#No Context Crow. 124

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I feel like people are ignoring the crow girl panels because it actually frames and adds so much context of 123 because she calls aqua out and when you re read it’s obvious he’s putting the Dr GORO persona out so Ruby can be at ease to not get her on the same tract as vengeance so she can be out of the way but instead made her spiral go worst just not suicidal and like I’m yelling there’s so much to discuss

IKRRRRRR it sucks because this chapter was SO INTERESTING and the final panel took everyone’s attention 😭

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No Context Crow #124: Blanket Crow

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Not in the webcomic (end of MA arc update)

One of the questions often asked by fans  is ‘when did character xyz appear in the webcomic’? I started to think  about who is and isn’t in the webcomic and realised that the list is  quite extensive.

As it’s quite long, I’ll start with the discussion. Basically, if a character absolutely doesn’t have to be in the story just that moment, ONE will leave them out of the webcomic. All the cool, interesting things that would add context or even just be great to  explore, sorry, can’t have them – that must have been driving him crazy.  Ah well, the art of great story-telling is knowing what to leave out. I salute ONE’s self-discipline.

A listing of who is who.NB: For all sections, unless the names are too awful, I’ve gone with Viz over scanslations where available.

A: Not present at all

Heroes

Armored Assistant Manager

Battery Man

Butcher

Captain Mizuki

D-Pad

Darkness Blade

Doll Master

Double Fall

Food Battler Futosu

Funeral Suspenders

Gearsper

Glasses

Grad School Graduate

Great Philosopher

Gun Gun

Hacker Net

Hyokotto and Studless

Lightning Genji

Meat Hammer

Mohican and Pineapple

Monocross

Narcisstoic

Needle Star

One-Shotter

Piko

Pink Hornet

Poison

Rabbit

Red Muffler

Shooter

Shoulderpads

Smell Master

Spring Mustachio

Surly Brothers (Angry Man, Crying Man and Smile Man)

Trap Tengu

Twin Tail

Watergun

Wild Horn

Most Tank Toppers not introduced

Good Guys

Blast's crew 

Guiches 

Narinki

Waganma

Sekingar

Zeimeet

The members of the HA executives appear  to be differentiating themselves and developing individual personalities, with continuity from the earliest chapters, even if most of them are still unnamed.

Now named: Bushouhige (previously known as the Bearded Worker) and Jinzuren (previously known as the Bespectacled Worker).

Exma

Gobrich

Torgeva

Cautous

Police Chief Kuma and all the other police officers.

The mercenaries

The Council of Swordmasters

ALL the Super Fight contestants

Bad Guys

Cow Stomach

King's would-be assassins 

Monsters

100-Eyed Octopus

170,000 Year-Old Cicada Nymph and Imago

Awakened Cockroach

Bakuzan 

Black Roast

Building Booper

Demon Fan 

Demonic Pugilist

Destrochloridium

Devil Executioner

Elder Centipede

Evil Ocean Water

Eyesight

Face Ripper

Free Hugger

Gameberos

Gigakigan

Gouketsu

Grizzly Nyan

Haragiri

Hotdog

Incarnation of Electric Light String

Jagaan

Junior Centipede and Venus People Trap

Lafreshidon

Machine God G4 – final pilot form

Machine God G5

Maikoplasma and Electric Catfish Man 

Marshal Gorilla

Master Joe 

Monster King Orochi

Nyan

Piggie Bank 

Platinum Sperm

 Psychos-Orochi

Rhino Wrestler

 Sage Centipede

Showerhead

Sludge Jellyfish

 Spiderino

 Supermouse 

Suppon 

Surprise Attack Plum 

Three Crows

 Unihorn 

Urokodon

 Vacuuma

Vomited Fuhrer

Ugly 

Withered Sprout

 Zombiefied Subterraneans (victims of the real monsters rather than monsters themselves) 

Insect Mine workers (again, minding their own business)

All the unnamed monsters in the Monster Association (previously there had only been 17 members)

All the monsterised martial artists

All of Puri Puri’s ‘honnies’ both before and after monsterisation

All the monsters that went to rescue Garou excepting PhoenixMan

The ugly fish monsters that attacked Amai Mask’s concert

B: Introduced in manga earlier than in webcomic

Air (webcomic chapter 95)

Blast (we're still waiting to see him!)

Bones (finally appeared in webcomic chapter 114)

Butterfly DX (webcomic chapter 95)

Chain N’Toad (webcomic chapter 95)

Crescent Eyebroll (webcomic chapter 96)

Feather (webcomic chapter 104) 

Gale Wind (webcomic  chapter 115) 

'God' (webcomic chapter 80)

Green (webcomic chapter 96)

Heavy Kong (webcomic chapter 114)

Hell Fire Flame (webcomic chapter115)

McCoy (webcomic chapter 106) 

Peach Terry  (webcomic chapter 114)

Red Nose (webcomic chapter 124)

Shadow Ring (webcomic chapter 96)

Sourface (webcomic chapter 111)

Suiko (webcomic chapter 123)

Suiryu (webcomic chapter 124)

Zenko (not yet seen; explicitly mentioned in chapter 125)

C: Significantly increased in presence

This  is a bit of a subjective category because there are more pages in the manga, so of course characters get to show up more! I’ve therefore looked at characters where their increased presence gives us a significantly different view of them, serves to change their character development or modifies the plot. I’m leaving Garou and Saitama out for  what I hope will be obvious reasons. Your mileage may vary. :)​

Bomb

Justice at last! No longer the other old man who exists for colour commentary and getting beat up, his relationship to Bang has been expanded on so we understand how integral he has been to making Bang the person he is. We also finally get to appreciate what a redoubtable fighter he is in his own right.

Death Gatling

Added:  In the webcomic, all we saw of Death Gatling was him being set up as  bait to draw out Garou, who obligingly attacked him. There’s so much more to his experiences, his thinking and his organisational ability that it’s not even funny.

​Dr. Kuseno

Added:  In the webcomic, he appeared briefly in chapter 40 and then not again until 106, and then even more briefly. In the manga, we’ve gotten to  know more about who he is, how he interacts with people and what his  relationship with Genos is like. We learn that he uses drones to retrieve Genos when his misadventures have gone a little too badly amiss, but isn’t afraid to show up in person.Fun little meta here. In his secondary character poll, ONE  had Dr. Kuseno say roughly the following: ‘I’m going to become a   semi-regular character by supporting Genos occasionally…’ Or so I used   to think. But it’s actually hilarious how rarely I show up lol.“ Link.  And then Murata cracked his knuckles…​

Drive Knight

Added:  Everything after the Alien Invasion arc. In the webcomic, he disappeared in the aftermath of the Alien Invasion and did not appear again until chapter 138. In the manga, we finally get to see how he fights, get an idea of how he thinks and see his actions regarding the Monster Association.  As of chapter 93, we finally learn that he is a cyborg, making him the fourth known cyborg in the series. He’s shown in  the manga that he is a very calculating and capable fighter -- he's the sole S-Class hero to have single-handedly subdued a cadre. He's also given us more of a look at his true agenda, even if we're yet to see its full extent.​

Genos

Added: His tussle with Sonic aside, everything from chapter 45 - 83 is entirely new and 83 onwards is greatly expanded, showing us a much clearer view of his progression. The result of all his battles showed clearly in how he picked Garou apart, whereas in the webcomic he’d just unleashed a flurry of wild swings that’d gotten him a cracked face for his troubles. Going strictly by the webcomic, he’s mostly just there and the one day comes out and says he can fight dragon-level monsters now and you’re like 'What? From where?'  In the manga, the progression past that point is so much more evident and justifiable. He has grown as a person as well, something Saitama himself has noticed (nothing like this has happened in the webcomic).​

Metal Bat

Added:  Seeing how he actually interacts with Zenko, which has been both heart-warming and quite important to how the story goes. Also added has been his bodyguard role with Narinki and Waganma, which led to his fighting multiple monsters and eventually with Garou. Without this, we would not have learned about his Fighting Spirit as of yet. Otherwise, his webcomic presence consisted of appearing in the Alien Invasion arc  and then not at all until after the Monster Association arc for a couple of panels. So much of what makes Metal Bat a deserved fan favourite comes from the manga, not the webcomic. No explanation for his missing out on the raid was given. He’s come out to fight despite his injuries, which is to his credit.​

Phoenixman

Added: From a ridiculous monster who died in a flash, Phoenixman lived up to his name, coming back again and again. He’s also proved to be a terror in another way: intelligent, deeply manipulative, and able to access a spiritual world, this monster was far too dangerous to live. Unfortunately, he was also too interesting to die. Currently depowered, we await the future depredations of... Monster Chick Man.

Pyskos

Added: Talk about a Major Villain Upgrade! She’s gone from someone with a terrifying vision and a half-baked idea to wipe out the world with a pathetic number of monsters to one of the most dangerous fiends in the series.

Tank Top Master

Added:  A lot more about his relationship with his Tank Topper Army. As with  Metal Bat, he’s pushed himself out of hospital to go rescue people, then  get pulled into fighting.  We’ve also gotten to see a relationship  develop between himself and Mumen Rider, which looks to have been  mutually-beneficial. ​

Tareo

Added:  Now he is named. In the webcomic he was just the ugly kid. He used to  be a random kid that Garou happened to save and chased after the  monsters to rescue from their headquarters. Now, over several chapters,  we see him develop a friendship with Garou, how important protecting him  has been as a catalyst for developing Garou’s strength and how vital a  link to Garou’s humanity he is. No longer just a morality pet, he  actually gets a personality, we get to see his personality in his own  right, we see his experiences through his world view and we are going to  see how he develops as a character.​

D: Removed in the manga

Owing to copyright issues, Goddess Glasses has been removed in favour Do-S (or  Super S) and the Hotrod Brothers have been replaced by the ninjas Gale  Wind and Hell Fire. In both cases, their concepts remain very similar,  but ONE has taken the opportunity to greatly expand their role and  integrate what they do more closely to the plot. In particular, Do-S appears to have been a great motivator for Fubuki to up her game and do something about her sister. The monster ninjas, in intervening in Sonic’s life, gave us an insight into the ninja village that Sonic came  from and their fierce (if super short) battle with Flashy Flash was far  more entertaining and insightful than the webcomic equivalent.

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On February 12, 2023 known as Superbowl Sunday, a twitter user by the name of “Dear Ashley” decided to stir the pot. After the big halftime show performance by Rihanna, Ashley made a bold statement about R&B Singer, Usher Raymond. Ashley stated “He doesn’t have enough pop hits for a thirteen medley performance”. In Ashley’s tweet, she also decided to use Beyonce’s past Super Bowl performances as a reference, stating Usher would give an “ok” performance.  The article linked to this discussion post contains a full breakdown as to what happened, including  responses to the tweet made by Ashley. Let’s just say, twitter users were fully engaged in that discussion. 

On September 24, 2023, The NFL made it know that Usher would be the headliner for the Superbowl in Las Vegas, Nevada. Does it surprise anyone that seven whole months after the debate was sparked surrounding Usher as a potential performer in the future, we get the news he will be headlining the big game? As an Usher fan myself, I do not find it a coincidence at all. For those who do not know, Usher has a residency in Vegas where he hosts his own private concerts. Each of his shows for the Vegas residency have sold out and attracted celebrities to come see him live. The NFL wants more In-person attendees and at home viewers , so why not bring in the man that is selling out every night in Vegas. There is a small chance I believe the NFL and Apple music considered Usher prior to the tweet, or maybe the tweet was all the confirmation needed by the corporations to give Usher the green light. Either way I am excited to see what songs will make the thirteen minute set list, because every hit pop song by the artist  won’t make it. 

Reflection: 

Connective blogging defined by Rheingold causes bloggers to “Go beyond telling your public why you should click on a link. Reflect the source or idea you are linking to. Read carefully and critically, and write something about what the linked source means. Push it further by thinking of a broader context and bringing in another link. Make the connections clear to your public” (Rheingold, pg. 124).

In terms of content matter, making my blog post about Usher was relevant for the communities that anticipate the halftime performances at the Superbowl. Also, fans of the artist love to read about big news that could change the whole trajectory of his music sales. If you were an avid user of twitter at the time the tweet went out, this type of blog would interest you. Primarily twitter users with strong views about the current state of music would love to read this blog and comment their own views on the individual who made the tweet, and Usher as a performer. 

The voice I imagined for this blog was more of a commercial voice. Halftime shows are focused on entertainment value and making sure the crowd is having a good time. Also, drama on twitter in this case is comical,  especially since it feels like one of those  “now go and eat crow” type of moments.

Speaking of twitter, Mashbels’ Beginner’s Guide to Twitter, touched on the topic of Retweets which are “Re-Sharing or giving credit to someone else’s tweet”. As someone who is not on twitter, I am sure Dear Ashley had over a hundred thousand Re-tweets since there was a deep rabbit hole of replies to her original post. I am also certain those Retweets enabled a high leveled  participatory culture back in February. Rheingold stated each of the main elements of participatory culture from Henry Jenkins and his team. One of which for a high leveled participatory culture are  “members who believe their contributions matter”(Rheingold, pg. 113). Those of us who comment on social media sites and repost content, we believe what we share and say is important. We want our spectrum of followers to engage in entertainment, healthy discussion, sometimes drama and gossip etc. I have noticed on tik tok for example, when I repost something I do look in my  activity to see who interacted with my own content/ content I reposted. 

This brings me to another aspect of twitter coming from Hootsuite on Twitter lists. When I read the section on Keep your eye on competition, I noticed something interesting. The sentence “But you don’t want to reward competitors with a follow, or let them know that your monitoring  their tweets”. This reminds me of when instagram users like myself would view other pages and try not to accidentally like any photos as you scroll through someone’s posts. This made me wonder how much monitoring is done by the average social media users on sites like twitter instagram and tik tok. More importantly, tik tok has a privacy setting where some people can see if you viewed their page, or you can hide your viewing activity. 

After reading the article that opposed Henry Jenkins' understanding of what participation is, which involves online interaction through making content, sharing with others, and engaging in discussion about the content to continue the process . The author, Christian Fuchs argued “Participation means humans have the right and reality to be part of decisions and to govern and control the structures that affect them” (Fuchs, pg. 5). As for my take on this, both Jenkins and Fuchs are right. The main emphasis Jenkins had was focusing on using online platforms as outlets for participation. Fuchs on the other hand was talking about human beings participating in a general sense, which can  apply to both inside and outside the internet. Neither definition is incorrect, they just belong in certain aspects of human life. Jenkins definition of participation more specifically participatory culture is more internet focused than Fuchs broad definition of what participation is . 

Overall, this is my first time using tumblr but I really enjoyed this assignment and I hope to engage in more discussions like these over blogs.

[gofancyninjaworld]

‘Not in the webcomic’: the changes to the characters between OPM manga and webcomic

One of the questions often asked by fans is ‘when did character xyz appear in the webcomic’? I started to think about who is and isn't in the webcomic and realised that the list is quite extensive. As it's quite long, I'll start with the discussion. Basically, if a character absolutely doesn't have to be in the story just that moment, ONE will leave them out of the webcomic. All the cool, interesting things that would add context or even just be great to explore, sorry, can't have them -- that must have been driving him crazy. Ah well, the art of great story-telling is knowing what to leave out. I salute ONE's self-discipline.

A listing of who is who, along with the chapter they first appeared in.

NB: For all sections, unless the names are too awful, I’ve gone with Viz over scanslations where available. 

A: Not present at all

Heroes

Armored Assistant Manager

Battery Man

Butcher

Captain Mizuki

D-Pad

Darkness Blade

Doll Master

Double Fall

Food Battler Futosu

Funeral Suspenders

Gearsper

Glasses

Grad School Graduate

Great Philosopher

Gun Gun

Hacker Net

Hyokotto and Studless

Lightning Genji

Meat Hammer

Mohican and Pineapple

Monocross

Narcisstoic

Needle Star

One-Shotter

Piko

Pink Hornet

Poison

Rabbit

Red Muffler

Red Nose

Shadow Ring

Shooter

Shoulderpads

Smell Master

Surly Brothers (Angry Man, Crying Man and Smile Man)

Trap Tengu

Twin Tail

Watergun

Wild Horn

Most Tank Toppers not introduced

Good guys

Blast’s crew

Guiches

Narinki

Waganma

Sekingal

Zeimeet

Zenko

The members of the HA executives appear to be differentiating themselves and developing individual personalities, with continuity from the earliest chapters, even if most of them are still unnamed.

Police Chief Kuma and all the other police officers.

The mercenaries

The Council of Swordmasters

Most of the Super Fight contestants

Monsters

100-Eyed Octopus

170,000 Year-Old  Cicada Nymph and Imago

Awakened Cockroach

Bakuzan

Baquma

Black Roast

Building Booper

Demon Fan

Demonic Pugilist

Destrochloridium

Devil Executioner

Elder Centipede

Evil Ocean Water

Eyesight

Face Ripper

Free Hugger

Gameberos

Gigakigan

Gouketsu

Grizzly Nyan

Haragiri

Hotdog

Incarnation of Electric Light String

Jagaan

Junior Centipede and Venus People Trap

Lafreshidon

Machine God G4 -- final pilot form

Machine God G5

Maikoplasma and Electric Catfish Man

Manako

Marshal Gorilla

Master Joe

Monster King Orochi

Nyan

Piggie Bank

Platinum Sperm

Psychos-Orochi

Rhino Wrestler

Sage Centipede

Showerhead

Sludge Jellyfish

Spiderino

Supermouse

Suppon

Surprise Attack Plum

Three Crows

Unihorn

Urokodon

Vacuuma  see Baquma

Vomited Fuhrer Ugly

Withered Sprout

Zombiefied Subterraneans (victims of the real monsters rather than monsters themselves)

Insect Mine workers (again, minding their own business)

All the unnamed monsters in the Monster Association (previously there had only been 17 members)

All the monsterised martial artists

All of Puri Puri’s ‘honnies’ both before and after monsterisation

All the monsters that went to rescue Garou excepting PhoenixMan

The ugly fish monsters that attacked Amai Mask’s concert

B: Introduced in manga earlier than in webcomic

Air

Blast (we’re still waiting for him to appear)

Bones (finally appeared in webcomic chapter 114)

Butterfly DX

Chain N’Toad

Crescent Eyebroll

Feather 

Gale Wind

‘God’

Green

Heavy Kong (webcomic chapter 114)

Hell Fire Flame

McCoy

Peach Terry  (webcomic chapter 114)

Suiko (webcomic chapter 124)

Suiryu (webcomic chapter 124)

C: Significantly increased in presence

This is a bit of a subjective category because there are more pages in the manga, so of course characters get to show up more! I've therefore looked at characters where their increased presence gives us a significantly different view of them, serves to change their character development or modifies the plot. I'm leaving Garou and Saitama out for what I hope will be obvious reasons. Your mileage may vary. :)

Death Gatling

Added: In the webcomic, all we saw of Death Gatling was him being set up as bait to draw out Garou, who obligingly attacked him. There's so much more to his experiences, his thinking and his organisational ability that it's not even funny.

Dr. Kuseno

Added: In the webcomic, he appeared briefly in chapter 40 and then not again until 106, and then even more briefly. In the manga, we've gotten to know more about who he is, how he interacts with people and what his relationship with Genos is like. We learn that he uses drones to retrieve Genos when his misadventures have gone a little too badly amiss, but isn’t afraid to show up in person.

Fun little meta here. In his secondary character poll, ONE had Dr. Kuseno say roughly the following: 'I'm going to become a semi-regular character by supporting Genos occasionally...' Or so I used to think. But it's actually hilarious how rarely I show up lol." Link.  And then Murata cracked his knuckles...

Drive Knight

Added: Everything after the Alien Invasion arc. In the webcomic, he disappeared in the aftermath of the Alien Invasion and did not appear again until chapter 138.   In the manga, we finally get to see how he fights, get an idea of how he thinks and see his actions regarding the Monster Association.  As of chapter 93, we finally learn that he is a cyborg, making him the fourth known cyborg in the series.  He’s shown in the manga that he is a very calculating and capable fighter,  one with an agenda the full extent of which we’re yet to see.

Genos

Added: His tussle with Sonic aside, everything from chapter 45 - 83 is entirely new and 83 onwards is greatly expanded, showing us a much clearer view of his progression. The result of all his battles showed clearly in how he picked Garou apart, whereas in the webcomic he’d just unleashed a flurry of wild swings that’d gotten him a cracked face for his troubles. Going strictly by the webcomic, he's mostly just there and the one day comes out and says he can fight dragon-level monsters now and you're like 'What? From where?'  In the manga, the progression towards that point is so much more evident and justifiable.

Metal Bat

Added: Seeing how he actually interacts with Zenko, which has been both heart-warming and quite important to how the story goes. Also added has been his bodyguard role with Narinki and Waganma, which led to his fighting multiple monsters and eventually with Garou. Without this, we would not have learned about his Fighting Spirit as of yet. Otherwise his webcomic presence consisted of appearing in the Alien Invasion arc and then not at all until after the Monster Association arc for a couple of panels. So much of what makes Metal Bat a deserved fan favourite comes from the manga, not the webcomic. No explanation for his missing out on the raid was given.

He’s come out to fight despite his injuries, which is to his credit.

Tank Top Master

Added: A lot more about his relationship with his Tank Topper Army.  As with Metal Bat, he’s pushed himself out of hospital to go rescue people, then get pulled into fighting.  We’ve also gotten to see a relationship develop between himself and Mumen Rider, which looks to have been mutually-beneficial. 

Tareo

Added: Now he is named. In the webcomic he was just the ugly kid. He used to be a random kid that Garou happened to save and chased after the monsters to rescue from their headquarters. Now, over several chapters, we see him develop a friendship with Garou, how important protecting him has been as a catalyst for developing Garou's strength and how vital a link to Garou's humanity he is. No longer just a morality pet, he actually gets a personality, we get to see his personality in his own right, we see his experiences through his world view and we are going to see how he develops as a character.

D: Present in webcomic but removed in equivalent chapters of manga

Owing to copyright issues, Goddess Glasses has been removed in favour Do-S (or Super S) and the Hotrod Brothers have been replaced by the ninjas Gale Wind and Hell Fire. In both cases, their concepts remain very similar, but ONE has taken the opportunity to greatly expand their role and integrate what they do more closely to the plot. In particular, Do-S appears to have been a great motivator for Fubuki to up her game and do something about her sister.

The monster ninjas, in intervening in Sonic’s life, gave us an insight into the ninja village that Sonic came from and their fierce (if super short) battle with Flashy Flash was far more entertaining and insightful than the webcomic equivalent.