#anime diary

[theekawaiihotgirl]

Gachiakuta 5

Rudo getting accepted into his new lil family 🥹🥹🥹

That’s so fucked up those raiders ambushed them. I love Zankas fighting style so much, and I can’t wait to see him go against Jabber 🥵

All the fanart I’ve seen of Janka is…illuminating. You may continue.

[valon-days]

there's nothing quite like watching sports anime to make me believe in myself (aka convinced, committed, not merely placated, calmed)

bec whatchu mean they gotta push their bodies past its limits and achieve new heights just to win?!

and then they gotta do that again after winning?!?! and yet they fully believe they're gonna win?!?!?!?! every damn time?!?!?!?!?!

yeah, there's no arguing against that. and anyway, it made me realize to turn off my "logical" brain for a hot second

i realized emotions don't just mean feelings, like say, feeling sad, but it also means (1) instinct or gut feeling or hunch, (2) desire or want or wish, and also (3) conviction or belief or faith

(i could be wrong tbh but idc abt that rn)

bec they're all not rooted in logic or observable things. ie there's no rhyme or reason to them. they just are things we feel, that may or may not stem from our experiences in life

and yet, i thought, well, there's a reason we kept them as a species (aka it's useful)

so yeah, in this coming year, 2026, i won't let self-doubt hinder me anymore. i'll just go and do it (and have fun doing it!)

btw if any of y'all wanna watch, it's Medalist, a story abt an 11-yo girl, named Inori Yuitsuka, who wants to become an Olympic figure skater. the catch? she's late to start training

it hits all the self-doubt shit i entertain in my head, and yeah, i know it aint real but like, what the character is going thru is smt real ppl go thru

i watched it on Disney Plus, but it's also on other platforms, so if you wanna watch, go ahead

TLDR. i'm gonna treat writing as a sport and myself as both athlete and coach

[angeloftheodd]

Maya the Bee: Willi in the Sonovision Dub vs. Saban Dub 🐝

Sonovision Dub - Left

Saban Dub - Right

I'm noticing the difference between the coloring and shading in both of these Maya the Bee dubs. I am also contemplating the other differences that exist between the Saban dub and the Sonovision dub of Maya the Bee as well. The nature scenes featured in this anime have always enchanted me, so I pay a lot of attention to its details. The details that distinguish one dub from the other make each one more intriguing to explore.

Each dub has its own beauty. The Sonovision dub has retro 70s appeal, which is especially due to its funky soundtrack. The Saban dub was modernized for the young audience of the early 90s. I immediately recognized that the voices, accents, and music scores featured in these dubs are very different from each other.

But still, as I was watching the Sonovision dub, I noticed that although the details were clear and good, something else was different: I distinctly remembered the coloring and shading of Maya the Bee being brighter in the Saban dub I watched as a child. Now that I've placed screenshots from the same scene (Willi enveloped in a flower) as featured in each respective dub, I can confirm that the Saban dub I saw did have lighter coloring and shading than the Sonovision dub.

I finished watching the Sonovision dub of Maya the Bee a little while back, so I'm watching what I can find of the Saban dub now. Yes, the details on the Sonovision dub's screenshots are clearer, but now that I've put them side by side with Saban dub screenshots, I see that the coloring and shading absolutely differ between the two.

Sonovision released their dub for the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1980. Although the music composition in this dub is credited to Karel Svoboda, its voice actors remain unnamed and unknown. In the Sonovision dub, all of the characters speak with upper-class English South African accents.

I began watching the Sonovision dub on October 16, 2022. I finished watching the last episode of the Sonovision dub on January 7, 2023. The date I finished is significant to me because I was born literally 2 days after the Saban dub began airing on Nick Jr. (United States) on January 1, 1990. That dub's last air date on Nick Jr. was December 31, 1992.

Meanwhile, Saban was responsible for releasing their dub of Maya the Bee with Canadian voice actors from Montreal. That's the dub that 90s kids like myself grew up with. A significant amount of the episodes are considered lost media. I'm grateful to watch whatever remains of it because it gives me a cherished glimmer of happiness I had as a child.

The Sonovision dub is full of charm. Nonetheless, the Saban dub is the first anime I remember watching, so it will always hold a special place in my heart.

📖 Source: Dubbing Wikia

[restekova]

it’s also interesting to see that, much like soul eater, which had very well-rounded, well-written and three-dimensional female characters like maka and a character whose gender was deliberately ambiguous like crona, while at times blatantly sexualizing and objectifying the bodies of characters as young as maka including maka herself and pretty much every other female character, there are aspects of fire force that show a level of human decency and even progressiveness on behalf of the writer and then simultaneously there are all of these aspects that are just really awful. it’s literally like there’s a good, rational, thoughtful person trapped inside atsushi okubo but it’s kept in check by the fact that he just can’t stop being unbelievably fucking horny all of the time, and as a result everything he makes is cursed to do these constant weird flip-flops between woke and terrible

[hinakonotediary]

[theekawaiihotgirl]

Gachiakuta 7

ZANKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! The man that you are 😭😭😭😭🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Also that frame of rudo and Zanka right before Jabber attacks them is literally like a movie poster. I need someone with skills to make a mockup. And they hauling ass in this fight??? I can’t help but stan them as a duo.

Also I identify more than I’d like with Jabbers masochism. I will not be elaborating.

lol at rudo asking his father about masochism 😭

DAMN this fight didn’t end well 🌚 and it was hard to see rudo break down over the talisman.

I looooooovccee how jabber uses his venom in fights, that’s such a creative power. Still dangerous to him tho. But mostly to everybody else. I hate this nigga being horny during a fight tho PUT YOUR ZICK AWAY sir.

This lil blue haired girl is who exactly? Guess we gone find out. How she just appeared behind him was cool as fuck tho. Wonder where the hell they disappeared to.

Rudo having an instrument in a “series”? I’m so excited to see that lore!

Enjin stop being dramatic please 🙄 glad he told Rudo he did good.

[theekawaiihotgirl]

Gachiakuta (2025)

Ep 4

Riyos vital instrument is so cool, I love when people fight w scissors, loved it in Kill la Kill too. Can wait to see more of her 💁🏾‍♀️

It’s good to see Rudo being brave but I’m excited to see him level up again. It’s only ep 4 tho, we got time! His negative self talk was so sad 😢

But Enjin coming in with the buzzer beater >>>>>

We also got introduced to Jabber at the end, he seems like a dope villain already. I looooooove a good villain. Makes me wanna go watch Teen Titans (2003), Slade is one of my faves.

Semiu is who I am in my head, I live!

[valon-days]

finished reading Firefly Wedding and the ending SUCKS

i think i'm gonna write fanfics abt what i think a better ending could look like

but for now, i'll distract myself and contemplate other things