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Jason Todd: A Tale of Tragedies.

We all know how Jason Todd came to be. He had a drug addict as a mother, and a father who was abusive. After his mother died and his father sent to prison, he had to make a living in the streets. He came across Batman when he was stealing the tires off the Batmobile.

And so, he became Robin. Now, during his time as Robin, he found out that his mother wasn’t his biological mother, and so he ran off to look for his birth mother. Finally after searching, he was reunited with his biological mother.

The touching reunion was short lived, because Sheila Haywood (aka EVIL BITCH) betrayed Jason and gave him up to the Joker. Imagine what was going through his head. He had finally found the woman who gave birth to him after crossing off the others (he once considered the possibility that Lady Shiva was his real mom), and he was ecstatic, running into her arms immediately. The betrayal he felt must have been overwhelming.

Joker then beat Jason with a crowbar. I can’t fathom the pain he went through.

Jeez, DC is dark af. Showing a child getting beaten to death by the main villain? And people say comics are for children?

Anyway, Jason died, but was then resurrected. Talia al Ghul found him and dumped him in the pit. She then funded his training around the world, which was where he learned of his second betrayal. Bruce had let Joker go, and replaced him with Tim.

(From Red Hood: Lost Days)

At this point in time, he already felt two betrayals by two parental figures.

But moving on from this canon, let’s talk about other universes, namely Arkham Knight universe.

Joker had caught Jason and tortured him and manipulated him emotionally. Jason was clinging on to the smallest hope that Bruce was still out there looking for him. So he endured all those months of torture. But then Joker showed Jason that Bruce had replaced him with Tim and left him for dead- when in reality Bruce didn’t know that Jason was alive. This made Jason into the infamous Arkham Knight.

(From Arkham Knight: Genesis #3)

Jumping to Batman: White Knight, a story of how Joker was cured of his insanity and adopted his previous identity, Jack Napier, due to swallowing a number of experimental pills that Batman had forced down his throat. Jack Napier was portrayed as the savior of Gotham, from the violent Batman who was supposedly doing more harm than good.

In this comic, it was revealed that Joker had kidnapped Jason and (surprise, surprise), tortured him to find out Batman’s true identity. Jason was so broken by the torture, that he said he wished he never met Bruce Wayne. After learning that Joker had released Jason when he got what he want, Bruce was surprised that Jason never went back to him. He was so broken that he didn’t go back to his home.

(From Batman: White Knight #7)

But going back to RHATO Rebirth, after Jason killed the Penguin on live TV, he was then beaten the shit out of by Batman- who, mind you, was the man who raised him like a son.

Bruce kicked him so hard, his goddamned helmet shattered, and then dragged him by the head like some sort of mutt. He was saved last minute by Roy.

Now we see in RHATO Annual #2 Preview, the extent of the damage that Bruce had inflicted upon his adopted son. He had injured Jason so badly that it took him a month to be able to stand up and walk again. Even after that, he couldn’t shoot straight. The trigger-happy gun-wielding anti-hero we all know and love can’t shoot straight because of what his adoptive father had done to him.

The whole point of this was to point out that Jason can’t catch a damn break. He’s not only tragic in ONE universe, but spans onto multiple Earths. Why can’t they just let our Jaybird be? 

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I finished my Rome book and have now begun one about Pompeii. I’m 65 pages in and I already love it: yes, it covers the volcano, but most of the book is about “this is what the town and daily life of it would have been like, actually.” Fascinating stuff. Things I’ve learned so far:

- The streets in Pompeii have sidewalks sometimes a meter higher than the road, with stepping stones to hop across as “crosswalks.” I’d seen some photos before. The book points out that, duh, Pompeii had no underground drainage, was built on a fairly steep incline, and the roads were more or less drainage systems and water channels in the rain.

- Unlike today, where “dining out” is expensive and considered wasteful on a budget, most people in Pompeii straight up didn’t have kitchens. You had to eat out if you were poor; only the wealthy could afford to eat at home.

- Most importantly, and I can’t believe in all the pop culture of Pompeii this had never clicked for me: Pompeii had a population between 6-35,000 people. Perhaps 2,000 died in the volcano. Contemporary sources talk about the bay being full of fleeing ships. Most people got the hell out when the eruption started. The number who died are still a lot, and it’s still gruesome and morbid, but it’s not “an entire town and everyone in it.” This also makes it difficult for archeologists, apparently (and logically): those who remained weren’t acting “normally,” they were sheltering or fleeing a volcano. One famous example is a wealthy woman covered in jewelry found in the bedroom in the glaridator barracks. Scandal! She must have been having an affair and had it immortalized in ash! The book points out that 17 other people and several dogs were also crowded in that one small room: far more likely, they were all trying to shelter together. Another example: Houses are weirdly devoid of furniture, and archeologists find objects in odd places. (Gardening supplies in a formal dining room, for example.) But then you remember that there were several hours of people evacuating, packing their belongings, loading up carts and getting out… maybe the gardening supplies were brought to the dining room to be packed and abandoned, instead of some deeper esoteric meaning. The book argues that this all makes it much harder to get an accurate read on normal life in a Roman town, because while Pompeii is a brilliant snapshot, it’s actually a snapshot of a town undergoing major evacuation and disaster, not an average day.

- Oh, another great one. Outside of a random laundry place in Pompeii, someone painted a mural with two scenes. One of them referenced Virgil’s Aeneid. Underneath that scene, someone graffiti’d a reference to a famous line from that play, except tweaked it to be about laundry. This is really cool, the book points out, because it implies that a) literacy and education was high enough that one could paint a reference and have it recognized, and b) that someone else could recognize it and make a dumb play on words about it and c) the whole thing, again, means that there’s a certain amount of literacy and familiarity with “Roman pop culture” even among fairly normal people at the time.

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HUGE news! Jun Togawa avec Kei Ookubo will be performing LIVE on online livestreaming channel DOMMUNE.

22nd of April, 7pm JST - 11pm.

Additionally, there will be talk segments. Come listen to to Jun and Kei, along with staff from Ele-King Books, who recently published Jun’s “People & Me”, (Noda Tsutamu, Itaru Mita, Ukawa Naohiro) and watch Okite Porsche DJ Jun’s songs!

As many of you know, photography is prohibited at Jun’s live shows and live footage is increasingly rare. This is an incredibly rare opportunity for everyone to see the last “Heisei Era’s Jun Togawa” before we enter Reiwa and a new start for everyone. Don’t miss it!!

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Every single Yapoos song is now available in English

https://juntogawaforever.wordpress.com/translations/yapoos-translations/

Thank you to Pat our translator and all of you for loving Jun

https://twitter.com/juntogawa4ever/status/1121961384399523840

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Hey, look! I finally, finally managed to unearth my most recent and last Platinum Blonde layout (shown at top). :Xb;;

…As in I found the layout images on a CD after years of them having gone missing and fortunately still had the coding tucked away on the laptop. By pure luck nothing was broken when I copy-pasta’d it all back together again. The rest pictured are much worse older layouts for my Ryou Shirogane shrine and later fanlisting.

The whole site was dedicated to Ryou and even had some crazy sections detailing Ryou’s various outfits and other items he was seen with, as well as a comparison of various Shirogane family headcanons and fan theory analysis. My favorite thing to toss around was “Ryou’s injection mark” thanks to a TCG card where he didn’t have his collar on and instead had a faint reddish marking.

(Yeah, I thought I was pretty hardcore at the time…)

The shrine underwent various hosting changes before I bought my own web hosting domain and simply housed it there, on mewproject[dot]net.

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Blog Updates

Thanks to everyone who offered me feedback! The order I’ll be scanning in the rest of the model sheets will go something like this:

1. Zakuro (requested first!) 2. Pie (2 votes) 3. Keiichiro (1 vote and 1 educated guess) Queued! 4. Masaya Queued! 5. Tart Queued! 6. Mint Queued!

You may still request characters, if you like. :3b I will continue with the rest of the characters (items, etc.) after finishing up Mint’s pages. The only main(ish) characters I don’t have any model sheets for are Deep Blue and the cats.

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All righty, guys! I’ve got everyone through Mint scanned and about ready to go as far as production materials are concerned. From there on, I’m open to character requests and other requests in general if there’s something in particular you’d like to see on the blog (if I have access to it). Just send me an Ask and I’ll see what I can do!

Starting in February I plan to focus more heavily on content from Nakayoshi magazine - the magazine the Tokyo Mew Mew manga was first published in. I’m also in the middle of an on-going project which will take until I finish rewatching the show to have set up completely. I’m only up to Episode 9, but I’m pretty excited about it! So I hope you all will find it interesting, too.

7. Quiche

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This was my last and/or is currently my most recent Tokyo Mew Mew AMV which I completed September 28, 2008 (so my file details tell me). I saw an AMV to “Kanon” using the song and wanted to do something similar with character flashbacks and scenes of important people and moments in their lives (family, friends, love interests, etc). There were actually so many overlapping clips and effects in this that Windows Movie Maker kept crashing, and I had to save it in parts. |D; I added in the credits a few days ago and replaced the sound file from the original version. Unfortunately some of the clips are zoomed in TV rips, so the quality leaves much to be desired in spots.

Title: Mew Mew Memories Song: Memories - Within Temptation Characters: All Characters Format: .wmv (72.36 MB)

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Please do not repost this AMV elsewhere without asking me first. Thank you.

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) Mew Marks (left to right: Ichigo, Mint, Lettuce, Pudding, Zakuro)

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Note.

This is just a notice to let people know that I’ve deleted the latest webhosting account (mewmew.net16.net) for Mew Project Network off of the internet. I wasn’t completely sure that it was still online after being left alone for half a decade, but I see that it was. Thanks to everyone who visited over the years, even though a lot of the information was incomplete and/or outdated, and some of the links broken, too.

If there’s anything from the original fansite that you’re missing (information, old AMVs/fandubs, fanart of yours, scans, etc), you’re welcome to request it and I’ll see if I can dig it back up for you! I plan to keep this blog updated (hopefully) regularly in its place.

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) Minto Cafe Uniform (“Part Time Job Uniform”)

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) Minto Aizawa (School Uniform: Summer ver.)

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) Minto Aizawa (School Uniform: Winter ver.)

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) Minto Aizawa (Pajamas, as seen in episode 9, 21)

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) MinTone Arrow (ミントーンアロー)

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) Quiche

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Tokyo Mew Mew Settei (Model Sheet) Spirits

This is a diagram showing how Quiche removes a spirit from a human body (Mary McGuire from episode 6) and how it solidifies into a crystalline form.

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An old fan favorite that was removed from Youtube (old as in there are subtitles sticking out everywhere). The song is one a friend included on a CD she made for me, and it was a while later before I ever found out the name of the artist who sings it. (A lot of people had asked me and I didn’t even know, oops.) This video was meant to be something of a showdown of sorts among the three boys who like Ichigo and is made up of clips of each of the pairings - Aoyama, Shirogane and Quiche.

Title: Jealousy Song: Jealousy - Nanase Aikawa Characters: Ichigo, Masaya, Quiche, Ryou, Blue Knight, Alto Format: .wmv (51.07 MB)

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Please do not repost this AMV elsewhere without asking me first. Thank you.