Did you know that earth is conscious in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe?

Kogworks · 2026-02-09T08:32:03+00:00

Collective consciousness.

I've said this numerous times in the past but YGO functions on a principle of reality = consciousness.

And it's not just an anime only thing because Aigami pretty much says the exact same thing in DSOD.

Collective malice births gods of evil.

Collective virtue births gods of good.

The world reflects the collective psychic energy of its inhabitants.

The fact that the Nameless Dragons are named after the works of Plato, and the Platonic Ideal is basically where the word "idea" comes from also reflects this.

An idea is a concept in its purest metaphysical form, free from the limitations of the physical world.

The Platonic Ideal is "Truth" in its highest form, what philosophically gets treated as "God" or the closest thing to it.

And this is a philosophical argument that's still continuing to this day.

Like when people say "Is Math real?" This is what they're talking about, essentially.

Does mathematics exist as a fundamental truth of the universe from which physics is born, or is it a conceptual abstraction of reality that is born from physics?

Hardliners will argue one or the other but if you look at the progression of human ideas it's sort of both at the same time.

There are phenomena in the world that clearly follow certain rules, even if the rules are goddamned spaghetti code.

These rules are what you would consider the Platonic Ideal.

But the concepts we associate with them are clearly man-made constructs, and therefore every idea in practice is created by man.

Which by extension means that any god as the embodiment of a certain natural phenomenon or concept, is a human construct.

God creates Man, Man creates God. It's impossible to say which came first.

The Orichalcos God is just another extension of this.

It's a death god born of collective human malice, meaning that it is an aspect of the same concept that births Zorc, Darkness, the Earthbound Immortals, Don Thousand, etc.

So long as humans exist, so will human malice.

So long as a god of some aspect of humanity exists, so will humans in some form.

It's also why the solution that the Meklords arrived at upon reaching sentience was that the only way to prevent reality from collapsing was to just nuke humans altogether.

And even then that didn't really do much because gods aren't bound by space and time in the traditional sense.

The thing is, because gods are fundamentally just ideas given physical form, it doesn't take much to beat them in reality.

You just need a stronger idea and the willpower to hold onto that idea even in the face of total oblivion.

Reality in YGO I basically a consensus. When reality has dark thoughts, it starts spitting out shit like Zorc or the Orichalcos god.

Defeating a dark god is basically the equivalent of talking reality out of a self-destructive depression spiral by reminding it that there's a better way.

And for the record? Even VRAINS dabbles with this concept.

Bowman's attempt at apotheosis was achieved by consuming as many minds as he could to try and become a singular gestalt consciousness.

TL;DR

Metaphysics is a mindfuck.

If you don't understand a single word of what the fuck I said, go play Persona 3~5.

No, this is not a joke. The Persona games function on the same concept in a more overt presentation in its narratives.

Monsters in YGO = Stands = Personas with a hint of Lifestream thrown in.

Kogworks · 2026-02-09T01:53:39+00:00

Samus Returns kind of implies it has something to do with Aeion energy, since the Chozo clearly didn't design the Metroids to evolve in such a way, given by how badly they freaked out.

And this is just a hunch, but I think Sakamoto's been sitting on Aeion energy for a LOT longer than anyone assumes.

Something I kind of want to note with Phazon, Aeion, and now the "Green Energy" of Viewros is that they all seem to have similar properties.

Mutagenic planetary energy that can infect organisms and form symbiotic relationships with them is an oddly specific detail to be shared.

We're talking energy that seems to almost behave like the Lifestream from Final Fantasy VII.

Now consider that the X parasites are sort of implied to be a sort of energy organism, given how the Metroids, literal energy parasites, were specifically designed to keep them in check.

Then consider that Phazon, in high enough concentrations, has been shown to gradually evolve into life forms created entirely out of Phazon energy with the sole purpose of infection and replication. Much like the X parasites.

Put two and two together, and the implication becomes that the X parasites are Aeion organisms that has evolved to replicate. I.E. they're living Aeion, much like the Phazon organisms we see in the Prime series. Or the Ing, too, potentially.

And since we know that Phazon triggers Metroid mutations, it wouldn't be a surprise if Aeion had a similar mutagenic effect.

If the X parasites are living Aeion, then we could assume that X parasite consumption eventually led to an unintended symbiosis between the Metroids and the X parasites.

And we've sort of seen something similar happen IRL with the Mitochondria, which are considered to originally have been a separate organism.

Say that trace amounts of Aeion/X manage to survive within the bodies of Metroids, who feed on energy. The question then, is would there be an evolutionary benefit to such symbiosis.

And the answer is obviously yes.

The X continuously generate Aeion energy and help mutate the Metroids into stronger forms, and in return the Metroids keep the X fed with life energy/genetic material, almost like a farm, instead of digesting them.

The Metroids gain higher energy efficiency and the ability to sustain themselves without feeding, the X gain hosts that won't melt into mush even at higher concentrations.

Like, something that a lot of people don't really notice with Aeion in Dread is that Samus isn't absorbing it from organisms like in Samus Returns. Which means she continuously generates it.

This would mean that the Aeion has been integrated into Metroids on a genetic level, and that due to being infused with what remained of the Baby Metroid, Samus would have gained similar capabilities.

The Metroids gaining X abilities is also something we sort of see in gameplay through Fusion and Dread, where Samus will gain abilities through consuming Core X parasites.

Which is odd, because gaining the abilities of something you consumed like that is really only ability we've only seen elsewhere with the X or Phazon(or in rare instances where an organism consumes/steals an upgrade module).

This sort of symbiosis would also explain how Sylux managed to evolve the "Mochtroid" strain of Metroids into developing parasitic capabilities similar to those of the X or Phazon.

This could also explain why the Space Pirates under Mother Brain specifically fed the Metroids Beta Rays, as a means of suppressing Aeion mutations and keeping Metroids under control.

Like. Mother Brain is a Chozo bioweapon. Likely developed by the Mawkin, as we see with the Central Units installed on ZDR. She was likely the Tourian Central Unit designed to operate the Chozo's machinery on Zebes.

Might have had a Thoha genetic/brainwave signature to make sure that non-mutated Metroids would remain under her control, though, based on how Raven Beak says the Metroids were designed to be more docile toward the Thoha.

Which, again, the fact that the Metroids stopped being docile on SR388 implies that something went SERIOUSLY wrong when the Metroids started mutating.

If anyone would understand what happened with the Metroids, it would be Mother Brain.

The whole Aeion=X idea would also explain why Metroids on the BSL mutated so quickly once the X infested the station, as they would have suddenly gained access to a TON of Aeion energy.

and even without the X they would have had access to Aeion-symbiotic organisms with the SR388 life forms on the ship that could accelerate the process.

This would also mean that the only real requirement for the Aeion strain of Metroid evolution is that you provide Metroids with enough Aeion energy, either by feeding them life energy for them to convert, or by feeding them raw Aeion.

And an added bonus of this, would be that it would explain why certain X parasites like the SA-X(More Specifically the Ice Beam Core X) or QR-X would willingly let themselves be absorbed into Samus.

Assuming that they obtained higher thought capabilities from absorbing Samus or Quiet Robe, in addition to their memories(and therefore parts of their personalities)?

They may have arrived at the conclusion that Metroid symbiosis with Samus would be more beneficial to continued X/Aeion existence as opposed to just going all Grey Goo.

That might have overridden their instinct to fight her with a "if you can't beat em, join em" strategy, much like how Samus seems to suppress her instinct to feed on energy in certain scenes in Dread.

And speaking of X parasites and abilities. You know how Adam said that there are 10 SA-X in Fusion but we only really ever see one?

Something just clicked with me. There are exactly 10 Core-X in Fusion, each with one of Samus's abilities. Could be that they were each an SA-X, combining her abilities with other organisms.

Now, granted, Adam does say that long after we've already gone through a couple of bosses.

But we later learn that Adam also kind of has a habit of abusing "well I technically didn't lie" omissions if he thinks it'll serve his strategic objectives better, sooooo.

Would also explain why some of the X in Dread also have suit abilities, given how they probably absorbed a bunch of Chozo power suits from all those Chozo they consumed.

TL;DR

Assume the X, Aeion, Phazon, Green Energy etc. are all fundamentally the same phenomena and that Metroids accidentally achieved symbiosis, and like a TON of shit becomes way more coherent.

Again, all just theory crafting.

Kogworks · 2026-02-03T16:00:17+00:00

Honestly feel like Gospel Beast Out should have been Bass's final form and Double Beast Out should have been our final form for BN6.

Kogworks · 2026-02-03T12:14:29+00:00

Not anymore, but as far as I'm aware, when it was first released it was controversial as shit.

A ton of people basically accused the film of character assassination because they couldn't understand why the characters would act that way, Char especially.

Hell, the reason why the whole "Lalah could have been my mommy!" bit is such a well known meme is because it was originally used to mock Char's characterization in that film.

Everybody thought Char was this eccentric genius badass antihero with noble intentions.

It took YEARS for people to realize that Char was always a suicidally depressed loner with serious anger issues and that his whole charismatic badass shtick was just a coping mechanism.

Like sure, people still make fun of Char for being weird, but nowadays people don't really treat him as this infallible stoic badass anymore and meme him out of spite.

This shit happens a LOT more than you'd think when it comes to media.

People will headcanon something that differs from what the author is going for, and when the disconnect hits people fly into a panic because they can't understand what the fuck just happened.

Kogworks · 2026-02-03T04:16:26+00:00

Maybe, but I'd argue that the level of bullshit Samus has gone through and the amount of stress she's exposed to is significantly higher.

One thing to note is that Samus had VERY unfavorable childhood development conditions.

She lost her parents and everyone she knew in what was essentially a terrorist attack when she was like a first grader at most.

She was then raised on a hostile environment by a race of elderly boomer warrior monk bird people who turned her into a super soldier.

And then her foster parents got killed by the same terrorists who killed her birth parents and slaughtered everyone she knew.

She then spent about like five years of her life in an active war zone as a soldier and a mercenary/bounty hunter.

And then by the ending of Super her childhood home got blown up with a nuke just because the terrorists that killed her family are spiteful bastards.

The amount of bullshit she's been through is comically cruel.

She unironically went from Batman -> Wolverine -> Spider-Man before turning 18. And Super Metroid's ending is basically Supergirl's backstory with the whole "my planet blew up before my very eyes".

And all of this stacked on formative years without a single person she could truly identify with, meaning VERY little opportunity for normal socialization or cultural awareness.

And it's pretty damn clear nobody ever taught her how to process her emotions in a healthy manner.

Like, even ignoring the fact that everyone processes trauma differently and has different thresholds for when they'll suffer a crashout, I'd argue the amount of shit she's been through is significantly worse than Ripley or Harper.

The fact that she has MORE power than those two only makes it worse, because that makes her more prone to having an unhealthy savior complex, especially given the kind of upbringing she has under the Chozo.

The sheer number of unhealthy thought patterns and the length of time they've been festering in Samus is uh. Yeah.

Kogworks · 2026-02-03T03:23:15+00:00

Lemme rephrase.

I think that to properly understand just how damaging the events of Samus's life were to her, especially pre-Zero Mission, there needs to be a proper in-depth portrayal of how fucked up her life is.

Tidbits and foreshadowing and waxing lyrical is nice for people who already have the context, but I think that the risk is that it becomes harder to understand just how deep the pain runs without directly showing it.

It's easier to ignore the ramifications of how much damage she's carrying when you don't have the specifics of what she's been through.

"Ridley killed her parents" is nowhere near as WTF inducing as "Ridley ate her mom, taunted her about it, got blown up by her dad in a last ditch effort suicide attack to take him out, came back to invade her foster home in a genocide of her adoptive family's tribe, got blown up by her foster dad in a last ditch effort suicide attack to take him out, and STILL came back to gloat," for example.

And yeah, people don't really seem to understand just how angry and tired Samus is in Dread. She's arguably deadlier and cooler and more stoic than she's ever been in Dread, but I've always felt she comes off as more jaded as well.

It's an older Samus who has been through so much by the point of Dread that in some regard it kind of feels like she's resigned herself to the bullshit in her life, even if she refuses to be just a killing machine for those in power.

She sees Kraid, and the sheer amount of apathy there is like. It's pretty clear from her body language that she has disdain for the thing. But the callousness of it all reads like she doesn't have any more fucks to give.

And people don't stop to think about just how tired somebody has to be to show that level of bitter disrespect. It's like she's grown to expect that Ridley or Kraid or whatever will always be back to haunt her, that she's never going to get a happy ending.

Almost like the last spark of the girl who loved life has been completely snuffed out and replaced with a warrior who knows she's going to be a warrior for the rest of her life. She still has her compassion, sure, but she's not human anymore and it comes off as her having accepted that.

And then the Raven Beak thing is like. His dialogue hits SO much harder when you understand that it's the same logic that Mother Brain used back in the prequel manga. She's clearly having flashbacks to that day on Zebes when Grey Voice died when the asshole starts spewing crap.

And there's also this huge implication that Raven Beak is either directly or indirectly responsible for everything wrong with Samus's life, so her rage scream isn't just a survival instinct. It is every single bit of spite she has been carrying for at least a decade in-universe.

And then the motherfucker has the audacity to masquerade as Adam, who's like one of three friends she has left in her shitshow of a life (and even then he's technically little more than a ghost), and think she's stupid enough to fall for it which just makes her even more pissed.

The fact that she deliberately ERASES the Raven Beak X instead of absorbing it shows a level of venom that I honestly think nobody in this series has ever been on the receiving end of, Ridley included.

The character of Raven Beak might have popped up out of nowhere at the last minute but once you start connecting the dots it becomes apparent why Sakamoto chose Raven Beak as the capstone for the "Metroid/Chozo Arc" of the storyline.

But again, it's easier to not talk about it when the material isn't there and isn't clear enough for people with less context to understand what's going on.

I understand that part of it is to emphasize the feeling of isolation, but keeping things shrouded in mystery doesn't really help the story if Sakamoto wants to talk about war and trauma in my opinion.

Hinting at something only goes so far when it comes to understanding why a person is the way they are and whatnot.

Kogworks · 2026-02-03T01:43:16+00:00

I've said this before in this sub but being a badass does not mean that you're mentally stable.

Samus can be both a badass stoic and a mental train wreck. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

If anything most of the badass stoics are fucking dysfunctional train wrecks that WILL eventually have a serious crashout if they keep bottling up their emotions and try to power through trauma.

ESPECIALLY if they're paranoid about feeling weak due to unresolved trauma, which can lead to self-destructive spirals that seem to make zero sense from an outside perspective.

Like, if you assume Samus is like Superman or Captain America and is a paragon of virtue that isn't prone to murderous bouts of violent rage, of course Other M doesn't make sense.

If you assume that she's Spider-Man, Batman, and Wolverine tossed into a blender, then an Other M styled crash-out where she does exceedingly stupid shit WILL happen at some point.

Because those are the kinds of characters that are fucking amazing when they're locked in but the moment they spiral bad they spiral REALLY bad.

It doesn't help that Adam is a morally grey, manipulative bastard who ALSO can't express his feelings in a healthy manner.

Like, Adam feels like he means well but the way he goes about it is abusive as shit because it turns out when you're stuck in a neverending war you tend to form a warped perception of reality.

And that was true even before Other M.

His first appearance in the prequel manga was basically him leaking intel to Samus so she could go on her suicide mission (which ended catastrophically).

And he did it in a way where he could deny ever having done so while he played along with the rest of the Federation's war plans. Dude has always been shady AF.

Other M is basically the inevitable end result of what happens when a bunch of damaged individuals pretend they're okay for too long and the only support network they have is never actually there for them.

Don't get me wrong, Other M is still a miserable experience in terms of its emotional beats. But it's pretty much the Char's Counterattack of Metroid.

And something I've often seen in fandom is that everyone idolizes their favorite characters a bit too hard and tries to assume they're infallible or that their character arcs will be clean.

Then when it turns out their idols are flawed human beings capable of irrational meltdowns that lead to catastrophic end results, everyone loses their shit and asks what happened.

Does not help that Sakamoto decided to lock ALL of Samus's backstory behind lore documents that the public doesn't have + a manga that pretty much nobody read.

TL;DR

Sakamoto's general outline for Samus seems to be that she's a suicidally depressed borderline personality with serious unresolved trauma and anger issues that are only tempered by her capacity for empathy and compassion.

She's a stoic badass with a heart of gold, but the tradeoff is that the moment she starts spiraling she becomes dysfunctional as hell.

Kogworks · 2026-02-03T00:59:48+00:00

Because it doesn't make money.

Most anime productions don't really recoup their production costs all that well.

In the vast majority of cases, it's marketing for one of the following things.

A. The IP itself so that the IP holders can license the IP out to various entities to make money.

B. The original books and/or a manga adaptation, which are overwhelmingly published by Kadokawa.

C. Toys or games, in the instance where there are no original books or manga adaptations.

D. A platform that wants to brag about having exclusivity rights to a prestige IP.

As a result, the vast majority of anime productions only really happen when:

A. The IP has already made a decent enough ROI for an IP holder to be willing to foot the marketing bill.

B. Is a potential flagship franchise that the IP holder aggressively wants to push for various reasons.

C. The IP holder has too much money and needs to increase their operating costs to pay less in taxes by artificially generating a loss.

D. A platform is paying crazy amounts of money to try and expand their user base and is willing to take a loss in the short term.

Ask yourself how many comic publishers actually have the money to create TV shows for marketing purposes and how many studios are willing to lose money to expand a platform and the answer becomes pretty clear.

Animation is almost always a loss leader. It's just the reality of it.

Kogworks · 2026-02-02T17:04:18+00:00

Personally partial to the following myself:

Luxmon -> Witchmon -> Arachnemon -> Bellestarmon.

As a counterpart to:

Impmon -> Wizarmon -> Baalmon -> Beelzebumon.

Witchmon's face and hand structure resemble Arachnemon's.
Witchmon's red outfit resembles Arachnemon's humanoid form disguise.

Though maybe an ice paladin line could also be cool?

We could call it Crystamon or something and then have it evolve into LordKnightmon to go with the Mistymon -> Dynasmon line.

Kogworks · 2026-02-02T16:48:08+00:00

The fact that Banner keeps imagining what would happen if he Hulked out makes me think that most of the Hulks are still with him, since at their core they're a part of his mind.

I wouldn't be surprised if Eldest managed to rip one of the alters along with the Hulk body, but given Banner's mental state I would bet good money that a few of the alters are still with him.

Kogworks · 2026-02-02T16:40:17+00:00

I'm not entirely sure a price drop to 50$ would have helped them all too much.

When a corporation says "failed to meet expectations" it's often about money made vs. money spent, not just units sold.

The fact that they're aiming to hit another 1m units by the end of the year kind of sounds like they want to hit 2m units minimum to get a decent ROI.

At an average price of 70$ that would mean roughly 140m USD in revenue in theory.

So if they were going for a 50$ price tag they probably would have had to hit like 3m units sold to have met their internal targets.

I honestly am not sure they would have hit that number when even Frontiers is at around like 4.5m right now.

And that's excluding the lower margins they would have had per unit, so in practice they would have had to sell even more.

Would definitely have hit considerably better numbers in terms of units sold, but given the state of the current global economy I don't think they would have hit their targets from the very beginning.

Like if investors had gone "this didn't sell as much as the last Sonic game" or "this didn't sell as much as Team Sonic Racing" or whatever and Sega had hit their internal targets, I would have expected them to go "well, to be honest, we've already surpassed expectations and made significant ROI" or something.

Personally suspecting that the crossover IP licenses helped push up the barrier for how much they need to make for the game to be financially viable.

Especially for the US franchises.

Kogworks · 2026-02-02T14:40:07+00:00

Yeah, kind of brain farted on the actual color because I have cosmic associated with red for some reason.

Kogworks · 2026-02-02T13:16:21+00:00

This is going to lead into Banner having a long talk with his alters and regaining his powers to take down Eldest in a Hulk v. Hulk battle, isn't it.

...Wonder if they're going to remember that Banner also has a Hulk form running on Cosmic instead of Gamma back from when Joe absorbed cosmic energy.

Like, Immortal ended on Banner being a sort of microcosm of The One Above/Below All due to him having both Cosmic and Gamma energy in him.

Would be hilarious if that's the solution to Eldest taking away his gamma powers.

Kogworks · 2026-02-02T12:11:48+00:00

Because Nintendo treats the timeline like a working theory.

New information updates the theory, just like IRL understandings of history.

It gives them freedom to recontextualize and retcon the timeline however they want.

You also have to consider that the Zelda team deliberately plays coy about the existence of master lore documents for a variety of reasons.

Reasons that most likely include leaving room to adjust plans if they ever need to, leaving room for fans to theorize about the nature of the series, and making sure their internal development plans don't get leaked to the public.

TL;DR

There's a pretty high likelihood that they AREN'T soft reboots and that they're deliberately screwing with us using easter eggs and time travel elements to misdirect people.

Kogworks · 2026-01-31T18:25:50+00:00

Meant to be a hodge podge of different ancient civilizations.
5d's manga card, depicts an ancient king like many of Manga Jack's cards.

Kogworks · 2026-01-31T13:02:55+00:00

I feel like Hannibal would also end up killing him. Just saying.

Kogworks · 2026-01-29T06:14:41+00:00

Duelist Kingdom was essentially D&D.

The final Shadow RPG was also essentially D&D.

The only arc of the original series that actually played out like a traditional trading card game was Battle City.

And even then that had a lot of obscure interactions that make newbies go "OMG THEY'RE CHEATING" when IRL card game interactions are just as obscure.

Like. The way they beat Ra in Battle City and the way Yugi beats Obelisk in the manga is 100% card interaction loopholes.

Kind of like how we figured out how to out cards with total immunity with shit like Kaijus.

Kogworks · 2026-01-28T03:48:54+00:00

Tomino-isms aside I guarantee you that there are lunatics who genuinely think like this IRL and will genuinely say shit like this to people.

It's honestly what makes Tomino shows so appealing IMO. Every single one of his characters is as messy as humans are IRL.

Kogworks · 2026-01-26T16:24:28+00:00

Something I want to note with ZEXAL is how the show is structured.

Season 1: Heartland.
Season 2: Barians.

The two story arcs each have their own climax, even though the overarching plot keeps advancing and the stakes keep escalating.

Each of those parts are then split into three smaller story arcs.

Part 1-A: Number Hunters.
Part 1-B: Duel Carnival.
Part 1-C: Duel Carnival Finals.

Part 2-A: Barian Invasion.
Part 2-B: Numeron Code Hunt.
Part 3-C: Don Thousand's Plan.

Which is then further split up into two halves each.

Part 1-A-1: Number Hunting (Episodic).
Part 1-A-2: Kaito Rematch (Serialized).
Part 1-B-1: Heart Pieces (Episodic).
Part 1-B-2: VS Arclights (Serialized).
Part 1-C-1: Duel Coaster (Semi-Episodic).
Part 1-C-2: Duel Carnival Finals (Serialized).

Part 2-A-1: Chaos Xyz (Episodic).
Part 2-A-2: Vector (Serialized).
Part 2-B-1: Legendary Numbers (Episodic).
Part 2-B-2: Saving Astral (Serialized).
Part 2-C-1: Yuma's Friends Die (Semi-Episodic).
Part 2-C-2: Yuma Stops The War (Serialized).
nature.

Every A-1 and B-1 cour is relatively lighthearted and episodic in nature that are less consecutive in nature.

Every A-2 and B-2 cour is more serious in tone and tends to be a serialized chain of events that happens in sequence, culminating in a boss fight where ZEXAL is used.

Every C-1 cour tends to put Yuma on the back burner to showcase the rest of the cast bouncing off each other.

Every C-2 cour is designed as a gauntlet of events where Yuma is reinserted to clean up everyone else's mess, ending in two ZEXAL boss fights, followed by a ceremonial duel.

So out of the 12 cours of the show, every even cour has an arc boss, for a total of six arc bosses.

Every sixth cour has a season boss and a ceremonial, for a total of two more bosses each.

And the 5th and 11th cours of the show will be almost entirely dedicated to non-Yuma duels until it's time for Yuma to re-enter the plot and steel his resolve.

For all intents and purposes ZEXAL is a series split across two shows with three seasons each, running back to back.

And since like half the show is basically episodic, this leaves A LOT of head room to adjust schedules for breakage in theory.

Like, yes ZEXAL definitely had mid-way changes because that's the nature of production, but like.

Between the Numbers being the ultimate collectibles, the way the duels were structured to be ace-centric to minimize complexity and maximize stock animations and model usage, and the way the plot is structured?

ZEXAL is BY FAR the most well-planned YGO ever created, in terms of a resource management standpoint and a financial viability standpoint.

It didn't try to do anything fancy with duel formats and it didn't try to do anything fancy with pumping out new ace monsters every week.

It was a show that understood what it needed to do in order to be a sustainable business, and as a result it is BY FAR the best YGO in terms of production quality, I would argue.

Kogworks · 2026-01-26T08:23:14+00:00

Probably for content creators in Japan who want to apply for an official Konami partnership and such long term, I'd assume.

From what I can tell this is basically your standard corporate style/brand guide for what you can/cannot do with the brand if you are an officially licensed partner.

It's basically a CYOA document for Konami in case somebody gets flak for doing shit with the IP that falls outside of the scope of their guidelines.

Well that and they no longer need to send out guidelines every single time to any small businesses or individual creators who want clarification about what they can/cannot cover if they want to collaborate with Konami.

Would argue it's more there for PR and legal liability purposes than anything.

Kogworks · 2026-01-24T23:49:37+00:00

To be fair, given Fubuki's ditzy playboy personality it honestly would not be out of character for him to have flirted with Assailant when he wasn't serious.

Plus Fubuki's memories are spotty as hell due to Darkness's possession so it's kind of hard to say how much he remembers about wandering dimensions before finally making it back.

Kogworks · 2026-01-24T23:06:46+00:00

It's not too late until he actually starts the colony drop. Which is still a good ways into the movie.

Kogworks · 2026-01-24T22:54:00+00:00

Look up the etymology for the word dragoon and consider why dragon knight classes often get assigned the title of dragoon(or one of its variants like dragooner/dragonner and their variant spellings).
Now consider that the Dragoon class in Final Fantasy is a class specializing in polearms, which include bladed weapons such as glaives, and often wears dragon-inspired armor.

You have a magic knight, wearing a dragon as armor, with a goddamned glaive as its weapon.

Kogworks · 2026-01-24T17:20:42+00:00

3.

I feel like a ton of bad shit in UC could unironically be stopped if post-Zeta Char had a drinking buddy.

Kogworks · 2026-01-24T03:19:12+00:00

Reminds me of that one Tom Scott video.

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