iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Samb @buzzmun.com · 02/12/2025

man K MANGA sucks, lmao. I've complained, and will continue to complain, about the Blue Period release editing out artwork for legal issues but this week they put out a chapter of Rent-a-Girlfriend that is more censor than not they charge real money for this!!

Rent-a-girlfriend chapter 404, most of the image is censored where the people are

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 07/11/2025

Speaking of Seo, this has to be one of the funniest ways to start a manga ever. "As you can seem she is apparently 100,014 years old" kills me because ????

A snipping of an early page of Kouji Seo's manga series "Princess Lucia"

The first panel is a of the titular Lucia, a woman with an indignant look on her face and horns.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 11/10/2025

Recently been reading "The Dangers in My Heart" It's a really densely packed and well written youth romance that depicts a lot of the very awkward moments and steps of such a relationship, paired with an incredible sense of character growth. I must be late to this, it's really good.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 22/07/2025

wow, sure love the modern internet where every reputable website is ad infested, bloated, and unusable

a webpage screenshot of the New York Post in google chrome, littered with in page pop ups and ads

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 13/07/2025

finding out that comic fans in 2025 still can't get their comics day one digitally with a premium subscription that costs an insane $12.99 a month

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 12/07/2025

I don't really think a lot about Yu Yu Hakusho too often, but the moment I recall the most is Sensui with his VCR and TV These pages are just brilliant, Togashi really has this incredible understanding of the comic format

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 14/06/2025

all four have the review of "criterion"

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 30/05/2025

Mega Man II was waaaaaay easier I beat the whole game in the time that it took for me to beat the second half of MMI.

A camera picture of my CRT showing the end scene for Mega Man II for the Nintendo Game Boy
It shows the word CAPCOM and Mega Man staring in the distance while stars scroll by.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 29/05/2025

Beat Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge on the Game Boy earlier I liked it about as much as I expected, really feels like a full Mega Man experience but man is it evil. The last half of the game isn't passworded so you can't stop and come back, but it felt actually great to beat it.

a crappy camera picture taken of my CRT playing Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge on a Super Game Boy 2 showing the message

THANK YOU
FOR PLAYING

PRESENTED BY
CAPCOM

with a little Mega Man posing, looking into the distance

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 10/05/2025

beat the first Detective Conan GBC title Im very thankful to Psyklax for the translation, its a very cute game I played it via emulation on my n64 for some reason Overall a cute game, but very "okay Ive clicked everything and talked to everyone, what specific one thing does it want" good time

an image of conan and detective moore from case closed, or detective conan if you don't use the localization

the image is taken from my phone, and the game is on my CRT so the quality is bad but I can't be bothered to pop my capture card on to take a single screenshot
maybe next time

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 08/05/2025

played Face Ball 2000 as the lord intended, multiplayer with one on Game Boy Color and one on Super Game Boy 2 who needs a Wii U anyway

An image of my game room, focused on the CRT TV running Face Ball 2000 on Game Boy, with an out of focus Game Boy Color running the same game.
They are linked together by link cable.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 06/05/2025

I wasn't actually going to pick up a copy, but my local store had a 20% off sale on GB/GBC titles so hey, a good deal is a good deal.

my hand holding a Game Boy copy of Face Ball 2000 with a receipt behind it.
The game has a price sticker of $24.99, and the receipt can be read upside down to show the final price was $19.47.
The photo was taken from inside a car.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 03/05/2025

Watched Iron Monkey (1977) last night on VHS. My specific tape was pretty off color, but the movie was really fun. If you ever want to kill 90 minutes, this is a great option.

The Iron Monkey (1977)'s cover, directed and starring Chen Kuan-tai.
The image is taken from the wikipedia article.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 02/05/2025

Wanted a mouse for my SNES with the official mousepad and somehow buying Mario Paint JP complete in box (with bonus Mario & Wario) was the same price as getting just the mouse and mousepad so I bought this full set lol did you know you can region unlock your SNES by just cutting two plastic tabs

Mario Paint Complete in Box with a box copy of Mario & Wario

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 23/04/2025

got my Super Game Boy 2 in and immediately acted like a child

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 21/04/2025

another day spent dreaming about one day owning a Sharp SF1

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 18/04/2025

been spending my lunches lately playing my 3DS, but the good weather made me break out my GBC again

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 17/04/2025

found this lovely etsy review today

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 13/04/2025

so far my favorite scene is when the dude gets a stray dog drunk on awamori of all things in the middle of a baseball game

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 11/03/2025

me explaining a football thing to a friend that only knows pokemon

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 15/02/2025

thinking about the axed jump series where the MC kept calling himself a cracker god this was 6 years ago

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 14/02/2025

reading the authors other series, Switch, and it's incredibly funny without meaning to the author seems to have liked Touch, but doesn't have the same style or pacing as Adachi so we get the funniest possible death i've omitted a page between the last two posted here, but the headlines killed me

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 13/02/2025

Spent the last day reading an MMA manga called Red Blue It's wildly good. The action is paced really well and the characters are interesting. It's so good I think I might start watching MMA for real, haha.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 07/02/2025

Read a manga about Women's Wrestling in Japan from the 90s and the author made this little drawing of Captain Lou

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 31/12/2024

a friend got me tiny bee earrings for christmas this year i do need to shave tho

me, wearing a blue sweater and a green hat and a cute bee earring with a very bright stop sign in the background

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 24/12/2024

for reference, this is the raw

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 24/12/2024

Kodansha sucks big cock I paid $1 for half of this chapter and the two page spread for the chapter title is just blank How can they charge for this

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 20/12/2024

went to a local art museum recently and now i'm obsessed with the works of Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre at Night

Camille Pissarro's The Road to Versailles at Louveciennes

Camille Pissarro's Portrait of Felix Pissarro

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 25/11/2024

The effect of not being able to use Warhol's due to copyright are incredibly funny considering the reason the character used Warhol specifically. I don't know why they couldn't have just drawn circles where the faces are for the NA release.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 25/11/2024

the official english version of the Blue Period manga feels like a scam man like I get it, but at least tell me the title or literally do anything other than this I spent money to read something that has the context removed :(

Main character from Blue Period, Yatora Yaguchi, looks and and then opens a book about Francis Bacon

The characters from Blue Period are talking about Andy Warhol, looking at a painting that has been removed from the North American release

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 16/11/2024

A very fascinating series that has characters goof and joke like doraemon, but with serious moments like the two kids literally running through an active war zone as medics, healing only those that wont affect the timeline by living and leaving those that must die in this war.

Bon, the main character, along with Ream are trying to heal and save people in the battle of Marathon. In one panel, a soldier gets their entire head cut clean off and blood spews around as Bon says "Sorry, but it exceeds the effectiveness of the treatment."
It's not a good translation.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 16/11/2024

some group has been kind of scanlating "T • P Bon" from 1978 by the Doraemon team, so I've read all of what I could so far. Rough translation aside, it's actually a really fun and sometimes serious time travel story. My favorite part so far was a vacation in the age of dinos.

An avalanche taking place during Xuanzang's 19 year journey that eventually became the basis for Journey to the West

The kids are in the actual labyrinth with the minotaur from mythology.

The kids are swimming in the age of the dinos, with an incredible three panel reveal of the imposing creature swimming near them.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 13/11/2024

lucked into finding a copy of A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics at half price books so far it's a really good read, full of history and details I didn't know, and i'm only like 10 pages in, haha! learning a lot today!

the cover of A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 02/11/2024

yeah ok sure thanks

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 30/10/2024

I've sold like probably $100k worth of cabinets wearing my pink Brutalmoose Bingo98 shirt Like, I guess it's my good luck shirt at this point.

Me, Samb, wearing a shirt sold and designed by Brutalmoose for his Bingo streaming show he does on his Twitch account.

I have an awful beard that I have to shave soon, god damn.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 29/10/2024

watched Tokyo Story tonight. By the climax I was sad. By the credits I was crying. Five minutes after the film I was inconsolably crying. I have never had a movie do this to me.

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 28/10/2024

my letterboxd is going well

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 28/10/2024

ballsy decision for Hakutaku to decide 6 chapters in that this entire story's end goal is literally Geoff Keighley's GOTY award at The Game Awards This is such a mediocre manga, haha.

The image is of a two page spread from the manga Hakutaku, currently running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump.

The two page spread showcases a character, Noto, talking about her goal to win Game of the Year at the biggest game awards, and showcases a visually similar stage to Geoff Keighley's own The Game Awards

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 26/10/2024

unrelated kind of, but also one of those pages reminds me of a point in the Ping Pong anime that was changed in the BD versions, and instead of finding that image I'll just post this picture of it when it was my desktop ages ago

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 26/10/2024

recently started reading "Kono Oto Tomare!" or "Gather Around This Sound!" in English I am blown away by how full of life and care a monthly manga about playing an obscure traditional Japanese string instrument I had never even heard of a koto before, and yet I find myself unable to stop reading!

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 21/10/2024

i've been posting every hot dog i've had since august on my website btw

a picture of a scuffed Samb drinking a beer and eating a hot dog that is on Samb's website, buzzmun.com

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 20/10/2024

idk if I ever posted it on the other site, but here's my scuffed fight stick I made for SF6

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Samb @buzzmun.com · 19/10/2024

i've got like a 50:50 shot of finding some dumb sticky note on my work computer i think people respect me

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