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It's not a mal challenge. It's my own challenge. And no I have not stopped in 2006 because I have not gotten that far yet. I am catching up on seasonals first then come back to the 70s-2006 binge and then re catch up on seasonals and the last bit is randomize Anime for 6 months and catch up on seasonals again... Yeah it's gonna bee awhile LOL

The Silent Möbius anime only adapted those first 9 volumes, but got Lum Chang's introduction kind of wrong. She never met the blonde policeman Roy. She was in Hong Kong the whole time Katsumi's demonic form awakened and got temporarily missing after accidentally demolishing that building.

So yes, Lum Chang was made to fill in for Katsumi after her disappearance. I had to learn Japanese arduously so that I could delve into volumes 9-12, but it was worth it after decades of witnessing that cliffhanger I saw on TV.

17 years after the original AMP members accomplished a certain mission or civic duty arduously (taking care of cultists trying to enable a severe lucifer hawk threat, using the demons from another universe to ravage and conquer the Earth like the huns would), came Aoi Majikina (as well as her friends) forming a new generation of those special forces AMP, in the sequel QD. That telepath Yuki Saiko would be about my age 17 years into the future.

Unfortunately, QD never got translated either, but it's definitely worth reading if you delved into the original. QD may have a perfect artstyle, but OG Silent Möbius still has the best overall characters.

I love how OG AMP got unexpected allies along the way in that endgame fight against a powerful cultist attempting to ravage the Earth as a demon.

Silent Möbius, side stories and QD may be more like Blade Runner than other manga, but given that it's a mold breaker, it's far from conventional cyberpunk. Proof enough that cyberpunk can evolve besides several indie comics that I plan to read, like Tokyo Ghost, Transmetropolitan and even Private Eye.

Yes, good cyberpunk doesn't have to be cyberpunky in the traditional sense. It can most certainly have mold breakers like every other sci-fi subgenre or every other genre.

Outside of cyberpunk, Saga has some things in common with Big O (both revolving around fate and existentialism) despite being space opera, Star Wars' respective subgenre. That same sci-fi genre also represented by Macross and Gundam. Can't wait to check out Paper Girls as well, see what kind of space opera it is.

As for your birthday, I would sure like to give you an unexpected gift at that expected time. It should be polite to expect someone's birthday.

Binging anime except mine is 1978-2006

Dominion Tank Police? I haven't seen that and the OVA adaptation in ages. Yes! Made by Masamune Shirow as well.

I'm also exploring Arc The Lad 3 because I love said Bee Train adaptation of similar name. I was wrong, part two did get adapted, but I felt a cliffhanger in the end.

A tomboyish friend of mine said that she has a crush on that pretty boy with red headband, Arc himself. She would say something like "He has a face carved by angels.".

My favorite character in that series is Elk. That poor kid was scarred for life after his village was ravaged by an evil kingdom and his people were massacred Nazi-style. Yes, they were shot to death, dying brutally and inhumanely. That also strongly suggests vengeance. That same evil kingdom took his two best friends away and used them as guinea pigs (monsters!). People are definitely not lab rats. So yes milady, pretty dark stuff happened in this franchise and Elk is one of the few kids that I like in JRPGs. Most kids in JRPGs are annoying, getting on my nerves and so glad Arc The Lad came out in the 90s. Most underrated decade ever. Back when video games didn't take ages to develop, involve long work hours or cost too much to make like so far. Back when creative sectors were in tip top shape.

As for your birthday, I hope that it'll be something eventful or amazing this Year of the Snake. I'm practically middle-aged right now, but I won't mind being another year older. Getting a new whetstone (hopefully, the India Stone will be mine), quality steel (I love playing with such alloys; bearing steel being my favorite) or Back To School stuff would be great. I guess summer is my favorite season.

Because I want to know

I really need to delve into Akito of the Exiled or that OVA universe some time as I explore different indie comics.

While said charcoal drawing is original in use of medium, it's actually based on the OP of 1998 Ghost in the Shell..Credit definitely goes to the Cowboy Bebop character designer for all those anime cutscenes in said game with similar slick animations to Stand Alone Complex (Second Gig and even Innocence) before that adaptation came out. The only adaptation with an artstyle similar to Masamune Shirow's manga and an orange Tachikoma which Major pilots throughout her crime fighting career in game. I will replay it having completed Lunar: Silver Story anyway (Lunar has pretty emotional narrative for a Dragon Quest clone and definitely better than Dragon Quest 11 which was boring; it doesn't even measure up to Korean mmorpgs in excitement or role-playing mechanics).

I'm sure someday you'll get to delve into other video games, especially for narrative and themes. I rather delve into something like Arc The Lad 2 (too bad it didn't get adapted into anime and shame that Bee Train is dead; Bee Train forever!) than modern AAA games which are mostly a scam. Too many microtransactions (being more like picking expensive toys in a vending machine than actually strategizing with a controller), too much rushed development, lack of overall customer satisfaction, too much hyper-realism, too open world, too buggy and the list of complications goes on with this creative sector. Yes milady, many high-budget games are a waste of time (I hope Ubisoft goes defunct after insulting Japan with a delayed game featuring a foreign samurai that doesn't exist while extending controversy; Yasuke was never a samurai to begin with; Shogun totally did more justice for Japanese history as of late).

High-budget, hyper-realistic games are a fad that belongs in the past or in the dustbin of history (can't even promise a sequel to Zoids Assault which has themes and narrative that rival more conventional mecha; more problems out of money than results, innovation and promises). As we can see, 1997 is long gone, where that unbelievable trend started taking place. The less that hobby is known to casuals, normies and pretenders trying to fit in with nerd culture ridiculously, the better. Marvel and DC used to be exclusive to nerds as well, then everything changed when they got too mainstream.

When certain graphic novels get too mainstream, I resort to indie or more obscure manga (like Hyper Police, Venus Wars or Silent Möbius). Delving into alternative entertainment rather than similar entertainment pandering to too many similar people or mere mortals.

With that said, glad you love said drawing.

Are you real?

I hope that the franchise will extend into more movies as well and creative sectors have been a mess as of late. Too much financial ruin and complications, but at least Gundam SEED Freedom as of late has (not was, my bad) topped most movies in Year of the Dragon (Wild Robot and Godzilla X Kong were the other very few that I liked last year). So glad that year is in the past now.

Definitely a lot of cleaning up to do for creative sectors and the high-budget game industry needs fixing too. Yes, so Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood (if you like the gothic side of RPGs) will meet consumer satisfaction. I'm really in the mood for more neo-western and in the meantime, I'll be delving into space western indie comics. Steampunk and maybe some cyberpunk with potentially emotional narrative like say Tokyo Ghost (delving into consequences of VR like Dot Hack and complications of untested experiments). Less formulaic cyberpunk would be better, but Tokyo Ghost is already at the top of my list after I delve into Copperhead.

By the way milady, as you can see, that's Motoko Kusanagi from the 1998 game which I played when I was in the 6th grade and I love Toshihiro Kawamoto's artstyle. I might play it again despite having been received poorly for mechanics.

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By the way, would you like new Macross movies to come out some time this decade?

Hey! I usually never use MAL except to track manga directly from tachiyomi. Thanks for accepting the friend request! I kinda just stumbled across your profile and thought I should reach out say thanks again. Anyways, I am a total noob when it comes to MAL so I have no idea what I am even doing XD
Have a great year, though I guess I am a bit late about the wishes T_T
Hope you find a lot of hidden gems this year :)

Do you remember where you watched "Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen Specials"? I saw your post in the thread, lol.

No problem!

no i didn't but thank you for suggesting! i will watch that.

it's alright haha. i am glad that out tastes match.

hii

I've never heard of that anime before, it looks like something I would enjoy so I'm definitely going to watch it in the near future, thanks for the recommendation : D