James Moar

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@Toukochan https://t.co/iwTL8bnQKA — close, but it’d also reach the SE area around London.

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@ManOnThe100 @katelevann ….you mean it hasn’t been doing that for the last few decades?

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@SiobhanoTheDead @FilmFan1971 KNIT ONE, PURL EIGHT.

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@Hankinshaw Be fair, the Beatles have been releasing music on Apple since 1968.

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@Montague_Tigg @Hankinshaw My memory is more that Papa Smurf got a lot of protagonist roles, but generic unidentified Smurfs did a lot especially in one-pager stories. My aunt had some of the comic albums, I paid more attention to those than the cartoons.

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@PreachyPreach Fairly sure I know the restaurant, good okonomiyaki.

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@mondomascots Bocchi the Chomp.

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@Toukochan I wouldn’t have got it either, it’s well out of the realm of current slang.

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@Disco_Infiltrat @liquidindian Unfortunately my Japanese isn’t good enough to translate much (handwriting’s a particularly weak point of mine). Oddly enough I can say the writer is probably female, there’s some gendered usage — わ(wa) to end sentences and to a lesser extent ね(ne).

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@Disco_Infiltrat @liquidindian First one is the wrong way up (and very squiggly writing), second one is right.

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@Toukochan I see it’s gone up on Crunchyroll at the same time as something called My New Boss is Goofy, which must have given the Disney lawyers itchy trigger fingers.

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@housetoastonish The original Headmaster, from 1975: https://t.co/FnZNiJiDOs

(Best clip I could find was in Italian).

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@BeeDubsProwl @Toukochan I know who’s speaking here, but the poses are just as funny with the wrong guess.

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@PreachyPreach If this is relevant to your upcoming trip, I think a pescatarian could get along fairly easily in Japanese restaurants so long as they pass up things like ramen and tonkatsu places where the main specialty doesn’t fit. A vegetarian would have rather more trouble.

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@PulpLibrarian The differences tend be manga-style panel-to-panel storytelling (less narration, more step-by-step showing of action), slightly more violence and death (no Comics Code), and a greater air of menace despite the more cartoony look.

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@PulpLibrarian He didn’t actually create new villains — every Kuwata story is a retelling of one from the US comics. They’re just drawn from an era when the familiar villains didn’t show up.

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@smolrobots

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@PreachyPreach Could be clear systematisation long postdating something that’s basically understood?

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@PreachyPreach Well, except the unrelated one on Dragon Quest.

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@PlantpotOnassis “Films about managing England in the 80s”