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Misheard someone saying Scum Villain as... well, you can look right up there.

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hear me out cake, but instead of ppl i want to fuck it’s songs that kind of fit The Character if you squint and tilt your head just right and have a beautiful mind

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How do you draw speed lines in action scenes? I really like how you do them and find it amazing you do it in traditional inks

It takes practice, but here is a mini tutorial for how we handle them! Start simple and aim towards the 'centre' of the action (Vahns hand or Triggers face in the examples) We usually start constructing it with the four cardinals according to that centre action, and go from there! Make sure to stroke your pen 'Outside to Inside' to get a better handle of the lines as well

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Shit man, this cryptic crossword is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "Stanley Edwards disrupted Yankee's holiday in Edinburgh? (2,7,3)" or some similar shit. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common this shit is. My ass is casting "Jamaican music genre (3)" and "Eighth planet from the sun (7)." I think I just heard "Feel ill in middle of Biscay, unwilling to get material on board boat (9)" two tiles over. I gotta get the fuck out of here.

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This tweet could also be Tatami Galaxy!

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The Scrambled Timeline - Expansion M (for magpy)

tiffanys-aus-and-headcanons is the inspiration for this, and is required reading.

Takeru Hokazono's gory action manga ULTRAKILL first recieved ironic hype, and then even more actual hype once people saw it was actually good, especially with its writing.

Hideo Kojima's spectacle fighter series Kagurabachi, stemming from the older, much simpler Konami project Enten, does not at all skimp out on the story, diving deep into topics such as war, historical revisionism, and parental issues.

Studio Gainax, after finishing Einstein Goliath Nestor, decided it was time to let loose a bit. This ended up in the OVA WORLDSHELL, where a pink-haired girl dates a purple-haired girl, and has to duel the latter's suitors along the way. Its short but sweet six-episode run was especially influential in the West, the biggest examples being the eponymous form in Nine-Tails: The Ninja Trials, and basicaly all of Hussie's Scott Pilgrim. The much more cynically-made sequels range from utter ass to decent but missing the point of the original show. Do not watch WORLDSHELL Orchestra, it's the former.

Trebuchet Girl Mato is an anime about two girls, connected through worlds — the caring schoolgirl Mato, and the hardened fighter Shooter. Dense in both action and psychological depth, even the people that finished the show don't fully understand it.

A member of a band drew a cool version of Megurine Luka, and the rest was history. Pink Rogue Punk spawned, among others, an upbeat rock song, a spectacle fighter on the PSP, a cool-yet-mid anime where she aggressively flirts with a guy and fights robots, and a worse anime that puts her in a futuristic apocalypse world.

Tomihiko Morimi wrote The Restaurant's Secret Garden, a light novel where a constantly-stressed mid-20-something restaurant owner comes across a patch of mushrooms that allow her to rewrite moments that happened within a day. Secret Garden owes its success to the mix of wacky hijinks and depths of the main character, and the anime adaptation puts it all together with a pleasing and unique art style. The latest Morimi work to be adapted is The Restaurant's Secret Television, where the main character finds a remote that allows her to skip moments in time she considers boring. It's an open secret that this is just another Morimi work, earlier adapted to a live-action movie, changed to use the Secret Garden characters.

Supergiant Games' most popular game is the action roguelike Starlight. Sure, the gameplay is good, but everyone always talks about the story. For one, the resetting mechanism of the roguelike is attributed to the nature of the eponymous play. (...At first. You'll see.) The characters are also a major part of this, and several ships between them are hinted at and even confirmed in game.

The YouTube animator GomuGuy owes a lot of his fanbase to his Story series, in which he tells the tale of the character he shares his name with, a pirate whose body is rubber, and his dream of freedom. He eats a lot, loves bugs, makes friends, fights foes, and saves the day all to carefully picked licensed music. It's like we never left the AMV days.

Eichiiro Oda's long (and I mean long) running adventure manga Five Star tells the tale of a knight following a star in the sky, as well as his own goal of independence. The comic is lauded for its vibrant and dense locales, as well as the uniqueness of the powers (Well, the first set of them, at least.) Readers also love how the adventurer's party works on each other's goals as well as their own. Do not watch the anime, it's so stretched out.

The granddady of trading card games, Magical Legends, has enough lore to trick people into playing it and obliterating their life savings. Set in the semi-kitchen-sinky world of Runeterra, the game has taken its players all over the place, from the pristine, elitist Piltover and its seedy sister city Zaun, to the war between the ruthless Noxus and the disciplined Ionia, to the survivors and titans within the harsh snows of Freljord, to the incredibly cheery Bandle City. Somehow, it has only been a few years since the romantic pairing between Caitlyn and Vi had been canonized. The other big recent development was the beginning of the controversial Alternate Universe sets, which put the iconic characters of the game in different worlds and roles.

Consortium is the biggest MOBA out there, both in content and in playerbase. Each of its characters comes from a different plane in the game's multiverse, allowing Riot Games to go ham with their designs. The recent show, Consortium: Brothers started with a fantastic first season and landed with a great but contentious second season. Their card game, Duels of the Planeswalkers seems to be on its last legs, though, as all of the updates are focused on the deckbuilder roguelike mode, Hero's Path.

The fighting game is still called 2XKO. Sorry. Canon event.

The Daft Punk album Since I Left You had inspired a companion movie called Alien Stage 50, a musical science fiction tale where human musicians are trained by aliens to participate in another galaxy's singing show, providing a new, fun, and interesting look into how music - and celebrity culture - would change if other species had influence over it.

VIVINOS and QMENG's current project is Cursed, an animated series where sorcerers, usually the age of the average high school student, fight creatures formed from negative emotions, and usually die in the process. The main shipping focus is on the older white-haired and black-haired leads. The music is all original, and all really good.

Many a Homestuck (2016)-esque infodump has informed one that the CAPCOM spectacle fighter Slay the Spire was meant to be a Left 4 Dead spinoff with more melee combat. Everyone knows about the adventures of Ironclad, Silent, Watcher, and sometimes Defect, mainly because of the over-edited, over-meme'd Retromation videos. There's actually quite a bit of great lore and story in these games.

The anime The People-Pleasing Tendencies of Siffrin the Rogue involves an adventurer's party in a cool and interesting fantasy world. One infamous segment of eight episodes involves a time-loop in the kingdom of Vaugarde, with the episodes mostly being imperfect copies of each other. The episodes do have Siffrin becoming more apathetic and less stable as the loop goes on, which culminates in the special movie The Transformation of Siffrin the Rogue. Notably, the anime has inspired a mathematical problem involving superpermutations.

A microwave that can send messages to the past? Oh, you mean that one Jetsons episode. Thankfully it's from the first run — the best one.

Another mathematical theorem based on a cartoon? Oh, you mean that one Science Time episode, with the body-swap machine.

Nubby's Number Factory is a very recent Twitter series by snakesandrews. It's basically a bunch of automated, competitive pachinko games. First place gets 3 tourney points, second place gets 2, third place gets 1. Being a Poop Butt fan, much like being Ohio, is suffering.

Islandwatch is a hero shooter - first and biggest of its era (sorry, Freegunners 2) - that involves a colorful cast of agents all with at least one form of animal feature. A lot of interesting lore hides within - including a terrifying disease and the civil unrest involving the infected - but it's not really a priority. Apparently neither was the gameplay, because the players waited so long for an eventually underwhelming sequel! Screw you, I already moved to DC Superfriends!

Edmund McMillen made his first big splash with the 2D collectathon Happy Tree Friends. With a wide cast of cute and funny characters, great-feeling platforming, and more than enough McMillen-ian gross-out and gore, HTF is widely known as the beginning of a new era of indie games.

ZA/UM's masterwork is Disco Avalon, a more classical sort of role-playing game. You play as a child that wandered into an inn for spirits, and has just been hired. You work, talk, and understand this new world around you, asking questions to others and yourself about work, greed, and the balance of nature and civilization.

Akane Shimizu's educational manga Emotions at Work! may be simple. You know, emotions as personified figures inside a young person's brain. The PoV character we follow around is a Joy unit, and all that. But it has very strong and in-depth understanding of the concept to more than make up for it. One should also look at Emotions at Work! BLACK for a more mature take that deals with subjects like depression and addiction.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akemi Homura/Kaname Madoka Characters: Akemi Homura, Kaname Madoka Additional Tags: Canon Compliant - Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story, Angst, Drabble, Canon Compliant Summary:

After everything she's finally accomplished, Homura thinks to herself.

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Little Witch Academia was too powerful, it made me write another fic.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Little Witch Academia Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ursula Callistis | Chariot du Nord/Croix Meridies Characters: Ursula Callistis | Chariot du Nord, Croix Meridies Additional Tags: Angst, Canon Compliant Summary:

A show magician's lowest moment, and her memories of what came before.

Spoilers for Episode 23.

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The best media ever starts out like “haha silly adventures!” And then suddenly OH GODDDD THE HORRORS

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Chariot Du Nord: the first person to ever get corrupted by a blessed artifact.

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Madohomus your aika/zira

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In Zenshu Episode 12, the Luke that finally kills the Ultimate Void is the one from that one time at the hot spring. The one that knew love for the first time.

This Luke is also the one with the least clothing physics, so Natsuko definitely had an easier time drawing him.

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Whenever I say "they should invent an [x] that is [y]" this is the they I have in mind.

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If you wanted to animate an object spinning really fast, there are three main embellishments at your disposal. You could add smear frames, you could add doubling, or if you wanted to get a little crazy with it, you could have that object bend and stretch to really emphasize the inertia of the motion.

Or you could do all three at the same time!

I didn't want to like Zenshu at first.

Saying I'm not a big fan of isekai as a genre would be an understatement, so I was straight up peeved when I found out that what I initially thought would be a flawed industry's unflinching look in the mirror made by THE studio that has become the symbol of the Japanese animation industry's broader problems with overworking and underpaying, this was just gonna be yet another in a long line of paint-by-numbers escapist power fantasies in a genre that was tired from the moment it was born, just like yaboy, sleepy to the max if you know what I'm saying.

And this recreation of a scene from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), (which was one of the first breakout roles for anime legend and Evangelion director Hideaki Anno) certainly helped soften my attitude towards it, but a series of references to old stuff wouldn't be enough.

(both versions trimmed here)

But its tribute to classic anime and animation in general goes beyond just references.

This absurdly over the top modernized version of a magical girl transformation animated by Keisuke Toyoda (豊田 桂祐 ) feels like it contains all the possibilities of animation and imagination in just 3 preposterously dense cuts. There is just WAY too much going on here at once, in a way that feels very self aware.

Every color you could imagine, lighting from three different directions, what looks like three different layers of effects and sparkles, countless compositing effects, what looks like some sort of 3D particle simulation in the background,

this psychedelic background art that seems to represent Natsuko's blood vessels, a bit where you can see what it took me several episodes to realize are Natsuko's actual blood vessels and skeleton through her body,

and… some birds of course.

Most of the main elements are animated on 2's, but there are so many layers -- the timing of each offset from the rest -- that it almost feels like the whole thing is animated on 1's because there is practically no single frame where at least something doesn't change.

It's really an assault to the senses that contrasts hilariously with the mundane action of actually sitting down at a desk and drawing. There's even a little death note reference thrown in there to poke fun at this contrast!

And fully committing to the sailor moon bit, they repeat this stock animation in almost every episode. While it's no masterpiece plot-wise, it is at least more than I expected on that front too, but that's more than I can get into here. I talk about that some more and a bunch of other stuff in this video, from which this post is an adapted excerpt! Go watch it and comment, "wow sWIMP John, I used to like your videos but you've really fallen off hardcore. Go back to making magic school bus AMVs. Unsubbed."

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You know those anime meta posts along the lines of “I was born with pink hair. The doctors told my parents I was a Main Character and ever since my life has not known peace from demons/spirits/sports competitions/harems who find me”

Well I see that, and I raise you this:

An anime boy whose appearance is, by absolutely anyone’s account, completely and utterly average. Mundane hair. Mundane eyes. Not even glasses to set him the tiniest bit apart. A simple, unmemorable, unrecognizable civilian among a backdrop of millions.

And he has a lot of passions, and a lot of ambitions, which he hones every chance he gets. He’s dabbled in sports and archery and cooking and just about anything you could wrap a competition around. And he’s competed in many of these. Every chance he gets. With all of his passion and all of his might.

He’s crushed by the competition every single time.

Until one day–one day something clicks for him. Something that should have seemed obvious from the start and yet never was–as though everyone, including himself, was unwittingly blind to it. It clicks, when he realizes every kid who’s beaten him in competition, every kid who’s gone on to fame and glory and acclaim, has been some candy-haired gel-spiked ridiculously-dressed fucker. 

There’s some trend there that this Main Character boy can’t explain and can’t understand but he decides, this one time, fuck it. He’ll play along too. He’s got a model train competition in four days, and he’s got nothing more to lose. He hits up the department store, buys the pinkest, noxious-est, fruitiest hair dye he can find, the spikiest hair gel available, and the gaudiest clothes on the thrift rack. He enters the model train competition looking like a bubble gum gijinka.

And he wins.

Suddenly, the other candy-haired contestants notice him. They talk to him. They pledge rivalries. Girls notice him. Judges applaud him. Acclaimed model train aficionados offer him internships across the world. He’s hit on something. 

The main cast expands to cover just about every candy-hair cliche in the book: from the mostly-normal-looking demure school girl with the blue hair to the Naruto-est, yelling-est boy with the red-and-green spiked hair. The cool megane senpais, the purple haired tsunderes, suddenly everyone is interested in him. They’re prodigies and upstarts and underdogs and they truly believe that this main character boy is one of them.

So the main character boy maintains his ruse. He touches up his roots at dawn every morning and carefully attends to his gelled spikes and tells absolutely no one about this great, uncanny, unfathomable secret he’s stumbled upon. He wins his competitions left and right. He racks up the acclaim. He’s hailed as a prodigy of all trades, just now bursting onto the scene, and boils to the top of all his candy-haired peers.

He’s rising up, his every dream within his grasp. Until one day he gets a note under his door, taped to an old picture of his Normal Boring self from middle school, that says “You don’t belong”

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I did say almost.

You know, in a way, Hyuna leaving the rebellion's reins to Luka was actually pretty genius, even though that wasn't the reason for her sacrifice.

Alien Stage's two-season champion super-darling becoming the face of the human resistance is a massive PR boost, and might just be the thing that pushes it all over the edge. The human race is almost considering thanking you, rebel goon #223, for shooting Hyuna.

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You know, in a way, Hyuna leaving the rebellion's reins to Luka was actually pretty genius, even though that wasn't the reason for her sacrifice.

Alien Stage's two-season champion super-darling becoming the face of the human resistance is a massive PR boost, and might just be the thing that pushes it all over the edge. The human race is almost considering thanking you, rebel goon #223, for shooting Hyuna.