#shueisha — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shueisha, aggregated by home.social.
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One Piece Grand Battle with Janine Juliette (D’ohmance Dawn)
Set sail, button-mashers, because this time Play Comics is diving face-first into One Piece: Grand Battle! that PS2 and GameCube special where early Water 7-era drama gets smooshed into a chaos-filled arena and told to play nice. Expect stretchy punches, loud special attacks, and exactly the kind of character balance you’d expect from a game that assumes “pirate” and “fair” don’t belong in the same sentence. We’re talking Straw Hats, shipyards, and the eternal question: “Is this actually good, or do I just really like yelling ‘Gum-Gum’ every five seconds?”
Joining Chris on this voyage is Janine Juliette from D’ohmance Dawn, here to bring big-brain One Piece insight and just the right amount of gremlin energy to keep things interesting. Janine’s got thoughts on how this slice of the anime translates into a brawler, where the game nails the Straw Hats’ personalities, and where it feels like someone skimmed the wiki five minutes before coding a super move. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a deeply thoughtful One Piece fan is forced to reckon with PS2-era anime jank, this is absolutely your kind of chaos.
So grab your controller, your favorite questionable snack, and maybe a backup controller for when Luffy’s rubber nonsense finally pushes you over the edge. We’re digging into how far the game actually gets into the story, why some characters feel terrifying and others feel like they snuck in as a joke, and whether this one belongs on your “must-play” shelf or your “fondly mock from a distance” list. Treasure, friendship, and highly unsafe maritime workplace practices await. Let’s see if Grand Battle! can keep its ship together.
Learn such things as:
- Which Straw Hat shines in an arena brawler and which one feels like they forgot to finish the move set?
- Is this game might secretly be more fun as a chaotic couch brawler than as a serious competitive fighter?
- How would the internet have broken if people could have known what was to come for these characters?
- And so much more!
You can find Janine on BlueSky @janinejuliet.bsky.social and of course her podcasts D’ohMance Dawn and Wrestle Girlies.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to I am Your Target Demographic and Longbox Review for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who probably has a stuffed Chopper.
#Aokiji #Arlong #Bandai #Buggy #DonKrieg #DraculeMihawk #Enel #Foxy #Gamecube #Ganbarion #JanineJuliette #JumpComics #Kuro #MonkeyDLuffy #Mr2BonClay #Nami #NicoRobin #PS2 #RoronoaZoro #Sanji #Shanks #Shueisha #SirCrocodile #Smoker #TonyTonyChopper #Usopp -
Naruto Ultimate Ninja with Cory Byrd (Byrds Eye View Comics)
Grab your custom jutsu hand seals and prepare to feel a crushing sense of inadequacy when comparing your reaction time to a ninja’s because we’re diving shadow clone deep into the first Naruto Ultimate Ninja game on PlayStation 2! This week we’re channeling our inner shinobi to explore how Bandai Namco took Masashi Kishimoto’s legendary manga about a determined orange-suited underdog and transformed it into a frantic button-mashing tournament fighter that somehow convinced an entire generation of fans that they could recreate iconic Naruto moments if they just hit the attack button fast enough and screamed at their TV harder than Naruto himself.
Released during the golden age of anime-to-console adaptations, the Naruto Ultimate Ninja games became the de facto way fans could live out their ninja fantasies—assuming your ninja fantasy involves janky camera angles, occasionally unresponsive inputs, and the kind of special effect visual soup that makes you wonder if you’re actually watching a jutsu or if your PS2 is just having a mild aneurysm. With fighters pulled straight from the Hidden Leaf Village and beyond, these games proved that sometimes the best way to honor a beloved manga is to give players the chance to make Naruto fight characters he had absolutely no reason to fight (looking at you, random filler villains).
This episode, we’re absolutely stoked to welcome Cory Byrd from Byrds Eye View Comics—a fellow enthusiast of all things sequential art and gaming who can probably explain why Naruto’s popularity transcended manga, anime, AND video games with the kind of clarity that makes marketing departments weep with envy. Together, we’ll investigate whether these games managed to capture the heart, humor, and hyperkinetic energy of Kishimoto’s creation, or if they just left us face-first in the dirt like Naruto at the beginning of the series.
So synchronize your chakra, practice your most devastating combo, and prepare for an episode that’s guaranteed to be more chaotic than a Sand Village invasion and infinitely more entertaining than watching filler arcs about onigiri eating contests.
Learn such things as:
- Can a game truly capture the experience of having ninjas solve political problems through friendship when there’s no friendship stat on the screen?
- How many ninja village headbands would it take to actually run an economy, or is that question unanswerable because the series never bothered explaining it?
- Is it more important for characters in a fighter to be balanced or accurate?
- And so much more!
You can find Cory on Instagram @ByrdsEyeOfficial, the Byrds Eye View Comics Facebook page, and of course his website Byrds Eyes View Comics.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube or the Play Comics website.
A big thanks to Gender Pop and the Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who did something really cool but nobody saw it. You know, because of the whole being a ninja thing.
#CoryByrd #CyberConnect2 #Gaara #Haku #HinataHyūga #KakashiHatake #NamcoBanddaiGames #NarutoUzumaki #NejiHyūga #Orochimaru #PS2 #RockLee #SakuraHaruno #SasukeUchiha #ShikamaruNara #Shueisha #VizMedia #ZabuzaMomochi -
Ultimate Muscle The Kinnikuman Legacy The Path of the Superhero & Legends vs New Generation with SerpyMatt
Strap on your meat-based wrestling tights and oil up those biceps because Play Comics is about to suplex you straight into the absurdly wonderful world of Kinnikuman! This week we’re tag-teaming not one, but TWO Ultimate Muscle games—The Path of the Superhero for GameCube and Legends vs New Generation for Game Boy Advance. That’s right, we’re going double or nothing like a Choujin who forgot leg day exists and decided to compensate with twice the spandex.
These games, spawned from the legendary Kinnikuman manga and anime, brought us a universe where wrestling isn’t just a sport—it’s the entire basis of intergalactic civilization, which honestly makes about as much sense as any other comic book logic we’ve tackled on this show. Whether you’re commanding Kid Muscle through his heroic quest to not embarrass his legendary father or settling the age-old debate of who would win between old-school wrestlers and the new generation (spoiler: everyone’s finishing move is magnificently ridiculous), we’ve got you covered.
Joining us for this muscle-bound mayhem is none other than SerpyMatt, who hasn’t quite gotten around to launching his own podcast yet—but he’s told me the concept and folks, when it finally drops, you’re going to absolutely love it. Assuming he ever stops procrastinating long enough to record episode one, that is.
So crack your knuckles, practice your most intimidating wrestler growl, and prepare for an episode that’s guaranteed to have more body slams than a physics textbook thrown at a trampoline factory. It’s time to find out if these games captured the magnificent weirdness of their source material or if they just left us feeling like we got hit with the Kinniku Buster of disappointment.
Learn such things as:
- What happens when you give character designers unlimited freedom and a fever dream?
- What’s the exchange rate between friendship power and actual wrestling skill?
- Should we be concerned that intergalactic peace depends entirely on entertainment wrestling?
- And so much more!
You can find SerpyMatt on BlueSky @serpymatt.bsky.social.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.
A big thanks to the Byrds Eye View Comics and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, whose wrestling gimmick here would probably be something based around weaponizing VHS tapes.
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https://www.moezine.com/?p=1907315 大平かりんさんが愛用する、個性も実用性も備えたバッグとその中身を拝見【おしゃれな人のバッグの中身vol.8】 – ファッショントピックス | SPUR アイムソーリー バイ ペトラ・コリンズのバッグを愛用… #COMME DES GARÇONS(コムデギャルソン) #fashion #FASHION TOPICS(ファッショントピックス) #LEMAIRE(ルメール) #louisvuitton #shueisha #SPUR #ファッション #白石麻衣
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https://www.magmoe.com/?p=2291382 【フレアデニム】脚長効果と旬バランスを叶える優秀シルエットをピックアップ – ファッショントピックス | SPUR #fashion #FASHION TOPICS(ファッショントピックス) #ganni #mamekurogouchi #repost #shueisha #SPUR #YOHEIOHNO #ファッション
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https://www.moezine.com/?p=1861535 【フレアデニム】脚長効果と旬バランスを叶える優秀シルエットをピックアップ – ファッショントピックス | SPUR すっきりした太もも、膝から裾に向けてゆったり広がるシルエットがメリハリを生むフレアデニムは、脚長効果に加え、着こなしにトレンド感をプラスできていいことづくし。カジュアルはもちろん、モードにも着こなせる最新フレアデニムをご紹介!… #fashion #FASHION TOPICS(ファッショントピックス) #ganni #mamekurogouchi #shueisha #SPUR #YOHEI OHNO(ヨウヘイオオノ) #ファッション #白石麻衣
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https://www.moezine.com/?p=1791959 【モダンなローファー10選】この春はクラシックに新たな価値を加えた、ルイ・ヴィトンやプラダ、グッチなど、人気ブランドの新作が狙い目 – ファッショントピックス | SPUR 【ルイ・ヴィト… #A.P.C. #fashion #FASHION TOPICS(ファッショントピックス) #gucci #J.M. WESTON(ジェイエムウエストン) #louisvuitton #MARNI #prada #rogervivier #sergiorossi #shueisha #SPUR #tods #ファッション #白石麻衣
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https://www.moezine.com/?p=1791235 【ガニー】が、待望の日本初となる直営店を渋谷PARCOにオープン! 限定カラーのバッグも要チェック – ファッションニュース | SPUR GANNI(ガニー)が、日本発の直営店を渋谷PARCO(パルコ)にオープンした。 コペンハーゲン発の人気ファッションブランド、ガニーが、日本初の直営店を渋谷PARCOの3階に出店。店内には、2025年春夏コレクションの最新ウェアやアクセサリーなど豊富なアイテムがラインナップ。 ブウバケットバッグ〈H16×W9×D18cm〉¥63,800/ガニー ライダーバックル付きトレンチコート、テーラードスーツ、スモッキングドレス、X… #fashion #FASHION NEWS(ファッションニュース) #ganni #shueisha #SPUR #ファッション #白石麻衣
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https://www.magmoe.com/?p=1947642 【2024年冬の最新ダウンジャケット】薄手から機能性抜群のものまで! タウンユースに活躍するジャケットや小物を総覧 – ファッショントピックス | SPUR #beautifulpeople #canadagoose #diesel #fashion #FASHION TOPICS(ファッショントピックス) #ganni #GOLDWIN #herno #Mackintosh #ralphlauren #repost #shueisha #SPUR #TATRAS #thenorthface #traditionalweatherwear #ファッション