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Demon's Souls
2009.12.14 21:57 drdoooom Demon's Souls
A community dedicated to Demon's Souls, game released for PlayStation 3 and 5 (Remake).
2021.02.06 07:12 jp_1896 WorldMenders
A community for all those seeking and offering any sort of help with the new Demons Souls Remake for PS5. This community is focused on: Requesting/Offering help with bosses Item Trading Requesting/Offering help with Character and World Tendency Let souls be granted so the world might be mended.
2016.06.30 06:46 Play_by_Play Virtual Cosplay : Video Game Character Customization & Fashion
Virtual Cosplay is a place to share video game characters customized with in-game editing tools and gear, using the game's official assets without the use of mods. You don't have to recreate anyone famous but it doesn't hurt.
2023.06.03 07:16 immadinosaurrawr Ps5 Demons Souls Flamelurker help please!
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2023.06.03 07:16 DesperateCoat3881 Platonic Love: What Criteria Do You Consider Something or Someone Sexual Or Non-Sexual?
Topic: When I first hear the word "platonic" and look it up in every dictionary, it is about being of non-sexual quality. Then I always question what attribute that makes something or someone sexual or non-sexual is. I find that the attribute relates to romance, and here is the same problem again. What attribute do you consider something or someone romantic? By analogy with the fact that the world is neither white nor black, a continnum, romance seems scalar and full of each person's criteria. But, when I ask someone in platonic relationship about the attributes of romance, they seem unable to give me any of their details on romance. Then I wonder how they can be so sure to come up with the terms "platonic" to themselves and, after that, use the word "friend" to define the person you are enjoying being with quite so much out of their surroundings and what criteria they use to classify which action is sexual or non-sexual.
I'm also curious about the status "friend" because if you are aware of referents: 1. Name 2. Status and 3. Profession. They represent what they are seen or thought of, and to label someone only that is associative with you deeply or special to you while in platonic relationship with you as "a friend" or "best friend," it is "personally" like shortchanging their status, which is very important to be considered to be more than just "friend." For me, I find that the most suitable word for the status in platonic relationship is "partner" because partner comes from Old French partager (to share) and, in platonic relationship, you and your partner do share your moments in life with each other in a non-sexual way and grow together, don't you? Why need the best status be "a friend" instead?
My Premise: As a language student and also a demisexual, It is habitual for me to pay more attention to word selection when listening to some speech or chatting with someone and believe that a word really is a link between a person's feeling and thought. In this sense, it is a medium. Furthermore, when I get closer and closer to linguistics, I even see more details on each word, both grammatical and content, although they may not stand out of those who are not into languages, or whether it is only I who see or imagine them by myself.
To me, I love to let my life be guided by each word to get to know myself more and when I feel like it is enough for me to understand all their standard definitions, I often personalise some of their additional meanings to fit to my true self, adding "do what I want" in the words. Simultaneously, the personalisation must respect their standard definitions and associate with them as well. However, to think to define myself with one word without giving it my details on something relating to it, it is like living inside the box, letting my life be controlled by its terms.
Feel free to correct me if all of these or some of these are fallacy or biased too much
Thank you so much in advance for exchanging thoughts with me!
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I'm also curious about the status "friend" because if you are aware of referents: 1. Name 2. Status and 3. Profession. They represent what they are seen or thought of, and to label someone only that is associative with you deeply or special to you while in platonic relationship with you as "a friend" or "best friend," it is "personally" like shortchanging their status, which is very important to be considered to be more than just "friend." For me, I find that the most suitable word for the status in platonic relationship is "partner" because partner comes from Old French partager (to share) and, in platonic relationship, you and your partner do share your moments in life with each other in a non-sexual way and grow together, don't you? Why need the best status be "a friend" instead?
My Premise: As a language student and also a demisexual, It is habitual for me to pay more attention to word selection when listening to some speech or chatting with someone and believe that a word really is a link between a person's feeling and thought. In this sense, it is a medium. Furthermore, when I get closer and closer to linguistics, I even see more details on each word, both grammatical and content, although they may not stand out of those who are not into languages, or whether it is only I who see or imagine them by myself.
To me, I love to let my life be guided by each word to get to know myself more and when I feel like it is enough for me to understand all their standard definitions, I often personalise some of their additional meanings to fit to my true self, adding "do what I want" in the words. Simultaneously, the personalisation must respect their standard definitions and associate with them as well. However, to think to define myself with one word without giving it my details on something relating to it, it is like living inside the box, letting my life be controlled by its terms.
Feel free to correct me if all of these or some of these are fallacy or biased too much
Thank you so much in advance for exchanging thoughts with me!
2023.06.03 07:13 lolxdcool555 Elden ring
The Lands Between, the fantasy setting for Elden Ring, is claimed to be significantly bigger than any of FromSoftware's prior games. As a "natural development" of the Soulsborne paradigm, the game places a strong emphasis on player choice and exploration. Players can alter the skills and appearance of their characters in the game, which includes a variety of weapons and spells. Also, there are multiplayer elements that let players invade the worlds of other players to fight in PvP battles or invite other players for assistance. Elden Ring is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment and FromSoftware. From the game's first announcement in 2019, fans of previous FromSoftware games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne have been eagerly expecting it. The game is directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, who is known for his work on the Soulsborne series, and was co-created by author George R.R. Martin, whose best-known works include the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels and the Game of Thrones television series. I have played Elden ring before and I must say that the Score other given are very appropriate and very deserving. The Experience is nothing short of fantastic. There are many aspect of this game that make it Amazing. As a game from FromSoftware it’s expect to be hard and it’s one of the aspect that make the game very appealing as you get the satisfaction of defeating each enemy. And as the format of open world you are free to explore the world however you want with no restriction, which you are given the choices of many classes you can choose to be. And you can adjust almost every detail of your character from Character creation to everything that you wear and to be able to adjust every small detail of your character make you feel like you have complete control over your character. The Graphics are very Niche their attention to details is down to the minute details. The Model created are very neat, every abilities in which you are able to cast are infinite and every one of them have amazing graphics. The landscaping in this game are also amazing the building in the game are highly detailed. And reference to the building style of the past which make us relate to the world creation that they create. The storytelling are very compelling as there are main story line and side story. Which both of them have very good pilot. And you can tell that the story are really well built up and are nothing sort of made up as the story progress you will encounter a hint to the side story which after you are done with the main story line are free to explore the side story of the character you like. And as the story progress some of the side story you do will affect the ending of a game. The game did an amazing job to attract the audience or the player to seek out more of their story with using visual and audio communication. Left as a hint to make the audience notice and thinking about it and play it more. Elden ring is a game that are well known to the public and are well deserved to be put up high on the list. Elden ring have won many awards. And every aspect of it, every detail of it make it very deserving.
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2023.06.03 07:11 ChemistComprehensive Please help me, any and all advice is welcomed and appreciated. This is literally my last hope!
Hi, i’ll try to be short. i’m a female from birth (this matters) and i’m 24. I’ve tried to research some advice and rituals, but I can’t find anything online that feels valid for years.
I need a true to heart protection spell or ritual.
if you care about the reason feel free to read below or if your just want to put a protection spell, ritual, or advice in comments please do … Ever since I can remember I have had literal deathly bad luck, to the point people that aren’t superstitious notice it and say something to me about it. For example, a recent event is i bought a new car and within a month it’s totaled and i also crushed a bit of my spine. When i was able to walk and go to work i used my boyfriends car and that night i hit a deer and ruined the front end. things like this are constantly happening to me.
Also, my biggest problem in life is that women from the bottom of their hearts hate me. Including all women caregivers/family members i’ve ever had. it’s making being able to keep jobs or a relationship impossible. it’s making life impossible. its making me a terrible person. i love women and do not want to live in a world where i hate them. It’s literally supernatural; like every job, class, friends of friends and family members. it’s like something primitive in their soul locks in on me and they spend their time thinking of ways to destroy my life. When im in any room with a woman i can literally feel their gaze and negative energy projecting onto me, physically. I would post a picture of myself attached to this post but i’m worried you’ll feel it too lol and then i won’t get any real answers or help. I know you’re thinking “maybe you’re just a bitch”..”maybe you’re just abrasive and don’t realize it” “maybe you’re not self aware enough” “there’s no way you’re not the problem” “you’re probably full of yourself” i swear i can assure that i am not. i’ve tried to figure it out for years. i do way too much for people. I have had to take therapy to learn how to care about myself and how to stop being a pushover. When people are horrible to me to my face i can not stand up for myself and i don’t and for some reason i show them love and kindness and if i don’t i feel immense guilt; it’s torture and heartbreaking. i have moved 4 states to retry different tactics on forming better relationships with women and it’s all the same. For a long time i have felt like im cursed. i don’t have parents, i think the curse happened before i was born if that is the case, or maybe i really am paying for a past life’s sins
anyways someone please help me love y’all i’m sorry for this
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I need a true to heart protection spell or ritual.
if you care about the reason feel free to read below or if your just want to put a protection spell, ritual, or advice in comments please do … Ever since I can remember I have had literal deathly bad luck, to the point people that aren’t superstitious notice it and say something to me about it. For example, a recent event is i bought a new car and within a month it’s totaled and i also crushed a bit of my spine. When i was able to walk and go to work i used my boyfriends car and that night i hit a deer and ruined the front end. things like this are constantly happening to me.
Also, my biggest problem in life is that women from the bottom of their hearts hate me. Including all women caregivers/family members i’ve ever had. it’s making being able to keep jobs or a relationship impossible. it’s making life impossible. its making me a terrible person. i love women and do not want to live in a world where i hate them. It’s literally supernatural; like every job, class, friends of friends and family members. it’s like something primitive in their soul locks in on me and they spend their time thinking of ways to destroy my life. When im in any room with a woman i can literally feel their gaze and negative energy projecting onto me, physically. I would post a picture of myself attached to this post but i’m worried you’ll feel it too lol and then i won’t get any real answers or help. I know you’re thinking “maybe you’re just a bitch”..”maybe you’re just abrasive and don’t realize it” “maybe you’re not self aware enough” “there’s no way you’re not the problem” “you’re probably full of yourself” i swear i can assure that i am not. i’ve tried to figure it out for years. i do way too much for people. I have had to take therapy to learn how to care about myself and how to stop being a pushover. When people are horrible to me to my face i can not stand up for myself and i don’t and for some reason i show them love and kindness and if i don’t i feel immense guilt; it’s torture and heartbreaking. i have moved 4 states to retry different tactics on forming better relationships with women and it’s all the same. For a long time i have felt like im cursed. i don’t have parents, i think the curse happened before i was born if that is the case, or maybe i really am paying for a past life’s sins
anyways someone please help me love y’all i’m sorry for this
2023.06.03 07:11 Kreanxx What I felt after watching edgerunners
I originally posted this on cyberpunkgame about half a year ago and I wanted to post this on its sister subreddit and see/read what you guys think.
Aside from the normal things to feel, sad, empty, bittersweet and others one thing I felt was rage and hate. Not just at people like Adam smasher, that douche classmate, and the miltech fixer but like Johnny silverhand, hating night city and every inch of it, every breath of corrupted air that makes up the atmosphere of the cesspit we call night city. A city where loyalty means nothing, even if you are part of a large corporation. Best friends can become bitter enemies because someone offered a better deal. Corruption and decadence reek across every street people wanting to escape the concrete hell with bd’s, drugs and other things. But sometimes it’s better to reign in hell then serve in heaven and that is what makes night city so despicable people want to climb to the top of an ever increasing pyramid built on the corpse and slaves of those who couldn’t make it, of those who can’t, of those who are too poor and those who sacrifice themselves to an ever increasing alter. But under this hell was a good intentioned project. An oasis from the coming financial crash but after the corporations got control from a mafia, they were free to act and govern as they saw fit. But the biggest parasite that was spreading this sickness was arasaka tower watching over a city they were digging their claws in. And when the parasite was destroyed by a nuclear bomb, it was too late the disease had spread to every brick, every watt of electricity, every breath of night city so what do you do? Try to cure a city beyond saving or do what god should’ve done a second time and destroy this city until it’s little more than a crater and a testament to what the world has become, a world of greed and a ravenous hunger for more and more when the world can provide less and less and that hunger will devour all including souls, thoughts, ones own memories and personality. And so much more.
Well now you had a chance read my rant on how watching a 10 episode anime lead to me sympathizing with a literal terrorist and how using a fucking nuke wasn’t enough. I guess I wanna hear your thoughts on this rant and how the show made you feel.
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Aside from the normal things to feel, sad, empty, bittersweet and others one thing I felt was rage and hate. Not just at people like Adam smasher, that douche classmate, and the miltech fixer but like Johnny silverhand, hating night city and every inch of it, every breath of corrupted air that makes up the atmosphere of the cesspit we call night city. A city where loyalty means nothing, even if you are part of a large corporation. Best friends can become bitter enemies because someone offered a better deal. Corruption and decadence reek across every street people wanting to escape the concrete hell with bd’s, drugs and other things. But sometimes it’s better to reign in hell then serve in heaven and that is what makes night city so despicable people want to climb to the top of an ever increasing pyramid built on the corpse and slaves of those who couldn’t make it, of those who can’t, of those who are too poor and those who sacrifice themselves to an ever increasing alter. But under this hell was a good intentioned project. An oasis from the coming financial crash but after the corporations got control from a mafia, they were free to act and govern as they saw fit. But the biggest parasite that was spreading this sickness was arasaka tower watching over a city they were digging their claws in. And when the parasite was destroyed by a nuclear bomb, it was too late the disease had spread to every brick, every watt of electricity, every breath of night city so what do you do? Try to cure a city beyond saving or do what god should’ve done a second time and destroy this city until it’s little more than a crater and a testament to what the world has become, a world of greed and a ravenous hunger for more and more when the world can provide less and less and that hunger will devour all including souls, thoughts, ones own memories and personality. And so much more.
Well now you had a chance read my rant on how watching a 10 episode anime lead to me sympathizing with a literal terrorist and how using a fucking nuke wasn’t enough. I guess I wanna hear your thoughts on this rant and how the show made you feel.
2023.06.03 07:07 ChipsAhoiMcCoy Blind Accessibility?
Hey all!
I had heard that this game as going to have very nice blind accessibility, becuase in the beat there were some fantastic features like native third party screen reader support, which has me absolutely stoked to play this game. I have been blind for the last two years, since a genetic eye disability finally took my last ounce of vision I had left, and I have really eben itching to play an ARPG again to kill some demons.
My question is, is it just the screen reader support they have? And have they also made any improvements to this feature at all? I had heard previously two months ago that during the beta there were some issues with the screen reader not being the most accurate thing in the world, and that there was still no pathfinding or traversal assistance for blind users, but has that changed at all? Specifically interested in the traversal assistance type stuff, becuase I still won't necessarily be able to play if I can't navigate, ya know?
Thanks! So damn excited, I hope blizzard nails accessibility. THis would be the first game I have beaten in a very long time if that's the case. Please blizzard, please. <3 <3 <3
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I had heard that this game as going to have very nice blind accessibility, becuase in the beat there were some fantastic features like native third party screen reader support, which has me absolutely stoked to play this game. I have been blind for the last two years, since a genetic eye disability finally took my last ounce of vision I had left, and I have really eben itching to play an ARPG again to kill some demons.
My question is, is it just the screen reader support they have? And have they also made any improvements to this feature at all? I had heard previously two months ago that during the beta there were some issues with the screen reader not being the most accurate thing in the world, and that there was still no pathfinding or traversal assistance for blind users, but has that changed at all? Specifically interested in the traversal assistance type stuff, becuase I still won't necessarily be able to play if I can't navigate, ya know?
Thanks! So damn excited, I hope blizzard nails accessibility. THis would be the first game I have beaten in a very long time if that's the case. Please blizzard, please. <3 <3 <3
2023.06.03 07:06 ButteronmyToast789 AITAH for ghosting my childhood bestfriend
I (20F) have been friends with my childhood best friend (21F) since we were probably about 4 or 5 years old. We lived down the street from each other until my family and I moved out of that neighborhood when I was 16. We still went to high school together and once we graduated we got even closer. She has always had the tendency to be late to things, even growing up. She is never on time and when I volunteer to pick her up for our plans, I either wait in her driveway for minimum 30 minutes waiting for her to be done or if I go inside she’s still getting dressed and it takes sometimes an hour to leave. I should probably mention one of my biggest pet peeves is people being late and having to wait on them. I constantly let HER choose the time of our plans and do what SHE wants to do so I can work around her schedule in hopes she can be ready on time. Nope! She can never be on time for anything. I find this so rude and it’s like she doesn’t have any respect for what my schedule is and for my time. There have been multiple instances where I’m waiting almost an hour in the parking lot of a restaurant for her to meet me there. There was one instance where she was living out of state for some time and came back home to visit. She was supposed to be at my house for brunch at 11 so we could catch up and I called her at 11:30 to see where she was and she was at some guys place she hooked up with the previous night and then proceeded to tell me all about that despite being already 30 minutes late. That day I ended up being furious at her because the guys house was 30 minutes from her house and then she still had to shower and get ready and I was not waiting on her any longer and told her I didn’t want to hangout anymore.
Another thing is she has a tendency to steal from any store we go to. One of my last straws was when I asked her about a month ago to go to target with me. She said yes. I replied that I only wanted to go with her if she promised me she wouldn’t steal anything as the people at this target know me (and a family member of mine also works there) and if she got caught with me there, they would think I steal too and I don’t want that reputation at a place I go to often. She promised me she wouldn’t steal and so we went to target together. She was looking at face products and was looking at this very small bottle of something and said “I’d just slip this up my sleeve if you weren’t here ugh” and then I just brushed it off like she didn’t say anything. Then we get to my car afterwards and she pulls things out of her purse and pockets and showed me everything she took. She promised me she wouldn’t do that with me and she still did it, and made sly comments along the way. I didn’t appreciate that at all.
Long story short, I haven’t reached out to her and I haven’t really entertained the idea of us hanging out again due to all of these reasons but a part of me feels kind of bad since she’s been a lifetime friend and she tries to make plans here and there and I kind of ignore her because I don’t know how to tell her the things she does irritate my soul. AITAH? And if so, how do I fix this? And should I?
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Another thing is she has a tendency to steal from any store we go to. One of my last straws was when I asked her about a month ago to go to target with me. She said yes. I replied that I only wanted to go with her if she promised me she wouldn’t steal anything as the people at this target know me (and a family member of mine also works there) and if she got caught with me there, they would think I steal too and I don’t want that reputation at a place I go to often. She promised me she wouldn’t steal and so we went to target together. She was looking at face products and was looking at this very small bottle of something and said “I’d just slip this up my sleeve if you weren’t here ugh” and then I just brushed it off like she didn’t say anything. Then we get to my car afterwards and she pulls things out of her purse and pockets and showed me everything she took. She promised me she wouldn’t do that with me and she still did it, and made sly comments along the way. I didn’t appreciate that at all.
Long story short, I haven’t reached out to her and I haven’t really entertained the idea of us hanging out again due to all of these reasons but a part of me feels kind of bad since she’s been a lifetime friend and she tries to make plans here and there and I kind of ignore her because I don’t know how to tell her the things she does irritate my soul. AITAH? And if so, how do I fix this? And should I?
2023.06.03 07:04 EPluribusOctopus [WTS] Mido Ocean Star Decompression World Timer, Black/Orange dial, Like New w/ Full Kit
![[WTS] Mido Ocean Star Decompression World Timer, Black/Orange dial, Like New w/ Full Kit](https://external-preview.redd.it/rXFi57b-unBAFHuB5lIDKqB-FmLgvn0aUkkS7Joskak.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7de86a4635fb0ad86c98029f1786e3aead75af84 "[WTS] Mido Ocean Star Decompression World Timer, Black/Orange dial, Like New w/ Full Kit") | submitted by EPluribusOctopus to Watchexchange [link] [comments] |
2023.06.03 07:04 beardlesshipster Daily Song Discussion #63: Holy Holy
This is a song recorded after the Man Who Sold the World sessions. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? What’s your favorite live performance of the song? How would you rank it among the rest of the band’s discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?
Studio version
SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4: Not good. Regularly skip. 5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it. 6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on. 7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit. 8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall. 10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.
Rating Results 1. The Width of a Circle: 2. All the Madmen: 3. Black Country Rock: 4. After All: 5. Running Gun Blues: 6. Saviour Machine: 7. She Shook Me Cold: 8. The Man Who Sold the World: 9. The Supermen: — 10. Holy Holy:
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Studio version
SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4: Not good. Regularly skip. 5: It’s okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it. 6: Slightly better than average. I won’t skip it, but I wouldn’t choose to put it on. 7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit. 8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall. 10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, or similar terminology.
Rating Results 1. The Width of a Circle: 2. All the Madmen: 3. Black Country Rock: 4. After All: 5. Running Gun Blues: 6. Saviour Machine: 7. She Shook Me Cold: 8. The Man Who Sold the World: 9. The Supermen: — 10. Holy Holy:
2023.06.03 06:59 Askdevin777 All Full HD images used in GIF of last post
((masterpiece)), ((Perfect anatomy)), girl in demon slayer uniform, perfectly wielding Katana, bright red blood trail from sword, glowing red/black Demon themed armor, looking at viewer, (prompt here varied depending on frame needed), action shot, Torn long black cloak flowing from her back, Demon Slayer Kimetsu no yaiba, cinematic camera angle, dramatic lighting, red sakura forest background, red blood drops swirling around girl, elegant arrogant expression,
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2023.06.03 06:54 Askdevin777 Attempt #2 of AI images to Animation/Gif, Demon Slayer, Blood Hashira
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2023.06.03 06:51 StarAdInf The powers of a certain someone (Spoilers chapter 1085+)
I think this chapter may have given us some hints about Imu's true powers from that dark arrow he/she shot . I can also understand why some people would think that the arrow is a tail , but if you look closely in those panels where cobra and sabo got attacked by it , you can see that the arrow is not attached to anything or anyone and it's cut on the opposite side of it's head just like an arrow , it also looks like it's coming out from unexpected angles , this could be due to Imu controlling the darkness of a certain place to conjure that arrow and than he/she shoots it from those places.
so if Oda is not just drawing that arrow in black just to conceal it and that arrow is truly dark in color , and if Imu truly has the powers to manipulate darkness to conjure attacks such as that arrow , then this could be an interesting topic to talk about...
so what if instead of Blackbeard , Imu is the person who has the true darkness that is capable of swallowing anything into nothingness ?
first of all , let's talk about a parallel that has been made in the story that can explain to a certain degree this idea of 'true darkness' that i said.
in chapter 441 , Ace's final attack against Blackbeard and Blackbeard's final words were interesting. here's that panel:
https://preview.redd.it/0195qyus9q3b1.png?width=536&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a6fcb0f2cd63b6e65b8a1017f2dc7cab071006e
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when Ace created that huge sphere of fire that resembles a sun , Blackbeard said that "between the sun and darkness , only one will win". you could of course take this in a more literal way , but you could also take it in a more figurative way , like the sun and darkness that was talked about here is the representation of the good and evil , Blackbeard also said in the same chapter that the powers of darkness are said to be the most evil in the history of devil fruits . so it's not far fetched to assume that the darkness talked about here represents the 'evil' , and the sun represents the 'good' .
at the end , we know that Ace wasn't the true reprentation of the Sun ,and it was Luffy who was the true representation of that concept as he was the sun god himself , so in a sense , the final struggle/battle between the sun and darkness , or between the good and evil will be with Luffy and Blackbeard because not only Blackbeard has the darkness devil fuit , but he's also opposite to Luffy in many ways , as seen in their first meeting in jaya and in many places... but is that really the case ? will Blackbeard truly be the final evil/darkness that luffy needs to defeat at the end ? i think there is a high chance that he will not be that person, but he's definitely going to be a major obstacle in luffy's way and possibly even he's final pirate enemy , but he probably will not be the final villain of the entire series because the final conflict was not meant to be against another pirate or between two 'D' clan members , but it was always meant to be against the WG and celestial dragons , let me expand further on this...there is a point that has been brought up by Imu in this recent chapter and that we already know of . Imu said that 'D' is the moniker of their ancient enemy . this means that Luffy will have to face him/her at some point in the story because not only he's a carrier of this will and that makes him by default an enemy of Imu , but he's also going to be the most trouboulseme person from this clan by the end of the story , on the other hand , i really can't see the final conflict in the story being the fight between Luffy vs Blackbeard because even though Blackbeard is evil , he's still carries the will of 'D' and he's still more of an enemy to the WG than he is to Luffy , even Imu had he's picture cut up next to Luffy's wanted poster . the final fight was always meant to be between the people who took over the world , the WG and the celestiel dragon and between the person who is going to find the One piece and change the world , it was never meant to be between two D clan members or even more less against someone like Blackbeard who whitebeard himself said that he was not the person that Roger was waiting for . the final conflict and the final battle was already set in stone long ago and it's between the man that Roger, Joyboy and the ancient kingdom was waiting for . Luffy , and the people that took over the world . the celestial dragons , world government and Imu . this was always the core of the story.
also , as far as we know , Blackbeard just has the logia powers of dakrness just like how ace had the logia powers of fire , and just like how the powers of ace were just superficial powers and not the true powers of the sun , Blackbeard's powers could also be just superficial and far from the real deal, and like how ace wasn't the true representation of the sun , Blackbeard may not be the true representation of darkness , instead , Imu could be that person . not only he/she has a high chance of being the final villain , but he/she also has powers like the darkness devil fruit as seen from that dark arrow , and just like Luffy who has the sun god mythical devil fruit , Imu could also have a darkness god mythical devil fruit , or he/she could directly be that diety of darkness , and just like Luffy who is the true representative of the sun , Aka the good . Imu could be the true representative of the darkness , Aka evil .
also , just because they are the sun/darkness it doesn't necessarily mean they both need to have just powers of fire and darkness in their arsenals (although Luffy does have some attacks that uses fire like red hawk or red roc , and Imu used something similar to darkness powers with that black arrow) , but the core of their powers at the end will be more figurative than literal , as i said before , the "sun vs darkness" / the "good vs evil" . their powers will be on a higher plane than materialistic stuff like the logias of darkness and fire , but on a more mythical/celestial plane , like for example the powers of the infinite imagination of the sun god . Imu could have something similar to this .
so at he end , Imu will be the darkness that wants to swallow the world (he already partially achieved that btw) , and a being called the god of darkness or something similar to that , Luffy on the other hand will be the sun that tries to illuminate the darkness and bring upon the "dawn of the world" that was talked about in the previous chapters and the recent one . the sun god.
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so if Oda is not just drawing that arrow in black just to conceal it and that arrow is truly dark in color , and if Imu truly has the powers to manipulate darkness to conjure attacks such as that arrow , then this could be an interesting topic to talk about...
so what if instead of Blackbeard , Imu is the person who has the true darkness that is capable of swallowing anything into nothingness ?
first of all , let's talk about a parallel that has been made in the story that can explain to a certain degree this idea of 'true darkness' that i said.
in chapter 441 , Ace's final attack against Blackbeard and Blackbeard's final words were interesting. here's that panel:
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when Ace created that huge sphere of fire that resembles a sun , Blackbeard said that "between the sun and darkness , only one will win". you could of course take this in a more literal way , but you could also take it in a more figurative way , like the sun and darkness that was talked about here is the representation of the good and evil , Blackbeard also said in the same chapter that the powers of darkness are said to be the most evil in the history of devil fruits . so it's not far fetched to assume that the darkness talked about here represents the 'evil' , and the sun represents the 'good' .
at the end , we know that Ace wasn't the true reprentation of the Sun ,and it was Luffy who was the true representation of that concept as he was the sun god himself , so in a sense , the final struggle/battle between the sun and darkness , or between the good and evil will be with Luffy and Blackbeard because not only Blackbeard has the darkness devil fuit , but he's also opposite to Luffy in many ways , as seen in their first meeting in jaya and in many places... but is that really the case ? will Blackbeard truly be the final evil/darkness that luffy needs to defeat at the end ? i think there is a high chance that he will not be that person, but he's definitely going to be a major obstacle in luffy's way and possibly even he's final pirate enemy , but he probably will not be the final villain of the entire series because the final conflict was not meant to be against another pirate or between two 'D' clan members , but it was always meant to be against the WG and celestial dragons , let me expand further on this...there is a point that has been brought up by Imu in this recent chapter and that we already know of . Imu said that 'D' is the moniker of their ancient enemy . this means that Luffy will have to face him/her at some point in the story because not only he's a carrier of this will and that makes him by default an enemy of Imu , but he's also going to be the most trouboulseme person from this clan by the end of the story , on the other hand , i really can't see the final conflict in the story being the fight between Luffy vs Blackbeard because even though Blackbeard is evil , he's still carries the will of 'D' and he's still more of an enemy to the WG than he is to Luffy , even Imu had he's picture cut up next to Luffy's wanted poster . the final fight was always meant to be between the people who took over the world , the WG and the celestiel dragon and between the person who is going to find the One piece and change the world , it was never meant to be between two D clan members or even more less against someone like Blackbeard who whitebeard himself said that he was not the person that Roger was waiting for . the final conflict and the final battle was already set in stone long ago and it's between the man that Roger, Joyboy and the ancient kingdom was waiting for . Luffy , and the people that took over the world . the celestial dragons , world government and Imu . this was always the core of the story.
also , as far as we know , Blackbeard just has the logia powers of dakrness just like how ace had the logia powers of fire , and just like how the powers of ace were just superficial powers and not the true powers of the sun , Blackbeard's powers could also be just superficial and far from the real deal, and like how ace wasn't the true representation of the sun , Blackbeard may not be the true representation of darkness , instead , Imu could be that person . not only he/she has a high chance of being the final villain , but he/she also has powers like the darkness devil fruit as seen from that dark arrow , and just like Luffy who has the sun god mythical devil fruit , Imu could also have a darkness god mythical devil fruit , or he/she could directly be that diety of darkness , and just like Luffy who is the true representative of the sun , Aka the good . Imu could be the true representative of the darkness , Aka evil .
also , just because they are the sun/darkness it doesn't necessarily mean they both need to have just powers of fire and darkness in their arsenals (although Luffy does have some attacks that uses fire like red hawk or red roc , and Imu used something similar to darkness powers with that black arrow) , but the core of their powers at the end will be more figurative than literal , as i said before , the "sun vs darkness" / the "good vs evil" . their powers will be on a higher plane than materialistic stuff like the logias of darkness and fire , but on a more mythical/celestial plane , like for example the powers of the infinite imagination of the sun god . Imu could have something similar to this .
so at he end , Imu will be the darkness that wants to swallow the world (he already partially achieved that btw) , and a being called the god of darkness or something similar to that , Luffy on the other hand will be the sun that tries to illuminate the darkness and bring upon the "dawn of the world" that was talked about in the previous chapters and the recent one . the sun god.
2023.06.03 06:51 Sudden_Humor Sora Unchained examined (from the old Goddess Project site)
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Sora Unchained Examined to Unconsciable levels.
Part one of an as yet unknown number of posts listing assorted triva, observations, and other neat stuff from the Sora Unchained arc. I've been going back over my old posts on this series and collecting whatever I'd said about the stories while waiting for others to get their copies. Now I'm going to post them in chapter order along with whatever else I might have on that chapter. If anyone else wants to contribute, feel free. Afterwards I'm going to consolidate these posts into one article and post it for general information. If this works out well maybe I'll go back and do this for some of the other arcs.
Sora Unchained arc - Dark Horse Trade Paperback number 19/20 Issued Jan. 2005, To be Reissued Feb. 2012 Kodansha Tankouban Vol. 19 and 20
Part 1 - I Choose You, Sora. Dark Horse issue 105, Feb. 2004 release Let's Decide The New Chief Kodansha chapt. 119, July 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
Sora Hasegawa, closet debutant.
The cover illustration shows Sora wearing a "Lolita, Clash, Lolita Lempic... , Paris" shirt. While I'm still looking for details (My daughter seems to recall a punk/SKA group called Lolita Clash) it seems more likely this is a reference to a fancy french perfume label "Lolita Lempicka". It seems to be a fairly high end brand of fragrences with VERY fancy bottles. Further information is desired.
The idea of cheating when drawing lots is a common theme in manga and anime. It's been pointed out on other sites that Tamiya and Otaki are shown setting up poor clueless Keiichi to win the drawing for who gets to be the driver in the OAV's motorcycle contest, and cheating on such selection processes has been used in story plots in Sailormoon and Maison Ikkoku.
There are several ways this supposedly random drawing can be rigged, mostly by whoever sets up the lots in the first place. Hence the comments by the club members about irregularities by Sora's promoters and Keiichi's comeback line of "is this the face of a cheater?!" (Belldandy wouldn't cheat if life itself depended on it. She'd just be sure the right decision would come about.)
The untranslated names of the club members on the bottom of the Choosing Maze are Mitsuwa, Ishii, Hasegawa, Chikafuji, and Kawada. Exactly which name goes with which member other than Sora hasn't been firmly established, but I believe the one with the mustach is Kawada (kon) Suzuki (dou) and the large gentleman is Watanabe (based on wild speculation using information from the Hill Climb Motorcycle and Singing Contest stories). Exactly how this maze game works to select someone is something I'd love to learn, anyone know?
(Addendum - see next post)
Part 2 - The Shortcut To Winning. Dark Horse issue 106, Mar. 2004 release The Way Of Competition Kodansha chapt. 120, Aug. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
The Racing Board shown is a real item. I found an advertisment and website for a Tanaka Paveracer, 40cc power cart that looks remarkably like the ones in the story.
The little creature Belldandy is using is called an Airbug Spiralee. It will be appearing in later chapters. Why Dark Horse felt the need to put an "and" in the name here is unknown.
A most important developement in this story is how a running theme that has existed throughout the series is made absolutely clear here. It wasn't really obvious at first, but a character trait BOTH Belldandy and Keiichi share is that they are gung-ho competitors and nothing makes them happier than squaring off against a new opponent. In the past, their pleasure in such competitions has been clouded by outside circumstances or unhappy results if they lose, but both Bell and Keiichi love a pure challenge they can devote themselves to totally. (This is first mentioned by Bell in the Anime Otoku story.)
This wasn't very clearly shown earlier in the manga, and many stories even made it seem as if Belldandy was rather timid about taking risks. (I know I thought that at first, and from the older posts on the subject I wasn't the only one.) That's why her occasional outbursts of excessive force or effort seemed so out of character. Actually, she's an all or nothing sort of competitor, who is just very choosy about what she decides to get involved in. Normally she tries not to upset things or push herself into situations, but when she decides to go for it (or she feels she's forced to), look out! This aspect of Bell's personality will become more noticable in the manga stories from here on, and if you go back and review the older stories I think you'll see what I mean.
Part 3 - The Director's Curse. Dark Horse issue 107, April 2004 release The Cursed Chief Kodansha chapt. 121, Sept. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
If you didn't notice, Sora is still steering the racing board while riding tandem with Belldandy.
Belldandy HAS driven a go-cart before. She learned by copying Diana Lockheed's moves while racing her back in Winner Take All. However, this race WAS before Chihiro and the other current club members had joined the story.
This is also one of the story arcs where her competitive nature starts showing. (Observe her efforts to win in the races, fight off the sleep demon, and how she can ignore K-1's behavior without embarassment in order to get back on track.)
And for those of you following the TV anime, the next part of the arc (What A Miracle) is where we first see Tamiya in his cheerleader outfit.
It's interesting how Sora never questions just how Belldandy has such an accurate inventory of the interesting wildlife in the area in her head. (Especially as the animals in question would be in motion and not likely to be in the same places day after day. Well maybe the owl would, but otherwise how could a normal person know all those detail with such certainty?) Of course it is Bell saying it, and Sora was distracted.
Still its fun noticing how people just accept what Belldandy tells them without worrying about how she might know such things. (P. S. The Japanese text is just slightly less specific as to the racoons and owls locations, but more specific as to where the starlings are.)
Part 4 - Special Training Dark Horse issue 108, May 2004 release Crash Course Continues Kodansha chapt. 122, Oct. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
The most fascinating aspect of this story is that it shows a 180 turnabout on the part of Bell's sisters. Skuld is going off on a rant about how Belldandy and Keiichi should always be together (at least as far as racing's concerned) , while Urd is saying (at least publically) that it's okay for them to do things apart.
We also haven't seen Skuld do the "PBTTT!" bit for awhile.
I try to not take sides in translation conflicts. I cannot speak or read any Japanese so I don't feel qualified to judge who's version is correct. (I do feel qualified to compare different versions however.) In this story however there are two places where the Dark Horse and independent translations differ in ways that I felt should be pointed out.
In the Japanese version, Keiichi is commenting on how Skuld and Urd are such sisters rather than Belldandy and Skuld.
More importantly, there's a joke in the sequence where the club members are preparing for Sora's next attempt to drive through them that Dark Horse left out. In the panel where the club member in the bandana is standing in front of the really large member, in the English version the smaller member is thinking, "Am I fast enough to dive for cover?" The Japanese version goes more like, "If I have to, I'll hide behind him... " That's what the arrow that Dark Horse left between them is refering to, and if they decided to remove the joke they should have removed the arrow.
Part 5 - Drive Dark Horse issue 109, June 2004 release Everybody Races Kodansha chapt. 123, Nov. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
Not much trivia to report in this story.
The biggest discussion point here is how Dark Horse reinterpreted Keiichi's comments while he's practicing with Sora and what he and Belldandy say to each other that night in the temple garden. The Japanese text doesn't have him actually challanging Sora to follow him or making statements to Belldandy later that he thought he might have been considered as helping Sora. However, the drawings do seem to be depicting him doing just that, so in this case I think the Dark Horse/Studio Proteus version is closer to what Mr. Fujishima intended.
Part 6 - Miles and Miles Dark Horse issue 110, July 2004 release Keiichi's Distance, Hasegawa's Distance Kodansha chapt. 124, Dec. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 20
Those stamps Tamiya, Otaki, and later Chihiro, are using at their check points are their signature stamps. The letters printed by them are their names.
Keiichi DOES have a Check Point list, his senpais are just choosing to stamp his face to aggravate him.
As a bit of speculation on my part, I'm sure you've noticed how Tamiya and Otaki put on hapi coats with the Whirlwind logos on them after they've stamped both Keiichi and Sora (so Sora and K-1 won't see them wearing them). Such coats are a form of advertising used by shops and worn by people employed by the shop to do things in public places. One of these things is handing out flyers and brochures at special events, which is what I think Chihiro is having them do for her after the racers have passed. More on this in the last story.
Part 7 - The Race Gets Hot, A Goddess Gets Hotter! Dark Horse issue 111, Aug. 2004 release The Race Begins! Goddess Acts Too! Kodansha chapt. 125, Jan. 1999 release Kodansha chapt. 126, Feb. 1999 release Tankouban Vol. 20
One can only wonder how Keiichi heard them tell Sora she might have to pay a toll.
As has been pointed out by many sources, the poster next to the locker room door for the sea slug society is the same poster found on the bulletin board next to the NIT-MCC recruiting poster put up by Keiichi in the movie. I believe this is the first example of a movie reference in the manga.
Urd and Skuld's assistance to Keiichi is interesting for a number of points, not the least of which is that it shows Skuld as probably being able to teleport and levitate the same as Urd. (She seems to have gotten there on her own, and later disappears behind her smoke cloud cover. It doesn't seem like she just ran away and does wind up in the tree with Urd. Now Urd may have been providing transport for both of them, but judging from their conversation I can't see them cooperating to that degree.
They both seem to feel they have a duty to help Keiichi, like he was family. Or to score points with Belldandy. Either way, Keiichi is now an insider in their world view.
The Freaky Potion - Stupid New Machine rivalry is finally firmly established.
Urd establishes the use of a kiss (first seen in the movie) as a method of passing on a spell to someone.
The car next to Belldandy in the parking lot where she's waiting for the race to end is a Caterham Super 7, the same car driven by Sena Wakabayyashi, Ken Nakajima's stepmother in You're Under Arrest. This is the first guest crossover between the two series that I'm aware of.
The conversation between Belldandy and the club members actual marks the end of Kodansha's chapter 125. Chapter 126 starts with the aftermath of Urd's kiss and Skuld's indignation at it. Chapter 126 is then split between Dark Horse issue 111 and 112.
For those (very) few readers who didn't get it, Keiichi is making steam train sounds (chuffa-chuffa! Whoo-woo!)
The trash stalls Keiichi lands in (marked flammable and non-flammable) is a recyling station. Wood and paper goes in the flammable side, plastics and metals are in the non-flammable side. Keiichi crashed in the side with the harder, sharper objects.
911 is not an emergency number in Japan. What Sora is refering to in the Japanese text are emergency procedure numbers in the community disaster response handbook. (There are guideline procedures for fires, floods, earthquakes, car crashes, injuries, heart attacks, etc.)
When Keiichi drives off the ledge and crashes into the recycling bin, he's saved from serious injury by Holy Bell spinning an air cushion for him to land on. But why was she there to save him in the first place? Belldandy is at the finish line in the parking lot, talking to the other club members and waiting for the race to finish, and Holy Bell should be with her. Unless . . .
Maybe Belldandy had already split off a copy of herself at the start of the race and had been keeping an eye on Keiichi, just in case. (The rules of competition are sacred, but she also has a prior commitment to take care of Keiichi.) Which is why she was in a position to dispatch Holy Bell just in time to save him. And also how she knew instantly that Urd had put a spell on Keiichi.
Which would mean she might also have known about Urd kissing Keiichi, but had dismissed it as just the method Urd used to get the spell into him. (So it was probably a good thing K-1 didn't finish saying "incredible kiss". Bell might have reconsidered just how harmless it was and gotten a little jealous.)
As an additional observation, I don't think that angels can be multipled, only the goddesses. As a seperate entity the angel would need to copied seperately and giving each mini-goddess their own angel would be just a bit too much power out there. Rather, I think its more likely that the angel can manifest itself through any one of the copies as needed. Thus, if mini-Bell needs Holy Bell to save Keiichi, she can summon her, but then Bell back at the parking lot cannot while mini-Bell is using her at the recycling center.
Part 8 - The Best Magic Dark Horse issue 112, Sept. 2004 release Aberrant Kiss The Strongest Magic Kodansha chapt. 126, Feb. 1999 release Kodansha chapt. 127, Mar. 1999 release Tankouban Vol. 20
Dark Horse issue 112 contains both Kodansha chapter 126 and 127 Chapter 126 is split between Dark Horse issue 111 and 112. Chapter 126 ends after Belldandy leaves Keiichi to fix his racing board and continue the race.
It was fitting that Dark Horse would celebrate its long established habit of recombining Kodansha manga chapters with its last two comic book issue releases.
When Belldandy and Holy Bell leave Keiichi after he wakes up, they transport themselves through a piece of chromed metal (a mirrored surface).
So Keiichi re-invents the motorized skate board with just the items in his pockets. Now that's a mechanic! I wonder if Mr. Fujishima wanted a chance to do a skateboard montage without making it look like that was what he wanted to do.
It's interesting to note that since the sign says "NO BIKES OR CYCLES" Keiichi is not actually breaking any rules since what he's riding doesn't fit either of those catagories.
As is revealed at the end of this story, a hidden sub-plot of this arc was how mercantile Chihiro can be. Her plot to use the Motor Club's race as an advertising stunt to sell the racing boards is foreshadowed by the scene in the first part of the story where we see how fast Chihiro can put on her "Salesperson Face" and Keiichi's comments on how she can "Turn It On." Later there are hints that she's doing something on her own behind the scenes, then we see she's got Tamiya and Otaki in Whirlwind coats at the check points, but doesn't want Keiichi or Sora to see the coats. Finally, at the end we discover they've been handing out sales brochures, that the race had been advertised as a sales stunt, and that Chihiro has already made a sign exploiting Keiichi's emergency conversion to a motorized skateboard as a sales feature.
This doesn't mean she wasn't honestly trying to help Sora and the NIT-MCC resolve their leadership crisis. It's quite obvious she was. It's just that its also being shown that she's not above using this as an opportunity to further her own mercantile efforts as well.
Kurthy133 Question and Answer
Tim, since you had some speculations about the cover illustration involving Sora's shirt in Part One of the Sora Unchained arc, I was wondering if you had any ideas about Bell's shirt in the cover illustartion of Part Two (39 hat and all.) It is much harder to read, but I figured that if anyone might know, it would be you!
While there might be some significance to the 39, I'm not aware of any. In general what she's wearing seems to be a fairly typical example of race crew wear.
In almost any motorized vehicle race (and many others as well) in Japan where there's enough money available for such things, the support team for a racer is dressed in similar, stylized, color coordinated, semi-casual clothes, often with the name of the sport, the racer's name or number, and the event or team's sponsers on them. (This is common for most professional sports around the world.)
What Belldandy is wearing seems pretty close to what other manga and anime characters I've seen wear at such events (including in the earlier AMG manga and OAV stories.) The board is a lap board where the driver's time is recorded for each lap and held up so the drivers can see how they're doing, Whatever that logo on the shoes is, it's probably a parody of some real sneaker label. And the visible lettering on her sleeve starts with a "G" and ends with "RT", the rest being to my eyes unreadable. While in no way defendable, I'd guess it reads "Go-Cart".
Now, did you notice that Belldandy seems to be wearing the same shirt while sitting on the motorcycle two stories later? The printing on the sleeve is either missing or not visible, but the shirt back has what appears to be "Team Hasagawa" printed on it.
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Sora Unchained Examined to Unconsciable levels.
Part one of an as yet unknown number of posts listing assorted triva, observations, and other neat stuff from the Sora Unchained arc. I've been going back over my old posts on this series and collecting whatever I'd said about the stories while waiting for others to get their copies. Now I'm going to post them in chapter order along with whatever else I might have on that chapter. If anyone else wants to contribute, feel free. Afterwards I'm going to consolidate these posts into one article and post it for general information. If this works out well maybe I'll go back and do this for some of the other arcs.
Sora Unchained arc - Dark Horse Trade Paperback number 19/20 Issued Jan. 2005, To be Reissued Feb. 2012 Kodansha Tankouban Vol. 19 and 20
Part 1 - I Choose You, Sora. Dark Horse issue 105, Feb. 2004 release Let's Decide The New Chief Kodansha chapt. 119, July 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
Sora Hasegawa, closet debutant.
The cover illustration shows Sora wearing a "Lolita, Clash, Lolita Lempic... , Paris" shirt. While I'm still looking for details (My daughter seems to recall a punk/SKA group called Lolita Clash) it seems more likely this is a reference to a fancy french perfume label "Lolita Lempicka". It seems to be a fairly high end brand of fragrences with VERY fancy bottles. Further information is desired.
The idea of cheating when drawing lots is a common theme in manga and anime. It's been pointed out on other sites that Tamiya and Otaki are shown setting up poor clueless Keiichi to win the drawing for who gets to be the driver in the OAV's motorcycle contest, and cheating on such selection processes has been used in story plots in Sailormoon and Maison Ikkoku.
There are several ways this supposedly random drawing can be rigged, mostly by whoever sets up the lots in the first place. Hence the comments by the club members about irregularities by Sora's promoters and Keiichi's comeback line of "is this the face of a cheater?!" (Belldandy wouldn't cheat if life itself depended on it. She'd just be sure the right decision would come about.)
The untranslated names of the club members on the bottom of the Choosing Maze are Mitsuwa, Ishii, Hasegawa, Chikafuji, and Kawada. Exactly which name goes with which member other than Sora hasn't been firmly established, but I believe the one with the mustach is Kawada (kon) Suzuki (dou) and the large gentleman is Watanabe (based on wild speculation using information from the Hill Climb Motorcycle and Singing Contest stories). Exactly how this maze game works to select someone is something I'd love to learn, anyone know?
(Addendum - see next post)
Part 2 - The Shortcut To Winning. Dark Horse issue 106, Mar. 2004 release The Way Of Competition Kodansha chapt. 120, Aug. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
The Racing Board shown is a real item. I found an advertisment and website for a Tanaka Paveracer, 40cc power cart that looks remarkably like the ones in the story.
The little creature Belldandy is using is called an Airbug Spiralee. It will be appearing in later chapters. Why Dark Horse felt the need to put an "and" in the name here is unknown.
A most important developement in this story is how a running theme that has existed throughout the series is made absolutely clear here. It wasn't really obvious at first, but a character trait BOTH Belldandy and Keiichi share is that they are gung-ho competitors and nothing makes them happier than squaring off against a new opponent. In the past, their pleasure in such competitions has been clouded by outside circumstances or unhappy results if they lose, but both Bell and Keiichi love a pure challenge they can devote themselves to totally. (This is first mentioned by Bell in the Anime Otoku story.)
This wasn't very clearly shown earlier in the manga, and many stories even made it seem as if Belldandy was rather timid about taking risks. (I know I thought that at first, and from the older posts on the subject I wasn't the only one.) That's why her occasional outbursts of excessive force or effort seemed so out of character. Actually, she's an all or nothing sort of competitor, who is just very choosy about what she decides to get involved in. Normally she tries not to upset things or push herself into situations, but when she decides to go for it (or she feels she's forced to), look out! This aspect of Bell's personality will become more noticable in the manga stories from here on, and if you go back and review the older stories I think you'll see what I mean.
Part 3 - The Director's Curse. Dark Horse issue 107, April 2004 release The Cursed Chief Kodansha chapt. 121, Sept. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
If you didn't notice, Sora is still steering the racing board while riding tandem with Belldandy.
Belldandy HAS driven a go-cart before. She learned by copying Diana Lockheed's moves while racing her back in Winner Take All. However, this race WAS before Chihiro and the other current club members had joined the story.
This is also one of the story arcs where her competitive nature starts showing. (Observe her efforts to win in the races, fight off the sleep demon, and how she can ignore K-1's behavior without embarassment in order to get back on track.)
And for those of you following the TV anime, the next part of the arc (What A Miracle) is where we first see Tamiya in his cheerleader outfit.
It's interesting how Sora never questions just how Belldandy has such an accurate inventory of the interesting wildlife in the area in her head. (Especially as the animals in question would be in motion and not likely to be in the same places day after day. Well maybe the owl would, but otherwise how could a normal person know all those detail with such certainty?) Of course it is Bell saying it, and Sora was distracted.
Still its fun noticing how people just accept what Belldandy tells them without worrying about how she might know such things. (P. S. The Japanese text is just slightly less specific as to the racoons and owls locations, but more specific as to where the starlings are.)
Part 4 - Special Training Dark Horse issue 108, May 2004 release Crash Course Continues Kodansha chapt. 122, Oct. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
The most fascinating aspect of this story is that it shows a 180 turnabout on the part of Bell's sisters. Skuld is going off on a rant about how Belldandy and Keiichi should always be together (at least as far as racing's concerned) , while Urd is saying (at least publically) that it's okay for them to do things apart.
We also haven't seen Skuld do the "PBTTT!" bit for awhile.
I try to not take sides in translation conflicts. I cannot speak or read any Japanese so I don't feel qualified to judge who's version is correct. (I do feel qualified to compare different versions however.) In this story however there are two places where the Dark Horse and independent translations differ in ways that I felt should be pointed out.
In the Japanese version, Keiichi is commenting on how Skuld and Urd are such sisters rather than Belldandy and Skuld.
More importantly, there's a joke in the sequence where the club members are preparing for Sora's next attempt to drive through them that Dark Horse left out. In the panel where the club member in the bandana is standing in front of the really large member, in the English version the smaller member is thinking, "Am I fast enough to dive for cover?" The Japanese version goes more like, "If I have to, I'll hide behind him... " That's what the arrow that Dark Horse left between them is refering to, and if they decided to remove the joke they should have removed the arrow.
Part 5 - Drive Dark Horse issue 109, June 2004 release Everybody Races Kodansha chapt. 123, Nov. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 19
Not much trivia to report in this story.
The biggest discussion point here is how Dark Horse reinterpreted Keiichi's comments while he's practicing with Sora and what he and Belldandy say to each other that night in the temple garden. The Japanese text doesn't have him actually challanging Sora to follow him or making statements to Belldandy later that he thought he might have been considered as helping Sora. However, the drawings do seem to be depicting him doing just that, so in this case I think the Dark Horse/Studio Proteus version is closer to what Mr. Fujishima intended.
Part 6 - Miles and Miles Dark Horse issue 110, July 2004 release Keiichi's Distance, Hasegawa's Distance Kodansha chapt. 124, Dec. 1998 release Tankouban Vol. 20
Those stamps Tamiya, Otaki, and later Chihiro, are using at their check points are their signature stamps. The letters printed by them are their names.
Keiichi DOES have a Check Point list, his senpais are just choosing to stamp his face to aggravate him.
As a bit of speculation on my part, I'm sure you've noticed how Tamiya and Otaki put on hapi coats with the Whirlwind logos on them after they've stamped both Keiichi and Sora (so Sora and K-1 won't see them wearing them). Such coats are a form of advertising used by shops and worn by people employed by the shop to do things in public places. One of these things is handing out flyers and brochures at special events, which is what I think Chihiro is having them do for her after the racers have passed. More on this in the last story.
Part 7 - The Race Gets Hot, A Goddess Gets Hotter! Dark Horse issue 111, Aug. 2004 release The Race Begins! Goddess Acts Too! Kodansha chapt. 125, Jan. 1999 release Kodansha chapt. 126, Feb. 1999 release Tankouban Vol. 20
One can only wonder how Keiichi heard them tell Sora she might have to pay a toll.
As has been pointed out by many sources, the poster next to the locker room door for the sea slug society is the same poster found on the bulletin board next to the NIT-MCC recruiting poster put up by Keiichi in the movie. I believe this is the first example of a movie reference in the manga.
Urd and Skuld's assistance to Keiichi is interesting for a number of points, not the least of which is that it shows Skuld as probably being able to teleport and levitate the same as Urd. (She seems to have gotten there on her own, and later disappears behind her smoke cloud cover. It doesn't seem like she just ran away and does wind up in the tree with Urd. Now Urd may have been providing transport for both of them, but judging from their conversation I can't see them cooperating to that degree.
They both seem to feel they have a duty to help Keiichi, like he was family. Or to score points with Belldandy. Either way, Keiichi is now an insider in their world view.
The Freaky Potion - Stupid New Machine rivalry is finally firmly established.
Urd establishes the use of a kiss (first seen in the movie) as a method of passing on a spell to someone.
The car next to Belldandy in the parking lot where she's waiting for the race to end is a Caterham Super 7, the same car driven by Sena Wakabayyashi, Ken Nakajima's stepmother in You're Under Arrest. This is the first guest crossover between the two series that I'm aware of.
The conversation between Belldandy and the club members actual marks the end of Kodansha's chapter 125. Chapter 126 starts with the aftermath of Urd's kiss and Skuld's indignation at it. Chapter 126 is then split between Dark Horse issue 111 and 112.
For those (very) few readers who didn't get it, Keiichi is making steam train sounds (chuffa-chuffa! Whoo-woo!)
The trash stalls Keiichi lands in (marked flammable and non-flammable) is a recyling station. Wood and paper goes in the flammable side, plastics and metals are in the non-flammable side. Keiichi crashed in the side with the harder, sharper objects.
911 is not an emergency number in Japan. What Sora is refering to in the Japanese text are emergency procedure numbers in the community disaster response handbook. (There are guideline procedures for fires, floods, earthquakes, car crashes, injuries, heart attacks, etc.)
When Keiichi drives off the ledge and crashes into the recycling bin, he's saved from serious injury by Holy Bell spinning an air cushion for him to land on. But why was she there to save him in the first place? Belldandy is at the finish line in the parking lot, talking to the other club members and waiting for the race to finish, and Holy Bell should be with her. Unless . . .
Maybe Belldandy had already split off a copy of herself at the start of the race and had been keeping an eye on Keiichi, just in case. (The rules of competition are sacred, but she also has a prior commitment to take care of Keiichi.) Which is why she was in a position to dispatch Holy Bell just in time to save him. And also how she knew instantly that Urd had put a spell on Keiichi.
Which would mean she might also have known about Urd kissing Keiichi, but had dismissed it as just the method Urd used to get the spell into him. (So it was probably a good thing K-1 didn't finish saying "incredible kiss". Bell might have reconsidered just how harmless it was and gotten a little jealous.)
As an additional observation, I don't think that angels can be multipled, only the goddesses. As a seperate entity the angel would need to copied seperately and giving each mini-goddess their own angel would be just a bit too much power out there. Rather, I think its more likely that the angel can manifest itself through any one of the copies as needed. Thus, if mini-Bell needs Holy Bell to save Keiichi, she can summon her, but then Bell back at the parking lot cannot while mini-Bell is using her at the recycling center.
Part 8 - The Best Magic Dark Horse issue 112, Sept. 2004 release Aberrant Kiss The Strongest Magic Kodansha chapt. 126, Feb. 1999 release Kodansha chapt. 127, Mar. 1999 release Tankouban Vol. 20
Dark Horse issue 112 contains both Kodansha chapter 126 and 127 Chapter 126 is split between Dark Horse issue 111 and 112. Chapter 126 ends after Belldandy leaves Keiichi to fix his racing board and continue the race.
It was fitting that Dark Horse would celebrate its long established habit of recombining Kodansha manga chapters with its last two comic book issue releases.
When Belldandy and Holy Bell leave Keiichi after he wakes up, they transport themselves through a piece of chromed metal (a mirrored surface).
So Keiichi re-invents the motorized skate board with just the items in his pockets. Now that's a mechanic! I wonder if Mr. Fujishima wanted a chance to do a skateboard montage without making it look like that was what he wanted to do.
It's interesting to note that since the sign says "NO BIKES OR CYCLES" Keiichi is not actually breaking any rules since what he's riding doesn't fit either of those catagories.
As is revealed at the end of this story, a hidden sub-plot of this arc was how mercantile Chihiro can be. Her plot to use the Motor Club's race as an advertising stunt to sell the racing boards is foreshadowed by the scene in the first part of the story where we see how fast Chihiro can put on her "Salesperson Face" and Keiichi's comments on how she can "Turn It On." Later there are hints that she's doing something on her own behind the scenes, then we see she's got Tamiya and Otaki in Whirlwind coats at the check points, but doesn't want Keiichi or Sora to see the coats. Finally, at the end we discover they've been handing out sales brochures, that the race had been advertised as a sales stunt, and that Chihiro has already made a sign exploiting Keiichi's emergency conversion to a motorized skateboard as a sales feature.
This doesn't mean she wasn't honestly trying to help Sora and the NIT-MCC resolve their leadership crisis. It's quite obvious she was. It's just that its also being shown that she's not above using this as an opportunity to further her own mercantile efforts as well.
Kurthy133 Question and Answer
Tim, since you had some speculations about the cover illustration involving Sora's shirt in Part One of the Sora Unchained arc, I was wondering if you had any ideas about Bell's shirt in the cover illustartion of Part Two (39 hat and all.) It is much harder to read, but I figured that if anyone might know, it would be you!
While there might be some significance to the 39, I'm not aware of any. In general what she's wearing seems to be a fairly typical example of race crew wear.
In almost any motorized vehicle race (and many others as well) in Japan where there's enough money available for such things, the support team for a racer is dressed in similar, stylized, color coordinated, semi-casual clothes, often with the name of the sport, the racer's name or number, and the event or team's sponsers on them. (This is common for most professional sports around the world.)
What Belldandy is wearing seems pretty close to what other manga and anime characters I've seen wear at such events (including in the earlier AMG manga and OAV stories.) The board is a lap board where the driver's time is recorded for each lap and held up so the drivers can see how they're doing, Whatever that logo on the shoes is, it's probably a parody of some real sneaker label. And the visible lettering on her sleeve starts with a "G" and ends with "RT", the rest being to my eyes unreadable. While in no way defendable, I'd guess it reads "Go-Cart".
Now, did you notice that Belldandy seems to be wearing the same shirt while sitting on the motorcycle two stories later? The printing on the sleeve is either missing or not visible, but the shirt back has what appears to be "Team Hasagawa" printed on it.
2023.06.03 06:48 Xenorion-Xen-SCP1433 Post 252. "Lore?"
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2023.06.03 06:46 Glitchcore_Cj Anyone Remember This Story?
Hi! I Used To Watch Slumber Reads A Lot From November 2022 To January 2023, And I’ve Been Trying To Find One Story In Particular I Heard A While Ago. I Do Not Remember Anything About The Video/Author, But I Do Remember Some Context: Pretty Much, A Boy Sells Their Soul To A Demon/The Devil, He Kills His Family, He Goes To A Mental Hospital, He Meets A Girl Named Adeline There, And She Dies In What I Think Is A Fire. I Cant Remember Much After That, But If Anyone Can Find The Video Or Story, It Would Mean A Lot. Thanks :)
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2023.06.03 06:45 singaporebuddhist Everything You Should Know About A Taoist Funeral in Singapore
 | Discover the rich heritage of a Taoist funeral in Singapore, where ancient traditions are merged with modern practices. Taoism, a profound philosophy intertwined with religious beliefs, guides Taoist funeral rituals. submitted by singaporebuddhist to u/singaporebuddhist [link] [comments] From the moment of passing to the final farewell, every step is meticulously orchestrated to honor the deceased and provide solace for the bereaved. Intricate rites like chanting, prayer, and paper burning help the soul to the afterlife. Explore the fascinating world of Taoist funerals, a timeless custom that shapes Singapore's cultural heritage. Read more: https://sariknowledge.com/know-about-taoist-funeral-in-singapore/ https://preview.redd.it/aq3so5cfgq3b1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d511d98e73ef24c915a283be03a2e981493b27e |
2023.06.03 06:45 Superb-Ad-7868 If all the playable characters fought each other, who would be the winner
Rules :
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- They will have the armor they are associated with. (I.E Tarnished with a raging wolf.)
- They will have weapons, incantations, and spells
- No summons
- Five estus flask (except for bloodborne, demon souls, [and maybe sekiro haven’t played it yet] they get 20 of the respective healing item)
- everyone is the max level.
2023.06.03 06:45 a_good_namez Wanna help me with my creation mythos?
I have been playing around with the creation mythos for my new homebrew setting. This is first time ill be going completely from scratch so I would very much apreceate some feedback. I don’t have anyone to share with as the only people I know who play dnd are my players.
Its a little rough and fairly new in my mind.
There are the old gods and the new. The old gods are higher beings above our comprehension. The new are manifested by faith.
An elder god Rhall (names arent made so I’m just writing sounds so you can follow who is who) was fighting another Rhull.
Rhall killed the other god and spread its physical body creating the solar system.
In a way Rhull lived on though the elements.
As punishment Rhalls concious was spread out and put on Rhull (fuck it thats the setting name) living as humans.
This is where it gets complicated given the whole setting is the remnants of a higher lifeform. As it lived on through the elements the first dragons where born. The dragons where perfectly fit for rhull as they were part of it.
But humans where also special in their own right. The humans are the only species who can dream. Dreams are very powerfull. When humans dream they go to a different reality called fey.
I’m not sure if fey should b an already existing mirror dimension we pull our dreams from or if it should be a mirror dimension created by human imagination. But the point is that fantasy is a reality. Sometimes elements of the fey spills into the real world.
Some humans have the ability to wake up inside a dream and learn magic that way.
In the camapign thats starting no one has seen any magic in yearsbut now it seems like the thin veil between reality and fantasy is ripping apart.
The afterlife is created by faith. As our soul gets sent to fey when we sleep our soul gets sent to the afterlife whem we die. Here rules the new gods. The new gods change and die as human change religion.
So thats the rough concepts I got going for now what do you guys think?
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Its a little rough and fairly new in my mind.
There are the old gods and the new. The old gods are higher beings above our comprehension. The new are manifested by faith.
An elder god Rhall (names arent made so I’m just writing sounds so you can follow who is who) was fighting another Rhull.
Rhall killed the other god and spread its physical body creating the solar system.
In a way Rhull lived on though the elements.
As punishment Rhalls concious was spread out and put on Rhull (fuck it thats the setting name) living as humans.
This is where it gets complicated given the whole setting is the remnants of a higher lifeform. As it lived on through the elements the first dragons where born. The dragons where perfectly fit for rhull as they were part of it.
But humans where also special in their own right. The humans are the only species who can dream. Dreams are very powerfull. When humans dream they go to a different reality called fey.
I’m not sure if fey should b an already existing mirror dimension we pull our dreams from or if it should be a mirror dimension created by human imagination. But the point is that fantasy is a reality. Sometimes elements of the fey spills into the real world.
Some humans have the ability to wake up inside a dream and learn magic that way.
In the camapign thats starting no one has seen any magic in yearsbut now it seems like the thin veil between reality and fantasy is ripping apart.
The afterlife is created by faith. As our soul gets sent to fey when we sleep our soul gets sent to the afterlife whem we die. Here rules the new gods. The new gods change and die as human change religion.
So thats the rough concepts I got going for now what do you guys think?
2023.06.03 06:44 a_good_namez Wanna help me with my creation mythos?
I have been playing around with the creation mythos for my new homebrew setting. This is first time ill be going completely from scratch so I would very much apreceate some feedback. I don’t have anyone to share with as the only people I know who play dnd are my players.
Its a little rough and fairly new in my mind.
There are the old gods and the new. The old gods are higher beings above our comprehension. The new are manifested by faith.
An elder god Rhall (names arent made so I’m just writing sounds so you can follow who is who) was fighting another Rhull.
Rhall killed the other god and spread its physical body creating the solar system.
In a way Rhull lived on though the elements.
As punishment Rhalls concious was spread out and put on Rhull (fuck it thats the setting name) living as humans.
This is where it gets complicated given the whole setting is the remnants of a higher lifeform. As it lived on through the elements the first dragons where born. The dragons where perfectly fit for rhull as they were part of it.
But humans where also special in their own right. The humans are the only species who can dream. Dreams are very powerfull. When humans dream they go to a different reality called fey.
I’m not sure if fey should b an already existing mirror dimension we pull our dreams from or if it should be a mirror dimension created by human imagination. But the point is that fantasy is a reality. Sometimes elements of the fey spills into the real world.
Some humans have the ability to wake up inside a dream and learn magic that way.
In the camapign thats starting no one has seen any magic in yearsbut now it seems like the thin veil between reality and fantasy is ripping apart.
The afterlife is created by faith. As our soul gets sent to fey when we sleep our soul gets sent to the afterlife whem we die. Here rules the new gods. The new gods change and die as human change religion.
So thats the rough concepts I got going for now what do you guys think?
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Its a little rough and fairly new in my mind.
There are the old gods and the new. The old gods are higher beings above our comprehension. The new are manifested by faith.
An elder god Rhall (names arent made so I’m just writing sounds so you can follow who is who) was fighting another Rhull.
Rhall killed the other god and spread its physical body creating the solar system.
In a way Rhull lived on though the elements.
As punishment Rhalls concious was spread out and put on Rhull (fuck it thats the setting name) living as humans.
This is where it gets complicated given the whole setting is the remnants of a higher lifeform. As it lived on through the elements the first dragons where born. The dragons where perfectly fit for rhull as they were part of it.
But humans where also special in their own right. The humans are the only species who can dream. Dreams are very powerfull. When humans dream they go to a different reality called fey.
I’m not sure if fey should b an already existing mirror dimension we pull our dreams from or if it should be a mirror dimension created by human imagination. But the point is that fantasy is a reality. Sometimes elements of the fey spills into the real world.
Some humans have the ability to wake up inside a dream and learn magic that way.
In the camapign thats starting no one has seen any magic in yearsbut now it seems like the thin veil between reality and fantasy is ripping apart.
The afterlife is created by faith. As our soul gets sent to fey when we sleep our soul gets sent to the afterlife whem we die. Here rules the new gods. The new gods change and die as human change religion.
So thats the rough concepts I got going for now what do you guys think?
2023.06.03 06:37 theBuddhaofGaming The Ancient Bugs Were Trilobites and Their Civilization was Underwater
I've convinced myself that the ancient civilization were composed primarily of trilobites and the area that became Hollownest was initially underwater. Here's my logic and evidence:
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- Evidence for trilobites
- There's the obvious physical similarly between trilobites and the ancient bugs we see littered about. The ancient nailsmith, shade beast, green beast, and beast's den shrine thing are all segmented, have three body sections, and wide heads like a trilobite. Additionally, if the bug the temple of the black egg is made of is one, it looks a lot like a Ceratarges.
- There's more than a passing similarly between the soul totems and trilobites (excluding the pale king and pure vessel). The attuned version of the void idol also is mighty similar to a trilobite.
- A volvated trilobite looks a lot like an arcane egg.
- Geo looks a heck of a lot like fossilized trilobites.
- Their Civilization may have been underwater (se evidence below).
- Evidence for underwater
- I think the biggest piece of evidence is the walls of the ancient basin, the spirals bear a remarkable similarity to ammonites, a form of ancient mollusk.
- Along the same vein, as you ascend from the ancient basin to the higher areas (until about the lower areas of the waterways), the walls stop looking like ammonites and start looking more like generic shells. These could perhaps be Inoceramus. Though it's admittedly more of a stretch, it would follow a biostratographical similarly to their real-world fossil equivalents.
- Worshipping the void. The bugs tend to worship things that give them life. Moths to the Radiance, Mosskin to Uun, etc. Perhaps the void was the source of their life. It is somewhat reminiscent of the product of a, "black smoker," hydrothermal vent, which bottom dwelers are known to hang around for life. The Olenidae trilobytes are even thought to have had a symbiotic relationship with a sulfur eating bacteria that would've lived near one (further supporting the trylobyte hypothesis). These vents are often found in the, "abyssal zone," of the sea bed. An abyss filled with black stuff... We also know that higher beings can become angry if their worship is removed (looking at you Radiance). It's possible that the void lashing out at beings is a manifestation of this behavior.
2023.06.03 06:34 CineHDCine "John Wick: A Modern Legend of Unparalleled Carnage and Vengeance"
Played flawlessly by the charismatic Keanu Reeves, John Wick is not your typical action hero. With his sleek black suit, expert combat skills, and laser-focused determination, he is a force to be reckoned with. But what truly sets John Wick apart from other action protagonists is the meticulous world-building and attention to detail that the filmmakers have infused into the franchise.
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2023.06.03 06:33 LoveMangaBuddy Read Overprotective Lady - Chapter 47 - MangaPuma
Archduke Rahan El Kanox, who has been criticized for saying, ‘It must be a demon sent by God to wreak havoc on this world. A young woman who grew up beloved in her family due to the wounds of her childhood, one day receives a proposal from the fearsome Archduke Kanox, whom she had only heard of through rumors. Despite his family’s opposition, Isel decides to marry Archduke Kanox for the sake of th ... Read Overprotective Lady - Chapter 47 - MangaPuma. Read more at https://mangapuma.com/overprotective-lady/chapter-47
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