Saiki K has this interesting sort of chill atmosphere and monotony about it. It's called "the disastrous life of Saiki K" but the disasters are often like... him not having enough pocket money for something, or having to get through a sports festival. Occasionally the disasters are him having to save the world or his brother being an actual freak, but the show treats these times almost with the same stakes and importance as everything else.
I find this really interesting because what just feels like a "vibe" at first becomes an actual plot-point later on, with Saiki rewinding the Earth every year and repeating the same stage in his life over, and over, and over again... nothing has any real consequences, it's as dull as it is funny, and while it is a comedy I feel like there is this quiet sense of horror underneath it all. The intro with the flower petals falling and then being rewound kind of illustrates this for me - Saiki constantly controls everything around him in an attempt to hold it in some kind of stagnant peace, slowly growing accustomed to the people around them but none of them truly moving forward, like everyone is being held in a dream.
I don't really know where I'm going with this, it's really hard to put into words, but does anyone get what I'm talking about? Is this coherent in any way?
Thinking about how Kurumi always stressed to Kusuo that he needs to only use his powers for good and be gentle and all of that, and while it’s true the reason he probably got told that was because he was always fighting with Kusuke. And yeah, Kusuo was maybe a little overzealous in defending himself but also it’s pretty hard to tell a little kid in the single digits that other people are allowed to hit him and he just has to take it because he’s stronger, and he can never defend himself.
meanwhile
happy pride month moomin accidentally calls his gf “snufkin” while snufkin is down south pretending snow mounds are moomin
brother said i should post it—
here's my version of genderbend jshk characters (dunno.. might do the others later)
(i still suck in anatomy ;-;)
Gear 5 Luffy just does something to my brain that I cannot explain he’s just so ??? Pretty? Happy? Silly? Perfect? Idk but I ADORE him and this character design is and always will be everything to me.
All the little end credit paintings from Snufkin: Melody of the Moominvalley… such an adorable and fun little game!
Have a Bendy for my first post huehuehue
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Animaniacs #37 -May 1998- DC Comics
"All My Warners"
writer: Jeff Suess
penciler: Leonardo Batic
inker: Scott McRae
letterer: John Costanza
colorist: Prismacolor
"Li-Hippo-Suction"
writer: Dana Kurtin
penciler: Leonardo Batic
inker: Scott McRae
letterer: John Costanza
colorist: Prismacolor
"Mr. Brain's Neighborhood"
writer: Jeff Seuss
penciller: Walter Carzon
inker: Jim Amash
letterer: John Costanza
colorist: Prismacolor
As I was replaying the new Animaniacs trailer for the 100th time in my head, I realized there's one clip that has big ramifications on how I previously viewed Animaniacs canon. How can one clip change canon before the episode's even out? I know it sounds clickbaity, but I think it's warranted. The clip in question is this:
Now, to most fans of Animaniacs, this might not look out of the ordinary at all. After all, this is far from the first time they've seen the tower depicted this way- for decades, in fan fiction and fan art, this is exactly how it's been described and shown when it comes to stories about the Warners being locked in the tower. To my knowledge, though, through all Animaniacs animated media, this is the first time it's ever been officially shown like this.*
*It was shown somewhat close to this in reboot episode 1, but that was after no one had been living in it for 22 years.
What do I mean by "like this"? Previously in the show, whenever we got a look at the interior of the tower, it's always looked something along the lines of this:
It's fully furnished, packed to the brim with all the fun activities the Warners could ever need. It has rollercoasters, basketball hoops, a TV, and, importantly, a kitchen, bathroom, and comfy beds. (We'll assume Yakko chooses to sleep in a ball pit.) It's a veritable wonderland that any kid would be overjoyed to play in. I always assumed it was shown this way to soften the blow for kids who thought too much about the Warners' backstory- sure, they were locked in a tower for 60 years, but it couldn't have been that bad. Look at all the fun stuff they have in there!
When reading and writing tower-related angst, where the tower is depicted as a barren prison, I had always done it with the understanding that it wasn't really like that. Sure, we played it up for angst, but in reality, in canon, the Warners were more or less fine in there. They played games, rode roller coasters, had a good time. I was even gonna make an entire analysis post about what the Warners' time in the tower was really like. Anything else would be just a bit too dark, wouldn't it?
But no. It really was like that. According to the clip in the trailer, when the Warners are locked in the tower, they get all their fun stuff taken away. It really does become empty, barren, and dark. There's no rollercoasters. There's no TV. There's not a kitchen, a bathroom, or a warm bed to sleep in. There don't appear to be any windows, except maybe one prison-barred window at the top. It doesn't even look like they get rations of food. When they're locked in the tower, they sit in shadowy darkness, with absolutely nothing to entertain themselves except each other.
For
sixty
years.
And that's canon.
Chuuya has so much angst potential.
I genuily don't know why people ignore that.
They opt for Dazai angst instead.
Which is not bad, but Chuuya has way more complex angst than Dazai, whose problems come from HIMSELF.
Chuuya ends up being like Dazai, but he is like that because life hasn't been kind to him.
I think he is one of the most complex characters and I can understand Dazai's admiration and obsession.
He hides himself behind a mask, barely showing how he feels.
So seeing him break is so satisfying, yet quite painful.
Dazai showed who he is through Oda, Chuuya and other characters, but Chuuya is like a man trapped inside a soldier.
It makes me so sad.
I love skk because of this.
Dazai makes Chuuya be more free.
He can bicker with him, because he wants too, not because he has to.
So even though Chuuya "hates" Dazai, that hatred ends the moment he begins the think the reasons of this hatred.
He is fascinating.
The hero with a fate he cannot scape, but it doesn't define who he is and his character.
It's there, but Chuuya opts for ignorance.
"I don't do what I want, I do what it has to be done."
Consider yourself a pro if you recognize the quote ^^