestling... pls...

The Dark Red Eleven

Another sports anime about soccer :'(

Machine Hayabusa

Wow.. this is virtually unknown in the west. Doesn't even have an english wikipedia page. basically this is speed racer

Go For It! Genki

Cute kid kicking ass

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BOOKS

The last 10 books I’ve read:

1. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy This is a super quick read. It’s a nice simple book with some beautiful imagery to go along with it. It has a bit of a similar feel to, “The Little Prince” and “The Alchemist”. If you like those you might like this.

2. Friday’s at Enrico’s - Don Carpenter I loved Carpenter’s book, “Hard Rain Falling” so I was pretty excited to find this one at my local used bookstore. It’s also incredibly well written but I just didn’t really care about the story. It’s about a group of young wannabe writers on the west coast and their success, failures and many, many affairs. They all drink a lot and then eventually stumble into varying amounts of success in a myriad of ways. Again, it’s well written but not something I’d eagerly recommend.

3. Yearbook - Seth Rogen My wife and I listened to an episode of Conan O’Brien’s podcast with Seth Rogen. She’s a big fan of Seth Rogen and I’m a big fan of Conan so it worked out well. At the start of the show I had no interest in a book by Seth Rogen, but by the end I was eager to read it. I bought it for my wife for her birthday and we brought it camping taking turns reading it when the other person was doing something else. It’s not an amazing book but it does have some very funny stories in it and it’s a very easy read. Seth grew up in Vancouver as well so it was nice to have a bit of an extra connection/understanding to his description of his childhood and his neighbourhood. All in all, a fun little book.

4. The Procession - Khalil Gibran I got this at my favourite local used bookstore after only ever reading The Prophet by Gibran. This is kind of a prelude to that book. It also has about a 20 page intro to the poems all about who Gibran was, his family and how he grew up. It’s a pretty sad tale and his poetry, it seems, was deeper for it.

5. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut Another book by Vonnegut! The list seems to be never ending. I thoroughly enjoyed the last few chapters of this book but the first 3/4’s dragged a bit. It’s set in a (very possible) future where machines do all the blue collar jobs - and then some. Society then decides that the engineers and scientists and people with high IQ’s are worthy of an upscale life and the town is then split in two: the intelligent, or, useful and the stupid, or useless. There are some great moments and conversations throughout the book but it feels like it could’ve been shorter overall. Still good. Still Vonnegut.

6. The Last Interview and Other Conversations - David Foster Wallace I believe this is a series, the “Last Interview” with so-and-so, etc. This was my first time reading something from the series. I’d been finding it hard to carve out reading time and noticed that a) this was a very short book and b) nothing I’d read of David Foster Wallace’s books was ever short but I’ve always enjoyed them. So I picked it up and pecked away at it when I could. He was a very articulate guy and, as I’ve said before, I’m a sucker for good articulation. It wasn’t the most amazing book ever but it helped hold me over until I was able to get back into reading more regularly.

7. Look At The Birdie - Kurt Vonnegut Yes, yes. Two books by the same author on the same list. It’s happened before (I think with Haruki Murakami) but doesn’t happen all that often. I usually try to pick books different from one another. Or I pick up a book from any number of the “to-read” piles scattered around my music cave. This one caught my eye because it’s a book of short stories and I had no idea Vonnegut had any short stories. I excitedly dove in. They’re classic Vonnegut stories: dark, funny, twisted, weird. All in all I enjoyed it and if you’re a fan of his, give it a read. You’ll probably enjoy it too.

8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino I’m a fan of some of Quentin Tarantino’s work. I loved Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1 and 2 and Django Unchained. Other stuff of his can be entertaining but it’s not always something I enjoy. While driving on a recent tour I was listening to a podcast and he was being interviewed. They talked about this book. I’d seen the movie and not loved it. I have no affiliation with Hollywood, let alone Hollywood in the sixties. I wasn’t around for Manson or the family. I didn’t get the references. It just didn’t scratch anyplace I itched. But in the interview they discussed how separate the book is from the movie and how it gives you a bunch of background on the character’s that the movie doesn’t. So I picked it up and read it on the road. It’s not bad but, again, it’s just not something I’m super interested in. If you liked the movie you’ll probably dig the book. If, like me, it was kind of lost on you then the book will most likely fall pretty flat too.

9. Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman This book was written in 1986. It is a fantastic read about the differences between the print based culture of the past and a television (or, technology) based culture of the present/future. But it’s not just about the differences it’s mainly about the dangers of a technology based culture. How dumbed down we’ve become. How, in the future, (again, this was written in ‘86) our vernacular, our attention spans and our willingness and ability to engage in meaningful, insightful debate/dialogue will all but disappear. He argues that Huxley’s vision of the future in, “Brave New World” was disturbingly more accurate than Orwell’s version in, “1984″. The idea being that we won’t need to burn the books because, thanks to our addiction to being distracted, there won’t be anyone around to read the books. There won’t be some Big Brother imposed upon us dictating what we say, how we say it or, even, what we’re allowed to think, we’ll be our own Big Brother. How easy it will be to control the populations opinions with meaningless small simple pleasures. It was pretty crazy how accurate a lot of what he had to say was. My main problem with the book is Postman’s very obvious religious bias and how often he brings it up. In those moments of self-righteous rants he often lost me. But the bulk of this book is well worth the read.

10. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion This might’ve been my favourite of the last ten books I’ve read. I’d read a few other books by Joan Didion but even though I enjoyed them, I hadn’t been really blown away. This book changed that. She wrote this book shortly after her husband of forty years died and her daughter was in and out of hospitals also very close to death. It’s an amazing observation of grief and mourning and marriage and parenthood. It just so happens that the day before I started reading it a friend of mine passed away very unexpectedly and I genuinely think this book helped me begin to process that loss in a meaningful way. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone who’s ever lost somebody. more soon, -joshua

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in the second month of the year 20xx, im merely testing the limits of ao3s inaction

Words: 40, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

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Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Kim Dokja, Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung, Yoo Sangah, Jung Heewon, lee hyungsung, Lee Jihye, Lee Seolhwa, Jang Hayoung, Kim Namwoon, Biyoo, Bihyung, Uriel, Prisoner of the Golden Headband | Sun Wukong, Secretive Plotter (Omniscient Reader)

Relationships: Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja, Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung/Yoo Sangah, Han Sooyoung/Jung Heewon, Anna Croft/Han Sooyoung, Kim Dokja/Sung Jin-Woo, Kim Dokja/Yoo Sangah, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou, Adora/Catra (She-Ra), Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Additional Tags: im trying to prove a point, There are three ways to survive in a ruined world., now, I have forgotten a few, but one thing is certain., The fact that you who are reading this now will survive., -Three ways to survive in a ruined world, Prologue – There are three ways to survive in a ruined world., Episode 1 – Starting the Paid Service (1), “I’m Dokja.”, (translater note: Dokja can me only son or reader)., I usually introduced myself to people like this, then the following misunderstanding would occur., Chapter 2: Episode 1 – Starting the Paid Service (2), Dokkaebi., The first time he appeared, someone said so., Chapter 3: Episode 1 - Starting the Paid Service (3), People reacted differently after the dokkaebi disappeared., Some people tried to get out of the train while others called the police., Chapter 4: Episode 1 - Starting the Paid Service (4), Laughter emerged., I had to clear my eyes and look again to see if it was a lie., The file extension was TXT., Then this person…, The gift they sent me was a copy of their novel?, Chapter 5: Episode 1 - Starting the Paid Service (5), People panicked as they saw the insects running around the carriage., Chapter 6: Episode 2 – Protagonist (1), The subway stopped around halfway past Dongho Bridge., Chaptr 7: Episode 2 – Protagonist (2), [Sponsor Selection has ended.], Chapter 8: Episode 2 – Protagonist (3), I stared straight into Lee Hyunsung and Han Myungoh’s eyes and said., “Do you want to die from that guy beyond the iron door, or do you want to try your luck outside the train?, Which one will you choose?”, Episode 2 – Protagonist (4), at this moment, Yoo Sangah shouted., “Dokja-ssi! Behind you!”, Episode 2 – Protagonist (5), It would be quite a ludicrous sight if anyone else saw it., A large adult man was being grabbed by the neck and hanging like a monkey., Episode 3 – Contract (1), My body suddenly became heavy as I felt water entering my lungs., Then I was sucked in somewhere., I wasn’t torn apart because I fell with perfect timing., however, I couldn’t lose consciousness here., Episode 3 – Contract (2), Star Stream system., The star stream broadcasting was designed to relay its contents to the entire universe., Episode 3 – Contract (3), Looking at the situation, I got a sense of what happened., Episode 3 – Contract (4), I didn’t know how much time passed., My breathing was often interrupted, and all my muscles were so stiff, that I could barely move them., Episode 4 – Line of Hypocrisy (1), A meteor shower was pouring down in the starry sky., It was a sight that anyone would admire, but not Yoo Joonghyuk., Episode 4 – Line of Hypocrisy (2), I often thought about it., Episode 4 – Line of Hypocrisy (3), Despite the interference of Cheon Inho, the constellations didn’t ask for a bounty scenario., in other words, it wasn’t the best time to deal with him., Episode 4 – Line of Hypocrisy (4), the next morning, I was almost out of supplies., Jung Heewon stared at the convenience store bags, as if she couldn’t believe it., Episode 5 – Shadow Keeper (1), [T-Then I will let everyone take care of it! Yihihihit!], The dokkaebi said these words and disappeared., Episode 5 – Shadow Keeper (2), The party fought well., It was actually a little bit surprising., in particular, Lee Hyunsung and Jung Heewon, who stepped forward with me were very influential., Episode 5 – Shadow Keeper (3), “Hyung! This…”, Right after Lee Gilyoung discovered the treasure box, I blocked his little mouth., “Shh, wait.”, Episode 5 – Shadow Keeper (4), Maybe we would’ve fought for a long time., [The exclusive skill ‘Bookmark’ can now be activated.], [The number two bookmark has been activated.], [The level of the Bookmark skill is low, shortening the activation time.], [Activation Time: One minute.], Episode 6 – Judgment Time (1), The limited random items box., According to the setting of Ways of Survival, this was a coin item that was sold as a limited edition in a past ‘scenario.’, Episode 6 – Judgment Time (2), Just as I was about to open my mouth, I heard Cheon Inho’s voice., “Oh, Dokja-ssi! You came just in time.”, Episode 6 – Judgment Time (3), The following morning, there were a few changes to Gumho Station., first of all, Han Myungoh had disappeared., Episode 6 – Judgment Time (4), A few minutes later, I once again entered Dongdae Station, and ate a ground rat., It was in order to heal, the skin contaminated by the poisonous fog., Episode 7 – Landlord (1), We followed Lee Jihye and entered Chungmuro., Yoo Sangah saw the shattered screen door of the platform and said., “…It is a chaotic atmosphere.”, Episode 7 – Landlord (2), The 10 Evils., The list and rankings were often changed, according to Yoo Joonghyuk’s regression cycle, but they were the 10 people in charge of being the main villains, in this world of Ways of Survival, Episode 7 – Landlord (3), Yoo Joonghyuk was looking at everyone except for Lee Hyunsung., The three remaining people were standing together, and I couldn’t figure out exactly who Yoo Joonghyuk was looking at, 「…How is this possible? 」, Episode 7 – Landlord (4), After the dokkaebi disappeared ×dozens of casualties appeared on the platform of line 3., Episode 7 – Landlord (5), As I watched the surging wave of monsters, I gave strength to my thighs., The level 15 strength condensed at once, and my feet developed a strong propulsion force., Episode 8 – Emergency Defense (1), 「 Lee Hyunsung was dozing like an officer on duty, 」 - Freeform, Episode 8 – Emergency Defense (2), It was finally the promised time., I gathered on the line 3 platform with the party., Every member was checking their weapons., Lee Hyunsung seemed to have handled it properly., Episode 8 – Emergency Defense (3), I couldn’t kill Gong Pildu because he was useful in future scenarios, but I needed Gong Pildu to leave his land., Episode 8 – Emergency Defense (4), One hour after the battle began, Gong Pildu fought and fought., The number of monsters had barely decreased but it was still great., Gong Pildu was considered to have the strongest defense among the 10 Evils for a reason., Episode 9 – Omniscient Sunfish (1), After a while, we moved towards the entrance, of the ‘hidden dungeon’ on the first underground floor., I walked behind Lee Jihye, Lee Gilyoung and Jung Heewon while looking at my smartphone., Episode 9 – Omniscient Sunfish (2), The moment the yellow eyes looked at us, a deafening roar echoed in our ears., Episode 9 – Omniscient Sunfish (3), [The constellation Secretive Plotter is curious about your scam.], [The constellations have sponsored you 200 coins.], Episode 9 – Omniscient Sunfish (4), unfortunately, Yoo Joonghyuk wasn’t on the sixth floor., Episode 9 – Omniscient Sunfish (5), The cold sensation numbed my fingers., dammit, I really wanted to beat this guy up., but..., There was something strange., Episode 9 – Omniscient Sunfish (6), “What?”, 「 What are you…? 」, Episode 10 – Future War (1), [Main Scenario #3 – Emergency Defense has ended.], [You have obtained 1, 000 coins as compensation.], Episode 10 – Future War (2), As soon as my hand wrapped around the flag, I felt a strong energy rising in my body., originally, this was something the third turn Yoo Jonghyuk should have but…, it didn’t matter., Episode 10 – Future War (3), …It hadn’t been long since the scenario began and already?, Episode 10 – Future War (4), “Push through to the flag holder!”, Episode 10 – Future War (5), After coming down from the theater, I headed straight to Myeongdong Station with Lee Hyunsung and Yoo Sangah., Dongmyo Station was important but there was something to be done first., Episode 10 – Future War (6), It wasn’t an illusion., The guy’s eyes instantly widened when he heard my name., Episode 10 – Future War (7), the internet - Freeform, it wasn’t possible., Episode 11 – Night of the Prophets (4), “The 9th person to get off.., it is the first time I’ve heard of this attribute.”, Episode 11 – Night of the Prophets (2), “A prophet like us?”

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Thank you for the tag @sunflowervol6-hslwt !

MUSIC

fav genre? Indie, classical, modern grunge/indie rock.

fav artist? Wilbur Soot, Lovejoy, Clairo, Cavetown, Lemon Demon, AJR, Mother Mother, Tally Hall, Mitski, mxmtoon, Bo Burnham.

fav song? The whole Lovejoy EP.

most listened song recently? Lovejoy (EP), Violent by carolesdaughter, Arms Tonite by Mother Mother, Loverboy by A-Wall.

song currently stuck in your head? Arms Tonite by mother mother.

5 fav lyrics?

I've been scared of sleeping with the lights on / Know she's not there, I know she's going to his flat // A Capricorn, oh, fuck that They say sex sells, I know that.

One day, I know that you will be there / One day, I'll focus on the future Maybe / one day, oh, baby, isn't life so fucking inconsistent?

Wasting your time / Wasting mine / Hard to see you go / A fate worse than dying // Your city gave me asthma / That’s why I’m f**king leaving / The water gave me cancer / And the asphalt hurt my feelings.

Don't mess with me I'm a big boy now and I'm very scary / I punch my walls, stay out at night, and I do karate / Don't message me cause I won't reply, I wanna make you cry // Ain't that how its s'posed to be? Though it isn't me / Boys will be bugs right?

Do you feel me? Take a look inside my brain / The people always different but it always feels the same / That's the real me, pop the champagne / The haters wanna hurt me and I'm laughin' at the pain // They give so much to me, I'm losing touch, get me? / Served on a silver platter, ask for seconds, they just let me

BOOKS

fav book genre? Mystery, YA, Horror.

fav writer? Lemony Snicket, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde.

fav book series? A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

comfort book? None/Any!

perfect book to read on a rainy day? Any book from the Series of Unfortunate Events.

fav characters? Henry Winter, Sherlock Holmes, Klaus Baudelaire, Violet Baudelaire.

5 quotes from your fav books that you know by heart?

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes.

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”- Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923.

“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.” - Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923.

“For Beatrice - I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.” - Lemony Snicket, The End.

“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.” -Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters.

TV AND MOVIES

fav tv/movie genre? Mystery, horror, YA.

fav movie? IT: Chapter 1.

comfort movie? None!

movie you watch every year? I can’t think of any right now!

fav tv show? Sherlock.

most rewatched tv show? I haven’t rewatched any show!

ultimate otp? None!

5 fav characters? Charlie Dalton, Richie Tozier, Sherlock, Sheldon Cooper, The professor (Money Heist).

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When is Dr. STONE Season 3 release date ?

Since March 25, 2021, Dr. Stone season 3 is confirmed. It will be released soon! A special episode called Dr. Stone: Ryusui will be released in July 2022, just before the new season premieres. This special episode will first be released in Japan, and then internationally. Dr. Stone, an anime based on the manga of same name, has won millions of hearts around the world thanks to its unique storyline. The story is set in the future, approximately 10,000 years after the events. It takes place at a time where everyone has become stone. Senku, a young, intelligent boy, is able to resurrect himself. Soon, his best friend Taiju is also resurrected. They must now work together to discover why the human race is turning into stone. They must also find a way for everyone to be brought back to life, while simultaneously facing many other challenges. You will want to learn everything about Dr. Stone season 3 if you enjoyed the first two seasons. Continue reading to learn the most recent updates. Dr. Stone Season 3 Release Date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwXlDyPTqW0&ab_channel=WTNAnime Dr Stone Season 3 Release Date By WTNAnime Season 3 will be available in 2023. This was confirmed at Jump Festa 2022, December 2021. The exact date and month are still to be confirmed. Dr. Stone Season 3 Release Date We believe that the third season will air in spring 2023. It will premiere first on Tokyo MX, and then BS11 in Japan. It will then premiere on Crunchyroll, FUNimation, and after a few months. Dr. Stone season 3 won't be the final episode of the series, as much of the manga content will be preserved. Fans can also expect season 4 of Dr. Stone in the future. Voice Cast for Dr. Stone Season 3 For Dr. Stone season 3, the same voice cast will return in both English and Japanese, along with some new faces. Japanese viewers will hear Yusuke Kbayashi, Makoto Furukawa and Gen Sato. The English version will feature Aaron Dismuke and Ricco Fajardo as well as Felecia Angelle, Brittany Lauda, Brandon McInnis, Felecia Angelle and Brittany Lauda. The names of the new voice cast members are still unknown to us. We will soon share their names with you once we know them. Teasers and Trailers for Season 3 of Dr. Stone Just after the conclusion of season 2, Dr. Stone released its first teaser trailer for its third season. Although it did not reveal many details to viewers, it was the exact confirmation that fans needed for their favorite anime's return. In December 2021, fans were presented with another trailer. Two announcements were made by this trailer. The first announcement concerns the 2022 release of the special episode. The other announcement concerns Dr. Stone season 3, which will be released in 2023. These announcements are accompanied by a few glimpses into what you can expect from the next season of Dr. Stone. But this isn’t the end! We believe there will be another trailer released just a few hours before the season airs. The trailer will reveal the official release date and provide glimpses of the third season for fans to see so they know what to expect. TMS Entertainment, or any other company involved in the production of Dr. STONE Season 3, has not confirmed the exact release date as of the last update. The production of a second Dr. STONE sequel is however confirmed. This article will be updated once the news has been confirmed. It's possible to speculate as to when Dr. STONE Season 3 will premiere. Blu-Ray/DVD sales are no longer the main factor in an anime's financial success. The first season sold only 628 copies its first week. Instead, the anime industry is focused on creating good streaming revenue through being popular on Crunchyroll (which will merge in 2021). TMS Entertainment is well-known for producing multiple seasons of anime series. They created some notables for their 2021 production schedule including Megalobox Season 2 Nomad, Detective Conan movie 24, Fruits Basket Season 3 Don't Toy With Me and Miss Nagatoro. They're confirmed to be making Fruits Basket: Prelude and Yowamushi Pedal Season 5 in 2022. They are also working on the Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 anime. Beyblade Strive Series, and Shenmue adaptations are also in development. However, the premiere times have not been announced. Production of the second season of Miss Nagatoro's anime series, Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, is confirmed. TMS Entertainment produced Nagatoro's original season. However, an animator says they will be working on the Tower of God Season 2 anime. The first ToG season was created by Telecom Animation Film, a subsidiary of TMS. TMS will be busy in 2022 with a full schedule. In the best case scenario, Dr. STONE Season 3 will release in early 2023. Dr. STONE manga ending in 2022 The Dr. STONE manga is the basis for the story of the anime series. It was written by Riichiro (Eyeshield 21), and illustrated by Boichi (Sun Ken Rock). The manga series was in 12 million copies as of February 25, 2022. It is fascinating to see how these two creators collaborate. Boichi-San doesn't speak Japanese at all, being Korean. However, he chose to be a "foreign mangaka" who can draw mangas that Japanese readers would enjoy reading. Weekly Shonen Jump, March 2017. The series was started in March 2017. Volume 24 was published on March 4, 2022. A new volume is usually released every fourth day of January/February/April, July, September and December. Viz Media North America is publishing the official English Dr.STONE manga. The official English translation of Dr. STONE was published in North America by Viz Media on February 1, 2022. Volume 21 is already available. Volume 22 will be published on May 3, 2022. English-only manga readers have the option to jump directly to Viz Media's website. For all their translated series, they provide the first three chapters as well as the three most recent chapters for free. Warning! The following paragraphs may contain spoilers In November 2019, manga creators discussed plans for Dr. STONE's end. Inagaki said to Anime News Network that he was not sure how long he would like Dr. STONE for. "So far as the ending, I'm not sure. That's not necessarily about how the story ends." Although we have an idea of the ending, Inagaki stated that it is not always clear. "I thought I would write one storyline, but I ended up writing ten. Then I wrote something that I thought would take five. It's hard to know because it's a moving target. Boichi stated that he would "love to see Dr. STONE run as long and as possible." Jokingly, he claimed that he would like Dr. STONE to run as long as possible. Inagaki stated that he isn't looking to be "greedy", and that he will "never extend it just for the sake" of business. Because of my work with Eyeshield 21, I'm making a statement that it is longer than necessary for business reasons. Many people suggested that the editors might have made the story longer online, but it was actually how I intended to tell the story." Inagaki said. "There was also Muratasensei's wish there. This is why I doubled down on the guarantee that I would not overstay a story. Inagaki had hoped to end Dr. STONE within three years. This would have been Fall 2022. In February 2022 Weekly Shonen Jump issue 12, 2022, announced that Dr. STONE's climax would now be published in two chapters on March 7, 20,22. Weekly Shonen Jump announced in September 2021 that Dr. STONE's final story arc had started. For the 44th issue, which came out on October 4, 20,21, the creators took a break from research. The creators have previously discussed their story arc plans. During Anime NYC 2019, a fan inquired if Senku would visit New York City. Inagaki said that Senku was now caught up in the island business, but still wants to visit South America if he has a good reason." Inagaki's comment is a bit of a misunderstanding. At the time, the manga was in the Treasure Island story arc. This will be the main focus of Dr. STONE Season 3. The manga had Senku and his crew from the Kingdom of Science travelling to North and South America in 2020 and 2021. However, those chapters will be adapt by Dr. STONE Season 4 or beyond. Senku has high hopes without giving away too much. Senku has good reasons to travel the world. It will take him a lot of time and more chapters to achieve his ultimate goal. The climax of this story will occur when Senku is up there. The Japanese narrative uses a four-act structure called Kishotenketsu. - Ki : Introduction - Sho: Development - Ten : Twist (complication). - Ketsu : Conclusion (reconciliation) The Twist phase is when the story takes a surprising turn and contains the yama (or climax) of the story. The development phase was completed by September 2021. Senku had already achieved many of his scientific goals. Dr. Stone Chapter 228 revealed the identity, motivation, and nature of Why-Man, the main antagonist, in the first week of February 2022. The villain will make his debut in Dr. STONE Season 3 (see the spoilers section for more information). Let's hope that the Dr. STONE manga's end exceeds our expectations, and shoots for a moon! The Dr. STONE anime is an adaptation of a manga series. There are some modifications. TMS Entertainment has condensed the storyline and edited the dialogue, but otherwise, it is faithful to the original material. Manga Chapter 1's most prominent skipped scene features former President Donald Trump in a montage with various people turning to stones. TMS Entertainment opted not to include the scene. This is too bad, as they would have had to cast a real Trump with spoken lines. The anime's first season averaged 2.5 chapters per episode in terms of pacing. The Stone Wars anime adaptation continued the story in Volume 7: Chapter 60. The second season of the anime slowed down its pace, which allowed for tension to build. The majority of episodes were adapted from two chapters. Dr. STONE Season 2 Episode 10 was adapted slightly more than three chapters. The anime missed an opportunity to tell the side story of the Dr. STONE reboot: Byakuya manga. Since Episode 24 was all about Byakuya, the side story would have been a perfect fit for the second season. It also had nine chapters, making it ideal for two episodes. This would have made the second season's total of 13 episodes. The finale of Dr. STONE Season 2 Episode 11 was a great ending. It ended in Volume 10 Chapter 83. It's the perfect stop point, since Chapters 83 & 84 depict the aftermath of Stone Wars. Chapter 82 ends with Dr. STONE Season 3. The manga's third saga is 56 chapters long. The third season will be the same length as the first. This is based on the previous pacing of the anime and allows for 23 episodes in just two cours. Dr. STONE Season 3 will see the Kingdom of Science set sail on the high seas to Treasure Island, where an unknown enemy awaits. Photo credit: Boichi Dr. STONE Season 3 anime TV spoilers. (plot summary/synopsis) Last time we saw the anime, the Tsukasa Empire merged with Kingdom of Science. Tsukasa is literally frozen to save his life. Senku is currently trying to find the source of the mysterious petrification radiation that hit the Earth 3700 years ago. To do that, Senku must travel to the other side. Senku, who isn't a naval architect engineer, turns to the people from Ishigami Village to get boat ideas. They are a people who have been living on the water for generations. Magma hopes to win the contest by coming up with a better boat idea than Senku. Magma's idea of using woven straw to sail is practical, but Senku wins with a hybrid design that creates a 18th-century-style sailing ship with a motor. Gen's mentalist mind games make it seem like the people made the right choice and they feel even closer to one another. Senku is looking for a worthy vessel and a captain. Reporter asks him to help him find someone who has a "sailing capability of ten million". Ryusui Nanami is found by Reporter, an "extravagant brat", who was raised in a wealthy family and built a sailing ship with his "pocket money" while he was in Junior high. Ryusui Nanami is a very interesting character. He is a skilled sailboat captain and can quickly understand their situation. Once he realizes the past owners of the world have vanished, he is quick to declare that he will take on the whole world as the "world's most greedy man". Photo credit: Boichi Ryusui, once resurrected, is quick to absorb the material and recognizes its technical limitations. They can't use coal to power the boat's motor so they will be using oil, the "king" of resources. Ryusui wants the right to all oil found in return for his services. What will it take to get the oil from Ryusui? The Drago paper currency was invented! So, a mere second after being revived, a millionaire is created. It's still a fiat currency, based on the trust that it will become more valuable in future. Senku is clever and recognizes this fact. All it takes to rock the currency boat is a mere myth. It's not an easy task to find the oil, since Mt. The 3,700 year period saw the eruption of Fuji, which had changed the landscape. Senku builds a fleet from spun cloth and a loom made of hot air balloons. Senku Department Story can now sell high-end fashion at crazy prices by creating a loom. Gen tricks Ryusui to pay for the privilege of piloting the first hot-air balloons. With their tricks, Senku and Gen end-up acquiring literally piles upon piles of Dragos. Senku, Ryusui and Chrome travel the high seas of air barely surviving storms. To find the Sagara oilfield to the west, in Japan, they begin to create a new map. Because they know they need long-lasting food such as bread to survive the long journey ahead, they jumpstart an industry for agriculture. Ryusui and Senku instantly want to revive a professional chef. Ryusui insists that they revive Francois, a female butler who has the ability to make bread that lasts for 10 months. They had all the inventions they needed and set off for the oil fields. However, they were shocked to find a strong rhythmic radio signal using their communication frequency. It turns out that the pulse is morse code, which repeats the same thing repeatedly: "Why Why Why?" "Are your mastermind?" "After 3,700 years, it's time to stop waiting," Senku said to Whyman on the radio. Photo credit: Boichi This shocking radio call could indicate that there is another group of human survivors out there. Senku believes that this "Whyman" could be the enemy responsible to the Petrification. The radio signal suddenly stopped shortly after Senku had taunted Whyman. Senku develops sonar and radar to track the "invisible enemy" of humanity. Chrome then figured out how to make it a metal detector that can be used for iron mining. The Perseus, a motorized sailboat, is now complete after all the hard work. They will be sailing to Treasure Island, where they will encounter an enemy who wields a petrification weapon as a weapon. TMS Entertainment, or any other company involved in the production of Dr. STONE Season 3, has not confirmed the exact release date as of the last update. The production of a second Dr. STONE sequel is however confirmed. This article will be updated once the news has been confirmed. It's possible to speculate as to when Dr. STONE Season 3 will premiere. Blu-Ray/DVD sales are no longer the main factor in an anime's financial success. The first season sold only 628 copies its first week. Instead, the anime industry is focused on creating good streaming revenue through being popular on Crunchyroll (which will merge in 2021). TMS Entertainment is well-known for producing multiple seasons of anime series. They created some notables for their 2021 production schedule including Megalobox Season 2 Nomad, Detective Conan movie 24, Fruits Basket Season 3 Don't Toy With Me and Miss Nagatoro. They're confirmed to be making Fruits Basket: Prelude and Yowamushi Pedal Season 5 in 2022. They are also working on the Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 anime. Beyblade Strive Series, and Shenmue adaptations are also in development. However, the premiere times have not been announced. Production of the second season of Miss Nagatoro's anime series, Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, is confirmed. TMS Entertainment produced Nagatoro's original season. However, an animator says they will be working on the Tower of God Season 2 anime. The first ToG season was created by Telecom Animation Film, a subsidiary of TMS. TMS will be busy in 2022 with a full schedule. In the best case scenario, Dr. STONE Season 3 will release in early 2023. Dr. STONE manga ending in 2022 The Dr. STONE manga is the basis for the story of the anime series. It was written by Riichiro (Eyeshield 21), and illustrated by Boichi (Sun Ken Rock). The manga series was in 12 million copies as of February 25, 2022. It is fascinating to see how these two creators collaborate. Boichi-San doesn't speak Japanese at all, being Korean. However, he chose to be a "foreign mangaka" who can draw mangas that Japanese readers would enjoy reading. Weekly Shonen Jump, March 2017. The series was started in March 2017. Volume 24 was published on March 4, 2022. A new volume is usually released every fourth day of January/February/April, July, September and December. Viz Media North America is publishing the official English Dr.STONE manga. The official English translation of Dr. STONE was published in North America by Viz Media on February 1, 2022. Volume 21 is already available. Volume 22 will be published on May 3, 2022. English-only manga readers have the option to jump directly to Viz Media's website. For all their translated series, they provide the first three chapters as well as the three most recent chapters for free. Warning! The following paragraphs may contain spoilers In November 2019, manga creators discussed plans for Dr. STONE's end. Inagaki said to Anime News Network that he was not sure how long he would like Dr. STONE for. "So far as the ending, I'm not sure. That's not necessarily about how the story ends." Although we have an idea of the ending, Inagaki stated that it is not always clear. "I thought I would write one storyline, but I ended up writing ten. Then I wrote something that I thought would take five. It's difficult to know because it's a moving target. Boichi stated that he would "love to see Dr. STONE run as long and as possible". Jokingly, he claimed that he would like Dr. STONE to run as long as possible. Inagaki stated that he isn't looking to be "greedy", and he will "never extend it just for the sake" of business. Because of my work with Eyeshield 21, I'm making a statement that it is longer than necessary for business reasons. Many people suggested that the editors might have made the story longer online, but it was actually how I intended to tell the story." Inagaki said. "There was also Muratasensei's wish there. This is why I doubled down on the guarantee that I would not overstay a story. Inagaki had hoped to end Dr. STONE within three years. This would have been Fall 2022. In February 2022 Weekly Shonen Jump issue 12, 2022, announced that Dr. STONE's climax would now be published in two chapters on March 7, 20,22. Weekly Shonen Jump announced in September 2021 that Dr. STONE's final story arc had started. For the 44th issue, which came out on October 4, 20,21, the creators took a break from research. The creators have previously discussed their story arc plans. During Anime NYC 2019, a fan inquired if Senku would visit New York City. Inagaki said that Senku was now caught up in the island business, but still wants to visit South America if he has a good reason." Inagaki's comment is a bit of a misunderstanding. At the time, the manga was in the Treasure Island story arc. This will be the main focus of Dr. STONE Season 3. The Read the full article

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