Whisper of the Heart is in theaters today, so here's what I wrote for its 30th anniversary last year! Kondo's Ghibli film remains a relevant portrait of what finding connection in an urbanizing, digital world feels like.
screaming from the heavens ONCE AGAIN that this comes out *TOMORROW*!!!
i'm terrified! but its gonna happen!!!
Penguin Colony has joined the Fellow Traveller family!
From @origamedigital.bsky.social, the creator of Umurangi Generation, this Lovecraftian adventure told from the perspective of a colony of penguins is coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch 2 later this year.
🐧 bit.ly/PenguinColon...
I need you all to go to Steam right now and play the demo for this game. This is one of the most enjoyable experiences I've ever had from a review code
Evie telling Pikachu and Brian "I do not vibe with this universe"
New blog post time!
This week's game is Kininkou Maroku Oni, the first entry of ten(!) and the first of five(!) Game Boy games in a Japan-exclusive RPG series. There's a serious lack of variety in every regard, but its darker tone and storytelling aspirations make it impressive for the platform:
New Piece: Showing No Mercy for 35 Years! Monthly Shonen Gangan's Rebirth Era Part 2 (2006-2010)
The 00s continue on with the final major runs of some long-term Gangan mangaka, debuts of newcomers who'd become notable, another still-running manga, & even Stan Lee!
Also, a LOT of Masahiro Totsuka.
This is a fascinating article! I have been gathering his works for a while now, I came across him while reading short stories from the 1950s-60s.
One other thing I was always wondering about him is that he signed the infamous pro-Vietnam-war statement:
www.positronchicago.com/2016/03/sff-...
Feel/MARISA
Once again, I have written about The VNs
Boss Fight Books Dragon Age II
Inside the Dragon Age II 'Writers' Pit'
aftermath.site/boss-fight-dra...
if you'll allow me my cringe millennial nostalgia for the day, Kadokawa uploaded a "20th anniversary" clip of the "God Knows" scene from Haruhi Suzumiya, and 20 years removed from it, I still think there is no anime scene quite like this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtt2...
The Raging Demon Dutch Oven
marcille #art #dungeonmeshi
![In his German translation of the fragmentary epic, perhaps the oldest epic in the world, George Burckhardt attempted to reconstruct the monster; this is his description, translated into English: [a funny picture of a four legged, horned, scaly monster]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yepjsobusk6ncyvbi2bg3fzd/bafkreihdhup2skaf7m4kbczodmlado7t2byq4giwc635tpohwuwqh37uaq)
In his German translation of the fragmentary epic, perhaps the oldest epic in the world, George Burckhardt attempted to reconstruct the monster; this is his description, translated into English: [a funny picture of a four legged, horned, scaly monster]
I can’t get over this (from Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero’s Book of Imaginary Beings, illustration by Peter Sis)
A very good price on an amazing puzzler. If Void Stranger or Blue Prince got their hooks into you, this one's a must-have.
Starts out as a simple Sokoban-esque block pusher. Grows into a non-linear five-dimensional puzzle tesseract where you'll often be looking at 2-3 more puzzles and not know it.
👀 🚨💅This is quite biiiig!! Stop!! Hibari-kun! is now available at ALL Kinokuniya US stores, and their webshop!! For us as an art first, business later kind of publisher, this is so so exciting for us! Tysm thanks for supporting Peow2!!!!
うにょーん
If I'm not mistaken, this looks like an SMBX2 game! Really need to check up on what's been happening in that scene latey.
Another glimpse from "Wasted Chef" animated movie by Takayuki Hirao & CLAP studio (Pompo: The Cinephile).
Coming in theaters in 2027 (+ preview at Cannes Film Market next month in the "Annecy Animation Showcase").
www.catsuka.com/breves/2026-...
Happy 20th anniversary to Okami! Here's a short thread with resources on the game's English translation, starting with this old 1UP interview with the localization producer (may take a few tries to load): web.archive.org/web/20110629... (thread: 1/3)
For the first time in our 9-year history:
WE ARE HIRING!
We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
You liar!
#ガルクラ #GirlsBandCry
Beat's Bizarre Adventure is Beat's Bizarre Back!
@fujoshiunite.bsky.social on a weird fuyumi soryo comic, @danmorris.bsky.social on old school sf, and i wrote about the classic 90s shojo manga "from far away"
🔥🔥🔥
るるかちゃんは変装が得意なので当然ガンダムにも変装できる。
also, don’t be afraid to let stuff cook! which doesn’t mean putting the draft off forever, but does mean taking the time (if you have it) to think through what you’re writing while/after you’re writing it
have faith that what you have at the end of the process will be better than what you have now
