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Majokko Carnival

So far on this blog I've covered several titles already that didn't last very long, and there are many more in that vein I plan to cover later. The magical girl genre is quite flexible, so longevity isn't inherently an indicator of quality. You could even, say, compile a bunch of shorter magical girl works into one publication. And on that note, today I want to look at one of the only anthologies of magical girl manga I've been able to find.

Majokko Carnival is a manga anthology published by Rapport Comics on April 20, 1991. It contains 16 standalone chapters by as many different artists, all centering witchy or otherwise magical girl protagonists.

Rapport has a really interesting history unto itself, but that's largely outside the scope of this blog. To give you the short version, they started out as an event planning company before pivoting to anime merchandise, originally distributed through mail order before eventually establishing their own storefront. They went defunct in 2003 and now seem to be best remembered for their manga anthologies, such as this one, as well as their manga magazine Fanroad, which was first published in 1980.

I haven't gotten to read this anthology for myself, nor have I been able to find much information about the stories contained within it, but I have found a listing of all 16 chapters and authors, so I'd like to go through what little I know of them one at a time. Note that I had to rely heavily on machine translation in order to make sense of this list, so apologies if some of these names are presented incorrectly.

Majokko Pomuru by Tsukasa-sei Takasaki

The manga whose protagonist is featured on the front cover. I wasn't able to find any synopsis of the plot but it was included on a list of magical gender bender manga in which male protagonists become magical girls, so make of that what you will. Tsukasa-sei Takasaki (who I've also seen referred to as Shiro Takasaki) is a doujinshi artist who seems to have mostly been active in the 90s and published at least one other work through Rapport.

Catty Black by Omoi Ataru

This is actually the first chapter, but for whatever reason the list linked above flipped the order of the first two. I haven't been able to find a plot synopsis for this one either, but the pictures I've found from it seem to present a slice-of-life comedy about a catgirl witch. The artist, Omoi Ataru, mostly worked in smaller scale manga, including some doujinshi, and she has more recently pivoted to doll customization.

Trouble Maker by Hirano Ramu

I haven't been able to track down plot details or even images for this one (or the next few) and the author is pretty elusive too. The only other work of theirs was published sometime between 1989 and 1992, all of it somehow more obscure than Majokko Carnival.

Hirune by ○Mikan

Hirune is the Japanese word for nap. This is the first installment of a series called Sora no Majo (or Witch of the Sky) which would continue publication in Fanroad until 1994. The artist has gone by a number of names over the years and is still active on Pixiv, having pivoted to hentai. ...'Kay.

Majo Monogatari by Tawashi

The title translates to Witch Story. Tawashi (who I've also seen referred to as Tsukako) is a part time manga artist who also works as a nurse, and has even written a manga called Nurse Story, published by Rapport in 1993. She's written about witches a couple other times, but sadly I haven't been able to find any information about any of them, including this one.

Manatsu no Yozora ni Zebra ga Tobu! by Hibino Mariya

The title approximately translates to The Zebra Flies in the Midsummer Night Sky. I would love to know what that means in the context of the story but, predictably, searching turned up few useful results. I've also had difficulty transcribing the artist's name, 日比野魔俐婀. I've seen it translated a bunch of different ways, so if anybody is able to contribute a more accurate reading of it, it would be much appreciated. They contributed illustrations to two other manga I was able to find: Halloween, written by Marialle, and Babylon, written by Tact.

Kenage na Amulet by Hokoi Satoshi

Title translates approximately to Healthy Amulet or Amulet of Good Health (I think). While I haven't found any details about this manga, I was able to find a review for another Satoshi Hokoi manga that may shed some insight as to the author's style. Portrait, a 1992 manga also published by Rapport, has a very dark tone and heavy story elements despite its' cute art style. This artist has since pivoted to erotica published under the pseudonym Gyro Amarume.

A Kuvira! Dark Princess by Fujisawa Naoto

Another one without any pictures or plot details. Apparently this one was reprinted on May 1, 1994 in another Rapport anthology called Pretty Daisakusen (Pretty Operation), but there's even less information out there about that one than there is on Majokko Carnival. Naoto Fujisawa would publish two other manga through Rapport in the 90s, both of them shoujo: Death Rocker in 1993 and Gargoyle in 1996. The former ran for two volumes until 1998 and even got reprinted in June of 2004 as a single-volume omnibus by Daito Comics.

Chotto Matte ne by Tokumi Yuiko

The title is a slightly more casual and familiar variation on the phrase "wait a moment". Yuiko Tokumi is a renowned illustrator who has contributed to various visual novels, card games, and even done character design for at least one anime figure, as well as plenty of doujinshi (including a Sailor Moon doujin in 1996). She is best known for creating Binzume Yousei (Bottle Fairies) and Slow Start which were released as anime in 2003 and 2018 respectively. (You would think her notoriety would mean there's more information available about Chotto Matte ne, but alas.)

Mahou Soudou by Nantoka Fumihiko

Title translates to Magic Commotion. Fumihiko Nantoka also contributed a manga titled Suna no Majo (Witch of Sand) to Pretty Daisakusen, but I haven't been able to track down any information about that one either. For that matter, all of their manga is pretty obscure. Much of it was published by Rapport and everything I could find publication dates for is from the 90s.

Beginner's Ray by Tashiro Takuya

Takuya Tashiro has mostly worked on action manga, particularly ones with sexy female protagonists, and he was active into the 2010s. His series Najica Dengeki Sakusen was published in English as Najica Blitz Tactics and Atori Shou is his longest running manga at seven volumes.

Wiz Master by E=MC2

Of everything on this list this is THE single hardest combination of words to find anything relevant with. All I have to go on is a where-are-they-now type roundup of smaller manga artists in a blog post from 2014. That post indicated E=MC2 isn't as active as some of the others and mostly does manga about catgirls.

Kurayama Otome by Yokoyama Hiroko

Title means Kurayama maiden, with Kurayama being a Japanese surname that apparently has a variety of meanings. I wasn't able to find much about Hiroko Yokoyama's older work, but she is still active on Pixiv (though fair warning: a small number of her art there is NSFW). She even has some of her newer comics available in English, which is way cool from an accessibility standpoint!

A Looking Glass by Takekura Riku

Riku Takekura is another obscure artist who mostly seems to have been active in the 90s and heavily associated with Rapport. They won a "special award" when they placed 3rd in the FR Contest in 1990 (though I couldn't find what for). A manga of theirs titled Aoi. Hyouma Ran (Blue. Possession) was published in the horror themed August 1991 special edition issue of Fanroad, titled Nightzone. The most recent work of theirs I can find, a manga titled Leaf, was published by Rapport in April of 1996.

Rinji Majo Baita Yukiko! by Yumenohashi Kouichi

This title approximates to Extraordinary Witch Bitch Yukiko!... I think. Kouichi Yumenohashi (who also goes by Koichiro Takahashi) is still active in the industry and seems to specialize in sports manga.

Sore Ike Sen Hitoshi-chan by Hirano Masahiro

My understanding is sore ike means something like "go ahead!" and I'm guessing Sen Hitoshi-chan is the main character's name. This is one that the machine translations really struggled with (the original text is それいけ千仁矢ちゃん for the manga's title and 平乃眞砂廣 for the artist's name if anybody wants to take a crack at it) and, once again, I haven't found any information about the manga itself. Even the mangaka is very obscure, his only other original work being a manga titled Africa that I couldn't find any info on either. Apparently he also contributed to a Fire Emblem anthology, so that's neat.

So... what have we learned?

One of the things that really interested me about Majokko Carnival is that it came out at the tail end of the pre- Sailor Moon era. I know we can be pretty reductive when talking about Sailor Moon's influence on the magical girl genre, but it is notable how much more popular the magical fighter archetype is after her debut than before it. Plenty of older magical girls were either witches or just girls who happened to use magic, and that's something this anthology perfectly encapsulates, based on what little I could find about it.

Beyond that though, I was surprised by how in-house this was. Many of these artists had their other work published by Rapport, either in Fanroad or other anthologies. While some of them went on to find broader success after their time with the company, I get the sense not all of them wanted to. There's actually something weirdly heartening about how Rapport was able to be this sort of platform for smaller artists who may not have had other, better resources at their disposal. The rise of the internet has made it easier to get one's creative works out there (though that certainly comes with its own pitfalls), but I still think it's worth taking a look back at the kinds of stories people were trying to tell before that framework had been established. I would love it if there were more magical girl anthologies like this one. I would love it if more information about this one became available. But if nothing else, I'm glad Majokko Carnival exists.

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edgymcgoth · 2 months

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I was tagged by @faunandfloraas !

↑The most romantic and cute song i know

↑Banger, moving on

↑IVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG FOR A GOOD WEEK

↑Crying of happiness every time I hear it idc what it says

↑SLOWWIT DOWN MAKEIT BOUCY

↑One of my FAVORITES ever I don't CARE if it's sad

↑God this is like having a shot of serotonin

↑Gyaru songs are superior. Next

↑SO good

↑I love this whole album so I'll pick the first one

I wanna tag @mel96minsung @skz-fanfic-recs and @jeonginniesmother, and everyone that wants to do it!

#stray kids #tomorrow x together #ateez #mariya takeuchi #pero pero candy #moots #tag game #i love all these songs and id put more but i practiced self restraint. you're welcome #thank you for tagging me #Spotify

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catchyhuh · 6 months

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Thoughts on Pops' sidekicks? Yata, Mariya, Melon, that glorified babysitter from island of assassins, etc etc [places ask before the beasts' cave and slowly backs away]

[the beast sniffs the air, catching a faint whiff of tokyo crisis and bolts out of the cave like its prey drive has been activated] i may or may not have a particular favorite one off girl that i have been studying like bacteria in a petri dish for years, and this ask may or may not have looked like this to me

BUT YES!! I HAVE MUCH TO SAY

i think the secret to a good backup lupin character is to emphasize how mundane and comparatively normal they are IN A GOOD WAY OF COURSE! your supporting character needs to SUPPORT and the easiest, funniest way to do that, is to have them be just some guy. they can be weird, but they can’t be weirder than our main features. they can be cool, but they can’t be cooler than our main guys. you get it?

and since it’s so fucking easy to make ANYBODY seem normal standing next to zenigata, you’d have to work pretty damn hard to beat the first point, so the most important thing HERE is to have them resigned to their fate. you will not stop him. it is impossible to stop him. he will not even acknowledge that you DID, in fact, try to stop him. really, the most you can do is catch the back of his coat before he accidentally steps into traffic when he's on autopilot

melon is probably the funniest in terms of this resignation because if anything he delights in having a front row seat. he’s not stopping shit! and you got like the old men that were just grinning and not even TRYING to keep him alive in episode 0 and twilight gemini, which i guess makes them beat out melon in terms of “it is what it is.” and then in the middle mariya is like, “ok, not letting him die but also he’s just not fucking listening to me and honestly when else am i gonna get a chance to partake in a car chase!! let’s go.” and then yata is slowly approaching the mariya level of stress because he’s clearly begun to realize if he has a panic attack every single time zenigata almost gets himself killed he’ll die of a heart attack before hes even 30. and. oh god i watched island of assassins and i remember proto-yata but i can’t even think of his name now. something very american. jimmy? BUT HE NEVER ACCEPTED THE FACT HE COULDN’T STOP ZENIGATA hence his Weakness in comparison. i also am vaguely aware that one special has this cop lady working with him but she ends up secretly being evil but i haven’t seen that one yet and also she’s. evil. so i imagine she wouldn’t count anyway so WHATEVER THERE’S OUR RANKING OF THE PEACE THEY’VE MADE WITH THE SITUATION

you can ALWAYS give pops a weird tagalong. it is ALWAYS correct! there’s four thieves and only one of him, which means you gotta give him SOMEBODY to work off of! i will always be pro-sidekick just because it makes him funnier or even adds a tiny bit of unexpected depth (him telling yata he understands if he quits the case, really everything he does in response to learning about mariya’s father/childhood, etc), and as a bonus, you might even get a really good character in their own right! all because they thought “damn. this is a little unfair isn’t it. have this guy follow him around for an hour”

i have the science of this down pat. IN FACT THIS WHOLE THING IS PROBABLY WHY I’M SO #PROYATA I LOVE GOOD DYNAMICS! THE BEAST THANKS YOU FOR LISTENING

#just realized i only used tokyo crisis caps to make that zenigata eating shit collage so in hindsight #probably very obvious that i enjoy tokyo crisis and mariya. BUT ANYWAY #NOT ENTIRELY SURE HOW TO ORGANIZE MY TAGS FOR THIS BEYOND. OUR MAIN FEATURE. ill just do him and yata for now #and if any of these people come up again i'll just edit this accordingly. yeah.#lupin iii #lupin the third #zenigata #yata #lupinions #asks

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letsmakefingerfive · 11 months

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just Mariya Takeuchi's wink 😉 for a day.

she seems to be the most popular in my blog lately that's why I'm getting this Mariya's winky face for y'all. Thank you so much for all the notes and follows, I appreciate all of it! 🌺 Let's continue to live on with this blog, you can now suggest anything at my ASK (on this Tumblr) suggestions or anything might be help with me to grow this account. I'm so happy to have everyone else here, let's keep this community grow!

from Let's Made Finger Five.

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hpheisler · 10 months

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i made this banger for no reason and never posted it here. please enjoy.

#music #cover #george michael #mariya takeuchi #plastic love #fastlove #i hope someone out there is checking the “fastlove” tag on tumblr #that would make me laugh

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rimejack · 1 year

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#do I dare tag it ok fine #plastic love #mariya takeuchi

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kyuhu · 8 months

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tagged by @i-really-like-dragons and @lunartexan thank you :D (seperate post so I can combine both tag games haha)

first one is post the first ten songs in a randomized list of your liked songs and tag ten people: I don't have spoitify so I just clicked play at random on my phone's music app and wrote down the first ten songs that started

Eden - Monkey Majik Plastic Love - Mariya Takeuchi accidentaly in Love - Counting Crows L.O.V.E - Frank Sinatra PonPonPon - Rin An unusual prince/once upon a dream 😂 tsukiakari no dearest - Aoi Shouta, Maeno Tomoaki sie ist nicht zu fassen - Ron von Lankeren I think? It's hard to find who sang which old german anime opening theme it always just says anime allstars fsaghda Twist again - Chubby Checkers hgfash Moustache - Twin Twin

and second one is a picrew chain using this picrew c:

I tag uhhh.... @scarlettlillies because this is about music :D @k3llyb3an @angie-massei-2 @lindonwald @samrut @chessna2 and whoever else likes to!

only if you all want to of course c: feel free to take only one or ignore entirely o/

#nh #tag game #yooo that song game was hard #I struggle enough at the usual “songs you currently listen to” lists but this had me worrying about my embarassing music tastes even more #because it was random #anyway thanks for the tag I also had fun with it I think I rediscovered songs I haven't heared in a while :D #can't believe only one esc song made it??#long post

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chocolatey-wonder · 9 months

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Plasticlovic

Plastic + Lov(e) + "Ic"

A gender related to the song "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi, Barbie dolls, and feeling like your love is fabricated or superficial in some way.

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Tagging: @accessmogai for PT/Flag IDs - thank you!

#Giftwrapped #plasticlovic #lovegender #xenogender #xenogender safe #xenogender community #xenogender label #xenogender coining #liomogai

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greeniery · 6 months

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@travisaurus ty for the tag <3

Rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist & post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

no pressure taggin @narkotics @littlemiss-stardust @64mpg @itsforeating @deepsteaksnine @branwell-bronte @unstablerate @xoxo-gossipghoul @cosmic-daisy @greenvelvetchaise

#SoundCloud #Spotify #audio

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your-old-sins-tournament · 9 months

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OC NAVAL WARFARE BRACKETS

Rules:

Tie sweeps given to polls with a 0.2% percentage. Also I'm allowed to come up with the most messed up name possible for future polls

Propaganda is encouraged! I will reblog propaganda reblogs, as well as any propaganda that @s me. However, for the polls themselves, I will be using the propaganda submitted to me through the google form. If a ship was submitted twice with different propaganda, I will use both pieces of propaganda

Fandom ships will not be tagged with the fandom tag

Please be nice to each other. Do not tear down other ships. I will not reblog any propaganda remotely like that.

All polls are one week!

If i need to change anything, please send me a ask. I will change it I swear.

The main tag will be: #oc ship tournament

LIST OF SHIPS BELOW;

ROUND 1

Valley Ghost (Felix Tawfic/Griffith) vs. Aurel * Kiki (critical)

Solshuu (Solaria Aoi/Shu Kurenai) vs. Elitheocecily (Elijah Scott * Theodore Churchill * Cecily Churchill, @failboyfriend)

HG^2 (Charlie "Chuck" Beaumont/Octavian "Tavi Osborne, @the-random-phan + @cabincryptid51) vs. Geheneres (Teneres/"Gehenna", @i-hear-a-sound)

LuNal (Luca/Petra/Nails, Tass) vs. Maisther (Esther/Maidy, @cafe-au-tism)

[TIE; ships will go on under the name of LuNal-Maisther!]

SpicyFlowerSnakeNoodles (Red Son/Lotus/Nyrel/MK, Fan + Hue) vs. Dexereign (Dex/Sovereign, @caekhoi)

Eraser (Ezra/Ace, Ren) vs. Anthony Mitchetti/Emily Valentino (@sing-the-beginning-of-moana)

Pruett Pennbum/Remedy Espina (Harvey Millipedia) vs. Vargas (Edgar Vargas * Scriabin, @zarla-s)

Jax * Elin (@sypersweet) vs. Amariya (Amaya/Mariya, @what-if-i-just-did-this + anon)

Ravery (Raven Scofflaw/Avery Fracas, @what-if-i-just-did-this) vs. Dairyun (Darian/Daiyu)

Acid Dragon (VSB * ESB, @silviaflowers) vs. Pip the Jackal/Agent 27 (@squidthechaotickid)

Watercolor Dreams (Oliver Fernsby & Princess Guinevere, @hermannsprecursors) vs. Graveyards (Olly Graves * Susan Yards, @thatonegaybastard)

Golden Fleece (Yang Xiao Long/Eirian Esna, @dragynkeep) vs. Blade of Justice (Jasper Jones/Ikeda Saigo, @hermannsprecursors)

Lavender (Lavon + Devion Taillien, @mx-yippeee) vs. Featherfluff (Virtue Courtenlock/Comet Mhorlborne, @timetokrill)

Archangel (Gabriel Trinh/Raphael Madsen, @gelatinous-jellyfish) vs. Ginatré/Žydrūnas (@the-land-of-eternal-winter-novel)

Marleksei (Marlowe * Aleksei, @cowboymkb) vs. Montcia (Alex Garcia * Jules Montgomery, @gelatinous-jellyfish)

Icefang/Greatness (vox) vs. Luna * Jade * Ciela * Them (@iwillstealyourjawbone)

ROUND 2

Dairyun (Darian/Daiyu) vs. Acid Dragon (VSB * ESB, @silviaflowers)

Watercolor Dreams (Oliver Fernsby & Princess Guinevere, @hermannsprecursors) and Graveyards (Olly Graves * Susan Yards, @thatonegaybastard) vs. Golden Fleece (Yang Xiao Long/Eirian Esna, @dragynkeep)

Lavender (Lavon + Devion Taillien, @mx-yippeee) vs. Archangel (Gabriel Trinh/Raphael Madsen, @gelatinous-jellyfish)

Montcia (Alex Garcia * Jules Montgomery, @gelatinous-jellyfish) vs. Luna * Jade * Ciela * Them (@iwillstealyourjawbone)

Aurel * Kiki (critical) vs. Elitheocecily (Elijah Scott * Theodore Churchill * Cecily Churchill, @failboyfriend)

HG^2 (Charlie "Chuck" Beaumont/Octavian "Tavi Osborne, @the-random-phan + @cabincryptid51) vs. LuNal (Luca/Petra/Nails, Tass) and Maisther (Esther/Maidy, @cafe-au-tism)

Dexereign (Dex/Sovereign, @caekhoi) vs. Eraser (Ezra/Ace, Ren)

Pruett Pennbum/Remedy Espina (Harvey Millipedia) vs. Jax * Elin (@sypersweet)

ROUND 3

Dairyun (Darian/Daiyu, @vwnz and @bowie556) vs. Golden Fleece (Yang Xiao Long/Eirian Esna, @dragynkeep)

Lavender (Lavon + Devion Taillien, @mx-yippeee) vs. Montcia (Alex Garcia * Jules Montgomery, @gelatinous-jellyfish)

Elitheocecily (Elijah Scott * Theodore Churchill * Cecily Churchill, @failboyfriend) vs. HG^2 (Charlie "Chuck" Beaumont/Octavian "Tavi Osborne, @the-random-phan + @cabincryptid51)

Eraser (Ezra/Ace, Ren) vs. Jax * Elin (@sypersweet)

For some reason tumblr wont let me put the rest of the results here so here's the link to Round 4 and beyond

#oc ships #oc ship tournament #important #qpr ship #romantic ship #familial ship #unlabelled ship #uh. i dont think i'll tag every ship here.#oh to bear the burden of submitting the only qpr ship here #also yes i did submit my own ship i miscounted and we needed another one so. i decided to add some qpr spice #rules #tumblr tournament #bracket tournament #character tournament #bracket

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cashandprizes · 9 months

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Sing your url 🎼🎶

Aka a song for every letter of your url, tagged by the esteemed @gingerbreadmonsters thank you dear 💕💋 I tried to pick songs I like/ I feel like represent me but sometimes the letters make you get creative. Try doing this for your name when you've got an x in it.

C - Creep - Radiohead

A - Admit it!! - Say Anything

S - Save Rock And Roll - Fall Out Boy

H - Hush - Primary & JayB

A - Astroturf - Royal and the Serpent

N - Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex

D - Daddy Issues - The Neighbourhood

P - Plastic Love - Mariya Takeuchi

R - Rain Again Tomorrow - Epik High

I - If I Ruled the World - BTS

Z - Zanzibar Night - Marlene

E - Eat Pray Love - Dynamic Duo

S - Summertime - My Chemical Romance

Tagging: @autisticempathydaemon @penncilkid @mr-laveau @latenightsleeper no pressure 💋💕

#THAT Z WAS A STRUGGLE #what you could glean about my music tastes or my psyche based on this music. beyond me #i am just out here. vibing.#there's some bangers in here tho. you ever sing creep doing 70 on the highway? therapy #couldn't squeeze let's get the party starting or lost on here. sad face #tag games!

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radioactivehydronerd · 9 months

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Rules: Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up, then tag other people

Thanks for the tag @anartificialsatellite <3

1. Mr Rager - Kid Cudi

2. Je sais pas danser - Pomme

3. Tseluy menya - Mariya Chaikovskaya

4. Paparazzi - Lady Gaga

5. Nye nado - kis-kis

6. Terra - Tanxugueiras

7. Birds - Imagine Dragons

8. Caramelle - Pierdavide Carone

9. Oh Ana - Mother Mother

10. Right where you left me - Taylor Swift

@breitzbachbea @maryeve-the-bitch @pvffinsdaisies @hetaari @thegreatdeprussian @lightpinkstuff if you guys want to join in ♪⁠～⁠(⁠´⁠ε⁠｀⁠ ⁠) no pressure of course! And apologies if you've already been tagged

#tag game #frambles #lol can you tell i put all my playlists into shuffle together #i don't really have egregious music taste

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ecargmura · 3 months

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Pokemon Horizons Episode 35 Review - Bramblin About In The Desert

Horizons has returned after taking a few weeks off due to the holidays. Now that the festivities are over, we’re back to our weekly schedule Horizons airing until the next break. This week’s episode happens to be a fun, relaxing episode about the group working odd jobs.

True to every adventurers in stories, the Rising Volt Tacklers’ funds are lacking now. So the group decides to find ways to earn money. Murdock suggests delivering sweets; Orla suggests mechanical repairs and Mollie is thinking about doing medical consultation for trainers. Friede is working odd jobs; one job he gets is the focus of the episode: finding his friend Shine’s lost Bramblin. To be honest, I’d love to pay for Murdock’s sweets.

Roy and Liko tag along; Liko specifically wants to tag along because of her school assignment. She was task to make a presentation about what she considers the ideal bond. She believes that Friede and Cap have the ideal bond, which is why she tagged along so that she could observe and make a report about them. Throughout the episode, both she and we, the viewers, learn new things about Friede and Cap. Cap has an “allergy” where he sneezes uncontrollably when he is called cute; I guess the mighty Captain Pikachu really does have one weakness after all. Despite their strong bond, the two don’t see eye-to-eye at times, which causes them to fight. This is a rather unusual sight, but I quite like it because it gives Cap a lot of character. I did like the scene where Friede and Cap pretended to have an argument, which caused Pikachu to leave and for Friede to make Roy and Liko take over the battle. This was to distract the hunters and for Captain Pikachu to knock out the female hunter’s Avalugg and the rest of the other foes.

Although Bramblin makes its debut here, it’s more plot device as the focus is on the main characters. The only two things it did was roll around like tumbleweed and then get captured by hunters. At least, it did want to be free from the poachers. I guess the reason why Bramblin ran off from its trainer was to use the Let’s Go feature to evolve, which it did! Despite my gripes with Bramblin, I did like the cry. The way it cries makes it sound like an air headed ball of grass.

If you’re not familiar with voice actors, I’ll fill you in on some interesting trivia. Friede’s friend Shine is voiced by Kenji Nojima, who has been a recurring name in the Pokemon anime in the past. He voiced Jimmy from the Legend of Raikou special, Rafe from the Destiny Deoxys movie, and Khoury from the Diamond and Pearl era; he currently voices Roark in Pokemon Masters. The female poacher, the one who really likes cute Pokemon and Captain Pikachu, is voiced by Mariya Ise. If you’re not familiar with Japanese voice actresses, she’s the voice actress of Bonnie from the XY anime. It’s crazy how they get two big names that had done roles in the past as minor characters for this episode. Horizons did this in past episodes and even with the main cast.

Anyways, this was a nice episode to get back into Horizons. Hopefully, taking on odd jobs won’t last too long as plot progression is important. I do wonder what will happen later on. If you watched this episode, what are your thoughts?

#anipoke #pokemon horizons #liko #roy #friede #captain pikachu #review #anime #anime review #pokemon #pokemon anime #ecargmura #arum journal

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