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Welp, since @emiliasilverova tagged me…

Carnation pink and Lupin III. I have too many favorites so I choose the one who does wear pink.

Tag game!! . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ ✨

Birthday colour vs favourite character.

Link to birthday colour

Tagging: @white-flower-blooming // @shaxxophone // @queerferalgremlinnooneaskedfor // @31duskballs // @weepingpussywillowtree // @subtlybrilliant // @jadedzer0// @icarus-suraki // @oneiro-nautical // @fismoll7secinv // @princessofxianle // @quilleth //

૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა if you are not tagged but want to join, please feel free to reblog this post with your results and favourite character, I'd love to see it!!

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Tag game!! . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ ✨

Birthday colour vs favourite character.

Link to birthday colour

Tagging: @white-flower-blooming // @shaxxophone // @queerferalgremlinnooneaskedfor // @31duskballs // @weepingpussywillowtree // @subtlybrilliant // @jadedzer0// @icarus-suraki // @oneiro-nautical // @fismoll7secinv // @princessofxianle // @quilleth //

૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა if you are not tagged but want to join, please feel free to reblog this post with your results and favourite character, I'd love to see it!!

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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

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soft ᡣ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶𐭩 ♡

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CASINO ROYALE 2006 | dir. Martin Campbell 

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Mothra: Truth or dare?

Godzilla: Truth

Mothra: How many hours have you slept this week?

Godzilla:

Godzilla: Dare

Mothra: Go to sleep!

Godzilla: I don’t like this game

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Magic Kaito: Police Soirée now Remastered!

[Read: Police Soirée (警官がいっぱい), Remastered Edition!]

So Magic Kaito took its premier pas, and it was good. Readers applauded, a few letters came in, and the writer-editor pipeline was all fired up for the next one. No sophomore slump this, it would have everything that made the first one great: action, intrigue, lore, laughs, all wrapped around the latest offerings of one M. Scorsese.

That story was "Hustler vs. Magician", and it got as far as a whole-ass manuscript before someone in Shonen Sunday's chain of command went "Nope. Not feeling it. Try again, kid."

A weaker man might've broke. A weaker man might've went "Fuck this, I hear Jump's looking for people!" Gosho Aoyama was not that man.

And so came this, Kaito's official second adventure, to the stands—about three months after the first. God knows how many all-nighters it took to pull the thing together, but it's hard to argue the results weren't worth it. Read along this charming little yarn, and see if you can tell what new director Gosho's paying homage to!

[Read: Police Soirée (警官がいっぱい), Remastered Edition!]

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(Magic Kaito, Vol. 1, Ch. 1: 蘇る怪盗)

(Magic Kaito 1412 Ep. 01: 蘇る怪盗KID)

Remember how Inspector Nakamori was introduced working homicide? Now remember how many of Toichi's heists remain unaccounted for. 1412 and other fun-haters do not interact

This is kind of a Thing with Nakamori in general: he's a grab-bag of parts that simultaneously make him the biggest clown in the cast and the most tragic. For starters, consider—does he suck at his job because he's just that dumb, or does he not want to believe someone so close to his family could betray him that long, that constantly, grinning all the while?

It's hard to tell if Gosho ever meant anyone to read between the lines with this guy—he's perfectly functional as a "just" a scaled-down Zenigata or first-draft Kogoro. But even that's not without weight. Here's a Zenigata, no less Invested in the chase, that lives in a world where Lupin actually can and did die. And he doesn't have clue number one. He thinks himself the world's number-one Kidologist, and his supposed archenemy('s ghost) has only this to say.

anyway acab support your local phantom thieves byyyyeeee

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Magic Kaito: Police Soirée now Remastered!

[Read: Police Soirée (警官がいっぱい), Remastered Edition!]

So Magic Kaito took its premier pas, and it was good. Readers applauded, a few letters came in, and the writer-editor pipeline was all fired up for the next one. No sophomore slump this, it would have everything that made the first one great: action, intrigue, lore, laughs, all wrapped around the latest offerings of one M. Scorsese.

That story was "Hustler vs. Magician", and it got as far as a whole-ass manuscript before someone in Shonen Sunday's chain of command went "Nope. Not feeling it. Try again, kid."

A weaker man might've broke. A weaker man might've went "Fuck this, I hear Jump's looking for people!" Gosho Aoyama was not that man.

And so came this, Kaito's official second adventure, to the stands—about three months after the first. God knows how many all-nighters it took to pull the thing together, but it's hard to argue the results weren't worth it. Read along this charming little yarn, and see if you can tell what new director Gosho's paying homage to!

[Read: Police Soirée (警官がいっぱい), Remastered Edition!]

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Magic Kaito: The Clockwork Heart now remastered!

[Read: The Clockwork Heart (時計仕掛けのハート), Remastered Edition!]

And so Magic Kaito took its sophomore tour, a little shakier but no matter—readers still liked what they saw. In two shakes, Gosho Aoyama got his wish: an ongoing salary for Kaito stories as long as he (and/or audience interest) could hold out. Month after month after...

Yes, months. Weekly Sunday was nice enough to hand out guest-spots, but you didn't think it was going to give an ongoing slot to a rookie who needed assistants to finish his college doujins, did you? So off our hero went to the monthly Zōkan offshoot, with all the other rookies on their way in and oldsters on the way out (hey, at least they gave him a corner of the cover!). If his heart was pure and his stories were good, the legend went, one day he might rise above.

God, did he deliver.

No spoiling this one, folks. If you only know Kaito from the anime—or better yet, from Conan—you're in for an absolute ride. TV has never touched it, possibly never will, but it's the one post-Origin, pre-Hakuba chapter every fan remembers. Hell, probably the only one that still has steady fanwork presence. Gosho's turn as an Ongoing™ artist was off with a bang.

(Some say—some sigh—that Magic Kaito never got this wild again, rarely even tried. Maybe they're right. But the shine is no less for it.)

[Read: The Clockwork Heart (時計仕掛けのハート), Remastered Edition!]

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Magic Kaito: The Clockwork Heart now remastered!

[Read: The Clockwork Heart (時計仕掛けのハート), Remastered Edition!]

And so Magic Kaito took its sophomore tour, a little shakier but no matter—readers still liked what they saw. In two shakes, Gosho Aoyama got his wish: an ongoing salary for Kaito stories as long as he (and/or audience interest) could hold out. Month after month after...

Yes, months. Weekly Sunday was nice enough to hand out guest-spots, but you didn't think it was going to give an ongoing slot to a rookie who needed assistants to finish his college doujins, did you? So off our hero went to the monthly Zōkan offshoot, with all the other rookies on their way in and oldsters on the way out (hey, at least they gave him a corner of the cover!). If his heart was pure and his stories were good, the legend went, one day he might rise above.

God, did he deliver.

No spoiling this one, folks. If you only know Kaito from the anime—or better yet, from Conan—you're in for an absolute ride. TV has never touched it, possibly never will, but it's the one post-Origin, pre-Hakuba chapter every fan remembers. Hell, probably the only one that still has steady fanwork presence. Gosho's turn as an Ongoing™ artist was off with a bang.

(Some say—some sigh—that Magic Kaito never got this wild again, rarely even tried. Maybe they're right. But the shine is no less for it.)

[Read: The Clockwork Heart (時計仕掛けのハート), Remastered Edition!]

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Magic Kaito: Kaitou Kid's Day "Off" now remastered!

[Read: Kaitou Kid's Day "Off" (怪盗キッドの忙しい休日), Remastered Edition!]

It's a thriller! It's a romcom! It's a 32-page Disneyland plug! It's a bleak, unflinching look at emotional manipulation and all the other unethicalities inherent to a secret identity! It's a miracle we finished it before dying of ennui

If in hindsight last chapter looks like a grand experiment in everything people would never expect of Magic Kaito, this chapter stands pretty well in counterpoint: an ideal of everything people would. By this point, Gosho Aoyama must have known—other series could have their deep-dive lore and fifteen-sided plots, his biggest strength lay in the characters. Characters that could be played for laughs or tears, comfort or fears, or just pure raw Spectacle, all within the same page if need be.

So step up and enjoy Kaito at his trickiest, Aoko at her boldest, the good Inspector at his doggedest and almost-competentest, and all the ways they collide like Tokyo's screwiest pinball game. Anyone that asks "So what's Kaito thing about anyway?" could be handed a lot worse than this.

But don't dillydally. Tropical Land's got some loooong lines nowadays.

[Read: Kaitou Kid's Day "Off" (怪盗キッドの忙しい休日), Remastered Edition!]

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Valentine’s Special #1 - The Ladykiller

For the boy who lost his father.

…and brought him back.

“No matter what comes your way, never forget your pokerface”

- Toichi Kuroba

LISTEN (27 tracks)

The Story of 1412 // I think I broke something - Les Bêtes Du Sud Sauvage // One Day/He’s a Pirate - Quattrocelli // Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance // Pompeii is Radioactive - toddy2cool // Ladies and Gentlemen // Fly by Night Only - The Glitch Mob // All Night - Parov Stelar // Let Me Entertain You - Queen // Hahaha, this time he will surely fail! // The Chase - Hugo OST // Maniac - Caravan Palace // Magic - B.o.B. ft. Rivers Cuomo // Moonsetter - Homestuck OST // Happy - Pharrell Williams // Why Should I Worry? - Oliver and Co // Always be the Smartest Guy in the Room // Sleight of the Mind - Now You See Me // The Highway Man - Deirdre Shannon // Circus - Dirty Loops // Toothless Hawkins - Varien Razihel // Terminal Velocity - Saxon // Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra & Michael Bublé // Womanizer - Christina Gatti // Poker Face - Vitamin String Quartet // Dad’s Song - Set it Off // On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons

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Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.

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nothing, just tolkien originally writing down the hobbit because his son christopher kept complaining that he'd change the details from night to night and then christopher later being so crucial in taking tolkien's notes and turning them into fully written novels of worldbuilding. loving someone to the point of creation and then having them help you finish the job.

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This is one of my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strips because it's both a great example of the comic's recurring "Calvin and Hobbes engage in extremely erudite dialogue while something ridiculous and painful happens to or around them" bit, and a great example of newspaper editors going "hey, we want you to structure your comics so that we can freely rearrange the panels to maximise ad space" and Bill Watterson responding "fuck you".