green tea in the morning

1. Someone on Twitter said, "It should be us (the West) who produced the Fullmetal Alchemist and Shingeki no Kyojin live-action movies, not the other way around!" This in response to the news that Lionsgate is producing a live-action Naruto movie. If the cast is all-Asian I might be okay with it. Otherwise, nope.
Next year: 1) the Boruto anime (but what about the currently airing Shippuuden fillers) 2) and a new stage play. We will see Sai! and a super handsome Yamato. And the rest of the Akatsuki?

2. Toei's third Saint Seiya project is a Saintia Shou anime. Girls defending a goddess! There was a lot of eye-rolling from fandom because who needs another mahou shoujo show, right? I say bring on all the glitter and powerful kicks.

3. Rogue One: The story being what it is, it's more closely tied to episodes I-VI than The Force Awakens - there are parts where the audience might feel lost if they know next to nothing about the story's universe beforehand. Sagging middle and unconvincingly written characters alert - unconvincing as in we know what they are, what they want, but these aren't conveyed intensely enough, and through no fault of the actors' either. In general, I enjoyed it, and ( tiny spoiler )

4. Copy-pasted from my Goodreads review - Liang Yusheng's Legend of the White-Haired Demoness:

7++ stars for the feels this book gave me.
The movies would have you believe that this story is about a woman whose heart is broken because she can't be with the man she loves. LIES. It's the story of a woman versus men's expectations of women. (The women in this book, even the antagonist, accept the titular character as she is) Personality- and martial arts skills-wise, titular character is terrifying. She defeats her opponents almost all the time, recruits other women into her bandit troops, comes and goes into the imperial palace at will, all the while supporting younger women whenever she can. This rankles on men so much they call her a demoness, and she sort of goes along with it, because why not. This might be my favorite Liang Yusheng novel next to San Hua Nuxia. He believes in women finding their own place in the world and standing by their heart and beliefs, for which his writing is one of my #lifegoals.

Added for DW: A male author who believes that a woman owes a man neither love nor forgiveness, even if he has crossed literal mountains and provinces to apologize to her. HELL TO THE YES.

("Do you give money to shoujo series at all, Eve?" "I'm still reading Natsume Yuujinchou.")

Bleach: ( Recent chapters )

Kishimoto Masashi will supervise the series about Boruto. They'll never let that man go, will they?
Itachi gets his own TV series in April 2016.

imaginarybeasts is closing down - if you have a story or art you'd like to contribute for the final issue, the sign-up post is here.

So I discovered that there are Indonesians who for srs named their kids Uchiha and/or Sasuke. We might see a rise in the Sharingan-using population soon.

The Last: Naruto the Movie: Animation-wise, Production IG vibes are a norm in some Naruto movies, and this is one such movie.
It does a valiant job in explaining how Naruto and Hinata end up together. 9.5 out of 10 for effort, movie. The kiss made me feel like I was watching Disney back in the 1990s.
(Ino is so pretty!)
Naruto and his friends being nineteen, they're in better control of their emotions than in the Shippuuden arc. This is nice to watch.
Flashbacks that sometimes feel like a milder dose of what we seen in Evangelion.
Not sure that's how the moon works, but whatever floats your boat, movie.

Naruto Gaiden: Is Byakugan the new, mini-Tsukuyomi?

A woman creates a phone app that has fed nearly 600k homeless people.

Artist draws himself and his cat in the style of 100 different illustrators.

The atlas of beauty: Portraits of beautiful women in countries around the world. "Sumatera" is too vague, though.

Cats-inspired eye makeup.

Fan translation of Naruto's Konoha, Shikamaru, and Gaara Hiden.

shimizu_hitomi is posting mystery genre crash courses. It's a genre I definitely should read more of.
Indonesian detective novelists - there was a detective series once, with police officers as the main characters, but I didn't read it being too young. I did read a YA novel series where middle schoolers solve mysteries. The closest thing available now is a YA thriller series, and the main characters are five girls.

silverwind kindly scanned various stuff from Live Spectacle Naruto. (I wonder if Kakashi's Icha Icha Paradise has actual content in it.) She said the show was amazing, uwuwuwu.

A website to discover your anime birthday twin(s). I share my birthday with Shaman King's Hana and Whistle!'s Yamaguchi Santa, wut :D