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New Armor Legend Samurai Troopers

not on my bingo card for 2025 but Sunrise is making a new Yoroiden Samurai Troopers Anime and I am freaking out

The series debuts in January, is set in modern Shinjuku, and features five new Armor-bearers including Gai, the Rekka bearer (Wildfire). We get flashes of the rest of the team, with their virtues displayed on the back of the neck and in a more archaic font:

(These are literally pictures of my tv) See also:

excuse me I have to get back to screaming now

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Binx!

For @doodlejoltik

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Sephiroth in FS: FUCK YOU ANGEAL LEAVE ME ALONE STOP TALKING TO ME EAT SHIT AND DIE 💀🔥🔥🔥🔥

Sephiroth in Crisis Core: Hey I know there's like no context to me talking about this but did you know I fucking LOVED Angeal he was so amazing he used to lecture me all the time haha what a guy anyway Angeal left so life isn't worth living anymore I think I'm just going to starve myself and be depressed because Angeal was kind of the center of my universe and he's the only reason I'm here and also we should have gotten married 🩷

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I need more possessions/reincarnating to work like this:

Youko: Had to flee into this baby's body to hide , but the minute this body can walk on its own I will leave this human woman!

*Gets the most wholesome and sweet mother*

Youko Kurama: So no hard feelings, but gotta save my mom by any means necessary.

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My access code: 76CFWNC

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Sometimes you just wanna be a raccoon and eat a hardboiled egg in your hands nibbling on it.

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just your typical father daughter bonding

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And here's the boy!

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Anyone else waiting for their Nintendo store invite since all their other options ran out?

if I would've known it was a lie to get an invite i would've gone with the midnight rush on April 24.

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The original was taken down because the bad actors within saw their bullying published.

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i now step back upon my “taokaka should have been the main character of blazblue” soapbox (though truthfully i never leave it housing prices are surprisingly reasonable on hills you choose to die on) to give another reason as to why her being the MC would have been really fun.

Specifically, she would have been the fighting game equivalent of Kirby. Allow me to explain.

Alright, so the biggest thing about Kirby games is that the lore is surprisingly deep and dark and full of ancient evils and long dead heroes and wish granting living stars and all that junk, while Kirby himself remains blissfully oblivious to all of it.

The reason being that he’s a basically good hearted kid with a relatively simple view of the world who is, coincidentally, the latest, and possibly last, in a long long line of super powerful warriors. So he just sees a bunch of jerks who steal his cake or wreck his house or make his friends sad so he just saddles up to make ‘em quit it. And he does make ‘em quit it. Every single time.  

And because he always makes ‘em quit it he continues to be his happy jolly oblivious self, while he makes the lives of the people around him better just by being positive and friendly. He’s surrounded by people more serious or selfish than him, but they all defer to and trust in him because he’s proven himself, over and over, as a good and capable person. He’s their friend, Kirby, he’ll find a way to sort this all out just fine.

There’s a bunch of similarities between Tao and Kirby; they’re both big eaters, neither of them have any clue about the wider lore of their setting (Kirby because he’s a naïve kid and Tao because she’s naïve but also…kinda dumb), both of them are a part of a lineage of great warriors (Kirby is a Star Warrior while Tao is the clone of Jubei, one of the Six Heroes who fought the Black Beast), and both of them take a relaxed view on life.

If Tao had been the main character of Blazblue; the story would have shaken out something like so: Taokaka goes out from her village to find a way to get money to buy food. She meets Ragna, who she remembers from a wanted poster, and goes to fight him for that money. Problem; she’s hungry, so she forgets that first thing and says that if she beats him he has to buy her food. 

Ragna is like, “alright fine whatever, weird cat…”, because this is just this random weird cat girl he can beat her just fine. And than she beats him. Trounces him, really, and he can only lay on his back in disbelief. While the cat girl cheers about her victory and impending meal, Ragna can only think that that beating was…oddly familiar.

He buys her food, cause he promised and he doesn’t want to get beat up by the cat girl again, and she’s really happy about it. Really happy. Oddly happy, They finish and he leaves…and the cat follows him.

“…you got your food, what else do you want?”

“Huh? Waddya mean Good Guy? Tao wants to hang out with Tao’s friend!”

And so Taokaka hangs out with her friend. And suddenly she has to deal with a bunch of weirdos trying to fight her friend, so she steps in every time and gets them to quit it. NOL officers, Noel, Jin, all the way to Nu. She just beats them all up because they keep trying to hurt her friend and nobody hurts Taokaka’s friends.

Just, imagine she gets to Hazama/Terumi, and he takes off his hat and does his laugh and he goes on this big speech about his plan and AMATERASU and all that anime villain shit…and Taokaka just scratches the top of her head befuddled and asks “…sooo, Tao didn’t get most of that, but are you saying you’re the reason Good Guy is grumpy and sad all the time?”

And Terumi can only really blink at her slowly and go, “heh, you know what? Yeah, that’s basically the gist of it.”

And Taokaka nods cheerfully, “Okay! Tao gets it!”

And than she beats him up. Beats the absolute shit out of him. And Terumi is a mix of rage, panic, and terror. Because this is like fighting Jubei. No, this is like fighting Jubei if he had no regard for his own physical well being or for the integrity of his environment and was somehow both utterly stupid and completely mental.

And this repeats for every major villain in Blazblue. All the other Arcade Modes have each character struggle against their inner demons and these cruel villains, while the Canon Story is Tao’s Eventful Afternoon where she meets a bunch of weird guys, befriends them, and then meets a big scary nightmarish villain who she beats up with her big puffy sleeves (full of knives) until they quit trying to hurt her friends.

It would have been rad, is all I’m saying.   

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I love that Big Bird means two very different characters.

A very pleasant and friend shaped yellow bird from Sesame Street.

A large cute black orb with a lot of eyes who's friend shaped. Until a certain agent causes it to escape for the 10th time today.

Truly the most different of experiences.

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Final Fantasy Stranger of Paradise is what I like to call the peak overly complicated plot with a side dish of: stop trying to retcon stuff to make it deeper or in this case nonsensical.

Why do you want to screw up your first and honestly most perfectly fine game. Plot was simple: Princess gets captured by evil knight, four smucks go to save her, go off to fix the crystals and helps others on the way, fight the four fiends draining the crystals, and uh oh remember the knight? Now he's become the demon Chaos and the last time looped hero smucks got turned into bats now it's up to you to beat Chaos once and for all.

Don't need some explanation for why Garland turned into Chaos, retconning the fiends to be tragic like it's some modern Disney remake, or whatever that plot thing was with the elves. Sweet Raptor Jesus Christ, I fear how they would mess up Final Fantasy 6 with this current track record.

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