WEEK 2

[akudamods]

Saturday passes uneventfully save a little rain. It's on Sunday that you get a little notification of probation for new areas: Neo-Nipponbashi and Chuo. It'd be possible to investigate, to check out some anime, or to worship the defunct Shinkansen. But maybe it's hard to get excited about any of that when Friday’s events suggest that you have simply been provided some additional photogenic places to commit murder. Are you going to bother either overseer after their participation in some mockery of justice? Troll the internet? Get a bat out of Hyper Zone and just take out your frustration on everything?

Those of you who entered the pods will experience fewer “painful bursts of color” as your body is unaffected below the knees, though the same amount of “slight teleportation” glitches. Those of you who abstained from the pods will continue to experience all of the above as well as electric shock sensations occasionally when touching metal objects.

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Comments

[thefifthchild]

Than Astro-Boy? Yeah, it came out in the 1980s and finished publication in the early 1990s. [Also doesn't exist anywhere other than the DC universe so.]

[conways_retribution]

No wonder I haven't heard of it, then, that's way past the year I came from.

[thefifthchild]

...Which year were you from?

[Time travel isn't really unheard of. He probably should have expected this.]

[conways_retribution]

1969, got back from Vietnam.

[thefifthchild]

...Interesting.

That's almost sixty years behind me. Do you even know what anime is...?

[conways_retribution]

Well... I know that some of these cartoons I watched are "anime" now. I guess they decided to air them in America. I first saw Astro Boy and Gigantor around 1963...ish? Speed Racer came later but it was while I was in Vietnam, I mostly know it from what Mikey told me in letters. When I got back I got to see a few episodes with what little time I had to relax.

[thefifthchild]

Sounds boring. [Thanks Damian.]

We didn't have anime or manga where I grew up. [Growing up means until he was ten, that very famous mark of maturity and adulthood.] But they mostly didn't give us any time to ourselves, just had us kill, train and study.

[conways_retribution]

I guess. _{[t h a n k s]}

Uh... is is appropriate if I ask, who are "they"?

[thefifthchild]

The League of Assassins. An organization of assassins lead by a tyrannical narcissist who seeks to change the world in his image. My grandfather.

[conways_retribution]

...saying that sucks would be putting it lightly.