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deathberi

#frieren

heaat

アザラシ

#needy streamer overdose #art

csm redraw from 2022

#sweets #🍓#🍰

yuujies

CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC (2025) • dir. Tatsuya Yoshihara

#csm

usernanami

Devil Eye & Ken Takakura in Dandadan Season 2 dir. Tetsuya Wakano, Takuya Fujikura & Yoshihiko Mori

#dandadan

ts4737

momokarun doodle

Probably one of the things I love the most about Momokarun is how they're always in sync with each other, they matched each other's energy and they literally share the same brain cells

I love how it's always been like that from the moment they met and it never changed.

#dandadan

polarity-undisturbed

Man… Dandadan is such a good genre blend of fantasy and sci-fi. It explores both through the lens of Japanese history and culture, and it does it really well.

But then it also does typical anime things—like having weird, over-the-top villains get handsy with its underage protagonists.

And the thing is, it’s not the same as the usual “let’s titillate teenage boys” fanservice you see in lower-effort anime. There’s an actual point here. The series is clearly aware of what it’s doing. It’s critiquing how adults—especially institutions—objectify, dismiss, and exploit adolescents. It’s about the way society simultaneously shames and commodifies young people’s bodies and emotions.

Because without the context to know what it’s pushing back against, it just looks like it’s doing the same tired, gross anime thing. And it becomes incredibly difficult to recommend to people who aren’t already familiar with anime and its tropes. You have to preface it with like three disclaimers and a mini lecture on Anime and Japanese culture.

And it’s frustrating. Because it is good. It’s funny and weird and heartfelt and genuinely thoughtful. It cares about its characters. It takes genre seriously without taking itself too seriously. But I still find myself hesitating to bring it up in casual recs because I don’t want to spend twenty minutes explaining why “no, the horny alien thing is part of the point.”

#deadass!!!!#dandadan #txt