The students of the Ball State Journalism at the Fair project and the animal rescue site Helping Paws worked together to create an adorable slow motion compilation of the $1 canine smooches given by the dog kissing booth at the 2014 Indiana State Fair.
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No, this comic by cartoonist Ryan Estrada and writer Peter Starr Northrop won't have you magically understanding the Russian language, but if you've ever stared at Russian words in Cyrillic script and wondered just how the hell you pronounce them, this will get you started.
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firehose'Not only is Hyrule Warriors the best entry point to Koei Tecmo's other musou games, it's also a solid Legend of Zelda entry in its own right. Like another delicious mashup, the Cadbury Creme Egg, Hyrule Warriors is superficially dead simple, but for those willing to unwrap its foil lining and bite through the chocolate shell, there lies a wealth of cleverly designed gameplay mechanics, charming references to fan-favorite characters and locations and a whole lot of tasty, sugary goo.'
Though The Legend of Zelda series includes some of the most beloved games of all time, Hyrulean protagonist Link has seen some less than stellar adventures in the hands of developers not named Nintendo. Capcom's Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages...
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I’ve never stopped thinking like an RSS reader developer. A habit of nine years is difficult to shake.
For many years what I wanted to do was develop an algorithm for the reader that would pay attention to what you pay attention to, so that it could bring to the top things likely to be most important to you.
I never got that far, which I regretted for years.
But now I wonder if that would have been the right thing to do. These days I hear complaints that you don’t see everything on Facebook from the people you’ve chosen to follow. And Twitter seems to be moving toward an algorithm-based timeline too, which has people (including me) upset.
At the same time, people do like things like muting features and lists. So it’s not that they’re against filters and organization — it’s that they don’t want these imposed from the outside.
These days, were I writing an RSS reader (I’m not), I think I’d skip developing an algorithm based on the user’s attention — instead, I’d focus on making it really easy to filter out the things you don’t care about, and to highlight the things you’re more likely to want to see.
And not try to come up with some algorithm which would have the effect of bugging people and making them feel like they were missing things. Since they would be.
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BORN IN A WORLD OF TRAGEDY: GREG RUCKA REFLECTS ON HIS BATMAN WORK, PART ONE [INTERVIEW]
By Chris Sims
To say that Greg Rucka had a profound impact on DC Comics in the 21st Century is underselling things quite a bit. After arriving on the scene in the late ’90s, he became one of the few writers to have written all three of DC’s biggest characters, with critically acclaimed runs on Action Comics and Wonder Woman. It was on Batman, however, where he made his biggest impact, as one of the writers for the year-long No Man’s Land crossover, the relaunched “New Gotham” era of Detective Comics, and cowriter of the enduringly influential Gotham Central.
Today, we begin an in-depth look back at Rucka’s tenure on the Dark Knight, starting with No Man’s Land, both the comic and its surprisingly popular novelization, in which Gotham City becomes a dark dystopia following a cataclysmic earthquake; his feelings about the core idea of Batman; and his frustrations on seeing the Joker show up in the pages of Superman.
Had a lovely, long, and rambling chat with Chris Sims about my time in the Batman Universe. He’s easy to talk to. I’m not sure I’m that easy to listen to, but there you go….
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Lions RB Reggie Bush backtracks on comments on discipline of 1-year-old SI.com A day after Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush said he'd 'harshly' discipline his one-year-old daughter, he backtracked and said he "obviously" doesn't use physical discipline on her, Brad Galli of WXYZ-TV Detroit reports. On Tuesday, Bush appeared on ... and more » |
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Accused Cop Shooter Eric Frein Played Soldiers in War Films ABC News The suspect in the shooting of two Pennsylvania state troopers has spent years reenacting military history and has shaved the sides of his head into a bizarre Mohawk as "part of the mental preparation" for his alleged attack, police said today. Eric Frein is ... and more » |
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While opinions have been mixed on Destiny, Bungie's first post-Halo video game, most impressions and reviews of the game thus far—including our own—have at least praised its online stability. That's no small feat for an always-online game, especially in its first week, but error reports are beginning to accumulate from Destiny players across all four of the game's consoles.
There's a reason for that: Bungie launched its "shared world shooter" without much of a customer support structure in place. Eight days after launch, users who haven't been able to connect—including one of Ars Technica's own contributors, who still can't get online with an Xbox 360 copy of the game—have exhausted all of the suggestions listed at help.bungie.net. At that point, those users are directed to visit Bungie's forums, "staffed by community mentors who are here to help you."
The end result is a funneling of complaints to a forum whose topics are broken down not by official categories but by hashtags. With nothing in the way of a trackable "ticket" system or a customer service hotline, users are stuck with a "#help" page that is currently dominated by topic titles like "I've Given Up on Destiny and Got My Refund; Here's Why Maybe You Should Too" and "Bungie Please Give Us Info."
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firehose"Vox published a feature on 23andMe's service last week, describing one instance in which it led to a couple divorcing after the birth of an earlier child came to light. At the time, this close relatives services required that users opt into it, both in order to find relatives and be found by relatives. But 23andMe had planned to automatically enable the service for all new users beginning Friday. Existing users would have been told of the change and given the opportunity to opt out."
reminder that 23andMe is basically Google
The genetic testing service 23andMe is reversing a controversial policy change that would have begun informing its clients of their close genetic relatives — potentially even revealing close relatives that they weren't aware they had. Vox published a feature on 23andMe's service last week, describing one instance in which it led to a couple divorcing after the birth of an earlier child came to light. At the time, this close relatives services required that users opt into it, both in order to find relatives and be found by relatives. But 23andMe had planned to automatically enable the service for all new users beginning Friday. Existing users would have been told of the change and given the opportunity to opt out.
"Customers need to make their own deliberate and informed decision."
After seeing Vox's story, 23andMe has decided to stop automatically enabling the close relatives feature going forward. New and existing users will now face a pop up or an email telling them about the close relatives feature, giving them a choice to enable it or not. "Customers need to make their own deliberate and informed decision if they want this information," 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki writes in a post reprinted on Vox. "It is 23andMe's responsibility to make sure our customers have a choice and that they understand the potential implications." That means that 23andMe will have less data to draw from and share with its customers, but it also restores some amount of privacy — an important factor when playing with a thing as personal as someone's genes, especially since customers may not know what information they're capable of revealing.
23andMe has been one of the most popular genetic testing services, likely contributing to its ability to find close genetic relatives. The company has hit some roadblocks, however: for the last 10 months, it's been struggling with FDA regulations, which are now keeping it from providing health-related reports.
firehose'Last month, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged the FTC to create stricter privacy rules for the Fitbit and other fitness trackers. "The fact that private health data — rich enough to identify the user's gait — is being gathered by applications like FitBit and can then be sold to third-parties without the user's consent is a true privacy nightmare," he said. Fitbit countered that it did not sell user data and wanted to "work with" Schumer. Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has gone more specifically after Apple's health products, requesting a meeting to discuss the privacy and security policies that would govern health data gathered by the Apple Watch.'
Apple is apparently attempting to set lawmakers' minds at ease about potential abuse of data. Anonymous sources tell Politico that Apple executives delivered a briefing meant to "provide an overview of Apple's new offerings, demonstrate the new products and discuss how Apple sees this market developing" to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. According to an invitation, this included a section where the "chief privacy officer [would] also discuss how the company intends to secure and store consumer health data."
Politico says it's not clear whether Apple gave a similar briefing to the Senate, but it points to a letter sent to CEO Tim Cook by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) two days after the product announcement. McCaskill and Rockefeller — which also sent a letter to Home Depot about its recently discovered security breach — focused mostly on the recent leak of hundreds of celebrity nudes, many gathered through Apple's iCloud backup system. They requested a briefing specifically on iCloud security, but also referenced the launch of iCloud Drive and the implications of new products like the Apple Watch and Apple Pay, "which, among other things, enable the collection of consumer health data and encourage increased mobile commerce."
Last month, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged the FTC to create stricter privacy rules for the Fitbit and other fitness trackers. "The fact that private health data — rich enough to identify the user's gait — is being gathered by applications like FitBit and can then be sold to third-parties without the user's consent is a true privacy nightmare," he said. Fitbit countered that it did not sell user data and wanted to "work with" Schumer. Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has gone more specifically after Apple's health products, requesting a meeting to discuss the privacy and security policies that would govern health data gathered by the Apple Watch.
Apple has traditionally been both less involved with and less frequently targeted by the US government than competitors like Google, which lobbies heavily and has been scrutinized for things like its Glass headset and its widely protested privacy policy changes. Nonetheless, it met with the FDA earlier this year to discuss the development of medical apps and devices, likely in preparation for the release of the Apple Watch.
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After two decades in print, Macworld announced this week that the print magazine will shut down. Jason Snell was Macworld's lead editor for more than a decade, and – along with many of his former colleagues – is moving on. Jason has launched a new site, Six Colors, where he will continue covering Apple and the technology industry at large. We asked him to reflect on his experience as one of the industry's most prolific Apple watchers.
Before there were tech web sites there were magazines. Once a month you'd get a new one and read it cover to cover, including all the ads, trying to glean as much information as you could. I remember scouring issues of MacUser before buying my first PowerBook, trying to decide which model was exactly right for me. I must've read that article fifty times.
Imagine that. Back then, Apple would announce a raft of new products and almost nobody would know for weeks or even months. Now we all know in seconds.
As the era of print media slowly grinds to a halt, the death notices keep coming. This week it was Macworld, the magazine I worked at for 17 years, that stopped killing trees. (The magazine continues on in a digital-only format, like its sibling PCWorld, which exited print last year.)
The writing has been on the wall for 20 years. When I started at MacUser in 1994 I was already publishing stuff on the Internet myself--and tried in vain to convince higher-ups that we should put up a site on this new thing called the World Wide Web. (The future, one insisted to me, was on CompuServe.) Digital media was so obviously the future of publishing and journalism, and tech-savvy audiences would be among the very first to embrace the Web and leave print behind.
Over the last decade we all made an enormous effort to transform Macworld editorial from a magazine mentality to a web site mentality. And honestly, it worked: By the end, the magazine was essentially a curated collection of the best stories from the web site, cut down and copy edited and with nice photographs. The economics of the business just didn't make it possible to continue.
During my time at Macworld we made an effort to publish great tech writers we discovered on the Internet. And invariably, after they were published, we would hear from these writers about how their families rushed out and bought copies of the magazine. How they'd hear from parents or grandparents about how proud they were of them. That's a sign of just how rapidly the audience for print media is aging, of course. But it also says something about how tangible magazines were, compared to the intangibility of writing on the web.
Still, imagine a time when there was no The Verge, no Ars Technica, no Engadget or Gizmodo, no tech sites of any kind. It was an information desert. Mentions of computers on the TV news or in the newspaper were simplified and often laughably wrong. Those monthly computer magazines were all we had to sustain us. They were a sign that other people cared about the same stuff we did, before the Internet made us all realize that none of us is a unique and special snowflake. They were awesome, and if they're not all gone quite yet, they will be soon. So it goes.
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The banquet.
Achille Devéria, from Légendes ballades et fabliaux vol. 2, by Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian, Paris, 1829.
(Source: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
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by Scott Neuman
A photo from Sunday shows a wildfire as it approaches the shore of Bass Lake, Calif. Several blazes are being fueled by record drought conditions.
Updated at noon ET.
The largest of several wildfires in California, the so-called King Fire in the Sierra Nevada forest east of Sacramento, is threatening 1,600 homes as it continues to spread almost unchecked.
According to the latest information, the King Fire, one of several that California firefighters are battling, has engulfed more than 18,500 acres and is only 5 percent contained.
As recently as Monday, the fire, which started Saturday near the community of Pollock Pines, was one-third its current size. The fire has forced the evacuation of 700 homes.
"The advance prompted specially trained federal firefighters to take command of the fire early Tuesday morning.
"By nightfall, groups of firefighters were setting off small burns to try to slow the spread, anxious to prevent one flank of the fire from crossing south of Highway 50 from the canyon along the south fork of the American River to the small community that lives in the scenic, heavily wooded area."
Elsewhere, Jefferson Public Radio reports: "Fire officials say the destruction in Weed is worse than earlier estimates. Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant says at least 150 homes and structures were burned when a fire ripped through the town Monday afternoon. The Boles Fire reduced entire neighborhoods to smoldering rubble, destroyed two churches, damaged an elementary school and burned portions of the town's largest employer, Roseburg Forest Products Mill."
The Associated Press spoke with Maureen Campbell, a music minister at the Holy Family Catholic Church, which was destroyed in the Boles Fire:
" 'I mean it was devastating,' said Campbell, who was baptized, confirmed and married at the church, along with her children. She also lost her home to the fire.
" 'The house up there is no big deal. It can be rebuilt,' she said. 'But this is my family church, you know? It's much more endearing to me.' "
The AP adds that:
"In Oakhurst, a foothill community south of Yosemite National Park, a 320-acre fire that damaged or destroyed 71 structures — 37 of them homes — was 50 percent contained. About 600 residents from 200 homes remained evacuated, Madera County sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart said.
"More than 4,000 wildfires have burned in California this year."
Related:
For more on fire conditions in California and across most of the U.S., check out NPR's Fire Forecast app, which is updated daily. The interactive (above) should take you right to Weed, Calif., but you can change the location by entering a new ZIP code or city.
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Suppose you're a really lazy cosplayer with a lot of money laying around... this is your golden opportunity. Premiere Props is auctioning off a thousand items on Sept. 27 and 28, including Halle Berry's original Storm costume (above). Plus a Bajoran nose-ring from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Deadpool's swords!
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“OMG SAILOR JUPITER IS MY FAVORITE!!!!”
*snffff* Ahhhh. Do you smell that? Smells like a brand new arc.
Jupiter, the Powerful Girl in Love
Even Queen Beryl is excited to meet a new Sailor Senshi after so long! Well, no; actually, she’s excited about finding out a new way to find the Legendary Silver Crystal, from none other than the Great Ruler of the Dark Kingdom. The energy that Nephrite and Jadeite collected is just enough for the Great Ruler to roll over, yawn, and dispense some vital plot exposition before returning to his (Editor’s note: shhhhhh I don’t think Susana knows about yet don’t tell her) slumber.All Queen Beryl and her henchmen have to do is reveal the Seven Great Monsters and recover the Rainbow Crystals, and the Legendary Silver Crystal will make itself known.
The Seven Great Monsters are powerful youma who were sealed away long ago using fragments of the Legendary Silver Crystal, and then reincarnated as humans who remember nothing of their youma origins. However, each of them still contains one of those seven crystal fragments within them: the Rainbow Crystals. Finding and removing the Rainbow Crystals from their hosts will allow the Dark Kingdom to find the Legendary Silver Crystal, and it’ll awaken the youma within each host. Queen Beryl alters the Dark Crystal (not that The Dark Crystal) so that it detects the Rainbow Crystals and Zoisite is off to the races. It’s cool, I got this, I watched a TON of The Jackie Chan Adventures.
NO TIME FOR DARK KINGDOM DRAMA WE HAVE EXPOSITION TO DELIVER. Also who cares about crummy old Zoisite (I do) when we have a new Senshi to meet? Rushing to school, Usagi turns a corner and slams into a bunch of guys from a completely different anime who try to scam her into making up for their buddy’s (fake) Usagi-caused injuries because they are burly grown men and all they can do with their lives is manage to intimidate fourteen year old school girls. Usagi is rescued by a tall and forceful teenage girl, who shames the men for taking advantage of a young girl and then BEATS THE EVERLOVING SHIT OUT OF THEM.
YOU TOOK TOO LONG
NOW YOUR DIGNITY’S GONE.
THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED.
Before she leaves, Usagi notices that the girl has rose earrings (BECAUSE SHE TRANSFERRED FROM OHTORI ACADEMY, my brain screams, furiously writing crossover fic in crabbed handwriting), which allows her to recognize her savior eating alone during her school lunch break that afternoon, because, say it with me now, everyone in Sailor Moon is faceblind. Umino arrives on schedule with his book of gossip notes (LITERALLY, I love this dude) to explain that she is Makoto Kino, a new transfer student (honestly, haven’t we been overdue for a transfer student on this show?) who is rumored to have been kicked out of her last school for fighting. Naturally, Usagi goes right over to make a new friend, even if all the other kids are too scared.
After school, Usagi takes Makoto to the game center and introduces her to the other senshi and Luna. Luna’s a little worried about Makoto, but luckily this isn’t turning into the old “mistaking a new Sailor Senshi for that week’s youma” subplot. Speaking of youma…
Meet “Joe the Crane Game Troll,” some kind of tiny headed teenage wastrel who comes to the game center every now and then to clean out their claw machine with his amazing skills. Makoto gets all starry eyed because she thinks he looks like her “love” who broke her heart or something. When he leaves with his sack of spoils, she follows him. On the street, Zoisite finds him and attempts to rip the Rainbow Crystal from his still living body. This is both painful and confusing for Joe. Fortunately for him, Makoto is there, and, even though she is crushing on this boy, opens with the line “It’s not nice to bully the weak!” THAT’S MY GIRL, SAILOR MOON, YOU FLIP THOSE GENDER TROPES. Then Makoto goes nuts on Zoisite, she even takes her earrings off so you know it’s serious and it looks like Zoisite’s superhuman reflexes are going to keep him out of harms way until BAM SHE SOCKS HIM RIGHT IN THE KISSER. Usagi and Luna see the whole thing.
No joke here, I just LOVE Zoisite.
He scurries off back to the Dark Kingdom to get his booboo kissed by Kunzite (I assume), and Joe, confused and masculinity bruised, shrugs off the help of Usagi and Makoto. Makoto follows him anyway because she wants to get her flirt on, mysteriously disappearing floating men be damned.
Usagi follows because Luna senses Zoisite’s evil aura and she wants to protect her new friend. Makoto follows Joe, flirting, until he ditches her to duck inside a coffee shop. But she and Usagi just wait outside staring at him hella awkwardly until he motions for Makoto to come in. He reveals that he’s kind of an enormous douche: he cheats at the crane game using the minor telekinetic power that he’s had since he was a kid. When Makoto points out that this is a little underhanded, he says:
Are you— what?
I’m sorry, you think a “good use” of your ability is gathering shoddily made plush toys? Don’t have the charisma to become a street magician? Did you not get the necessary SAT score for Xavier’s School for the Gifted? DROP THIS BUTTHEAD LIKE A HOT ROCK, MAKOTO.
I’ll stop ranting because this is when Zoisite, who is now ready to face the scary mortal plane again, comes back to trash the cafe. Usagi berates Joe for cutting and running from the scary floating man instead of protecting the girl he was with, and his answer seems to affect Makoto deeply. “She’s not my concern! Giant girls like that aren’t my type!” IT’S OKAY MAKOTO, HE’S A DOUCHE ANYWAY.
Smashing through the shop window majestically, Zoisite follows Joe to a nearby park, where he successfully manages to extract the red Rainbow Crystal and awaken the youma Gamecen. But since Sailor Moon shows up just after, he sticks around long enough to introduce himself as her third-arc foe before doing his usual rose petal thing. Gamecen, a video-game themed youma, levels its sights on Sailor Moon, only to be hoisted bodily into the air and thrown by Makoto, who still hasn’t even started using her super powers yet.
However, this feat of bravery and strength reveals to Luna that she’s the fourth Sailor Senshi, and we get our very first Sailor Jupiter transformation sequence. *sniff* Our very first Sailor Senshi who was a fan of the Senshi before becoming one. But Makoto isn’t the only one getting a special item this episode. Luna explains that since this youma used to be human, they can’t just kill it. It must be healed with Usagi’s brand new Moon Wand. One Moon Healing Escalation later, and Joe the Schmoe is sparkled back to normal.
That Usagi can wield the Moon Wand proves that she is the true leader of the Sailor Senshi, despite her personal misgivings about responsibility. And meeting Motoki for the first time proves that Makoto may be projecting a little about this mysterious lover in her past: she thinks Motoki looks like him too.
Restore Naru’s Smile: Usagi’s Friendship
“How did you know orange Ring Pops are my favorite?!?!”
Hey remember when we ended the last arc on Naru’s traumatizing emotional pain? Let’s tie up that loose end with a very strange youma. Usagi and Umino are worried that Naru hasn’t come to school in over a week, so they go to visit her, hoping to cheer her up.
Umino, you know literally every piece of school gossip, but not this one?
And despite Umino’s ham-fisted accidental insults to Naru’s situation, Naru agrees to go out with them to Chinatown to eat lots of delicious food. At Rei’s shrine, all the other Sailor Senshi are having a meeting without Usagi to cover vital Third Act exposition. Rei has a cute moment where she realizes that her spot as Team Badass is threatened by the cool confidence of Makoto. Luna explains that the Legendary Silver Crystal is powerful enough to destroy a planet (but is insignificant compared to the power of the Force) and rehashes the legend of the Rainbow Crystals. Honestly, I was hoping that Luna’s version would have some key differences from the Dark Kingdom one, coming, as it does, from the other side of the conflict. F
urthermore, Luna tells them that the Moon Wand has the ability to detect Rainbow Crystals, and that she gave it to Usagi in the hopes that it will motivate her to step up and take some responsibility. Rei is very much against the idea of Usagi having such an important artifact and acting as the leader of the Senshi. (Maybe she’s is just pissed that between the supercomputer and the Moon Wand, she’s the only one of the original Senshi who doesn’t have a special item?) It’s hard to argue the point over footage of Usagi using the Wand as a hammer to bust open her piggy bank. “It’s true that Usagi has almost no sense of duty and is unreliable,” answers Luna, “but, like, c’mooooonnnnnn guyyyyyyyys.” Makoto doesn’t know Usagi well enough to judge, and Rei runs roughshod over Ami’s good natured passivity to get her to disapprove of Usagi having the Wand as well. (Of course Ami sees nothing wrong with this: she’s spent her teen-hood lonely and without friends, now that she’s got them she believes the world of them.)
Usagi doesn’t help matters by responding to a message that she should come by to discuss important matters with her team by saying “Oh, no thanks, I’m going to go stuff myself in Chinatown with my friends.” But before our school chums can make it to their destination, Naru gets distracted by a nearby cemetery, which triggers thoughts of grief about Nephrite’s death and the lack of closure she has regarding their relationship. Umino shoves his foot in his mouth again, and while Usagi is distracted arguing with him, Naru slips off into the cemetery and approaches a pastor there about her problem. This is, of course, none other than the pastor that Queen Beryl and Zoisite identified as the host of a Rainbow Crystal in the beginning of the episode. He tells her that if she really loved someone that much, he must have been saved (ok but you didn’t know this guy, pastor), and that when she least expects it she’ll turn around and find love next to her.
So she turns around.
CRAP.
Naru, reigning queen of Basic Recognition Skills, remembers Zoisite immediately from the night Nephrite died, and even notices that he has Nephrite’s Dark Crystal. Where’s Sailor Moon when you need her? She’s looking for Naru, actually, but is interrupted by a furious signal from her Moon Wand, which senses a nearby Rainbow Crystal. Also Luna shows up to tell her what to do with her Moon Wand, something something menstruation joke. She also tells Usagi to call Makoto, but not the other Sailor Senshi and urges her to wait to engage until she gets there, demonstrating some considerable political acumen.
But, of course, Naru’s in danger, so Usagi won’t wait one moment more. Despite the appearance of Sailor Moon, Zoisite manages to get the Rainbow Crystal out of the pastor, but to his annoyance it just flings off somewhere else in the cemetery instead of somewhere useful like his hand. But there’s no time for that: get ready for the craziest youma ever.
I’d like to have seen the pitch meeting where “bird man with boxing gloves” was approved.
Yes, his belt is a full sized, working boxing bell. He shouts “I’m a champion,” and “I’m the king of kings,” in English, and is special move is firing his boxing gloves at opponents while shouting “Lovely Punch!” also in English.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
I’m really, really not sure whether I hate this guy or love this guy. His reincarnation was as a Christian pastor and this whole scene takes place near Tokyo’s Chinatown… is Boxii a reference to the Boxer Rebellion? Anyway, he attacks Sailor Moon and then Naru, who are saved by Tuxedo Mask and Umino respectively. While Tuxedo Mask and Boxii spar, Usagi notices a star-shaped locket in the cemetery grass and picks it up. Cemeteries: great places to lose your valuables.
It’s about then that Sailor Jupiter shows up, giving Usagi the opening to cast Moon Healing Escalation, and return Boxii to his human form:
Thanks, random youma pastor!
Tuxedo Mask finds the Rainbow Crystal before Zoisite can, and let’s just say he knows a good thing when he sees it.
DUDE JUST SNEAK AWAY
Zoisite leaves in a huff, and Usagi stares dreamily after the retreating Tuxedo Mask as Luna yells at her to go get that crystal it’s super important this is why you should come to the meetings Usagi omg. Naru and Umino sit on a park bench as she bandages his hurt arm with the same torn strip she used to take care of Nephrite (DON’T REUSE BANDAGES, KIDS), and Naru assures everyong calmly that she’ll be coming to school tomorrow. Is the show setting up Naru/Umino? I’m cool with this.
Usagi opens the clockwork locket, which begins to play her theme song, as Luna laments that Makoto still hasn’t had a chance to see Usagi’s good qualities. But of course, Makoto has: she’s seen Usagi’s abiding love for her friends. And somewhere else Mamoru contemplates the orange Rainbow Crystal and resolves that he does know who he is: he’s the goddamn Tuxedo Mask.
Moon Prism Power… Wrap Up!
New arc! New Senshi! I have lots of small thoughts that do not make a coherent whole:
I look forward to finding all these things out. To avoid spoilers, comments on this post are locked. If you have something to say, say it on our Facebook. Or talk to Susana on Twitter! Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, &Google +?
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