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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 23h

Early 2000's: Toyble writes Dragon Ball fan manga, Broly is there for some reason.

2020's: Toyble is writing official Dragon Ball manga, Broly is there for some reason.

Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks. It's just a weird hangup on appearing more weird than necessary. Not to imaginary strangers, not to the few friends I do have. Don't be horny, keep any sexual confusion to yourself, try not to be cringe or annoying. Obviously that includes feelings of loneliness. Be relatively normal.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

Freeza will probably need someone to play off of if they really intend to keep him around... Assuming the story ever actually continues.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't he just show up, instakill the arc's antagonist, laugh, then leave? He's certainly comfortably back on top. It's also a hilarious way to leave things hanging. Crazy how Freeza's been permanently reinstated in modern DB.

And Super Saiyan mash ups have always been in Toyo's wheelhouse.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

I actually haven't read the Super manga at all but flipping through the last volume and seeing that battle being essentially the last proper thing that happens feels like the ultimate jingling of keys. Here's the Saiyans and their epic merchandisable forms fighting each other!

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I wish I felt comfortable just being a little bit unhinged.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, in the end, they will save each other.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

Tifa is affected by this too as her own selfishness and insecurities are further exploited by the situation. It's the same basic setup as the OG, but excusing Cloud's behaviour in a desperate attempt to cling on to a link to her past comes across as much more irresponsible in the remake series.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

Yet Aerith is practically an inversion of this. She is wrapping Cloud up in a delusion, desperate to keep him 'safe' at the expense of his own sanity. There is this push and pull between them that Cloud is caught in the middle of that in my interpretation is cruel either way.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

Sephiroth is the bad guy because he is using the metanarrative to reinforce and amplify one of the most traumatic events Cloud ever goes through in order to completely break him.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

I know people view what they're doing with Aerith in Rebirth as vapid and purely motivated to drive speculation, and perhaps it broadly is, but I find the situation Cloud is in to be very interesting.

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

I'd do it

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Ryuman @pointlessman.bsky.social · 1d

I think if you could just edit your gender/appearance back and forth like a video game character creator then a lot more people would do it than they'd admit.

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