Alex's Stuff
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I don’t think a lot of younger Tumblr users understand what life during the anime boom was like in 1999-2007. How accessible anime was at the time. It was fucking everywhere. It wasn’t even a niche, literally everyone was into it.
Like, Cartoon Network showed stuff like YuYu Hakusho, .hack//sign, Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo, and Rurouni Kenshin every weekday after school on their Toonami block.
I remember rushing home after school in second grade to watch Rurouni Kenshin. That was 7 year old me’s favorite show.
You think Pokemon is popular now? HA! In the late 90′s, it was every parent’s worst nightmare. It was on the cover of Time Magazine for fucks’s sake. EVERY kid was obsessed with it. No exceptions. At least, until Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh came around…
You could wake up on Saturday mornings and watch highly Americanized butchered versions of Shaman King, Tokyo Mew Mew (”Mew Mew Power”), and most infamously, One Piece thanks to 4kids.
An anime getting an extremely butchered Americanized dub was a very real, legitimate threat that could happen to any show.
Staying up late enough to watch Inuyasha was considered a rite of passage.
Teenage girls flocked to Barnes and Noble to read entire volumes of Fruits Basket and Fushigi Yuugi in the store without paying for them.
All of the kids cartoons tried to cash in on the craze. I’m sure everyone remembers Avatar and Teen Titans, but trust me when I say that you DON’T want to remember Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi and Kappa Mikey.
Hayao Miyazaki won an Academy Award.
Final Fantasy VII was considered the greatest video game ever made.
Some people still called it “Japanimation”.
So many fucking magazines. Off the top of my head: Animerica, Shonen Jump, Shojo Beat, Newtype USA (the best one by far), Anime Insider, Beckett Anime, and Beckett Anime For Girls (The most cringeworthy one. Of course I had every issue!)
Anime was freaking everywhere. The entire country was in its weeb phase. Some people on this website are too young to even remember this.
(via ninestempest)
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a tiny madoka for you guys
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I love Juvia.
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- what she says: i'm fine
- what she means: the yarn man was the hero i didn't think i needed, but got nonetheless. the man before him was a smug looking man in a suit that's probably more expensive than everything in my closet. he was, in fact, the physical manifestation of everything i dislike about the video game industry. then the yarn man, or martin sahlin as his doctor calls him, appears on stage and he's such a precious human being. he was probably terrified of being on stage in front of the eyes of thousands of people who will surely form an opinion on him within mere seconds and yet he still stands there because he's so passionate about his game and he wants to share it with all of us. look at him. a passionate developer wanting to share his game with passionate players. the little doll that's playable in the game, he even crafted a real life version himself and was physically shaking as he proudly showed it to the world. he's too precious. i don't know what i did to deserve him. i don't know how i can love a man i don't know. i thank him from the bottom of my heart for re-igniting the spark in me. i thank him for making me feel so much joy i even managed to physically sit through "let's talk about mobile", the depths of minion hell and various sports games. thank you yarn man.
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(via gabostak)
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Excuse me, Yes hello, I was wondering if you ever got the link to my RWBY review?
What was the title of your email?
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Has anyone seen Jurassic World and noticed how goddamn darker Chris Pratt is?
He went from this
to this
and this
Like if you want men of color as your action stars IDK MAYBE HIRE MEN OF COLOR? BUT STOP WITH THE BROWNFACE.
THIS IS COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO NORMALLY LOVES CHRIS PRATT.
People are policing tans now? This is why I hate most of the tumblr social justice scene. This is the most idiotic shit I have ever heard.
Oh no when someone works outside all day their skin tans oh noooo
i hate this website and i hate OP
Being tanned is racist, who knew. Thanks for teaching me, Tumblr.
Also color correction that they use in every single film probably had to do with it. The first picture doesn’t seem very edited.
(via sunnysundown)
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