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hey there

hi, i'm Danny! she/her, 25, been here for ages just with a new account :] i have a variety of interests, mostly in video games/art/writing.

i mostly reblog posts i enjoy and I’ll occasionally post art of my current interest(s)

some content may be 18+ in terms of humor, but I don’t post anything suggestive

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zexalscreencaps

#rb #zexal #astral #the gang is all here and theyre all very plinked about it #i know we’re all done with beach episodes but i think these guys deserved one.

zexalscreencaps

#WHY DID I NEVER REALIZE THEY HAD RIO DESIGNED HERE??????#guurhrghh my girl. my goil.#💥💥💥💥💥💥🦅🦅🦅🦅#rb #zexal

maxknightley

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

maxknightley

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

#SNIFFLES AND CRIES AND SOBS #rb

lifeafterpsychiatry

In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

sage-nebula

#rb #deltarune #this is why queen is best character

drachenmagier

scanned. :)

#rb #palid #dragon

omegasmileyface

the temptation to make a video essay on how every astro boy reboot is an echo chamber of the previous one and how if we had yet another reboot we qould get even further away from The Point and it would be about how special and unique atom is and his daddy issues. yknow like 09! every reboot the series becomes closer to being The story of Astro Boy, The Robot Who Feels, and how his hardships are really not all that different from humans'. whereas the original point was like Here's Atom, his experience being less segregated from humans than other robots like him, as well as the wide range of situations he winds up in because he's a several-million-dollar research investment, make him a perfect lens through which to see what society is like when sapient robots are commonplace. now the original qorks, which tezuka had a hand in, are flawed especially in that they're ALSO about Yippee fun and dramatic superhero manga for 3rd graders, which tezuka does a not-great job of cohabitating with the first theme, so it kinda has trouble balancing the two. except reboots seem to develop a similar problem in which they all try to be Emotional and novel-like superhero show for 8th graders. They wanna be a:tla, you know? and they have trouble balancing that, too, especially when trying to reboot something thats literally a collection of short stories into a single through-plot. theyre trying to make a:tla out of the simpsons. and either way, even if all of this wasnt true, the message of astro boy as a whole is something thay really only was what it was bc it was written in the 50s. the speculation involving AI and the problems surrounding them are HUGELY different in 2022 than in 1953. so if you reboot, you have to either keep the message the same and make it largely (though not entirely) irrelevant and unrelated to the current state of the world, OR you try to bring more modern themes into it, which makes it a different story which qould be better told using an entirely different character/plot base entirely. itd be luke "rebooting" edgar allen poe's The Raven. we simple dont have the same social situation to commentate, so youre either making a NEW poem INSPIRED bey the old one, or remaking an outdated poem for some reason. yeah

omegasmileyface

WHILE IM HERE i dont dislike the reboots!! i fucking Love 03 like any anime fan of my age. but like i feel like its so overwritten the public idea of what astro boy is that it almost feels like platos allegory of the cave to me. yknow the animals are the original intention of astro boy and the shadows are the way its been turned into the 2003 series. and i think shadow puppets are cool like i think 03 rules but also we should probably be making such things point back to the original version rather than replace it. i like Pluto a LOT, and i feel like it does a great job not only keeping the original message intact via adding in deliberate new things (having Gesicht be the protagonist add much as Atom shows that there are several different ways hugely different robots are living everyday lives and being affected by human biases! it amplifies the points rather than switching to different ones imo) but also in going "thats not the whole story! this is an exploration of one of the tales in the world of osamu tezukas astro boy" which makes you go "oh nice retelling, maybe i should check out the original thing" rather than 03 which feels more like "and that was astro boy through a modern lens! hope you enjoyed" it feels like it serves to replace the original despite not having the same messages. and i understand its harder for a full-series reboot to point back but like... maybe it didnt need to be a reboot then? so much of thay show is based on the Blue Knight arc that they would have covered just that arc and atom's early life and called it good and it would have been a retelling rather than a replacement. i doubt thats the ONLY way to do it though thats just the idea that first comes to mind. i do like that they had more plots than just blue knight ones i just wish it somehow wasnt presented as a replacement for the original for the place of "core astro boy story"

#sorry to be reblogging such an old post but its incredible how similar our feelings are to this franchise #i dont feel crazy feeling the same frustrations 🫠#rb #astro boy #its! more than just being about this One Kid. as much as we all love him. let us explore the rest of the world #it’s why his existence was so spectacular to that world in the first place.#plus a gurgillion ofher things #he should be more than baby superman idk