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As a Princess Tutu fan, I've found that a lot of potentially useful information and announcements (such as new merch or events) are not only in Japanese with no English version, lately they're only on twitter. I have no plans to make a twitter account in this day and age, so i have to use alternate front ends like nitter.poast just to read a single thread and look at the concept art posted in it.

If I try to view the account's main page through the actual twitter (or "x") front end, it's several months behind the actual most recent posts. I only learned about a few events like pop-up shops long after they'd ended due to this. And twitter is a very badly formatted site for archival deep-dives into the account's earlier tweets... there's one tweet that talks about how Rue/Kraehe was originally going to be a comedic villianess with rat sidekicks in a sort of Time Bokan inspired setup with Rue as the Doronjo figure, but I can't figure out how to pull it up easily.

I'm wondering if any other fandoms have developed means to properly document and translate information from social media - especially as conventional socmed grows increasingly hostile to people who don't have accounts. Most wikis seem to fall horribly behind with documentation, and the kind of fansites that would document obscure trivia just don't seem to exist in the way they used to. If twitter still allowed the formation of RSS feeds, I would happily inject one into my feed for some of my more obscure shows, but as it currently stands... I can't even read Japanese, I use machine translation or pass individual tweets to friends who can. But even without translation, sometimes there's official and production art I can't find anywhere else.

I know the kind of fandom that dominates dreamwidth has always tended more "transformative" than "curative", but curation is and has always been very important to me as a fangirl - I constantly cross-reference whatever official materials I can get when I'm making art or writing fic, even if I'm intentionally going against the work's original intent or themes. I feel really lonely in this struggle, so I'm wondering if anyone has any advice.

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For the December talking meme, [personal profile] lielac prompted: "Talk about your top 3-5 magical girl shows/anime/manga/things!"

(not that I'm going to be terribly precise about the rankings, here.)

Puella magi
Top Two: Sailor Moon and Madoka Magica )

Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne )

Recommended for anyone who likes:
  • the identity-porn angle in Miraculous Ladybug
  • the Lupin/Zenigata dynamic in Lupin III, but with ladies
  • ridiculous off-the-wall Japanese adaptations of Christian mythology
  • pre-Madoka takes on "this magical-girl universe turns out to be way darker than it first appears"


Saint Tail )

Recommended for anyone who likes:
  • "let's go steal an X" as a heroic catchphrase
  • Steven-Universe-type "whoops, it turns out my mom got up to some shady things in the past, and now I've gotta use what I've inherited from both my parents to make it right"
  • Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, but maybe a little less weird, and the romance is cuter
  • everything is relentlessly adorable


Tokyo Mew Mew )

Recommended for anyone who likes:
  • Captain Planet, but with Japanese furries
  • the Sailor Moon villains in the Black Moon and Makaiju arcs
  • Catradora, but the angsty part is temporary and resolved
  • unusually good shoujo gender politics
  • bird lesbians




Honorable Mention

I didn't put Revolutionary Girl Utena or Read or Die on the list. Decided they were too genre-adjacent to really rank. And this is already longer than I meant it to be, so I'm not going to do a whole sidebar about them anyway.

Short version: they're also very good, and you should give them a look!
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So the Precure series has to be one of my favorite long-running series yet. I'm not completely caught up with all of them, because there are a lot of episodes and seasons, but I find that each one I watch I just fall even deeper in love with Precure. I tend to fave whichever series I'm watching at the moment, but I especially love Miyuki from Smile Precure and Hana from Hugtto Precure. They're cheerful, energetic, and just overall great.

What's your favorite Precure series? Do you have any ships? Have you read any fanfics that you'd like to recommend? Who's your favorite character? Lets discuss anything that comes to mind when you think of Precure!

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