The interpretation of Rise Raph as a 'perfect responsible soft boy uwu' is so BORING I'm sorry, Raph is a rowdy adrenaline junkie with anxiety and I won't take this slander any longer
Raph secretly kept an enemy soldier in their actual literal house as a sparring partner. Raph glued his brothers together and dragged them out to fight crime. Raph once asked Leo to punch him in the face to prove he 'takes damage like a boss.' Raph tried to lift a school bus, twice. Raph offered to help his favorite wrestler beat his little brother up. When Leo suggests evacuating Bullhop, Raph says no bc the best defense is a good offense babey. Raph's idea of a 'friendly chat' with April's upstairs neighbor is to put on a black ski mask and go stand menacingly at their door. It takes Raph 10 episodes to conclude that they should MAYBE start training. Raph's plan to get a potentially priceless (and potentially FRAGILE) museum artifact is to punch a car in the middle of a busy street and also cut it in half with his brother still inside.
Raph's never met a problem he wouldn't try to punch in the face and does not know the meaning of the words 'excessive force.' He roughhouses with his bros and drags them out to fight villains and thinks any plan that doesn't involve an all-out brawl is boring and lame. He'll do anything to protect his family from harm and be a hero, but also he eats wet salami off the floor and once single-handedly destroyed a library.
I just adore how, at his core, Rise Raph is such a classic Raph—impulsive and stubborn and caring and passionate. He is a very sweet, strong, honorable guy who has a very powerful sense of personal responsibility... and he is also the exact kind of jock who throws you in the pool at a party without checking if you have your phone in your pocket first.
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Hey I unironically liked Big Dragon too that’s reason enough for me to trust your recommendations! My point still stands your recommendations are great and like you I am here for the mess and the pettiness!
Anon, Big Dragon is an 8.5/10 for me. It lost a point because of the basic premise in the first episode (Yai drugging Mangkorn to film them having sex only for Mangkorn to reverse uno Yai and LIKE IT) and half a point for forgetting about the kink.
But overall, this show gave its all every week. It had consistent color coding, the visual narrative was immaculate (thanks to cinematographer Ratchanon Kaeosaart), the underlying theme of balance between yin and yang and the sun and the moon was well done, the chemistry between Isbanky and Mos was appetizing, and the resolution made sense, so I'm ecstatic it will have a second season (or a movie sequel) mostly if that means more Park and Phong.
I was not writing 3,000+ word essays every week simply because I thought the show was funsies!
Color Coding and Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Background Noise [Where the Sun and Moon Meet]
Episode 7
Episode 8
Background Noise (parallels)
Background Noise (commands)
No! Star Hunter delivered a comprehensive story when it could've taken directly from the source material and given us Mpreg and even more dubcon, so as much as I say my taste is trash, it's not trash to me, but I know how others feel about what I love.
I know people saw that Naughty Babe trailer and groaned in despair, but it had color coding, a fake amnesia plot, and PETTINESS!
I'm excited to be constantly pissed off at Indulgent Daddy Yi while simultaneously rooting for him to win his guy back because I'm a sucker for a color-coded (bisexual) idiot being as dumb as possible for love.
BRING ME MY PENDEJOS!
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I know I basically said the same thing the other night, but I think a darker, more serious FMA would be so good. Keep the main story mostly the same, just make Ed a bit Guts-y and cut out all the gags
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