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openLooking for an anti-rom-com manga Anime
I'm trying to find a manga I used to read. I would best describe it as an "anti rom-com" manga. It was about this girl that most of the school admires and one of those morality officers that Japanese high schools have for whatever reason. The guy is super strict and gets on everyone's nerves and he eventually gets on the girl's nerves. So she decides she wants to knock him down a peg, either by publically embarrassing him or tricking him into doing something that will cause him to lose his position.
I call it an "anti rom-com" because while the setup for a rom-com is clearly there, the author deliberately subverts the usual cliches, showing that it's very unlikely they will ever get along, let alone fall in love.
Anyone know what I'm talking about? I don't think it was ever officially translated, so it might not have an official English title.
openI do not know the medium.
I remember this work being discussed in a class. It was a science-fiction story, about a near-future in which immortality has been achieved, but it is an extremely expensive process and can only be done on a distant planet, which I think was supposed to be in the Andromeda galaxy. The majority of the story is one person's journey from Earth to this place.
openSomebody dives to the bottom of "the sacred well"
I remember a book in which somebody makes a one hundred and seventy foot dive down "the sacred well", using a diving suit and air tanks, and nearly runs out of air. Does anyone have any ideas?
open8-bit(?) game with an abandoned house and an island full of monkeys Videogame
there's this game i remember watching my dad play, likely around 2011-2016. i think it was 8-bit or at least in a pixelated art style.
the main things i remember about it are 1) there was an abandoned/haunted house with a harpsichord song playing in the background, and 2) there was a tropical island full of monkeys that threw bananas at you.
i also vaguely remember there being a fast travel mechanic where you could watch your character on a boat, and the sun/moon would rise and set to represent the days passing.
anyone have any ideas what game this is?
openUnknown Eastern European song Music
I just found this video on Youtube which is titled "My Wandering Fire".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsxY1QDl9S4
Apparently this was recording on some Easter European channel in the 90s and the english lyrics are these:
"My wandering fire Lost without a trace In a foreign land The weaving wind sometimes Bitter smoke brings me
My wandering fire Shines brightly in the wrong place It warms the wrong people Doesn't it follow him Follow my frozen laughter Isn't he the one My frozen laughter is following him"
But the artist, year and album is unknown. Does anyone know who this is?
openDragon hunter short film
I can't remember what this short movie is called, but it's the story of a woman who searches for a dragon who stole her pet lizard, and she kills the dragon, only to realize what she killed was her pet; the dragon was the lizard's mother. Even worse, she sees her reflection in the dragon's blood and she sees herself as an old woman, having wasted almost all her life focusing on her revenge. She leaves the cave, and her fallen friend's baby follows her.
Edited by LightSeeker001openAdvertisement with a mother yelling at her son
There was a commercial that aired a pretty decent amount during the early-mid 2010s that featured a montage of an mom yelling at her son (Steven) during different moments of his life (ex: his teen years, preparing for the birth of his child, etc). Eventually, Steven is a senior and his mom now yells at him (her brain was placed in a robot or something). The ad might’ve been for insurance or something, and likely wasn’t aimed towards kids.
openWhich version of Robin Hood opened like that? Film
My sister grew up in the 80s, I grew up in the 90s, and our parents used VC Rs to make mix-tapes of various movies for us when we were growing up, either by (illegally) copying retail VHS copies we'd rent from the video store, or whenever they would air on cable TV. One tape as I recall included the Disney version of Robin Hood... except that before that, it appeared they mistakenly began recording an entirely different version, a live action version, and stopped the recording when they realized the mistake they made. As I recall, the opening title sequence for this live action version started off with quite a lovely wide shot of a big red sun either rising or setting on Nottingham before dissolving to a panning shot of a darkened Sherwood forest; the recording abruptly ended after a cut to a rabbit surveying its surroundings from the grass.
And no, I can't just check the tape and look at the names from the opening credits and check, because I was really young when that tape was made, as I believe it was one my sister took with her when she moved out.
openGreen-haired cat girl? Print Comic
I remember picking up this manga from the library a long time ago, but the title escapes me. From what I remember, it was about a green-haired Cat Girl with white cat ears (that might've resembled the top half of a cat's head complete with eyes) and a Verbal Tic, getting into slice of life-ish adventures with another cat girl and a bunny girl. They might've been aliens too, I dunno.
resolved Creepy Where's Waldo-esque game Videogame
This is a game I remember watching clips of a streamer playing. It's kind of like a Where's Waldo situation where you're trying to find one guy in various locations, only it gets creepier and more dangerous as the game goes on (I think at one point the guy is hiding from the mob or something?) Then at the end of it it's in first person and I think maybe the guy you've been finding all this time kills you?
opendocumentary film about bodybuilding and how it perfectly reflects political corruption
I am looking for a documentary that looks into the parallels of pro bodybuilding and the world of political conspiracies, i.e. how bodybuilder intrigues and manipulation of rules reflects the way political corruption operates. I know it's a long shot, but has anybody ever heard of it?
openHanging from a ledge Film
Can someone give me a list of movies and tv shows that have scenes where a female spy, agent, or cop hanging from a ledge?
openSome british sitcom Live Action TV
I can't remember much about it. I do remember there was an episode that parodied The Prisoner and the main guy gets increasingly annoyed with the white ball following him around. I think in the beginning of the episode he crank calls a plumber in the middle of the night about a bad leek (yes, a leek) in the bathroom, but I might be mixing up shows or episodes there.
resolved 80s-sounding song Music
My mom used to play this song when I was a child, and I've never heard it since. All I can remember was one (recurring?) part of the song: a male singer sounding vaguely like Pat Sajak saying "I" and percussion between his vocals (the best way I can describe it in text is "I- (dun da dun) I- (dun da dun)"). I believe it was a slow romantic song, and there may have been a female singer for the verses. It sounded very 80s, though it could be from anywhere up to the mid-late 2000s (when I heard it). I thought it was by The B-52s for a while, but none of the songs on the one album we have match.
Edit: Memory's still fuzzy, but here's some more details that might help: genre's most likely pop (maybe softer/mellow rock), the "I-"s were spoken with something like a voice crack partway (electronically altered?), the percussion (most likely drums) definitely stood out from the rest of the melody, and I wanna say the instrumentation/overall tone sounded something like "Electrolite" by R.E.M. (not a complete similarity of course).
Edited by CosmicCatopenThis Phone Plan Just Got Satisfying
I remember seeing this ad around the early/mid 2010s. It was for a phone plan company, I think LG, but I can't remember for sure — I also think it was TV or online. There was a yellow background and multiple fuzzy, multicolored shapes which merged together to form the logo. The narration says "This phone plan just got satisfying. Oddly satisfying."
openUnable to remember the name of this show for the life of me. Anime
I can only remember a part of one episode. A character shoots red lightning from their hands, and stumbles while trying to control it. They were wearing purple, and had light orange hair.
Edited by Dragonman2455
I'm looking for what I think was an evil clown movie, or at least a supernatural slasher with a clownish killer. Here's what I remember.
Watched: Early 2000s, want to say around 2002-03. This would have been on premium cable, likely Showtime or Cinemax.
Film Age: Guessing from the early-90s to early 2000s. It was low budget, but didn't have the look of an 80s film. Feels like it may have been from Full Moon or Empire Pictures, something related to Charles Band.
The Killer: Clown or clownish. Talked, was quippy in a Freddy Krueger way. Supernatural and used his powers for trickster-ish deaths.
Other Characters: Main character was a white man in his 30s or 40s with a history with the killer. May have been a cop who took him down when the killer was still alive, or a witness who helped put him away? I remember him having a son, probably in his tweens.
Setting: A large abandoned complex, possibly a warehouse or prison.
Scenes that stand out: The killer drowned a man in a bathroom toilet. I remember this man as having a gun, shooting the killer, and the killer revealing it didn't work.
Edited by CountVertigo