Ollie Kaplan
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Features Editor & Board @prismcomics.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️Deputy Managing Editor @comicsbeat.bsky.social Bylines @ The Mary Sue, Popverse, Star Trek, Eisner-winning PanelxPanel & more 🏳️🌈 Wifey = @averykaplan.bsky.social 🖖
More looks at how the new LEGO Star Trek set and minifigs were designed
It’s only 11 am on Thursday, but I think I just saw the best cosplay I will see all weekend.
Over at @prismcomics.bsky.social, I spoke with Lysandra Vuong about the Kickstarter campaign for COVENANT: THE FINAL CHAPTER. @oni-press.bsky.social Read here: www.prismcomics.org/interview-ly...
I love how food positive this series is, and I can’t wait for Season 2!
Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram with English subtitles is coming soon to digital! #DetectiveConan #AnimeExpo
New characters are being announced for season 2: “we selected these characters because we want the audience to understand the feeling of aging” and what it’s like for young people to try to understand that experience #FromOldCountryBumpkintoMasterSwordsman
Just finished watching From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Season 2 Episode 1 and now for comments from the director, Akio Kazumi #AnineExpo
Here at NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan and the #yuri manga Murciélago, written and illustrated by Yoshimurakana, is finally getting an anime adaptation Described as “violent action with a yuri twist” #animeexpo #anime
#QliphahinProvidencesShadow first boss The game is currently available for pre-order
“The game is quite simple. You see the enemies' attacks, and they have colors, like blue or yellow, and you can perform a counter by matching and perform timing and attack with the same color.” The crowd is excited about the unique combat system of the game #QliphahinProvidencesShadow
Now we’re hearing from SATOSHI HIRAYAE, the producer, director, and designer of @arcsystemworks.com’s new game, Qliphah in Providence's Shadow, which will play with the uncanny valley #QliphahinProvidencesShadow
Now here with the producer of Demons Night Fever: Sophie Niikawa #DemonsNightFever Getting some more about the story, whose main character works at a third rate development company… these story details “have no relation to anywhere [he’s] worked,” jokes the producer
New guest character confirmed for Winter 2026 #GuiltyGearStrive #AX2026 It’s the second guest character for the series… …But there’s no more information for now (except it doesn’t seem like it Goku)
Happy 5th anniversary, Guilty Gears Strive! “We also achieved 4000000 users” this year, says the #ArcSystemWorks team
Moving on to our second theme: “vividly alive characters” Tekeru Noda: “The thing I was most conscious of when designing an animated sentence to be a hero was the facial expressions and nuanced gestures of every single character.”
First up were discussing the show’s “extreme kinetic action” “When discussing the action scenes with director Hiroyuki Takashima, the one thing we kept saying was, "We don't want to create action just for the sake of action,” says the creative team. #StudioKAI #AnimeExpo
Now we’re at Studio KAI’s Creator Talk Show panel #StudioKAI #AnimeExpo