Yes.

honestly a Warhammer collab could be kinda neat (though im mostly familiar with 40k) i like the concept of a space marine screaming "HERESY!!" when he see japanese teenagers summoning demons

Putting aside outliers like Sonic, what series would you think would be a good fit for a Dx2 collab?

Something that immediately comes to mind is Court of the Dead.It's basically a collection of lore to sell expensive statues and other merch of its collection of characters, but I like some of its designs:

I can't say I'm really in to the property, whose best days seem behind it, but it's more or less the American equivalent in quality/tone to the less-than-stellar JP series you'd see Dx2 collab with, like Seven Deadly Sins.

Ah, Dx2, you're the perennial "break glass in case of SMT main series doldrums," such as what we're in now.

...Akira Toriyama died, honestly, of all the people i i thought we might lose this year, no, THIS DECADE, that man was definitely the very last one. Rest in Power

I really thought he would experience Shigeru Mizuki levels of longevity. This one hit me hard, not like any artist or celebrity death in my lifetime. Just instantly felt numb and empty. As a toddler, drawing shovel-faced Dragon Ball caricatures in spiral bound notebooks was my formative experience with visual art and the bedrock for anything I've drawn or observed about art ever since. Only Kenji Watanabe's early TCG work had a comparable hold over me. Growing older and realizing that he was genuinely one of the greatest comic draughtsman and designers who ever lived ensured that impact would survive into adulthood. Can't believe he's already gone.

R.I.P.

My boy magolor for the ask thing

deceptive wizard time

favorite thing about them - ngl, his personality is a joy. even when he's a huge jerk, he's incredibly entertaining, one of the best written characters in the entire series

least favorite thing about them - id like him to like. actually play a Role in his re-appearances instead of having pointless cameos because he's popular. c'mon hal, you literally brought him back from the dead, use him.

favorite line - "You are such a cool dude!"

brOTP - uh. Well it's canonical fact that he really wants to be friends with Kirby, so let's go with that. I imagine he at least used to be buddies with Marx at some point.

OTP - Marxochilly gang ngl

nOTP - idk honestly? though people that ship him with kirby make me feel uncomfortable

random headcanon - the reason he returned to popstar specifically is that despite him having questionable moral compass, he STARTED to genuinely feel companionship with kirby, dedede, meta knight and bandana dee and wanted to make amends. like his star allies guest star description says, he wants to be friends... and conquer the universe together. he might be shady, but he's hungry for positive social interaction.

unpopular opinion - while i'm all for magolor redemption, people woobify him a bit too much a bit too often. like he did some genuinely shitty things in the past, he literally tried to conquer the universe, he backstabbed people that genuinely trusted him. he should be held accountable because his current attempts at making amends were not the greatest. (gifting theme park is not a redemption)

song i associate with them - "under my control"

favorite picture of them -

i’m a dumbass bastard, somewhat of a edgy bitch and a bit of a edgy thot

SEGA alignment chart, tag yourself nerds

For this, I'm dumbass bastard, runner up is depressed thot

I rate the textures of kirby chracters in base if i think they are edible or not

Kirby

Soft, baby like skin, very nice to the touch

Edible meter: 10/10, probably feels like a bubble gum

Meta knight

To many scars, still soft tho

Edible meter: 8/10, the scars prob make it feel weird but yet still very edible

King dedede

Feathers, to many of them, feels like a plushie tho

Edible meter: 2/10, the feathers have alot of the fault, nice to touch not to eat

Bandee

I hc that waddle dees have very short and thin fur, like pitbulls and such, yet still nice

Edible meter: 7/10, the fur will be kinda annoying but yet still very edible

Elfilin

Fur, to much of it, yuck

Edible meter: 2/10, it prolly feels like licking a cat, no

Galacta knight

Same shit as meta knight but worse

Edible meter: 5/10, they have too many scars, like too many, probably still very edible tho

Morpho

I literally can't even touch it, it's literally translucent, how am i-

Edible meter: ??/10, couldn't even touch it at all

Morpho night

Prolly feels smooth, like kirby, not scars at all somehow

Edible meter: 10/10, if it doesn't eat my soul first it might be a good dessert, it prolly taste like honey or nectar ar idk how butterflys taste like lol

Dark meta knight

Has even more scars than meta knight somehow, it really can't feel good

Edible meter: 1/10, bad texture, no

Dark matter

Don't put ur mouth close to those things-

Edible meter: -1/10, if it doesn't posses u it will kill you bc they are poisonous as hell fr

i love popstar gang, the dream team, the main four, whatever you want to call them, so fucking much man

like. they weren't MEANT to be a team. both in-universe and in meta context.

these characters were all created for different purposes entirely.

kirby is protagonist, obviously. dedede initially was a bowser expy that grew into friendly rival role but not necessarily protagonist material. bandana dee was a nobody that was just a throwaway opponent in a minigame in original super star. meta knight was meant to be enigmatic "dark counterpart" of kirby and nothing more.

but then, suddenly, shinya kumazaki comes and recontextualizes all of their interactions they had in previous games into them building up bonds. until it culminates in them becoming genuine friends.

dedede's slowburn warming up to kirby has a satisfying resolution. meta knight's brief team up in amazing mirror now is seen in entirely different light. bandana dee's encounter in revenge of the king hits different as well.

this wasn't planned. this wasn't intended. this feels kind of messy and maybe ill-fitted at the first glance. but for a series where main characters' design was literally unplanned placeholder and was kept in just because they really liked it... it only feels the most fitting.

homestuck is anime.

do you know what is the magazine that the artwork "emerged" comes from? (related, i feel so robed that this design wasn't used for cherub, i mean, do really like SH Cherub, but imagined having this creature in your party)

This is credited in Digital Devil Apocalypse for a magazine called "M2 Discovery." Pretty difficult to find information about due to its fairly mundane name. Its covers all say "Discovery" in romaji but also render it in katakana as "ディスカヴァリー" precisely (as opposed to ディスカバリー, which is how it is misspelled in DDA). It styles itself as a "Mediamix Magazine" (メディアミックスマガジン); the "M2" probably refers to this.

I couldn't find the issue with Emerge but this interesting cover popped up after I found the right spelling:

An issue, volume 26, from November 1996 with SMT2 Michael featuring a "Devil's Compendium" feature that's continued from the previous month's issue. Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything else about the magazine.

I'm personally not that hot on Emerge's cherub as a demon design, but I feel it wasn't intended to be one. Kaneko with some greater artistic freedom going wild.

UPDATE: Added Discovery Jan. 1997 Volume 28 featuring Emerge on the cover, found by Vesk.

A quick Kirby animatic

It’s Homestuck day

onyl homestuck allowed here today

warning ya