The Diet Building photographed from behind. The Diet is the Japanese legislative body the building has a curious architecture. The lower half to me is very Greco Roman but the top is almost meso-American.
As we have seen establishing and maintaining a democracy is a difficult thing to do. Power gives you the ability to use that power in order to gain more power. There is always the temptation to rig things in your favor. As we have seen in many countries protecting freedom and carefully balancing people’s liberties is a difficult process.
I believe we were robbed of a future where physical fitness is not socially regulated via apps and trends like crossfit and such and instead theres an arcade dance game on the corner of every street and inside of every building
catch me in a better timeline wearing full office attire right after my 9-5 doing this to stay fit and de-stress instead of hunting down my clients
Is Lupin III technically a fanwork considering it’s a sequel series to the early 20th century French novels?
It’s a bit complicated. During the 60s, at the time of creation, the Arsène Lupin property hadn’t fallen in the public domain yet, but at the same time, Japan’s trade copyright law had a loophole that allowed for the publishing of derivative works of imported fiction within the country. The LeBlanc estate discovered that fact a little too late when Lupin III had already become a hit in Japan, so they let them do their thing as long as the series never made its way out of the country without alterations to remove any reference to Arsène Lupin (hence why Streamline and Manga UK’s dubs in the 90s changed his name to Wolf). This remained the case until the Arsène Lupin property ultimately languished into public domain in the early 2000s.
It’s basically a very rare case of a fan sequel that manages to rival the original’s popularity, and it all happened thanks to a perfect storm of lax copyright laws.
Are Aya and Maya Brea (of Parasite Eve) named after the La Brea tar pits?
The PE1 level design makes total sense if someone only ever went to the tar pit museum in LA and saw the skeletons and then only read a (room-by-room) description of the Natural History Museum in NYC
Kinda like how Silent Hill was a Japanese take on New England horror and it all looked like small town PNW
Kisarazu sister of the Japanese Ground Special Defense Force showing off their anti-tank helicopters. Really really cute helicopters. These people are legit members of the JGSDF
So this is the Japanese equivalent of Pounded by the Pound, pretty much? Our cultures aren’t as different as one might think.
in the sequel the post office girl drops a package into a lake, which becomes a riff on The Honest Woodcutter only it turns out the package was a masturbation sleeve and what’s she going to do with gold and silver ones of those so the goddess gives her a dick to use them with
