August 2021

Hell Girl Two Mirrors Anime Review

I must say, that I definitely enjoyed this second installment to the Hell Girl franchise. Enjoy this review and let me know your opinions as well. I also like to give a huge thanks and shout-out to 369Cyber. He played such an influence in voicing my opinions of the Hell Girl franchise. I was also really drawn to his Hell Girl review and I had a lot of fun listening to his opinions as well. Especially the top 15 Hell Girl moments, a video that I found myself religiously watching and enjoying, pardon the pun, the Hell out of it. Lots of love and peace to you, man!

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Boundless Gratitude to My 1701 YouTube Subscribers

Hello, everybody. Antoni here. I know I have been very sporadic with my YouTube content creation, especially where my reviews are concerned, because I have so much to deal with in terms of university, my life as an artist, a writer, and an all-around online content creator. Nevertheless, I am so elated to tell you all that I have just hit 1701 subscribers, and I am very grateful to each and every one of you who has been with me for the past ten years of my overall time on YouTube.   Achieving this milestone has provided me with a lot of empowerment, gratitude, and motivation to never give up on what I am passionate for. Whether it is singing, voice acting, acting, and, most of all, reviewing operas, musicals, ballet, concerts, albums, cartoons, anime, and movies, I am doing all this as a labor of love for all of you who have been tuning in to my channel. I also have to thank you all for your feedback because they definitely helped me to become a lot stronger as a reviewer and look at the installments I have been wanting to review with a closer eye. Therefore, I have you to thank for helping me keep the flame burning.   I would love to thank my icon artists, Katelyn Jewel and Ross Gerson, for their tireless work in making my channel come to fruition, and I really wish you all the best that life and your careers have to offer. I would also love to extend my gratitude to my family, friends, fellow actors, fellow voice actors, fellow singers, fellow musicians, fellow writers, fellow journalists, fellow columnists fellow artists, fans of all my content, and all of my teachers and colleagues from grade school to high school to vocational training to A-Levels to university for believing in me, for pushing me to better myself as a person, and for never giving up on me even if the road is filled with uncertainty. You all deserve my blessings and my shared joy.   Ten years on YouTube with over 1133 videos and achieving 1701 subscribers supporting me and my content has really brought me elation that I would love to share with all of you. If you want to support my content, please like my videos, share my videos, leave comments on my videos, and, most of all, hit that subscribe button and that notification bell to be notified of whatever new content I have to offer. Every time you subscribe to my channel, you are helping me grow as a content creator and I will be eternally grateful for your help. You will not regret it.   Have a lovely day. Thanks again for your boundless support and encouragement. https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=operaanimelover369

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Underlying Sexist Agenda

This demotivational poster is highly Anti-Rumiko Takahashi. Sit back, relax, and revel in the evisceration I have in store for this so-called “Queen of Manga” (Bah! Yeah right!). For those of you who adore Rumiko Takahashi, please take a chill pill and take what I have to declare with the finest grain of salt. What I say is going to be quite controversial, but I do my best to back up my arguments with reasoning. I do not wish her any ill as a person and as an artist, but her flaws as an author are more than sufficient to make her valid for the criticism I have in store for her. Rumiko Takahashi, we meet again. If you know me, I have the most formidable love-hate relationship with this particular mangaka. The other mangaka that trail behind her are the likes of Akira Toriyama, Lynn Okamoto, Go Nagai, and Ken Akamatsu because there are occasions where I can spot some misogyny and other gender role flaws in their works, Toriyama-san your Dragonball franchise is not remotely immune to the misogyny I have spotted, especially when it came to how Chi-Chi was developed in Dragonball Z. However, my sentiments towards Takahashi-san lean towards a strong dislike to her as an author because of how she fails at writing healthy relationships for her characters, does not let her characters develop so well, making a good number of men perverts, an equal number of men jerks with hearts of gold who have justifiable reasons for why they show disgust at other characters even though they are in the wrong, Karma Houdinis who get away with their crimes and escape unscathed, certain child characters who end up as nothing more than punching bags for the jerks with a heart of gold, and, worst of all, women who act like horrible, manipulative, abusive shrews who inflict animosity and physical pain on the male protagonist just because they cannot perform to their every whim let alone their petty demands. Even with this proverbial final nail on the coffin for why I find Rumiko Takahashi rather appalling as a writer, she at least knows how to write women to varying degrees, but that is not saying much. Among all of Rumiko Takahashi’s works, the ones I find guilty of these failures, especially on misogynistic and misandrist level, are Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, and Inuyasha. Not even a fine piece of work such as Maison Ikkoku could escape the criticism it was bound to have. Before I delve into the sexist agenda I have found completely disgusting in several of Rumiko Takahashi’s works, especially the most popular ones, I would like to delve in the problem I have with how she writes interpersonal relationships, which tie in nicely with the sexism that encroached the potential her works have to be great and not just rather decent at best and below mediocre at worst. A lot of her characters have found themselves in horrible, dysfunctional, and toxic relationships. You need not look further than Ataru’s atrocious treatment towards Lum and Shinobu, both the Tendo and the Saotome households filled with animosity just for the sake of some laughs, Akane’s physical abuse against Ranma, Kuno, Ryoga, and Mousse displaying as much animosity towards Ranma for petty reasons, Ginta and Hakkaku sticking by Kouga, even though he himself is a horrible friend to these wolf yokai brothers and despite Hakkaku and Ginta far more confident of Inuyasha’s strength and not Kouga’s, Shippou being used as nothing more than Inuyasha’s punching bag even though he is a young kitsune, Sesshoumaru’s and Inuyasha’s constantly bloodthirsty bickering which tends to get very old after a while, and, the moment you have been all waiting for, Kagome abusing her sit commands towards Inuyasha if he did not obey her. I am specifically calling out Inuyasha and its series of problematic relationships because, despite Miroku aka Daddy Dunderhead and Sango aka Mommy Dunderhead having one attribute in common with Inuyasha which is how Naraku manipulated them to lead lives full of loss and trauma, all Daddy Dunderhead and Mommy Dunderhead ever did was stay by the sidelines, not listen to Inuyasha’s side of the story of how he was still traumatized after Kikyou’s loss, and even restrained Kagome. However, they did not, and they just saw Inuyasha was always in the wrong while giving Kagome free reign to sit him to her petty heart’s content. Shippou aka Baby Dunderhead is just as complicit in not being such a good friend to Inuyasha and always siding with Kagome. Every time I re-watch Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, and Urusei Yatsura, I cannot help but cringe at the absolute frigidity and putridness I have seen in a lot of the relationships to the point where I believe that some characters deserve better and some deserve much worse. Seriously, Takahashi’s idea of healthy relationships makes DiMartino’s, Konietzko’s, Murakami’s, and Timm’s ideas of healthy relationships seem more like magnum opuses because at least in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans, and Justice League the camaraderie is not steeped with animosity nor the putrid scent of toxic relationships. The misandry found in Rumiko Takahashi’s works leave me feeling very ill and disgusted with how men tend to be portrayed. Male characters are often casted as jerks with a heart of gold who are very stubborn yet wonderfully formidable, the romantic rivals who are usually all talk and barely any action and sometimes get away with far too much than they should, and perverts who pleasure themselves with the idea of fondling different women but also objectifying them. I may love Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha to my heart’s content, as they are strong fighters, courageous souls, and brothers who love a good battle. However, these two dog yokai brothers fall in the category of jerks with a heart of gold, with Inuyasha taking that title to a tee and Sesshoumaru starting out as an egotistical jerk but eventually develops slivers of not being as…

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