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Heely-haws.
The Anime Feminist blog recorded a retrospective podcast on the best anime of the summer, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction that adds a ton of context to the series that I didn’t have before: https://www.animefeminist.com/chatty-af-214-dead-dead-demons-dededede-destruction-retrospective/
Also I’m giddy for Uzumaki and Dan Da Dan, but that’s honestly about it.
If your analog control requires your entire hand, it’s interesting.
If your analog control requires several pointing fingers, it’s interesting.
If your analog control requires your thumbs, it’s shit.
Now get the fuck out of my office!
One of the things I was most curious about with this series was the animation style they were choosing to use. Hiroshi Nagahama used rotoscoping to make Flowers of Evil, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. The mouth movements would have been better - they actually look pretty rough in spots here. Motion capture or vtuber tech maybe?
Public service: the video this YouTube account uploaded before this one is titled “The Tiananmen Square ‘Massacre’ Never Happened”.
Remember folks, check your sources.
I am one of those obese people, and it seems so achingly unfair.
I am an active person. I eat similar foods and quantities as my peers, with drastically different results. I drink water, not soda or juice. I basically stopped drinking coffee, but when I did, it was always plain black. The only weight loss success I’ve had was spending a year on a keto diet, which my doctor swears was slowly killing me (salt, sulfites, etc). My doctor says I have mild hypothyroidism, but not bad enough to call for treatment.
I have been overweight my entire life, living in a world that fundamentally believes that this is entirely my fault. I don’t know how to convey the hopelessness that people like me have to live with, and the resolve that it requires to keep making healthy choices in spite of it, and never seeing beneficial results.
I don’t know how to get off this ride. All I ask is for other people to not believe I am a lazy shameless grotesque person for being forced to ride it.
I’ve been following this series. Queer culture varies from region to region, so it was really tricky to watch the show without projecting the concept of a western trans identity onto the main character.
It took the full length of the first season before Makoto articulates his identity (genderqueer from what I can surmise - a man with he/him pronouns who prefers feminine presentation… mostly), with the option floated to him of being able to live “as a woman,” but with no specifics given to the cultural context of that phrase.
It would be really cool to get commentary on this show from Japanese queer folks who can speak to the language choices and cultural context behind this show.
I’m waaaay more interested in that than a movie.
No love for Bananya Around the World?
Ive been waiting for years now for Valve to release a next gen headset before getting into VR (rather than paying top dollar for a legacy platform) and the industry is running laps around itself.