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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:08 AM

I'm gonna ramble about the last Psyren arc because it's a basically flawless fusion of shonen manga hype and time travel bullshit

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:08 AM

so, CONTEXT

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:09 AM

Psyren is an oldish shonen battle manga about time-traveling psychic

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:10 AM

the protagonists are from 2003, and are periodically being transported by a psychic entity named Nemesis Q to the distant future year of 2018

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:10 AM

where everything is rubble

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:13 AM

where they fight monsters and shit

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:14 AM

then return to 2003

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:14 AM

notably, Nemesis Q will not let them tell anyone about the future - if you try, it gives you a small heart attack

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:15 AM

so only the people in the time travel game itself can talk about time travel

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:15 AM

ANYWAY

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:15 AM

after a while of teens going to the future to punch monsters

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:15 AM

https://images.plurk.com/108Lms74nCwD7qto841hy0.png

we meet a secondary cast, who I'm gonna call the Dumb Kids

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:15 AM

five like 12 year old psychics

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:16 AM

who, in a VHS tape from 2008

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:16 AM

confront the organization that brings about the apocalypse that 2018 is Post from

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:16 AM

https://images.plurk.com/5n9Qfflz93wDA1X5YGT14h.png

and all die

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:17 AM

So, some things need to change

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:17 AM

https://images.plurk.com/4paDtLJMBTFT5Bhztb2X8A.png

https://images.plurk.com/6roXXH9m5igBVkpZhgvw9Q.png

there's a whole arc where the kids help the protags in a big psychic battle, and they get stronger and defeat some guys involved in the future apocalypse

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:18 AM

and go "maybe they'll win now"

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:18 AM

the contents of the VHS change due to their actions

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:18 AM

https://images.plurk.com/bUIi9RWtnJ9mskEeI465X.png

but not enough

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:18 AM

they still all die, just slightly slower

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:19 AM

they determine that the reason everything starts to fall apart is because the Dumb Kids' grandma, Elmore, dies in a plane crash back in 2003 - so, today

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:20 AM

Ageha, the protagonist, tries to stop her from getting on the plane, but Nemesis Q shows up to send him into the future before he can do it

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:20 AM

so he just fuckin' steals her bag and runs, for like ten feet before disappearing into the future

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:20 AM

hoping that this will somehow butterfly effect some kind of change

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:21 AM

https://images.plurk.com/1Sd9ZW6BUGHskelx8KABv2.png

unfortunately, the apocalypse still happens

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:21 AM

Ageha and his friends get in some fights in the future that go, uh

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:21 AM

https://images.plurk.com/7IysfQgjGUHtxk8svDQ23R.png

https://images.plurk.com/45unTwKAOkHTkng6RUSuwu.png

not so well

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:22 AM

until they're all about to fuckin die, and the fruits of their time fuckery are revealed

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:22 AM

in that, while the apocalypse still happens,

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:22 AM

https://images.plurk.com/a80l30o39h8Ry3Y9C7rI0.png

the Dumb Kids didn't show up to that fight

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:22 AM

https://images.plurk.com/5roVxSDqtBoJTULRaisel6.png

and have been level grinding for ten years

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:23 AM

https://images.plurk.com/5JMFhZSqJrdut1eiuc5wXY.png

https://images.plurk.com/3xbI6GrMoLfw2NH5N5h0aP.png

and are like five times as strong as the protagonists now

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:23 AM

and it's the hypest shit because like

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:23 AM

it's not just a deus ex machina rescue

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:23 AM

it's all the hard work of the protagonists trying desperately to change the future

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:23 AM

coming back to reward them 15 years later

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:24 AM

with the kids who they helped in 2003, coming back as adults in 2018 to save their lives

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ

@lastbastion

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:29 AM

yes

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ

@lastbastion

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:29 AM

psyren good

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ

@lastbastion

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:29 AM

its especially good because the heroes like... failed. to avert this. like ten times.

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@lastbastion

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:29 AM

but then finally.

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:30 AM

all I remember about Psyren is that fire girl was my fav and this cemented had cemented it

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:31 AM

she grows up and gets ZERO percent less angry

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:32 AM

the correct way to grow up

dragon time

@MadarFoxfire

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:38 AM

a thing finally WORKING and giving them more than just a little scrap of knowledge but actual progress in the future

dragon time

@MadarFoxfire

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:38 AM

is super amazing

Quinn Angstrom

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:38 AM

yeah this is like

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@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:38 AM

the first time that they bring about any real change in the future

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@lastbastion

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:43 AM

fire girl also my favorite because she wears fox ears,

Wild Child

@graygriffin

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:58 AM

ohhhhhhhh

Wild Child

@graygriffin

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 12:58 AM

nice nice nice

Echo

@EchoDoctor

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 1:12 AM

Fuck, that's hype.

go тo вread

@atrypical

Sun, Dec 13, 2020 6:57 AM

stop giving me manga i gotta read