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I really don’t like Evangelion 03+01

The movie is like an hour thirty of genuinely nice character development and world building, then falls apart into a sea of nonsense references to End of Evangelion and techno babble revelations that ultimately mean nothing.

#neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #Rebuild of Evangelion

Writing an AU worldbuilding fic about Planet Baltan. Here’s the opening.

Here lies the remains of Planet Baltan, the last vestige of our vibrant planet. For those who have found and read these remnants, please know we were an industrious people, a kind people. People of great science, architecture, and culture. Our planet was a place of peace and tranquility for most. But for some's hubris our world is no more, and our people scattered to the far reaches of the universe. If you should ever meet the people of our former planet, our last wish is you treat them with kindness. For they have gone through much and their search for a new home is a long and perhaps even endless one. For their sake, this plaque shall serve as our last will and testament.

An Epigraph found on an asteroid somewhere in the universe

#alien baltan #ultraman #fanfiction #fanfic

markrosewater

Inquiring Minds Want To Know - New Worlds

My question for today is about new worlds you’d like to see (for a Standard-legal set). You can tell me about any source material (cultural or genre) you’d like to see serve as an inspiration for a set or any existing mechanical components or themes you’d like to see a set built around. The only thing I ask for you not to give me is mechanical things Magic has not done yet (aka I am not soliciting new Magic cards, mechanics or mechanical components). Thanks.

alienseraphita

Longest shot, a world where non-human humanoid races are a minority and struggling to exist in a society made up mostly of humans. Yes this is just an excuse for monster girls/boys, but it could be cool to see humans as solely the bad guys for once.

Beyond that, a world similiar to above but humans are extinct and some kind of race they created/left behind are trying to rediscover their culture, society, and maybe the elements of magic as well.

more generic

japanese themed world that is more pop culture then kamigawa

World ruled by demons

viking/norse world

old phyrexia

world of dreams, or formed from its dreaming inhabitants

old west world

american frontier world

a giant world where everything is huge

officialdreamofstars-blog

An Introduction to Dream of Stars

Hi! We are INIMA Game Works, and we are currently crowdfunding a visual novel called Dream of Stars.

Dream of Stars has been in development, off and on, in some form, for the better part of eight years. It takes place in the year 2132 and tells the story of a young shut-in named Tomohiro Ishikawa, whose skills as a programmer and hacker earn him the notice of a man named Hiroaki Abe, head of a Japanese government space exploration agency colloquially called Hoshi. Drafted into Hoshi as their computer engineer, Tomohiro ventures outside his tiny one-room apartment and begins a life with other people for the first time in over two years.

At his job at Hoshi, Tomohiro meets a number of young women, each with their own unique traits and talents: Tsukiko, Hiroaki’s android assistant, Momoka, a telepathic alien serving as Hoshi’s counselor, Fumiko Mori, a child genius and Hoshi’s Head of Research and Development, and Noah Shimizu, an old friend of Hiroaki and Hoshi’s Head of Operations. By helping these young women deal with their baggage and face their own personal issues, might Tomohiro be able to help himself in unexpected ways…?

Visit our Kickstarter page to learn more about Dream of Stars’ setting and story—and if you like what you see and want to help see my own dream to fruition, consider pledging! Every dollar counts!

Please reblog to help spread the word!

#visual novel #dream of stars #indie games #kickstarter

ecchifortheplot

fuckyeahmacross

An SDF-1 sketch by Hideaki Anno, from Macross: Perfect Memory (1983).

After a standout debut as lead animator on the Daicon III Opening Animation, Anno was invited to join Noburo Ishiguro’s Artland studio which was then ramping up production on Macross. Fellow Daicon III alumni Takemi Akai and Hiroyuki Yamaga also joined Artland, although Akai didn’t stay around for long and soon returned to Osaka. Yamaga, who was the closest person to a “director” on the Daicon III Opening Animation, helped storyboard the show’s opening and made his directorial debut on episode 9, “Miss Macross.”

Faced with a staff shortage, Yamaga began looking for additional staff members to help out at Artland but came up short poking around Tokyo. He called up Akai, who recommended an old classmate, Mahiro Maeda (Evangelion, Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Animatrix). Maeda brought along a friend, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (character designer for Evangelion), who later described his impression of Anno at Artland as the “tall fellow who sometimes [walked] around in his bare feet.”

At Artland, Anno’s mechanical animation prowess was readily evident and he was reportedly part of the “Mecha Squad” alongside famed animator Ichiro Itano. Intense almost to a fault, Sadamoto found Anno unapproachable at the studio, citing the fact that he was always talking loudly to himself. Intrigued by his intensity, Sadamoto finally asked Maeda just who that guy was, to which Maeda responded, “That’s Anno. He worked on Daicon III. He loves to draw mecha.”

- from BY HIS SIGNATURE YOU’LL KNOW HIM: EARLY ILLUSTRATIONS BY HIDEAKI ANNO, by Sean O’Mara

elelelina

i have gotten a disease where i cant leave the house can anyone rec anime or vidoe games that i might like

i like psychological anime, mecha, romance, monster girls, etc

#anime #manga

pururin

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this is the only day you can reblog this post until 2023

whentheyart

【EP8】むねあつまとめ【ねたばれご注意】 by ゆや

※Permission to reprint this was given by the artist. Please do not repost without the artist’s permission. If you liked this fanwork, do take the time to rate and bookmark the original work.

alienseraphita

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Happy 49th Birthday, Battler

I wonder if the Umineko fandom is still alive.

solardrifter

Dirty Pair (1985)

atlusatlas

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei PC-8801 Version Scan Archive

Download Link It’s only been in recent years that Atlus fans outside of Japan have been able to widely engage with Megami Tensei at some of its deepest roots, namely the original Famicom games and their subsequent remakes, as well as the actual novels by Aya Nishitani that gave rise to the whole thing to begin with. But the story even in those early days is more complicated than many even within Japan know, thanks to another radically different adaptation produced for Japanese PCs (specifically the MSX, PC-8801, X1, and FM77AV) by way of Nihon Telenet, a developer you probably best know for the Valis games and as the former home of legendary RPG developers Wolfteam.

Aside from some shared aesthetic tastes, Nihon Telenet’s take on Megami Tensei couldn’t be much more different from Atlus’ “canonical” version. Indeed, not only is it something of an open-ended Gauntlet clone rather than a first-person dungeon crawling RPG, the PC versions also hew closer to the original novels, featuring a handful of characters that are never referenced in Atlus’ game. To many, the end result is probably overall a lot less engaging than the RPGs that have since codified the Megami Tensei’s true starting point, but it’s no less a fascinating historical tangent for it.

As someone with something of a soft spot for old Japanese computers, I recently decided to sit down and do the long, protracted dirty work involved in getting a proper copy of one of these alternative versions in 2016 and lo and behold, I wound up with the PC-8801 version, which is the one I happen to know best. But instead of dumping floppy discs that you can already readily find online and play in an emulator, I decided to fix what I saw as a glaring oversight on the part of the Japanese Internet and scan all of the printed material the PC-8801 version includes and put it all in an archive. So I did! That’s what the download link is for up top and it includes the following:

Cover art

Manual

Mini art booklet

Floppy discs and disc envelopes

While it’s all in Japanese, I’d argue it’s still worth a download, as there’s a lot of really neat artwork within both the manual and art booklet that show off a different take on Megami Tensei than the conventional Kaneko material we’re all used to. And if you do speak Japanese, you’ll find the manual to be helpful in elucidating some of the more obtuse aspects of the PC versions, information which is surprisingly hard to come by even when consulting Japanese walkthroughs.

I want to try and cover some of those more important details in another post here on the blog, but for now, I thought I’d at least get this archive out in the world for people to parse through and enjoy. Do note that you’re free to repost these scans to blogs, wikis, forums, etc, but I would greatly appreciate a credit and a link back to the Atlus Atlas if you do so.

Enjoy the history!

-Pepsi

PS: You’ll find some visual defects here and there within the scans. That’s simply the condition in which all of this material arrived. Given that the game is nearly 30 years old, though, I think it can be forgiven. It should all still be very viewable regardless!

pepsimangb

Well this went live earlier than expected! I dunno, sure, let’s roll with it!

Enjoy the archive! It’s not made me like the actual game any more, but it’s made me appreciate that a lot of love went into its creation at least. c:

pepsimangb

A repost for those of you that missed this the first time around! Thanks to those of you who have shared it! It’s been a pleasure to put all this together! :D!