this manga was canceled so it's not worth getting attached to regardless, but if the idea of a chubby girl love interest appealed to you, DO NOT READ THIS! yes the guy does like her but their dynamic does not become romantic until she loses weight, which he encouraged.
this is a great clip to watch (especially if you’re not from the US) as an introduction to why the phrase ‘systemic racism’ exists; it goes much deeper than skin color discrimination by individuals
earlier in this special, an audience member talked about how utada's songs felt to him like they were about being Human more than they were about a man or a woman, so the music always felt like it was for everyone, and utada was so happy to hear he had that impression ;o;
Here's Utada talking about being non-binary on NHK (which is like the Japanese BBC)!! It's honestly really HUGE because non-binary as a gender identity is still not very well known in Japan unfortunately.
#HikaruUtada
#HikaruUtada
#HikaruUtada25
if looking into the camera and saying the words "I'm Gay" is the only way you can perceive a character is gay then that is a YOU problem, not a writing problem bye
a common trope is the intelligent villain with the bumbling fool of a henchman, but consider: an absolute fool of a main villain with an intelligent henchman who follows this fool to keep them safe because they happen to be hopelessly in love with them
thinking about how el hopper went on one (1) date with max mayfield and it made her feel so happy and at peace that it still exists as her most cherished memory she carries around to this day
not to sound soft as hell but i think meeting people in online games and having kind interactions and just having these temporary little friendships while you play together is very very good and happiness inducing and i don't know why people choose getting mad instead
does anyone else remember that tumblr post that was like "people always headcanon their least favorite character as cishet" and the replies were just 98765 people saying 'mineta'
@AJZan1
no one is demonizing weight loss itself. people are frustrated and tired of feeling like chubby characters only get to be loved if they are losing weight for their potential partner. it is annoying that chubby characters are almost always written around food or weight loss.
random change I noticed from og persona 5 to persona 5 royal:
joker can still say he likes men, or that he likes older women, but NOT younger women anymore.
does anyone else remember that tumblr post that was like "people always headcanon their least favorite character as cishet" and the replies were just 98765 people saying 'mineta'
it's always a good time to remember that dearly beloved is canonically the sound of, not just a heartbeat, but the music made from riku and sora's hearts singing, beating, together
it's been suggested a few times that i collect all the off translations from kh3 into one document/thread. if i ever did that, i'd start with this one because this was so egregious 😭
can't quite put my finger on why but i'm still kind of obsessed with donald and goofy's pirate models in kh3. despite potc being the most "real world" location, they look like they fit so well...
hating kingdom hearts in 2023 is loser behavior. the target demographic of the games is now millennials who've been playing it since the 2000s. if you don't like it you were probably never going to and aren't currently meant to idk.
oh i keep saying i need a byler bottle episode but realized a lot of people don’t know what it means. but you’d recognize it. it’s when there’s an episode of tv that only has a few characters and they’re typically in one room/location the entire time.
persona fandom makes me feel like a genius sometimes because wdym people are freaking out about canon shuake information that was all shown and stated plainly for all to see right in the game itself that you'd only not have realized then if you weren't paying attention
localization is writing btw. i dislike the implication i see very often that localization teams should just translate directly and never take liberties, or that translation is their only responsibility, and neither are true.
(THREAD!)
sooo like everyone else i've been annoyed by the way mike wheeler was written in st4, but it has caused me to reflect a lot on the past seasons and what has and hasn't been shown to us about mike as a person and how that journey has gone for him and i have. thoughts. thread time:
yk what
if, in like 10 years, atlus decided to remake persona 5 for the ps10 or wtv, and they remade the vanilla version, everyone would agree that was stupid when royal exists as the expanded, superior version
those same people are currently cheering that p3 did exactly that
When asked about the Female protagonist for Persona 3 Reload, Wada said he considered it, but development would cost more and take longer than The Answer/Episode Aigis. There’s no possibility for FeMC.
He also said that he wants the Persona team to focus on “new games” as well.
personatwt is so cool i'm just watching a bunch of misogynists try really hard to convince us they're not misogynists and that they're just cheering on "shutting up" a female fanbase and celebrating women losing something important to them bc....? reasons?
@DomTheBombYT
i love anna as ashley portrayed her but i honestly don't care about ellie's "real" dad at all, it's not like he as a character matters, at this point or in the past. i'd rather see more about anna and marlene's friendship.
still haunted by kh3’s ‘true end’ ability being a riku/sora/mickey joint attack with a 7-point summoning circle, what the hell could this possibly be telling us
@WWG
"He's not a major character, which is why this report will come as a huge surprise to many fans"
whoever wrote this article didn't pay very attention to p5 or play p5r...they literally made an expanded version of the game almost solely to highlight his relationship with joker 😭
the cutscenes now being skippable in modern kingdom hearts games is half the reason we're cursed with people claiming they don't understand the story now. their asses are not watching!
We gotta start making cutscenes in games unskippable the first time you see them again I've seen too many "I skip cutscenes in RPGs" posts these past few days
jonathan and will are similar in many ways but i find it super fascinating that they separate most opposingly at will's very literal "i don't want to be a freak" and jonathan's "please think of me as a freak" and how both feelings are for protection in different ways
@LaserBlade
@_shiopan
it's pretty clear. a lot of men seem to have this terrible idea that a lack of protest is the same as a yes, and it's not. YES is the only YES. if you're unclear or don't get an answer, that's a no. sounds like you needed to hear this.
i don't blame the duffers for wanting to do a timeskip to age everyone. with the delays, everyone grew up too fast and now we're expected to believe these two moments happened in the same school year
the fact that when the duffers wrote the "it's not my fault you don't like girls" scene, they said they tried a version with 'yet' added on and didn't like it...hm hm hm it was really important to stress that absolute, that projection. fascinating.
@_QAE0
me and my best friend. we were as tight as two kids could be, until he hit the age where suddenly all girls had to be sorted into 'ugly, gross, do not interact' or 'the pretty ones, for pursuit' and since i was ugly he just stopped talking to me and never acknowledged me again.
the "honey, i'm home" exchange is a fascinating case as it is not an accurate *translation* but an absolutely perfect *localization* and incredibly, the cultural differences not being understood by the other culture resulted in BOTH being misrepresented in fan content --
saw posts going around about the unused costume commentary from p5r, but i haven't seen any translations of the comments goro made about all of joker's costumes, so i translated them! i dunno if there's interest but enjoy!
you know the crazy thing about the byler miscommunication is that it's canon and consistent that they actually usually *do* understand each other perfectly and see right through everything but they're both so in their own heads right now that they're rejecting their own intuition
happy 2 year anniversary to persona 5 royal’s english release, thanks goro akechi for making me feel the most emotions i have ever felt in a single game, thanks shuake canon
i wouldn't reach to apply meaning to it but it's hilarious to think they did this in the game where they introduced a younger girl that canonically has a crush on him. sorry sumi and everyone else but akechi really is his canon love interest bye.
i have to laugh at how 3rd semester goro just never addresses the emotional breakdown and trauma-dump he had in the engine room and keeps going expecting no one to ask about it like he's a twitter gay deleting last night's emo thread and pretending it never happened
it makes me sad when people make fun of the way el speaks. not only is it super ableist and disrespectful but i also can't relate bc i think it's very cute the way she verbally processes the things she hears other people say
sora showing strelitzia pics of his friends on his gummiphone and she's like "oh that's a girl i had a crush on. that's my brother. that's the guy who k!lled me."
@Kalyoshika
i don't read reviews or acknowledge critics of any media but i am surprised i never even saw so much as a viral tweet or neat little analysis video on youtube 🤔 totally just never heard about this
THREAD here goes. this line from MoM. very often i have seen it theorized that this false light he refers to is [kairi] due to the way light was used in CoM and kh3.
that could be it, and i won't claim to know. but i want to add another possible idea: the false light is /sora/
#remindspoilers
hey did you know that in khux, sora’s necklace is not a crown but a star, just like a certain character he looks strangely similar to and has a strange connection with :)
man ): it really is overlooked how traumatic this moment probably was for mike. fearing for dustin but also being (in his mind) forced to risk death *right in the spot where everyone believed will had d!ed* after he'd already been traumatized by finding will's "body" there
i loved the very obvious callback to season 2 but if my mike analysis turns out to be accurate that means will byers is about to go through the most hell ever (again)...it also means mike might be at his side for it though
what el needs and wants most has always been somewhere to belong. a place to call home. she got bullied in lenora and felt like an outsider in hawkins but even when the lab was full, and she was around the only people who she believed could actually understand her, she felt alone
if a character often goes through hardship, non-writers seem to think "wow the writers hate them" but it's so the opposite...most writers put their favs through more bc it's more interesting. if a character gets forgotten about, THAT'S a sign the writer doesn't like them lol
aqua instructed sora to keep riku safe bc she knew riku was the one with the power to use the keyblade. when the position reversed and sora got riku's keyblade, riku became the one whose job it was to keep sora safe 🥺
multiple tweets have gone around commenting on how stranger things fandom on twitter is a disaster bc of how many people seem to have st as their first fandom but i think the fact that it's full of celebrity stan twt transplants is a bigger factor in the awful vibes.
Unused Persona 5 Royal event confirms that Akechi is 100% alive in the true ending.
video :
Credits to
@regularpanties
for finding this unused event
Credits to
@jugglepup
for translating the video.
mike "i'm literally neurodivergent and a minor" (said on the eve of his 18th birthday) wheeler and will "you guys are being so homophobic right now" (said in response to some minor inconvenience) byers
hot take that is actually an absolutely true fact: kingdom hearts ISN'T a game about (strictly) friendship, actually. it's a game about love and connections, and all the different forms and ways it exists between people, INCLUDING, but not limited to, friendship.
as great as this is, the original japanese text was better (and more significant!):
"I wonder what sort of game this is? Yozora looks just like Riku after all, huh... Because of that, that I feel some kind of strange connection..."