EXCITED TIMES BEGIN NOW

Okay, today (Sunday) was great. We spent most of the day hanging out with Anne. This was the first time Anne met Danny and they hit it off great, which meant all three of us were gleefully enjoying Avatar: the Last Airbender in no time. Cupcakes were made, and we talked about everything under the sun. I also finished my entry for round two of the Rangers United Contest (thank god, FINALLY).

This means I can get back to working on the two games Danny and I are making, work on the comic script I'm making for a project with Molly, and get back to revisions on my short stories so I can submit them in an attempt to get them published. Woo!

AND! I START AT NEW JOB TOMORROW. SO EXCITED GUYS. I just got my new employee paperwork ready and directions to my place of training printed out for tomorrow morning and now I shall sleep.

My first day at work was great, but more importantly

Dear guys who made the new Lupin III show,

You're doing okay. If you do anymore butterfly/owl/flashback/oh noes repressed memories flashback bullshit, you will have crossed the line into stupidly overtrodden territory (especially for anime) so I sincerely hope you cut that shit the fuck out.

Also, inserting a pretty male character into Lupin III is unacceptable and does not match the style. Only women are pretty in the Lupin III universe; if men are pretty, they still look like Goemon. Your negative homosexual stereotype is a pretty man who was arbitrarily inserted into the show and demonizes gay men while also being a misogynistic jealous waste of space.

I'm not too keen on the sexism either, but if your stupid, pretentious, poorly-written inserted character wasn't in the show, the sexism would be at least 50% less prevalent. Also, your "rewrite" on Zenigata's personality is neither interesting, nor original.

Why is it that whenever you do a show focusing on Fujiko, you make it suck, and you make her suck by extension? It is, in fact, YOU that suck for this failure.

The first four episodes were fine, and the fifth was still okay, but the sixth episode was so wildly offensive on every level that my night has pretty much been ruined.

I'm more mad because you raised my hopes that the show wouldn't arbitrarily insert rape and torture into Fujiko's backstory just because she's female, but your stupid flashback scenes suggest that in fact, you did.

In closing, what the hell were you thinking? "Oh look, we'll add a pretty psychotic guy, nobody EVER does that in every anime"?

-Dev