Baxter

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Baxter@cosmicspooks· 22d

great day as a fan of tiny books by horror authors with funny pseudonyms and good gimmicks: picked up the new Sesuji--which I'm assuming is a spiritual follow-up to The Mouths given its size--and a recent Nashi that's in the form of a student handbook that's been scribbled on

Baxter@cosmicspooks· 25d

when I'm president (it'll happen I'm pretty sure) my first executive order will be everyone in the world MUST pretend to be surprised that I'm into Man Ray's movies

montaged image of an eye the front of a car

a man staring somberly at his hands by a jar with a starfish in it

four people in stripped shirts and black masks lying in the sun

belle written on cracked glass, out of focus woman staring at the camera from behind it

Baxter@cosmicspooks· 26d

watch the little movieeeeee

two mannequins with a flower blooming between them

two people, heads tilted to the side at the same angle

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 12

very pro the cool screens that flash when you choose a character in Yume no Owari ni

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 11

so it takes all of eight seconds for Saburo Jinguji 6 to establish that the vibes are Different this time

a man in an elevator cloaked in shadow, angel wings growing from his head

what looks like a realistic doll of a young girl lying bloody and bent on a street

my boy Saburo looking good smoking a cig

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 11

Saburo alone, cig dangling loose from the mouth after confirming the body of guy he questioned earlier who "wanted to be just like you". "Just like me, huh..." I got problems with Saburo Jinguji 5's aesthetic presentation but MAN is it locking the hell into the noir sadness

Saburo Jinguji from the fifth game, cig in mouth

The same scene as the first but pulled away -- Saburo is smoking alone in a hall

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 10

Getting tomorrow's post ready and what the--how we already got 600 members?? Wasn't I just celebrating 500 a few months ago!?!? Baffling. Too big a number. Thank you so much as always to everyone who humors my nonsense!

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 9

got a post coming tomorrow where I crack open da Egg (aka try and fail to explain my Yukihiko Tsutsumi obsession)

a giant moon hangs over an apartment building

a woman looks up at a paper lantern in distress

woman covered in blood runs through a tunnel, shining a giant flashlight on her face and grinning

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 9

going through an ish of COM and stumbled on the world's most specific Lupin x Shotaro's Fantasy World Jun crossover parody

manga page of Lupin 3rd seeing a tree that looks like it has a big butt, but then he phases through a brick wall

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 8

the sound effect that plays for dialogue in Saburo Jinguji 5 certainly is a choice for a hard-boiled noir game......

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 7

also I'm obsessed with this little creature

from Saburo Jinguji 4, Yoko talking to just a real weird looking feller in suspenders and bowtie and little tiny sunglasses

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 7

I am the world's greatest detective (or I'm just good at no-lifing games)....either way, Saburo Jinguji 4 DONE The first in the series I'd call unequivocally good as hell! Beautifully links its story, themes and structure together into a very heartfelt, kind mystery

a pixel art kids drawing of a happy if slightly disheveled couple and their son, who is playing with a dog, under the sun

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 6

third Saburo Jinguji game finished and uhoh, they're adding some sugar to that bitter coffee & cigarettes taste...I'm actually falling for my precious lil detective duo here

Saburo and Yoko walking in Shinjuku, text underneath them reading
THANK YOU
FOR PLAYING.
GOD BLESS YOU!

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 5

Garm Wars...the only real movie?? cyclical sci-fi proper noun assault about finding god that gains a doubly profound metatextual layer if you do your oshii homework -- it's like the grand thematic unifier, the ultimate brainworm giver also is allowed to just like, look like that

girl in red standing above a great wasteland

dog having a look around a white sci-fi room

like a dismembered dolls head half submerged in water

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 5

Egg so deeply gets it. Hm? What's that? What's 'it'? You know...(gestures vaguely towards the moon)...It!!

from 2005's Egg, girl sits staring at a computer, white eyepatch over an eye

A young girl in white stands next to a dead tree in a sea of red

A hatched black egg in a void, some creature standing beside it

Crunchy digital imagery of a guy with round sunglasses in the process of shooting himself in the head (but not really)

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 4

these first three are from COM 1970 issue 11 specifically btw

boy is picking mushrooms. it starts raining, he goes to hide under...a big mushroom

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 4

a boy sees a shooting star and chases it. turns out the star was very big

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 4

banging a pan with my ladle: alright kids food's here, we got cute Takashi Yanase (Anpanman) comics scanned straight from COM mag, time to eat!

a boy throws a ball up into the sky, holds up a doggy bowl and whistles. A cloud shaped like a dog descends and starts drinking from it

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 4

Saburo Jinguji 2 done and dusted and I'm happy to report the wrinkled, balding middle aged men quota was MET

Isezaki from Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Yokohama-ko Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

Robert from Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Yokohama-ko Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

Kanagawa from Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Yokohama-ko Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

my beautiful pure king Pierre from Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Yokohama-ko Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 4

it has come to my attention that my precious child Utopiano has finally been blessed with a rating average on letterboxd 🙏 got an extremely powerful curve on it

Four Seasons: Utopiano page on letterboxd; 3.8 average

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 4

The Sesuji blessing strikes again! Kuchi ni Kansuru Anketo is some of the best horror Takashi Shimizu has directed since like, the early 00s. I got chills! More than once!!

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jul 3

new Junji Ito anthology show has started! First ep is directed by Yuta Shimotsu (Best Wishes to All, New Group) and it's.....not bad! Clearly has directing chops behind it and enjoys some CLASS sound work even if it also bumps up against the greatest monster of all, ~the japanese tv camera~

dead woman covered in blood on the ground and surrounded by fog

woman with disheveled hair and blood across her face

end credits; a panorama of illustrations like homes and a ferris wheel with the face of the episode's lead character in black and white in the center of the screen

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 30

good panel 😌

from Chibiki no Iwa by Ryoko Yamagishi, a girl with short hair and one eye a star at the bottom of a panel, holding onto its ledge

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 30

detouring from Ryoko Yamagishi's Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi to read....some Ryoko Yamagishi's horror shorts This stuff is so elegant -- deeply modern feeling nightmares both interior and distanced, defined less by the dark and more by her overwhelming use of white. She fast-tracking to GOAT status

A woman with her face half hidden by covers followed by a series of four panels of a door slowly opening to darkness

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 28

put it off for years but I'm FINALLY digging into Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi! Slow reading bc of all the ancient Japanese names thrown out, but this a straight 11/10 so far setting aside the bottomless ocean of gender going on, the occult flavor here...most delicious dish I could ever ask for

A young prince with a monstrous face levitating a scroll and staring at an intruder with supernatural eyes

picture of Umayado and Emishi in this very intimate position with flowers framing them on the top and bottom

just like, two astral bodies embracing on the moon during an eclipse (?)

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 27

once again thinking of that Kawazu quote "originally games were putting a knife into the flank of reality"

Q: One gets that impression of a table RPG played with pen and dice rather than of a computer RPG.

A: If you increase the level of reality and complicate the game, it becomes a kind of reality simulation. However, originally games were putting a knife into the flank of reality. Usually somewhere there is a deformed thing or a symbolized thing has been implemented - Isn't that what you call a game? Where to cut from the reality, where to symbolize, is the game design part. However, as far as UNLIMITED:SaGa is concerned, we said let's tackle the basics of game design once again. We didn't try to emphasize the realistic details, but rather symbolize, and cut out the parts we didn't need. We thought, let's dare to do a "not express" thing and we calmly sticked to that route.

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 22

Patlabor Tokyo War is, it turns out, the fourth great Patlabor movie

cool lady bathed in green wearing a big visual helmet thing to pilot a high tech helicopter

man sitting in a chair, complete black behind him except for a woman standing in the dark, face obscured

shot of a woman with very white skin and very red lipstick smiling. you can't see her eyes

school girl standing still in the middle of a gym with a basketball beside her. again you can't see her eyes. in the distance, an older woman is walking by and looking at her

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 20

first Saburo Jinguji--sorry, I mean Mr. Jake Hunter--game done! tons of cool ideas, evocative and honest, all wrapped up in an experience vaguely hellish to actually play that's what we call certified baxter gaming 😌

from the first Saburo Jinguji game:

DEAR BAXTER
MANY THANKS
FOR
YOUR PLAYING
AS
SABURO JINGUJI

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 19

some more fine specimens of guy

a yakuza boss from the first Jinguji Saburo game

your pal and certified policeguy kumano looking daper

Baxter@cosmicspooks· Jun 19

man the first Saburo Jinguji is such an incredible game if you wanna see some GUYS