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[tobiasdrake]

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[whyamihereat4am]

Look I don't think Supergirl (2026) is secretly a perfect masterpiece or anything (I personally thought it was like. a 6/10 fun time) but I do think it's wild that Tumblr isn't going crazy for it because this Kara is one coattailed suit away from being a Tumblr sexyman. she is the flawed messy female character people have supposedly been clamouring for. she's the popular archetype of a gruff self-destructive alcoholic middle-aged man begrudgingly having to look after a kid and growing fond of them but genderswapped and also 23. she's allowed to be visibly messy and kind of gross and her hair is constantly all over the place and she literally cries, screams, throws up, and pisses onscreen. she's caustic and mean and puts up an act of carelessness but has a heart of gold. she's heavily traumatised and coping with it terribly. if anything happens to her dog she will kill everyone in this room and then herself. she spends most of the movie in a trench coat and baggy band T-shirt. she gets into bar brawls and breaks a guy's hand. she is Going Through It 24/7 and looks the part. she stabs a guy in the throat. how is everyone else not obsessed with her.

[willowwhirll]

Just watched supergirl and oh my god i am so obssed with the fact that we have a female main character and shes sloppy and snippy and rude and an alcoholic and messy and flawed. And yet shes still able to be kind and good and be an inspiration to people. All while not having a romance and while not trying to appeal to anyone. This is what everything should be.

[tobiasdrake]

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2090 - An Actual Problem

Day 4. Finally, we're ready to go. We've got everyone onboard.

Where did the time go?

No, for real, what were you doing with all of that time?

G!!!

Was that you!? You have to tell me if that was you. Those are the rules.

How do we know it wasn't you? I could have been doing things for all you know.

What things? You don't do things. Since when do you do things?

I don't have to share everything. I have a life outside of you, you know.

No, you don't!

Nothing says "We made the right choice" quite like walking into the room to see the main person pushing this choice (and blackmailing us) slapping himself in the face.

Don't worry, there's plenty of hard rocks and broken gravel for us to sleep on. We'll be fine!

Seriously, I hope we stuffed our bedding and shit into packs for this trip. We're not just going out there blind and hoping for the best, right? Because I am not using concrete rubble for a pillow. I'm worth more than that.

The Tsukumo sibling tension begins!

...did you just quote Fury Road?

For some reason, I did not expect that to be in your media diet, Bestie.

I can vouch for that. Her death was incredible in Killing Game Route.

Oh, Takky....

In the other timeline, Parallel Leap Hiruko and Takky show up and I'm pretty sure Hiruko extracts G out of your head before she can do you any harm.

But here in this one? She might be an actual problem.

You know I can hear you, right?

I hope you can!

[tobiasdrake]

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2089 - Gory Visual Novel Death Scenes

Day 4. We did it. We broke through! They really believe us now!

Motherfucker!

No, no, they have a point, Takky. Everything about their lives was artificially generated so a record of it must exist in Sirei's mainframe somewhere.

Nothing you've said here couldn't have been gleaned from a Kamukura file somewhere.

Bestie, it will distress you to learn that the route where we kill each other and the route where we play a Killing Game are, in fact, separate routes. Disappointing, I know.

Okay, now we're bringing in Shion! Let's go! I'm ready to--

Or we can resort to common blackmail. Sure. Why not. I guess that works too.

I do!

-> Shouma's dog pees on his face while he sleeps. -> Ima works at a host club, which you've already alluded to and intimidated him about. -> Kako has visions and often sleeps in the same bed as Ima even here at the Academy.

Darumi's invulnerable. No amount of blackmail can penetrate her trauma-dump shields. She doesn't care who knows her darkest secrets. She shares them openly and no one ever cares.

And I've got nothing for Takemaru. Maybe he accidentally ran over a squirrel on his motorcycle once on his way to knock over mailboxes, and then didn't give it a proper burial.

Good enough! That's three out of five holdouts. That means we win by majority.

Like I said, not really receptive to blackmail. But that's okay because she needs the group anyways.

For what it's worth, Bestie, I'm partial to the chapter 2 execution in Danganronpa V-3, and also the Axe Ending of 999 was chilling the first time I encountered it.

[tobiasdrake]

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2088 - Twenty Future Questions

Day 4. We haven't exactly managed to persuade very many people here. This is not going well.

Ooh, is the ace Shion? He isn't affected by the Bloodspace corruption yet so he should be good to vouch for us! If he isn't still too mad at us for killing Eito, which he might be. That was just a couple days ago.

Okay, so we're not going in with Shion. We're playing the Twenty Future Questions game. Why did you need time to prepare this, Takky?

Oh, this should be rich. Go ahead, Takky. Let's see how much attention you paid the fuck to my goddamn Bestie in your first cycle.

Well, you got one, though it's pretty tame. You left out the part where he beats her when he loses.

You sure moved on from Darumi awfully quick, Takky. You dropped half of a trivia fact and then sped off to the Tsukumos! Don't think I missed that!

Again, I'm not sure why we needed time to prepare this appeal. Nothing that was said in here couldn't have just as well been said in front of the Murder Board.

[tobiasdrake]

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2087 - Fuck This, I'm Out

Day 4. Well, this isn't going well. It's hard to get people to agree with us when nobody likes or trusts us.

Considering both the scope of the government cover-up and the incompetence of this mission, I feel confident saying that that's precisely how we all got here, Takemaru.

You're correct. The timescale speeds up dramatically, though Day 7 is still the next attack.

Or he wrote it. That's also a possibility.

Wait, what?

Oh, yeah, this could still be a prank despite everything. Well, not a prank. More of a trick.

Sirei being killed today and Gaku being killed tomorrow obscures it as a possibility. But these two things aren't necessarily connected to this message. Gaku could have written this message hoping to scare us into abandoning the LDA, having no idea that an actual killer was about to strike. There is a nonzero chance of this being a coincidence.

You want to bet on it?

...bet on who wrote the message?

Sure. I'll bet that I wrote it.

...is that a confession, G?

Could be.

...are you just fucking with me? Or reverse fucking with me so I don't realize you actually did it?

...I miss when we just cracked jokes at each other and discussed whether or not Takky is dumb.

Tsubasa and Hiruko are on Team Fuck This I'm Out!

Maybe it'll be for the best if some people stay behind! We can go get the 2LDA crew and if no murders happen tomorrow then we'll know that we took all the murder with us when we left.

You heard my Bestie! Everyone who wants to ride with a sadistic girl, come with us! Everyone who wants to play a Killing Game, stay with Darumi!

Well, of course you want to play the Killing Game. It's your fucking Killing Game.

Well, of course you want to play the Killing Game. It's Sister Dearest's fucking Killing Game.

If it makes you feel better, Shouma, you pretty quickly no matter what happens in the other timeline. You're simply not built for surviving Whodunits and Killing Games.

[tobiasdrake]

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2086 - For Science

Day 4. What if we agreed to leave the school when the ominous message warned us to?

Ooh, are we finally going to learn who could have been responsible for that cruel fate that befell Gaku?

Y... Yes?

Hopefully?

...do you already know? Because it was you?

I neither confirm nor deny anything.

What, you think the big red spraypainted message on the board might be a message? That sounds ridiculous. You're being ridiculous right now, Takky.

Have I ever told you how much I appreciated that, Takumi? Because I appreciated that.

So did I. He's an asshole.

We're definitely going to need someone with more credibility to back us up. Our political capital is shot right now.

That'll do it. Thanks, Bestie!

If you can't find a good reason for people to side with you, find a bad reason for them to side against you!

Let's go, folks! Line up! Team Takky or Team Darumi! There are no other options so don't ask.

Oh fuck me, she wants specific details about the future of this timeline. She wants to hear about the Killing Game and/or murder mystery in order to give our testimony credibility.

That's a good angle. Crashing at 2LDA would meet the criteria of "LEAVE THE SCHOOL", to be sure.

I'm not sure it's exactly what the killer had in mind with this message but to be honest, I'm not sure what the killer had in mind at all. Are you, G?

Hmm? Why are you asking me?

No reason.

It should! You die tomorrow!

He does! Violently!

No! Put it on you! And let me watch!

For, uh, culprit identification reasons, of course. We must let Gaku be murdered again. For science.

[tobiasdrake]

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2085 - Cornered Yet Not Identified

Day 75. What if we tried to stop Eva?

That sounds like something THE KILLER would say!

Wow. I'm surprised that actually worked. I thought for sure we were going in the cell again.

So now what? We sit around admiring what a good job we did cornering yet not identifying the killer in the least?

Or Eva can lose it. Sure. Why not.

Okay if she was going to blow herself up either way then what was even the point of her whole ruse just now?

Meanwhile, in a mysterious cave far from the Last Defense Academy, a small girl flops around impatiently.

Kamyuhn: WHERE THE HELL IS EVERYBODY!?!?

098.5: Mystery Route: Did I Forget Something?

[tobiasdrake]

According to imdb, Digimon Tamers episode 18 was written by Genki Yoshimura. Not only has she written the script for most of Ruki's important episodes, she was also the series compositor for Digimon Adventure 02 and wrote the script for some of the most important episodes for that show, including Raidramon and Shurimon's evolution episodes, Ken's post-Kaiser sabbatical and Paildramon's Jogress episode!

Wow, she's a really good writer. Strong grasp of character themes and how to use them to build a narrative.

[sunset-gal]

Update: Genki Yoshimura, in addition to writing a good amount of important Ruki episodes, also wrote all the Ryo spotlight episodes...either she had her hands tied or her range is incredible.

[tobiasdrake]

As a kid I hated Ryu/ryo and his introduction to tamers because he did come across as a a Marty sue instantly better and cooler than all of the characters we have been following esp rika and then I got older and learned he was from a video game series and I realized it kinda made sense on how he was so experienced and knowledgeable but I still dislike him.

They couldn't have given us the taichi from the zero one adventure manga instead?

Yeah, that seems to be a lot of people's impressions of him. And mine! So I feel that.

[sunset-gal]

Personally i don't hate him(except the shipping with Ruki, in which case he can die in a ditch) it's more like eye-rolling apathy and a belief the show would be better off without him, if that makes any sense?

[aparticularbandit]

I actively despise him BECAUSE of the shipping with Rika and how the show treats her as the result of him.

[tobiasdrake]

Was suddenly struck with an idea: Maomao in the Avatar world, assigned to be the royal Poison tester for Azula

You know what, I'd watch it. Especially if it serves as a much-needed opportunity to develop Azula more as a character.

[krinsbez]

Not sure Azula would put up with Maomao's...Maomaoness, though?

[tobiasdrake]

I think Maomao would figure out pretty quickly how to act around her.

Azula craves human connection but only understands relationships through the language of dominance and control, because that's all she ever learned from her father. She wants the loyalty of friends and family but the only way she knows to get that is by dominating them through fear.

Maomao knows how to navigate that kind of environment. She's very experienced with court politics, with the complexity of a political environment where saying or doing or knowing the wrong thing might see you beheaded.

And she's also very good at transactional relationships, which is a language Azula would be more comfortable dealing in than emotionally sincere ones.

[tobiasdrake]

Digimon VA Trivia: Majiramon's VAs are Masahiko Tanaka and Bob Papenbrook, who also voiced the first Deva, Mahiramon. Meanwhile, Caturamon's VA is Kouji Ishii, whose other roles include Gekidrago in Pretty Cure, Giovanni in Pokemon Masters, Garland in Final Fantasy, Mojo Jojo in PowerPuff Girls, and Yosemite Sam. In English he's Tom Wyner, whose other roles include Death in Castlevania, Devimon in Adventure, M. Bison, and Takato's Principal

Yosemite Sam, Garland, Mojo Jojo, and Giovanni. It's going to be impossibloe for me to take him seriously now. XD

"I'll get that rassin'-frassin' varmint Culumon!"

[tobiasdrake]

If i had a nickel for every time one of Culumons scribbles performed a miracle I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but its nice that this time it didn't summon a demon.

It did attract the attention of two Devas so I wouldn't be too sure about that. :P

[tobiasdrake]

Something i noticed from crossover episodes in Japan is that they are not afraid to make them plot important(as opposed to western shows which mostly keep them self-contained) Like, for example, in Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger every single crossover episode has impacted the plot in some way, from minor things like inspiring the characters new mecha to literally containing the biggest swerve of the series and bringing back a character from the summer movie into the show!

Yeah, that is surprising.

Another example is Dragon Ball, which features a crossover with Dr. Slump in the Red Ribbon Army arc during which Goku receives a new Dragon Radar to replace the one General Blue stole from him.

Goku never recovers the stolen Dragon Radar. For the rest of the series, the cast uses the recreated one created by Dr. Slump crossover character Turbo, a super-intelligent baby with psychic powers.

Whereas American media tends to prefer crossovers to be skippable standalone specials.

[tobiasdrake]

If you wanted to try and make ryo in tamers the same ones from the video games and still have him have family you could either 1. He took over his tamers universe selfs body

2. Like Miles Morales in the comics because he did a solid for effectively GOD, his family got moved to another universe too.

It'd still be weird to suggest that he has a Tamers universe counterpart. That would imply that the Tamersverse is like the Marvel Multiverse, where everyone has an exact doppelganger in every universe.

Which, weirdly enough, would be plausible. Since Tamers is set in Shinjuku and Adventure in Odaiba, that could totally be a thing.

You could totally establish that we don't see any of the Adventure characters wandering around because we're on the opposite side of the fucking city from where they are. But if you happened to go to Odaiba you could catch a Teen-age Wolves concert and see Miyako and Iori munching popcorn in the crowd; It's just that none of these versions of them are Tamers and they've never heard of the Digital World before.

And if the Adventureverse crew went to Shinjuku they might see Takato playing Yu-Gi-Oh with Hirokazu and Kenta in the park.

That could totally be a thing, if they wanted to establish it that way.

But then if you're going to do that then it also kinda defeats the purpose of having Ryō be the video game version at all. Like. If every Adventureverse character had a Tamersverse character and vice versa, then there's no reason to not just have Tamers Ryō just be Tamersverse Ryō.

[tobiasdrake]

Man, why do humans suck so much at fighting robots?

Poor tactics. They keep trying to do things like punch the robot in the face instead of doing tested and proven anti-robot tactics like spray-painting their optic sensors or ejecting their battery packs.