Blog of Questionable Relevance

This may or may not be relevant... Primarily an anime and humor blog, with the occasional serious business and/or rectification of science/math errors.

[notthatrelevant]

me, unseriously, any time a love triangle exists in an anime: the solution is a polycule, lol

me, incredulously, after OtaGal E9: is th- ...is the solution a ... polycule?

[newtypezaku]

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

the staccato trumpet trills from the end of TANK! but they just keep going

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

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[rose-blumen]

Visit Original Link

I have been prepared for this moment for like 2 months

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

holy shit i am in tears

[notthatrelevant]

that is a saxophone. i can't even imagine doing that on a trumpet, but i'd love to see someone try.

[victusinveritas]

[adhdemonic]

here's a link to Ember's website, where you can download a high quality version!

https://www.betterthanember.com/

[victusinveritas]

[adhdemonic]

here's a link to Ember's website, where you can download a high quality version!

https://www.betterthanember.com/

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[garden-variety-snail]

Kai's character design is just a true flex for Dorohedoro. It's got pretty indulgent character designs overall - badass looks are not reserved even for foreground characters. It's a universe where fashion deviance is so normal it becomes noise. Similarly, spectacular gore and violence are used liberally, in both major plot beats and one-off jokes. On paper, this makes a character like Kai impossible to distinguish from the rest of the cast. It matches the makeup of a Hazbin Hotel type situation, in which every character is befanged, red-eyed, and maximally accessorized such that none can actually Be Sinister in a way that stands out.

Dorohedoro dodges this trap through the raw power of good writing and panel to panel composition. Kai is a plain character. He does not have a "look" that isn't already established (minor characters have cross eyes, many wear dark clothes). He's Big and he Kills People, on paper not much different than Shin and Noi, or even Ton. But Kai is written (and lit, and paced) to have gravitas. The paneling pauses on him, bends around him, to make sure that we understand the difference.

When Kai kills people it is more awful, more violating. Gore around him is never comedic. Much like the classic slasher, even just standing and walking looks evil on him. A character like Shin is similar in profile, but a known quantity in intentions. Shin will kill people for his boss, and for Noi, and maybe for fun. This de-mystifies him - Shin can kill a character you'd prefer he didn't, but after his introduction he is no longer really "scary". Kai is a black box, who kills or spares or stands or watches for reasons we cannot know. Chidaruma lolling his tongue out is ridiculous, meant to demean his own character, but with Kai it is meant to unnerve. And it does.

In a world so uniformly full of slasher aesthetics - the clothes, the weapons, the kills - Kai is the only Real Slasher.

[not100bees]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[notthatrelevant]

kill blue seems like it's gonna be one of those shows where the protagonist collects their reformed villains.

also, my money is on the plot doing what it has always done so far, telegraphing that noren is going to wake up and the hypnosis will make her fall in love with ogami, but (also like always) ogami is going to come up with some last-second way to sidestep (if not solve) the problem (blindfold on her? mask on him? weird silent brother breaks the hypnosis to acknowledge his Sports-Loss to tenma? idk, that's part of the fun).

[the-greatest-taste-around]

nice outfit LOSER. 1443 called but in a dialect of Early Modern English that hadn't experienced the Great Vowel Shift yet so i don't know what it said

[notthatrelevant]

UGH, i understand, narratively, why Observation Log of Villainess had to do the episode where they show you how all the events would have gone canonically, but i still hate that i waited a whole week to get no new information and yet another cliffhanger.

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]

[forgottenbones]

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[notthatrelevant]

unironically LOVE it when media uses the sweet bro & hella jeff stairs method of copying the same image/scene into increasingly finer grids to indicate that something is going on for a long time.

[notthatrelevant]

i'm an anime-only (so far) and i gotta say, i'm really thrilled with what seems to be qifrey's descent into villainy.

[notthatrelevant]

Polar Opposites is getting a season 2 this summer!