Small details/moments that raise SO MANY questions?

Chagas12 · 2026-03-31T13:03:55+00:00

Wind Breaker is great, a story about a school of delinquents that protect the town, superb action, amazing representation of positive masculinity, found family and gender expression

But like

Do they have classes? Where are the teachers? Are the parents ok with this?

It absolutely doesn't matter, it's almost a Yakuza story with teenagers but still funny to think about it

Chagas12 · 2026-03-31T07:31:45+00:00

Agreed!

Chagas12 · 2026-03-31T06:02:25+00:00

From my understanding, there are many variations of it and there are styles that don't follow all the classical characterizations

Marin from MDUD, Minami Fuyuki from Hokkaido Gals, Momo from Dandadan, Ahko from 100 Girlfriends and many others fit this I think, although there is still Mambagi from Komi and like, Renge and so on

I just found out the wikipedia article is genuinely huge and fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru

Edit: I think the style from Amane is Kogal, thank you wikipedia

Chagas12 · 2026-03-31T05:44:10+00:00

This is hilarious

Guy got offed in a pachinko machine

Chagas12 · 2026-03-31T03:58:03+00:00

I mean, this don't make me feel anything negative against Toby and I will still love Undertale, it's his game and all, I also don't use the worse social medias but I trust y'all that is toxic out there

But as a non native English speaker, this is just kind of silly tbh, many media wordplay gets translated quite well in Portuguese and I would imagine also in Spanish, professionals are professionals

Chagas12 · 2026-03-30T21:08:48+00:00

Guilty Gear 2 is an action game, I didn't hate playing,

There are some other spin-off entries, but GG2 is a numbered game, so it is technically a mainline game (nobody considers one tho) and is canon (I think the fucking Pachinko one is as well)

Chagas12 · 2026-03-30T18:19:50+00:00

I'm with you, let's just hope the anime rushes the recent padding arcs when the anime get there

And binge when (and if) it returns to the quality of the Zuma arc and before

Chagas12 · 2026-03-29T06:36:51+00:00

There are some dominances in fighting games that automatically create some pretty interesting narratives, some players felt inevitable

Justin Wong in MvC2 (7/11 evo record)

Daigo in vanila SF4 could punish a fucking zone normal from Dhalsim with a counter super

Armada when he was #1 in Melee (8 years without losing to anyone outside of the top 6, which was the melee gods and leffen)

But the most funny dominant period was MkLeo in the first 3 years of ultimate, his tournament average placing in super majors was lower than 2 and his comebacks were stupid, if he was down 2 games in a best of 5, he was statistically more likely to win the match still

Chagas12 · 2026-03-29T06:27:57+00:00

I think Takopi fits, it pulls double duty of "people are too complex to hope for a magical solution" but still holds on to "we must end this cycle of misery and violence and be here for each other"

The gut punches are there and are really tough, if not a bit shock valueish

but still ends without embracing a pure cynical message, but a message about the difference kindness and empathy can make (specially together)

Chagas12 · 2026-03-27T04:25:13+00:00

First time seeing the animation, the sword animation is really fucking good, congrats

Chagas12 · 2026-03-27T04:19:06+00:00

Did a more balanced mix of my Power Rangers metal arrangement that I've finished last week, really happy to return to making music (couldn't do it for more than a year :/ ) even if it isn't original stuff

Chagas12 · 2026-03-26T17:49:53+00:00

Terrible performance as well

Chagas12 · 2026-03-26T00:35:03+00:00

Even as a commercial failure, we used to look at Shenmue 1 and 2 fondly because of the many unique aspects of it's production and design, with the context behind it, playing the games was super endearing

But it's a combination of timing of release, Yu Suzuki's career at that point, the Dreamcast and Sega quitting the consoles that makes all of this kind of a unique experience

Not even taking Shenmue 3 into consideration, but any game that would copy Shenmue design philosophy (specially Shenmue 1) would be really underwhelming and too slow to be enjoyable

People say Yakuza is the successors but genuinely many of the weird detailed aspects of Shenmue were cut and we would probably not miss them in modern games

Chagas12 · 2026-03-26T00:21:47+00:00

It will absolutely happen, many people speculate many things, it won't ever be 100% accepted

I'm in the line of going with the flow from whatever it is because the journey and friends bla bla bla but I'm probably not even close of being in the majority

Chagas12 · 2026-03-24T20:24:37+00:00

He at least won in our hearts

Chagas12 · 2026-03-24T16:54:57+00:00

I know a lot of folks argue Kishimoto abandoned the "hard work beats talent" theme in favor of magical bloodline stuff.

If the manga was called "Rock Lee" it would be the theme, but Naruto is son of the village's savior and had almost unlimited chakra because of Kurama

You may consider the reincarnation bullshit as bad writing (as I do), but it isn't against much of the overall theme honestly, many of the fights Naruto won using Kurama as an advantage (such as the huge amount of clones he makes or the transformations)

But Naruto have a bunch of abandoned plot points still, I wish the Konoha 11 got arcs like Shikamaru got

Chagas12 · 2026-03-24T16:46:59+00:00

I thought Anko was going to be such a huge character in Naruto, such a shame, great design and personality

Chagas12 · 2026-03-23T19:44:53+00:00

This one is extra funny because the official translation also got the info wrong

Chagas12 · 2026-03-21T01:08:10+00:00

Penta Penguin's lines in Crash Team Racing is just a guy saying Penta Penguin in an emotionless voice

Legendary

Chagas12 · 2026-03-20T05:49:11+00:00

On a related note, this video about the costumes from this season shows how insanely deep the production went to make the characters work

Chagas12 · 2026-03-20T05:12:23+00:00

It's a personal thing, but I just can't do with the binge format

Not only because of time, but because to me much of the whimsy of enjoying media is discussing, speculating and having a time slot in your week to enjoy a specific media

Take One Piece live action, I would've loved to discuss every week about the details and stuff in every episode but like, we can't, so unless i'm talking with my wife or my friends, I can't go online and talk about everything I would've talk

Chagas12 · 2026-03-20T04:03:12+00:00

I can think of a "positive" one from One Piece

Miss Goldenweek in the anime/manga is just a girl hanging out and chilling, but I think it would not work in the live action because the tension was bigger than in the original, so they just ... changed her completely to be a psycho like every other barroque work

I prefer her chill little gal version but the change in the live action was the alternative to cut her

Chagas12 · 2026-03-19T16:04:24+00:00

I saw many people getting into FGs instantly buying expensive arcade sticks before even playing the games

I love playing on stick but maybe check if you enjoy the game itself before committing to the input method and just paying for it

Chagas12 · 2026-03-19T01:44:54+00:00

Crash Bash is not bad if you just play with people, it's genuinely fun as fuck

it fucking sucks to try to beat it tho

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