Thinking about Bad making team soulfire's base under the egg museum. It makes the recreation of the base feel forbidden. For Bad, it's to bring him back to the good memories he had with the original base during purgatory. Though on the outside perspective, him placing it under the egg museum makes it feel like it's something meant to be buried - a part of the egg's "history" that exists and no one likes to think about. Where everyone was forced into groups of teams to fight each other for their eggs. The soulfire team base was a part of that experience; it wouldn't have happened otherwise without it.
It also doesn't help that the elevator for this recreated base is at the corner of the museum, no one's going to look for the corner, It's out of sight, out of mind. The perfect spot for Bad to keep building it out of his fondness and for everyone to look away from it.
To the person who said this about my Zosan comic: THANK YOUUUUOUUWUEUGUHUHHH my old comics professor would be so proud, I learned everything about making comics through Scott McCloud’s books so I’m literally doing jumping jacks and cartwheels this is painfully sweet and made me smile SOOOOO so so big.
This is to say…. I highly recommend Scott McCloud’s teachings for comic making if anyone is interested fufufu
growing up, one thing they don't really tell you about heartbreak and grieving the loss of a relationship is the hurt of losing not just your partner, but a second family as well
After posting my first DaVinci Resolve AMV in April 2022, video editing quickly became one of my favorite hobbies, and this new life development actively characterized my 2023. Be it working on a project to mix the HD, remastered footage of Detective Conan with the old FUNimation English dub or piecing together AMVs, much of my free time throughout the year was devoted to video editing.
A broken computer for several weeks in the summer meant that I couldn't edit as many videos as I would have wanted, but I still progressed and learned a lot. I mixed 70 episodes of HD English dub, I made a YouTube channel, I participated in video collaborations (3! Here, here, and here!), and I tried so many new things as an editor, including but not limited to:
🎬 Glitching VHS effects (seen in "Mohan Kaitou" and "Poison Tree" above, and helped by my acquisition of a VCR, which allowed me to digitize my Detective Conan VHS tapes)
🎬 Karaoke subtitle files that can be toggled on and off on YouTube, created with the help of YTSubConverter (Would anyone be interested in a process post?)
🎬 3D camera typography (the "so alone" in "Corridors of Time")
🎬Follower text (the "we'd never known" in "Corridors of Time")
🎬 Solid color transitions ("I Wish That I Could Tell You")
🎬 Ink splats ("Corridors of Time," "Head Above Water")
🎬 Selective red coloring ("Poison Tree")
🎬 More thoughtful compositions, and fudging sizing and placement for compositional reasons (the handkerchief transition in "Child," the movement of the scenes behind Ran in "Monsters," the liquid flowing in "Poison Tree")
🎬Changing the color of something (the red eyes in "Poison Tree")
🎬 Static masks ("Poison Tree")
🎬 Masking out objects (any [adult swim] logos from VHS footage that didn't come from my Japanese VHS tapes in "Poison Tree")
🎬And though it's not depicted in the snippet above, a CRT and curved TV screen effect for the TV at the end of the full "Poison Tree"
While I was only able to complete 9 AMVs (and the "Messed Up" AMV sadly isn't included in the snippets above, as it remains incomplete), I'm so excited to make more in 2024 with all the new tools in my toolbox!
Okay, but let’s talk about the scene from the trailer
Why is my boy looking so serious??? Where is the happy gremlin child who was just so impressed with everything Professor Layton did he could barely contain it??? He was SOBBING and holding on to the professor for dear life a year ago because he was his family and he didn’t want to leave him and you expect me to believe he greets him in America when seeing him for the first time in a year by almost running him over, barely greeting him, and telling him to get his ass in the nightmare machine he’s driving (does he even have a license to drive a mechanical walking machine)?
It better just be because he’s in a rush due to some dangerous situation or something (which is what it sounds like with the dialogue) because if he doesn’t properly greet the man that practically raised him with enthusiasm then I will riot. He could at least genuinely smile at the man when he sees him after almost running him over. But nope, just a half smile and “Long time no see.” BOY WHAT? NOT EVEN “IT’S GOOD TO SEE YOU?” The disrepect on this child. He gets a bow tie and thinks he’s too cool for school.
Also, apparently Luke is a semi-famous boy detective in America now and no one knows who Layton is, and if Luke doesn’t use his classic “hE’s tHe gReAt pRoFeSsOr LaYtOn hOw dArE yOu i’M HiS ApPrEnTiCe” line at least once I will be sad. It seems like Luke has matured a lot over the last year, but he doesn’t quite seem like the same happy Luke? He’s been solving cases on his own, and he’s had to start over in a new country, and maybe he’s trying to act older for the Professor and show him how he’s grown. That being said, he’s older but he’s still a child, and I hope that having an adult he loves and trusts with him again to go through this mystery with him lets him get to relax just a little bit back into more of his old personality since he’s not carrying all of the responsibility of whatever this mystery is alone anymore. Or maybe he is the same old Luke and they just wanted this scene to look dramatic for the trailer so we’ll find out I guess lol I have no idea