PokeNirvash

I bought Yakuza 0 last week and started playing it on Saturday. A little disappointed that it's in story mode all the time (and in disbelief that I sucked at the karaoke game), but what I've played so far is some good shit.

VENTO AUREO - Oh shit, everybody's passing out. FUCK YEAH FULL OP TIME. Now with extra KING EMPEROR CRIMSON. Oh shit I don't remember that background Latin choir from the last time I saw this cut. Mass narcolepsy is a bitch. BEES. Oh boy, Trish thinks she's Mista. What are you talking about, you're Giorno, aren'tcha? CHESTICLES. Okay, so apparently this is a bodyswap episode. It's the kind of messed-up voodoo crap that made Freaky Friday a cult hit. Ah yes, the meme face. "How dare you finger me at a time like this!" Just imagine showing this whole argument to anyone out of context, they'd be so confused and angry. Here's an idea: have Giorno use Little Bomber for you. Well lookit that, power boosts all around. SHIT COUNT THUS FAR: 5! And all in the first act, too. (Damn, there goes my new badass rating criterion.) It's like the frickin' nation of Rand McNally down there. This enemy STAND knows no limits, it must be stopped! Great, now we're up to six shits, what the actual hell. Maybe he switched with the turtle? Nevermind, it's Polnareff who's the turtle now. Yes, 2020 has gotten "a bit dramatic", between COVID, the riots, and Venture Bros. getting canceled by out-of-touch executives. "The hell's a Polnareff!?" It's a surname, Mista. Wherever Kakyoin's soul wound up, he's probably feeling your pain right now. Sure does suck when your STAND becomes autonomous. "This was around the time Diamond is Unbreakable first premiered." Hold up, I think this was how Kira evolved from Killer Queen to Bites the Dust. Okay, I think I'm starting to get how all this is working now. We just have to take the arrow from him in order to un-Freaky Friday everyone. Wait, how'd Giorno (Narancia) get up there again? No surprise the only person he trusts is his split personality. It's the Boss! Scratch that, it's Bucciarati in the Boss's body! So many parentheses in these credits. ASS CLASS - As a human, I find Koro-sensei's disguise a little offensive. He used pink because he's into feminization. "There is no lesson 2." BOOBS. I know her last name's seemingly unpronounceable European, but it sounds like "Yellow Bitch" to me. His facial color... is obvious. 😊 You kids do realize you're in an anime, right? Plenty of women in your medium are into tentacles. Soccer! TURN-OFF #1: Women who smoke. I don't care if putting the burning end of a cig to someone's skin is a legit means of S&M, I'd rather not do anyone who ingests that crap into their lungs on a regular basis. To quote Peter Griffin, get a load of that sideboob. Lethal soccer. I didn't know the Viets were known for their coffee. You do know the strict last-name basis makes it all the more tempting for your students to call you "Miss Yellow Bitch", right? Thank you for proving my point, Karma. Hot Eastern European on trap otokonoko action. Wait, aren't those the guys who were hitting on her earlier? Ohhhhh I think the repugnant assclowns on main campus have more than a little competition in the "unlikable character" department for this show. Good, getting her to smoke less is the first step to getting her off my waifu shit list. She's still on the list, though, for being such a bitch. Even the other E/Irina on the block is closer to getting off the list, and she's the one character whose observable appeal is nonexistent. God her lovey-dovey front is so phony you can dial 911 on it. You're a good dude, Karasuma, keep it up that way. DAT ASS. The Ventures may be dead (for now), but at least Primal lives, and with an Emmy under its belt at that. [facepalms] Not only are you a bitch, but you're a dumbass too. (My Dad: "Easy now...") DOUBLE VISION. Lesson 3: Never underestimate Koro-sensei. It's a regular tentacle hentai in that shed. She looks good in those gym clothes. And somehow this didn't trigger an MA rating? The sexual suggestiveness this episode is probably giving Food Wars a run for its money in how much it's making my parents question what I'm watching in the other room. Strange how the Japanese guy's name is in English but the Russian guy's name is in... Russian. (And he's technically younger than me, what the fuck?) Tits-up. It's official, I wanna murder this bitch, even if she does have a better chance of murdering me. I love you, Class 3-E. "Irina Yellow Bitch (sic) does not apologize." Eromanga, you say? Koro-sensei is the greatest teacher. Assassination badminton, the greatest sport you've never heard of. What a sentence for a teacher to write, even in a foreign tongue. 😏 The Eric in Africa is Eric Foreman. I'll confess, I do not care for Lara Croft, how she looks, or the way her name is pronounced. I'm still gonna call you Miss Yellow Bitch. And so is everyone else. Well, at least the urge to murder is gone. You fool, Koro-sensei knows all. FRUIT PUNCH POWER, ACTIVATE!! BLACK CLOVER - It's not often (at least in my experience) that you see the "Hated in His Hometown" trope get subverted to this length. Oh brother, my birthday gin can't come soon enough. REPLY TO ANGEL: "Oh good, more of the obnoxious one-dimensional character traits are on display here." On the bright side, at least Gauche and Grey aren't here to shit things up further. And for what it's additionally worth, this is an appropriate time for strength-boosting muffins. It's funny when Magna gets hurt. STOP, SISGOLEON TIME. Gordon: "Wait, I literally just came in here, what's going on?" Oh hey, it's the place where Asta solved a problem on his own the same week Deku waited for an epiphany to remind him that he can kick. Oh hey Fuego's here too. Consider myself pleasantly surprised, this wasn't a Leo-only episode like I was expecting. Mana: the cause of everything non-sentient in nature that wants to kill you. Gordon without lipstick is an unexpected cursed image. "YOU AREN'T READY FOR THE DIABETES THAT AWAITS YOU THERE!" Seriously, Magna, even Luck knows what mana skin is, and all he knows is fighting and breathing. To be fair, he didn't have perfect control of it back then. Thank you for proving my point, Asta. I find Luck more tolerable if I imagine the stuff he says coming out of Ginro's mouth. Anti-magic is invisible, that's why Asta has no aura. "You ass..." Yeah, I wouldn't want to go somewhere where there's no food either. EDIBLES! Oh shit, giant spider. Asta with shark teeth is also an unexpected cursed image. You'd think at this point, the yelling would be easier to tune out, but then again, the Black Bulls - Asta especially - are all about pushing past their limits. Oh Luck, you and your fightboner know no limits either. Magna with his default hairdo but no glasses, yet another unexpected cursed image. I love that I can understand Gordon now. "My net!" RIDE EM COWGIRL. Hey, at least you're in first place now. Hey, remember Noelle's asshole older siblings? Because this episode is PG no subratings, Fuegoleon's blood has been replaced with motor oil for this flashback. Pow, right in the kisser! And that's when the hallucinations started. "Gah, steam!" STOP, SPIDER TIME. He has found that the only way to defeat a spider... is to burn it. Turns out they were acting as for-hire exterminators this whole time. Lesson 4: always expect the unexpected. It's easy to forget that dungeons are unexplained phenomena in the Black Clover-verse. Now to wait one week for an episode our friends in Japan waited two months for. Brak is back, and he don't know jack. SHIPPUDEN - The Akatsuki sure are enjoying their opacity tool. Careful, Naruto, it'd be a shame if that ramen were to fly right out of your hands and through that window of debatable openness. Oh, this boredom cure is gonna end horribly, I'm sure. "Are they okay?" "When aren't they not okay?" You suck, Gai. Sakura bickering with her parents reminds me of my sister bickering with mine, when she comes down from her bedroom to actually interact with them. "If the message isn't 'card games on motorcycles', I don't wanna hear it." I can't even tell which one's the real one now. Winner, loser, the ramen's still yours, so... I keep forgetting what currency system Naruto uses. Japanese wordplay n' shit. TO THE BATHHOUSE, EVERYONE! But the question is, did you get to eat that ramen? Get a load of those overboobs. Considering how useless she is, she might as well be an old man. Busty girl problems. When Rock Lee does parkour, he likes it challenging. He just really wanted to try and get through to Sasuke by his own efforts, that's all. Shino confirmed for having the biggest dick. Ooh, literal wet dog. CANNONBALL. The praise for this game, I don't really mind, but still, did they have to give that 10/10 to Last of Us 2? Did it really deserve a score that high? Don't blame them for being loud, blame the walls for being thin. Well, that's one way to fix it. If only Sasuke were here... Dammit Neji, you put those thoughts in his head on purpose, didn't you? The one downside to jumpsuits: unpredictable snags. Random bra, I wonder whose it is. Probably Hinata's. He happened to be there because he was planning on finishing his training at the bathhouse. Now this is a 30-misunderstanding pileup. See, Sakura can be understanding if the writers try hard enough. She almost punched his crotch there. Oh right the bra, this is gonna be painful. Huh, turns out it was Sakura's this whole time. At least it was only her doing the punching and not anyone else joining in. "Only you understand my pain, premium ramen bowl." So what type of game are they even playing with those cards? ...I really should hang out with other people more, yet I have just as much fun when I'm alone. Neat, some of those card images were lifted from OP2. Okay now it's premium ramen time. Hey, weren't some of those guys dead? Guess I can't complain, seeing how this is a movie preamble and all that...

"Fry, remember what we told you about ending your stories one sentence early?"

The Qwaser of Stigmata 7

I can't wait to see Kawahara avoid some of the mistakes he previously made while continuing to make the remaining half of them.

Because saving this for later would ruin things. Air #1: Breeze Air #2: Town Appare-Ranman! #10: The Bridge to Hell Appare-Ranman! #11: Rain in the Dark Night Appare-Ranman! #12: WE WILL STOP YOU!! Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me Cinderella Boy #12: Who Has the Blue Bird? The Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited #3: The sinews of war are infinite money Ikebukuro West Gate Park (J-Drama) #7: Youshichi Episode Ikebukuro West Gate Park (J-Drama) #8: Youhachi Episode Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 #1: NO NOISE NO LIFE Mobile Suit Gundam #5: Re-Entry to Earth Corpse Princess #1: The Dead Dance BONUS TWEETS

From what I've been able to tell through various sources, it's Fuego's little brother this time. Technically less stupid than Hage Village filler, but still not worth your time.

Ah, nothing says long-running shounen filler like a movie tie-in episode, especially when the movie's one that has zero chance of airing on the block for further context. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #85: The Universes Go Into Action: Each With Their Own Motives - TV-14 12:30 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #34 - The Requiem Quietly Plays, Part 1 - TV-MAV 1:00 - Assassination Classroom #4 - Grown-Up Time - TV-14DLSV 1:30 - Black Clover #132 - The Lion Awakens - TV-PG 2:00 - Fire Force #19 - Into the Nether - TV-MAS 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #311 - Prologue of Road to Ninja - TV-PGD 3:00 - Samurai Jack #60 - XCIX - TV-PGV Seriously though, I'm still waiting on those last two Bleach movies (even though I already watched one of them and will probably watch the other in due time).

Corpse Princess: Aka 1 (dubbed) Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 1 I miss the 2D animation as much as anyone, but this new season ain't so bad looking, coming from someone who's already seen one of I.G and Sola's previous collabs.

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Corpse Princess: Aka 1 (subbed)

I remember Shaman King on 4KidsTV, but because I was more interested in their magical girl shows, I never bothered watching it. I did think it was cool when, in the first issue of Shounen Jump I ever had, Manta/Morty said "dammit".

Air 2

I never really thought of The Union as aliens, but some dangerous nanotech-possessing group of always-uniformed humans who the show refused to tell us anything about outside of how dangerous they were.

I'm still occasionally playing Forza Horizon 4, but I recently bought Yakuza 0 with a $20 XBox gift card that was collecting dust, so I'll probably start that one soon too.

🤣 I'm sorry, this is just too hilariously out of left field for me to be mad (or desperate for a meteor to impact the earth) at.

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That's just common sense. Which is something a lot of people lack.

Mobile Suit Gundam 5

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH [now listen, yo!]

Three-drink limit, got it. "Toonami will be right back... right now." VENTO AUREO - Of everything wrong with Zombie Bruno's body right now, the melting skin on his face disturbs me the most. Doppio's way too nice for his split personality. Oh no, he's gone blind and deaf. Never mind, he just too enlightened to give a shit anymore. Oh hi Mista. Doppio, you precious idiot. 🤣 This shit is what OOC tweets are made of. Oh shit it's an actual phone this time. Her boss-father senses are tingling! Guess his vision's just wicked blurry then. Double never mind, it's just rough soul-sensing. If Foley were still here, he'd be calling shenanigans left and right over this. Part of me was hoping the Redheaded Teenage Badass would break that bottle against the guy's head instead of the pillar above. That house must've been where he was living when this season first premiered. If only the real Trish was there to hear those kind words. Polnareff likes to watch. "Plus ones go directly into the hell basement with the Pillar Men." When all else fails, call him a misogynist; he'll be either too offended or bewildered to try anything. I can only imagine how extra FUNi would've made this line. Oh Polnareff, you and your perverted similes. HE KNOWS THAT HE KNOWS THAT HE KNOWS. Flashback time! Nice to see Enyaba's character design hasn't changed any since Part 3. TRULY BIZARRE. Part 5 Part 3 Jotaro isn't real, he can't hurt you. I do love me some dual-perspective flashbacks. His STAND made ZA WARUDO look like mere child's play. "GAH, MY SEXY EYE!" Shit, I knew he lost his legs, but one of his arms too? REPLY TO ANGEL: "How did he even escape he had like one limb left." Speedwagon Foundation airlifted him out once Diavolo left the scene. If not for prosthetics and his will to live, he'd have been long dead by now. Oh, and human arm transplants, too. "My binoculars weren't there before!" From nottie to hottie in just ten seconds of erased time. Nothing says development like Polnareff going from meeting God at the top of the stairs to meeting the Devil at the bottom. BLOOD CLOCK, GO! Nice, he managed to land a blow, as expected from one of the Stardust Crusaders. Oh, what's this now? KAKYOINED. And that's another one down. SHIT COUNT: 3. That man there is your next attempt at doom, Diavolo. Hmm, so DDR machines feature Love Live characters now... ASS CLASS - Poor Koro-sensei. "Crying in the Sandbox" sounds like the name of a song by an emo band working to graduate to full-blown death metal. CONSECUTIVE NORMAL SIDEWAYS JUMPS. Your rubber knives are no match for his CQC. I think I have a mini-Lego replica of that exact same castle in my bedroom. Karasuma is the Hadley to Koro-sensei's Mr. Sakata. Nice of you to join us, Redheaded Teenage Badass. And the show's token femboy knows him. HANDSHAKE OF DEATH. I love this guy. One can only imagine the number of badly beaten bodies he left in his wake... It's taking all of his willpower to not put an Andy Bernard-sized hole in it. "Tell that to your tentacles." Mmm, gelato. As Earl Hickey would say, you never know in what way karma [with a capital K] will strike next. "Give us a taste of your ugly side." Clearly you weren't here for the stolen nameplates incident. Protagonists who don't give a shit about what others think are my favorites. He has only so much money to spend on gelato in the world. I'MMA FUCKING KILL YOU, YOU BACKGROUND DOUCHEBAGS. Or better yet, I'll let Karma do it for me. "Octopus" is just a name that rolls off his back, like "autist" is with me. The octopus is his spirit animal, is what you're saying. This dude has a real sense for cinematic timing. And murderizing assholes that the show frames as kind of actually deserving it for being one-dimensional. I'm starting to think TOM has some serious issues with humans in general. Nothing but coins, that's rough. ZOIDBERG NOOOOOO. Physical wounds heal, mental wounds fester, and that's the Monarch way. KARMA MAH BOI. I don't think takoyaki is breakfast food, unless Japan does things different. Fuck yeah, math! Oh no, he did his nails. Home ec: the one class too poor for Kunugigaoka's general student body. Austin Tindle's character is being non-consensually feminized, wonder where I've seen that before. Now this is an aesthetic backdrop. C'MON, MAN! Open your third eye... What a shock, he actually had a teacher who liked him. He's not afraid of death, and that's the point where I quit identifying with him in any capacity. Spoke too soon, this guy deserves a beating just as bad as that "star pupil" likely deserved his. But I guess wrecking his office and making him fear for his life is decent enough punishment for acting like an irredeemable traitorous douchenozzle out of nowhere. SAFETY NET. "Is there anything these tentacles aren't capable of?" Bringing Ed Elric's mom back to life, for one. He's even got a cat-ear headband for him. THAT'S MY PURSE I DON'T KNOW YOU. Stay classy, Karma Akabane. I've got your back, even if Angel and that teacher you unpersoned don't. "Hey kid, wanna /ss/?" BLACK CLOVER - The cold open narration and opening theme are what truly ease me into whatever hot B.S. Black Clover has for us each week. Oh hi prairie dogs. Their verbal chemistry's really improved since their VAs got hitched. Secre/Nero truly is the second best Black Bull. Damn, Yuno can fly!? Unfortunately for you guys, Nero has already won. The town may have burned, but at least the crops are safe. "Aw shit, here comes Asta." He's not embarrassed, he's just disinterested. The priest has gotten a lot better since he started appreciating Asta more. Ah, fake news. They'd have snipped out the picture, but they're too poor to afford scissors, so it was easier to just frame the whole paper. Either they got adopted or they got kidnapped, either way some adult came in and took them all. Or maybe they're just entering the "back to school" season that I only now managed to exit. I'd post that Shadbase comic panel I photoshopped Asta into here, but I won't. Deny it all you want, Yuno, it still probably happened. It's a real shame that statue had to break. You keep doing those one-handed push-ups, kid. Half of those kids either have only heard of Asta and Yuno, or still have their parents. Bell's like one of those Skydancer dolls, and I want this to happen to her. Sucks to be you, Bell. I'm still surprised Sister Lily has a last name. Oh boy I'm gonna need all the booze for this one, and it's only noon where I'm writing this exact sentence. The more things change, the more they stay the same, they suppose. FUN FACT: Dallas Reid and Jill Harris (Asta and Noelle's VAs) announced their engagement the day before this episode aired in Japan, so Noelle freaking out over Asta's completely unrelated-to-her proposal is sort of a reverse hilarious in hindsight situation. I wonder if all these rejection punches have rendered Asta immune to waterboarding. The irony was, he was thinking that, just towards a different person. Eh, waterboarding would probably come off as a mere annoyance to him. Secre's too tired for these idiots. Part of me's still amazed that Tigtone got picked up for a full series order. And then they were guest lecturers. DID SOMEBODY SAY MUSCLES? I never got to know the joys of running laps in preschool, I blame that plus my 100 yard dash starting speeds for my inability to run long distances for shit. That leaves Yuno to learn the joys of being the little girl. And Secre's got a mustache for some reason. At least you've got just the bib and not a diaper to go with it. Yuno's just as awkward with expressing sympathy as Sheldon Cooper. Tap into your inner MILF, Yuno. Ah yes, where Yuno got the best one and Asta's arrived five hours behind schedule. I barely remember these two, but considering that was all the way back in episode 1, I don't blame myself for forgetting. Because of course redemption is cheap in the world of Black Clover. WIZAAAAARD. "You see, children, a grimoire is a lot like a penis..." He is really passionate about his craft. So many pot-potatoes, they're starting to dimension-slip into the GKA-verse. This kid is still so tsundere. He's even doing the whole gross-tasting energy drink routine. You know you're talking to Licht's skull, right? Asta only cries when it's appropriate, not when it's convenient like with Deku. I'm honestly proud of these two for making it so far in so long. EQUALITY, FUCK YEAH. Have you ever been so desperate for a high, that you resorted to huffing jenkem instead of smoking clean drugs like a normal person? SHIPPUDEN - As I figured, the basket was their means of escaping with him. But the real question is, how's Naruto going to sneak his way back to them? Poor kid knows nothing of the outside world. "You can, but you'll need to disguise yourself while you do." He turned back into himself while asleep, that's sure to raise some eyebrows. Ah yes, the traditional Japanese breakfast consisting of several small portions of food not normally had for breakfast in the States. You say that like foodie tours are a bad thing. Oh right, the Akatsuki are here too. It's Naruto, of course he's gonna screw something up, the question is what. Oh no not those two again. What a surprisingly applicable piece of advice. "Plan" is a fun word to say, but not as fun as "sham". Here I thought they were gonna hit up the sushi place next. Only one episode's worth of screentime, and those three can read him like a book. THERE'S SO MANY LAYERS TO DAVE FANTASTIC NEGRITO. Well, at least he broke his cover doing something he's just better at. Samurai training is serious business, especially when there's an impostor afoot. Aw shit, he said the thing! You're sound pretty Sarada there, Princess. I do love this classic soundtrack when it kicks in just right. He must've escaped through the window, or at least a vent of some sort. Well this conversation sure deepens things a little, for filler. Sometimes I forget that Deidara has a cybernetic eye. KILLER PUPPETS. Aaaand here's the point where I'm once again faced with a drought of comments, and am instead paying attention to the plot without going for a play-by-play. Oh hey, he knows ninja stuff too. Don't fuck with a samur-oh shit, poison acupuncture. Well, that ended tragically on one end, but fairly well on another. I completely forgot Yamato was here too. Aaaaaand back to the present we go. Oh right, Naruto doesn't know that coming to peace with your demise can free you from the Edo Tensei. Kabuto: "He was just a filler piece anyways."

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that in what I said, but I can understand how you could see that. I'll make sure not to overstep those boundaries in the future, lest I have another "new LoGH character designs" fiasco on my hands. As for the Food Wars thing, I didn't say with my own words you thought of it like that, but again, I can understand where you're coming from even moreso. Again, all a futile attempt at getting Count off your back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As rough as it is reading some of your posts, you're still a surprisingly considerate guy to talk to, TG. It's always good having you around, no matter how much we may disagree on things.

The Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited 3 Boo, no Hong Kong Crime Conference episode.

Spoiler-marked so it isn't as out in the open as it would otherwise be. Good speaking with you again. Peace.

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