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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi Episode 7 - Pai Means Many Things
I wanted to make absolutely sure this went up today, as today is Pi Day (3/14). It's possible that all the delays in my life have led up to this moment.
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Thank you, Akira Toriyama
My first experience with the works of Akira Toriyama was from a pack of bootleg playing cards. One day in the 90s on the drive home from school, a friend showed off these flashy, foil-covered, tacky playing cards with the most amazing art on them. Some kind of family
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Mahjong Stuff in Pon No Michi, Episode 6: T (Tetsuman) Pose
A lot of anime that take place in remote, picturesque Japanese towns are specifically trying to push tourism to their real-life settings, betting on the “otaku pilgrimage” effect proven most famously by Girls & Panzer. Pon no Michi— which, if you didn’t notice, is actually punning on the
Rich Gamer, Poor Gamer, Gran Turismo 7
Gran Turismo 7 is a beautiful video game and I legitimately relish driving cars in it. I love its approach, its perspective, the sheer love it displays for its all-consuming obsession with autosport. Also, every time I play GT7, it asks me at least once if I am very
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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.
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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
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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
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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