u/BarelyBrony

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Like obviously this is partly just a weakness of not being a Japanese speaker but I can't imagine a Japanese audience bring thrilled when this happens like

"Oh so you're just abandoning the murder mystery aspect and now it's the kids word game hour"

(Episode 613 last episode of the demon dog case)

Other things about this ep,

I like the new intro even if it commits the cardinal sin of live action footage it's still better than the last one and has good character intros for Kogoro and the Detective Boys

Also what's with Heiji dismissing magic on the basis of "detectives would go out of business" does that imply he doesn't think he's up to the challenge?

"Is he saying we have caller ID?"

I generally don't care for this ep cause its Roger at his worst but this one moment is perfect.

While this card is face up on the field or in the GY this monster and all Level 3 or lower Zombie Monsters you control gain 125 ATK and lose 125 DEF for each Zombie Monster in both Players Graveyards. If Call of the Haunted is face up on the field while this card is on the field this monster gains the following effect if a Level 3 or lower Zombie Monster you control is destroyed and sent to the GY by Battle or Card effect you may special summon one Zombie Monster from the GY to your side of the field in face up Attack position.

Been playing Bonz a lot in Duel Links and just think PK needed a retrain to compensate for the castle of Dark Illusions handicap. I like the official retrain as well but felt it could be more in the spirit of the duelist kingdom og, did I break it too bad?

https://x.com/Pakkiu_Lai/status/2080692441540403321?s=20

So this fanart is great but it's so funny to me because Tanya would hate working for the Empire from Star Wars even more than she hates working for the Not-German Empire.

The idea was basically a spin on lizard people/dinosaur men living in the hollow center of the earth like they do in conspiracy theory stories but instead of Lizards they're fantasy Dwarves who fight using giant mech suits

https://www.deviantart.com/art-of-shannon-lee/art/Scooby-and-Blue-WIP-882932453

the contrast is perfect, he's big she's small, he's nervous she's focused, he's got a torch she's got a big comedy magnifying glass. Give them their own show where they solve murders.

I just love the idea of this, such a uniquely telepathic problem

1. Haibara being a protective mama bear to the Detective Boys when they're getting shot at, you really get the sense she'd walk across hot broken glass to take a bullet for these kids.

2. Sonoko digging through the snow to find Conan legit made me choke up a little, like the whole thing otherwise was cheesy, like of course they're not gonna kill him off, we got like 15 more movies and 600 more episodes left and Ran's reaction made me more angry at Kudo than anything but Sonoko crying as she dug through the snow to find a dying child that really hit me where I live, brava to her VA for really digging that out of me

Otherwise solid action, premise that was good but felt like it might be done better elsewhere, mystery very weak and over reliant on late reveals, the gunman twist was pretty alright though

Like game 1 you're just walking up and down the islands, Game 3 it's N-Tropy's Time Machine that's been placed atop the ruins of castle Cortex, Crash Bash it's the Akuka bros weird space temple that we see again in Wrath of Cortex where the warp room is the star trek style transporter that Coco built for Star Trek cosplay purposes and Twinsanity you're back to walking around again but I got no idea what the Crash 2 warp room is or even where it is, it's part temple, part frozen cave, part mine shaft, part sewer, part space station and has warp portals to all over the planet and rooms that serve as in and out points... like what is this thing?

art by me, originally made in paint with stairway to the destined duel sprites now made in glorious Gimp

Are they even individual creatures or do all cards refer to the same being rather than being individual members of the blue eyes species? I have so many questions.

I had a really rocky start with ZZ, the shift in tone, jump in plot without jump in time or space and the drag of the first few mini arcs grated on me. All that shifted in the last few episodes but especially this one. I was particularly negative about the show at first so I kinda just want to sing it's praises a bit.

I like Elpie Puru although given the series seeming return to a slightly less goofy bent I'm sure something horrible will happen to her soon.

I like Judeau as a protagonist, he feels noble in a way not even Amuro or Camille managed to be. And his overarching goal to rescue his sister is inherently sympathetic.

I like this episode (24's) character focus and reflection on Judea's desire to find Leina

I feel like I have a much better grasp on what Zeon is now. Before I was like "oh it's WW1/2 germany with its Red Baron and fascism analogies. But now I see it as much closer to the American south in the civil war in that it's fighting is more to support an establishment of a system of aristocracy than it is about the stated eugenics aims.

Although that said I still have some questions

So the Argama's a federation ship now? what happened to the AEUG that was an interesting political dilemma and it feels like it's just gone now?

Why are all the new mobile suits so ugly, especially on the enemy side? I was so happy to see Zaku's again they're just such a much better design than the bad guy robots for the last two seasons.

think about it, a piracy site where you have to login with email or discord or google just to view stuff takes down the more popular open to use one so people will be forced to hand over deets that though not immediately monetary can be sold en masse to third parties, it's the height of evil genius that goes against everything Batman should stand for