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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 5h

yeah, when you think about it, shin kamen rider is a buddhist movie. anno's most spiritual flick

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I can't put down In the Miso Soup. Murakami Ryū is that good.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even Jet Kusamura is usually a much better artist than that.

Artwork from Shaman King Red Crimson by Jet Kusamura

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One need only to take a quick look at his current artstyle on JURO to understand that he is not drawing this "Martial War". Takei didn't touch that stuff outside of creating the designs and some concept arts.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now I get it, it's the product of a nepo baby (one of the two american guys is a 50k followers influencer as well as the son of longtime Donald Trump's friend Dana White, the president of UFC). That's why it gets this kind of marketing even though it looks so bad, fake and amateurish.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can't stop thinking about the buddhist monk Kakua that when was asked by the Emperor to explain what his "new thing" (zen buddhism) was he just started playing the flute without saying anything...

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Isn't it better for Haruki Murakami's fans that he keeps not winning the nobel? If he wins, they lose the tradition of gathering together every year to cheer for him. It'd be like witnessing your favorite soccer team win the championship and then stop watching soccer forever.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

eh? This is maybe Takei's worst artwork ever. I don't get the point of employing a japanese artist to make him draw something that couldn't be further from his style written by a bunch of nobodies.

Dark Horse's announcement for a manga titled Martial War by Hiroyuki Takei, Jet Kusamura, Will Carter and Aidan White

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, something might be in the works, but probably not with Anno directing.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yesterday: An anonymous insider says to a japanese magazine that Shin Godzilla 2 is happening and it's going to be shooted in november, with the old cast returning and the addition of Minami Hamabe (Godzilla Minus One, Shin Kamen Rider) e Tasuku Emoto (Shin Kamen Rider).

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

September 2026: A production for a "Toho Blockbuster" helmed by Shinji Higuchi and Katsurō Onoue (Higuchi and Anno's right hand when it comes to tokusatsu) that starts shooting in november places an announcement seeking for extras.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don't know if you're following what's happening, but a Shin Godzilla sequel might actually start shooting next month... Brief summary March 2025: Anno openly states that he has 5 scripts commitment for different projects.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, I agree that it works much better if you've already seen the whole series. I don't get why people seem to be obsessed with inviting others to watch it in the middle of it. If you don't know who Ypsilon is, it loses all of its power.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My problem is that I'm the kind of guy that mostly uses social media to absorb information, so I need my daily fill of otaku sharing their knowledge to make my stay on a platform worthwhile.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Twitter/X is a shithole, but BlueSky is kinda boring.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

P.s.: One year ago Anno became a member of the board of Production I.G P.s.2: This is where Anno took the "Cosmoship" title from. bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, as expected. 宇宙戦艦ヤマト√2199（ルート2199) Uchū senkan Yamato rūto 2199 Cosmoship Yamato √2199 Rūto is both "root" and "route". Director, Planning, Executive Producer: Hideaki Anno Director: Yutaka Izubuchi Studio Khara x Production I.G

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Purtroppo l'organizzazione del tutto è stata pessima, come al solito per il Romics (ti dico solo che non siamo neanche riusciti a vedere il film!), quindi ho diversi rimpianti sulla cosa, ma sono contento di essere riuscito almeno a dirgli queste due cose.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lo hanno invitato per dargli il Romics d'oro e per l'occasione hanno fatto proiezione del suo ultimo film + Q&A con il pubblico, quindi ho approfittato di quest'ultima cosa per fargli una domanda (in italiano) sul film e infilarci due frasi in giapponese per vedere se mi capiva ahahah

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Had a chance of saying something to Takeshi Koike in japanese and he understood me, so I don't need anything else.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They've postponed the sale of the acrylic stands and now they'll be only available through mail-order after the end of the event, probably because they'll try to change them.

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JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 01/10/2026

"When books become 'texts' that we 'interact' with according to criteria of utility, the written word will have become simply another aspect of our advertising-driven televisual reality. […] It means nothing less than the death of inwardness—and of the book." – Susan Sontag

I’m sorry to have to tell you that books are now considered an endangered species. By books, I also mean the conditions of reading that make possible literature and its soul effects. Soon, we are told, we will call up on “bookscreens” any “text” on demand, and will be able to change its appearance, ask questions of it, “interact” with it. When books become “texts” that we “interact” with according to criteria of utility, the written word will have become simply another aspect of our advertising-driven televisual reality. This is the glorious future being created, and promised to us, as something more “democratic.” Of course, it means nothing less than the death of inwardness—and of the book.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gamification can be a great tool to remain consistent and build an habit out of studying, but you need to be capable of being your own game master and to have the honesty to not be too permissive with yourself.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't think there's anything wrong with using Duolingo if you are aware that it's just a way to pass the time and learn a couple of new words from another language. But it can clearly become a trap because it's tuned to making its users develop the delusion of learning a language for real.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course all of this is connected to the fact that Duolingo is a privately owned company that aims at making a profit. Their business is not teaching you a language, but keeping you engaged with the app in a long span of time.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That there is a wide disconnect between its model of gamification and the learning process is clear from the fact that things like power ups to freeze your streak exist. Even if you don't lose your streak, if you don't study for a day/week you are still skipping a day/week in real life.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The bare minimum to maintain a streak on Duolingo is insufficient to learn a language because it's too low effort even when compared to the less-intensive method of self-study, especially if you want to study a language that is vastly different from yours (like japanese is for most westerners).

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem with Duolingo is not the gamification in itself, but the fact that said gamification is not adjusted with learning in mind and is instead tuned to keeping the user happy. No frustration, no friction, just the illusion of progression even when you're doing virtually nothing.

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Lupin Central @lupincentral.com · 30/09/2026

Here is a comparison of the previous Blu-ray release (left) and the new 4K restoration (right).

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Part 1 Lupin: random frame from the series Part 2 Lupin: random modern artwork Part 3 Lupin: random frame from the series Part 4 Lupin: a Part 5 (why???) artwork by the chara designer Part 5 Lupin: another Part 5 artwork by the chara designer Part 6 Lupin: a Part 6 artwork by the chara designer

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These acrilic stands reminds me of how bad TMS is at handling the Lupin The Third franchise and at catering to the fans, which is probably one of the reasons why its popularity is in steep decline in Japan. These acrylic stands are completely inconsistent and even contain a giant mistake.

A promotional picture for acrylic stands of Lupin The Third.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

anything from their colonialist past since it could be connected to our own colonialist past and we don't want that 😇).

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, the way westerners used to talk about Godzilla was riddled with racism of the "weird japan" kind, and of course now they're all happy to embrace the one Godzilla movie that is directed like a hollywood blockbuster and has japanese repenting for what they did during WW2 (without acknowledging

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the place where this movie got most of its praises.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ideas from one of them even served as inspiration for the original plot of Godzilla Minus One. Considering the role that US had in enabling JP's victimist view of WW2 with the way they handled the postwar occupation and the Tokyo Trial, maybe it shouldn't be surprising that the US is one of

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coincidentally, Yamazaki is also the same director that made two movie adaptations of books written by a major extreme rightwing novelist famous for being an outspoken denial of Japan's war crimes and a close friend to the late rightwing twotimes PM Shinzō Abe.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

idea of the Japanese population as the main (->only) victim of its government without any reference to what Japan actually did to other Asian populations. I'd say that the politics of the movie can be described at best as naif since how much they try to present an uncontroversial view of WW2.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Usually this kind of things doesn't touch me at all, but the way westerners talk about Takashi Yamazaki and his Godzilla movies in particular really rubs me off the wrong way. Minus One here was received as a scathing critique of Japan's imperial past, ignoring that the movie presents the common

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I had unlimited time this is the kind of things I'd be reading 24/7.

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BungakuReportEN（文学通信海外版） @bungakureporten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650–850 Bryan D. Lowe University of Hawai'i Press uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Almost finished watching Votoms and I finally understand the connection with Lupin III - The Mystery of Mamoo.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fantasma indubbiamente uno dei loro picchi, nonché uno dei pochissimi album che ho fisici. "Nessuno" e "Cristina" canzoni per me magnifiche. Ma devo dire che in generale la loro discografia mi piace un po' tutta.

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Matteo Caronna (Maborupa) @matteocaronna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ma sai che invece io sapevo che questo è considerato quasi unanimente il loro peggiore? Anche perché pare sia stato messo insieme un po' in fretta per motivi contrattuali. Personalmente anche io non lo trovo buono, soprattutto perché ripetitivo, ma alcune canzoni prese da sole mi piacciono molto.

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