iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

in conclusion, 追証だ~！追証だ~！

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Now is not the time for me to cram a thesis on eroguro into a bsky thread, but I will say that a lost of the commentary I've seen on FX Fighter Kurumi-chan from Western weebs has really missed the point. Meanwhile the Japanese audience is a. laughing and b. saying, "this is gonna give me PTSD."

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One is less frantic than the other, but they're in the same register of CGDCT aesthetics juxtaposed with seinen seriousnes. And if you watched Akiba Maid War, you know that it is just as grim as its yakuza-movie forebears while also being extremely funny.

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Between the Nicodouga chiptune / denpa aesthetics of the music and the juxtaposition of classic dances with frankly quite grim lyrics, it's clear that they're really going for aesthetics fitting of the setting of the show ('08-'13), which revolves around the 2008 financial crisis.

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It's funny watching non-Japanese viewers of FX Fighter Kurumi-chan talk about the contrast between the bright'n'bubbly opener (done by the same AD who did the similarly bubbly opener for Onimai) and the grimdark contents of the show.

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mark my words, this is going to be the Akiba Maid War of autumn 2026's anime season. it's got the juiice.

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sof @mofu.run · 02/10/2026

I see you too are a person of culture

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anime of the year right here

FX Senshi Kurumi-chan episode 1 screencap. And so the long awaited forex anime starts and it brings exactly as much quotable content as you'd expect, starting exactly with this perfect frame of girl looking at a candle chart going down and her freaking out and begging god about how she can't lose that money while almost pulling her hair out of her head, and it's so funny because like, initially I thought this was going to be about the stock market or something, but like, forex is somehow so much better because like, girl, with the current state of yen, how does anyone lose money with yen/usd, like, what are you even doing here, and I'm fascinated and excited to see what comes next

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have you been hiding something from us? long winded opinions about Alfred Hitchcock, for example?

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what – and I say this with absolutely no disrespect to @mitchellh.com, who I admire – the fuck

Codex billboard featuring Mitchell Hashinoto in SF’s Union Square

ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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I went shopping with a friend at LoFT in Umeda / Osaka last winter and they were looking for something specific so I just sat on the benches next to the escalators, and there was a Haikyuu!! event with standees of the boys and not one of the girls

Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

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jana: so you know the thing you think of as a mushroom? that's actually just the reproductive organ of the real organism. this four-pack of sugar free redbull is basically the same thing, but for the organism that is the redbull brand 14 year old grocery store employee: it's still shoplifting, dude

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

it's kinda funny that I never, *ever* hear anybody ever mention Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie

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Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Instantly cured my depression thinking about Hank Hill pronouncing "Nier: Automata"

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related: YH decided to get weird with it for this year’s cover design theme

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 26/09/2026

I kinda feel like it wouldn’t kill Kinokuniya SF to stock more than one copy of Yuri Hime a month

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Bluesky didn't have videos or GIFs or alt text either. It did have trans shitposters that really made this place happen.

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Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m not a Star Wars person but the implication that what Ralph McQusrrie did was not art is spiritually offensive to me

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I second Lady Snowblood. Gorgeous movie, and I love seeing more female lead action films! This one's so brutal too, in the best way.

she should have preserved her dignity by saying she got super into Bayonetta

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 24/09/2026

is this gonna be a reprise of the Buckfast Incident orrrr

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my "this is not a doomsday cult" t shirt has people asking a lot of questions that i feel will be answered when the seventh seal is broken

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Specifically, this is a preview of how Newsom thinks about executive privilege, which is that the imperial presidency is good and cool, actually. If the Democrats put another executive privilege maximalist in the white house, that’s kinda it for democracy in the US.

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Gavin Newsom will never be president.

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I think this sucks shit. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if anybody wants a copy of the regular edition of Chihayafuru S3 on Blu-ray, lemme know (I love a Sentai sale)

copies of:
- Chihayafuru S3 Ltd Ed
- The Executioner and Her Way of Life Ltd Ed
- Ya Boy Kongming! Ltd Ed
- Ya Boy Kongming! The Road to Summer Sonia (movie)
- Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works
- Recycle of the Penguindrum (summary movie)

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Robert Anton Wilson was right. About everything.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it will forever bug me that it's spelled Revue Starlight and not Revue Starlite

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

PSA: Please listen to the DJ Trace mix of A Better Place by DJ Tamsin & The Monk feat. Nico Sykes on the console. Pure uplifting darkside vibes from 1993. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylmo...

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DJ Tamsin & The Monk - A Better Place (DJ Trace Mix)

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crim✌️ @crimzeon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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i took 6mg of melatonin and made this

Definitive It's MyGO!!!!! + Ave Mujica Watch Order
It's MyGO!!!!!
Ave Mujica

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𝘖𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘬𝘪 @osngk2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

須東　亜莉詩安　　（アリシア）

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"an inexpensive hobby" is such an Eric Adams formulation

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I suppose it says something about me that I often forget there are prominent male characters (protagonists, even) in all the Toaru shows (maybe not so much in the new one???)

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These days I just look at what people (try to) do with TypeScript and sigh a lot.

CLOS let you do pretty much whatever with whatever, and it's both incredibly cool and sanity shattering. Dylan tried to sand some of the rough edges off, and ended up producing a generic function design that was just about beyond the ability of compiler tech of the time to optimize.

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