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Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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Inazuma Eleven: Gadget for New Series ‘Ares no Tenbin’ is a Smartband-Style Device; Over 150 Characters will make an Appearance

Original article can be found here.

1st January 2018

↑ Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin’s gadgets, the Eleven License (left) and the Eleven Band LEVEL-5／FC Inazuma Eleven・TV Tokyo © / TOMY ©

The new gadget for next installment in the popular game series Inazuma Eleven that will go on sale this spring per Takara Tomy was revealed on the 21st this month. The Smartband-style device will be equipped with an NFC chip, and will also function as a watch and calendar. If the device is worn while walking over,150 characters may be encountered on the display screen and messages can be received from the characters. There are three types in total: the Raimon model, the Seishou Gakuen model and the Outei Tsukinomiya model. The price will be ¥5800/ €42/ $52/ £37 (tax not included).

↑ Messages from the characters: Inamori Asuto (Let’s practice together), Haizaki Ryouhei (Hmph, I’ll be your ally) and Nosaka Yuuma (Well then, let’s practice?)

The Eleven License, cards equipped with NFC chips that can be used with the game and the Eleven Band will also go on sale. Characters can be downloaded using each card and appear within the device, and can be registered as allies. The price will be ¥300.

Inazuma Eleven is a soccer-based RPG, and there will also be an official anime. The TV anime will start this spring, and the game will go on sale from this summer.

can you believe it? sakuma’s birthday! only 10 days away!

Endou: man i miss my wife

Kidou: (i miss my wife too…) (sakuma is in the same room with him he’s just in his clock in mode)

Kidou and endou should have a together moment over being a wifeguy for their partner (sakuma and natsumi respectively)

“can mutuals dm you?” my mutuals can fire me from a cannon through a brick wall, looney tunes style. as long as we’re all having fun

Discussions of what "counts" as "canon" queer representation fall apart the second you start talking about media older than about five years or so. If your only metric for "canon queerness" is a character looking directly into the camera and explaining their identity in specific, modern, US-American-English terminology, you're not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like. If your barometer for what counts as "canon" requires two characters of the same gender to kiss on-screen, you're not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like.

Dr. Septimus Pretorius (portrayed by Ernest Thesiger in 1935's Bride of Frankenstein) was never going to look directly into the camera and explain his sexuality in 2024 terms, but he remains an icon in queer media history. You cannot look at that character (blatantly queer-coded in the manner of the time, played by a queer man in a film directed by another queer man) and tell me that he isn't a part of queer media history.

To be honest, even when discussing modern queer media, I would argue that the popular idea of what "counts" as "canon" is very narrow and flawed. I've seen multiple posts in the past few days that say the Nimona movie is "implied" trans representation, and I just...no, y'all, it's not "implied," it's an allegory. The entire damn movie is about transgender struggle, and the original comic is deeply tied into N.D. Stevenson's own queer journey. It isn't subtle. You cannot look at that movie and pretend that it isn't about trans struggle. It's blatant, and to say that Nimona "isn't canonically trans" is a take that misses the story's entire message, and the blatant queerphobia that almost kept the movie from happening. (I wrote a five thousand word essay about the topic.)

Queer themes, queer coding, queer exploration, and queer representation can all exist in a piece of media that doesn't seem to have "canon queer characters" on the surface. Most queer characters are never going to be able to explicitly state their specific identity labels, be it due to censorship or just due to the fact that scenes like that don't fit in some narratives. Some stories aren't conducive to a big "so what's your identity?" scene.

Explicit, undeniable, "this is my identity in no uncertain terms" scenes are very important and radical, and I'm not saying they shouldn't ever exist. I am saying that you can't consider those scenes the only way for queerness in a piece of media to be "canon."

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over-psychoanalyzing blorbos is healthy and needed enrichment for the girlies in order to avoid over-psychoanalyzing themselves. like giving a dog a chew toy in order to redirect chewing on its hind legs