It's post time! When it comes to cute anime characters, it's easy to tell when they're trying to make a character look cute and innocent. You can tell by their hair, clothes, shoes, and accessories. But did you know they also use food to make a character look cuter? Characters who are supposed to be seen as cute will often be seen eating foods that add to their cuteness. Foods like cakes, strawberries, candies, pastries, pocky, and even mochi are often used for this. They also use drinks like brightly colored sodas, strawberry or chocolate milk, and juice. It just goes to show how much thought and effort goes into making a character appear a certain way. For example, a cute character will eat something like cake, and a lazy character would eat potato chips. It's a visual way for people to tell what someone is like. People subconsciously look at a cute character eating cake and think "cake is soft and sweet, so that character is too". Just like how they look at a lazy character eating potato chips and think "potato chips are casual and unhealthy, so that character is too". I wanted to talk about this because I think it's really cool how creators use things like this to make people see things a specific way. As always, I hope you all enjoyed this blog post!

It's time for another new blog post! I was just reading an article about the new upcoming Shadow merchandise for Sonic's 35th anniversary. The merchandise shows Shadow wearing headphones, which would normally be very cool. However, the headphones aren't on his ears. This is common in both anime and cartoons. It's difficult to imagine what headphones for characters with animal ears would be like. But in this case, the majority of characters in the Sonic series are animals. Because of this, it feels strange for them to be wearing human headphones that clearly wouldn't even work for them. This would've been a good time to introduce special headphones for the Sonic characters, instead of having Shadow wear headphones for humans. Since Sonic characters are half the size of humans, it makes a lot less sense for them to wear headphones like this. There are some characters that would have ears on the side of their heads, but most of them have ears on top of their heads. It would've been interesting to see specially made headphones for these characters, but they didn't do that. I just wanted to talk about this because I thought it was strange. The merchandise still looks nice though. As always, I'll be including a picture of this new merchandise below so you all can see what it looks like. Enjoy!

Why is it important for games to have ways to buy more than one item at a time? Well, that's what I'll be talking about in today's blog post! In videogames, it's normal and expected to be able to choose how many things you buy in a game. Nobody ever really even thinks about it, which is why it was so surprising when Animal Crossing didn't have this. I'm not going to talk about that again, because everyone already knows that's a bad thing. But why is it bad? Well, playing games is supposed to be fun. But shopping is boring. So if you have to buy things one at a time, you're not going to want to buy anything anymore. It'll make the game boring, and eventually people will lose interest. And if nobody wants to play, then there won't be any customers. No customers means no money, and no money means no new games. So leaving out one important feature can end up having a lot of bad side effects. Especially since in the age of the internet, people can review games before they buy them so they don't have to waste their time with it. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

It's post time! There's one main problem with the official Pokedex on the Pokemon website. This problem is, it isn't updated enough. Whenever a new Pokemon is released, the official website doesn't add information for the Pokemon for months. This makes it difficult for fans to keep up with recent releases. Other fans have to do the work themselves to keep people updated with new Pokemon releases. This is pretty lazy, it shouldn't take too much work to add a few Pokemon to the official website. Even if they release the full updated Pokedex, they don't have to do it all at once. A few Pokemon a week should be more than enough to keep people interested. Not only this, but the last time they updated the official Pokedex, several entries were glitched. I know they wait to add Pokemon to encourage fans to play the next game, but wouldn't it encourage fans more if they could see the Pokemon properly first? I just think the way they run the official Pokedex on the website is lazy at best, and it frustrates fans who want to keep up with new Pokemon releases. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

It's post time! This year, the Sonic series turned 35 years old. The first game was released in 1991, so this is a big anniversary; especially since the series is still going strong even now. There's a lot of games, shows, movies, and merchandise available now. Which is exciting for fans. But, why has Sonic managed to stay so popular? It's likely because most people find Sonic as children, much like with things like Pokemon. But, like Pokemon, Sega understands that people eventually grow up, so they continue to create Sonic content for both children and adults. Because of this balance, it's likely that the Sonic series will continue to gain popularity over time. Sonic is one of those things that escaped the anime and gaming community early on, which means a lot of different people like it even if they aren't gamers or otakus. As time goes on, I hope Sonic can continue to grow and evolve like it has over time. Happy anniversary Sonic!

What is a Mobian? Well, that's what I'll be talking about in today's blog post! The word Mobian is used to refer to the anthropomorphic animals from the Sonic series. It comes from the word Mobius, which is the name of their home planet in the comics. However, it isn't the official name for them. It's a word fans use because it's easier and more specific than just calling them animals. In the Sonic series, regular animals live alongside the anthropomorphic animals, so calling them all animals would be confusing. It's much easier to call them Mobians, and most Sonic fans will know what you're talking about when you call them this. Even if it isn't the "official" name, it's widely used throughout the Sonic fan base. I think it would be a good idea for Sega to officially adopt the name since fans already use it, but I have no idea if they actually will or not. I hope this clears things up for anyone who didn't know what a Mobian was. As always, I hope you all enjoyed this blog post!

It's post time! One of the main complaints about Animal Crossing New Horizons is that you can't interact with anything. Playing cozy games is more fun when you can place things and then interact with those things to see what they do. But in Animal Crossing, you can't do that. It's a big part of why people get bored with the game. Even the stuff you can interact with usually only have one animation and that's it. So if you interact with it once, you're done with it. You can't play on the park equipment, you can't ride the carnival rides, you can't play the arcade games, and you can't even wash your hands or take a bath. These may seem like small things, but the small things are what make games more immersive. Without these, the game gets old, fast. Should there be animations for most of the items? Honestly, yes. In most games like this, you can interact with these objects. It's fun to do even if you've already done it before. It would take more time and effort, but that's what makes a game worth playing. Obviously it's too late to add these things now, which is why it's so disappointing. Nintendo has released other games that let you interact with objects before, so not including it in this game makes it feel even more lazy. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!