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Hello there, my crowd! Welcome to my Weekly Musings: Red Edition. 

[I ❤ JAPAN] -- [I ❤ THE COLOR RED] -- [I ❤ CELESTIA]

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*Yawn* Should have posted this much sooner, my crowd. But last minute developments kept me up longer than I should have been.  Shall I get into it?

 First of all, please send all your prayers and good wishes to @Stone Cold Steve Jobs. He really needs a friend right now. I'll let him explain why, if he feels like it. Just know, he's going through the roughest, saddest time right now.

 As for me, it's been a mostly slow, uneventful week.  The biggest thing that happened was Halloween. Ate too much candy, despite trying to take it easy. Tried Swedish Fish for the first time. It's okay. Not spectacular, but not bad either. Tried to mow the lawn, but it rained again. At least it's getting cooler here and there. We're on the eve of Sonic Frontiers, and so we got an AWESOME animated short for it! Hope we get more of those. Also, it seems there's going to be a sequel to Avatar (the blue aliens movie) after all. Let's hope this doesn't go down as well as Duke Nukem Forever. If this franchise wants any hope for survival, they better nail it with a great story, because they don't have 3D or any other gimmicks to hide behind anymore.

 DonBrothers 35: Those We Couldn't Save...  Wow. Does anyone even care about the main story when the side story is this good? Does anyone even care that the MOTW is loosely based on Liveman? The real show-stealer is the triangle between Kiji Brother, Inu Brother, and Natsumi. Turns out, she is a Beastial after all, and it seems that these Beastials share at least SOME memories of the people they are copying. Surprisingly in this episode, Kiji isn't in it as much he should be, just enough to show he is turning into a complete wreck without his wife. He should see all these plot developments. This episode just left me wanting more in the worst kind of way.

 Geats 09: The First Ending?  So the first “season” of Geats ends here, and what do we have to show for it? Not much. Ace's predictions came true, he won after all. We don't know what he wished for, nor did we get to see it. We never saw the truth of what Buffa witnessed that faithful night. We don't know if Na-Go's personal life changed in any way. We have a hint about Ace's desire, something about his mother perhaps. We have foreshadowing. If Punk Jack is still around, then has the game truly concluded? Everyone is talking like this is not the first time Ace has won the Grand Prix, and I assumed as much earlier. I'm REALLY hoping Ace himself is not the one wishing for the Grand Prix to keep starting over. Moreover, I hope we see the original Na-Go, Buffa, and Tycoon return.

 Black Sun 01: Creating an Eclipse!  This episode is so polarizing compared to the original Showa Era series it is based on, yet the similarities are there. And with each episode being an hour long, there is so much more to take in! Kotaro and Nobuhiko were genetically altered at a young age instead of as young adults. The show is really leaning on how Mutant is a possible translation for Kaijin (they even acknowledge this in one of the translated trailers). The battle to become the next Creation King is still a thing here. And in his first transformation, Kamen Rider Black has a more primitive form before he achieves a more refined form. However, so many differences too! We see the leaders and the general of Gorgom before they become full Kaijin. We get to see the original Creation King himself! We actually get an explanation for why Nobuhiko looks so young in this show. We see what might have become of Kotaro if he had never grown up around a family that loves him. It's a darker reimagining, but it's so good in so many ways. And for better or worse, there was a moment when the humans who rejected Kaijins looked a lot like real Japanese people that don't like Gaijins. Thankfully just as it was beginning to hit close to home, the first fight scene happened, and the metaphor vanished. I think we're in for a treat!

 MLP TYT 34: Sunset Wants Her Job Back. Hello recycled animation!  What I want to know is if Zephyr Heights has the right to exercise legal control over Maretime Bay like that. There has to be some kind of international law being broken here. Not even the previous princesses pulled something like this. Did Maretime Bay surrender government control to the royal family when we weren't looking? Am I making a big deal over a dumb comedy episode? Maybe! But I honestly don't have much else to talk about. Honestly, this whole episode was just average outside of that one legally questionable scene.

That's all for now, my crowd.  Take care, and make time for those you care about.

Some of my friends here have been sharing some awesome brony songs that I never would have noticed otherwise! Like this an original, funk-rock, vocal, awesome song about Twilight Sparkle. Good music is good music no matter where you go. This is "Funkship Express - Twilight Funkle [Funk] [Music Video]" by Ponies at Dawn.