DANNY page.

I've been going through old Anime Insider issues for fun. There's this one article where they Japanified Scooby-Doo and they just turned Shaggy into Yu Narukami.

First look at the Robins in the ‘ABSOLUTE BATMAN’ series.

An interesting Japanese post about the decline of manga reading in Japan. “This issue is simply because, as Osamu Tezuka said, back then, "manga was kids' snacks." But now, TikTok Reels are kids' snacks.” A very true sentiment. New art forms often spread due to its proximity to “cheap, easy, accessible”, and manga was that back in the 1960s. Now, your phone is “cheap, easy and accessible”, so people develop their time-wasting habits on it like they did with cheap manga once. As they grow older, however, they will seek more meaning. Meanwhile, manga will never disappear. If prose fiction didn’t disappear (doing just fine), and radio didn’t disappear (now back as podcasts and very popular), manga wouldn’t either.

Often thinking of these 2 Stories American Pop: People COULD make great art if it weren't for lifes BS NMH: Assassins representing artists ignore their health / relations for art. Passion diluted till it's another job. Envy of more artists successful who are more miserable.

An American showed what his local Krispy Kreme does with unsold donuts at night. Straight into the trash. After private equity took over, the price of a dozen climbed to $22. And instead of selling them cheaper… They’d rather WASTE the food than lower the profit margin.

A weird kind of survivorship bias where the only people who remember a bad game are people who have a sentimental connection to it so shovelware like "Shrek Kart Racing" or smth gets historically reappraised as a "good game" by people who got it from their grandma on Christmas