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You misunderstood, he didn't want Emily to fight not because she was a girl, he didn't care about that, especially since Eplison who was a girl in the show fights alongside him constantly and he has no problem with it

The reason he didn't want Emily to fight was not because she was a girl but because she was a robot child not made to fight. Astro believes robots shouldn't have to fight humans and humans shouldn't be harming robots, seeing a little girl change everything about herself and risk losing herself to fight against humans when they could just do it themselves and not have to risk it is why Astro was so against it.

It was also meant to be a moment of Astro being protective and worried over Emily the same way Oshay was protective and worried over him in the begining, but for an understandable reason. He likes Emily for who she is, he knows she has a family to get back to and watching her change herself and lose who she is to become a child soldier is what Astro didn't like and what the episode was trying to display.

For the fandom ask, what’s your least favorite cannon thing about Atom?

Oh that's an interesting one, I think I never felt negative feelings abt the little guy before KJSJKSKJ genuinely love pretty much everything abt his character from the versions I've wacthed

Ok, this is very specific, but I kinda hate that episode in 2003 where there's a robot girl (Emily, I think) who wants to turn into a warrior to save her parents and Astro is all "no, she can't do it, she's just a girl!!"

And like, I GET it, I do understand that he hates fighting and will place all that burden on himself if needed. I love that abt him. But I kiiinda felt that the episode (and Astro by proxy) was leaning on the fact that Emily shouldn't fight because she's a girl?? not in the sense of being young, but being a woman?

Maybe I misintrerpreted it or something was lost in the subtitling process but as it stands, that was the moment I disliked Astro the most. Come on my guy. Tho I don't think abt it a lot bc I blame more the general writing than his character

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No you don't understand, in every iteration of Astro Boy Astro has to "die" atleast once, sometimes more than once

Ah, okay

I see

Makes sense…?

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Watching the She-ra reboot after 5-6 years

Hey remember that show in 2018 that came out on Netflix during Tumblr's Twitter era and stirred up enough toxicity to turn you into Dave the Skeleton in the highschool science classroom?

Well BUCKLE IN for a RIDE cause I recently watched that show for the first time after avoiding it for YEARS, after seeing the fans and the haters be so devoted to either the fans praising it like a godsent deity or haters devoting their whole life to finding something wrong with every aspect of the show that it makes you wonder if they realized that they've become the Catra that they sought to destroy, I decided to avoid even touching the show and went about my life in other fandoms.

Well years have passed and like a Hallmark movie time abruptly went on and the drama soon faded, the tides have settled, the war has ended, and neither side remains the same. The fans have grown up, matured and enjoy the show as it is and the haters have lost all that sweet sustenance back in 2019 and have went the ways of the DoDo. With everything finally settled, I joined in on the rush of new fans recently that started rewatching the series and wanted to display my thoughts as well as a first time watcher ^^

I went in well aware of all the criticisms in mind, and having seen the original She-ra, and I just gotta say that my worrisome thoughts on watching it was completely washed away from the start of the show. I was worried of Adora being that one marysue character that is from the bad guys side but is actually a good a guy with the personality of white bread and with flaws of just being "a little bit QuiRkY" but she completely shooed away those fears. She is a well balanced character with a unique and well done backstory, her character breaking away from the steriotypical chosen ones and her having flaws that don't take away her being a good person but instead have their own charm and relatability that makes her very fun and down to earth. She is so golden retriever coded and I love it. What I like most though is that she wasn't "random main character comes in to lead everyone to victory out of nowhere" , instead of making her the unsaid leader, they made her the main character who is the muscle of the group and part of the heart and has to learn overtime and understand their ways instead of making her the leader. It makes way for her to pave and earn her way as being the main character instead of it being given by default by making her the leader and I love that break away. And that break away also helps to counter the fears I heard about the white savior trope by making Adora the way she was and making Glimmer and Glimmer's mom the queen the actual leaders of the rebellion that they helped start.

Love the best friends squad, I love Glimmer's growth and her bond with Adora, I like how she went downhill and built herself back up again as a person as it was very realistic with her being so young and having to replace her mom as queen. Bow is my spirit animal, period, but I really want to know more about his huge family. I imagine that because they are all historians they must go to the academy or similar academies that Bow was meant to go to and I can see why they wouldn't question him not being there as 12 siblings is A LOT to keep track of. Swiftwind is great but he shall always be known as Horsie and the queen's sacrifice hurts everytime I see it, I love how she owned up to her own flaws. Shadowweaver messed up being a mother figure 3 times, she needs parenting classes fr, 'nough said. I love all the princesses but Mermista is my personal favorite. Also why is aunt cast named Castaspella, I can't even say it without dying of laughter 💀🖐️

Now I know some of you are sitting at your computer with 5 monsters in hand and sweat anxiously dripping from your forehead as you dramatically hover over the keys just WAITING to write a five page essay response if I even dare to utter the name Catra and her relationship with Adora. So, I'ma give you my opinion.

Honestly, their romance was the end goal since the beginning and the story made that clear and honestly I like Catra's growth as a character from her knowing she has anger issues and actively working on it to better herself, helping to save others and helping to save Adora in the end. Her realizing that pushing others away to protect herself only harms her and everyone around her in the end and her realistically taking it slow and steady to better herself as a person for herself and for Adora is something a really like. Yes their relationship was hella toxic, especially in the middle (but I do like how Adora recognized that and punched Catra when they were in the portal). The build up was great, the middle ground of her doubling down was great, and I think her growth at the end was great and that the two are happy and not in a toxic relationship with eachother anymore at the end. I think what truly makes it odd is although the redemption was great the time constraints made it so they couldn't flesh it out to help answer and address the past actions that were caused by her, they did so great with her slowly becoming better and better, and so it wouldn't have come off as bad as it did if they had just a bit more time to address everything with that instead of being forced to dive right into it which definitely left a- well- less than good impression to it's audience. But they tried their best with what they could do and honestly for a show as surprisingly dark as this I'm just glad they aren't in a toxic relationship anymore and are happy in the end and that Catra got redeemed. It definitely wasn't trying to romanize abuse, however it came off as such due to constraints and them rushing the ending which gave plenty of ammo to people who already hated the show to have a reason to hate it more. In my opinion if you don't like it that's valid, if you do like it that's valid, me personally I'm not a romance person so I couldn't care enough either way.

Now to address some things I know some people are waiting for, but in speed run fashion. Mara's She-ra design was the fault of the designers not agreeing on what they wanted her to look like, I was expecting her to have brown flowing hair not blonde, I get the stripping of individuality message they tried to go with, it just needed better designers and better execution but that's as deep as it goes. It's not that they are racist, they are more along the lines of "you need a more organized team cause her design changes every five seconds like wtf" kind of situation. I'm glad they didn't automatically forgive Hordak or accept him but I'm glad he was changed enough to not be a killer that's mass murdering people anymore and as long no one is dying by his hands anymore and people don't automatically forgive him then that's fine by me, whatever keeps others from dying a horrible unnecessary death.

Overall, in conclusion, love the show, great depth, great characters, love the humor and amazing magical girl transformations, awesome rep, stronk princess punching things, would most definitely recommend, especially now with all the wave of chaos it's initial release sucked in now evaporated. (Seriously there are full tags and blogs deticated to hating a show about glowing princesses fighting aliens, it's okay to not like a show but come on people there is more to life than that 💀) Enjoy it, have fun, and I hope you have a great day/night! ^^

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My contribution to the Danny phantom phandom

Phandom: "Ghosts are definitely dead people who come to haunt earth as vengeful spirits"

Butch Hartman: "Erm actually ghosts are just monsters in another world, they aren't actually dead people-☝️🤓"

A Glitch in Time:

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I want to ask, how do people in China actually view Lego Monkie Kid?

No doubt that Lmk fandom as a whole has a major issue with drowning out the voices of people in China and the fact that this show is based on genuine relfion and mythology that is taken, from what I've heard and seen, quite seriously.

Now I've been a fan of the show for a very long time, so much so that it got me into researching and learning as much as I could about it jttw and the religion and mythology behind it all, which led to some interesting things I've noticed about it and the show as whole.

For one, lmk killing the Jade Emperor so quickly and easily was a bold move, seeing as it's the equivalent, from what I've seen, of taking Jesus and easily disintegrating him by throwing him down a flight of escalaters so hopefully they have an explanation for that later on. There's other things that have been pointed out like it not lining up 100% with the book and some minor things here and there, and people not understanding things cause they never read the book or because some things were changed and it was misinterpreted. However at the same time there have been many jttw adaptions (with this one being unique as it's more of a 'sequal') with some made by America and some made by China that also make changes here and there, from what I've seen and heard that are also loved.

Which leaves me a bit confused and to genuinely ask, how do people in China view lmk? Is it good or bad? Is it respectful or disrespectful? And is it okay for one to like and enjoy the show like me and many MANY others have been? I know it might seem like a silly question, but to overthinkers like me and many others out there (Yeah I see you), it can be pretty draining to think about how you could be enjoying a show that is harming others without you realizing it. So now I created this posts to hear your thoughts on it ^^

I do ask that it is kept civil as it's meant to teach and educate, not offend others or tear people down. I hope to hear your thoughts and learn more about all of this ^^

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Before everyone freaks out, no Tobio was not originally a robot, he has always been a human child. This was just one of the many confusing time travel shenanigans in the original manga, which had many different outcomes, including this one, the manga was crazy back then 💀

Wait WHAT?

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Hamster and Gretel, oh boy..

Now we are gonna move past the unforgivable and horrendous act of this series being greenlit and given a second season immediately over giving us more Murphy's Law which, unless this show proves it's worth, I will not be forgiving anytime soon, but anyway let's talk about the actual show itself.

It's honestly not that bad. The more I watch it the more I find myself enjoying Gretel and Kevin's relationship and of course Kevin is the TRUE protag of the story (no one will convince me otherwise, we all know it's true), his character is PEAK. I genuinely like the songs, hamster is amazing and Fred is a MOOD. I like the concept of an alien species giving someone powers and then also creating villains for them to fight as well. It's actually a pretty cool concept and makes you wonder what is more at play here. I also LOVE the songs, as usual Dan's shows produce hella bangers. I also love the relationships and dynamics between all the characters.

HOWEVER

I like that they made Kevin the center focus but I'm gonna be frank, I DO NOT like Gretel as a character (so far, this is obviously subject to change as the series goes on). First of all Gretel's face makes me hella uncomfortable everytime I take a second to look at her. Her smile doesn't have any emotional weight behind it so it loses all meaning (with her character in general being as bland as white bread with no crusts, but I do respect the accurate ADHD they added to her character) and on top of that her smile is so unnaturally wide and her eyes are so big and she sticks out like a sore thumb amongst her friends and family to the point it feels uncomfortable. I get they wanted to make her overly cute but that's less cute and more reaching into uncanny valley.

Milo's wholesome smile and character was optimistic and cute, so was Isabella's, even their pets. But Gretel? I'm sorry but it looks like she is staring into my ever waking soul and plotting my demise as we speak. I'm a younger sister myself and I understand where they were going with her character, believe me, but OH MY GOD can she GRIND MY GEARS sometimes with her character and choices.

They made such a good realistically optimistic and calm yet still remorseful and caring character when it came to Milo, they treated it all with care and gave his gentle smile towards his shitty situation so much weight but with Gretel they made her optimism intentionally over the top with no other parts of her character aside from her having ADHD and nothing else, along with the fact she normally succeeds in nearly everything she does, and rarely ever see her need or try to fix mistakes she'd made on her own, and all this makes it to the point that she just feels- soulless to me and I don't like it. It rubs me the wrong way. I love the ADHD representation but they could've done a hella a lot better with her character as a whole, especially with her being a character meant to represent and inspire others.

I stand by what I said that people need to stop treating optimistic characters in media as a bad thing and projecting their issues onto them, but it's a different story when you have a character who is completely hollow and only has an over the top amount of optimism to the point it becomes boring and diminishing because that's all they are. I'm sorry but her character, to me, is like the embodiment of a children's song that is so repetitive you wanna replace your ears with cotton balls.

This show has so much potential and I love so SO many things about it, but they still have A LOT of work to do, especially with one of the heroines of the story. Here's to hoping season 2 will, hopefully, be better than the first one and they'll patch some things up at bit.

And no, her being a little sister doesn't justfy her character as in both pnf and mml they main characters were younger siblings and they were not like this, at all.

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Ty! I wanted to give you credit has you had an amazing point but most people don't see reblogs unless they look in the reblog section and this topic deserves a post of it's own. But didn't know you could link responses like that :0, so I guess I learned something new today ^^

Society needs to stop projecting onto optimistic characters

"HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN!?"

Each one of you COME HERE

I can't BELIEVE I even have to SIT HERE, AT THIS TABLE CUTTING INTO MY VERY GOOD ICE CREAM HOURS, JUST TO TALK SOME SENSE INTO ALL OF YOU GUYS

Because I SWEAR TO GOD you all should KNOW BETTER by NOW, but apparently you don't so now here we are

@mysteriesofmilo made a good response to my earlier post about Milo Murphy's law and how much of the criticism towards the show, the little circle that does exist, are people complaining about Milo, THE LITERAL *CHILD*, not having constant anxiety and mental breakdowns about the massive wave of destruction that is out of his control that follows him around. Because according to YOU GUYS god forbid the 13 year old child be calm and collected in a horrible situation and actually tries to see the good in this shitty situation he has been dealing with since birth. God forbid the 13 year old child sees the fun adventure of it all instead of going MENTAL according to ALL OF YOU.

And this is a HUGE problem not just with how some people view this show but with how all optimistic and calm characters are viewed as nowadays by people. The fact that seeing a child who, despite having his moments at times, being a reasonably optimistic and calm person in a horrible situation out of their control is viewed as an "unsympathetic" "selfish" "and borderline sociopathic and psychopathic" person is a very VERY HORRIBLE thing and I SHAME people for that. Because that is not valid criticism, that is projecting your feelings onto it and hating it because of that.

And don't think I'm just the cheeto covered ipad kid typing away here, I'm a psych student, I know some things about this and now I'm here to tell you, yeah YOU right there reading this through the screen, yeah you need to revaluate your life choices if you are projecting your problems onto a cartoon CHILD of all things, or any optimistic character for that matter, you have some personal things you gotta work out. Just because they are in a shitty situation doesn't mean they have to be anxiety ridden and miserable, just because situations are happening that are out of their control doesn't mean they need to have constant mental breakdowns, and just because they aren't anxiety ridden or breaking bit by bit doesn't mean they don't deserve to be upset when they do finally get upset about it. Don't we always tell people to not blame themselves for situations out of their control? And yet when a character displays that in a very healthy way we get upset. Why is that? It's horrible, no one wants to address it either which makes it worse.

It GRINDS MY INNER GEARS that as a society we have devolved so much that when we see a child in a horrible situation actually trying to be calm and optimistic we view that AS A BAD THING. Do you realize- come here do you REALIZE how HORRIBLE that sounds?? And we are doing it constantly. Calling them selfish? Unsympathetic? And everything else under the sun just because they are happy when you can't be? Oh give me break, that's not valid criticism in this kind of situation, that's projection. Because the only selfish, unsympathetic people I see are you all that do this and it needs to genuinely stop. Because if that's how you view realistically optimistic and calm children in a TV show where it's incredibly well done and treated, then god forbid how you react to children IN REAL LIFE that act THE SAME EXACT WAY in these situations.

And no, it's not me being upset about a cartoon character's treatment, I'm UPSET because it shows how much we need to do BETTER and be better as people as this problem has been going on for years and honestly, people need to find a way to step back and revaluate themselves before the character projection becomes irl projection later on.

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Nah that's just Zeus's younger cousin Bruce

Look at me dead in the eyes and tell me that this is supposed to be Zeus - because I can only see Jesus in it 🥲

Jupiter more specifically, given the fact that the painting is based in Ovid's work

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Society needs to stop projecting onto optimistic characters

"HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN!?"

Each one of you COME HERE

I can't BELIEVE I even have to SIT HERE, AT THIS TABLE CUTTING INTO MY VERY GOOD ICE CREAM HOURS, JUST TO TALK SOME SENSE INTO ALL OF YOU GUYS

Because I SWEAR TO GOD you all should KNOW BETTER by NOW, but apparently you don't so now here we are

@mysteriesofmilo made a good response to my earlier post about Milo Murphy's law and how much of the criticism towards the show, the little circle that does exist, are people complaining about Milo, THE LITERAL *CHILD*, not having constant anxiety and mental breakdowns about the massive wave of destruction that is out of his control that follows him around. Because according to YOU GUYS god forbid the 13 year old child be calm and collected in a horrible situation and actually tries to see the good in this shitty situation he has been dealing with since birth. God forbid the 13 year old child sees the fun adventure of it all instead of going MENTAL according to ALL OF YOU.

And this is a HUGE problem not just with how some people view this show but with how all optimistic and calm characters are viewed as nowadays by people. The fact that seeing a child who, despite having his moments at times, being a reasonably optimistic and calm person in a horrible situation out of their control is viewed as an "unsympathetic" "selfish" "and borderline sociopathic and psychopathic" person is a very VERY HORRIBLE thing and I SHAME people for that. Because that is not valid criticism, that is projecting your feelings onto it and hating it because of that.

And don't think I'm just the cheeto covered ipad kid typing away here, I'm a psych student, I know some things about this and now I'm here to tell you, yeah YOU right there reading this through the screen, yeah you need to revaluate your life choices if you are projecting your problems onto a cartoon CHILD of all things, or any optimistic character for that matter, you have some personal things you gotta work out. Just because they are in a shitty situation doesn't mean they have to be anxiety ridden and miserable, just because situations are happening that are out of their control doesn't mean they need to have constant mental breakdowns, and just because they aren't anxiety ridden or breaking bit by bit doesn't mean they don't deserve to be upset when they do finally get upset about it. Don't we always tell people to not blame themselves for situations out of their control? And yet when a character displays that in a very healthy way we get upset. Why is that? It's horrible, no one wants to address it either which makes it worse.

It GRINDS MY INNER GEARS that as a society we have devolved so much that when we see a child in a horrible situation actually trying to be calm and optimistic we view that AS A BAD THING. Do you realize- come here do you REALIZE how HORRIBLE that sounds?? And we are doing it constantly. Calling them selfish? Unsympathetic? And everything else under the sun just because they are happy when you can't be? Oh give me break, that's not valid criticism in this kind of situation, that's projection. Because the only selfish, unsympathetic people I see are you all that do this and it needs to genuinely stop. Because if that's how you view realistically optimistic and calm children in a TV show where it's incredibly well done and treated, then god forbid how you react to children IN REAL LIFE that act THE SAME EXACT WAY in these situations.

And no, it's not me being upset about a cartoon character's treatment, I'm UPSET because it shows how much we need to do BETTER and be better as people as this problem has been going on for years and honestly, people need to find a way to step back and revaluate themselves before the character projection becomes irl projection later on.

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Milo Murphy's law, holy shit

HOLY CHEESE N CRACKERS, I HATE SOCIETY BECAUSE OF YOU PEOPLE

LISTEN, LISTEN, SIT DOWN AND *LISTEN*

I was watching a popular video on YouTube about Milo Murphy's Law, now despite the people in the comments having a collective trauma boner they can't get rid of, yes I said what I said and you'll know why, everyone OUTSIDE of that confined space actually agrees it's a funny, happy, underrated show.

BUT OML YOU PPL IN NEED TO GET A GRIP CAUSE HOL-Y SHIT YOU PPL NEED *THERAPY*

Because in that comment section everyone was complaining that "Oh Milo doesn't care about the stuff going on around him" and "It would be so much better if he was constantly filled with anxiety" or "I always wanted him to break down and cry about the things going on around him" or "he should feel guilty about the things going on around him and have a breakdown"

No, NO, STFU, RESPECTFULLY MIND YOU, BUT STFU, THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS AND I'M TIRED OF IT

Milo cares, he clearly does as in every episode he's helping everyone after mistakes get made because of the jinx out of his own kindness, even going out of his way to do his best to avoid stuff. He's just happy and positive and nonchalant about the outrageous comedic calamity that follows him wherever he goes not because he doesn't care but because he's dealt with it since birth, he stays optimistic and prepared as that's all you can really do. Being upset constantly, although justified, would not help or fix anything. If you made him constantly sad, guilty, and depressed constantly over the things he can't control (mind you he has gotten upset because of it before, multiple times) then that would ruin the whole message of the show and of Milo's character that Dan tried to display. Which is that things are gonna happen sometimes that are out of your control, but what matters is making the most of it and enjoying the things in life as they come. As even when they are bad, that doesn't take away the good that can happen. It's okay to get upset over things out of your control, but sometimes the only thing you can do is make the most of what you have and find enjoyment through the daily life of chaos.

But NOOO ppl would rather have this literal happy optimistic child in a hilariously chaotic and shitty situation be constantly depressed, on edge, anxiety ridden and guilty because if we can't be happy in that situation then they can't be either, and in the words of Milo Murphy "Does that sound like more fun to you?"

SO yeah, if you are trying to make something dark and depressing to be more relatable then take a good, HARD, look at yourself and revaluate. This child should NOT be upset because nothing that happens around him IS HIS FAULT. It's, let me repeat, literally OUT OF HIS CONTROL. And yet he STILLS helps everyone around him constantly DESPITE THAT.

We gotta stop getting upset at realistically positive characters in shitty situations and immediately getting upset that they have an optimistic outlook where we wouldn't. That's not to say don't take every situation not-seriously when it's needed (Which they have taken serious situations seriously and respectfully mind you), but for the love of god people need to stop self projecting. We all have our own traumas, and it can be validating seeing someone in your same shoes, but that doesn't mean every happy character needs to be as upset as we are.

Maybe, just maybe, they can serve as a happy reminder that, no matter what comes your way, sometimes there can be good found in even the craziest and shitty situations. That maybe, just maybe, we all need a bit of fun and happiness and optimisim in our lives because bad things are always going to happen that's out of your control. But what matters is focusing on the good in our lives.

Also before you say "WeLl It Was SaId Milo Wouldn't WaNT a CuRe foR MurPhy'S laW-" No, Milo's best friend assumed he wouldn't want that, that's not saying he wants to keep it because he likes it and will let ppl suffer because of that, but it was literally stated, and displayed in many other shows that use Murphy's law in a literal sense, that the "cure" for Murphy's law is literally passing it on elsewhere or onto someone else, and that was literally stated in the show too later on. Milo wouldn't want that and Melissa knows it. She also knows if there was a cure, they would've found it already, which means there is a reason why they still have this curse. Murphy's law is who he is, and him having it keeps it from affecting someone else, even if it causes problems he tries to see the good in having it around.

(And P.S., before you say "BuT tHe PaF Crossover MaDe ThIngS-", NOPE GET THAT, ALTHOUGH UNDERSTANDABLE OPINION, OUTTA HERE. It's a Dan run show, he's gonna do crossovers, he's gonna connect the two together and Doof being brought back as the fun uncle in the house with a platypus friend is amazing. You don't have to like it, but you gotta accept that others do.)

So, people, as a society, DO BETTER

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Honestly it's hardly even Tezuka productions themselves. All they really wanted to do was make an origin story for the Professors as they make it very clear they were besties in every iteration before shit went south later on. The problem is the author went into a different direction and made very odd, particular, and sometimes straight up strange decisions with the manga. For example the age ranges of Tobio's parents, the weird conflicting affects of the time travel plot, etc..

It has a lot of potential to be amazing if they can just get on the same page of what they want to do. Because it doesn't take a wiz to be able to notice what chapters were made by Tezuka pro and what chapters were made by the author. However, I do say Oshay and Tenma being besties is amazing and are very very well written characters and, I will state for the record, PONTA *NEEDS* TO BE A OVERALL CANON PERSON IN ITERATIONS HER CHARACTER SLAYS

as much as i like atom the beginning, it will always be a mystery to me how it has survived for so long, because as far as I know its ultra unpopular even in japan, the anime wasn't good and kinda bombed and i don't think the manga sells well, so I'm just assuming Tezuka Pro is sinking all this money and effort because they're set in making hirouma real

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This. This right here. I love this. I love everything about this and he needs to be protected at all costs

Scratches head I haven’t posted here in a little… but look Astro boy oc :3 his name is riko and he is my baby

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Oh boy, not again

I put this in a reblog but since this is my take on the whole situation I'm putting it in it's own blog.

Oh boy this is the situation that get brought up once in a blue moon, but I will say for certain that a hornet's nest was not kicked, and I also believe everyone needs to breathe as well. There is a reason why most people active in the Astro boy fandom on Tumblr and elsewhere are mostly ignoring this, because this was talked about many times before. It happens every once in a while and the rock has been turned over so many times the only things underneath it at this point is the same old same old. Honestly, if it helps, I did a whole multiple post discussion with someone doing some really thorough and intense research about Tezuka's past and the racial allegations. And no, he was not racist, everything about him and his past and the things he did proved he wasn't. He was pro transgender, he was pro anti-racism, he was pro anti-war and conflict in general. He fought for all these minorities to have rights, because that's what he truly believed.

But if he fought for these things then does some of his work display the opposite? What a lot of people don't realize about Tezuka was this was stuff he believed all along, but had to learn overtime how to properly get his points across. A path that looks easy was because the thorns were paved over. He fought against racism but has drawn the racist style black people were drawn in as he didn't know it was racist, and when he found out he stopped and asked others how they would prefer to be drawn instead. Tezuka met a girl that was inspired by one of his stories who explained her hardships and relations to it and that caused Tezuka to treat the woman characters he creates more gently. He was also part of the communist party for a year before leaving it.

The stories he creates are filled with the stuff he learned and the stuff he stood for. That's what made them impactful, that's what made him the father of manga. His arc as a person was reflected by the stories he wrote and in turn it influenced and grabbed the hearts of many across Japan and the world. And he still keeps his work open to the public despite him not liking a good amount of his old work, he doesn't erase those mistakes he made. He learns from them and reflects that in his later stories.

So yes, you are right, Tezuka was not perfect nor was he a bad person, he was a guy trapped in a world at war and used his experiences, the lessons he learned, the believes he fought for and put them in his stories and it was always a 50/50 because every one he did was him basically throwing his ideas, any ideas, he had about things in his world, into this new world, and he was bound to have some trips and slips along the way when doing so.

His mistakes don't take away him being a good person, those mistakes and his growth are what gives the good he has done and the good person that he became a huge amount of merit. Because he learned, he grew, and he achieved. He was human, just like the rest of us, and he fought to be a good one, and for the rights of others. That's who Tezuka was, bumps, trips, and all.

So let's just enjoy funny lil traumatized robot child and other creations we are able to enjoy now. Because as Tezuka himself said, stuff like this helps bridge cultures together. It's not meant to drift us apart. Because in all honesty, I hate having to talk about it whenever this keeps getting brought up, and I'm sure you all are too.

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Don't worry, you didn't kick the hornet's nest. There is a reason why people in the Astro boy fandom on Tumblr and elsewhere are blowing this over, because this was talked about many times before. It happens every once in a while and the rock has been turned over so many times the only things underneath it at this point is the same old same old. Honestly, if it helps, I did a whole multiple post discussion with someone doing some really thorough and intense research about Tezuka's past and the racial allegations. And no, he was not racist, everything about him and his past and the things he did proved he wasn't. He was pro transgender, he was pro anti-racism, he was pro anti-war and conflict in general. He fought for all these minorities to have rights, because that's what he truly believed.

But, what a lot of people don't realize about Tezuka was this was stuff he believed all along, but had to learn overtime how to properly get his points across. A path that looks easy was because the thorns were paved over. He fought against racism but has drawn the racist style black people were drawn in as he didn't know it was racist, and when he found out he stopped and asked others how they would prefer to be drawn inside. Tezuka met a girl that was inspired by one of his stories who explained her hardships and relations to it and that caused Tezuka to treat the woman characters he creates more gently. He was also part of the communist party for a year before leaving it.

The stories he creates are filled with the stuff he learned and the stuff he stood for. That's what made them impactful, that's what made him the father of manga. His arc as a person was reflected by the stories he wrote and in turn it influenced and grabbed the hearts of many across Japan and the world.

So yes, you are right, Tezuka was not a bad person, he was a guy trapped in a world at war and used his experiences, the lessons he learned, the believes he fought for and put them in his stories and it was always a 50/50 because every one he did was him basically throwing his ideas, any ideas he had about things, into the world, and he was bound to have some trips and slips along the way when doing so.

His mistakes don't take away him being a good person, those mistakes and his growth are what gives the good he has done and the good person that he became a huge amount of merit. Because he learned, he grew, and he achieved. He was human, just like the rest of us, and he fought to be a good one, and for the rights of others. That's who Tezuka was, bumps and all.

I appear to have kicked a hornet's nest

I just saw the response @burakku-jakku posted to an ask I got, which was in response to the video I posted this morning.

I want to state for the record NO I do not think Tezuka was bad, NO I do not think Tezuka was racist, I think he was a complicated person with a complicated body of work. Like, watch the Frankenstein episode of the 1980 Astro Boy anime. It could literally be used to teach Critical Race Theory, if you wanted.

I think he was a guy who grew up in wartime Japan and was dealing with the baggage of a changing nation, a nation that was both wartime aggressor and wartime victim. I think his work was complicated. Sometimes good and aspirational, other times kind of questionable. But that's just being human, and being an artist, and especially being an artist on the frontier of society.

The context that got lost in all of this is, I'm writing a research paper for university about Tezuka, trying to grapple with this complex history and place it within a larger discussion about postwar Japan and changing ideology ([1], [2]), and all of this started because I just, had a funny idea for a video about what it's been like researching my paper. If you have any interest in a genuine dialogue, here is a free, legitimate source for the paper that I mentioned in my other post, that led me to realize that there were similar themes in Metropolis.

Insofar as racial and gender mixing in Metropolis, this was in the context of the aforementioned paper. I advise you read it. It makes the case that Tezuka often uses the literary device of a 'doomed hybrid', only cleansed through death or rebirth, and the adjacency of that concept to Japanese hemato-nationalism. I was making the case that Mitchy, being caught between human and artificial, being depicted as 'between' genders, and dying the way that they did at the end of the comic, is another example of such a 'doomed hybrid'.

For my part, I'm sorry for any offense I caused.

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First of all, amazing art and spectacular OC! ^^

Secondly, this reminds I will always love the idea of a group of teens/kids on their own living and surviving in a robot junkyard and the fandom needs to make it more common fr, I wish it something shown in the 2003 series because there is so much that can be done with that concept and it deserves more attention

Benji - Skinniest waist on this side of the robot junkyard 🤖💃

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I NEED TO SAY THIS

Botan is one of the best things to come out of ATB, I love the friendship they gave between Tobio and Botan, it's perfect and she deserves sm more than to be in the manga with that odd plot between the two going on, not referring to the detective one, SHE NEEDS MORE REACH THAN THAT, ATB DOESN'T DESERVE HER I'M TAKING HER AND TOBIO WITH ME, THE BESTIES ARE NOW MINE AND I WILL FOREVER HOLD STRONGLY THAT SHE IS IN THE OFFICIAL PROLOGUE IN MY BOOK