Thom Coffyn

He’s a prince, they probably taught him about terroir

For mining only the finest artisanal small batch cryptocurrencies, I presume

カイミハ／月を見ていた (3/4)

digital art mostly of rezin schneider, plus one drawing each of kayra, kai, and my oc carrion winters

one goku vs frieza 4k upscaled fight compilation after another

I friggin wish more of those beetle mecha were available on the marketplace

Sending the psykers who-knows-where and going back to live in Kasarelia looks a bit like Jacoba Aon yeeting the aura fleets into Upper Earth and then acting like that’s solved the problem.

Hmm. You make a great point, the similarities between the two shows are striking... But Gundam is too loaded down with its own history of endless conflict. We can’t believe in newtype miracles because we’ve already seen Char’s Counterattack and we know they don’t stick.

No no the innovation of dunbine is that they’re both exploiting each other in an oroboros of escalating violence and development

To me this is ur-Tomino: yearning for a world that no longer exists, anxious about the spiritual consequences of turning from nature toward technology, but aware that we passed the point of no return a long time ago. The road behind us is closed, our destination undecided.

Despite the ending, there’s every reason to believe these problems will continue. The Earth leaders who witnessed the destructive power of aura won’t soon forget it, and there are still plenty of people in Byston Well who know how to build aura battlers.

When chaos breaks out in Byston Well, it’s bound to spill over into Upper Earth. The Ferario leaders try to restore the status quo ante by shoving all the Earth technology back where it came from, but it turns out aura power is as disruptive to Earth as circuitry was to Byston Well.

Dunbine itself uses the term “parallel worlds” to describe the relationship between our Upper Earth and Byston Well, getting at an important distinction from many recent isekai settings: the two worlds had a harmonious relationship now disrupted by the breakdown in the barrier between them…

Thanks Mark, I’m glad to hear you had a good time listening!

I wonder if it’s a Macross/pineapple salad reference…

It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email.
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si

every fucking time i think of it

Congratulations!!

dont feel like shading this that much lol

Though, as in Gundam, dunbine uses the English オーラ・バトラー for the battler *machines*. Presumably Byston Well had an indigenous tradition of dismounted or unicorn cavalry aura warriors before Shot Weapon brought his bug bots and his California-accented loan words to play.

Director Yoshiyuki Tomino's storyboards for the ending of the "Gundam III" movie.

Still frames from the ending of the "Gundam III" movie.

And I'm finally done with my comprehensive update to the First Gundam production history! Took me seven months, but it's literally tripled in length, with lots more source translations and better-quality art. "The next is... in expectation of your heart."
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Gesundheit!

Angel’s Egg Mamoru Oshii at his most introspective

Angel's Egg is in theaters this week courtesy of GKIDS and with a 4K restoration no less, and let me tell you, that feels like a miracle. Highly recommend you go see it if you have the opportunity, it is like nothing else in anime. I wrote about it a few years ago and it has only grown on me since.

Damn, I would have guessed double digits by now. We've got to get those numbers up!

How many people have made this joke to you already?

Blame this on the misfortune of your birth

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Things get, as Thom put it, "mildly spicy" 😏

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Winnie, this is gorgeous!