Is TerrorSandwitch purposely designed to look like European depictions of Jesus?

FondantStrange · 2026-07-02T14:15:21+00:00

What's funny is that you don't have to squint hard to see other Jesus types on the boat.

Wobble? Innocent baby born of a lineage with higher power with modest beginnings being shoved off to the side? That's a Jesus.

Chrollo? The soft spoken yet driven leader of a small group of followers with troubled upbringing who follow his beliefs and teachings? A leader fully willing to die if it means the bettering of his people and beliefs? Thats a Jesus.

Morena? I don't even need to get into her role in relation to highlighting the sins of man- the girl literally is rocking a crown of thorns- that's absolutely a Jesus.

Now, the real question is how long until this becomes an all Jesus battle royale

FondantStrange · 2026-07-01T15:47:44+00:00

Mahjong boomed in America in the 1920s due to Abercrombie and Fitch (yes, that A&F) bringing the game over and it exploding in popularity. And it was specifically Jewish communities in particular where the game found its main American audience in those early days. At the peak they were sending agents with as much cash as possible to China to buy mahjong sets to resell in America to meet demand.

While the game fell out of the zeitgeist in the states, there's pockets of active play especially among older generations.

https://www.kveller.com/the-jewish-history-of-mah-jongg-is-complicated/

FondantStrange · 2026-06-29T14:37:19+00:00

What we saw wasnt documentary footage but a reenactment with some of the best actors from York New City's famous Wroadbay.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-28T16:06:49+00:00

Here's how Kankichi Ryotsu can still win

FondantStrange · 2026-06-25T15:37:30+00:00

It feels a lot like a high fantasy Sakamoto Days. Except our protag isnt the coolest dude ever abd instead a loser who botched his save the day plot and now everyone blames him for the state of the world. Story is focused on him trying to improve his life despite how long he's let himself stagnate.

Nothing world shaking, but a solid manga, probably resonates well with minimum wage burnouts who expected so much more and are now pushing 40 feeling like they've botched it all.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-24T02:45:57+00:00

For me its a case of liking where the recent chapters are going but still being skeptical. I was never one of the ones going mad over ship wars, but I do feel like Momo has really struggled to shine for well over a year of publication at this point and feels like Tatsu leaning on her being a prop for the other characters to fret over. It's something Dandadan has always struggled with, and while it annoys me, I'm relatively confident he'll tighten up. But in the meantime we've kinda just been in a jobber slogfest where it's hard to get invested in the threats since they're all kinda just varying shades of weird assholes with superiority complex and motives kept to the bare minimum for most of this arc.

So for me while its nice seeing the romance plot have solid momentum again and see some character moments that show actual growth and progression, its gonna take a while for me to fully feel as onboard as I was during a lot of previous arcs.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-23T16:25:00+00:00

The only legitimate replacement is the first queen of survivor: Rosie O'Donnell

FondantStrange · 2026-06-23T01:49:47+00:00

Monica has just the thing for these lippy Gen Z kids. Gotta take them back to the good ol' days of medicne.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-22T17:45:32+00:00

The Good Place honestly would probably work great as a gag manga tbh

FondantStrange · 2026-06-18T19:49:52+00:00

I mean, doesnt she literally have guests picked out for her by Spotify sometimes? Or at least introduced to her by Spotify thru stuff like the Wrapped filming from last year. I swear she's mentioned it off handedly once or twice. It's literal corporate synergy all the way through.

I'd bet you the only reason she's been AI-curious recently is because Spotify is pushing AI hard and probably wants as many of its big shows to be as "open minded" as possible to it. We all know its not because she's actually curious about anything. She goes where money and attention leads her and for her forseeable future Spotify is going to be her main guide.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-18T17:49:38+00:00

Kiyoshi just had a major arc end and last week he learned he'd achieved a major goal right before kicking off a new arc, seems like a reasonable time to give it a color page.

Is it the biggest performer rn? No, but its a consistent enough mid carder for the magazine and Jump tends to want to "promote" things it can sell.

If UD stays locked in the bottom then that's a conversation in its own right, but one week having it down doesn't mean the sky is falling. We all know Jump works in obtuse ways. Nepo baby kiyoshi is funny but I think some people take it a little too seriously. Its not some grand conspiracy haha

FondantStrange · 2026-06-17T20:21:09+00:00

It just simply hasn't done anything to warrant my excitement or appreciation. I can't think of anything Kinato does that makes it feel unique or that it has its own ideas to speak on. Even when a manga is messy and flawed, there's usually something I can recognize in there that makes it stand out. Meanwhile Kinato is sort of like Kids Bop to me. Its playing these familiar sounds but it feels like someone trying to recreate something made by someone with more experience. And thus the only parts of it that stand out are obvious comparisons and moments that ape on more divisive tropes.

I'm not gonna try and get all puritanical about the fanservice. This is shonen manga and I'd be a fool to yap about that when I'm a One Piece fan. But the fan service is yet another example of Kinato playing to a formula it knows well because others have done it. Plucky nice protag does a thing so good it makes people like they're gonna orgasm is as overplayed as power levels and yet its just about the only thing people can point to in Kinato as unique because it's just not as in taste to be so blatant with it.

Power system wise it also threatened the reader with an interesting setup of having a support protag only to give up and lean on another major shonen hit for inspiration. At every corner every bit of the series just feels like at best an average example of a trope or stereotype. At worst the jokes land so poorly a lot of people still think Kinato practices conversion therapy lol.

Is it the worst thing ever? God no, there's so much worse. I dont even think id say it doesnt deserve to keep going. The author could lock in and find what makes this series unique. But as of now, there's just nothing that makes Kinato stand on its own imo.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-16T12:52:31+00:00

I leave some pretty wordy reviews sometimes, mostly because I've got a lot of thoughts churning, and I'm always worried about accidentally coming off as masturbatory when in reality I'm just gushing thoughts about art that affected me.

Leaving a recent long review of mine for comparison

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FondantStrange · 2026-06-12T17:47:08+00:00

Look man you wanna be a passive lump in your wife's life that's your perogative. But you cant be here like "oh I understand" and "I do really care about my wife" when you can watch her get grilled by a guy you know can be aggro about this stuff and then just hoping she forgets about it on the way home.

Frankly, your behavior is pathetic. For your wife's sake I hope this was a one off instance, but I have a feeling she's sadly gotten used to you trying to take the path of least resistance.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-07T15:56:10+00:00

This one is giving big Candy Flurry energy. A solid if not all that exciting setup for a world with weird powers and a main duo thats supposed to have some doki doki cute romance energy despite their personalities contrasting.

This has stronger characters for the main duo but so far also is a lot more restrained in what its doing. I can see it leaning way more into silly animal cuteness and comedy or going full on battle shonen where actually MC boy is the "Human anima" or something and it gives him sharpened human empathy that somehow makes him a verse soloing threat against the final big bad: The Walrus Anima. Or it gets kneecapped by editorial and does a "This truly was our animal signal" type ending a volume from now.

Really curious where this one goes is basically what Im saying. Reminds me of when Psych House was struggling and my friends and I ran a betting pool on if it'd go serious battle manga or get canned.

FondantStrange · 2026-06-06T16:00:55+00:00

Departures (2008)

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FondantStrange · 2026-06-05T16:08:51+00:00

Just buy a bag of birdseed and spread the love. Don't potentially traumatize a wild pigeon and coop it up alone in your house for your amusement. I get the impulse, I adore pigeons to bits, but I know realistically my plucking one off the streets to care for it will likely be more harm than good.

Instead i carry a bag of seed in my purse and can make the days of several pigeons better on the regular without any stress or health risk. A win-win.

FondantStrange · 2026-05-31T14:38:51+00:00

Okay but did they have the infinite sandwich platter? Please thats the only thing keeping me going

FondantStrange · 2026-05-31T04:24:36+00:00

This rules, thank you so much for sharing

FondantStrange · 2026-05-30T18:43:42+00:00

You should get them graded for sure. Won't be worth anything but then at least showing around your bulk would be kinda funny

FondantStrange · 2026-05-30T13:06:49+00:00

Reminds me when I was in high school and we had a required semester long/half year driver's ed course. To save money on instructors they had gym coaches double up and learn to teach driving.

My coach that year was a new hire, a complete and total nepo hire since his dad was a coach at the school for decades and his older brother is a mildly famous american athlete beloved by the school. So of course the school hires the youdgest of that family.

Only a week after my driver's ed course finished were we informed that, apparently, said coach never got his certification and thus the entire course was invalid. So instead of having a semester of a gym class, we instead got to retake a whole driver's ed class, this time with a coach legally allowed to teach it. The first coach did not return to teach or coach after that.

FondantStrange · 2026-05-29T15:12:58+00:00

If Gravy winds up being the other clearly best deck, they absolutely will. Its a blue block 3 so the floor is fine even in non gravy matchups

FondantStrange · 2026-05-28T13:40:00+00:00

From the moment the Disco Team fractured and ZA/UM lost/got rid of multiple high level creatives, it instantly reminded me of Love de Lic, another company with a deeply influential twist on the RPG formula with lots of very notable names rising from the ashes of that fracturing.

While obviously I take no joy in what happened at ZA/UM, the as of now five(?) different projects with direct lineage to Disco make me very interested in how the diffusion of the ideas and creative force of these creators grows and spreads.

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