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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Bad Apples (★★★1/2) – Has an either-or premise, but it rides it out to a very strong end result, between its tonal handling, biting satire, bleak comedy, strong debuts by the lead child actors, and Saoirse Ronan's dramatic chops perfectly attuned to this bleakly funny role. (1/2)

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I would have said they look like bay pigs but with a long tail myself. But both can work! 😇

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word. Do Androids Dream of Sexy Electric Sheep?

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Figured as much. I could see Were-Rabbit getting it before Happy Feet (possibly in Europe first before the US), though it took the film ages to even get onto Blu-Ray at all. So might be a fair old while.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

What are the three only on Blu-Ray? Have they never been released on 4K, or you just not have them on that format?

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What the – that’s the first I’m hearing of it too! Even with his career kinda cratering thereafter, that shouldn’t be that swept under the rug to not reach our ears. It does seem it was reported at the time too…

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SQUEAKROSS: Home Squeak Home @alblune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Squeakross is currently 25% off as part of the Steam Autumn sale, the lowest it's ever been! Sale also live on Itch! squeakross.cool

Steam Autumn Sale, -25% for squeakross home squeak home

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wait, is the game effectively impossible to 100% all checklist tasks now that hardly anyone plays online (well, save arranging sessions with players)? And I haven’t even gotten the game yet at all. Bugger.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (★★★) – A cheap sequel made for fast studio money with many choices typical of such films, yet also a passionate, demented showcase of pulp sci-fi nihilism. Limited appeal if one doesn't like weird sci-fi, but worth a watch within that. (1/2)

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Cornelius from Planet of the Apes (1968) Confused

ALT: Cornelius from Planet of the Apes (1968) Confused

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not to say there aren’t character aspects the anime improved from the manga, but when you watch and compare as an adult, the adaption and expansion process can feel rather… passionless as an adult sometimes.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Mai storyline is merely one of the most severe “expand on but miss what made the original work” examples. Can’t even blame the Dub for changing it to straightforward brainwashing (albeit by letting the Orichalcos into her heart) over the original’s “merely enhance your existing darkness” angle.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

tolerated Joey but robbed him of key bits, seemed to loathe Yami Bakura (mucked up motivation and introduction, never see regular Bakura being friends with the gang), find Weevil and Rex to be funny punching bags, and really love Tristan/Duke perming on Serenity.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s quite a few instances of the anime writers having their own preferences for who they felt like expanding on off the manga. In most cases they depended to dilute the original characters/arcs. They loved Kaiba so kept giving him stuff (including reusing Mokuba as a motivator when needs be),

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mai is still Japanese and lives in Japan, even if we don’t know where. Though you’re otherwise right on her probably feeling too separate from their group to socialise out of tournaments.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I member the first time I saw a post comparing what we think photographing the Mona Lisa is like (great view) versus the reality (people fit to bursting in the area). Followed by a similar pair of photos for the Great Wall of China. Films and TV, making them out to be vacant, they lied, they lied! 🫠

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (★★★1/2) – Feels almost like the platonic ideal of a short film/webseries where so mani disparate elements come together. Locked-in cast, calibrated corny songs and the right humour make it a great time capsule of early internet videos. (1/2)

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Dr. Horrible's P.H.D in Horribleness

ALT: Dr. Horrible's P.H.D in Horribleness

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Quite an underrated game – unlike Puzzle League on N64, the Pokémon skin was built in from the ground up. Has lots of modes, well-balanced escalating difficulty, and gorgeous sprite work (plus music). Honestly still one of the best ways to play Panel de Pon!

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whisper of the Heart (★★★★) – A seemingly unassuming teen coming-of-life story given remarkable heft in both the screenplay and the direction, with the Ghibli touch leading to a smug, intimate honestly. The "Country Roads" song runner especially works amazingly. (1/2)

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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 24/09/2026

MARY POPPINS was released 62 years ago today. One of the most successful of all Disney films, and the movie which made Julie Andrews an overnight star, the behind-the-scenes story is practically perfect in every way… 1/51

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (★★★) – Feels like a Shaun half-hour tv special expanded to 73 mins, not just in plotting but the way the thing's filmed and shot, plus visual refinement of the gags. Diverting and amusing, even pleasurable, but disappointing. (1/2)

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Crowded Flock of Shaun the Sheep Characters

ALT: Crowded Flock of Shaun the Sheep Characters

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fantastic Mr. Fox (★★★★) – This brand of low-fi stop-motion is a great fit for Wes Anderson's aesthetic, as is the dark-but-whimsical tone of Dahl's story. Easy to see why it's the rare Anderson film that works even for those largely not on his wavelength. (1/2)

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Fantastic Mr Fox: лис Leaning on Tree

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tell me about it. It’s why I personally prefer games to not have them, even as much as I 100% recognise it’s a coveted and important feature by many (and I wouldn’t want to take that away from them).

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There is an argument to be made for the CG films, bit subjective. Not so much the 2D Disney films, which is pure (if accidental) historical revisionism. Article’s also a fascinating deep dive into adjusting your product for the display, and that it should be respected and preserved with time.

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Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On this day in 2007, 19 years ago, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness were released This game featured all 491 then available Pokémon and featured a story involving the mysterious Time Gears and Primal Dialga serebii.net/dungeon2/

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Anthony @ GamingTrend (MrSaturn99/Alagunder) @anthonypsaturn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And so the bridge from Forgotten Land's obstacle course 3D to freeform open-world is complete. Some may bemoan yet another series jumping onto the bandwagon, but HAL's earned the confidence to knock this out of the park. And that's despite *decades* of sticking to 2D.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The End of Oak Street (★★★1/2) – A pretty grand adventure-horror that uses dinos purely as monsters and is all the better for it, nestled inside an efficient 80 pastiche that acquits itself with strong lead performances. Plus a gnarly, weird streak that serves it well. (1/2)

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Kiki’s Delivery Service (★★★★) – It glides off me a little, lacking the urgency or deep personal drive empowering Miyazaki's prior works. But it's still beautiful, mature, wise about childhood ending, and tells its conventional coming-of-age story wonderfully. (1/2)

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Kiki'S Delivery Service Studio Ghibli

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alice in Wonderland (★★★1/2) – More exhausting than I remember, and not always for the better, but absolutely one of the peaks of colour and design and cel animation's unreal fluidity in all of Disney. If I admire it more than I enjoy it, I admire it a lot. (1/2)

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Alice In Wonderland - Mad Hatter Tea Party

ALT: Alice In Wonderland - Mad Hatter Tea Party

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 08/09/2026

New poster for ‘GODZILLA MINUS ZERO’. In theaters on November 6.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yay for people with 70-inch-plus TVs and 8 Joy cons, I guess…?

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My sentiments with my CiB Kirby collection: I only had four left when the pandemic hit, and I’ve gotten three of those since. Really felt like dodging a bullet! So I feel ya there.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jesus. I’ve sometimes considered this, but the hefty price of many of the nearly 30 I don’t own – plus upgrading to CiB from loose card for 10 others – has really dissuaded me. Fair play for your decade-plus of perseverance in achieving this, Skul!

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Very true. Had it been released years ago as planned, it would have been seen by die-hards and quietly forgotten. Though given the distributor paid $50m for the pic, even with this opening, it’ll still lose money (they sold foreign for $20m, so they’d need a $60m+ gross in the US to be profitable).

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I appreciate the extra perspective and meeting each episode on its own terms. Though it probably helps you come to the show for different things than most adult fans! Still, any particular worries or discomfort with this era of the show, now you’re almost halfway through Johto? (2/2)

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Your sentiments on Johto have stayed pretty positive through to the era’s middle (most nowadays think it starts off still pretty solid but gets really sluggish by Season 4 – a 4Kids thing, but basically starting from after Satoshi’s 3rd badge). (1/2)

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A fav of mine too. They’ve used this “cute wild Pokémon uses its looks to swindle our heroes” premise a few times since (that late Sinnoh-era episode with a crazy Togepi), but not too much, and I think this one has high energy and snappy comic timing for a Johto episode too.

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Given all that, small wonder fans don’t remember little but telling moments of characterisation like this. If it ain’t “big enough” to be in the character’s Bulbapedia bio, most won’t remember it. I don’t agree with that sentiment myself, but I understand how it came to be. (4/4)

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

4. Now 4Kids was dubbing other shows, their tendencies got magnified (e.g. kept half as much music as before, swapping tracks far more frequently, etc.) 5. With that dub put-off, that this era of the anime only got fully subbed quite recently contributed to it being ignored for some time. (3/4)

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

2. Johto was when many drifted off watching as kids. When returning as an adult, that makes it prime to skip, and thus only remember what put one off it, not the strengths. 3. Filler episodes without Kanto-style craziness don’t tend to be remembered by most. This one qualifies! But most don’t. (2/4)

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Ghost Mike (Cartoon Karma) @cartoonkarma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I do think people thinking this is for the same reasons as Johto itself often being underrated: 1. Most adult fans want more focused arcs and an emphasis on battle strategy. Not yet in the show’s toolkit here. (1/4)

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