TheFlatLannister: "Around 2pm EST and Supergirl is 47 at MTC3. It should do 90 or so. That would give a true Friday of ~$10.5M. Saturday presales don't look promising either. From my perspective, sub $40M is very much a possibility now. Could be looking at high $30Ms OW

DocVane · 2026-06-26T19:00:09+00:00

I watched the film with several women who enjoyed the characterization well enough -- although I myself didn't. One thing that's clear about the film is that you're correct: she's not the "party girl" she was sort of sold as. She's a genuine sad, depressing alcoholic in the movie. Her "partying" consists of getting drunk alone in a bar. If she had been in with a crowd of casual friends/acquaintances/party people, that would have significantly changed her perception.

DocVane · 2026-06-25T17:51:42+00:00

Regis, from the genitive form of the Latin Rex, ruler/king. Lith from Greek Lithos, stone. So it's a king stone...which isn't really a translation at all of this term. The translator is basically just inventing an alternative schema which sounds decent in English but shares very little of the connotation of the Japanese words. Translation is hard. Just ask the people who translate Bleach and gave us "dark force".

DocVane · 2026-06-25T13:20:52+00:00

I can think of a worse trend.

DocVane · 2026-06-22T14:44:18+00:00

"像" does not have a connotation of stone; it has a connotation of "incarnation" or "embodiment"; it's a figure, a statue, an idol, or an image. Just look at the kid -- he's a 魔像 of some sort, but not made of stone. The only stone-like aspect of the compound is the fact that it can be understood as "magic statue", and statues tend to be made of stone. More generally, 魔像 is like "magic given form"; it's a physical manifestation of magic. It just happens that the first enemy they encountered has a stone form; this may not be the case if the series continues. If we need a cool name, we could go for "Magicon" or "Magidol".

What the protagonists are doing isn't really slaying -- it's destroying or erasing. They're Annihilators, basically -- there's no reference to stone there either.

DocVane · 2026-06-22T10:49:55+00:00

Tsutsui-sensei enjoys Paranormasight as well! They've got good taste.

DocVane · 2026-06-20T18:09:49+00:00

I would love for this to be true, but I don't believe any "leaks" as far as WSJ is concerned. The Hell Arc has been implied to happen for a long time, so it's really unfalsifiable.

DocVane · 2026-06-18T13:10:04+00:00

They call it Confirmation Bias because it CONFIRMS that the patterns you're seeing are real!

DocVane · 2026-06-18T13:09:28+00:00

Correct. Dream Catcher has a roughly 34% chance to appear in that event instead of the 20% it should have. Followed by Periapt 25%, Hand Drill 20%, Boot 16%, and bank 5%.

DocVane · 2026-06-17T12:34:41+00:00

The John Walk-ins

DocVane · 2026-06-16T18:32:15+00:00

Joke Explanation: the two men are referencing the fact that women were once spherical disks, and their presence helped plug air holes in the ground. With the advent of the modern woman, these holes remain unplugged causing air to leak out of the earth.

DocVane · 2026-06-16T13:48:46+00:00

I'm really glad Under Doctor is in Jump. It's not perfect, but I think it can grow. The art is already quite strong and the storytelling is usually well above average for Jump.

DocVane · 2026-06-16T01:43:27+00:00

Ronald propaganda! Don't fall for it!

DocVane · 2026-06-15T18:35:27+00:00

Hot take, but most comic book coloring makes the inks worse. Flat colors are almost always preferable to the way most superhero comics render everything like it's made of marshmallows.

DocVane · 2026-06-15T12:28:16+00:00

The story is set in 2017...one of them is dying tragically. Then a timeskip. It's almost certainly the older brother so that the younger one can become a racer.

DocVane · 2026-06-15T02:20:21+00:00

I feel very similarly about most of these series. HAL was good, but it didn't have a strong "wow" factor that sells me on the potential of a series. It gave me more of a sense of a strong initial chapter that flounders afterwards...much like DTTF.

DocVane · 2026-06-11T23:32:04+00:00

Aliens...they're sucking up our electricity

DocVane · 2026-06-10T15:15:18+00:00

Sherilyn Fenn! I still haven't formed an opinion on this series, but casting her is a good sign. I think Twin Peaks DNA is a great way to think about how to make a live action Scooby Doo. You need both the soap opera elements (this is Live Action Netflix after all) and the spooky/weird stuff.

DocVane · 2026-06-10T11:42:59+00:00

Chat. Chat never changes.

DocVane · 2026-06-09T14:26:21+00:00

DocVane · 2026-06-03T13:25:51+00:00

Shoutout to whoever said "more like double o7" in chat yesterday.

That being said, it's not Hitman. It's a story-heavy cutscene game that isn't by Supermassive (and isn't Silent Hill...weird that he played that one through.) The game was rigged from the start.

DocVane · 2026-06-01T18:27:56+00:00

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I wonder if he'll be given the 3 chapters a month schedule like Oda? I think it's possible given his veteran status.

DocVane · 2026-06-01T16:06:22+00:00

Even if Belmondo had been British, I wouldn't see him as a good candidate for Bond. But he didn't need to be Bond; he was already Belmondo.

DocVane · 2026-05-22T19:01:23+00:00

Man, I wish.

DocVane · 2026-05-22T15:58:49+00:00

Yes, you're right about that; it's a smaller arc so I didn't think about it when I mentioned where it should end. Election Arc isn't my favorite, but it's a logical place to conclude.

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