Daryl Surat
@darylsurat.bsky.social
I'm an engineer, podcaster, and Otaku USA Magazine contributor driven insane from pop culture overload and isolation. It makes me scream a lot with my fingers. http://www.animeworldorder.com
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Anime World Order Show # 249 – Alpakata Combines the Skill of Capoeira With the Kill of Alpaca
It’s a brand new year, but not quite a brand new animal as Daryl reviews the somehow already half decade old TV series Odd Taxi. Since it’s something of a mystery series, we’ll no…
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With Anime World Order Show # 249 – Alpakata Combines the Skill of Capoeira With the Kill of Alpaca, it's a brand new year (but not quite a brand new animal) as I review the somehow already five year old TV series Odd Taxi (or ODDTAXI if you prefer). Minor spoilers www.awopodcast.com/2026/01/anim...
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How dare OpenAI use the Ghost in the Shell lady's exploding typing fingers, is nothing sacred
February 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
How dare OpenAI use the Ghost in the Shell lady's exploding typing fingers, is nothing sacred
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I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.
February 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.
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*pulls out Xplay clips*
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 PM
*pulls out Xplay clips*
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so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
February 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM
so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
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the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
MY KIDS: so why are there muppets in the AUDIENCE
ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!
ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!
February 8, 2026 at 6:22 AM
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones)
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones)
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.
SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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If anyone’s wondering what the owner of Eleven Arts is up to now that the company is (essentially) dead, he’s head of business development at an AI animation company. Lovely.
February 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
If anyone’s wondering what the owner of Eleven Arts is up to now that the company is (essentially) dead, he’s head of business development at an AI animation company. Lovely.
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February 8, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭
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Have I really waited 20 years for a decent Fran figure (yes)
#WonHobby40 Figure Update!
SQUARE ENIX
Final Fantasy XII
Fran
WonHobby Gallery: #imagesn/#images/58" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://gallery.whl4u.jp/wh40/en/#images/58
#FF12 #WF2026W #goodsmile
SQUARE ENIX
Final Fantasy XII
Fran
WonHobby Gallery: #imagesn/#images/58" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://gallery.whl4u.jp/wh40/en/#images/58
#FF12 #WF2026W #goodsmile
February 8, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Have I really waited 20 years for a decent Fran figure (yes)
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Super Sentai has now ended its 50 year run
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Sentai has now ended its 50 year run
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this happens in the last 30 seconds of the episode
February 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
this happens in the last 30 seconds of the episode
It's kind of amazing to go back and look at the beloved anime of yesteryear, such as Lady Oscar/The Rose of Versailles, to see just how much they drastically departed from the source material despite being hugely popular manga with high expectations. Nowadays, fans demand the manga be the storyboard
February 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM
It's kind of amazing to go back and look at the beloved anime of yesteryear, such as Lady Oscar/The Rose of Versailles, to see just how much they drastically departed from the source material despite being hugely popular manga with high expectations. Nowadays, fans demand the manga be the storyboard
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YEAH! And also how so, so much of what’s beloved about the anime is anime original content. it’s like 50% made from the world’s most influential filler arcs
February 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
YEAH! And also how so, so much of what’s beloved about the anime is anime original content. it’s like 50% made from the world’s most influential filler arcs
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and DEAR BROTHER is only enriched further if you know that it had this weird, unbelievably tortured production cycle full of hijinks and delays, and yet it STILL turned out an amazing, beloved classic
February 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
and DEAR BROTHER is only enriched further if you know that it had this weird, unbelievably tortured production cycle full of hijinks and delays, and yet it STILL turned out an amazing, beloved classic
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if you haven't seen the aim for the ace ovas (part supervised part directed by dezaki), i was sort of amazed how the directorial style mutates into proto-dear brother. they even reuse some scenes! it's really interesting, but it's also after all that TV anime, and does depend on it
February 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM
if you haven't seen the aim for the ace ovas (part supervised part directed by dezaki), i was sort of amazed how the directorial style mutates into proto-dear brother. they even reuse some scenes! it's really interesting, but it's also after all that TV anime, and does depend on it
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Dear Brother is one of the most “required viewing to understand the anime industry” series that most western fans never acknowledge
it’s like how the modern animation industry is about 50% “people who watched Utena”
you watch Dear Brother and it makes so many other shows just click into place
it’s like how the modern animation industry is about 50% “people who watched Utena”
you watch Dear Brother and it makes so many other shows just click into place
February 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Dear Brother is one of the most “required viewing to understand the anime industry” series that most western fans never acknowledge
it’s like how the modern animation industry is about 50% “people who watched Utena”
you watch Dear Brother and it makes so many other shows just click into place
it’s like how the modern animation industry is about 50% “people who watched Utena”
you watch Dear Brother and it makes so many other shows just click into place
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The Aim for the Ace anime is made from the same stuff as any solid sports TV drama, but offers an incredible lesson in delivery precisely because it's working with such limited tools.
February 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The Aim for the Ace anime is made from the same stuff as any solid sports TV drama, but offers an incredible lesson in delivery precisely because it's working with such limited tools.
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a) I have no faith this will be any good at all and it's a slap in the face to not have any of the games' writers
but also
b) Baldur's Gate did not start with 3, nor did it start with Larian, and believe it or not, 1 & 2 were just as successful.
but also
b) Baldur's Gate did not start with 3, nor did it start with Larian, and believe it or not, 1 & 2 were just as successful.
A ‘BALDUR'S GATE’ TV series is in the works at HBO.
• Craig Mazin (‘The Last of Us’) will serve as showrunner
• The show will be a continuation of the games, set after the events of ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’
• ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ developers Larian have no involvement with the show
• Craig Mazin (‘The Last of Us’) will serve as showrunner
• The show will be a continuation of the games, set after the events of ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’
• ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ developers Larian have no involvement with the show
February 7, 2026 at 10:54 PM
a) I have no faith this will be any good at all and it's a slap in the face to not have any of the games' writers
but also
b) Baldur's Gate did not start with 3, nor did it start with Larian, and believe it or not, 1 & 2 were just as successful.
but also
b) Baldur's Gate did not start with 3, nor did it start with Larian, and believe it or not, 1 & 2 were just as successful.
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The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.
February 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.
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"The Right's cultural relevance squandered."
They never had it. It was astroturfed by every single media entity and marketer trying to suck up to the reincarnation of the idiot king. It was never there.
They never had it. It was astroturfed by every single media entity and marketer trying to suck up to the reincarnation of the idiot king. It was never there.
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
"The Right's cultural relevance squandered."
They never had it. It was astroturfed by every single media entity and marketer trying to suck up to the reincarnation of the idiot king. It was never there.
They never had it. It was astroturfed by every single media entity and marketer trying to suck up to the reincarnation of the idiot king. It was never there.
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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA