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I think what makes Luffy different from most other shonen protags is that he's not meant to be an audience insert. You don't want to be Luffy, you want Luffy to randomly barge into your life and start throwing hands with your asshole boss.

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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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In light of the release of Chapter 120, here's a quick illustration of how things stand right now:

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dreamt there was a disco elysium style game where you play as vegeta on namek. there was a multiple minute skill argument about trying not to piss yourself when frieza goes into his final form, and the line "no warrior would piss himself in fear. a warrior pisses himself as a threat" haunts me

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Kakashi’s lame, sloppy and unreliable persona in adulthood is so special to me. It’s really the most radical thing he does to reject the expectations on him and to make up for his past.

This guy is inherently such a serious person. He’s sharp, incredibly intelligent and with years of experience under his belt. He’s a venerated legend and known to basically every ninja in the world. He’s a war vet. The list goes on.

Yet he chooses to present himself as non-threatening. He slouches, is chronically late, lets other people bully him into situations, reads Icha Icha in public and doesn’t fight too hard when his genin team drag him into antics.

After he drops the whole tough guy act with Team 7 early on in the series, he’s surprisingly patient and gentle with them. He answers their questions, calmly corrects them and rarely ever gets mad.

He’s a thousand percent a shambolic mess when he’s first introduced and yet he tries to get it together enough to support team 7. He tries to be there for them.

Without the context of his backstory, Kakashi is still a really compelling character. But when you put it all together, it really does feel quite miraculous that he can be such a loser adult. He didn’t let himself get hardened when it would’ve been so easy to do so. He remains gentle. And I really standby the fact that he is gentle and kind. Those are traits that really shine through to me.

I find myself wondering how he would’ve shown up for team 7 if the Chuunin exams didn’t happen so early in the series. He didn’t really get that much time with them without one major crisis after another. In a way, all the other Jounin senseis got to ease into their role, some even had years but I don’t think Kakashi ever got that.

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SPIRITED AWAY 2001 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Tama: gives Luffy a bowl of rice when he needs it instead of eating herself Luffy: showers her starving town in literal mountains of fresh food and water in repayment me: Monkey D. Luffy operates like a fucking fey and for everyone he meets is the random supernatural encounter in a parable about karma starring them. In this essay I will—

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This is totally normal behaviour for Orochimaru tbf

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Yuugi sounds so calm here its terrifying

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I don't think a lot of people realize this

But the stripes (or lack of) on the Senshi’s first fuku actually correspond to their school uniforms! The number isn’t random at all.

Usagi and Ami’s Juuban Middle School uniforms have two stripes (three in the manga), so so do their Sailor fuku.

Mako’s uniform, while different, also has two stripes. However, they’re much closer together, which carries over to her uniform.

Minako and Rei, on the other hand, only have one stripe on both their fukus.

On the Outer Senshi side, there are no stripes whatsoever. This is because the uniforms from Mugen Academy that Haruka, Michiru, and Hotaru wear are stripeless. Setsuna, on the other hand, doesn’t even wear a uniform (being a college student and all).

Once they all upgrade to their Super forms, they all have a single stripe on their collars (resembling Venus’s the most), giving them a more unified appearance. Anyway, this is just a small tidbit that I thought people would like to know! 

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No way the new dandadan episode goes wild chat

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you ever accidentally say “love you” on a phone call

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psyduck meme cam!!!