Guess That Ship Tournament: S3 Round 1

bunny's black hole

bunny is a soldier of a war torn planet, and greatly admires his commander, void. in the midst of a fight, bunny is saved by void who sacrifices himself in the process. bunny sets off to earth on his journey to find a way to end the war peacefully only to discover void there who had come up with his own plot to end the war, as violently as possible and so they find themselves in complete opposition despite how much it tears bunny apart. they end up back at their home planet and have one last decisive fight where bunny delivers the last blow as he tells void he's always loved him

Behind Every Evil Gay Man (is another evil gay man)

You have one guy, evil and gay, doing incredibly bad things to people. There's a bodyguard from his rivals that he's got an eye on for a while and having fun doing psychological warfare on because he seems very naive and innocent.

Situations happen and now the bodyguard is captured by the evil guy and oh! turns out that this bodyguard isn't half as innocent and naive as he makes out to be and actually may be more messed up than the evil guy!

All the this torture (literal) and sexual tension comes to its breaking point when the evil guy is at his most pathetic and weak and the bodyguard watches the evil man look so sad and pathetic that he decides that to risk it all (his chance of escape, his job, his life) and makes it very clear what he wants from him (it's sex which turns into this deep bond that binds them together for life and makes them incapable of living without each other for even a moment).

idk who in the reblogs loves lying but the first one is not even remotely incest. they’re not related in any way, shape, or form. i guess people will say anything if they hate something enough

anyway vote bunny’s black hole

for me <3

I KNEW IT

I FRIGGIN KNEW IT

THE EYES WEREN'T JUST A CHANGE BECAUSE OF THE ART STUDIO STAFF SLIGTHLY CHANGING LIKE SOMEONE TOLD ME

LOOK AT THE EYE CLOSELY

IT'S THE SEVENS STYLE OF EYES

THE GO RUSH STYLE IS VERY DIFFERENT

Yes, because she is literally meant to imitate the -ko girls from SEVENS.

Also, if you notice Yuuou’s eyes, who you provided as the SEVENS example, he has two black lines around his pupils. The shading on Ganiko’s eyes (crab -ko girl) do not have them.

The difference in shading (among other things) really is because of the art director change. You can look this up.

So a while back I saw someone say that Go Rush might be a simulation

Now, I actually have A LOT of evidence for this that I'll cover in a different post.

However for now...

A few days ago I was drawing Yuo and I stared at his eyes for 2 hours trying to draw them perfectly in my fanart. And because of that, I moticed something strange today when watching the newest Go Rush episode...

Look at the eyes of the humans in go rush (Manabu, Yuamu, Manya and Yuhi)

And now look at the eyes in Sevens

Do you see it?

The eyes are different for humans in go rush

This is even the case with Tanazaki

Sevens eyes vs Go Rush

They changed art directors between series, that’s why. You’ll notice backgrounds are also no longer drawn with black lines, but brown ones.

Sometimes the most simple explanation is the only one. There’s no conspiracy here.

I really think that Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens itself wasn’t planned to be immediately put into production. I think with studio gallop having so many problems in the last 5 years (gallop has now been silent for 3 years) and then suddenly transferring the rights to Bridge, who has only done 2 series before it and handling arc animations while main production companies handle that main animation is a strange move. So far they’ve only adapted existing properties like the shaman king reboot and another series I’m not familiar with that already had a manga.

A lot of people speculate that it was supposed to pan out differently, which is why Sevens felt so rushed. It’s clear that they’re trying to emulate ZeXal with part 1 and ii series being separated.

Go rush is clearly more planned and flushed out at only 8 episodes. Whether that’s because now the company has a handle on better ways to being as well as it being a time skip series with cameos from the previous sevens series.

I really do recommend watching both series. At 92 episodes Sevens actually went by really fast if you watch it in one sitting (and with the dub in production binge watching it will be easier).

A lot of this is speculation that has been proven false already, or can be explained otherwise.

Gallop has been having trouble since ARC-V. It wasn't just VRAINS. It's more accurate to say they've been having problems for the past decade, not just the past seven years. A prominent animator under the username maiko_2222 even spoke out about how bad things were at the company towards the end of ARC-V's production.

With VRAINS, the problems at Gallop just became a lot more apparent and harder to ignore, especially as the series director left around 20 episodes into the series.

"Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS itself wasn't planned to be immediately put into production"? Did you forget the six month gap between the sudden end of VRAINS and the airing of SEVENS? Gallop having problems since ARC-V meant TV Tokyo and Shueisha (the actual rights holders of the YGO anime) had more than enough time to find a new studio for YGO post-ARC-V. I'm guessing Gallop's contract with them dictated that they work on VRAINS regardless of the situation of their company, but as it became apparent that Gallop was falling apart, TV Tokyo & Shueisha spent VRAINS' production and air time looking for someone to take on the 7th series.

Also, production on SEVENS was actually ahead of schedule and going just fine. One of the staff even tweeted that, when episode 3 of SEVENS aired, they were already working on episode 10. They were around 7 episodes ahead in terms of production.

But why was SEVENS so rushed you asked? Did something else happen that wasn't related to planning or working on things in 2020? Something that disrupted the entire world and forced SEVENS to take not just one but two hiatuses, therefore taking around 8-10 episodes away from the total?

The pandemic hit Japan a lot harder than it hit the US, mainly due to a combination of factors like slow response, outdated information, and the country’s infrastructure not setup for remote work. A lot of companies in Japan lost around 3-4 months of working time as they tried to adjust. Bridge wasn't the only company affected. Other anime airing in Spring 2020 also notably had problems, like Balance:UNLIMITED, as an example.

I have no doubt that they had other plans for SEVENS and that's why the ending of SEVENS felt so rushed. But they also lost around 3 months of time and probably had a pre-planned schedule with TV Tokyo & Shueisha for the delivery of the next series in April of 2022 that they could not deviate from. Having to re-draft an entire series mid-production because of lost time due to the pandemic is a job I don't envy, and for what it's worth, SEVENS was still enjoyable regardless.

The first two arcs of SEVENS, notably, feel a bit tighter than the rest of the series. This is because of how they probably wrote out the first two arcs before the pandemic hit, and then had to scramble after as they adjusted workflow.

(This is only tangentially related, but Bridge isn't really a no-name studio with no experience. The studio is made up of former Project Sunrise members, some of whom worked on shows like Cowboy Bebop and Code Geass.)

I do agree that Go Rush definitely feels a bit more cohesive, and I attribute that in part to the fact that they have a better grasp on workflow post-pandemic, not because Bridge has "more experience working on Yu-Gi-Oh” now. SEVENS could have been even better and amazing if it weren't handicapped by world events, especially since we already saw the makings of it in the first two arcs.

We knew they had the potential. It was just unfortunate a global pandemic happened.

She and her monster boy

It was when I was still just a recruit...

Instead of a thousand words about this season....

Asana

When I was looking at my Sevens fanart, I realised I haven’t posted any Nail drawings before so here’s a simple Nail xoxo

Baby boy

I’ve watched 2 episodes of sevens and I really like the new monsters so far ngl

They're perfect