I write things sometimes

im going to stare at it

im going to grin like an idiot

i dont care if you think its bad or not

i love it

Hehehehehehehehe

humidity

oh alas, you say. oh papa, whatever shall i do, it is ever so hotte and drye in california. the very air hath been sucked of all its moisturey droplets and whatnot.* one hundredy and tennith desiccated degrees!

*(yo, drought is serious. i am pretty obviously not making fun of that.)

alright. let’s check it out. here’s a random california city, right about now:

thirty-two percent. and here’s a random mid-atlantic city located somewhere in the wet fleshy crease behind a demon’s knee*:

*(confession: i do not live in dc, but several years ago i spent three weeks steaming like a tinned ham in arlington in august. none of the pants i took with me could ever keep a crease again.)

huh! funny thing! “see, dc’s actually seven degrees COOLER,” you say, because you’ve obviously never gone outside and taken a deep lungful of wet sock trash air in your life. and now for added bliss, here’s what early wednesday morning’s gonna be like for these poor clowns:

that’s right! eighty-two percent humidity! the point at which showers no longer matter, because you’re all caught in God’s grease trap! just stressed human eels miserably slip slidin’ their way through a damp melty bathwater-flavored hellscape that feels like it’s actively sous viding their top layer of skin! a hundred thousand people packed into public transit breathing air that feels like deepthroating swamp thing! and you wanna talk to me about fuckin california!

[cue science voice]: human bodies cool through evaporation, a process by which the body sweats and sweet invisible angels towel us off, whisking away our unwanted moisture into the air and literally chilling us out. (it’s also why air conditioned air feels so fucking deliciously refreshing: it’s not just being cooled, it’s being conditioned, aka, dehumidified. it’s cool dry air.) but. if the air is already made out of fucking chowder and can’t absorb shit then guess what the fuck our bodies can’t do.

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The formerly-Catholic Society of St Pius X triggered the schism by consecrating bishops without the Pope’s approval, a key part of the ceremony for Catholic believers.

and uses its creative freedom given to it by funding backing an existing IP (silly video game) in order to explore these themes in a very not-ironic plot and writing style about little space blobs and also STILL has some of the best animated expression work i’ve ever seen.

parameters: post-canon, let us assume every major player is alive and well. some benevolent god has allowed them to send one (1) person back to the past (let's say cloud recesses era) armed with all knowledge of how things played out in canon. this person's mission is to fix canon mistakes and hopefully secure a better future for everyone involved.

crucially, whoever is sent into the past to try to avoid canon disasters must be chosen by democratic vote (51% of the vote)

The first weekend box office was seemingly not terrible, with a revenue of roughly 150 million yen and about 102,000 attendees. That actually makes it the second-highest grossing opening weekend in the series behind Movie 3. But the review scores are miserable. 1-2 stars everywhere, and as I predicted, turnout is pretty low for week 2 (granted they haven’t started distributing the second round of bonuses yet, so when those come out there might be a few repeat goers). Could be the IP isn’t as popular as they thought, could be it would’ve done better but that word of mouth is really hurting it. I think whether or not it breaks even is really up in the air depending on how much production/advertising costs and if all the merch sales go back into that (I don’t know how much profit is taken by theaters). Especially because they opened it in 350 theaters which seems to have been quite an overestimation.

Despite basically all the word of mouth being overwhelmingly negative (not that there weren’t some positive opinions but the negative voices are the most prominent) they were still planning to hold a post-launch stage greeting tomorrow. Well…not anymore.

The stage greeting, which was set to feature Watanabe, Kozakura, Keigo Sato from JO1 (one of the celebrity guest voice actors), and Fukuda was mysteriously canceled last minute. The official account only cited “various circumstances” but after monitoring social media since the movie’s release, it seems pretty obvious to me and many other people what the reason is: Fukuda was receiving death threats.

I wish I was joking but no, Twitter search and Fukuda’s mentions are full of people hounding him even though (or perhaps because) he’s been trying to avoid mentioning Keroro altogether and is talking about the Sakamoto Days movie again instead. “People online just say stuff because they’re anonymous but won’t actually do anything in person,” you might think, but Japan has to take this stuff very seriously after cases like the Kyoto Animation arson, which was also done by an otaku with a personal vendetta. The screening actually did sell out (probably more because of Keigo Sato than anything else but still) so it wasn’t lack of participation that got it canceled. They almost certainly didn’t have a choice but to avoid taking the risk for the safety of the staff and cast that would be in attendance.

It doesn’t help that around the same time, one of Fukuda’s favorite actors and one who had a cameo role in the Keroro movie, Jiro Sato, has had sexual harassment allegations come out against him. I’m leaning toward this being a coincidence due to the close timing of everything and it’s not like he was going to be at the event, but it definitely would’ve put Fukuda in an even more awkward spot if he were to appear at this screening since Jiro Sato is part of the “Fukuda squad” of recurring staff/actors in Fukuda’s movies and who knows whether anyone in that group knew about this and was covering things up or not. (The actress coming forward with the allegations was his co-star on a very recent TV drama with ongoing filming that does not involve Fukuda to my knowledge.)

Overall, regardless of how good or bad the actual movie is (I know what the problems are but I truly have a hard time believing it’s that irredeemable especially because a couple of the older movies weren’t good either but everyone is too nostalgia-brained to admit it), this is a truly heartbreaking situation for everyone involved especially after how long we’ve been waiting for the anniversary project to come to fruition and it’s extra sad that this is supposed to be the sendoff to the original cast. It’s really appalling to see people threaten a real human being’s life because they didn’t like his 10 minutes of cutaway gags in a cartoon frog movie. On the other hand, I am disappointed to hear about Jiro Sato’s sexual harassment case. I am naturally inclined to believe Ai Hashimoto in this case but the details are still emerging since Sato’s side is trying to put out a defense as well. If the allegations end up being true, it would be wrong of Fukuda to continue working with Sato. That’d be much more offensive to me than the Keroro movie being mediocre. Misogyny is pretty rampant in the Japanese entertainment industry so I have my doubts but I hope for the best.