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[ridingstardust]

Promote Your Canon

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Looking for castmates for your character in the game? Looking for castmates for the character you plan to app into the game? Do you just really really love your canon? Share it here! We want to know! What exactly is the canon you're playing from? Give us the basic info like title, medium, and an idea what it's about. You can also throw in a few names of characters that you'd love to see in the game. (Hint hint) Also link resources such as streams, downloads, scans, viewing guides, YouTube videos, gifs, memes, and more! Conversely, if there's a canon you've seen here in the game and you're curious to know about it, feel free to post it! Want to get into MCU but don't know where to start? Don't know if you have to play every Final Fantasy to know what's going on? What is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure even??? Ask here! Be kind to your fellow gamemates and don't go overboard! Try not to put too many gifs or videos directly in your comment. Linking to them rather than embedding is great for people with slow connections. Don't be afraid to add onto your friends' comments and don't be afraid to ask questions! We're happy to share our fandoms around.

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Adventure Time/Homestuck/Arc-V/RWBY bcause ahaha look at all these characters

[sacrosanctum]

look at me i play from too many canons here--

So Adventure Time is probably the big one everyone's very familiar with, the kind of weird story of Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, two brothers who live in a tree fort in the extremely wtf land of Ooo and do general heroic shenanigans. While it is extremely strange in terms of setting and humour and most other things, it does have long-running plots and a lot of fun characters who get to develop in some interesting ways. Streams can be found on most sites that stream cartoons (I generally use watchcartoononline though it can be a bit slow to update with new eps), and while I wouldn't necessarily advocate not watching the early eps the show particularly hits its stride from about mid-season 2 onwards.

Homestuck I don't doubt most people are familiar with but for all the wrong reasons, because yeeeeah. Anyway, the story itself is really basically about a video game called Sburb that charges its players with making a new universe, with their original home planet generally being destroyed as they enter, and it's log-based conversation so there's a lot of character interaction within the game as each character plays out their unique quest to fill their role in the game. It's a long and extremely confusing read at points, but there are definitely some interesting characters and some very interesting ideas, and the format it's done in makes it pretty engaging with things such as flash videos and games interspersing normal panels. It also finished earlier this year; the whole thing starts here and there's also a log (most recent first so keep that in mind) for finding specific pages and stuff.

Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V is the most recent spinoff of everyone's favourite nostalgic card game anime, and can be most aptly described as "interdimensional war with card games". Four dimensions (Standard, Fusion, Synchro and Xyz) exist in the world of the show and Fusion intends to unite the world as one through...invasion and subjugation mostly, having already razed Xyz, and the story of trying to repel this invasion runs alongside the protagonist (Yuya) and his attempts to carry on his missing father's style of dueling, which encourages making the audience and all players happy rather than using it for conflict. It has its light moments and dark moments and the Synchro arc drags somewhat, but overall it's very well-written and tightly plotted for a Yu-Gi-Oh series and has a lot of interesting, relateable characters. Most people seem to like Kissanime for streams and various subtitling groups release on Nyaa (ads are often NSFW so watch out for that). Of the sub groups, I'm kind of obliged to advocate for GX_ST since I'm their editor, though we tend to be a bit slow in comparison to the other groups.

RWBY is a web animation with three seasons currently about a world called Remnant which is overrun with monsters known as Grimm. Humans still have four main strongholds on the continents of Atlas, Mistral, Vacuo and Vale, and these continents each have schools to train hunters and huntresses, skilled warriors who fight against Grimm and protect the people at the risk of their own lives. It's very action-packed with awesome fight scenes and has some slice-of-life elements given it's set in a school, and while it hits its stride best in season 2, season 1 is still definitely worth watching. The whole thing, along with bonus materials, is available on Youtube, though new episodes release one week earlier on the Rooster Teeth website.

METAL GEAR??

[saveyourserpent]

Tactical espionage action! Clones! Convoluted storylines! Memes as plot point! A lot of nudity!

All this and more in the Metal Gear series for various video game systems.

It's a stealth game series that's full of some seriously weird shit, some weirdly serious shit, and a hell of a lot of humor. Solid Snake who many might know from that one Super Smash Brothers game comes from here. This incredibly good looking dude, Liquid Snake, also comes from here. These Snakes are brothers.

This looks like a good overview! If you can't play the games I'd recommend finding commentaryless playthroughs/longplays on youtube, but that's just because I don't like commentary when I'm watching my games.

Ask me about stuff if you like!

As for characters I'd like to see in the game? ANY. But especially Psycho Mantis (Liquid needs his buddy) and Solid Snake (BROTHERRRRR).

curse workers

[gitanes]

CANON NAME. Curse Workers trilogy (White Cat, Red Glove, Black Heart)
AUTHOR. Holly Black
MEDIA TYPE. Novel
GENRE. Crime drama, noir, speculative fiction, fantasy, unreliable narrator, romance (but not really)
ONE-SENTENCE SYNOPSIS. The youngest of three brothers, who believes himself an outcast and a murderer, must navigate a world of magical & criminal intrigue in the search for someone to trust (spoilers: trust no one, ever, at all).
WHERE CAN I GET THE THING? Just PM or PP me and I can upload an ebook, OR I have a paperback copy of White Cat if anyone wants it. Super well-timed totally by accident.

SETTING. The series is set in the United States, roughly around the dates of publication (somewhere between 2010 and 2014, ish). Most action takes place in New Jersey, some in NYC. In this universe, the US, and indeed the world as a whole, is divided between normal humans and "curse workers," or magic users, although from a mechanics perspective the "magic" is more analogous to genetic mutation (passed down through the family line) than to a learnable skill. In the United States, workers are criminalized if they use their powers; however, given that the onset of power usage is involuntary, the end result is that all workers are criminals by the time their powers manifest, usually before the age of 10. This has led to an extreme social divide between workers and non-workers, which has in turn led many workers to develop a criminal underclass, controlling organized crime in the States and by extension worldwide. Less prestigious worker families serve the ruling families. The predominant worker family in the Northeast is the Zacharovs, whose assisting family is the Sharpes.

PLOT. It is super hard to summarize even the first part of the first novel without giving a lot away! But the main idea that threads all three books together is that the main character, Cassel Sharpe, is searching for his identity in the midst of a sea of lies, and that he has to navigate the damage he does (both intentionally and unintentionally) in his search for that truth. On a more meta level, it's an exploration of the way he applies his own personal narrative to the people in his life, and how flawed that can be (and usually is). Cassel is a super unreliable narrator, but his prose can be really fun to read for that reason imo! Just never trust him.

CHARACTERS. The story focuses mainly on Cassel and his relationships to other characters, especially his two brothers (Barron and Philip), his mother (Shandra), and his grandfather (Desi). The family is a highly dysfunctional unit, and he doesn't have a particularly healthy relationship with any of them. The main characters outside the family are Lila, his girlfriend-ish (hi!); Anton, Lila's cousin; and Sam and Daneca, Cassel's friends. They are all great characters, but none of them are good people, except Daneca who's the best.

WHAT TO EXPECT. This is technically a young adult series, but it's honestly super heavy. There's a lot of childhood abuse (physical & emotional), brainwashing, memory manipulation/tampering, torture, gore . . . Cassel and Lila also have a highly dysfunctional relationship which can be pretty troubling to read about, especially from Cassel's perspective. However, the narrative's pretty clear regarding how unhealthy it is despite the fact that the POV is so skewed. There is a lot of body horror, and I personally love it, and this is Ryslig, but you know. Just in case: there's your warning.

EXCERPT.
Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually sawing a girl in half. You think he’s doing one trick when he’s actually doing another.

You think that I’m dying, but I’m laughing at you.

[whiteofcrime]

You know what, I saw the excerpt before anything else and I was sold. But who's really surprised when I play this guy.

But no really, this sounds interesting!

EDIT: ALSO, is it all right if I borrow your header layout while writing the synopsis for mine? ;;;

Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL

[fandisservice]

If you like any of the following, you might like YGO Zexal:

- FAMILY DRAMA
- EXCELLENT VILLAINS
- PROTAGONIST CHARACTER GROWTH ARCS
- AMNESIA SHENANIGANS
- KILLING OFF EVERY CHARACTER EXCEPT THE PROTAGONIST IN THE LAST SEASON

So, now that I've caught your attention!

Zexal is set in the futuristic pastel-bright city of Heartland! It's a great place to raise a family, with lots of parks, robots that take care of the trash, a city mascot known for his philanthropy! It's also secretly at war with the Astral Dimension, and doing their very damn best to wipe them off the multidimensional map. To these ends they have employed a Numbers Hunter who hunts down people and steals their souls so he can take their cards, employ at least two child soldiers, and the man who created the city one time sacrificed two of his close coworkers to the void to open the way to the Parallel Worlds.

The protagonist knows none of this, but is accompanied by an amnesiac spirit who needs the same cards that the Numbers Hunter is after, so he gets to find out about all of that pretty quickly, and he gets to grow as a person while also trying to convince assholes that murder is not the best way to repair their family.

From there, things continue to escalate.

The OTHER parallel universe that wants to destroy the Astral world takes the stage; first by monster-of-the-week shenanigans, then personal attacks, and eventually causing the apocalypse! These guys are the Barians-- humans who died after a terrible betrayal, were mindfucked, and reborn as amnesiac warriors meant to be used as a quick snack to an elder god in his crusade against the Astral World.

So, there's the plot, such as it is. Filled with betrayal, emotional gut punches, really stupid filler, and great characters!

These characters will get their own comments so this doesn't get any longer-- but quick note about consuming this canon! First, watch the sub. The dub made changes everywhere to things as major as characterization, to minor things like conversations! If you watch the dub and app, the rest of the cast will be very confused.

Zexal is also loaded with front-heavy filler! If you don't want to deal with filler, I will be happy to write a guide up so you don't have to deal. (I also have. A few sitting on hand...)

KOZUKI ANNA

[fandisservice]

Kozuki Anna is the best damn filler character in the whole series. She's a girl who:

- Thinks it's appropriate to try and hit the boy she believes to be her lost love with a rocket launcher.
- Has a punch that leaves dents in rocks.
- Instead of entering a tournament, she just knocks out the real participant in the finals, put on a cloak, and takes his place to help out/stalk a friend.
- Is dumb as hell.
- Cannot actually fly her rocket launcher/flying machine and mostly crashes into things instead
- Steals a school uniform to sneak into a couple's duel tournament
- Won't take shit from bullies. (Even if she can be a bully herself)

Things in Anna's way had better get out of the way fast, or she'll run them over! A very peppy, hot-blooded girl, she is unfortunately only a filler character— on the bright side, that means less episodes to watch if you're interested in apping her. She's introduced in ep 29, reappears in ep 52, 92-93, 124-125, and spectates the finale.

Sengoku Basara

[nomorekings]

Canon: Sengoku Basara
Medium:: Video game, anime, manga, hilariously terrible live action

Cue T.M.Revolution.
More T.M.Revolution
or
Abingdon Boys School which is really just more T.M.Revolution

This is necessary. It isn't Sengoku Basara without TMR. He kind of thinks he's a character from the games. And then they let him play someone in the anime.

This should set the tone. Because, contrary to the impression you might get from our cast here, this is not serious business historical drama. At its core, Sengoku Basara is Capcom going "Who needs historical accuracy when you can have REALLY AWESOME SHIT?!" Like giant wooden spider robots with flamethrowers in their mouths and deer-themed magical boy detectives and the world's first amusement park devoted to St. Francis Xavier. Basically, it takes a long look at Warring States era Japan, determines what parts might appeal to people's inner 12 year olds, then turns those up to 11.

How to Experience It: The easiest way to get started is to watch the anime. There are two seasons that roughly follow each other, a movie (The Last Party) that kind of follows them, and then a third season (Judge End) that...does whatever it is it was trying to do.

If you want to know how the timeline works (or doesn't), I can try to explain it, but it hurts my head.

If you'd like to play the games, the third game (Sengoku Basara 3: Samurai Heroes) is available in English for Wii and PS3. I would suggest watching the first two seasons of the anime first because they can make up for what you don't get from playing the first two games. The rest of the games are only available in Japanese (we don't speak of the localization of the first game). They're easily playable if you don't understand the language (the gameplay is easy), but you'll probably miss out on the plot if you can't follow the dialogue.

The fourth game, which is what most of us are using as a canon point, is probably the easiest access point, game-wise. There are a lot of translations here and a very comprehensive guide here.

Why You Should Watch/Play It: I know I'm bad at selling it and I've probably confused the crap out of you by now, but I really genuinely love this franchise. It's completely absurd and over the top, which is what makes it genuinely fun to watch and to play. It also has great characters with big, larger-than-life personalities that make them so much fun to RP. I have three other journals besides Katsuie's and I'd have more than that if I didn't force myself to stop. There really is a character for everyone and I will totally find you one if you tell me what you like.

HARRY POTTER SERIES (books, films, play)

[ueteribus]

IN A NUTSHELL:

...it's Harry Potter. Do I really need to...? Okay.

The Harry Potter series is a fantasy work comprised of seven books (with three tie-in 'guide' books, eight movies, and another movie and a play soon to be added to the canon) of somewhat increasing length focusing on the titular boy wizard as he attends a magical boarding school in the United Kingdom and, owing to his status as the Chosen One of prophecy, is soon drawn into an intense battle of good versus evil with the fate of perhaps the world hanging in the balance. The series deals with both coming of age elements as it follows Harry and his friends through the childhood and adolescent years, and standard fantastical elements as the mundane-raised Harry learns increasingly more and more about this hidden but vastly developed magical society. The fantasy level is about moderate: not as 'epic' as Lord of the Rings but much more entrenched and thought-out than the magic elements present in say, Chronicles of Narnia. It's also more urban fantasy than it is high fantasy, technically, since the wizards of Harry's universe are implied to be living in secret alongside a non-magical world exactly like our own.

TELL ME MORE:

There's a reason people on tumblr like to say that Harry Potter fandom is like the mafia: once you're in, you're in for life. Since the beginning of its popularity the series has appealed to everyone of all ages who has ever dreamed of having a bit of magic in their own lives. It has a lot going on under the surface but its also just fun, with characters of all sorts to connect to and a magic to explore that has it's own unique quirky flavor.

The main themes of the series are considered to not only be coming of age but also the power of love and friendship, the nature and reality of death, and the significance and consequence of personal choice. The books are written rather effectively almost entirely from Harry's POV, and as the series goes on it literally grows up and changes with him. Not only do the nature of the plots to each individual novel show darker elements and more complexity as Harry's world is plunged further into chaos and war, emotions become stronger and more significant and characters develop shades of motivation and morality as Harry's mentality and awareness expands.

If you're a movie-only person, there's no bones about it: there's a lot you missed out on. Character backstories, interesting subplots, hinted at secrets and recurring elements. I'm not saying everyone has to read Harry Potter - but if you liked the film franchise, and Harry's world, there is so much more for you waiting in the books, ready to whisk you away off to Platform 9 and 3/4 and begin the magical journey.

HAVE SOME TIDBITS:

If you're a Wiki person, the Harry Potter Wiki is well organized and has compiled information from the books, the movies, the video games, the tie in Chocolate Frog cards, background details in the films (characters with names in the script but never stated, for example), interviews with JKR, other behind the scenes details and Pottermore articles. Spoilers abound, obviously, and beware of Wiki wormhole syndrome, but it's a great resource if you want to brush up on/discover some minor details for canon building.

There are too many 'best of' clips on YouTube to count, but if you've got some time on your hands there's a hour and a half long special put together to celebrate the final film's premiere that counts down 50 of the 'best' moments in canon inter-cut with interviews with actors that played some of the characters and JKR.

APP THIS PLEASE:

Literally anyone but if I had to pick I'd be thrilled to get Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Narcissa Malfoy, and/or Bellatrix Lestrange!


Obligatory 'ooo Howarts' gif

Sengoku BASARA

[mights]

So, I'm sure everyone is vaguely familiar with at least one canon which depicts the warring states era of Japan as an entirely different setting in which historical accuracy plays little to almost no part. But what if I told you there was a canon which does that, but also...has robots in it? Well, there's ONE robot but- ok point aside let's talk about Sengoku BASARA!!!!



YEAAAA

BASARA is a series of video games set during Japan's tumultuous times of warlords and generals waging war on one another to take control of territories and ultimately all of Japan! You may have seen some of the anime and the movies, as BASARA has been around for quite awhile and is currently preparing for a new game release!

As of right now Ryslig has five whole Basaras, that's almost double the amount anyone's daily recommended basara intake. There's Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Takenaka Hanbei, Otani Yoshitsugu, Shibata Katsuie and Akechi Mitsuhide.

We would LOVE for other ppl to get into Basara and possibly consider playing from it in the near future! We would particularly love more Toyotomis to complete the hideous, villainous Toyotomi family tree. Those we are currently missing are Ishida Mitsunari (warning for a whooole lot of ANGUISHED SCREAMING AND literal tears of blood poor boy) Shima Sakon (check out his sweet moves isn't he adorable dammit) and EVERYONE ELSE EVER!!!

If you happen to want to know about Ryslig, our canonmates or about BASARA in general, don't hesitate to hit me up on plurk! jikaku HOPE TO SEE OTHER WACKY SAMURAI APP IN SOON...

"LET'S PARTY"

[raidraptors]

Drive-by note that I'm planning to look into this once this hell-month of uni stuff is over because reasons but also Historical Drama But With Robots sounds hilarious.

FAST CARS AND LAWYERS

[aboyandhiscar]

MOTORCITY!!!

OH LOOK, I SEEM TO HAVE AN ENTIRE POST FULL OF LINKS TO VARIOUS EPISODES AND SUMMARIES OF CHARACTERS WOW

OH BOY AND ALSO A POST FULL OF COOL AMVS AND VIDYAS???? WHODATHUNK!!!! One For The Money is my fave tho.


OH LOOK I ALSO HAVE A PLURK FULL OF AMAZING GIFS WOAH

But in short motorcity is a SUPER HIGH ADRENALINE action cartoon from freaking DISNEY of all things. Aside from the amazing animation (a blend of flash and hand drawn, FLASH CAN ACTUALLY DO FREAKING GORGEOUS STUFF, THIS SHOW MADE ME A BELIEVER), the characters are all great. They also tend to be tropes, but with a twist (ex: Mike is the cool leader guy, but also team Mom and a 100% boy scout that is too nice for his own good, there are at least 3 Smart Guy Types on the team, the Girl is not actually a love interest, etc etc)

basically everyone should watch it it's so good. why is it so good. If you're on my plurk you know i'm sad about it like 3 times a month. GONE TOO SOON, MOTORCITY. TOO SOON.

THAT LAWYERS GAME
I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE ACE ATTORNEY TBH. DO YOU LIKE VISUAL NOVELS??? DO LIKE MYSTERIES?? DO YOU LOVE ADORABLE CHARACTERS?? DO YOU LIKE RIDICULOUS DRAMA?????? DO LOVE CROSS EXAMINING A FREAKING PARROT?? THEN BOY HOWDY DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU.

The Original Trilogy stars Phoenix Wright and crew, and is a must play. All three games are solid, endearing, and hilarious, and can be obtained a multitude of ways.

AND THEN THERE'S APOLLO. HERE'S HIS TRAILER.

Apollo makes his debut in AA4: Ace Attorney; Apollo Justice. What sets him apart from Phoenix is that Apollo is 100000000% done with everyone's bullshit 100% of the time. He gets no breaks, everyone picks on him, and he still does his damn job. His game has a few more unresolved plot holes than the other games (THANKS TAKUMI) but is still a great play.

Then in AA5 (Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies), Apollo and Phoenix are in a new game together that somehow makes the game more ridiculous (and dramatic???) than before. I don't think it's as strong as the other games, but still fun, and introduces Athena, the third official lawyer of the agency. SHE IS A DELIGHT.

Anyway, lawyers, good stuff, may come with a side of salt. HAVE SOME STUPID ASS AMVS:

THE HIIMDAISY COMIC SERIES DUB EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE SEEN

CAPTAIN COURTROOM

KANGAROO COURT (SOME SPOILERY ANIMATION)

PHOENIX WRIGHT IS SO NUMB

NOTE HOW THERE ARE NO SERIOUS AMVS

LAWYER FANDOM KNOWS WHAT'S UP

[godofthemachine]

oh my god I can't believe I had never seen Captain Courtroom. That is the most amazing thing ever.

RADIANT HISTORIA

[makehistoria]

these screenshots are basically canon. just paraphrased
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SCREW UP TIME TRAVEL A WHOLE LOT???? Because hot damn have I got the game for you

In Radiant Historia you play as Stocke, a rather taciturn spy/assassin/who-even-knows-wtf-kind-of-missions-he-gets-sent-on-half-the-time from a steampunk-magitech nation called Alistel! One day you're out on a simple assignment from your creepy weirdo boss with your two new subordinates... which very quickly goes to hell and everyone dies. Except you. You turn out to have the ability to time travel and you can totally go back and save them! Catch is: the world is dying and it's all gonna be kind of pointless in a few years anyway, unless you mess with that too. Buckle up Stocke buddy you gotta be the protagonist now.

Featuring: a surprisingly heart-rending storyline! Ridiculous bad endings (which you don't get penalized for stumbling on)! Royal family soap operas! Lots of badass and/or adorable characters! A pretty fun battle system that isn't just plain old turn-based! Giant spiders! Egregious amounts of belts! Also, this scene!

(No but seriously in my COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY UNBIASED OPINION this game is really good and would be a lot more popular if it hadn't... come out for DS right before the 3DS was released. RIP. Join our tiny fandom please ;___;)

+1 and a side comment

[themasterthief]

"buckle up Stocke"

i c wat u did ther

jojo's bizarre adventure ( i'm doing my goshdarn best )

[digiorno]

CANON NAME. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
CREATOR. Hirohiko Araki
MEDIA TYPE. Manga (parts 1-8), anime (parts 1-4, 4 still in progress)
GENRE. . . . it really depends on the part you're looking at. It's a shonen quest story with elements of family, legacy, destiny, and nature vs nurture, broadly speaking, but each arc has a different "feel" to it. For example, Part 1 (Phantom Blood) is essentially a gothic supernatural story, while Part 5 (Vento Aureo) is a mafia/crime drama and Part 7 (Steel Ball Run) is a western.
ONE-SENTENCE SYNOPSIS. The story of a young man who turns himself into a vampire to stay out of jail and then tries to kill his adoptive family for a century and a half.
WHERE CAN I GET THE THING? I prefer to watch arcs 1-3 (Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency, Stardust Crusaders) and part 4 (Diamond is Unbreakable) on Crunchyroll as they air! As for the majority of part 4 and parts 5-8, they are available on Batoto, which is genuinely the most poorly-designed website I've seen in a long time but it gets the job done. If navigation gives you trouble, you can probably just hit up any cast members? We've waged this war for years. But me, also.

SETTING. Earth! Basically our Earth, except there are some extras, like: vampires, vampire-created zombies, the ability to punch stuff using the power of the sun, and Stands, which are something along the lines of fighting spirits or souls given form. Very few things are concretely or consistently explained, because this is the canon where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

PLOT. Given the fact that each arc of JJBA is about a different generation of characters, this can be super hard to summarize, so I'm going to do one-sentence summaries of each arc. Feel free to ask me or someone else in the know to elaborate!

• ONE: PHANTOM BLOOD. Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando are introduced, Dio is a terrible person, Dio ruins everything because of spite and ambition, and nobody has a good time.


• TWO: BATTLE TENDENCY. Jonathan's grandson Joseph gets reluctantly dragged into a war with some ancient gods (kind of) and spends a lot of time yelling in Italy.


• THREE: STARDUST CRUSADERS. Joseph's grandson Jotaro has to fight a mysterious antagonist who we have definitely never seen before in an effort to save his mom from being eaten alive by her own Stand.


• FOUR: DIAMOND IS UNBREAKABLE. Josuke Higashikata, the most awkwardly conceived Joestar to date, tries to protect his sleepy town from a paraphiliac serial killer.


• FIVE: VENTO AUREO. Giorno Giovanna, the Diospawn, vows to take over the Neapolitan mafia in an effort to reform his society, cementing his status as smallest and most dubious Jojos protag yet.


• SIX: STONE OCEAN. Jolyne thinks her dad is the worst, ends up in prison, prison doesn't go well, there is a priest there for some reason and he is such an asshole.


• SEVEN: STEEL BALL RUN. [Spoilers], Americana, a cross-country horse race for $$$, the president is terrifying, Diego Brando is a dinosaur.


• EIGHT: JOJOLION. Tarma has to explain this one.

CHARACTERS. Honestly, with a few exceptions, the ten bajillion characters in this series are all super great. If I had my personal fondest wishes, anyone from Passione/part 5 in general would be cool if someone wanted to app them, but I'm not a picky person. Other people in the cast should list preferences though!! Also on behalf of Rachel, bring us an Okuyasu.

[manuscripture]

did you really fucking namedrop me

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

[ridingstardust]

POSTS TO OWN MEME HOURS LATER

In the near future, the world has advanced. Technology has advanced leaps and bounds and a source of infinite clean energy has been found. Sound great? It is! Well, for the most part.

The biggest, most happening city in Japan (and most likely the world) is Neo Domino City. It's an absolutely massive, sprawling metropolis on the coast and enjoys immense prosperity. Most of the city, anyway. Just a few miles off the coast is a small island called Satellite. Technically a part of the city, Satellite looks downright post apocalyptic, covered in dilapidated buildings, ruined storefronts, and barely standing signs of a once happy locale. Satellite is used as Neo Domino's garbage disposal: the city's trash is sent there to be processed by Satellite's inhabitants, who are shunned by the rest of the population, forbidden to leave the tiny island wasteland, and kept there by the police.

Welcome to the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

5D's is the third Yu-Gi-Oh! series, and touches upon themes such as classism, prejudice, the benefits and dangers of technology, and more. Evil zombie cults that serve evil gods who are literally the Nazca Lines are involved. Featuring murder, ritual sacrifice, terrorism, toxic relationships, police brutality, dragons, and $30 cups of coffee!

And card games. On motorcycles. It has those too. Sweet sweet motorcycles.

The entire series is available for streaming on Crunchyroll and also features a manga that is 100% completely and totally different.

[cawnviction]

Please show them the motorcycles!!

Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino

[twomeals]

Do you like stories about friendship? Stories full of drama and tragedy and a hearty helping of cute family fluff? Stories heavily peppered with a whole lot of traditional Japanese ayakashi/mononoke/Shinto stuff! Well lucky for you, the manga for this series just came out in English under the name Of the Red, the Light, and the Ayakashi which is actually harder for me to remember than the original title, but.

Anyway! Akaaka is a visual novel(-turned-manga) about a lone orphan(?) kid raised by ayakashi in a perfectly normal modern-day town that also happens to be separated from the rest of human society like the bath house from Spirited Away. He sneaks out one day, discovers he really wants to try making Real Live Friends, and then gets told he has to make one of these friends into a "Meal." Because humans are food and friends! According to the ayakashi. They don't explain what the Meal actually is until the end, but. Yue goes out on this quest! He goes out and he makes friends and you get to watch his very first beautiful friendship bloom like a beautiful camellia flower! And then possibly fall like a camellia flower, because the game has like 15 endings! Coincidentally, camellias are a popular recurring theme.

Umm I'm really bad at advertising but the first 14 chapters of the manga are scanlated online, the first two volumes i think? are on sale in English, and I translated the entire PC visual novel because I'm lost to the Akaaka void.

Characters I would absolutely love to see in this game (besides all of them) include The Mom Friend! The Stalker! The Brother!(?) This Guy! Or one of the mystery background spoiler characters, they'd be great too.

I can actually give thorough explanations of absolutely anything you want if you ask, I'm not so great at writing advertisements and things but. Here's the game's opening! For a taste of the overall feel of it.

[makehistoria]

I actually... accidentally stumbled upon your playthrough while poking around curiously sometime and got a little ways through it, I KEEP MEANING TO LOOK AT THE REST... I have it bookmarked, I just haven't gotten to it. ;; But it looks really cute

Also that name is a mouthful, dang

jojo's weird weekend

[manuscripture]

Do you like boys?

Do you like buff boys?

Do you like buff boys who wear weird shit and have at least four feet of space from shoulder to shoulder?

Tarma Talks → Aight, so I got a little thing for you called JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. A little manga by the cutest man alive who is also Satan incarnate. It's a thirty-year old monster of a series split up into eight parts that are mostly loosely strung together in some plot up until the part where everything Gets Weirder and becomes a canon AU basically.

Genre → It's TECHNICALLY a shounen manga but each part has an element to it that makes it unique. Most are action-based, a couple are slice-of-lifey, and each has its own unique gimmick like being a Western or a Vampire-Slaying Thing or a Goofy Spooky Town Turned Murder Mystery.

Where Do I Get It?? → anne linked it above. some of the translations are Not Very Good but they all have their merits.

Why Should I Get Into It? → it wasn't huge in the west for twenty thousand years and the anime versions recently became popular out of the fucking blue. but it's fun, has a lot going on, and the memes are choice. IT IS VERY LONG so you have to prepare yourself for that but i highly suggest investing time into it if you can!

What The Hell Am I Looking At? → Well you've come to the right place. Let's cover the eight parts in a definitely scientific way:

→ Phantom Blood → a boy named Jonathan Joestar just wants to be happy but his family takes in a blonde menace named Dio Brando who tries to kill his family, steal his girl, and become a vampire. Jonathan does His Best to curb this behavior.

→ Battle Tendency → Jonathan's rude, punkass grandson has to fight some Buff Aztec Baras with a handsome Italian who likes blowing bubbles. They use the power of the sun and heavy breathing to save the day kind of.

→ Stardust Crusaders → JOSEPH'S rude, punkass grandson just wants to be in jail but has to save his mom instead with his Punch Ghost because his grandfather said so. He is joined by a cool guy with a red fire chicken as his fursona, a lovely redhead with a power we see portrayed in three different ways that are all retconned to be a weird tentacle monster, a frenchman, a dog, and his grandfather obviously who has a penchant for crashing airplanes and having dead friends. vampires are also involved.

→ Diamond Is Unbreakable → Joseph's illegitimate Accidental Teenage Son who is a delinquent who goes to school a lot has to protect his hometown from various monsters and a serial killer with a hand fetish. It's very slice-of-life for the first chunk of it with monsters of the week but a lot of cool characters like a pure boy who wears currency symbols on his clothes for no reason and a very small fifteen-year old who communicates in high-pitched yells. If you're still not convinced, Josuke fixes some spaghetti by punching it. And also Rohan Kishibe is in this part and he's the only character you should care about it's WHY YOU ARE HERE, RIGHT????

→ Vento Aureo → The Kind-Of-Son-Of-Dio is the littlest gangster who wants to usurp the Italian mafia and be the very best boss there ever was. He joins a gang of cool mafia kids who know how to dress themselves. Giorno just wants to Help but there are drug dealers and magic and general shenanigans to deal with first. Gio is also so cute all the time.

→ Stone Ocean → Jotaro's rude, punkass daughter he walked out on to go study dolphins is in jail. Shit gets weird, there is a priest who likes beetles and God and winged horses making everyone's lives difficult. IMO it's the weakest part of the series but don't skip parts that's for losers. at least stay for the priest.

→ Steel Ball Run → So now shit is going down in ANOTHER UNIVERSE and Johnny Joestar's father is the definition of why you shouldn't neglect your children. They will become gay, paraplegic, chase Jesus across the country and kill the president of the United States. SBR is really good tho there are horses and feelings and lots of jokes about a main character's steel balls. DID I MENTION THERE ARE DINOSAURS

→ JoJolion → ok anne said i have to explain this one. JJL is A Wacky Amnesia Adventure!!! A young man washes up naked on a beach and is stumbled upon by the cutest cinnamon roll girl. He has amnesia and a bunch of weird physical hangups like two tongues, split eyes, and four balls. it's still ongoing rn but the long and short of it is that the protag is trying to figure out what the fuck happened to him and why he is actually two people spliced together. The whole cast doesn't know what's happening, we don't know what's happening either so he is in good company.

→ WOW TARMA THAT SURE WAS A LOT yeah i know but there are like a million characters with neat backstories and powers. they come in all shapes and sizes and flavors for u and ur friends to enjoy. i can give you more explanations if you want but this is long enough for one post ok

now get on down to morioh town

Giant fighting robots and TOO MANY FEELS!

[electricyousei]

Do you like stories about robots, that may be spoofing other stories about robots? Do you like deconstructions of the 1970's super robot genre? Do you like having SO MANY FEELS MOST WATCHERS ARE REDUCED TO TEARS BY EPISODE FOUR AS THE CHARACTER THAT EMBODIES HOPE AND DREAMS..... Huff... Huff.... Too many feels. Let's continue.

Do you like protagonists that just want to cook delicious foods instead of fight deadly battles in robots? Do you like snarky scientists that explain things to a crew of adults in the form of a children's show? Do you like shows that TAKE AN ENTIRE EPISODE TO REDUCE A SMALL CHILD'S DREAMS OF FINDING HER FAMILY TO A TEARY EYED FARCE? Huff... Huff...

Oh yeah, do you hate your ears? If you don't, you may want to get the subtitled version here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glYihiqt54Y as the show was dubbed in that time in ADV's history where they hired slightly more friends of the staff than actual talented voice actors.

The series continues after the anime, but unless you have a Sega Saturn (SEGA SATURN SHIRO!) the movie won't make much sense as you are missing 3ish years and lots of feels. But all in all it is a show with giant robots, that is a comedy half the time, and kicks you in the feels the other half the time.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - the wacky Harlan Ellison adventure

[godofthemachine]

Do you like stories from cynical authors?
Do you like anti-war propaganda?
Do you like heavy implications of mental and physical torture?
Do you like evil robots and/or computers?
Do you like Bad Endings? (As in, the opposite of an uplifting ending)

Then this is the canon for you!

What the hell is this - So once upon a time, in 1967, Harlan Ellison sat down and wrote a story about war and hatred and how shit-tier humanity is. It's one of his most well-known stories, probably because it got adapted into a video game in 1995.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is very much a product of its time, resulting from the horror and frustration with the Cold War. Basically the whole story is a horrific result of what could happen when humanity's thirst for war goes unchecked. The result? Hey, let's get computers to fight the war for us! What could possibly go wrong? Oops, one of the computers gained sentience. Welp. There goes humanity. But my friends, that all happens before the story begins. It's all about the last remnants of humanity being tortured by said computer that gained sentience, because he's pissed about... gaining sentience.

Now, I personally play AM from the short story, because I have Strong Opinions on the video game. But, don't let that stop you. I love it when people get into the canon, whether it's the short story or game or whatever.

The characters - Okay so this is probably the problem area. Even though I prefer the short story, there's only like... two playable characters from it, because the rest are not really developed enough. I play AM, and I would give my kingdom for someone to play Ted, the protagonist of the story. He's a paranoid asshole who is totally convinced that AM never messed with his brain. But spoilers - he did. Also in the video game he's a rich asshole who wears a ridiculous sweater.

The video game, though, offers more characters because they're developed more. (I mean, they're the same characters the story offers, just... with different personalities somewhat.) However, they still deviate quite a bit from what the story presents. AM deviates most of all, because he's basically Harlan Ellison's self-insert original character pls don't steal. And he's voiced by Harlan Ellison. In the story he's a bit less... overt. I mean, I kind of steal some things from the video game to fill him out, but otherwise I consider him very different. But he's still a torturous, vengeful machine.

But anyway you have Ted, Gorrister, Ellen, Nimdok, and Benny. Those five humans are the ones facing AM's wrath, and boy would he love to see any of them again.

The story - Before reading it, I will warn you of the following: consensual sex, violence, psychological horror, physical horror, treatment of women that isn't so great, death, genocide, and an ending that will leave you with shivers. c:

But if you can handle all that, seriously read the story. You can read it here for free, or you can purchase it here.

The video game - Before playing, I will warn you of the following: consensual sex, violence, Nazis, history of rape, fade-to-black rape scene (if you make the wrong choice in the game), death, psychological horror, physical horror, genocide, cannibalism, mental illness.

It has a high enough rating, and it was innovative for its time. It's basically a point-and-click adventure where you play as each of the five humans who have to face their inner demons and make moral and ethical choices. It's a very difficult game in terms of pointing and clicking, and it has a lot of triggery material. One of the characters was raped in the past, one of the characters is a former Nazi, one of the characters resorts to cannibalism, and the like. The story is less overt with its triggery material, but it has a lot of allusions to the horrible happenings within AM's torture chamber.

You can get it on Steam for six bucks. Plus I think it's on iOS/Android now? (But seriously, if you're going to play the game, at least read the short story first.) Also there are a couple Let's Plays, notably by Retsupurae and Two Best Friends.

The fandom - What fandom? There is no fandom. :c Okay there's a tiny one on tumblr, kind of. Plus there's me. I talk about it a lot and draw dumb fan-art. Please join me, friends... I'm so lonely...

I would love literally any castmate from the story or game, most notably Ted. Even if you don't app to Ryslig, I would still go ballistic over PSLs.

Penumbra Trilogy

[yourdearfriend]

Penumbra is a series of three horror computer games: Penumbra Overture, Penumbra Black Plague, and Penumbra Requiem. (Requiem is just a small puzzle game that is sometimes classified as an expansion to Black Plague.) All three of them can be purchased on Steam for Mac and PC and are pretty damn cheap.

Gameplay wise, it is very similar to Amnesia, which is the game studio's more well known creation. I'd also compare it to Myst, if Myst had an equal number of puzzles and horrifying monsters trying to kill you.

You play as Philip, a physics professor who does better at hiding from monsters than attacking them. You need to navigate an abandoned, creepy underground facility filled with sickly zombie-esque people, gigantic pulsating worms, spiders, and the mangiest dogs to ever mange. Philip also gradually loses his mind as the games go on (thanks, Clarence), so you never know if what you're looking at is real or a hallucination.

Here is an example of the gameplay. (Yakety sax not included.) It's super fun and I highly recommend it. 8D

[makehistoria]

....you know, I loved Amnesia but somehow I never looked at Penumbra and obviously this was a Mistake, I GOTTA GET TO IT
(once I finally get around to playing A Machine For Pigs too, rip)

Detective Conan / Magic Kaito (DCMK)

[whiteofcrime]

CANON NAME. Detective Conan/Magic Kaito (abbr. DCMK)
AUTHOR. Gosho Aoyama
MEDIA TYPE. Manga/anime
GENRE. Crime, mystery, mildly supernatural on the MK side of things
ONE-SENTENCE SYNOPSIS.

Detective Conan - Teenage detective gets shrunk to his ten-years-younger self and is forced to run around like a mini-James Bond (sans killer good looks) attempting to bring down a massive criminal organisation.

Magic Kaito - Teenage magician discovers his father is a world-famous jewel thief who died in a murder-accident and takes up the family business of grand larceny to bring JUSTICE to those responsible.

WHERE CAN I GET THE THING? Whichever site you usually get your manga/anime from. Mangafox is a good place. CrunchyRoll might have Magic Kaito 1412. I don't recommend trying to download Detective Conan unless you are in possession of unlimited time to watch 800+ episodes, but the Hi10 site has excellent quality mini-mkvs if you want to cherry-pick.


SETTING.

The two series are set in a little AU area of Tokyo known as Beika ('Baker'), Haido ('Hyde'), and Ekoda. The district names are slightly different, as are all the major landmarks. I'm still waiting for someone to mention a place in Japan and have Kaito go, "Don't you mean __?"

PLOT.

Detective Conan: Genius detective, Shinichi Kudo, lands himself in trouble when he pursues a pair of men in black (as you do). They feed him a poison pill which has the unintended side effect of forcing him to regress in age. Now he's ten years younger and on a never-ending mission to expose the mysterious organisation responsible while juggling primary school, tangential plotlines, and all the usual restrictions that come with aging down. If only all those murder cases would stop interrupting his investigation too...

Magic Kaito: For eight years the world-famous thief known as Kaitou Kid (Phantom Thief Kid) has been missing, but suddenly he makes a comeback! At the same time, a genius magician discovers a secret room in his house locked behind a portrait of his eight-years dead father, containing everything once used by Kid. Coincidence? Not one bit. It's all fun and games until some mysterious men in black show up to demand one of the jewels he's stolen...

CHARACTERS.

Shinichi and Kaito are the stars of their respective series, but you've got a hella huge cast in the former's and a smaller - but still adorable - bunch in the latter's. The two are basically foils for each other. They both have secrets which cause them to lie to their respective love interests, they're both geniuses in their respective fields, they both do stupid reckless crap that gets them hurt, and they both have a third party who may or may not have feelings for them. Awkward.

(I would try and explain all the relationships between everyone but I've kind of given up trying to remember them all.)

Basically every teenager in this series is a genius of some kind. Everyone.

WHAT TO EXPECT.

Lots of murder and magic and goofy intrigue I mean it's all just good fun really. There's plenty of depth to read into, but also plenty to superficially enjoy. Magic Kaito at least is a great mix of humour and more serious overtones, managing a much more light and upbeat tone than the Detective Conan series...to the point where some of the first few intro chapters of MK are really 'wtf'. You have been warned.

EXCERPT.

"I'm different from a thief that wears all black. I'm bold, I'm flamboyant - I'm Kaitou Kid!"

"It's like a detective and a phantom thief. They appear to be as different as heaven and earth..."

(+ several scenes presented entirely out of context: one - two - three!)

(Thank you to gitanes for letting me borrow their format.)

+1

[makehistoria]

I only know MK 1412 but it's adorable and you should watch it
Also, it has some excellent openings

Peacemaker Kurogane, OR All My Doomed Samurai Children

[koukai_kirai]

Hey there, Ryslig! Do you like to suffer?

...What am I talking about? Of course you do, this is Ryslig!

If you like suffering and Japanese historical fiction, you should totally watch and/or read Peacemaker Kurogane!

Ok, Ket, but what is it about?
Peacemaker follows the story of a young boy (Ichimura Tetsunosuke, or just Tetsu) who, seeking to avenge his parents' deaths at the hands of Imperialist extremists, joins the Shinsengumi in early 1864 (for the Japanese history buffs out there, that's a few months after the assassination of Serizawa Kamo and the Mibu Roshigumi's rename to the Shinsengumi, and a few months before the Ikedaya Incident) and becomes Hijikata's page. Japan, long-stable under the Tokugawa government, is going through a period of change and doubt, and our protagonists are tasked with patrolling the streets of the capital to try and keep what uneasy peace there is. As Tetsu finds a strange sort of family in the men who have taken him in, confronts the realities of war and revenge, and decides what kind of person he really wants to become, the soldiers around him fight to stop a rebel plot to set fire to Kyoto. On one dramatic night at the height of the summer, the Shinsengumi finally get wind of where their targets have been hiding...

Look, I don't want to say too much, for those who don't already know the history. For those who do: the manga more or less follows it, with a few notable exceptions, mostly for the sake of memorable characters and interesting relationships and dramatic storytelling.

What does this canon have to offer me?
Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...

Okay, maybe not the miracles. Probably not, at least from like 1865 onwards.

In addition to most of the things on the above list... Action! Big bloody dramatic samurai swordfights! Souji being a little shit all the time and dragging Hijikata around a candy shop by his ridiculously long hair! Love! Tuberculosis! The inexorable downfall of the way of life our protagonists once knew as history marches on! Soul-crushing tragedy! ...A cute pig!

...Look, just read it and suffer with us, ok?

Warnings, as of like 2 chapters ago because I suck and am slightly behind:

Violent murder-y swordfights, traumatic things happening to children, chronic illness (tuberculosis), obvious signs of PTSD in several characters later on in the series, certain characters doing acrobatic pirouettes straight off the fucking handle (especially later in the manga), major character deaths, jokes about shudo (read: about consensual male same-sex relationships with an age and power gap that would be sketchy to illegal in a modern context), prostitution, the general creepiness of a later antagonist's outright sexual harassment of Hijikata, suicidal ideation on the parts of several characters, one suicide attempt, one successful sorta-suicide, at least two people being tortured, one fade-to-black rape, an on-screen rape attempt... uh, I'm probably missing something? A lot of bad stuff happens, on-screen or implied (the sexual things, in particular, are generally not explicit), so just be prepared for it.

Okay. So, what should I look for, again?
There's an anime that's a bit on the old side, just called "Peacemaker Kurogane." It follows the manga from the beginning to the Ikedaya Incident... with the addition of some filler, regrettably mixed into the normal episodes so it's hard to skip without missing actual plot. (You know it's filler when you find yourself thinking "wait, how does this character make any sense?" or "this 'cute clumsy girl' thing got old like 5 years ago".)

The manga is in two parts. The first part is called "Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker", and follows the same timeframe as the anime with fewer poorly developed filler characters. "Peacemaker Kurogane" picks up after the Ikedaya Incident. It was on hiatus for a while because... history got too depressing and the author had to take a break... but it's moving along again now, with something like 10 volumes published in Japan at this point! If you're particular about buying official releases, which, good on you, it might be a little tough outside of Japan / if you don't read Japanese. It only got published in English up to volume... 4 or so?

Word from Japan lately, I believe, is that a new anime (possibly following the later manga series, since they appear to have hired a voice actor for Actually Hit Puberty!Tetsu) is in the works?

Characters in Ryslig now:
Toshizou Hijikata and Souji Okita.

Wanted Characters:
Anyone else, honestly!

Other Notes:
I can't find any good gifs from the series right now, so please have this one of batman petting a pig:

Until Dawn

[wayleadsontoway]

You all know the plot of a teen slasher flick. A group of teenagers who are played by actors who are definitely not teenagers go for a weekend of partying in a cabin in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. Suddenly, HORROR happens and the teenagers are fighting for their lives. We know these stories well, and Until Dawn knows this, too.

A self-aware canon that's part slasher movie, part QTE and choice-making game, Until Dawn is only on the PS4, but there are hundreds of different lets-plays of it out there on You Tube if you ever want to watch someone play it (and I can, on occasion, be tempted to stream a playthrough, too). Choices matter in this game - it uses the butterfly effect to a great extent; and it's your decisions as a player which ultimately decides which of your group of eight teenagers lives or dies. While doing so, you get to unravel an ancient mystery on top of McCreepy Mountain - as well as learn What They Did Last Winter.

This game offers you eight playable characters you control through various points of the game: Chris, Mike, Ashley, Josh, Matt, Emily, Jessica and Sam: each with their own personalities and relationships within the group. Your choices can dictate if they make those relationships stronger, or if they burn them down in flames and stomp on the ashes screaming "I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY!!!". There's a deeper mystery to the basic slasher story, and there's obviously a hell of a lot of violence, gore and jumpscares. The game also straight up asks you what you're afraid of and puts MORE of that in the gameplay just to mess with you.

If you like self-aware horror stories like Scream or Cabin in the Woods, that know exactly what they are and don't pretend to be anything else, then you will love this game. These trailers should give you an idea of the gameplay without spoiling it. There's even an interactive one, if you're so inclined.

Watch this, love this, bring all the kids here. Because if there's one thing a bunch of traumatised horror-kids needs, it's more horror.

DEATH NOTE

[planmade]

Alright, I'll do it. Though why you'd want to watch/read this, I'll never know. (But I love it anyway.)

Death Note is a series about a bunch of smart people outsmarting each other. And there are books involved that can kill someone if their name is written in it. There's gods of death, love triangles, mafia, a twist in the middle of the series that everyone probably already knows...

Also this.

It's way over dramatic and most of the characters take things way seriously where as most of the fans... do not. There are some really great memes that you should know the origins of, and that's why you should watch/read this series. :|b

In all seriousness, though, Death Note is a lot of fun. I recommend reading the manga, but unless you want to buy the series it can be hard to find for free to read online. Some sites still have it, but the quality isn't the best. If you're not someone like me who gets hung up on all the scenes of Mello that get cut out (grrr) then the anime is honestly just as good and they have the whole thing on Netflix now.



Very serious series.

back to the future because WHY NOT

[heymcfly]

Okay, so I've known like maybe ooone or two people who haven't seen Back to the Future in my life, but I'll give a quick rundown of it anyway! No worries though; if you haven't seen it, I won't be judging you that terribly hard. Maybe. Don't count you luck.

BASICALLY Back to the Future is a movie made in the mid 1980's that tells the story of a kid named Marty McFly and his friend Doctor Emmett Brown. To make a long story short Marty's friend invents time travel, and a time machine that's made from a Delorean. On the day of testing, Doc Brown is killed during an unlikely event, and a very distraught Marty ends up going back 30 years in time and running into his parents. Ultimately he screws up how his mother and father met, endangering his very existence. Marty has to make his teenage mother fall out of love with him and in love with his father with about a week for a deadline, because there's only one very small opportunity he has to return to his time. Ultimately, Marty restores the timeline, and returns back to 1985.

Of course, that's the summery for just the first movie.

The main characters other than Marty McChicken is Doc Brown, Biff Tannen (the bully) George McFly and Lorraine Baines McFly. Some other characters you could probably play when you get through the games/comics/other two movies but those are the main ones! With the right touch you could very well throw them into a game like Ryslig no problem!

Wanted characters include basically everybody! Feel free to join Marty in monster hell!

[electricyousei]

You know, I just got photos with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd this weekend. I should probably post them.

Free!

[nanaharu]

Free! may or may not be renowned as that anime with swimmers who have no visible nipples.

But under those pronounced muscles, there’s a lot of heart. The anime deals some struggles of these boys as they're growing up, and how their friendship with each other help each other with these growing pains. All of the bonds between all of the characters are very sweet, formed through a mutual love of swimming.

Top-notch art and animation (as expected of KyoAni), a lovely soundtrack (this silly track is stuck in my head atm), and an endearing cast of characters who change and develop over the series make it a worthwhile anime to watch. And yes, there is the fanservice, though not overly vulgar or "anime was a mistake"-inducing.

It has that atmospheric slice of life feeling to it, but the genre would be more accurately that of a drama. While not DEEP deep, there's a lot of nuance and symbolism and things that many miss on initial viewing. There’s small details that help flesh out the work. And the characters aren’t all what they seem to be at first glance, and have a way of working into the hearts of viewers. Something to note is that while swimming is a big deal in it, it focuses a lot more on the relationships between the characters and the effect that swimming has on them, rather than the usual sports anime focus on winning or losing.

The series is 24 episodes, so not too hard to catch up on! But there's also short OVAs in the first season and one episode-long OVA in the second season (all are great, please watch them all). And the light novel it's based on and the sequel, a manga adaptation of the former and a movie of the latter (which takes a fair amount of liberties with the material) to be released on Blu-ray/DVD this summer. The light novels are more serious in tone than the animation. There's extra material such as drama CDs and other audio drama tracks that also show the relationships of characters who don't interact as much in the animation.

These are clips from season 2, because for some reason all the better clips of season 1 are nowhere to be found on Youtube.

The embarrassing introduction

A nice bonding moment I would hesitate because spoilers, but if you’ve threaded with Rin here, you probably are more familiar with this side of him.

A scene that seems more suited to Ryslig than the others in which Haruka has a stress-induced nightmare.

Link to the series on Crunchyroll here. Be sure to watch Iwatobi Swim Club first, and Eternal Summer second. And if you're interested in the dub, I suggest watching the original first, as the tone of the dialogue is changed a lot in the dub.



This is after they all gang up and tickle Haruka. Aren't they precious? Doesn't it just make you want to app them into a game full of body horror and suffering?

Wanted: Makoto would by far have the worst time in Ryslig, which is why you should app him. Also very much welcoming Nagisa (who’d have a better time) or Rei (who’d have the second-worst time).

[overexertion]

Sadly, my strongest muse for Free is not from Iwatobi side, but this grumpy kid here. I've been silently thinking about joining the cast sometime in the future...

Magi

[goateeocracy]

Canon: Magi
Medium: Manga, disappointing anime adaptations

Magi is, at its core, a shounen manga. Power of friendship and hard work and flinging superpowers around and all that, but it often takes those things in directions you aren't expecting. Yes, the power of friendship is great, but what does it mean in the face of a world that really doesn't give a shit about your bonds with your friends? Hard work will get you a long way, but what does that mean when there are people who have been working just has hard, but are a decade older and wiser? It's great that you can fling those superpowers around, but what does that mean for the global political climate?

Basically, it's not as dumb as the first story arc or so might make it look.

What I love about it is that it's a solid fantasy manga with some interesting worldbuilding and art that just gets better as it goes on. It starts out with an Arabian Nights-inspired setting and just grows larger and larger until the author starts pulling in ancient Rome and China and Hogwarts to flesh things out and complicate the political and economic landscape. I mean, don't get me wrong, a lot of time is devoted to throwing superpowered attacks around and explosions and the occasional boob joke, but there's pretty solid plot and characterization behind it all.

Yeah, but what is it actually about??: Once upon a time, a big nerd created a world to put people from another world in because shit went really bad. Because of how the big nerd decided things needed to work so this world wouldn't go to shit, mysterious buildings called Dungeons started appearing across the world one day. To conquer a Dungeon and gain the power of the Djinn that dwelled within it was to gain unimaginable power and riches, so there was a worldwide scramble to get some of that sweet shounen manga firepower. Our story begins when a small, adorable magician of mysterious origin latches on to the world's biggest, most pathetic loser and helps his hapless ass conquer a Dungeon. Because this is a shounen manga and that's what happens. And then it only goes downhill from there.

It sort of tricks you into thinking that it's going to be all about conquering Dungeons and blah blah blah powerups, but Our Hero...doesn't actually have the skills necessary to do that. So it grows to be about saving the world from the machinations of the same people that royally screwed up the previous world. And that's a terrible summary, but there you go.

Castmates I Want: Kouen's younger siblings and cousins (there are a lot of them), Alibaba because why not make him suffer more?, Aladdin so Kouen can carry him around like a sack of potatoes again...really anyone, but that's the top of my list.

XENOBLADE CHRONICLES. (HAPPY 6TH ANNIVERSARY TO IT BTW)

[engage_the_enemy]

Xenoblade Chronicles is a video game, specifically a JRPG!

The story starts with two massive gods - the Bionis and the Mechonis - locked together in eternal combat. Literally, they die with one's sword jammed in the other's body, and their corpses are shown to be home to a handful of tiny civilizations. And the Homs, Shulk's people, are grouped into Colonies, which means there's a bacteria joke here somewhere.

Anyways, the worldbuilding in Xenoblade is ridiculously fun, with odd objects, customs, and dishes described in sidequests that flesh out the peoples inhabiting these godly lands, in addition to hilarious item descriptions. Did you know there's a hornet so big it squashes every flower it tries to land on? Did you know there are sunglasses that render clothes slightly transparent? For a serious premise, this game offers a lot of levity as well!

Not to mention, the gameplay itself is super fun! Where the main strategy is to break, topple, and go wild on an enemy when they're vulnerable. Enemies that, IN ONE AREA ALONE, can range from low level rabbits to level fuckin' 80 something HOUSE SIZED GORILLAS AND GIANT BIRDS. Said areas and environments are absolutely beautiful, and MASSIVE. The best thing, too, is that IF YOU CAN SEE IT YOU CAN GO THERE, NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS. It's absolutely mind-blowing to be standing up on the Bionis leg, looking down into the calf and seeing Colony 9 nestled there. What's also incredible, is that you can go inside the Bionis. Eerie, except the first instance of this is going in its swampy, foggy butt.



You're welcome.

And then there's our lovable party with their generally revenge-oriented story arcs. Because who wouldn't be mad at a horde of robots stomping on everything you love? Or stabbing them, that would be more accurate. If only being able to see visions of the future wasn't inhibited by your inability to do anything about it, huh, Shulk? 8) He's accompanied by his best friend who keeps his delicate nerd ass alive and is a real champ, a medic that uses HER SNIPER RIFLE to heal people, a princess that can Starlight Kick just about any enemy into submission, a walking anime of a man, a small dad with massive debt, a cyborg with finger guns eeeey, and sometimes guests that are habitually useless.

The soundtrack is phenomenal as well, and features a few songs from Yoko Shimomura, of Kingdom Hearts fame.

It was originally released on the Wii, and was recently made available on the Wii U's virtual console for $20! A REAL STEAL, considering how expensive original copies are.

Don't have time to commit to an admittedly lengthy game? CHUGGAACONROY HAS GOT IT COVERED, WITH A SUPER IN-DEPTH AND DEDICATED LP TO THIS AMAZING GAME. DOING ALL THE LEGWORK SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO, and doing it very well!

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I would love any and all castmates of course but I would die for Fiora's awesome manly super cool big brother!