Tsun. All Tsun.

It's March 5th in Japan, which is Yu Watase's birthday!

Watase has been drawing manga since debuting in 1989 at 18 years old!

Known for Fushigi Yugi, Ayashi no Ceres, and Arata Kangatari, Watase has been a storytelling powerhouse in both the shojo and shonen demographics.

i think of this tweet so often lol

They're being published as seinen

I'm choosing to see Heated Rivalry as Jacob Tierney making amends for how bro-y Letterkenny started to get around its halfway point

I think when Professor Tricia did a striptease was the breaking point for me, but before that all the plotlines that seemed to center around Stewart having insane sex were rough. Not every woman needs to be model-hot and hyper sexualized!!

Like at least Tanis felt like a person

I'm choosing to see Heated Rivalry as Jacob Tierney making amends for how bro-y Letterkenny started to get around its halfway point

I struggle a lot with this in a field where I have a lot of young female coworkers who get upset when they find out I don't believe in it!!

ALI IS BACK?????

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Jared asked me which of the two shows I'm reviewing do I like more. My answer was Hana-Kimi, because it knows what it is. This episode was a perfect case of it being just that.

Oh, I've had Still Alive memorized for over a decade

Through gritted teeth: There's no use crying after every mistake/You just keep on trying till you run out of cake

I am going to kill you, hit you, or hurt you in some way.

Update: I got to the last part of Test Chamber 18 and actually I hate this game now

I know I'm very very late to the party but I genuinely think Portal may be one of the closest to perfect games ever made

*year 2008 voice* the cake is a lie

I think they were trying to draw the crease in her flesh where it transitions from glute to thigh but. Failed.

Mizuki's butt, badly drawn

It's amazing how consistently terrible the Hana-Kimi animators are at drawing butts.

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Guess I have to rewatch the episode before I write that rescue

It's the truth. You gotta shame the botlickers!

I GUESS NOT?

Wait what, he seems nice

Preschool teacher voice: you're allowed to have peanut butter???

12. Zenshu (rewatch)

Yeah this show is still pretty great. Was interesting to come back to because considering it came out in the middle of MAPPA crunching on multiple projects (which hasn't totally gone away though it seems like they're spacing them out a LITTLE better now) there was (1/2)

Looking for the Full Moon (sub • 52 episodes) is streaming on Tubi tubitv.com/series/30001...

Blu-ray with slipcover still available:
- Vol.1 www.mediaocd.com/product-page...
- Vol.2 www.mediaocd.com/product-page...

A heads up that the Polygon article (and others in Japanese) about the horrible case coming out of Shogakukan is full of bad information, like conflating a civil and criminal case.

I'm sure this will cause zero issues when talking about the situation moving forward.