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this is how kamen rider episode 69 opens

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I found a new photo editor so here's more of these

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what it feels like if anyone were to ever ask about my OCs and/or world

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“Oh, but Ace Combat MUST be a direct, americanistic political analogy, all the Bad Guys fly Flankers! Isn’t it saying the guys who fly Russian jets are evil??”

The first game to prominently feature a Flanker-flying antagonist spent literally its entire story mode exploring how he was, despite being on the wrong side, a deeply caring and kindhearted man who found mutual humanity with the narrator, a young kid whose parents it’s heavily implied he accidentally killed. The entire game builds up how despite the greater conflict going on around them, people share a mutual humanity and that war is a deeply unnatural thing that puts barriers between folks who otherwise would have been wonderful for one another- you kill the love of his life, leave his nation in ruins, and when you finally kill him, you leave the narrator devastated, the whole vehicle of the story being in the form of a letter he’s writing you in the hopes that you’ll understand a man that was, to you, a faceless mook, and that he believes Yellow 13, despite it all, would have forgiven you.

He’s the Char Aznable of the whole goddamned series, and antagonists flying his aircraft- up to including the “antagonist” of 7 (a grandpa and former prince who lost everything but his family and his urge to fly, things he clings to even as his body fails him and the world leaves his generation behind,) has always been a callback to him.

Plus Flankers are fucking cool and are treated as one of the best aircraft in every game, and the “bad guys” fly every other kind of American, European, and Japanese aircraft too.

Because it’s not a simulator of reality. It’s mecha anime, exploring concepts in a setting that is wholly fantastical, yet points to parallels in our own world and goes “makes you think, huh?”

Reducing it to a direct parallel to our own reality minimizes a series that has always has more to say than your empty-headed Call of Duties or your Medal of Honors of the world.

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My hot take right now is that Ace Combat isn’t and has never been a 1:1 representation of real-world politics or history (except for Assault Horizon, but it was bad so who cares,) but instead is an exploration of politics and philosophical questions on the nature of war mixed with a deep fascination on machines that often verge on and act in a way that is completely fantastical. It tries to convey its lessons and its themes not through the events of the greater war, but through the interplay of characters swept up in the greater conflict, who are inevitably characters surrounding the principle protagonists and antagonists, all ace pilots.

What I’m saying is, Ace Combat is and always has been deeply political- and antiwar- but also loves the Really Cool Machines that do the war. Ace Combat is a mecha anime.

Ace Combat is Jet Plane Gundam, and is subject to the same misrepresentations as the latter.

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Jet Jaguar: Project M-11, a Japanese fan film from the director of Zella: Monster Martial Law, with Robert Scott Field reprising his role as M-11.

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I kinda hope we get a sequel to the Gamera anime coming out just so we can challenge further scrape the barrel’s bottom

And give Gamera a different type of threat and buildup, 

Barugon, the notably missing first monster fought by Gamera in the franchise, could be played up as an out of context problem if all the monsters in the first eps have a shared origin with Gamera.

Barugon’s plain appearance combined with dazzling rainbow powers  is a fun combination, turning things on its head and surprising unfamiliar audiences spoiled on all the outlandish designs in the previous season

Zedus could be fun playing up resemblance to Godzilla 1998 and having them on the run from Gamera and eating humans under his nose, and with a few powers that neutralize Gamera ala Showa Gyaos. Could be a weaker monster than Gamera but having some powers from multiple previous foes and using them intelligently. Fits tonally with their expanded universe backstory for movie appearance as a lizard that became mutated by feasting on Gyaos corpses

Garasharp

Made for a 1991 disc, but often mistakenly assumed to be from a never made film, Garasharp has potential as a biomechanical weapon made to kill Gamera.

Spaceship Zanon from Gamera Forever, the copyright infringement stock and stock footage movie

The clear arc villain, and it would be a fun challenge to redesign to be less copyright infringment. First thing I’d do is make the giant radio dishes retractable and look  magazine about its construction for ideas on what element to emphasize

The Gamera 2000 videogame could be referenced for additional minions.

The meme the legend, the cameo : Marukobukarappa

An inside joke based on concept art that got their own toy, their official title is “Elusive Unused monster”. This wacky oddball emerging from the wreckage of Zanon would be a perfect sendoff.

Other possibilities include the never made King Ghidorah cash in known as “W”

Perhaps Hainezura, the electrical(?) mole alien monster from Manga Boys Special Edition: Gamera.

Many moles lack eyes, and this monster instead has eyes that only look downward. A good scary compromise

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It's Gamera day

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Gamera Rebirth dropped today!

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Shin Godzilla (2015) Shin Ultraman (2022) Shin Kamen Rider (2023)

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"Dragonslayer"

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In honor of Shin Kamen Rider coming to streaming today, here is my favorite tweet about the movie that I think about constantly

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シン・仮面ライダーカード 96 K.K Augment on the Phone

"Hello" K.K Augment's sempai in the organization is Kumo Augment, whom he adores. Whenever he messed up on assignment, or whenever he was scolded by Sasori Augment, he always called to consult. However, Kumo Augment was killed; he would never answer the phone again. "Unforgivable, that Rider!" Shaking with anger, K.K Augment swore to take revenge for his sempai.

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