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In Translation | Little Tama's an Angel by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko The obscure newspaper debut from the duo that would bring the world Doraemon.

New post! (kind of)

In case you missed it, here's the entire run of Little Tama's an Angel, the obscure 1951 debut newspaper strip from the team behind Doraemon back when they were still just two manga loving high-schoolers, collected into one place!

Enjoy!

Transition by Iain Banks (2009)

oh look there I am! go read me yap about ridge racer

...but only if you check everyone else out too (the Dia Lacina article about Gabriel Knight 3 rules, me and my friends have been talking about it all week)

Baby Assassins Everyday has two modes and I sob at both of them equally.

need everybody to know that Baby Assassins Everyday is one of the best tv shows of the decade and it feels like it kind of effortlessly reaches that level

SOMEHOW the (current) peak in a series that has a movie as good as Nice Days

A fun little guy with his tongue sticking out dancing over a bouquet of hearts while a man with a little mustache and a frog face laughs in front (Atsushi Ichijima)

A laughing sun that looks high af in the corner, arms growing out of the earth, a weird elephant nose face next to a bleeding eye, and the word GOD in the upper corner (Minoru Sokabe)

A man at a desk with an intense look on his face, image ripped open to reveal words behind him and a melting mass of flesh drippings above his head (Norio Kodaira)

large smiling lips in front of a caged window. You can see a strange shadowy figure looking in (Kei Namoto)

just some cool art submitted by readers to the November 1970 issue of COM (names of artist for each included in alt text)

how i'm gonna propose to my gf

Trying to get what they have (Baby Assassins Everyday!)

Talking games | Ridge Racer V The weight of the millennium.

New post!

I’m talking about the weight of life, the weight of the future, and the weight of cars with the BEST Ridge Racer game (yeah you heard me, you Type 4 freaks)

Rev ‘em up, baby, it’s time for Ridge Racer V!

Read it here!!

James Hurley if he was able to podcast in the second season of Twin Peaks

A photo of my current recording setup. Things are Normal

Waiter! Waiter! As many more Masahiro Shinoda movies as they have, please. (Samurai Spy, 1965).

The Nickel King rules by fear, not jest.

If I had a nickel for everytime Baxter uploaded his Nickle King post, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a-

A~hhh...

The VNs got him...

Digimon Time Stranger screenshot, a cinema on the corner of a street with a detective agency sign hanging above it

embargo is up so I can give my review of Digimon Time Stranger: very early on there's a detective agency on the second floor of a movie theater and hold on........this is a fkn Maiku Hama reference

goty

WHAT THE HELL
Game of All Time...

Rewatching The Fire Hunter as I let the second season slip me by when it aired.
Fantasy worlds built upon the remains of a post-apocalyptic modern day my beloved.

two chibi angels on a cloud looking down from it, one through a spyglass

Hey!

Starting tomorrow I'll be posting a strip a day of the 1951 manga, Tenshi no Tama-chan by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.

But you probably know them by a different name: Fujiko Fujio!

That's right, it's obscure debut from the name that would bring the world Doraemon!

hope you like it~

Sap time: I really love that Ultraman Omega's brand of hope and optimism is just to be in a community that gives you as many avenues as it can to just at things (jobs, hobbies, passions), with as many opportunities as you need to keeping trying at them.

Talking games | Kamaitachi no Yoru Losing my mind searching for answers in 1994's influential obsession simulator.

so...I guess now is a good time to read my post about one of my favorite games ever, Banshee's Last Cry?????

The essay also does a very good job at capturing what my brain feels like seeing this game in Street Fighter lmao

Double Sized 2000AD and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen!

Such a mixed week! Lots of underwhelming segues sandwiched between some amazing books!

Good As Dead #1 scratches the itch,

All three of us finally read 2000AD and unanimously agree it’s Our Shit,

And our book club devours Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen!

GAMERA!!!

Talking books | The Summer of the Ubume The tragedy of mysteries and the mysteries of the truth.

New post!

The Summer of the Ubume is a titanic work of Japanese mystery fiction, a horror-soaked loosening of reality wrapped up in locked rooms and impossible pregnancies.

Read my thoughts about it — and the cruel truth of all mysteries — here!

In Translation | The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin (dir. Shoichiro Sasaki, 1981) The TV movie that inspired a generation, now in English.

Also of course wrote a tiny bit about the film over at the blog, so go over there too!

YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin (Shoichiro Sasaki, 1981) w/ English Subs

New translation!

The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin"

Enjoy!!

@chloecade.bsky.social whenever an issue of Kryptonite Spectrum comes out:

Incredible episode! We talk about:
Red Hood #1 (great!)
Absolute Batman #12 (great!)
Kryptonite Spectrum #2 (great!)
Racer X #1 (huff)

And Wes Craig’s Kaya vol 1 for our book club (I’ve prayed for books like this)!