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Maybe Lum thought she could escape Setsubun without getting beaned, but the day's not over yet! Take that, space oni!🤣🫘👹🪐⭐️

I didn't have any dried beans in the house, so i made a rubber stamp.🫘

And a construction paper box.

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reposting this lum drawing I did on December

plus this thing I did testing the animation feature on ibis paint

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Good morning, sweet Lum!

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♡☆♡ nagara icons

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Sonny Boy #08

Storyboard/Episode Director/Animation Director: Keiichiro Saito

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This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say.

You will be warm again.

Invitation by Mary Oliver / Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb / Sonny Boy Ep. 12: A Two-Year Recess / Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes / Solaris by Stanislaw Lem / Holly Warburton / The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath / Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett / Vincent van Gogh / On Earth we're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong / The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski / Tomorrow I'll be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou / Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

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Sonny Boy is a really interesting to pick apart because it's one of those shows where you feel kinda dumb for not following what's happening, but everybody is saying things that sound confident and correct so you just kinda assume that you missed something, only to go back later and realize "oh, we're just bullshitting this, huh?" I think it's extra sneaky because the first few episodes are actually very good at setting up some weird sci-fi scenarios, and it's a fun puzzle to try and figure out what's happening, and all of the rules make a kind of cosmic sense in the same way that good Doctor Who is able to construct an episode around completely made up alien timey wimey nonsense but it all works because we can follow the explanation and it matches up with what we've watched. It's only about halfway through the show's plot folds into itself and collapses under the weight of its own silly nonsense- like bad Doctor Who.

I find this a lot more forgivable though because, for one, it's only 12 episodes, so the relative fallout really only impacts like... 3 and a half episodes. Maybe 4 total, if you add it all up. For another, at a certain point, Sonny Boy doesn't really care. It makes a token effort to continue the narrative, but it's really at its best when it gives up on explaining things and just... is. When it realizes that none of that really matters. And that lets it push its premise to its logical extreme and takes the show much much farther than you would expect for only 12 episodes.

It helps that I really like the ending. Sonny Boy is an isekai, of sorts, but I think it falls better into an older niche category called Portal Fiction. Classically, this is where you get stuff like The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Alice In Wonderland, The Wizard Of Oz, etc... I read a lot of Portal Fiction as a kid. It was my favorite genre, but my favorite part, the part that really got my brain bubbling, was the ending. See, one of the enduring qualities of Portal Fiction and isekai to an extent, is that it is transparent about the fact it is telling a story. We get engrossed in those stories in the same way the characters do, and at the end of the story the characters return to the Real World, and we are returned to real life. What the characters do at the end of the Portal Fiction informs what we were meant to take from it, but it's also the point where the characters feel the most real, the most complete. It never feels like it lasts long enough. It's what makes the last episode of Sonny Boy so brutal at first, and also so special. I finally got what I wanted.

There's more I want to talk about here... honestly if anything ever gets me to finally make the dreaded Video Essay (tm) it'll be this. I also think my own personal experience contributed a lot to my enjoyment. Confession time: I never vibed with FLCL. I've watched it through a few times; it just doesn't line up with my experience growing up, or what I was dealing with. Sonny Boy does. If there's one takeaway here, I guess it's go watch Sonny Boy. It's really shot up to being one of my favorite anime of all time. It's not gonna be for everyone, but I think the people who like it will really like it. And uh... don't feel like you have to understand it to get it.

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Mizuhø Køyama Icøns... Vol.1

I høpe grandma's cats are økay...☆

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Sonny boy

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Sonny boii 🧭✨

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★ 【JLT4n】 「 Mizuho 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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The Pumpkin Wine doodles!

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the kabocha wine its the cutest, can you draw more please?

L! (L) L is in love!