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new tumblr looks like such rubbish

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I think I just hate social media in general, now. It's just people non stop talking about/bitching/whining/overparanoid/overpraising/being snarky about AI shit Just fucking move on. I feel if you ignore it then people will stop caring, much like the notorious NFT, but no. They all seem to have an unhealthy obsession. i just dont want to be around people anymore in general because its just spreading to EVERYONE. Foreigner or not. No one shuts UP about it! Be it they are obsessed with hating it OR loving it! im so tired! I just want it to stop! I want art to go back to normal and discussions to go back to normal and not always devolve into this redundant rubbish!

I AM TIRED OF ANY DISCUSSION REVOLVING AI.

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[ATTACK] World Shaking.

Series: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Kana: ワールド・シェイキング Romaji: Waarudo Sheikingu

User: Sailor Uranus Item required: None First appearance: Episode 90 Last appearance: Episode 198

TRIVIA

In the manga, the name was written as “Tenkai Shin” (天界震), which can be translated to mean “heavenly world tremble.” However, the katakana reading assigned to these characters is the transliteration of “world shaking.”

Although this attack first appeared in episode 90, the full animation sequence was not shown until episode 92.

After Sailor Uranus advanced to her “super” form, the stock footage for World Shaking was updated to match her new uniform.

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Replying to that post about SMC's artstyle not being accurate: let's also not forget the time Naoko cel-shaded a drawing for the fun of it and it looks pretty much like the original anime

Yes, and these they are!.

Basically the 90s anime.

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sailor moon s opening - moonlight densetsu

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Just because. This was traced from the manga. Come again to tell me that the style is faithful to the manga source.

Click here for full pic!.

______ Also, let me add this:

And this

and this

And this

And this

(Also Jupiter not having her rose belt and Mars not having her gem in their fuku)

And this

And this

And this

And this

And MOARRR

MOREEEE

And even more!

So yeah…

IT’S LIKE THE MANGA!11!11! excuse needs to stop because not even the designs nor the story it’s like in the manga LOL.

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Replying to that post about SMC's artstyle not being accurate: let's also not forget the time Naoko cel-shaded a drawing for the fun of it and it looks pretty much like the original anime

Yes, and these they are!.

Basically the 90s anime.

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“I am insulted that this anime did/didn’t do a thing with race! POC deserve respect! I want them to change it to be more like I want!” The Japanese have a completely different racial and social history, so it may be that they are making it based on their own experiences. Are you basing this idea on Western ideas of race and racial relations? Wouldn’t making the Japanese make media that reflects a Western idea of race be cultural imperialism? Here’s a good way of knowing if you are informed of Japanese racial politics:

Are you aware that Okinawa was not originally a part of Japan, was conquered, and is often referred to as the Ryukyu Islands? That it has it’s own ethnic minority with its own rapidly-dying language, and Okinawa also has by far the largest concentration of detested American army bases? Here is a photo from the 19th century of a Ryukyu Island native, taken by a Japanese man to sell “ethnic photos” back on the mainland.

Did you know that the “Japanese” we know of are not technically native to the island at all, but arrived sometime in prehistory to displace the original inhabitants? This would be the Ainu, and genetic studies have shown they’re actually more closely related to Caucasians. They now mostly live in Hokkaido, most of their land having been taken and many been killed due to historic wars and slavery.

Did you know that countless ethnic Koreans and Chinese have lived in Japan since the colonial period, often because of having their land ownership and livelihoods forcibly taken and moved to Japan? That they were forced to not speak their native language and had to go by Japanese names? That even though many of them have lived there for generations, they could not obtain citizenship until 1980 without getting a Japanese name? That there were hate crimes committed against Korean schoolgirls as early as the late 1990’s?

And the ultimate taboo, did you know that Japan had its own class of “untouchables” like India? These are known as Burakumin, or at least that’s the nicest word for them. They were often relegated to “unclean” professions like tanning and butchery, and in premodern Japan someone could literally cut down a Burakumin in the street in broad daylight and receive no reprisal.  While they are legally no different from anyone anymore, socially is a different story. If you have Burakumin ancestry, chances are, you live in certain districts–because no one else will rent or sell a house to you. Employers use your address to openly discriminate against you. If you marry, your family may hire someone to trace your family history to make sure you have no Burakumin ancestors. To many, it’s taboo to even discuss them. Below is Jiichiro Matsumoto, a burakumin and considered to be the father of burakumin liberation.

There’s more, of course, but you get the idea. Most people outside of Japan are simply considered gaijin–whether you’re a black gaijin or a white gaijin. You’re a foreigner. Sure, due to imperialism, a Japanese is going to think of a white English-speaker first and there are some differences within the category, but know that this is the category the rest of the world has been placed in. We’re a goofy novelty sure, but there are random gaijin of all colors being the “talento” of Japanese television. Outside of the extreme Japanese right, we’re not very controversial.

As you can see, the Japanese are racial-ideology-wise far from perfect. But for someone to come in with no knowledge of this long and complicated history and insist that having more Hispanic/Black/POC(a meaningless term in a country full of POC) characters in anime, it’s saying that American racial ideas and politics are more important. Sure, I love when anime has diversity of any kind. But if you think an anime with a “POC” is more progressive and ignore something like Samurai Champloo–which has both a Ryukyu island native main character and several episodes devoted to the Ainu–then I’m sorry, but you’re being culturally ignorant and contributing to cultural imperialism. That yet again, the gaijin should be the star. And the West has a very, very long history of imposing its own sense of morality on everyone else. I can find way more foreigners of any color portrayed in anime than any Ainu, let me tell ya. I have no right to tell a foreign industry to stop making media that reflects them and their racial identity and instead make stuff that looks like an American sitcom.

This doesn’t mean let Japan off the hook. But that means that if you want to have your own opinion, if you want to be taken seriously, and if you want to promote social justice without doing the exact same white man’s burden act we’ve always done, then you have a responsibility to educate yourself.

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Now that all the Season 1 Blurays are out, and all the Japanese fan edits of their covers are out, I thought you might appreciate this: ajeckaeaDOTtumblrDOTcom/post/123186347577/cerepalla-is-amazing

Thanks a lot sis!.

You did a great job!.

Here’s the link for those of you who want to check them out!.

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What does it look like when the animators genuinely care?

AKA Ikuko Itoh.

And then you have Crystal:

No wonder why TOEI is using Ikuko’s art for everything they put out lol:

And I could keep posting more but I guess you get the point

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Mercury Aqua Mirage - Sailor Moon vs. Sailor Moon Crystal

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Why Magical Girls Are Never Attacked During A Transformation

As some of you might already have guessed, I’m a fan of Japanese girl idols. One of the many, many idol groups in existence today in Japan is NMB48, a Osaka-based spin-off group of the (in)famous AKB48. NMB has a weekly show that’s surprisingly entertaining as well as educational called NMB to Manabu-kun, in which the members of NMB and a few comedians listen to guest lectures by experts in various fields.

Back on May 15th, the theme of the episode was pataphysics/the science of sci-fi. One of the topics of the lecture held by university professor Yanagita Rikao was the age-old question of “WHY ARE MAGICAL GIRLS NEVER ATTACKED WHILE TRANSFORMING???”

This was his answer, based on the magical girl series Futari wa Pretty Cure.

Question: The transformation scenes in Pretty Cure are very long, so why don’t the bad guys attack the girls in the meantime?

“Even when I was little, I was thinking ‘Hey! Attack them now!’”

“I found this odd as well, so I watched the transformation scene many times. And what I noticed is, when the Pretty Cures yell 'Dual Aurora Wave!’ and transform, a rainbow-colored column of light shoots up from the ground, going BOOM!”

“And then the Pretty Cures levitate, and go up into the air. Based on this, I believe the protagonists of Pretty Cure are being held up in the air by the power of light.”

“When we think of light, we usually think it heats up things or lights up things. But in reality, light has the power to hold up things as well.”

“When the sun is beating down on us in the summer, the human body is being pressed downwards by the sun beams with a force of 2/100,000g.”

“But this is only about a one-hundred of the weight of a mosquito, so no matter how hot it is, we don’t feel that sunlight is heavy.”

“So that means the light holding them up must be extremely strong. If we assume that the two Pretty Cures each weigh about 45kg and do some calculations…”

“It means the light during the transformation must have the energy of 2,100,000,000kW per 1m2.”

“While the entirety of power that Japan is capable of generating is only 100,000,000kW.”

“So they’re using 21 TIMES the amount of energy the whole of Japan can generate.”

“So what would happen if a bad guy jumped in to try to sabotage their transformation?”

“He would EVAPORATE INSTANTLY.”

“DEATH AWAITS ANYONE WHO DARES TO DISRUPT A PRETTY CURE TRANSFORMATION.”

“So this means the best thing to do would be to transform close to any bad guys.”

“Yes. They are the strongest while they transform, and are practically invincible.”

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How did you react the first time you saw act 3 of Crystal ?

I made this blog right after watching Act 3 so I think you can figure it out lmao.