Finally, the end of Twitter, for real this time.

 

It’s over.  I’m done with Twitter.  I’m going back to Facebook, closing the chapter, the book, the game box on the Monsterverse and soon, Tara Platt and Abby Trott.  I’m going to focus on baseball, kaiju films that don’t glorify King Kong and music.  When it comes to Tara and Abby, here’s what’s left;

Tara; Cassette Beasts, Aggretsuko, Topsy McGee book, potential Switch port of Persona 3; Dancing in Moonlight, any potential Switch games with Edelgard

Abby; Trails into Reverie, Aggretsuko, Zom100, any potential Switch games with Annette

 

Aside from that, I want to go forward into an era with less gaming, anime and manga, aside from the games I want to finish and keep playing and some Evangelion, which will depend on availability.  DVDs feel like a dead format on this front, jacked up to ludicrous prices, jillions of options, never knowing if you’re getting the thing you want or not.  It’s maddening, especially because the Toho one, the one I’d really like right now solely because it has the connection to the Godzilla company and the “Shin Universe” Anno is “creating,” appears to only be on BluRay, which may mean they have no intention of releasing it on DVD, which means I’m out of luck unless I or my family pays $400 for an over-glorified DVD player.  Seriously, I can’t see the “extra HD quality” they all brag about.

 

I say “creating” in quotes because the films are not in the same universe, their connection is that they are made by the same people and are set in a slightly more realistic world.  They also have crossovers between the films in merchandise and amusement park rides, such as a Sentai-like robot made of Godzilla, Ultraman, Shinji’s Eva and Kamen Rider’s motorcycle or Shin Godzilla teaming with Shinji and Asuka against Shin Ghidorah on a ride at an amusement park. 

 

Honestly, aside from Kamen Rider, they all seem up my alley, giant monsters clashing with humanity in the balance, plus I’ve seen Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman; Shin Godzilla was great, a good callback to films like King Kong vs. Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Mothra 1964, just with Godzilla suddenly revealing he has more power than ever, making you root for Japan in the climax with Akira Ifukube’s classic march blaring.  My biggest qualm is the United States is portrayed somewhat as an antagonist (not as much as other countries, though) and I thought our relationship with Japan was better than the film depicts, at least with Presidents like Obama and Biden.

 

Shin Ultraman wasn’t as good, but it does do a lot of what made Shin Godzilla work and does it well, good callbacks, scientific explanations for the stranger aspects and memorable scenes.  I also chose to watch it dubbed, since voice actors I knew were in it; Chris Hackney (Dimitri in the Three Houses world) and Dawn M. Bennett (Shez in the Three Houses world, Aigis in the upcoming Persona 3 remake).  Those two especially performed well and made the film memorable.  Honestly, my biggest problems were that Zarab and Mefilas, the two major alien antagonists, came across more as businessmen than their original devious, aggressive incarnations who demanded the Earth surrender through displays of brute force, rather than writing up contracts with quid pro quo and false promises.  The other was that Zoffy, Ultraman’s commander, who in the original, saved his life and helped him back home to heal, was an antagonist who unleashed a war machine to destroy humanity due to the fact that since Ultraman fused with one of them, they can now access the Ultras’ quantum technology, making them galactically advanced.  Humanity and Ultraman working together to destroy the giant Zetton is an amazing climax, but the relationship Ultraman has with Zoffy, where Zoffy pretty much lets him off the hook as he chooses to be human just feels out of character since the original Zoffy was rather selfless and wouldn’t throw such a fit over the primary objective being messed with if it meant lives were being saved.

 

Anyway, my last genuine Tweet will be Saturday after I return from my trip to see my Aunt, my cousin and the Mariners play the Blue Jays in their City Connect uniforms.  It’s likely going to be of a TWA Stewardess Pop because I think it looks like Tara Platt, or if you combined her Shelf Life character with her character Elizabeth from Persona 3.  I have some things I scheduled for there next week (found that was an option at the end of June to celebrate Ariana Grande’s Birthday) but after that, it’s just going to be Faithful America petition shares, just like it was when the Beast was President.  I might pop back in when my mental health improves, but I doubt it.  Right now, I’d rather let my family judge my life, since they know me, than a world full of hostile strangers.  I think that’s been my problem for over 10 years now.