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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi, Episode 5: They Tell This Girl They're Gonna Play Mahjong, But Then They Don't
Nothing is impossible in mahjong, though. Play long enough and you will see some things.
David Cabrera
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon no Michi, Episode 4: I Never Typed a Title Into This One But It's An Ad For Mahjong Soul
video games
Nier: Automata's 2B in Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising is not the character Nier from Granblue Fantasy, that's a different character
Nier from Granblue Fantasy is the evil catgirl. This is 2B from the videogame Nier: Automata in the fighting game spinoff of Granblue Fantasy where Nier, an evil catgirl, is also present.
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon no Michi, Episode 3 - You Probably Shouldn't Just Eat Curry On The Table Like That
Though there isn’t a ton of mahjong in this episode, I managed to squeeze quite a bit out. This is actually the episode where I decided to write this series, as the subs were finding such new and exciting ways to blow it on terminology.
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi, Episode 2: Tsubame gaeshi...
This wasn’t necessary to specify before, but I’ll restate that I’m using Bilibili’s subs, with all of the mahjong-related flubs that they make. There are a few fansub efforts around Pon no Michi that fix incorrect translations, but I conceived of this idea while looking at
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi, Episode 1: You Probably Haven't Heard of This Manga
This introductory week has to introduce the girls, reveal the parlor, reveal Chombo the mascot character, teach the girls mahjong, and get them in a game all in one shot, so it's very heavy on mahjong stuff. This post is even bigger than the last one, so let&
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon no Michi, Episode 0: Starting from the names
I had been looking forward to Pon no Michi (The Way of Pon), or perhaps I was looking forward to what I thought Pon no Michi might have made happen. Anime series about niche interests always bring new converts into the fold— I was myself inspired to learn mahjong by
Silent Hill: The Short Message re-imagines the horror series as a teen public service announcement
Heads up: the game I’m about to talk about prominently features themes of suicide, bullying, abuse, and self-harm. While I’m at it, despite the banner I have chosen, there is little in the way of gore or disturbing horror imagery: the nastiest things you see in this game
anime
Acrobunch Spoiler Space
Some of you will probably want to know what the mystery of Quaschika is, and to be quite honest this show can be a bit of a slog. A few episodes in I was only slogging through it to find out for myself as the show waved “this week, Quaschika!
anime
The ancient 80s robot anime Acrobunch threatens to become interesting, but rarely follows through
I’ve been looking at my stacks of Blu-Rays, a collection started largely during 2020 Covid lockdown, and realizing maybe I oughta watch some of them. You never know when a Discotek title is going out of print— in fact the only way you can buy the series I’m
Play Journal: Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising
I’ve had to unlearn the way I used to play Granblue Fantasy Versus in the sequel, Rising. GBVS was a fusion of a classical Street Fighter style— walk back and forth, poke at each other with sticks— and easy, flashy combos like those you’d see in an “anime”
Welcome to the Fun Club on Ghost!
If you’re seeing this in your email— and if you subscribed to the old Substack you should be— you’re subscribed to my new newsletter. This is just a test post to make sure everything is working. Unlike the post where I left Substack, I don’t really have