When they were kids, Fassen's fighter spaceship crash-landed on a planet that Lu's survey force was exploring. It was a forbidden meeting between a kid from a war-focused resistance movement and a kid whose community and planet are dedicated to peace and secrecy.

congratulations to our first desperate cry! shall you satiate this robot's yearning for a kindred spirit?

YES <-

NO <-

mod has also offered some propaganda to support this plea.

mega man is an incredibly extensive franchise! did you know there's not only games (for so many console generations!!), but also an anime (several animated series i believe??), numerous comics, and spin-off games in different genres, including a turn-based rpg? (mega man x: mission command) mod did not know, but wow! and these designs are so cool!! there's such a range of interesting robot designs, both humanoid and not, frankly its awesome!

a video where a desperate man ranks mega man robots available HERE. that used to be on mod's sleep playlist.

colorman.exe ^^ this sprite is so joyous

galaxy man!!

queen virgo!!

more sprites can be found on the mega man sprite archive available on spriter's resource and sprites-inc^^

and some more character art from the wiki that caught my eye!

character art: mega man (corvus noise change version), eugene chaud, princess pride

character art: colorman.exe, treble, protoman.exe

character art: pat fahran, lilly, harp note

character art: wolf, cygnus

character art: gaatz, damian wolfe

character art: nichts, laplace, cubit foxtar

character art: galaxy man, cinnamon, cinnamon's weapons

this plea worked so well that mod's phone crashed and threatened a factory reset due to possibly corrupt data while typing this reply! (worry not, the factory reset was avoided) (surely this too is dr. wily's work)

mod enjoys looking at fighting game sprites so here's some from mega man character appearances in fighting games via fighters generation (big flashing warning for animation pages on this site) i believe these are from the marvel vs. capcom fighting game series specifically?

zero

mega man (blue) & rush (dog)

roll

...hey why does the dog turn into a motorcycle and. ... hoverboard?. thats cool as hell

also i just have to share this anime only character from mega man called... slur? not a slur. just slur. is anyone gonna kin slur? #slur kin anybody?

Hey anon, check these out!

Fly Me to the Moon, Let Me Play Among the Stars

XO

Summary: Mella Sonder is hired as the AI caretaker and, unwittingly, the personal assistant to Annie Inkwyrm, the head of Inkwyrm fashion magazine. Annie is demanding to put it lightly, but the two manage to form a friendship. They and the others on the station grapple with challenges both big and small from deeply rooted anger and familial betrayal to running a meeting while bodyswitched and trying to figure when Annie and Mella are going to get together, already.

Website: https://inkwyrmpodcast.tumblr.com/

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power! :D A five-season show found on Netflix (or 🏴‍☠️ing places…), She-Ra is a wonderful show primarily about two traumatized girls as they learn to cope with their feelings for each other while on opposing sides of a war! Princesses, glitter and sparkles, and catgirls abound! (Okay well, only one catgirl, but she’s basically the main character, ok?)

This show introduces you to a whimsical (and possibly familiar?) world where magic is real and the stars have disappeared. Do you like badass (and non-graphic) fighting scenes? Do you like friendship and relationships taking the spotlight? Do you like the exploration of trauma as it impacts interpersonal relationships? CHECK IT OUT!! And find your kintype!

(Please please we need more sourcemates please 🙏)

she-ra!! etheria really is so beautiful... i've included some extra art of it from the wiki :DDD excellent pitch!!

Do you like robots? Do you like war? Do you like robot war? Do you like robot war…in space? And most importantly, do you at least accept the existences of psychic fuckery and accidental homosexuality?

… Well then. Mobile Suit Gundam might be for you! At least if you kinda don’t mind watching half-century old anime, that is. The highly influential and probably acclaimed 1979 anime directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino kicked off an entire franchise with like endless variations and continuities, and to this day is basically Japanese Star Wars, probably, I’m kinda dumb. Also the toys make fucking bank! But at first they didnt, most the people who actually watched the show back when it first came out were fujoshis (no shade. so am i.) and otherwise probably not the intended audience. 😌

It’s basically about a one year long war (that is, quite suprisingly, called the one year war :0) between the Earth Federation and Zeon, and basically it screws literally everyone ever over. It takes place on both Earth sometimes AND mostly in a shit ton of space colonies. And basically the actual plot is kicked off when a little 15 year old boy by the name of Amuro Ray (ay kay ay Me, who is writing this) just so happens to get in the robot that his father made, which just so happens to be called the Gundam, and accidentally joins the fucking military along with a bunch of people who mostly also don’t really wanna be here but they deal with it a lot better than I did for the most part. And that little 15 year old boy and his gang (which also is Not MY gang by the way I just happen to pilot the most powerful thing basically anyone has, also people try to kick me out multiple times and I kick myself out even for like 5 days and I’m back 🫡) have to go around kicking space Nazi ass for a year because war bad and war sad. No spoilers, also I am terrible at explaining plots, but basically chaos ensues, drama ensues, trauma ensues, mass murder ensues, yaoi ensues, death ensues, psychic power ensues, and literally everything that could be ensued, ensues. Psh pow bang bang pshhhh booooom pow pow psh. Robot murder. Moral of the story: war is bad, wait no war is actually REALLY bad, people get PTSD sometimes, sometimes cool robot isn’t that cool, being in space a lot gives you magic powers, we can make fucking bank off of this, and don’t kill your girlfriend.

Anyway. Sorry for my really bad plot summary, use Google at your discretion for more information. But also I’d like to add if you’re into Neon Genesis Evangelion you might like it. Don’t even be like “but I like it for the Characters and Psychology not the ROBOTS and Gundam is ROBOTS. 🤬🤬” (I SWEAR this is not an insult I am literally an Evangelion fan I’m Joking.) Fear not, it also has trippy mindfuckery sometimes, strange budget issues, a reluctant teenage boy protagonist, parental issues, the killing of a love interest, mass destruction, government shit, boobs, and fun family time! Also if you have any interest in older anime and don’t care about “ohmahgah the thingy is slightly off model! 🥺😢😭” all that much! (I am making Jokes about literally Everything this isn’t supposed to be mean I’m sorry sometimes I think things look weird too so I think it’s okay. ☹️) because fun fact, the fucking ANIMATION DIRECTOR was IN THE HOSPITAL half the time! It’s still really pretty though I swear. And if you have any interest in space or military or combinations of the two it’s fun. And sexy blonds!

You can watch the thing on idk Crunchyroll, or through alternative methods. 😇 And you USED to be able to watch the MOVIE version on Netflix but theyre a little bitch and took all UC content off their service which makes me really sad. Oh also I forgot to mention! If you don’t feel like watching all 43 episodes theres 3 movies that basically sum up the thing by like taking out all the not that important stuff and also its kinda reanimated sometimes so thats really cool.

Anyway, have fun and tell me which one of the child soldiers you ended up as. :)

(and I SWEAR the intro theme is good. Moeagare moeagare moeagare gandamu…🥺🥺🥺🥺)

-Signed, a terribly desperate Amuro Ray. I’m so sorry for all the jokes I swear I can be serious I’m just really not.

oooh!! excellent pitch!! thank you ray 🙇

let mod just say, aside from all the war, this source is also visually stunning in terms of its setting?

mod could not easily find screenshots of the setting in the anime via wiki, however mod did find some lovely concept and background art from the production of mobile suit gundam via gundamunofficial! artist for these is nakamura mitsuki.

as well, here's a few people that caught mod's eye.

character art: oscar dublin, fraw bow

character art: lalah sune, crowley hamon, rolland chuan

character art: kai shiden, kai shiden, kai shiden (what's with this guy? i'm fascinated, he's a chameleon)

and mod confirms the intro theme does indeed bang. (pulsing light warning for initial 12 seconds)

Cool. Awkward. Black. ed. Karen Strong YA Fantasy / Historical / Romance / Sci-Fi, 2023, 336 pg all black cast; gay male; gay transgender male; foster care female; Haitian female; female with ADHD

A girl who believes in UFOs; a boy who might have finally found his Prince Charming; a hopeful performer who dreams of being cast in her school’s production of The Sound of Music; a misunderstood magician of sorts with a power she doesn’t quite understand.

These plotlines and many more compose the eclectic stories found within the pages of this dynamic, exciting, and expansive collection featuring exclusively Black characters!