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One of the questions in Nikke's survey was asking specifically if we'd prefer characters/settings that are a better fit with Nikke for future collabs. Something tells me this month's finances may not be that great!
As you can tell, I’m quite an otaku myself. But back when I joined Sega around 1992, I got the distinct impression that Sega—especially the arcade department—openly disliked soft, otaku-esque stuff.
That said, all the Sega designers back then had incredible fundamental drawing skills, so if they wanted to draw a traditionally beautiful woman, they easily could have. That’s why making the heroine of Golden Axe intentionally unappealing in this new adaptation leaves me with a few questions.
Though to be fair, back then, an otaku-style drawing like mine wouldn't have been accepted at Sega either!
@himariarchive Burh, that pic of him at the auctions. Like father, like son very much.
Orfevre and Kitasan Black. Two studs producing offspring like a Xerox machine.
🐎 Oguri Cap: The Gray from Nowhere
March 1985. Born on a small family farm in Hokkaido, no glamorous pedigree, nothing special on paper. He started his career not in Tokyo, but on the small regional Kasamatsu circuit, the local minor leagues of Japanese racing.
He won 10 of his next 11 races. Local newspapers called him "The Silver Wind of Kasamatsu." Crowds swelled. Kids waved handmade flags. It stopped being about betting, it became about hope.
Fans campaigned so hard for his promotion that the JRA eventually changed the rules to let regional horses like him compete nationally, a change now literally called "The Oguri Cap Rule."
Expectations were cautious. Regional horses never beat the elite. He shattered that immediately, ripping off 6 straight graded race wins on debut in the JRA.
His final race, the 1990 Arima Kinen, drew 177,779 fans, still a track record. After a slump where people said he was finished, Oguri Cap won anyway.
The horse that turned Japanese racing from a gambling backroom into a national obsession.
After Maruzensky the horse passed away on 21 August 1997, almost two decades later that very same date, a new chapter of the legacy began…
21 August 2016 at Cygames NEXT event, the first lineup of Umamusume cast members was revealed, including Lynn as Maruzensky.
Shrodinger's feminist. Women are simultaneously strong, independent, don't need not man.... and also too weak to climb up one stair to hang out on their husband's yacht by themselves.
This "I'm a craftsman after all" mentality is something that I'm wishing for all artists, especially NSFW ones! When you act like a professional and don't bother yourself with what other think. You truly transcend as an artist and stop living in the shadow of puritan shame.
Y'know, seeing this makes me think.
Back when I was younger, I saw stuff like this all the time for things I love on newgrounds and youtube. Animators/creators poking fun at media they played and I literally never saw a problem with it.
Now I see this and I loathe every second of it and I think the reason for that is because I could tell the former was more tongue and cheek about it. Like, they clearly still enjoyed what they were poking fun of.
This just feels like it's mocking the source material with none of the same love for the series I recognize with the older stuff.
Hoje é 21 de agosto, é o aniversário de morte do Maruzensky
Ele se foi hj em 1997 aos 23 anos por uma parada cardíaca; no dia ele estava fazendo uns exercícios, do nada relinchou e acabou colapsando e falecendo.
Uma morte bem abruta infelizmente, descanse em paz, Maruzen.
A long time ago I made a Golden Axe stop motion for SEGA / Storm Collectibles / Blue Fin Distributions.
It was the closest I could get to creating something "Harryhausen Esc" with a beloved epic IP.
Good times 💥⚔️💥
The Golden Axe show will be as reviled as Thundercats Roar.
Animation is no longer a place for creativity, but for resentful middle aged creatures to "get revenge" on their perceived enemies from childhood.
It's disheartening.
See this type of shit is why you have to fight stupid headcanon. You blink for a second and they're already claiming it's "canon"
Also if Luka is trans then the story has him willingly de-transition and be happy afterwards.
Millennials when you ask them to make something sincere that takes itself seriously for once and isn't self-aware, full of irony, contempt for the genre or quirky