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Ian

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🇺🇸 in 🇯🇵 | 日本語OK | The black and white footage in an infomercial | Translator (J-Novel Club: D-Genesis (Volume 4+) | Comics (lots of DB); blogging | He/Him

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Readthrough threads: Dragon Ball Super: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13967… DB Boo arc + Neko Majin: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13276… Sailor Moon: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/12771… Yu-Gi-Oh (and sequels): teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13967…
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Rounding up #yugiohread threads for pinned Tweet/posterity: Beginning: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13530… On Anzu/thread break: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13530… Magic & Wizards: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13533… Don't get electrocuted: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13534… Shadi 1: teapaw.org/Cipher_db/status/13538…
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Ah, also saw Nosferatu. D-disappointed? Loved The Witch, liked The Lighthouse... Fealty to the original plot structure of Nos made for a stylish movie that felt thematically...confused. My review is read DRCL.
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Plane movies around holiday travel: I Saw the TV Glow: Was bawling the entire last twenty minutes. Loved it; best thing I watched in 2024.
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Godzilla x Kong: New Empire: Into 2025 but retroactively the worst thing I watched in 2024. Reminder that I love Godzilla, even the campy ones. But these are just the most dull, weightless action string of Hollywood cliches without even the fun of weight or scale.
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They're scripted from the schools of both Roland/Emmerich and Bay too, which means not only are characters cliches (one thing), but basically everyone is some kind of goofy cartoon (another). There are plenty of Hollywood action movies not written that way. Grating.
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Extremely embarrassing in the year of our lord 2024, but I'm playing and genuinely enjoying Sonic Forces this week, after downloading it on a whim (gf was playing an old Sonic game and I was like, what if we spent 3,000 yen and made a character called Blood the Eagle as a joke).
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I have still not played Mario Wonder, by the way. You get weird about video games when you're in your thirties. *Spinball is also good. That and CD both get five nasty blue hedgehogs out of five.
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Playing video-games in your thirties: ・Skipping releases you thought you'd be excited for on release date because you're busy ・Making time for bad games from almost a decade ago; retro compilations ・Not finishing anything longer than twenty hours Embracing true chaos.
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Daima Episode 2: Mr. Popo has horns! Otherwise, feeling more apparent this is Kintoki/Jaco/Sandland with Dragon Ball characters, which is...yeah, I mean, yeah, that's fine!
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Oh, also some real wink-wink lore for why Cheelai only got one wish in Broly. Don't ask about the Pilaf Freeza wishes. Maybe they count as repeat customers.
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As much time has passed since the final episode of Dragon Ball Super as passed between the end of Dragon Ball GT (in Japan) and its debut in the US.
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It's just on break, though, guys.
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Took a few minutes to find the listing on Prime, but let's see what this Dragon Ball thing is all about.
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Lol, okay. Flatly said that the Namekians are from the Demon Realm, which was hinted at in the Granolah arc too. (But are these even in continuity with each other?)
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Was mostly recap and (chronologically confusing) lore, but nothing irritated me or seemed out of Toriyama's tone and dialogue style, so Episode 1 of Daima is better than every episode of Super.
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Translating with an encroaching deadline: Why would anyone do this Translating with leeway: This is so much fun
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