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On the Shoulders of Giants @osgpod.bsky.social · 2h

The Gundam SEED episode is in its tiny shuttle, its course directly between you and the Strike Gunda--OH NO! Join us and the beloved @riderstrike.bsky.social to talk about love, twinks, the pitfalls of eugenicist race rhetoric, and a thing that rhymes with Snum Drum... osgpod.com/posts/2026-0...

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Ep 0083 - Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)

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Thembo @thembo.bsky.social · 5h

Banning fraternities forever is the moderate position

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of people commenting on the weird things in this video but nobody has mentioned the truck for something called SEX TOURNAMENT

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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 6h

My take on today’s anime discourse is you are an uncultured enemy of the visual arts if you call it Brain Powered instead of its proper canonical title Brain Powerd

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 11h

random find from my Pictures folder

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Coop @riderstrike.bsky.social · 13h

New on the MediaOCD Blog... Jonathan Clements gets sucked down the bathhouse drain of Mari Yamazaki's Thermae Romae in today's Behind the Screens! I don't know about you, but I could go for a good soak after reading this. mediaocd.com/behind-the-s...

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Behind the Screens: Thermae Romae - MediaOCD.com

Mari Yamazaki is a woman who thinks about the Roman Empire every day...

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Joey ‘Detchibe' W. 🏳️‍⚧️ @thestacks.ca · 12h

I recently increased the rate for pitches to The Stacks. If you or someone you know would like to write for my site, please get in touch. I focus on obscure games history, sex, gender, and art history but am open to other topics thestacks.ca/submissions

RATES
• $100CAD for shorter essays/articles between ~600-1000 words (Example
• Up to $250CAD for larger scale research essays/articles/projects of ~ 2000 words or more (Example)
• Higher rates for very large research essays/articles/projects of ~5000 words or more (Example)
• Rates may vary depending on research involved, interviews, etc

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mary worth is lit @wilburwurthless.bsky.social · 13h

he's the best there is at what he does and what he does is post g*atse

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SpaceQueenEmily @spacequeenemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And it's all in service of some real deep cut sicko shit! Giant Robot FM is also covering Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, the mecha anime from Masaki Kajishima, creator of Tenchi Muyo! I'll be guesting on a few episodes of this as well!

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SpaceQueenEmily @spacequeenemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And I get to bring my own Toonami-inspired programming block Toonemily to Giant Robot FM for their watch parties on the three Tenchi films! Stay tuned for more on that!

GIANT ROBOT FM & TOONEMILY Present: TENCHI MUYO in LOVE!

Premiering the Weekend of October 17th

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SpaceQueenEmily @spacequeenemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's time for me to talk about Tenchi Muyo into a microphone again, and boy howdy are we taking the plunge! I get to play guest cohost and lead the charge into the greater Tenchi universe writ large, and what incredible timing with the new Tenchi Galaxy Kickstarter's runaway success!

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chungris @chungris.bsky.social · 16h

how do you even fuck this one up

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 15h

Delighted to contribute a few words to this excellent piece, along with loads more wonderful composers 💖

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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is going to be the wildest shit

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've described Alfasys' PS1 RPGs as being RPGs for RPG devs and nowhere is that more true than Gunparade March. I almost never use the word "masterpiece" since it's so hackneyed, but if ever there was one for systems-driven storytelling, GPM is it, as barely held together as parts of it often are.

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Ogre Run @ogre-run.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coincidentally, in Japan, it’s the 28th which marks the 26th anniversary of Gunparade March’s release date. Happy birthday to one of the greatest games of all time: ogrerun.com/2025/11/29/g...

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Gunparade March and the JRPG at the Turn of the New Millennium

Here, players can eternally live out their teenage post-apocalyptic fantasy. But, this dream can only last so long and Gunparade seems aware of that. Partake in its social system to learn the truth…

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krugman ＠動作不良品(カビ) @krugman.net · 28/09/2026

remember that scene in Otaku no Video where Kubo gets called a City Boy? for all my life i thought they made up that term, cos i had never once seen it used elsewhere - until now, haha! behold, on the back cover of T.G.I.F. for PC-8801: (bad pic from auctions)

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Pin🌸ゆずもデザイン @pinyuzumo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sakura Wars: An Oral History from Its Creators [ENG SUB] I edited the video I posted the other day and re-uploaded it. Here's the new URL. If you haven't watched it yet, check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHfm... #SakuraWars #sega

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【開発者に直接取材】サクラ大戦開発秘話│Sakura Wars: An Oral History from Its Creators [ENG SUB]

YouTube video by ゆずもデザインゲーム動画部

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Hellie @hecuba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQRp...

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had a really cool time chatting with David DiDonato, an Austin musician who scores silent era films like Metropolis and Nosferatu and performs them live at screenings around the country. It's a super neat way to bring these films to new audiences: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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How a guitar-shredding Texan is giving a 100-year-old silent film a new life

"I thought that it deserved that type of treatment."

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Bill Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crimelord whose desk and office chair turns into a spider-mech with quad gatling guns in a PS2 third person shooter.

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Pin🌸ゆずもデザイン @pinyuzumo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A video explaining the untold story behind the development of Sakura Wars. Give it a watch! It's packed with episodes and images you won't find anywhere else.?? Sakura Wars: An Oral History from Its Creators [ENG SUB] youtu.be/qaUnZpmbFoQ?... #SakuraWars #SEGA

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【開発者に直接取材!!】サクラ大戦開発秘話│Sakura Wars: An Oral History from Its Creators [ENG SUB]

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the more unfinished projects you have the better. the bigger your graveyard the more strange zombies you can sew together from the body parts. do not feel self-conscious about it. just keep making.

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Outside of the complete lack of Adult Swim this list isn’t as bad I was expecting? Really happy to see Bojack, Battlestar Galactica, and Halt and Catch Fire on it

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one aspect regarding retro gaming scenes that genAI has been blazingly efficient at is in trust erosion whether it’s fan TLs, FPGA cores, or recomp scenes, within the past year so much optimism and excitement regarding new projects has been swiftly replaced with doubt and suspicion thank you genAI

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piper 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @velvetxero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

somehow haven't shared this here yet but A24 is making a zine for DVDs as a cross-promo for primetime and oh. Oh My God (link is shop.a24films.com/products/dis...)

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 25/09/2026

neat! NGF is an immediately practical starting point, too—online SNK resources have been chronically burdened by erroneous "translations" that have been purple-monkey-dishwashered across multiple languages for decades, and this archive might provide the final push to start cleaning em up en masse

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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 21/09/2026

banging out the tunes for Tony and Chrissy

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/09/2026

The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984

the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto
PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEMS & the
RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS !
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD . You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS
you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE
because it is INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN !
Art wakes up sleepers !
ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPDITY !
ART SINGS HALLELUJA!
ART IS FOR KITCHENS!
ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD!
Art is like green trees!
Art is like white clouds in blue sky!
ART IS CHEAP!
HURRAH!
Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984

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erin plasma @plasmasword.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

thing i hadnt quite put together in my head, link between someone like a linda mcmahon trying to groom schoolchildren onto AI and someone like jensen huang, that i now fully realize is that they *hate* children unless they're being made into good little servile workers to make the rich richer

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pauline value-added consumer incentive @spacehunterm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Syncing @naveryw.bsky.social's copy of STAR QUEST to the JPBD for a mux some folks are working on.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apparently one last Tokyopop email has hit the internet, and this one's a doozy in sheer length and rambling. It starts off w/ Stu glossing over the company's history yet again while revealing he wanted to do a similar investment scheme in Japan in 2006.

WE ALMOST WENT PUBLIC 20 YEARS AGO IN JAPAN

Back during what I call TOKYOPOP 1.0, things happened very fast.
We were a young, small, rapidly growing startup.
We weren't a technology company - we were a content company - but we definitely had a tech company vibe.
Some of that certainly came from me.
I was a young coder before I ever became a creator or entrepreneur. As a middle school kid I had a RadioShack TRS-80 at home and taught myself BASIC, making silly graphics and text-only RPGs with my friends.
Years later in Japan, I launched an early online service called Japan Online, won an award for it and was even offered an opportunity to lead Microsoft Network Japan at the dawn of the Internet era.
I chose a different path.
Manga!
And in 2002, when we launched what we called AUTHENTIC MANGA, our little company suddenly took off like a rocket ship.
Waldenbooks caught on. Then Borders. Then Barnes & Noble.
Manga sections exploded.
TOKYOPOP blazed the trail for an entirely new category of publishing in America.

We got attention from the media.
From Hollywood.
From Japan.
And eventually from Wall Street...

TOKYOPOP'S FIRST SHOT AT GOING PUBLIC

While we were hot, Warner Bros. and DC Comics made an offer to acquire TOKYOPOP.
But our primary financial backer was SBI, one of Japan's leading venture investors - and still Tokyopop's second-largest shareholder today.
So, we signed Daiwa Securities as our lead banker and started preparing to take TOKYOPOP public in Japan.
But it was incredibly difficult.
Our business operated primarily in America. Our documentation was in English. Our financial statements were prepared US GAAP.
Suddenly we were trying to translate enormous amounts of corporate documentation and prepare an American company for the Japanese public markets.

Remember, this was *long* before AI could translate a 200-page document in a few seconds!
We worked our butts off, but we didn't make it in time.
The market window closed.
And the world changed almost overnight.

AND THEN THINGS GOT REALLY HARD

Manga piracy exploded.
Compeition intensified into what I used to call the manga "arms race."
The global financial crisis hit.
Borders - one of the companies that helped build the American manga market - went bankrupt.
And TOKYOPOP nearly went down with it.
We had a massive layoff and ultimately shut down our US publishing operation.
It was the toughest period of my life.
I've certainly learned something about entrepreneurship over nearly 30 years:
You're constantly fighting for your vision through a roller coaster of ups and downs.

And that's especially true in creative businesses.
Nobody knows where the next massive franchise will come from.
Nobody knows with certainty which story will connect with millions of people and which one won't.
You can study the market.
Look at the data.
Work with incredibly talented people.
Make the smartest decisions you know how to make.
And sometimes you'll still be wrong.
Other times, something you believe in that everyone else thinks is crazy turns into something huge.
That's the business we're in.
Our job is to keep swinging.
Learn from the misses.
Build on the hits.
And keep searching for that next creator, story, or idea that fans will fall in love with.

THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE.

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Starting today, we're piloting Japanese magazines in our digital archive! We've spent the last few months upgrading our library infrastructure to support Japanese-language material, starting with the magazine Neo Geo Freak. Read the full blog post for more info: gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/

A two-page spread from Neo Geo Freak featuring Nakoruru from the game Samurai Shodown. All text is accurately highlighted on the page, including vertical writing being mapped vertically.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 24/09/2026

lots of info here on the makings of early Samsho (and quite a few pre-NG titles, too), including some insight on just how Samsho 3 ended up the way it did

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Andrew Elmore 💽 @elmore.zone · 23/09/2026

Updating this while I sit by the phone waiting to hear back from a recruiter to see if they have anything yet, still. I feel like I'm losing what's left of my mind in search of something very basic that no longer exists. I always hate asking, but invoices are coming in too slow and too small. Still.

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Donate to Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat, organized by Andrew Elmore

Hey there! I'm Andrew, this is my wife Savannah. We have two kids, and we're… Andrew Elmore needs your support for Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat

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Personasama @persona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you ever enjoyed Topher's work like: "A semi-alphabetical listing of Black actors with speaking roles on Friends", "Sonic 2 Special Edition", "Caring and Supportive Funky Kong Gives You A Ride", or my fav "Prom Night" - please support him and his family if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-willi...

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Donate to Help William Florence's Family With Farewell Costs, organized by T. Florence

We are heartbroken at the passing of William Florence at the age of 7… T. Florence needs your support for Help William Florence's Family With Farewell Costs

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AnimEigo @animeigo.com · 23/09/2026

New Animeigo & Whole Grain Pictures pre-orders! First up... AD Police! The classic OVA series newly remastered in 4K! Includes UHD disc & a standard Blu-ray! Plus an exclusive slipcover at the MediaOCD store mediaocd.com/product/ad-p...

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