beautiful and the east

Made in Geo🇬🇪, love Pol🇵🇱, Is🇮🇱 and Az🇦🇿

[dangerousbride]

Toph!! 🪨✨ [Spicy version 💓]

[sobcat]

wood whittled przewalski horse

[vahvah]

I was scrolling through my feed and it turned out that Himaruya gave us a new character, Brazil. And... well, of course, ANOTHER sweet boy. Whom the fandom will immediately start shipping with some other guy who happened to be standing nearby.

Thank you, Himaruya, you've destroyed a couple more original characters who were much better and more soulful than anything you've produced lately.

I just hate this. It's further proof that Hetalia has long since turned into the equivalent of "Geopolitical Boys," pure fan service for yaoi fangirls, with no chance of becoming a significant title in the otaku community.

[vahvah]

i kinda hate pedro pascal

[mattefun]

Manwë and Varda as the painting "The Kiss" - Gustav Klimt

[vahvah]

People often talk about how Sukuna as "the inner demon sealed within the protagonist" is completely different from Kurama, as he is much less friendly and unwilling to share his immense power with Yuji.

Well, I think people have forgotten how sinister, how CHTHONIC Kurama was originally. I mean, think about it - in the beginning, the Nine-Tails was presented to us as the embodiment of human hatred that appears before people during times of war and unrest, it was a natural disaster that normally changes geography. And when we saw it inside Naruto, it was almost always a huge scarlet eye pulsating in the darkness of the cage, bared fangs, or huge claws trying to get at the protagonist. We very rarely heard it speak intelligently, and when we did, it was almost always curses or promises to share power, which did not bode well, since it put Naruto under the control of the Nine-Tails. Yes, he shared his power with Naruto, but he did it to avoid (temporary) death and because by doing so he gradually broke the seal that was holding him back. After the timeskip, Naruto would get angry more easily and release more tails, completely losing control, i.e. it didn't go unnoticed. Having the Nine-Tails inside his body greatly limited Naruto's life, and I'm not even talking about social isolation in childhood.

I'm not sure if Sukuna is right to compare to Kurama before he became a full-fledged character (i.e. shortly before switching to Naruto's side), because the Nine-Tails was more of a plot device for a long time. You can't say any of that about Sukuna, his story is told to us (briefly) right away and immediately he acts like a reasonable, albeit extremely vicious person. He had plans, even some social connections. And I can't say that refusing to help Yuji is something smart or realistic. Kurama didn't give Naruto chakra out of good intentions. In fact, it's even strange that Sukuna didn't think of psychologically processing Itadori from the very beginning, in order to slowly break him - ironically, he behaves like a rabid animal, and not like a demon-tempter.

I don't want to say that one is better than the other, but one is not worse than the other, you agree.

[vahvah]

One of the funniest and most meaningful things that came to my mind was the parallel between Aizen and Castiel.

Just think about it: a celestial being finds out that the God/Creator that everyone worships and supposedly listens to, finds out that God is actually long gone and that a few high-ranking kindred are in charge. And rebels. And then decides to replace God himself, using the power of human souls.

Well, that's funny, yeah.

[vahvah]

It's hard to describe in words how wrong the way Mayuri's fight with Pernida ended - both in the manga and now in the anime.

To be honest, Mayuri has never been my favorite character, because the "mad scientist" archetype, when implemented not for fun, suggests something terrible and monstrous, which we, unfortunately, know well from our history (why go far, we can remember the experiments on people during World War II). Usually, such characters become antagonists - and extremely unpleasant and frightening antagonists, like Orochimaru before the sealing.

In the case of Mayuri - what can I say, we were shown and told how he uses his subordinates and enemies as guinea pigs, EVEN AFTER THEIR DEATH, how he gets sadistic pleasure from dissecting, dismembering and studying intelligent beings, as was the case with the Quincy. We were shown how he treats Nemu - and, okay, when you kick someone who serves you loyally and protects you, that's a very low point in character development, especially if it's your own child. I don't understand and can't understand how after that, without the slightest remorse for all the horrors he's done, Mayuri is presented to us almost as a proud and loving father who simply didn't want to show his weaknesses.

All this turns poor Nemu into a victim of Stockholm syndrome, in short.

[vahvah]

Vibe is of being a OP character who is limited due to his terminal illness, has grey hair due to his illness, is always nice to everyone, loves children, and sacrifices himself.

[annes-andromeda]

Alicent Hightower they can never make me hate you😤

[vahvah]

Tolkien: All Quendi had fair skin.

American artists: that means we can randomly make them black, right?

[ceeezsquid]

[simon-newman]

Those people who hate on the western civilization and it's monuments should be abandoned in a cave in the middle of nowhere.

Make a living without the thing you hate so much why don't ya?

[vahvah]

Okay, okay, just imagine if Valentine had randomly chosen an alternate Diego who was the greatest patriot of the British Empire and a follower of Cecil Rhodes. And he was like, “yes, I will protect our thirteen, oh, excuse me, our FORTY-THREE royal colonies, Governor Valentine. The Queen will not forget you! ZA WARUDO”.

[daydenmax-drawings]

2019/2023

Rzeczpospolita

[richard-cllow]

Yavanna, giver of fruits, queen of the earth 🌱

[vahvah]

Every time I think about how Tobirama created some of his jutsu, it makes me… well, let's just say it FUCKS me.

Okay, okay, I know a lot of people have probably talked about this and written about it, but let's think about it again. The point here is not even that in the world of "Naruto" the existence of the soul and life after death is objectively known, and most likely before Tobirama created Edo Tensei (and this, of course, explains why the characters so easily treat them as their own, and to the death of others). It’s not even that Tobirama, knowing this, decided to not care about the will of dead people and once again return them to the “impure world”, where they must fight according to his will - and for this he needed their DNA. And not even that LIVING human bodies were used as vessels (yes, there were no White Zetsu then).

But. Jutsu have been created over the years. It took Minato four years to complete the rasengan, but it’s just a ball of chakra, it’s not even a ready-made jutsu, because Minato couldn’t and didn’t have time to add elemental release to it. How long did it take Tobirama to summon souls from the afterlife? Did he immediately realize that someone else's life would be required in exchange? He probably should have known that Shinigami wouldn't allow something like that to be done for free. But even taking this into account… how many prisoners of war, criminals and some other people whom the state does not feel too sorry for did Tobirama kill? He couldn't have developed Edo Tensei just as a theory, otherwise how would it have been known that the original Edo Tensei was much weaker than Orochimaru's more advanced form?

So yes, he probably experimented for a long time. Secret from Hashirama, MOST LIKELY. Thinking about this, I imagine something like Lovecraft's "Herbert West", where the dude spent years plundering the graves and corpses of recently deceased people, injecting them with various solutions until he succeeded (of course, in the process he created several indescribable monsters that became cause of his death).

And Tobirama dealt with all this, hell, he even came up with such an idea, NOT being a maniacal psychopathic nihilist like Orochimaru… Dude is really cold-blooded.

[vahvah]

Yes, as it was rightly pointed out to me, in 619 ch. becomes clear that Hashirama knew about the creation of Edo Tensei.

[deidaraismypassion]

I haven’t bothered to research this to make sure, but I do believe that this is Tarou Okamoto, the artist that Deidara’s works were based on. Here’s some info on Okamoto: X

And here’s the source: X