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It's crazy how we all have the power to live in a beautiful world but some of you use that to instead wilfully misrepresent the themes of a story so that you can feel less challenged by them.

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Check out my demo reel for Sushi Ben

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Past the 15 episode mark of Suite Precure, and it's definitely a very interesting position it's in. Undeniably, it's attempting to shake up the formula that's sort of existed since Precure 5, but it's shockingly noncommittal in its execution of said ideas, almost to the point of parody.

Ultimately, while the season so far has been working towards a bold and brash approach, it's like I'm watching these girls struggle in the quicksand of precedent set by previous generations, with each novel idea that gets sidelines accelerating the process. Let's just say I'm hoping the mid-season cures come with long sticks to save them.

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Onto the first few episodes of Suite Precure, and I'll start by saying "the season where the girls beef with each other" is a good idea!

Problem is that they've had the exact same problem leading into the exact same solution for the first month of its runtime, and for some reason every fight they've had so far is almost entirely concerned with their problem instead of anyone they know, so right now the only side characters of any merit are the families of the two girls and also Ouji as the most shoehorned romantic interest Toei could present.

I can't be too critical because I have to take the episode 30 writing boost into consideration, but they aren't sending their best right now.

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Since the start of last year, I've decided to watch every episode of every season of Precure (and their related movies and such). Yesterday I finally finished watching Heartcatch, and decided it best to start logging my feelings on the generations for the most part.

Since this is the first of hopefully many posts, I'll just shotgun my feelings of everything leading up to Heartcatch, starting with:

Futari wa Precure/Max Heart: As far as precure seasons go, the first gen is great at making action and combat scenes engaging while also taking special care to make trying to recreate them as safe as possible through little things like a focus on guarded body blows and the girls landing flat on their backs instead of their limbs or heads. More importantly though, it was a believable depiction of the relationship between Nagisa and Honoka (and eventually Hikari) as middle school girls, along with their growth as people over the course of 2 years. Totally worth a watch as a piece of media.

Splash Star: This might be a bit disingenuous, but for the most part Splash Star copies a lot of Futari Wa's homework on story structure, with even some of the episode progression feeling like a beat for beat retelling. However, even in these parts it still tells a story of the girls' personal growth. Where it has an edge as a series though is easily in fostering a sense of community between the precure, their school and the town as a whole, as well as really hammering in the importance of not giving up into the minds of the younger generation. It's a bit of an inherent second placer, but it's got strengths that no other season so far has been able to meet.

Yes! Precure 5/5 Go Go!: Even when not immediately touching on the problems with Coco and Nuts as a whole, I can't say the precure 5 did all too much for me as a group. I love the French aesthetic of the city they live in, but it felt underexplored as far as landmarks went. Rin and Karen being rivals, along with the episodes where Urara got to follow her singing endeavours were good, but I just feel like they were phoning it in overall. Precure 5 de chance is still the best animated episode(s) in the series so far though, so you can watch it just for that.

Fresh Precure: Where the precure 5 felt like they weren't giving their best at what they were doing, Fresh Precure felt like they didn't know what to give their best to. It felt like a lot of episodes were dedicated to exploring a type of storytelling style that could engage the new, older audience they were gunning for, but for the most part their inability to commit cost them some points. Still, I appreciated how the finale was handled a lot, and I think if they spread that a bit more over the series it would have done a lot to help the narrative.

Heartcatch Precure: Giving credit where it's due, this season did try a bit harder to give the girls unique skillsets, even if it's still just energy blasts and shields. It helped with characterization and was generally good design. The Desert Apostles are also distinctively unique to the point they could be sole antagonists of their own arcs, and seeing them interact with each other was always endearing. I probably still like Dark Fall better as an evil organization, but The Desert Apostles are a strong second place.

I still have a long way to go, but I'm happy I started this journey, and I hope Suite Precure innovates even further.

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hi, i'm a trans girl living with my mom and baby sister. my mom's husband (who we were financially dependant on) suddenly left us last friday, taking most of our money with him. we're in a very bad situation right now so i would appreciate some help if possible.

here's a link to my mom's gofundme:

https://gofund.me/52fa0162

please reblog.

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Without the original sin, there would be no Hello Kitty handbags, and I think that's worth being cast out of Eden for.

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Once I was driving some classmates back to their apartment, and they randomly started talking about what modern society would be like if people always had tails.

They thought up tail fashion and holes in the back of clothes to let it hang out from and modified seats for ease of use.

Wanting to join in on the conversation, I proposed that society would probably make belts or ribbons to affix your tail to your thigh.

It was unanimously shot down.

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Fucked up in the crib romanticizing samsara. Fucked up in the crib imagining Sisyphus as happy. Fucked up in the crib refusing to grasp Ariadne's Thread. Fucked up in the crib trapping myself in life's perceived cyclical nature

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There's something really magical about abandoned construction machinery. A tractor covered in vines serves as a prelude to the earth's reclamation of modern civilization and such.

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Etrian Odyssey loves to talk up the importance of a balanced party that can account for any danger the labyrinth throws at you, but I can't recall a single time I've actually needed a tank class other than when I wanna think of how cool their armor is and how much I wished they were a Sovereign.

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People don't really appreciate just how simple G Gundam made things. Politics? Interplanetary wars? Subterfuge? Nice nuance asshole, but my hand glows with an awesome power.

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Scene Reimu (Ravemu) huge shout out to @mothtowers for the inspo!

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I'm writing this thing! About that thang.

Just posted a new chapter and such

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We must never forgive the people who took anime about a pair of women who shoot people with guns away from us

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I started watching Gundam Seed, and more than having to sit through almost 100 episodes of anime, the scariest part of the experience is that I might end up liking it

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I hope this letter finds you poorly you piece of shit, because I'm sure as hell going to.