🎉 Happy 30th Anniversary To Ranma ½! 🎉 The First Episode Aired In Japan April 15th, 1989. 🐼

i’m a little late, but i wanted to make a little smth for adventure time’s 10th anniversary! i still remember seeing the commercials announcing this “new show” when I was like 8.. now i’m 18 and i never would’ve thought it would come to be such an important part of the person i have become! thank you for the good memories, i’m honored that i had the opportunity to grow up alongside Finn :’)

Why do you love Kagome Higurashi xD ?

Offt…hard to narrow down the reasons into something that makes sense lol I’d say that at the start, I watched Inuyasha on youtube and let’s just say there was a lot of comments bashing her. The thing is, I couldn’t understand it. She had justifiable reasons for why she wasn’t a hand-to-hand combat gal like Sango, she was 15 and from the future, a normal high school girl. And not enough credit was being given to her, picking up a bow and arrow and just trying her best. 

I think what I like most about her is her adaptability. Demons? Kinda weird but she can roll with that. Time travel? Scary but she had to stay and collect the shards because she felt it was the right thing to do. Getting kidnapped? An inconvenience that she gotta either wait out or talk to her capture to try and weasel her way out of it using her wits if she can. 

The amount of stuff she went through that would have seriously stressed and frightened another person is just astounding and on top of that, she had exams and tests at school. She had to do homework while taking a break from fighting demons. AND ON TOP OF THAT she had the love triangle to deal with.

Kagome. does. not. get. enough. credit.

What’s amazing is that most of the time in these dangerous situations, she’s hardly ever thinking of herself. If ever. She’s always looking out for the frightened orphan, saving Shippo, saving Inuyasha on a number of occasions, lending aid as best she can to Miroku and Sango.

I do have some problems with how she’s handled in canon as she’s clearly extremely powerful but is never formally trained to control it. She’s always regulated to the back row the second Miroku and Sango come into the series. It’s just a shame to me that she couldn’t have been given more tools to defend herself and grow. Archery is a mostly long-distance weapon and she needed something close range, considering the amount of times enemies got close enough to kidnap her. I don’t blame her specifically for it, it’s just something I find a shame. 

But yeah, I love her tenacity, no bullshit attitude, her caring nature, her SASS, her cute sense of humour, and her badass moments make her a truly great character. 

2021-10-02

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Well, I still have exactly zero patience for animation, but I just wanted Kaito loving his pets so here we are

Watching morning cartoons be like

OG bisexual crisis

Shinichi: WHOEVER CAUSED THIS MESS IS GOING TO-

Ran: It was me…

Shinichi: … be forgiven because everyone deserves a second chance.

Drawtober day 5 - Kaito sleeping and his ladies decided to snuggle up and join in.

You know the main problem with the “live action” Lion King? Why it looks so lifeless?

The hyper realistic style is actually limiting the animators, rather than freeing them. The style makes it much harder to have memorable character designs and good expressions. Real lions don’t need to do things like emote in a way that humans can understand – but characters in a film do. The original movie was more cartoony not due to animation limitations of the time, but because that style genuinely serves the story better.

To show you what I mean, compare these two shots of Simba, from right after Scar says “run away and never return.”

Here is a clear reaction, with a strong beat for us to connect with before the character makes a decision. Even without any dialogue, even without any context, you can understand the emotion there just by the expression and the mannerisms. Is it realistic? No! He’s bright yellow and has eyebrows. But do we empathize with him? Yes!

Meanwhile, here is… a lion. Turning and running. No expression, no beats, no character moments, nothing. He actually can’t express himself because the animators are locked into the realistic style. If they tried to animate a strong expression as warranted for the scene, it would look terrible. Is it realistic? Hell yeah! Look at those textures! Look at that fur! But do we empathize with him? …nah. Not really.

To conclude: when you’re retelling Hamlet with a bunch of animated lions, cartoonish-ness is your friend, not your enemy.

April 1st means

INUYASHAS BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

BEAUTIFUL BOI