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wendeego.bsky.social
Andes Chucky
@wendeego.bsky.social
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I skeet about stuff and blog sometimes. Portfolio: https://awescott.carrd.co/ Bylines: Crunchyroll News, Yatta-Tachi, Comics Beat/KComicsBeat, Anime Herald, startmenu. Also: /Film, ANN, Anime Feminist, Unwinnable Exploits. Tweets+opinions are my own.
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For Crunchyroll News, I wrote about the underdog success of Gnosia: an experimental visual novel released for a dead console in 2019, only to be adapted into a high profile anime series this year. www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
A blonde-haired person with violet eyes and a suspicious expression.
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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For Crunchyroll News, I wrote about To Be Hero X, superheroes, and legacy www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
nice, a white-haired hero with gold shoulderpads, smiles sinisterly in the darkness
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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tomorrow, ANIWIRE returns for Halloween
a cassette tape is illuminated by a ray of light
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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For Crunchyroll News, I spoke with @dramata.bsky.social and her team about their 13 year journey translating the indie Touhou strategy RPG Fantasy Maiden Wars! www.crunchyroll.com/news/intervi...
Mokou, a young woman wearing traditional Japanese clothes, says “I won’t let you get away.” Fires burn in her hands as burning wings unfold from her back. Sakuya, a knife-wielding maid, activates her spellcard and floods the battlefield with “danmaku” tiles. Satori and Koishi form a heart with their hands. Red and blue roses bloom to their left and right respectively. Yuyuko says, “Oh, I just had a delightful idea.” Youmu responds, “And what you mean by ‘delightful’ is—“
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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if only they knew
Kyle Shubel (producer, Sony Computer Entertainment America): That was the first pitch that they made as to what they wanted to make, and that wasn't really going to come to fruition with the early stages of the Network Adaptor for the PlayStation 2. [...] But yeah, the [idea of] I'm going to stun it. I'm gonna tie its leg while you mount on top of it. I'll go in front of it and blind it while he takes it out -- that concept, and then jumping back off onto your horses, and riding off in the sunset -- yeah, if we could have pulled that off, everyone would be talking about this game.
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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four rpgs
etrian odyssey iv cover. various heroes pose in front of a great tree. nier cover. an older man with a large sword stands in front of a magic sigil. behind him can be seen a woman and a skeleton. pokemon crystal cover. a large blue dog-like pokemon called a suicune runs forward. ruina fairy tale of the forgotten ruins title screen, depicting the map of a fantasy realm.
October 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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plus they nail the grand contradiction of indie game development at the end
On top of that, we never solved the original problem of the shareware era: Nobody could make any money off of any of this. Download stores like Xbox Live Arcade and digital platforms like Steam would open their arms to indies in the coming years, but they would prove difficult to survive in, and only a relative few would truly thrive.
October 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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this quote (I think unintentionally?) hits at a major pain point for me. if the production model is centered on the “mangaka,” what about the staff adapting it? what about original anime? is that kind of “unique and personal storytelling” not allowed?
2. Creative Freedom: The Japanese production model, often centered on a single creator (mangaka), allows for more unique and personal storytelling, in contrast to the committee-driven, interconnected universes of Hollywood.
September 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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ahu to be hero x contains multitudes
ahu, a brown dog, wears a kamen rider box mask and sits on a bench ahu does a funny dance while wearing a clown outfit at the circus ahu naps while his owner stares at her phone ahu decapitates a mysterious shadow person with an axe
September 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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i think this quote from lucas gets to one of my worries--that most people are not curious, will stick with what they are familiar with, and have no interest in digging deeper when they are satisfied with what they have
"...but as the community continues to get older i'm confident that will change. i believe that the majority of people are inherently curious and, with how varied anime as a medium is, folks can't help but explore different types of titles as they grow more familiar with the art form."
September 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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NEW! RPG Maker Dungeon. This time, we cover Master of the Wind.

A game about a superhero and a skeleton taking on a fantasy WalMart in league with fascists, it's only become more prescient over the years. rmdungeon.bearblog.dev/rpg-maker-du...
a battle sequence from master of the wind. spear-wielding superhero shroud and skeleton stoic take on three "wandering apparitions" in a turn-based fight.
August 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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7. this line from Sona-Nyl of the Violet Shadows
Lily, a girl wearing a poofy purple dress, points a golden gun at an annoying man on a spiral staircase. She says, "I'll let you off with a single bullet."
August 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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quick and dirty 3x3!
flcl, utena, penguindrum, shirobako, kaiba, ssss gridman, haibane renmei, honey and clover, dennou coil
August 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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stealing this from @nateming.bsky.social
Tell me an anime name and I’m going to tell you my honest opinion about it.
July 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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courtesy of deathgenerator.com
an altered image from The Death Generator, specifically Garfield: Week of Garfield. Jon, a man wearing a green shirt, says to his orange cat Garfield, "GIVE ME BACK MY PIPE, GARFIELD". This text is presented in a blue message box with a yellow border
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I made a list www.crunchyroll.com/news/guides/...
a funny walrus man drives a hippo in a taxi, in the anime series “oddtaxi”
July 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Loli/Lou Li doesn't have as much going on as some of the other heroes, so that was a bummer. Hopefully she gets more to do later. Cool hat though
lou li, a girl with pink hair, wears a large hat with two green "eyes" that look like a chameleon's/frog's
July 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I also noticed that many images on the site were broken, so i went back and fixed them. you can see pangea's error in all its glory now
a screenshot from pangea's error. an orange lizard crosses a world map of yellow grass and small green houses. there are mountains in the distance
July 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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RPG Maker Dungeon is back in business! I wrote about Last Scenario, a rather difficult game that combines the tropes of classic Japanese RPGs with grounded military fiction rmdungeon.bearblog.dev/rpg-maker-du...
The characters of Last Scenario pose on a mountaintop. Hilbert looks out at the horizon, Matilda wards off foes, Thorve helps up Lorenza, Ethan lurks. Also, Randolph is there.
July 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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silver sprocket has put out incredible work and I was sad to read about their struggles lately. some of the stories in this piece, though. man
Now presented with an almost improbable number of concurrent crises—questions over royalties due artists, demands for payment and management reforms from staff, growing debts, and a bankrupt distributor—Ehrlich’s next course of action came as a surprise to a nonplussed staff: they left on vacation, a long-planned personal trip to Japan. Ehrlich defended the trip as a justifiable personal necessity, and…
July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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For Crunchyroll News, I wrote about Shinsetsu Mahou Shoujo: a cult classic magical girl strategy RPG that was translated into English just this year. www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
June 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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But I've had a couple of folks come forward to say they enjoyed reading each post. So, thank you for that. That's why I do the work
machu and nyaan take each other's hands in the kira kira
June 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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As the first season-long project I've tried on ANIWIRE, I have to say that it was a failed experiment. As far as I can tell from the reader data, very few subscribers read the later posts, which I have to assume is b/c not that many of them were watching the series through to begin with
exploding space fortress in a dimensional vortex
June 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This is the end of my weekly coverage of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. There are times when I can be skeptical of writing about every episode of a series. When does a show actually have enough meat to justify that coverage? Thankfully, GQuuuuuuX was d e n s e
shuji and machu are confused while nyaan is suspicious
June 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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scrambled together a top 30 just for fun, with only one series per manga artist allowed. hardly sufficient though--there's so much great manga out there, there's no way i could pick just 30
1. nausicaa of the valley of the wind 2. tekkonkinkreet 3. basara 4. pink 5. phoenix: karma 6. iguana girl 7. yokohama kaidashi kikou 8. witches 9. dorohedoro 10. cocoon 11. 20th century boys 12. inside mari 13. gunjou 14. soil 15. god's left hand, devil's right hand 16. japan tengu party illustrated 17. bokura no hentai 18. henshin no news 19. run away with me girl 20. our dreams at dusk 21. delicious in dungeon 22. wombs 23. slam dunk 24. fullmetal alchemist 25. mars 26. ikoku nikki 27. gambling apocalypse kaiji 28. please save my earth 29. the lucifer and biscuit hammer 30. the world is mine
June 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM