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The Whitest Kids U Know: Mars Blu-ray is already the best selling item in MediaOCD Store history. Just had to order a THIRD batch of exclusive slipcovers.
Very exciting times!
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The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999
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Tweet from Shibuya Kaho: Devastating news for a manga fan. It's now officially confirmed, after 3 days of speculations going viral on X, that this manga artist got ruled for doing horrendous things to his then underaged student. What's worse, it looks like the major publisher Shogakukan kept the secret for 6 years, even hired him under a different pen name as author for a new show. This mangaka Shoichi Yamamoto SA'ed a high schooler he taught part time, made her eat feces and smeared them on her face too. She was 15 when it started. He got arrested in 2020 and his comic "Daten Sakusen" stopped with little explanation. In the following year, his editor allegedly advised for the settlement, offering the victim 1.5M yen (roughly $9600) to stay quiet, which of course they failed. In 2022, the artist was brought back as Hajime Ichiro to write a story for their new series. As in "their", it's the same editor. The publisher made a statement only on their app "Manga One" so far, the exclusive platform for his works. But many already deleted the app, including myself.
I don’t know why I’m first hearing about this from a famous JAV actress turned videogame content creator, but this is the first I’m hearing of this really horrific story and SIX YEAR COVERUP by Shogakukan (CW: sexual abuse). And it’s not like the perpetrator is even famous. Are there others who are?
Happy 75 to a legend. ❤️
Maybe now someone can ask him to defend his cultural output
Of course, nobody got back to me until Monday, at which point it was too late, I was gone and read them the riot act.
I've been a physical wreck all week, and yesterday my sports masseuse informed me that every muscle had turned to granite. It took 90 min to de-clench me.
RUNNING A COMPANY IS FUN
I thought maybe they saw Big Boobs Buster and thought we were selling porn, but no – it was just a random procedural thing. Which they dropped on me at the end of the week with no real explanation and then offered no way of contacting anybody. Was losing my mind.
Last Friday afternoon, right after I posted the new batch of Discotek Deep Dives, our payment processor decided to freeze our account. It was a huge sales weekend and it took me until Saturday afternoon to get up with a new one. (Luckily customer impact was minimal.)
I mean
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.
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Because people keep talking about this and I elaborated privately, I will elaborate publicly as to why this was happening. For reference, I am an accountant and I deal with property tax, rent, and other processes like this at my job. Not here to state the right and wrong, just the accounting. (1/?)
*the above post is purely symbolic in the geopolitical sense
2025 🐍 - Wait, the cancer has spread to WHERE?
2026 🐴 - Ok fuck the anesthesia, and that rusty knife is good enough if I scrub it really good
Not even that, it's the existing release
about 8 episodes in on this bad boy. love the colors and soundtrack. incredibly violent children's cartoon, good stuff. the english dubbed version is really nice to have, but it's one of those Hong Kong affairs with a really small voice cast that doggedly mispronounces every single name.
New film scan
A big new selection of Discotek Deep Dives & closeouts, including more than a few old favorites are up to order!
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There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"
Ayase of Japanese hitmaker group Yoasobi ("Idol") wants everyone to know that the toilet paper in Sony music headquarters is "too rough" and "tore up my anus."
Do with this information what you will.
Battle Athletes is OOP.
Oh, pfft, my bad. Sorry and thank you!
New Discotek Deep Dive coming this week!
Humanity is lost
The media likes to paint a portrait of America falling apart, and in many ways it is, but people vastly underestimate the sheer number of good people doing kind and great things.
"Never underestimate America's ability to reinvent itself," said an Al-Jazeera producer once.
One girl I spoke with had great experiences with therapy and was able to use the tools she learned from it to show up for a friend who needed her, and now wants to be a psychologist. She also loved singing, and I pointed out that it seemed like she also meant that to be in service of others.
While most charter schools are known for concentrating on a particular subject (this one is dance), the kids are very much "normal" and get a lot of extra help if they need it. They're lovely places, and the kids just earnestly want to give back to their communities.
OK, well you have to understand that Charter Schools are special designation schools within LA Unified School District, publicly funded and tuition-free but functionally like a private school. These particular kids are low/middle class but from good homes and have good support systems.
Twinless or Send Help? Or both?
Also, one of the questions was "if you could invite any 3 people to dinner," and one girl answered Bakugo from MHA, Dylan O'Brien, and her sister.
I was very proud to be able to ask "Beginning-of-series Bakugo, or end-of-series Bakugo? Very different people."
also Dylan O'Brien is a prime choice