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[USA] [H] Games for Nintendo and Sony systems, Nintendo Powers, Strategy Guides, collectibles [W] Kirby's Dream Land 2 CIB, Mario Party 2 box, Etrian Odyssey Nexus cart, more games in list
Looking to trade! I have over 100 confirmed trades :) Right now I am mostly looking for the wants I have listed below, especially the high priority stuff, but I may be open to offers. Just please do not be offended if I say no! p.s. "CIB" means complete, as in including all the booklets and such that were supposed to come in there, otherwise I will clarify what is included. "NIB" means New In Box, aka sealed, "brand new," in the shrink, etc. p.p.s. If we are going to trade, all I ask is please be honest about the condition of your items. I can provide pictures for anything I have, please be willing to do the same! Thanks!
HAVE
Mini Consoles
NES Classic Mini - NIB
NES Classic Mini Refurbished direct from Nintendo - NIB
Famicom Mini (JP) - NIB
N64 games
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2 - CIB
Banjo Kazooie - game and manual
Beetle Adventure Racing - CIB, some box wear
Diddy Kong Racing - CIB
Extreme-G - game and manual
Mario Tennis - CIB
Mickey's Speedway USA - game only
Mischief Makers - CIB, some box wear
Rugrats in Paris - CIB
Space Station Silicon Valley - game only, rental sticker on label
Star Wars Rogue Squadron - CIB, box has wear
Super Smash Bros - CIB
Tetrisphere - game only
Wipeout 64 - CIB
World Driver Championship - CIB, some box wear
N64 booklets
1080 Snowboarding - manual, operations card
Army Men Air Combat - manual
Banjo Tooie - manual
Battletanx Global Assault - manual with wear
Bomberman 64 - manual
Buck Bumble - manual with sticker and wear
Donkey Kong 64 - manual
Kirby 64 the Crystal Shards - manual
Mario Kart 64 - manual, operations card and player's guide offer booklet
Mario Tennis - manual (separate from the CIB above)
Rugrats Scavenger Hunt - manual
Star Fox 64 - manual
Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo - manual in poor condition
Super Mario 64 - manual
The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time - manual with wear
Switch
Fornite Wildcat Bundle console - NIB
Pro Controller with Super Mario Odyssey download code - NIB
Runbow Deluxe Edition - NIB or CIB (willing to trade one of these)
Shovel Knight - NIB
Star Fox Zero / Guard Double Pack - NIB, one corner of outer box is slightly bent
Wii games and accessories
30 Great Games Winter Fun - CIB
ABC Wipeout 2 - CIB
Ford Racing Off Roads - CIB
Gallop and Ride! - CIB
Game Party - CIB
Hello Kitty Seasons - CIB
M. Knight Shamalayan's The Last Airbender - CIB
Metroid Prime 3 - promo inserts only
MLB Power Pros 2008 - CIB
NCIS - CIB
No More Heroes - CIB
PBR Out of the Chute - CIB
Petz Horse Club - CIB
Petz Sports - CIB
Press Your Luck 2010 Edition - CIB
Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip - CIB
Vegas Party - CIB
Victorious Boxers Revolution - CIB
Wii Fit - CIB
Zhu Zhu Pets Featuring the Wild Bunch - CIB
Big Town Shootout 2 Blasters big box - NIB (game download no longer works) (these blasters are attachments for Wiimotes to make them into pistols, great accessory IMO)
GameCube games, accessories and packaging
007 Agent Under Fire - box and disc only, box has wear
Army Men Air Combat The Elite Missions - disc and manual only
Custom Robo - CIB
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee - CIB
Mario Party 6 - CIB
Superman Shadow of Apokolips - CIB, also have a Nintendo Power poster to go with it
Tak the Great Juju Challenge - CIB
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - manual only
Action Replay - manual only
NES games and accessories
Original game pad - loose
Hogan's Alley - loose
Tiger Heli - loose
4 cart sleeves
PS3 boxes and manuals (no games)
Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness
PS2
PS2 console with cords and three controllers (one authentic, two aftermarket)
Ace Combat 04 greatest hits - CIB
Alter Echo - CIB
Call of Duty Finest Hour - CIB
Crash and Burn - CIB
FIFA Soccer 2003 - CIB
Gadget Racers - CIB
IndyCar Series - CIB
Madden 2003 - CIB
Maximo - CIB
Need for Speed Underground greatest hits - loose
Rumble Racing - CIB
Sky Odyssey - CIB
SpyHunter - CIB
PS2 boxes and manuals (no games)
River King A Wonderful Journey (has wear)
WWE Crush Hour BOX ONLY
PSX games
2 Xtreme - CIB
Blast Lacrosse - CIB
Cool Boarders 2 greatest hits - CIB
Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back - Case, back cover art, disc (missing manual)
FIFA 99 - CIB
G-Police - CIB
Gex - CIB
Einhander - CIB
Jeopardy! (case is cracked) - CIB
MDK - CIB
Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions - CIB
Medal of Honor (case is cracked) - CIB
MLB 99 - CIB
Moto Racer 2 (case is cracked) - CIB
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit greatest hits green label - CIB
NFL Blitz greatest hits green label (case is in poor shape but could swap) - CIB
N64: Mario Party 2 CIB or box and game or box only
Lower priority: Limited Print Switch Games (prefer CIB, also fine with Best Buy retail versions when applicable)
Axiom Verge Multiverse Edition
Battle Princess Madelyn any version
Double Switch
Earthlocke
Evoland
Fox n Forests
Night Trap
Puyo Puyo Tetris big box with target exclusive decals or CIB
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse CE
Shikhondo
The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
The Messenger cover art and manual or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer copy)
Tiny Metal
Retail Switch Games
Alliance Alive HD
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
Crayola Scoot case or CIB
Dragon Quest 1 2 3 Collection with English cover
Korg Gadget
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3
Okami JP version
Pikmin 3 Deluxe
Romancing Saga 3 Remastered Asia version
3DS Games
7th Dragon Code VFD CE
Beyblade CE with beyblade
Cooking Mama Sweet Shop
Disney Big Hero 6 and Frozen Olaf's Quest two-pack
Final Fantasy Explorers CE
Kirby Battle Royale
PENDING IN Mario Golf
PENDING IN Mario Tennis
Project X Zone 1 and 2 launch editions
Scribblenauts Unlimited big box with rooster hat case CIB
DS Games
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Apollo Justice
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Justice for All
Amazing Adventures the Forgotten Ruins
Big Bang Mini slipcover only or CIB
Bomberman Land Touch 2
Diddy Kong Racing
DK Jungle Climber game and booklets or CIB
Dokapon Journey
Dragon Quest 4, 5, 6
Harvest Moon Frantic Farming
Jewel Time Deluxe box and inserts or CIB
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ
Mega Man Starforce Series
Okami Den box and game or CIB
Sonic Rush Adventure
Veggy World
Viewtiful Joe Double Trouble
Zuma's Revenge with slipcover
GBA
Klonoa 2 CIB
Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge CIB
Warioland 4 box and inserts or CIB
GBC
Legend of the River King 2 CIB
Game and Watch Gallery 2 CIB
Game and Watch Gallery 3 box and inserts or CIB
Game Boy
Kirby's Star Stacker CIB
Ninja Boy 2 CIB
Pinball Dreams poster and reg card or CIB
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan CIB
Who Framed Roger Rabbit CIB
Wii U Games
Pac Man and the Ghostly Adventures 1 and 2
Pikmin 3
Scribblenauts Unmasked Walmart version with Green Lantern DVD
Wii Party U
Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013
Wii Games
Babysitting Mama with baby
Bit.Trip Complete with soundtrack
PENDING IN Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 with bonus DVD
Dragon Quest Swords
Fortune Street
Lost in Shadow
Mario Sports Mix manual and other booklets or CIB
Okami
Pandora's Tower
Prince of Persia the Forgotten Sands
The Sky Crawlers
GameCube games
Baten Kaitos Origins
Pro Rally
SEGA Soccer Slam
Tales of Symphonia
Timesplitters Future Perfect
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 1, 2, 3
Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble
XGRA
PS2 Games
Monster Rancher 4
PS3 Games
Earth Defense Force 2025
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
Wipeout HD Fury (PAL UK exclusive)
Strategy Guides
Animal Crossing New Horizons
Final Fantasy VII
Gotcha Force
Minecraft Dungeons
Super Mario Odyssey
Super Mario RPG
The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages / Seasons Nintendo Power
The World Ends With You
Xenogears and Xenosaga 1, 2, 3
Also if you've read this far, I recently started an Instagram dedicated to video game collecting and would love to connect with others! My username is chillcollector.
I will not let someone sell you the price of white: Recap of Before the 90 Days S04E08
Welcome to your weekly recap of 90DF, a show about people who fly all over the world to not have sex with people who don’t exist offline. Kudos to everyone involved who manages to not chase people down the highway, or conceal a three ring binder of assault charges. Anyway, this episode ignites with an invocation of the Patron Saint of deep delusion, Baby-Girl Lisa. She’s fixin to purchase a mystical goat of enchantment, to trick Usman’s mother into accepting an elderly white Christian from the land of privatized prisons, and men with bad haircuts and torches in khaki pants yelling about immigrants. Eager to demonstrate she’s learned nothing since they “closed up” that last fight, Lisa rides her magic carpet of complaint from scene to scene, whinging about having to buy a goat, the market, the smell around the goat, the state of the goat’s health, the price of the goats, the complexities of foreign currency, and the sounds of goats. The producer asks Usman if the goat is a pet, and he assures them that it’s a snack, which won’t be the last vegan endorsement this episode. Lisa thinks they must select a proper, not-skinny goat, because she’s seen Witch, and the wrong goat will fuck your shit up completely. Once they’ve picked a half-brown, half-white winner, the shop owner announces a $115 price tag, and Lisa’s certain she’s been quoted the “white woman price.” Lisa: You can get a perfectly good goat at Walmart for $19.95. Usman: I will not let someone sell you the price of white. Lisa: Where’s the self checkout? Can I speak with the manager? This goat doesn’t even have a barcode. Usman: They are booting our car and this scene is edging closer to Michael and Angela. Do you see this man’s face? He is beating me severely with his eyes. Goat in tote, Lisa manages to squeeze in a few more complaints about the odor, which is not the Big Macs and Pine Sol bouquet she’s accustomed to huffing. Then she declares that the goat never shuts up, and Usman remarks, “Like you.” She shall henceforth be known as Billy-Goat Lisa. Thanks for that, Usman. The next challenge in Usman’s gauntlet to marriage is to make Billy-Goat Lisa look respectable by Nigerian standards by wearing traditional colorful Hausa garments. Usman explains that if his mom does not approve he’ll be a failure, and already his mom did not speak to him for three months after he announced this relationship. Usman helps her get into a loose fitting gown, and we’re gifted the raw sex appeal of a faded white bra strap clinging to life, longing for its previous days of simplicity in the cool comfort of a Maidenform box at JCPenney. Usman admires her in the Hausa dress, and Billy-Goat Lisa reminds Usman that he still needs to do her hair, and then she needs to do her makeup. Usman insists that makeup isn’t necessary, since she’s just meeting his mom, and she’s already disappointed. Usman brings her to meet his tribal council of women, and they’ve already voted Lisa off the island. A grand green carpet is unrolled outside, and they help Lisa sit down. An older boss lady queens in the doorway, gracefully cloaked in her “that’s a no” clothes. Usman introduces Lisa to his mother, who oozes alpha matriarch. #eldergoals. Outgunned, Lisa awkwardly responds, “You have a beautiful home.” This is extra derp considering where she’s sitting, but I’m going to give her a pass, because she could have said, “My purse is weighted by all these gold bars, will you take some of my burden?” and still would have lost this gamble. Lisa goes on to be herself, which means expressing zero curiosity about their way of life, how they are, what makes them happy. The family was not warned about Lisa’s age, and were expecting a younger woman. Usman eagerly points out that Lisa brought a goat, and Usman’s mother responds, “Thank you.” Looking for something to fluff everyone up, he describes her as a “doctor” which does nothing to alter flat expressions, but older sister Sefiyatu of the magical eyes manages an unconvincing, “God is great.” Flies ominously crawl on Lisa as Usman declares their marriage intentions. Everyone is shocked, and Sefiyatu shakes her head, while mom puts on her purple nope cloak, says no, and walks away. Later, Sefiyatu expresses they were surprised to see a woman over 50 years old, and while she knows there’s crack in America, she didn’t think Usman would smoke it here. Ultimate Mother tells the cameras that Lisa wants to take Usman out of his country, away from the possibility of having children, and “whites don’t like blacks over there.” Well, Mother Usman reads, so it’s over for you, Billy-Goat Lisa. “I don’t see what the problem is,” Trashley interjects. “I mean, you call the police, and it’s fine. Right Jay?” Jay: (Sounds of running.) Somewhere in Yuck, Philippines, Ed is horrified to learn water is falling from the sky. He sits awkwardly on Rose’s fold-out mat bed, and learns that pops plans to share the bedroom with them, so Rose doesn’t have to fuck Ed twice. There’s a tropical storm outside, and glumly resigns himself to sleeping under Rose’s leaky roof, with only his caps lock-colored sneakers to protect him. Father Rose wisely realizes that Ed is going to be crying all night, so he declares he’ll sleep in the room next door with the more mature child Ed is fully ignoring. The horrors only continue for Ed, who recoils from the menace of loud raindrops accompanied by that strange booming sound, unpredictable electricity daring to escape him, and foldable sleeping mats sponging up icky rain and denying him the splendor of 1000 thread-count sheets. Ed shakily admits that his relationship with dermatitis prevents him from enjoying the wonders of floor life, but the gifts for himself he sent Rose never arrived, and so it’s a hard knock polyester blend life for Ed. I strongly suspect the 90DF producers arrived hours early to deck the walls with wire and release an exhausted rat from a trap to increase Ed’s palpable horror. “I sell sheets and fake gifts,” Maria confesses. “We need money for food, not diaper for man-baby.” The state of their living arrangements makes Ed think she’s desperate for a way out, which is different from his desperation to be with someone 1/3 his age who will be bound to him by citizenship. Ed wakes up the next day describing his night of terror, struggling for the first time without air conditioners, plagued by the possibility of a single mosquito bite that defied his generous dip in a vat of DEET. The only solution is to take Rose away from her son again for a private vacation, just the two of them, which is what he planned to do all along anyway. “My last marriage probably ended because I was jealous of the attention my daughter got,” Ed explains. “Now I’m going to be That Stepdad, who will punctuate every argument with statements about taking care of ‘your kid.’” Anyone else miss Tim? I miss Tim. Ed then declares he’d like to take a shower, and Father Rose says he’ll join him, just to make sure Ed washes his damn hair. Shirt off, Ed unleashes a smattering of empty tribal tattoos, the douchebag calling card of Affliction t-shirt Gen X. This creates the opportunity to wince and complain about things being too cold, after complaining about being too hot for seven solid episodes. Then Rose rigs up the hose and turns this backyard bucketing into a full-on prison shower. “I know about those,” Geoffrey declares. “Don’t drop the soap!” “Rose!” Ed cries. “I dropped the soap!” “Ed is like big baby,” Rose explains. “Except baby not always fussing.” “I’m done!” Ed squeals. “You’re done? I’M DONE!” Debbie shows him how it’s DONE. Since we haven’t yet found enough evidence for the “Ed is a complete man-baby” file, we move to a pig farm to close the case. They join Father Rose in the back of a Jeep, and, eager to best Lisa for the most bland question extended to future family, Ed opts for, “Do you like living in the Philippines?” At the pig farm, we’re presented with our second vegan conversion documentary, as we watch leashed pigs squirm in super tight pens for a handful of corn. This mysterious wet dirt matter on the ground is known as “mud,” and Ed’s mother always carried him over such offenses, so now he’s lost. Terrified of damaging his favored fashion accessory, Ed wraps his kicks in plastic bags for better slapstick sliding around. Sure enough, he immediately starts banana-peeling left and right, tossing yellow plastic bowls of food into the air while swearing like a sailor. It was the “son of a bitch!” Declaration while a plastic bowl sailed through the air, tossing food scraps like confetti, that convinced me I would be purchasing this episode for repeat viewing. I don’t know why the editors declined to set this scene to the theme from Beverly Hillbillies, but I’ll assume it required too much coin. Ed successfully receives permission to deny Rose access to her son for an extended stretch of time, and busies himself pinpointing the nearest hotel with an English-speaking restaurant within spitting distance. Speaking of casting directors that need to be stopped, in a world of happily queer folks madly lusting for each other’s loins, 90DF managed to find someone pretending to be bi for edge points. Stephanie aka Darcey Lite is still shocked that Erika expects her to be the person she pretended to be for four months. She’s packing up to alienate Erika’s family and friends as quickly as possible, while Erika is outside, calling a lifeline to confess this trip has been shit thus far, and Steph divides the bed with a long line of hand sanitizer every night, and I mean, there are shortages. “I’m a happy person,” Erika tells her friend. “This is really disappointing to Stephanie. I’m depressed now, so I’m hoping that will help.” “I’ve already decided this isn’t going to work,” Stephanie doesn’t admit. “Now I’m going to express my latest source of discomfort, Erika having friends she’s honest with, because that really doesn’t compliment my brand. I’ll make a youtube video of this later, when I’m ready to discuss #problems.” Erika tries to engage with Stephanie during the car ride, which Steph promptly declares the wrong place for this conversation, since she doesn’t want to be shoved from a moving vehicle. It’s much better to awkwardly stare out the window for four hours instead. Erika brings up Stephanie’s control issues anyway, since they’ve just manifested for the 10,000 time, and asks if they might actually have something at the center before Steph builds a fence around it. Out of options, Steph starts rationalizing her behavior by talking about past pain and illness. This is easier than, you know, doing something different. Erika rolls her eyes, because she’s read this book before. They pull into an AirBnB, so that Erika’s family won’t deduce from their complete lack of affection that they’re in a fake bisexual relationship. They plan to meet up with Erika’s friend Claire, but doing something is the last thing Steph wants to be doing. Claire is fresh from her latest stint as an extra in a Die Antwoord video, and I kind of love this chick and her wild tangle of fuck-you hair paired with the most welcoming eyes in the world. Can the editors just delete Steph from future episodes and make this the Erika and Claire show? After introductions, Steph does her best to not ask Claire anything about herself, while reporting every event of the last few days in a downer fashion that emphasizes her displeasure. Erika doesn’t have the ability to disguise her misery at this point, as Steph says she’s uneasy about an upcoming party, which Erika sees as an opportunity to meet all her friends at once. Claire wants to know why Steph is uncomfortable, and she says she doesn’t like being in the presence of people who have had sex. Claire says that they’ve all dated each other (Port Augusta is a small town, after all) but Steph needs to make a mountain of this molehill if she hopes to preserve her celibate status. When Steph goes to the bathroom, Erika asks Claire if she wants to get in her car and bail, because she wasn’t banking on a loveless, jealousy-anchored platonic friendship. Claire tells the cameras that she expected them to seem more affectionate, since it’s early days and usually couples are like that, and she hopes that in the two weeks they have left things somehow improve. Isn’t she positive? Let’s just erase everyone except Claire and Mother Usman and see what happens. Later Erika and her amazing David Bowie Labyrinth tattoo try to talk to Steph again. During their four months of cyber-dating Steph was romantic, and all of that deflated the minute the plane landed and the potential for titty-touching turned real. Steph insists that just because they have no relationship doesn’t mean they have no relationship. Erika starts to cry, and Steph gets awkward, because she thought they were both fake lesbians who would just squeal and kiss when the boys are looking. I mean, look at her fingernails, does that scream “preparation” to you? Erika’s not buying it, and tells Steph she wants someone who is excited to see her. As always, Steph is overwhelmed that on day 4, Erika expects to be having fun. So Erika wants to know why she even bothered to come, if she doesn’t want to meet her friends and doesn’t want to do anything. Solid question. Steph apologizes for her behavior, and says she needs time and the unicorn pain of her illness, because 30 seconds have passed. Erika declares that Steph’s hurt always has to be more than hers, and drives away. In the town that crazy built, David is stalking the artist formerly known as Maria and currently known as Lana, who is likely enjoying a nice cruise along the river Manchester with model boy toy Williams. Lana doesn’t know David’s en route to stalk her, since she’s been busy not existing. “I want her so much,” David creeps. 300 miles in David has a flat tire, and admits he’s been driving 9 hours on bad roads. If someone pulls over to help, will they be the murderer or the murdered? It’s a toss up with this guy. Later, David wanders aimlessly around Lana’s maybe-hometown, holding up a cell phone picture to anyone not carrying mace. He enters a candy shop Lana reportedly likes to frequent, and shows the cell phone shot to the shopkeeper, who presses the emergency button under the counter furiously, before stretching her fingers over a nearby bat and insisting she’s never seen the woman who has never entered her shop, because she doesn’t believe in dragons. Dejected, David goes back to the hotel to obsessively check the site he’s surrendered all his money to, and he finds a terse email from Lana asking if he still wants to help her get stateside, and “start” a relationship. David responds to this like he’s just received a sonnet embroidered into a pillow with a candy heart resting gently on top. “But did you get heart emojis?” Yolanda asks. “That’s when you know.” Want to check in on the only actual relationship this season? Sure, why not. Avery is wearing flip-flops, which Ash calls thongs, and the editing team is so desperate for quality content that they cast this as a grand moment of cultural exchange. Hey, in Hawaii, they call them slippers! Isn’t language great? Ash (who has Grave’s disease, FYI) hopes to rekindle the playful side of their relationship with a boat trip to see crocodiles. When the boat guy tells them to be cautious around their great jaws of death, Ash assures Avery that he’ll protect her, but Avery insists that after one bite the croc will be too high to remember whether he was going to kill her or not, because our girl is prepared. Before we get too comfortable with this fun nonsense, Avery insists she’s not here in this beautiful spot on vacation to have fun. Instead, they need to break out the white board and make some SMART goals for this relationship. She asks when she’ll meet his child and ex, and for this scene we need to break out the white-light translator: Ash says: I’m looking forward to that actually. Translation: I haven’t asked, and was hoping you would forget. Ash: I’m still working it out with Sian. Translation: She said no. Ash: I’m worried because my ex is very honest. Translation: She’s going to show my cards, and I was just getting comfortable under this warm blanket of bullshit. Douchelord Tom from the House of Bland has concluded his tantrum, and is surprised that he did that when he was planning to pretend to be a nice guy. He calls his sister up for some doe-eyed enabling. Tom declares that Darcey stormed out, and sis asks if he went after her, and when Tom says no she seems disappointed. He says he wants to apologize for his behavior, because he does have feelings for her, and was hoping to squeeze out a few more scenes before returning to a life of hunting for a second good angle. Darcey is so pissed off she’s sculpted her eyebrows into the golden-brown arches. She opted to stay at the hotel because people can see this trash fire from space, but she doesn’t want Stacey to grimace it underground just yet. She doesn’t get why he had to do this in person, and doesn’t want to be alone. She feels used, and so she blocks his ass, cutting off his booty-hunting apologies before they can feebly launch from his needlepoint hands. Next week, Ash breaks the news to Avery that he’s single (which probably is just a reference to them not being married), and Steph asks if Erika’s ex still has feelings for her (he probably doesn’t), and David waits for Lana to show up (she won’t). Anyone else exhausted and longing for actual relationships? Thank you, Patreon supporters! To join: patreon.com/Fractalfay
I will not let someone sell you the price of white: Recap of Before the 90 Days, S04E08
Welcome to your weekly recap of 90DF, a show about people who fly all over the world to not have sex with people who don’t exist offline. Kudos to everyone involved who manages to not chase people down the highway, or conceal a three ring binder of assault charges. Anyway, this episode ignites with an invocation of the Patron Saint of deep delusion, Baby-Girl Lisa. She’s fixin to purchase a mystical goat of enchantment, to trick Usman’s mother into accepting an elderly white Christian from the land of privatized prisons, and men with bad haircuts and torches in khaki pants yelling about immigrants. Eager to demonstrate she’s learned nothing since they “closed up” that last fight, Lisa rides her magic carpet of complaint from scene to scene, whinging about having to buy a goat, the market, the smell around the goat, the state of the goat’s health, the price of the goats, the complexities of foreign currency, and the sounds of goats. The producer asks Usman if the goat is a pet, and he assures them that it’s a snack, which won’t be the last vegan endorsement this episode. Lisa thinks they must select a proper, not-skinny goat, because she’s seen Witch, and the wrong goat will fuck your shit up completely. Once they’ve picked a half-brown, half-white winner, the shop owner announces a $115 price tag, and Lisa’s certain she’s been quoted the “white woman price.” Lisa: You can get a perfectly good goat at Walmart for $19.95. Usman: I will not let someone sell you the price of white. Lisa: Where’s the self checkout? Can I speak with the manager? This goat doesn’t even have a barcode. Usman: They are booting our car and this scene is edging closer to Michael and Angela. Do you see this man’s face? He is beating me severely with his eyes. Goat in tote, Lisa manages to squeeze in a few more complaints about the odor, which is not the Big Macs and Pine Sol bouquet she’s accustomed to huffing. Then she declares that the goat never shuts up, and Usman remarks, “Like you.” She shall henceforth be known as Billy-Goat Lisa. Thanks for that, Usman. The next challenge in Usman’s gauntlet to marriage is to make Billy-Goat Lisa look respectable by Nigerian standards by wearing traditional colorful Hausa garments. Usman explains that if his mom does not approve he’ll be a failure, and already his mom did not speak to him for three months after he announced this relationship. Usman helps her get into a loose fitting gown, and we’re gifted the raw sex appeal of a faded white bra strap clinging to life, longing for its previous days of simplicity in the cool comfort of a Maidenform box at JCPenney. Usman admires her in the Hausa dress, and Billy-Goat Lisa reminds Usman that he still needs to do her hair, and then she needs to do her makeup. Usman insists that makeup isn’t necessary, since she’s just meeting his mom, and she’s already disappointed. Usman brings her to meet his tribal council of women, and they’ve already voted Lisa off the island. A grand green carpet is unrolled outside, and they help Lisa sit down. An older boss lady queens in the doorway, gracefully cloaked in her “that’s a no” clothes. Usman introduces Lisa to his mother, who oozes alpha matriarch. #eldergoals. Outgunned, Lisa awkwardly responds, “You have a beautiful home.” This is extra derp considering where she’s sitting, but I’m going to give her a pass, because she could have said, “My purse is weighted by all these gold bars, will you take some of my burden?” and still would have lost this gamble. Lisa goes on to be herself, which means expressing zero curiosity about their way of life, how they are, what makes them happy. The family was not warned about Lisa’s age, and were expecting a younger woman. Usman eagerly points out that Lisa brought a goat, and Usman’s mother responds, “Thank you.” Looking for something to fluff everyone up, he describes her as a “doctor” which does nothing to alter flat expressions, but older sister Sefiyatu of the magical eyes manages an unconvincing, “God is great.” Flies ominously crawl on Lisa as Usman declares their marriage intentions. Everyone is shocked, and Sefiyatu shakes her head, while mom puts on her purple nope cloak, says no, and walks away. Later, Sefiyatu expresses they were surprised to see a woman over 50 years old, and while she knows there’s crack in America, she didn’t think Usman would smoke it here. Ultimate Mother tells the cameras that Lisa wants to take Usman out of his country, away from the possibility of having children, and “whites don’t like blacks over there.” Well, Mother Usman reads, so it’s over for you, Billy-Goat Lisa. “I don’t see what the problem is,” Trashley interjects. “I mean, you call the police, and it’s fine. Right Jay?” Jay: (Sounds of running.) Somewhere in Yuck, Philippines, Ed is horrified to learn water is falling from the sky. He sits awkwardly on Rose’s fold-out mat bed, and learns that pops plans to share the bedroom with them, so Rose doesn’t have to fuck Ed twice. There’s a tropical storm outside, and glumly resigns himself to sleeping under Rose’s leaky roof, with only his caps lock-colored sneakers to protect him. Father Rose wisely realizes that Ed is going to be crying all night, so he declares he’ll sleep in the room next door with the more mature child Ed is fully ignoring. The horrors only continue for Ed, who recoils from the menace of loud raindrops accompanied by that strange booming sound, unpredictable electricity daring to escape him, and foldable sleeping mats sponging up icky rain and denying him the splendor of 1000 thread-count sheets. Ed shakily admits that his relationship with dermatitis prevents him from enjoying the wonders of floor life, but the gifts for himself he sent Rose never arrived, and so it’s a hard knock polyester blend life for Ed. I strongly suspect the 90DF producers arrived hours early to deck the walls with wire and release an exhausted rat from a trap to increase Ed’s palpable horror. “I sell sheets and fake gifts,” Maria confesses. “We need money for food, not diaper for man-baby.” The state of their living arrangements makes Ed think she’s desperate for a way out, which is different from his desperation to be with someone 1/3 his age who will be bound to him by citizenship. Ed wakes up the next day describing his night of terror, struggling for the first time without air conditioners, plagued by the possibility of a single mosquito bite that defied his generous dip in a vat of DEET. The only solution is to take Rose away from her son again for a private vacation, just the two of them, which is what he planned to do all along anyway. “My last marriage probably ended because I was jealous of the attention my daughter got,” Ed explains. “Now I’m going to be That Stepdad, who will punctuate every argument with statements about taking care of ‘your kid.’” Anyone else miss Tim? I miss Tim. Ed then declares he’d like to take a shower, and Father Rose says he’ll join him, just to make sure Ed washes his damn hair. Shirt off, Ed unleashes a smattering of empty tribal tattoos, the douchebag calling card of Affliction t-shirt Gen X. This creates the opportunity to wince and complain about things being too cold, after complaining about being too hot for seven solid episodes. Then Rose rigs up the hose and turns this backyard bucketing into a full-on prison shower. “I know about those,” Geoffrey declares. “Don’t drop the soap!” “Rose!” Ed cries. “I dropped the soap!” “Ed is like big baby,” Rose explains. “Except baby not always fussing.” “I’m done!” Ed squeals. “You’re done? I’M DONE!” Debbie shows him how it’s DONE. Since we haven’t yet found enough evidence for the “Ed is a complete man-baby” file, we move to a pig farm to close the case. They join Father Rose in the back of a Jeep, and, eager to best Lisa for the most bland question extended to future family, Ed opts for, “Do you like living in the Philippines?” At the pig farm, we’re presented with our second vegan conversion documentary, as we watch leashed pigs squirm in super tight pens for a handful of corn. This mysterious wet dirt matter on the ground is known as “mud,” and Ed’s mother always carried him over such offenses, so now he’s lost. Terrified of damaging his favored fashion accessory, Ed wraps his kicks in plastic bags for better slapstick sliding around. Sure enough, he immediately starts banana-peeling left and right, tossing yellow plastic bowls of food into the air while swearing like a sailor. It was the “son of a bitch!” Declaration while a plastic bowl sailed through the air, tossing food scraps like confetti, that convinced me I would be purchasing this episode for repeat viewing. I don’t know why the editors declined to set this scene to the theme from Beverly Hillbillies, but I’ll assume it required too much coin. Ed successfully receives permission to deny Rose access to her son for an extended stretch of time, and busies himself pinpointing the nearest hotel with an English-speaking restaurant within spitting distance. Speaking of casting directors that need to be stopped, in a world of happily queer folks madly lusting for each other’s loins, 90DF managed to find someone pretending to be bi for edge points. Stephanie aka Darcey Lite is still shocked that Erika expects her to be the person she pretended to be for four months. She’s packing up to alienate Erika’s family and friends as quickly as possible, while Erika is outside, calling a lifeline to confess this trip has been shit thus far, and Steph divides the bed with a long line of hand sanitizer every night, and I mean, there are shortages. “I’m a happy person,” Erika tells her friend. “This is really disappointing to Stephanie. I’m depressed now, so I’m hoping that will help.” “I’ve already decided this isn’t going to work,” Stephanie doesn’t admit. “Now I’m going to express my latest source of discomfort, Erika having friends she’s honest with, because that really doesn’t compliment my brand. I’ll make a youtube video of this later, when I’m ready to discuss #problems.” Erika tries to engage with Stephanie during the car ride, which Steph promptly declares the wrong place for this conversation, since she doesn’t want to be shoved from a moving vehicle. It’s much better to awkwardly stare out the window for four hours instead. Erika brings up Stephanie’s control issues anyway, since they’ve just manifested for the 10,000 time, and asks if they might actually have something at the center before Steph builds a fence around it. Out of options, Steph starts rationalizing her behavior by talking about past pain and illness. This is easier than, you know, doing something different. Erika rolls her eyes, because she’s read this book before. They pull into an AirBnB, so that Erika’s family won’t deduce from their complete lack of affection that they’re in a fake bisexual relationship. They plan to meet up with Erika’s friend Claire, but doing something is the last thing Steph wants to be doing. Claire is fresh from her latest stint as an extra in a Die Antwoord video, and I kind of love this chick and her wild tangle of fuck-you hair paired with the most welcoming eyes in the world. Can the editors just delete Steph from future episodes and make this the Erika and Claire show? After introductions, Steph does her best to not ask Claire anything about herself, while reporting every event of the last few days in a downer fashion that emphasizes her displeasure. Erika doesn’t have the ability to disguise her misery at this point, as Steph says she’s uneasy about an upcoming party, which Erika sees as an opportunity to meet all her friends at once. Claire wants to know why Steph is uncomfortable, and she says she doesn’t like being in the presence of people who have had sex. Claire says that they’ve all dated each other (Port Augusta is a small town, after all) but Steph needs to make a mountain of this molehill if she hopes to preserve her celibate status. When Steph goes to the bathroom, Erika asks Claire if she wants to get in her car and bail, because she wasn’t banking on a loveless, jealousy-anchored platonic friendship. Claire tells the cameras that she expected them to seem more affectionate, since it’s early days and usually couples are like that, and she hopes that in the two weeks they have left things somehow improve. Isn’t she positive? Let’s just erase everyone except Claire and Mother Usman and see what happens. Later Erika and her amazing David Bowie Labyrinth tattoo try to talk to Steph again. During their four months of cyber-dating Steph was romantic, and all of that deflated the minute the plane landed and the potential for titty-touching turned real. Steph insists that just because they have no relationship doesn’t mean they have no relationship. Erika starts to cry, and Steph gets awkward, because she thought they were both fake lesbians who would just squeal and kiss when the boys are looking. I mean, look at her fingernails, does that scream “preparation” to you? Erika’s not buying it, and tells Steph she wants someone who is excited to see her. As always, Steph is overwhelmed that on day 4, Erika expects to be having fun. So Erika wants to know why she even bothered to come, if she doesn’t want to meet her friends and doesn’t want to do anything. Solid question. Steph apologizes for her behavior, and says she needs time and the unicorn pain of her illness, because 30 seconds have passed. Erika declares that Steph’s hurt always has to be more than hers, and drives away. In the town that crazy built, David is stalking the artist formerly known as Maria and currently known as Lana, who is likely enjoying a nice cruise along the river Manchester with model boy toy Williams. Lana doesn’t know David’s en route to stalk her, since she’s been busy not existing. “I want her so much,” David creeps. 300 miles in David has a flat tire, and admits he’s been driving 9 hours on bad roads. If someone pulls over to help, will they be the murderer or the murdered? It’s a toss up with this guy. Later, David wanders aimlessly around Lana’s maybe-hometown, holding up a cell phone picture to anyone not carrying mace. He enters a candy shop Lana reportedly likes to frequent, and shows the cell phone shot to the shopkeeper, who presses the emergency button under the counter furiously, before stretching her fingers over a nearby bat and insisting she’s never seen the woman who has never entered her shop, because she doesn’t believe in dragons. Dejected, David goes back to the hotel to obsessively check the site he’s surrendered all his money to, and he finds a terse email from Lana asking if he still wants to help her get stateside, and “start” a relationship. David responds to this like he’s just received a sonnet embroidered into a pillow with a candy heart resting gently on top. “But did you get heart emojis?” Yolanda asks. “That’s when you know.” Want to check in on the only actual relationship this season? Sure, why not. Avery is wearing flip-flops, which Ash calls thongs, and the editing team is so desperate for quality content that they cast this as a grand moment of cultural exchange. Hey, in Hawaii, they call them slippers! Isn’t language great? Ash (who has Grave’s disease, FYI) hopes to rekindle the playful side of their relationship with a boat trip to see crocodiles. When the boat guy tells them to be cautious around their great jaws of death, Ash assures Avery that he’ll protect her, but Avery insists that after one bite the croc will be too high to remember whether he was going to kill her or not, because our girl is prepared. Before we get too comfortable with this fun nonsense, Avery insists she’s not here in this beautiful spot on vacation to have fun. Instead, they need to break out the white board and make some SMART goals for this relationship. She asks when she’ll meet his child and ex, and for this scene we need to break out the white-light translator: Ash says: I’m looking forward to that actually. Translation: I haven’t asked, and was hoping you would forget. Ash: I’m still working it out with Sian. Translation: She said no. Ash: I’m worried because my ex is very honest. Translation: She’s going to show my cards, and I was just getting comfortable under this warm blanket of bullshit. Douchelord Tom from the House of Bland has concluded his tantrum, and is surprised that he did that when he was planning to pretend to be a nice guy. He calls his sister up for some doe-eyed enabling. Tom declares that Darcey stormed out, and sis asks if he went after her, and when Tom says no she seems disappointed. He says he wants to apologize for his behavior, because he does have feelings for her, and was hoping to squeeze out a few more scenes before returning to a life of hunting for a second good angle. Darcey is so pissed off she’s sculpted her eyebrows into the golden-brown arches. She opted to stay at the hotel because people can see this trash fire from space, but she doesn’t want Stacey to grimace it underground just yet. She doesn’t get why he had to do this in person, and doesn’t want to be alone. She feels used, and so she blocks his ass, cutting off his booty-hunting apologies before they can feebly launch from his needlepoint hands. Next week, Ash breaks the news to Avery that he’s single (which probably is just a reference to them not being married), and Steph asks if Erika’s ex still has feelings for her (he probably doesn’t), and David waits for Lana to show up (she won’t). Anyone else exhausted and longing for actual relationships? Thank you, Patreon supporters!
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(Link to first half since automod removed it and no one saw it.) Here’s Part 2 of that big ass writeup for you for everything from Part VI to VIII. As a refresher, I analyzed every music and pop culture reference I could find in the series to see whether they were chosen with some level of intent or if they were just slapped on as a reference. Not quite as long as the first half but it's still really long.
Part VI
Meaningful
The lyrics of "Stone Free" are all about gaining freedom and the singer being looked down on and judged by those around him, so this seems like a pretty obvious thematic connection to Jolyne's goals in the Part. Also some interesting comparisons between Hendrix and Jolyne as a character, so I'll link a video going deeper into it (here).
Romeo's name is an obvious reference. Might be indicative of Araki's feelings on the character, the play, or both depending on how salty he is. Either way, him being a rich, irresponsible loverboy is about all you need.
Donatello's entire life is just Araki writing "Holes" fanfiction. From the brief look I did, I don't think his style is all that derivative of the Versus line he's named after. If anything, I'd say his appearance could be a nod to Go Nagai's characters with the giant sideburns and pseudo-bowl cut that makes him look like a hyper-realistic Ryo Asuka from Devilman. Not finding anything too significant with Under World, but the band does have a pair of albums named "Underneath the Radar" (possibly alluding to its ability) and "Change the Weather" (referring to how he actually helped Weather get his memories back and unlock Heavy Weather).
Given how absolutely chaotic the effects of Bohemian Rhapsody are, it's probably a reference to the fact the song is an utter mess of nonsense lyrics telling a vague story about a murder (fitting for DIO's child). Its worldwide range is potentially a reference to both Queen and the song specifically in how they have such worldwide appeal and have become a fixture in pop culture, which is what the Stand draws its power from.
"I think the implication is that the story of "Holes" happened in-universe, and Donatello simply reenacted it through his Stand. This is absolutely a reach, but the idea of Dio's loser kids seems to be that between the three of them they represent different types of stories on the scale from "fantasy" to "reality". Ungalo is a delusional drug addict who brings pure fiction to life, Rykiel's belief in the impossible gives him domain over wild speculations, and Donatello, being the most pragmatic, rugged and ruthless, controls the recorded past - and even he's limited by what people find worth remembering, i.e. their love of storytelling. It's kind of a prelude to how the Pucci brothers force their twisted outlooks on life onto the rest of the world, and in general ties into Stone Ocean's themes of delusion, the ways others inevitably shape (in SO - usually damage) our understanding of the world and ourselves, and Araki's light meta on his own work." (by u/eugensiman)
Pucci's name doesn't seem super deep outside of, "Oh, I can call him Enrico as a reference while also having it double as a pun on the fact he's a priest!" That said, his Stands are definitely significant. Whitesnake, for one, references the band's song "Still of the Night" in Pucci's relationship with DIO, since it's all about hiding away from the sun because the person you love is only with you during the night. Also interesting to note how the way DISC is capitalized like that could reference the DISC behavior assessment system, alluding to how Pucci is far more scientifically minded than religious despite being a priest (mentioned by u/eugensiman).
C-Moon is a surface level visual nod to Star Wars, but the lyrics are all about seeing the moon, getting to heaven, and how no one understands the singer's ambition. Paul McCartney also mentions how the name for the song came from the idea that it represents a circle, basically meaning that C-Moon is a circle floating in front of the moon a la an eclipse.
Almost every single line of "Made in Heaven" can represent Pucci and his ambition. It makes sense Araki chose to change it from "Stairway to Heaven" considering that's just a surface level reference.
Meaningless
Jolyne's probably just Jolyne, though considering how much Dolly sings about how beautiful Jolene in the song is and the original plans for her character...
Green Dolphin Street seems to begin and end with the song. That being said, it is a love song all about how the singer met their love on Green Dolphin Street, and depending how you want to look at Jolyne, Hermes, and F.F...
Both Hermes and Kiss seem to be just references for the sake of references here. I kind of feel like there might be something related to Hermes' name given how it's basically a two in one, but I'm blanking.
Foo's name isn't really jumping out at me with anything relevant. I don't think the band performed in an episode of Spongebob, at least.
Loccobarocco doesn't look much like his namesake and I don't think Charlotte is trying to be anything. At best, maybe it's a weird South Park reference?
Savage Garden is probably just a reference to the band. Can't think of any particular song or part of their history that's significant to a pigeon.
Emporio might be a subtle reference to Bane from the Batman comics considering he was born in prison. Genuinely have no clue how someone named after a fashion brand can be dressed that badly, though. The lyrics to "Burning Down the House" don't seem all the relevant to the Stand or Emporio, either.
Anasui certainly looks like he's wearing something that could come out of the Anna Sui collection. Outside of that, Diver Down might be a reference to how the Van Halen brothers talked about how the idea behind the album was about all the stuff you don't know about going on underneath the surface while also mentioning they were disappointed in hindsight with how many covers were on it, maybe Araki having picked the name as a nod to how he had to change Anasui to a dude because Jump said lesbians are illegal (can't remember if he got named before that). It's also the one with "Pretty Woman" on it which got banned from MTV for being weird and potentially sex crimey, possibly a reference to how much of a creepy stalker pervert Anasui is. Given that's all conjecture to explain stuff after the fact, though, it's not too compelling a reasoning.
In terms of appearance, Weather is probably based on the Buffalo Man on the album covers of "Jamiroquai". Name seems to be just a reference, though.
Goo Goo Dolls is probably just a reference, maybe picked because the name has "dolls" in it and the Stand shrinks people.
Johngalli A doesn't seem all that related to his namesake, though a funny bit of life imitating art happened in 2011 when the real dude committed career suicide after he got drunk and started ranting about how much he loves Hitler. Nothing jumps out at me about Manhattan Transfer.
Sportsmax seems to be just references for the sake of references, same with Flaccid Pancake. Stand's powers are a reference to "Hollow Man", though.
Lightning McQueen isn't even a car. This is bullshit. Highway to Hell is pretty self-explanatory.
Miraschon is a reference. Given Araki created Marilyn Manson because of thinking how creepy the power would be and how it phases through shadows, that's probably why he picked the name as opposed to any specific songs or whatnot.
Lang Wrangler doesn't wear jeans and, at best, Lang's art bears a passing resemblance to Jumpin' Jack Flash. Nothing in the song really calls back to him, either.
Miu Miu is a reference. I feel like Jail House Lock is more of a reference to "Memento" given how they deal with the ability than the Elvis song.
Kenzou sucks and his reference means nothing. I think Araki got high one day and breached the bounds of the universe when naming Dragon's Dream after a song and album that doesn't exist. That's the only explanation I can think of.
D & G and Yo-Yo Ma don't seem to be all that deep. Yo-Yo Ma is just kind of a distillation of Grimm fairy tale creatures, if anything.
Nothing Gucci about Guccio. Survivor's ability sort of justifies its name, but that's about as deep as it goes. Maybe you could argue their work on "Rocky III" is the deeper cut, though.
Westwood is just a reference. Pretty content saying Planet Waves means nothing considering Araki had to change the name after the chapter came out because he forgot he'd already used it.
Rikiel just seems to be a reference, though it is kind of funny I found this outfit in the 2019 collection. Sky High seems to be a reference, but a slightly more complete one. The song's lyrics are all about flying high and touching the sky and all that, so that's a pretty clear, if mostly insubstantial, connection.
The good green boy doesn't have any real pop culture references tied to it unless you count the mythological concept of a homonculus. I would have bet any amount of money that its Stand had some kind of meaning to its name given it was something Araki picked after the fact, but there's not really much to go on. Maybe if you think about DIO and how he died, or something, but that's pretty convoluted. If we're just making random Tom Jones references, go with "What's New Pussycat".
Irene is a reference to Gorgeous Irene in name only. Annakiss is a reference to nothing.
Part VII
Meaningful
The race's name and premise are a pretty overt reference to "The Cannonball Run".
Tusk is a bit odd. The album it's named after was technically a double LP, meaning it had "four sides" between the two records and also contains a song called "Not That Funny" which could be a clever nod to his fight with Valentine, but that's kind of grasping. While not as thematically resonant as Koichi's Echoes, I still feel confident saying the way the song continually builds up from a whisper to screaming and roaring set to animal sounds chanting "Tusk!" over and over as the only lyrics is pretty representative of Johnny's and Tusk's growth throughout the Part.
Valkyrie is a fairly surface level reference to the "Led Zeppelin" song "The Valkyrie's Vigil", but it's worth it as a way to reference mythology in regards to Norse Valkyries who lead the souls of great warriors to Valhalla. Just like them, Valkyrie pulls Gyro's body back to Naples. The fact the song was produced as a bootleg could be indicating that it's a different universe and not the original Zeppelis or that Valkyrie, being a horse, isn't a Zeppeli by blood but is still a loyal and loved companion.
While it's hard to say if it was intentional, the song "Poco, Loco in the Coco" fits pretty well with the character. It was the B side to Eileen Barton's more popular (to the degree that National had to get a different record label to help them make more to keep up with demand) "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake". This means that, while no one really cared about "Poco, Loco in the Coco", it basically became just as popular as Barton's most popular song entirely by accident, reflecting how Pocoloco basically just bungles his way to victory by listening to Hey Ya! tell him he's a good and special boy and to do certain things (even in how he technically loses the first place spot to Diego but gets it once he disappears). I don't think Hey Ya! itself has much meaning, though that might be the point given the actual song is all about how no one cares about the lyrics so long as there's a good beat to dance to, sort of like how Pocoloco is always mistaken for being some genius racer despite the fact all of his success stems from him falling into accidents at the right time.
Ringo's design is somewhat similar to Ringo Starr, with the Roadagain part allegedly being based on the REO Speedwagon song to reflect how his family had to constantly move around to escape their shame. What's much more interesting, though, is that the Stand Mandom's namesake comes from a song all about how to be a man, the goodness that comes with being a man, and features cowboy imagery on the cover which was initially only released in Japan. I also think it's no coincidence that, to reflect how this constructed imagery of masculinity is a lie (the song was literally to promote hygiene products) is pointless and unattainable, Ringo dies in pursuit of reaching his True Man's World (I know that's not the real line and it doesn't matter) almost as a reflection on how these antiquated and restrictive ideas of masculinity through brute strength, violence, and sexual conquest are damaging for men in the same way Ringo more or less kills himself by restricting how he uses Mandom with the watch. This goes on to show us how Gyro overcomes his hesitation and shores up his resolve through his confrontation with Ringo but ultimately forges his own path away from the toxic, quasi-fascist "good death" of Ringo to die for the sake of Johnny and protecting the entire world. (Also kind of funny how the "Lovers of the World" song talks about how a man loving a woman is Mandom, yet Gyro loves Johnny and dies for him.)
It's not definite, but I think Soundman's name is meant as a reference to "Enter Sandman" personally given how much the character is manipulated and the song is about manipulation. If that's true, then it absolutely informs his character to a large degree and having the Sandman part in the name. Also references how Metallica's new bassist, Robert Trujillo, is Native Mexican just like Soundman. As for In a Silent Way, it's an instrumental track to reference how the Stand's ability is only using sound effects. Additionally, if you look at its appearance in the story, Soundman has teamed up with Diego, referencing how Miles Davis' combined his blues stylings with Jimi Hendrix intense rock. There's also some possible (as in, unproven) connections between the fact Davis didn't actually write "In a Silent Way" the song and a theory I found while researching this writeup proposing that Soundman is actually the Sandman of another world (found here). While that's somewhat incidental to the main point, it would go a long way in explaining the disparity between Soundman's character at different points in the story and plays nicely with the "Enter Sandman" song reference.
Blackmore loosely reflects the history of Ritchie Blackmore. He starts out as a talented assassin/musician working for the president/Deep Purple, but eventually breaks out on his own (in Blackmore's case, it was because he got a hot, steaming cup of Jesus). This didn't exactly pan out, though (Blackmore got shot, Ritchie's solo career didn't exactly pan out), so he returned to what he knew best: serving the president/being part of a band. The band Ritchie eventually created was Rainbow, "Catch the Rainbow" being a compilation anthology of all their work as a way to reflect how Araki spelled out his whole career through the character. There's also the song "Catch the Rainbow" which Araki says he used as influence for the Stand given its themes about doing the impossible to reach your goal. Also, there's a picture of Ritchie Blackmore holding an umbrella with his guitar.
Mike O. being Michael Oldfield plays into the fact he's the usecreator of Tubular Bells (Stand and song). I've heard that the fact the song has been released in a bunch of parts refers to how Mike O. calls different things "worlds" all the time. The Stand itself is based on the album cover in how it's a tube of metal being bent, a lot like how Mike O. makes metal into balloon animals, doubling as a reference to Oldfield's own tube instruments that got bent up real bad from all the playing according to the guy who designed the album covers.
Sugar Mountain and Sugar Mountain's Spring are both derived from the same song about a person lamenting their lost youth and how everyone they care for is still "on Sugar Mountain". While it's a bit of a reach, I can see the through line there, especially in the sense of reversing the meaning to show how, still trapped in the body of a child but having wasted her life waiting as the guardian of the tree, Sugar Mountain wants nothing more than to get her parents and leave.
Eleven Men are, indeed, elven men. More substantially, though, I feel like Tatoo You! might be a reference to how the album of the same name was composed of almost entirely of outtakes from previous Stones projects, with Keith Richards even saying that it "wasn't that we'd stopped writing new stuff" but more as a question of time in the same way someone might accuse Araki of running out of ideas by copy and pasting the same dude eleven times. Not a super deep cut, but it feels like it was chosen with intent (and the fact they all have matching tattoos).
Magenta Magenta and Wekapipo both being SOUL'd OUT songs is mostly just the fun trivia of the group being involved with the terrible Phantom Blood movie and how they're friends with Araki. While neither of their names are all that relevant, 20th Century Boy's name (possibly chosen as a nod to the fact their namesakes are Japanese songs and the "20th Century Boy" song was recorded in Tokyo) does reflect Magenta's mindset of always wanting to look forward to the futuristic technology of stuff like planes and how he uses guns, silencers, etc. to do his job as opposed to someone like Wekapipo who only needs the ancient art of the Spin and the steel balls. There's also the fact that the lead singer of T. Rex at the time has the same hair and fashion sense as Magenta especially on the cover for the "20th Century Boy" single. Also, if we consider them linked due to their first appearance together, Wekapipo would be represented by the lines, "Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good/Everybody says it's just like Robin Hood," to reflect how, despite initially being an antagonist, he's a good person who eventually face turns to help Johnny and Gyro fight the president (though any lyrical analysis of T. Rex songs have the caveat that they slur worse than a mumble rapper and what the songs actually say is up for debate).
DI-S-CO and Chocolate Disco both reference Perfume's song, the repetitive nature of the lyrics reflecting how he fights. His name is written in a way that reflects how the girls sing the word in their song and, given how few lyrics there actually are in the song, DI-S-CO barely speaks. All confirmed by Araki.
Funny Valentine is a reference to the song. "My Funny Valentine" is unique in how it's referenced, though, in that it's notable mainly for how many times it's been covered, i.e. Valentine and his identical copies from other universes. It also plays into his napkin philosophy in that the original song was produced and tons of people all throughout history followed in its footsteps. Love Train reverses the meaning of the original song; there's no war, but it's because America stands above every other nation, not that everyone came together for the sake of love and peace. His father's death is also a reference to "Pulp Fiction".
You know, I think this Jesus fellow might be based on the lad from the Bible. Also how Love Train's power is to remove harm from Valentine reflecting how Jesus died to absolve (remove) the world's sins. And, yeah, obligatory mention of the goofy trivia of how his name in Japanese sort of sounds like the band Yes and how his full name makes him a JoJo.
Meaningless
We've come full circle with Johnny being the actual name of the restaurant. Still doesn't mean shit, though.
The closest thing to a meaningful reference for Slow Dancer are the lines, " Slow dancer holds the answeOnly you can set me free" but I don't think it means much.
Gyro's name mostly seems to be referencing how his balls spin like a gyroscope. Ball Breaker seems like just a reference to the album, though it’s kind of interesting the song “Hail Caesar” is on it.
Diego is Dio is Dio is DIO. Scary Monsters doesn't seem to have much meaning behind it besides sounding cool and matching the fact he's a dinosaur.
The only thing I can see with regards to Silver Bullet is how the Silver Bullet Band was formed to back Bob Seger and Silver Bullet supports Dio...like literally every horse in the race.
Hot Pants' name doesn't seem to mean all that much. Maybe the fact it has "hot" in the title references how Cream Starter is "Firestarter"?
Don't think Gets Up is a reference to much besides the fact Hot Pants is also a James Brown reference.
Just like how most of the Beatles discography is entirely meaningless, so is Lucy's name. Ticket to Ride might reference how it's like the first steps to Love Train (ticket to ride the train), but that's sort of just names for the sake of names.
It might be possible Steel's connection to his namesake is because the real Stephen Stills bounced around a lot in his early career, but that seems tenuous.
Mountain Tim being named after "Mountain Jam" which has no lyrics could be a reference to Oh! Lonesome Me's name, but that doesn't seem likely. Oh! Lonesome Me doesn't seem too likely to be a reference, though maybe you could argue it's about his feelings for Lucy.
Ghost Rider in the Sky doesn't seem to mean anything outside of the fact it's a song about a cowboy, especially since Tim is a pretty good dude all things considered (if you ignore the fact he's apparently in love with a teenager).
Norisuke doesn't seem to be a reference and neither is Hono.
Seems like the Boom Booms and their Stand are named as a reference to Andre 3000 and nothing more. (At this point I'm just going to say the horses don't really mean anything outside of small references like all the Boom Booms having horses named after Hendrix songs. See also for minor racers who are just the names of people as references.)
Mrs. Robinson doesn't seem too significant. There's a couple lines in there that might reference how he is (and the coincidence that the song has Jesus in it), but overall just seems incidental.
The Pork Pie Hat Kid just kind of seems like a reference to the fact his Stand is Wired and there was a cover of his namesake by Jeff Beck.
Oyecomova and his Stand are the same name. Can't really find anything about him that would indicate the song was picked for anything but having a unique name. I might just be completely missing the point of this song, though, since reading what critics and people say about it keeps making me think I've been listening to something else entirely. Someone come correct me if I'm wrong.
Other than the guitarist for Franz Ferdinand being named Dino (like dino), I don't think I see much of a connection to Dr. Ferdinand.
While Axl RO being related to the band who did the song "Civil War", the best connection I can make between them is how the song is a protest of war with lyrics like "feeds the rich while it buries the poor" in reference to how all of this is just an extension of Valentine's will and Axl, Johnny, etc. don't matter to him. Probably no coincidence the arc with people dying and coming back also has Jesus in it, though.
While Valentine is thematically loaded himself, D4C mostly seems to just describe the way he operates without much under the hood. Scarlet's name doesn't seem to reflect much, either.
Nicholas and George Joestar just seem to be names, as well.
Part VIII
Meaningful
This is a bit of a reach, but I kind of feel like Norisuke and King Nothing might actually be pretty relevant to the song. Obviously, the Stand's design is based on the cover art. More substantially, he's the head of the Higashikata family who wants to seem like he's the big man and in control, but he's always getting knocked down a peg, and with the most recent chapters, this line kind of sums it up: "And it all crashes down, and you break your crown".
Shakedown Road is pretty on the nose, but being a reference to the album and song "Shakedown Street" and the broader context of the term in live music where people get screwed out of their money buying band-related crap seems pretty strong. Les Feuilles doesn't seem to mean much, but I probably like it because it has some of my favorite Bill Evans songs on the album it's named after.
New Kira is just as thematically rich as Old Kira.
I think Hato's Stand is named after the song "Walkin' Good" by the band Heart. If this is the case, I'd have to say it's a pretty good fit considering the song mentions shoes and walking and is all about heartbreak but bouncing back when the singer gets to "a brand new neighborhood", represented by her allying with Josuke after Damo betrays her.
Damo's whole persona comes from "American Hustle". Outside of that, though, the references in his name and his Stand don't seem to be that pronounced. If anything, I kind of thing maybe Vitamin C might be referring to the actual vitamin C, given that it's an acid and could soften things like your teeth by breaking down the enamel. There is a possibility that his position in the story (an "immigrant" who assumes a role in society seamlessly and manages to attain success without much effort from an outsider's perspective) could relate to his namesake, though. (by u/eugensiman)
Poor Tom is an obvious reference to the Zepp song, but in reverse. Now he's the one being a shitty dude to his girlfriend instead of the other way around. Ozon Baby doesn't seem to mean much, except maybe for the fact it came off the album Zepp made with all their old unused stuff and this Stand is basically Araki's way of saying he's running out of ideas.
Meaningless
Josuke's reference seems to begin and end with his comparison to Part IV. If you really want to stretch, maybe you could make the argument that his sailor suit stems from Victor Willis of the Village People. Not seeing anything related to Soft & Wet, either, other than this weird message that keeps flashing on my screen that says, "Please be my friend, Prince."
Same can be said for Josefumi, but at least he knows about plants so the line about sugarcane in the song can mean something besides just a penis.
Not seeing much connection between Yasuho and Paisley Park besides the patterning on its body. The absolute best there is are the lines that could maybe reference how her parents divorced, but that's doubtful.
Not seeing much for Joshu and Nut King Call, either. On the other hand, maybe it's actually a brilliant reference by reversing the suave, handsome, talented Nat King Cole into the whiny, shitty, and all around terrible Joshu.
Can't find anything for Rai or Doggy Style. Kind of a shame, too, since his name reference is pretty clever.
Paper Moon King is kind of tenuous. Maybe the fact it's been covered so many times by so many people might kind of allude to the fact that the Stand makes people see the same face on everyone. The lyrics also kind of allude to a world of unreality (and mention bubbles), so those could be kind of subtly referenced during Tsurugi's introduction.
Born This Way seems to be just a namedrop. The best I can come up with is that someone rides a unicorn in the music video. Honestly, Going Underground at least makes some sense considering it alludes to the fact Kyo was undercover at the Higashikata household.
"Hey, Araki, what's this girl's Stand called that gives her control over other people's hair?" "..." "Araki?" "Love Love Deluxe."
I guess California King Bed could relate to how Daiya one-sided attraction to Josuke like the failing romance in the song, but that seems like a bit of a stretch.
I don't think Holy's hiding any references.
Can't really analyze Kaato given her Stand doesn't even have a name. Still.
Imma keep it real with u chief...I got no fucking clue what Awaking III Leaves is supposed to be. The only possible song it relates to is this instrumental flute thing called Awakenings: No. 3. Leaves Floating (On a Slow Stream) by a dude named James J. Pellerite. If that is actually the reference, then I'm going to go ahead and conclude the name means absolutely nothing, at least with regards to the musical reference.
It's kind of iffy, but there are some lines in the "Speed King" song that refer to flying and gambling, rising above being Jobin's motivator and gambling with his beetles. This is too tenuous to really satisfy me, though.
The rocky boy has a Stand called I Am a Rock. Do you get it? I can really stretch and maybe say there's a reversal in that the song it's named after is all about the singer's emotional detachment, meaning that I Am a Rock's power attracts things to the victim while the subject of the song is alone, but that feels fake.
Doobie Wah! doesn't seem to have much relation to its name.
The A. Phex twins are named that because Aphex Twin has "twin" in his stage name. It is interesting to note that he once claimed that he had a brother once when he was three that died, after which he was forced to take the name Richard. That doesn't seem particularly relevant to the reference, though. Their Stands are just a reference to a song by the dude, too.
Blue Hawaii doesn't seem to mean anything besides the fact it's blue.
Outside of maybe referencing Dr. Wu's relationship with Mitsuba, but sort of twisted. Some people think the Dr. Wu in the song is a reflection of the singer's old self prior to the drugs (Katy), so in this metaphor Dr. Wu is the one who's actually fucking people up. That's still not that compelling, though.
Urban Guerrilla is a reference in so far as the song is all about violence and he's a pretty violent dude. Not seeing anything for Brainstorm or Doremifasolati Do, either.
There's about four things Milagro Man could be referencing not including that its ability seems like Araki looked at Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" and decided to toss that in, so I don't know where to start on this one. "Milagro" wasn't even the highest selling album by Santana, so that doesn't make sense. Don't really see any relevance to either the Elvis Costello song or the Ozzy song, so I can only conclude there's not much to this name.
I don't think there's much anything deeper to Fun Fun Fun.
Akefu just seems like a name right now.
Can't find anything with regards to Iwasuke as a reference.
Tooru doesn't seem to mean anything. Too bad since I kind of dig his goofy afro.
The stories behind Japanese game developers' names
Hey /gaming! I wrote this up in a random comment, and thought more people would find it interesting. It's a bit of an essay, but if you're a linguistics, Japanese history, and gaming nerd (like yours truly), you might enjoy it! Here are the stories behind some of the big names in Japanese games! Nintendo (very long, but interesting): The granddaddy of Japanese games. Nintendo probably has the coolest history and name origin, befitting of its status. Opened way back in 1889, Nintendo started as a producer of hanafuda playing cards, following a mega-rise in Westernization in Japan during the 1880s. Unlike later companies formed in the post-War period that were created to appeal to international markets, Nintendo's name is squarely traditional Japanese (perhaps in response to the government's drive to preserve traditional culture that was falling out of fashion). The kanji characters for Nintendo are 任天堂. Separately, those mean: 任 - (nin) responsbility, duty, charge 天 - (ten) heaven 堂 - (dou) temple, hall, or shop Taken all together, you get a meaning like "Leave luck to heaven," or "The destiny of men is in the hands of the gods" which are the commonly-cited translations of the name, reflecting on the capricious nature of games of chance. However, there are theories that the name actually has three different meanings inside it. To put it in English terms, some believe it's both a phrase AND an acronym. Meaning 1: 任 -- might also represent 任侠道 (Ninkyou-do), or "The Way of Chivalry." Pretty standard stuff, until you realize that the Yakuza often referred to themselves as the 任侠団体 (Nikyou-dantai) or "Chivalrous Organization." You see, hanafuda cards were a favorite in gambling dens that were often operated by Yakuza. So although no direct connection has ever been proved, but Nintendo Cards were a common site in Yakuza gangs. It should be noted that a lot of Yakuza did, and very much still do, view themselves as chivalrous people standing up for the little guy or protecting their community (whether or not they do is a debate for a different time). Meaning 2: 天 -- might also represent 天狗 (Tengu), mountain spirits who liked to get involved in human affairs. They were also well known for being just as likely to help you as hurt you, much like how gambling can bring great fortune or destroy your life. There's some background on this, because Nintendo's original founder, Fusajiro Yamauchi, had been managing an old hanafuda shop before starting Nintendo. That shop's name? Oishi Tengu-do (大石天狗堂). You see, tengu had become a symbol of hanafuda when the card game was banned by the government, and became something like mascots of the game. If you wanted to sneakily buy some cards for illegal gambling, you could ask about tengu shrines (天狗堂 tengu-dou) nearby, or tap your nose in a reference to tengu's long noses. To this very day, Nintendo still makes hanafuda cards. One of their most popular decks? The tengu deck. Meaning 3: 堂 -- might represent, well...I said it above actually. 天狗堂, a tengu shrine. Little nod to hanafuda's secret underground gambling scene and yakuza connections. Since that's a bit underwhelming, here's two more things. First, 天堂 on its own means "heaven" or "paradise" in common Japanese. Second, the temple 堂 just so happens to be pronounced the same as the 道 meaning "path" or "way," which we remember from the ninkyou-do of the yakuza. mini TL;DR for Nintendo section -- "leave luck to heaven," "house of the tengu," and "the way of (yakuza) chivalry" (the others are all shorter than this, I promise) Sega: Originally "Standard Games," a slot machine distributor and operator in Honolulu, Hawaii in the 40s. After WW2 broke out, they saw an emerging business with military servicemen, and started a new distributor division called "Service Games" until slot machines were outlawed in the US territories, after which the founder sent two employees to Japan to make slot-machines for US military bases there. Long story short, the company folded, but was eventually bought by a successful arcade importer in Tokyo (David Rosen), who merged his company with Service Games Japan, shortening the new company's name to Sega, easier for locals to remember and pronounce. (You will find that Japanese people really like shortening names and words). The newly formed Sega switched their focus from importer to manufacturer, and started making their own games. Even though Sega isn't as well known for games abroad anymore, they still make plenty of slot and video arcade machines in Japan! Namco: Originally Nakamura Amusement Machine Manufacturing Company, shortened to Namco. Created out of the struggling remnants of Atari Japan. Sega was going to purchase the Japanese branch of Atari for $50,000, but Masaya Nakamura, owner of a successful manufacturing company the also made children's amusement rides, offered to pay $800,000. Hilariously, Nakamura then set up Namco as a direct competitor to Atari in the US and eventually ran them out. (Atari had wanted to sell off their Japanese branch in order to stay in business) Bandai: Actually has a bit more of an interesting name to it. Bandai has pretty much always been a toy manufacturer, and sponsored all kinds of TV shows and games basically to keep promoting toys, which they do super well. The name Bandai comes from 万代不易 (bandai fueki), which comes from an ancient Chinese Military Text called the Six Secret Teachings which itself is part of the revered Seven Military Classics (you can't make this stuff up). Bandai fueki loosely means "permanence" or "perpetuity," with Bandai itself literally meaning "10,000 generations." Bandai's founder Naoharu Yamashina said about the name: "I wish to form a company which makes things to satisfy the hearts of any generation. That is a company that will never cease to be." (This should really be on their English wiki. It's a cooler quote than my rough translation suggests.) Sony: Another interesting one. Sony was founded as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, which translates to the not-very-exciting-and-marketable "Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation." The young company got most of its early success from making tape recorders, the first to really work well and actually sell. They wanted to expand, and so they started courting American markets. However, their Japan nickname "Totsuko" was hard for 1950s Americans to pronounce, and the acronym TTK was already taken. They decided to go with SONY for a few reasons: 1) it sounded like "sonic" (in the Latin 'sonus/sound' sense, not the 'gotta go fast' sense); 2) it also sounded like "sonny," (in Japanese, anyway) which was American slang for the sort of hip young 50s man Sony was courting; and 3) they had already been marketing tape to go with their tape recorder, which was called...soni-tape. It was all there, so they made the switch. Not long after, they released the first portable transistor radio under the Sony brand, and essentially kickstarted the consumer electronics revolution. What's extra weird/cool about Sony, is that they were one of the first major companies to use English characters for their company name, instead of something longer in Japanese. They weren't "Sony Electronic Manufacturing, Ltd." They were just SONY. The Japanese banks didn't really like it, but they got over it. Capcom: Capcom comes from a clipped compound of "Capsule Computer," which was a term they created to distinguish from personal computers, while also alluding to a capsule toy packed with fun. Their cabinets also had a hard outer shell to prevent rivals from breaking them open and stealing their secrets. Unlike some of the other more meandering paths other companies took, Capcom actually did start out making game machines. When home gaming consoles started up, Capcom began making original games and just kept on going. Square: Man, Square took some digging. Far as I can tell, it comes from one of the original developers in the games division of a power line construction company called Den-Yu-Sha. Why did Den-Yu-Sha have a games division? Well the owner's son, Masafumi Miyamoto, had just graduated from college and wanted to work on computer games. And "Square"? Miyamoto Senior was a golf fan, and the young aspiring game-maker liked the sound of the term for the place where his father went to relax and enjoy himself, called a "golf square" in Japanese. The name had two added bonuses: computer software was usually on a square disk or cartridge, and the Japanese word for square, shikaku, sounds a heck of a lot like the province where the company was founded, Shikoku. They later became Squaresoft when they added a shortened form of "software." While we're here, Enix, best known for publishing Dragon Quest and having later absorbed Squaresoft to become Square Enix, got their name from a combination of ENIAC (the world's first digital computer: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) and "phoenix," mythical bird of legend that is reborn from the ashes of its death. The latter is important because Enix's founder was a failed entrepreneur who was lucky enough to rope in talented programmer's through a last-ditch "Design a Computer Game So I Can Market It" contest. Konami: A compound of the three founders' last names: Kozumi, Nakama, and Miyasako. Lazy, but cute. Started out as a jukebox rental and repair company in Osaka. But, like many other companies, they jumped hardcore onto arcade machines once they started to take off. They licensed and provided machines for hit American titles like Frogger. When the MSX home computer came out and made game development possible, Konami developed on it like mad (along with Hudson Soft, who would later be bought and absorbed by Konami). Koei: I don't know if anyone still cares about Koei outside of Japan, but I'm committed to this list now. Thankfully, Koei's is pretty simple. It's a Japanese word meaning "honor, glory, or privilege." (光栄). There's also a stupid motto that uses both kanji in a different way that I honestly don't feel like translating. Here's two things that are more interesting than that would be: 1) They originally had the English spelling as Koey, but Americans kept pronouncing it like "Joey," so they changed the spelling. 2) Koei's first success was in programming business simulation software, which would come in super handy for their first mega-hit: Nobunaga's Ambition, a historical strategy game which eventually led to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There's also a rumor that the name is just an anagram of Keio, the university where the founders met and fell in love <3 SNK: Stands for "Shin Nihon Kikaku" (新日本企画) which means "New Japan Project." Like Capcom and Konami, SNK's founder noticed the booming coin-operated game market and wanted in. He bought an electrical machinery company in Kobe and started producing game cabinets of his own. Appropriate, then, that SNK's games would become some of the biggest arcade draws. Special mention: Atari. Not a Japanese studio, but the name is derived from a Japanese term used in the classic board game Go. It's also just a Japanese word that means "On target" or "Hitting the mark." Sources: mostly Japanese Wikipedia and Googling "(Japanese company name) (Japanese word for origin)" but also this really neat list on Matome that I found wayyyyy too late. There's also a rad '90s Geocities site in Japanese about Nintendo's awesome name.
Catalog of all the World-Builder Wednesday threads so far...
For the sake of making everything easy to find... here is the Ur-thread about building cities, Shadows of Neo-Tokyo, here is the proto-thread that got this thing started, Shadows of Las Vegas, here is Shadows of St. Louis, here is Shadows of Atlanta, here is Shadows of Vancouver, here is Shadows of Aachen, here is Shadows of New Orleans, here is Shadows of Miami, here is Shadows of Belgrade, here is Shadows of Detroit, here is Shadows of Philadelphia, here is Shadows of Hong Kong and Macau, here is Shadows of Sapporo, here is Shadows of Rochester, here is Shadows of Sydney, here is Shadows of Pomorze, here is Shadows of Memphis, here is Shadows of Mars Base Alpha, here is Shadows of Fresno, here is Shadows of Dallas- Ft. Worth, here is Shadows of Kansas City, Missouri, here is Shadows of McMurdo Station, here is Shadows of Malta, here is Shadows of Cincinnati, here is Shadows of Melbourne, here is Shadows of Albuquerque, here is Shadows of El Paso- Ciudad Juarez, here is Shadows of Vienna, here is Shadows of Athens, here is Shadows of Adelaide, here is Shadows of rural North America, here is Shadows of Jakarta, here is Shadows of Charlotte, here is Shadows of Phoenix, here is Judaism in North America 2075, here is Shadows of Mumbai, here is Shadows of the Jedi Order, here is Shadows of Milwaukee, here is Shadows of Cairo, here is Shadows of Orlando, here is Shadows of Harlem. here is Shadows of Waffle House, here is Shadows of San Jose and the Silicon Valley, here is Shadows of Vladivostok, here is Shadows of Venice, here is Stores & Shopping, here is Shadows of Johannesburg, here is Shadows of the Syndicates, here is Shadows of Indianapolis, here is Shadows of Gotham City, here is Sports of the Sixth World, here is Shadows of Hawaii, here is Shadows of Los Angeles, here is Shadows of Rome, here is Shadows of Paris, here is Shadows of Restaurants, Bars, and Nightclubs, here is Shadows of Banks, Savings & Loans, here is Shadows of Israel and Palestine, here is Shadows of New York City, here is Shadows of Persona 2.0, here is Shadows of the Baule Empire, here is Shadows of Beijing, here is Shadows of the Metropole, here is Shadows of Manila, here is Shadows of Singapore, here is Shadows of GeMiTo, here is Shadows of the Ork Underground, here is Shadows of the Dungeon Master's Guide, here is Shadows of London, here is Shadows of Des Moines, here is Shadows of Marseilles, here is Shadows of New Delhi, here is Shadows of Salt Lake City, here is Shadows of Carnivals and Circuses, here is Shadows of Atlanta Redux, here is Shadows of Moscow, here is Shadows of Toronto, here is Shadows of St. Augustine, here is Stallington's update to Shadows of Egypt/ Global Sandstorm, here is Shadows of Reno-Carson City. here is Shadows of Strange Weather Phenomenon I love how WBW has taken off, you guys have come up with a ton of great stuff, and I like to think it opens up more options for traveling and exploring the world for everybody's games, as well as takes some of the writing load off of the GM.
Korean yakuza Daisaku Ikeda's SGI/Komeito amassed wealth & power via organized crime, political corruption, illegal drugs, money-laundering, N. Korea, & Bush's CIA. (part 1)
(part 1 of 3 - see links at bottom) (Note from the author) Its not my intention to convince or coerce anyone into believing or accepting my particular perspectives on any given subject. I'm simply inviting you to ride along, if you wish to, upon my pursuit of the process of truth discovery. Please make the effort to delve deeply into the sourced material and interpret it for yourself. In compiling this article, composed of sourced quotes and excerpts, I am endeavoring to offer a compilation of illuminating observations, opinions, and reports – in a comprehensive and informative arrangement of many revealing puzzle pieces. Often times, things are easier to make sense of and understand when we assemble the related pieces and begin to grasp the bigger picture. I've posted this article in anticipation that you, dear reader, might engage in an opportunity to evoke an eye-opening glimpse into the enigmatic and secretive underworld of Sokagakkai's cult leader Daisaku Ikeda, and his protracted surreptitious involvement with yakuza crime organizations, political corruption, illegal drug profiteering, int'l money-laundering, bribery of government officials, North Korea, Bush's CIA, and more. SGI members, along with the media and public, are kept as clueless as possible regarding Ikeda's underworld criminal activities. Both Ikeda's followers and detractors would probably be surprised to learn that Ikeda Daisaku's Korean birth name is Naru Tasaku. It is my hope that you will examine everything you encounter with a questioning mind, conduct your own extensive investigations into all topics and subject contents, and practice utilizing your critical thinking skills to draw your own conclusions. YAKUZA BACKGROUND
Italy has the La Cosa Nostra. America has the Mafia. The Irish and Jews have their own crime organizations in America. Southeast Asia has the Triads. China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have the Tong. Truly well-known organized crime organizations indeed. However, there is one organization that was not mentioned in the above list, a group that has been around for over 300 years. A group that has as much honor and principle as the Mafia, and is just as strong, if not stronger. The group is yakuza. The yakuza can trace its origins back to as early as 1612. The yakuza has always been involved in politics and business right from the start. The groups are always hungry for more power and money, wherever they can find it. The [post-war] occupation forces soon saw that the yakuza was well organized and continuing to operate under two oyabun supported by unidentified high-level goverment officials. They admitted defeat in 1950, as they realized that they could not protect the Japanese people from the yakuza. The Yamaguchi-gumi controlled over 2500 businesses, sophisticated gambling and loan-sharking, and invested heavily in sports and other entertainment... The Yamaguchi-gumi began to deal in narcotics now, primarily amphetamines [speed]. Other fields of choice brought in *high capital: moneylending, smuggling... money laundering is not a crime in Japan, so the investigations into the money angles of the yakuza will be extremely difficult.
yakuza: traditional term for Japanese mobsters. Literally ‘8-9-3’, the hand that will lead to a score of 0 in a traditional Japanese card game. Originates from their original role as gamblers, bakuto, in feudal japan. bakuto: gambler. Often considered the origin of the yakuza, as groups of gamblers who traversed the highways of feudal japan. Finger-cutting, tattoing, and the yakuza’s policy of cooperation with the police are practices that were started by the bakuto.
kakuseizai: speed, amphetamines, meth. The drug of choice in Japan and the trade that has proved more lucrative for the yakuza than even the sex industry. Possibly accounts for up to one-third of total revenue. Virtually the entire business in Japan is run by the yakuza. kigyo shatei: the yakuza associate running a front company. A front company is a fake company set up by the yakuza to appear legitimate and have access to the privileges of running a legitimate operation, while actually engaging in illegal activities/businesses. sara-kin: Short for ‘salary man financiers’. Loan sharks, often with yakuza ties, who lend out at extraordinarily high interest rates. In 1982, about 10,000 borrowers who were not able to their loan back either committed suicide or simply fled their families. yamikin: illegal loan sharks. Typically dole out ultra-high interest loans to those who can’t get a loan legally. Short for yamikinyu.
Financial crime in Japan takes a major toll on both individual victims and the nation’s economy. This paper focuses on large investment frauds that have occurred from post-war Japan to the present, as well as financial crimes that involve racketeers of boryokudans, or organized crime groups, more commonly known as yakuza. Major financial offending by organized crime groups include: yamikin (loan sharks), sokaiya (shareholders who extort corporate funds),...
The Jews’ control of the international illicit drug trade can be traced largely to Rothschild marriages to the Jewish merchant banking House of Sassoon, which had dominated trade in opium while it still had a measure of respect as a commodity in the nineteenth century. For that left certain members of the Rothschild family free to build on the initiatives of David Sassoon & Co., and ultimately dominate the lucrative opiate narcotic trade through to the present day. Rothschild dominance in opium was largely guaranteed by the financial power and military might of the British East India Company, while trade in the commodity was both legal and illegal. In fact the CIA was created by ‘British’ intelligence in 1947, and global illicit drug trafficking is largely controlled by the Jews’ assets and dupes in MI6, because its roots are in the opium exploits of the Rothschild/Sassoon controlled British East India Company. The Sassoons established branches of their opium business at Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong, and THROUGHOUT JAPAN.
The global illicit drug trade is now thought to be worth at least £500 billion annually, which means it’s worth more than trade in oil and petroleum products. George H. W. Bush was a director of the Jew controlled CIA, and nicknamed “Poppy” by his family because of his patriarchal status and association with the opium smuggling that can be traced to founders of Yale’s Skull and Bones society. The George H. W. Bush family has been called the “American cocaine cartel extraordinaire”, because of his links with drug smuggling in Indo-China after the Vietnam War, and with drug-runners like Dr Sun Myung Moon and other ethnic Korean cult leaders like Daisaku Ikeda of Soka Gakkai notoriety, who invest followers’ funds in narcotics and methamphetamine distributed by Jew controlled drug lords from North Korea to Japan, the United States, and South America. Associates of George H. W. Bush in the narcotics trade have included Ariel Sharon and David Rockefeller, who worked with the CIA and Mossad to smuggle narcotics via oil pipelines, and used banks in Israel and New York to launder the proceeds... Opium production in Afghanistan was revived* after the Bush administration had demolished the World Trade Center to provide a pretext for the invasion of Afghanistan by the U.S. military on behalf of Bush’s opium cartel associates. **Hamid Karzai was put in power in Afghanistan by President Bush; and in 2006 Karzai’s Afghan friends produced the biggest narco-crop in the country’s history... Afghanistan now produces 90 percent of the world’s heroin and the opium that’s the raw material of roughly half of the £500 billion global drug trade.
Admiral William Crowe was a career Naval officer who when he was ordered to facilitate the relationship between the CIA's Panamanian Drug Cartel Dealer Manuel Noriega and the CIA's favorite Japanese political would be god and yakuza hoodlum, Daisaku Ikeda, Crowe did so in Hawaii in 1985 at a supposed culture festival held then and there by the Soka Gakkai. We know this meeting with Noriega took place - Ikeda had it commemorated in photos. There have been other sites documenting the Soka Gakkai's involvement with Manuel Noriega - how the Soka Gakkai funneled money to Manuel Noriega and attempted to legitimize his dictatorship in exchange for a share of Noriega's cocaine business. [reader's comment] You know, I've tried to find a copy of Noriega's deposition online, and I just tried again. Lots of references to the FBI, NSA and CIA, so I suspect that FOIA wouldn't apply here for security reasons. Of course, no one would want the world to know how complicity the federal government was in his successful career.
There is an epidemic of cocaine, heroin, and other drug use in America, and many other drugs are being shipped into the US in greater numbers than ever before. Are the United States government and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to blame for flooding American communities with cocaine in the 1970’s by covertly supporting the Latin American drug trade? Many retired employees of the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and police, in addition to numerous investigative journalists, believe this to be the truth, and that various U.S. government and CIA officials should be held accountable and even tried. A 25-year veteran of the DEA and author of the book, Triangle of Death, Michael Levine claims the CIA played a key role in allowing the trafficking of drugs, particularly cocaine, into the U.S. from Latin America. Acting as a deep undercover agent for many years of his life, Levine found through first-hand experience that the CIA knew that drugs were being smuggled onto the streets of U.S. cities but did nothing about it. Former DEA head John Lawn, testified that Oliver North, Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who in the 1980’s served on the National Security Council staff at the White House, and other officials, “created a privatized contra network that attracted drug traffickers&& looking for cover for their operations, then turned a blind eye to repeated reports of drug smuggling related to the contras, and **actively worked with known drug smugglers such as Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.”
Soka Gakkai was investing the honest money from their followers in cocaine smuggling business. The profit was given to the leaders of Japanese LDP or Liberal Democratic Party. The fact was perceived by CIA. The US government intimidates Japanese government with the information as Japan’s weak point. That gave US a big advantage in diplomatic negotiations with Japan. As a result, Japan was compelled to take policies that benefit the US even if they are against Japan’s national interest. Triangle of three men, Ichiro Ozawa, Daisaku Ikeda and Noriega: The report discloses a fact that Daisaku Ikeda, and Ichiro Ozawa [a Japanese politician dubbed the "Shadow Shogun" due to his back-room influence], who [attempts to] help Ikeda to become a Nobel Prize winner in peace for gaining in reputation as a pacifist, are scheming to take over Japan with the combination of religion and politics. It asserts Ichiro Ozawa is an unwelcome person because his alliance with Daisaku Ikeda. Then I asked an American who was close to CIA. The person told me a story about a line [connection between] Ozawa, Ikeda and Panama’s dictator General Noriega. When former President Bush senior was a director of CIA, Noriega supported him as his agent and got involved in an operation throwing Prime Minister of Cuba Castro and anti-government groups in the Middle America such as of Nicaragua, into confusion. In return, Noriega was allowed to do a crime smuggling cocaine from Columbia to the US even using airplanes of CIA. Therefore, Noriega became overconfident that he would be able to control the Bush senior’s US because he knew the weak point of the director of CIA, Bush senior. However, Bush senior was clever enough to make a surprise attack against Noriega in 1989 just after he became a President of the US. Noriega was captured and brought to Florida to have a secret trial. In the trial he was found guilty and was put into a special jail. In his confession, there was a story regarding Japan. It was that Daisaku Ikeda was investing followers’ honest fund in cocaine business cooperating with Noriega. From the benefit, Ikeda gave enormous amount of money to Ozawa of Japanese LDP continuously. Bush senior obtained the evidence and used it as a stick to control Kanamaru and Ozawa. Of course the US ambassador to Japan, Michael H. Armacost was a key-person who also used the stick. Members of Soka Gakkai have blind faith in Daisaku Ikeda’s words... And they are swindled lots of their money saved for their old age or even all of their property. However, the very honest money was given from Ikeda to the King of Drug Noriega to misuse for cocaine business and became a fund for world’s drug crimes. Members of Soka Gakkai must not know about it. At that time, Ikeda was very proud of the relationship with Noriega and constructed a nice garden called Noriega Garden in the sacred land of Fuji. ...the commission from the cocaine business was given to Ichiro Ozawa and Shin Kanamaru, and former President of the US George Bush senior controlled Japan through ambassador to Japan Armacost. Followers were swindled [out of] their honest money, [which] caused world-wide drug crimes, and eventually Ikeda sold Japan to the US with the dirty cocaine money. Anyway, Noriega is under sentence of 100 years in prison. On the other hand, Ikeda is aiming to take the rein of the government [by] weighing Shinshinto Party against LDP or Liberal Democratic Party. (in 1995)
From the mid-70's, President Ikeda fostered a close relationship with Manuel Noriega, before and during his period as military dictator of Panama. Noriega repeatedly visited the Taiseki-ji and Noriega hosted Ikeda on several visits to Panama. Both leaders praised each other's virtues in public statements. After a 1981 visit, Noriega named a scenic observation point on one of the Causeway Islands at the Pacific approach to the Panama Canal "Mirador Ikeda". The Soka Gakkai reciprocated by creating a "Noriega Garden" at one of its locales in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka. Friends of Noriega have alleged that Ikeda provided him with several million dollars' worth of assistance during the worst part of Noriega's crisis in 1987 and 1988, though Soka Gakkai spokesmen deny this. Ikeda reportedly visited Noriega a couple of weeks before Noriega's capture, a visit that has remained unexplained.
...it appears that SGI has a warehouse store in Inglewood CA (8811 Aviation Blvd.) Oddly, that address also looks like it houses an SGI abortion alternatives center as well. I went to google earth, and the facility does look like a warehouse... The idea of the Inglewood facility being a warehouse store (or an abortion alternative provider - wtf?) allows for people going in and out of the facility without suspicion. It does sound like a perfect set up.Daisaku Ikeda, the Soka Gakkai, and the North Korean drug trade
IKEDA, SGI, KOREA, YAKUZA, & DRUGS
Yakuzas are Mafia groups running shady jobs covering everything. 40% of them being "zainichi", Korean originated people, they are so talented in collusion with media, politicians, or police, that we hardly observe their activities unless you get to know the underground world in Japan. You're gonna be astonished to know how Gotogumi has been one of the biggest parasites of Japan. I'd have to mention the worst feature of Gotogumi, the connection with North Korea. They have smuggled drugs or fake notes from North Korea, contributing to prolonging Kim Jong Ill's life.
sangokujin: Literally ‘people from 3 countries’. Refers to the groups of Chinese, KOREANS, and Taiwanese who were brought in to remedy the dearth of Japanese workers during the war years.They often clashed with the yakuza for control of the black markets after the war. Approximately a third of yakuza today are of Korean ancestry.
...it's easy to grasp how SGI has been undermining Japan. Drug bootlegging from North Korea into Japan is one of a good examples to depict its deed. Keeping 8% of Japanese parliament seats, it exerts huge power to control Japan's politics. Of the massive power scattered in every authority, Ikeda Daisaku... was said to be the "king of Japan"... Just after Mori's [prime minister] period started, he angered Ikeda because he made a careless comment on Japan as "a gods' country". According to Ikeda, Japan should be a Budda's country. Mori reluctantly made a correction after receiving lots of accusing by mass media which was controlled by SGI. The address for "World Tribune Press" is listed as "Santa Monica, CA" (SGI-USA HQ, in other words). So WHY is it having materials printed up in KOREA, of all places?? Unless, of course, the plan is to have a little something something packed inside the boxes along with the booklets... ...the worst feature of Gotogumi, the connection with North Korea. They have smuggled drugs or fake notes from North Korea. Gotogumi, consisting of 1500 members, is a branch of Yamaguchigumi
Recently, I've seen a lot of indicators that point to Ikeda's criminal connections to both Yakuza and Korea. There are various claims that viewed alone may sound far-fetched, but when taken together, they all tie back very neatly into each other: Ikeda's (Korean birth name - Naru Tasaku) family were poor Korean immigrants (possibly naturalized parents). Ikeda is intimately involved with the Yakuza, as revealed by yakuza boss Goto's book. Yakuza are deeply tied to Korea with approzimately 2/3 of yakuza members being from Korean decent. Approximately 60% of yakuza crime income comes directly from hard drugs mostly produced in N. Korea. Ikeda and his minions are allegedly using the SGI's tax exempt status to launder drug money for themselves and the yakuza. (Anonymous also released a cautionary video warning SGI to stop laundering money). SGI reportedly donated 50 Billion yen to Kim Jong II's N. Korean regime. 2/3 of Ikeda's hand-picked SGI Vice Presidents are said to be of Korean lineage. Gen. Dir. Williams was also Korean (I can personally confirm this) and was also hand picked by Ikeda to develop and lead soka gakkai's organization in the USA before being effectively "disappeared" by a tyrannical Ikeda. Is Ikeda's alleged Korean/Yakuza Drug Connection really so crazy or far-fetched? After all, secretive collusion and conspiracies are just the kind of criminal behavior that questioning minds have come to know and expect from Ikeda and his SGI/Komeito minions. [comment] Some Japanese bloggers raise concerns about several connections between SGI/Komeito/South Korean Branches (of both SGI&Komeito) and Piongyang... Several forms of connectedness -- Komeito blessing and/or encouraging the opening of North Korean Schools and Universities (NK curriculum) in Japan is one of them... [comment] Ikeda would naturally want to hide his Korean heritage from other Japanese, while using that same Korean heritage to gain inroads for acquiring power and wealth in Korean dominated groups like the yakazu or even Korea itself. Remember, the megalomaniac Ikeda's stated intentions were to penetrate and control the governments of every country, not just Japan. Nothing is beyond Ikeda's greedy grasp - look at one of the main reasons SGI was declared a cult in France. There was evidence indicating the SGI had made efforts to infiltrate the government in order to steal nuclear secrets, purportedly to sell them to China (Ikeda has BIG political ties with the Chinese regime as well). [comment] Ikeda reportedly has 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) yen on personal deposit in a Swiss bank account, along with 6,100,000,000 yen in New York and 4,100,000,000 in Brazil. There's a high probability that such fantastically huge amounts of money (over 2 trillion) were deposited from profits that have been generated through Ikeda's numerous organized criminal activities. No wonder Naru Tasaku (Ikeda) is considered to be one of the most powerful men in Japan - besides being the master of millions of mind controlled cult followers, he is Japan's monetary and political equivalent of the Koch Brothers in the USA. [comment] Actually, it was the top senior leader over the territory that revealed to me that Williams was Korean. It was one of those little secrets that made me feel special and above the others, because I had been trusted with it, and, being in on the secret made me feel like I was really on the inside.
Two of Mr. [Williams]'s top assistants sat on chairs, impeccably dressed, looking like high ranking Yakuza. They had never cracked a smile or uttered a word in all the times I'd seen them. We stood at attention. Mr. [Williams] had not yet acknowledged our presence. He turned to one of the Japanese men and said, "I need a kanki pill." The man nodded and took a small silver tin out of his jacket pocket, opened it, and handed Mr. [Williams] a white pill. Mr. [Williams] popped it in his mouth and washed it down with a glass of water. Kanki pills. Benzedrine tablets.
Although the guru of the religious cult [Aum Shinriko] was arrested just after the terrorism, there are still unsolved mysteries around that incident partly because mass media can hardly report the truth. At that time, I was so curious about the consequences of the cult, so I kept watching TV. I happened to witness on TV that a top spokesman of the cult was stabbed and killed by a Korean Uyoku (rightist) in the middle of the interview. Everyone in front of the TV must have seen it, and commentators began to discuss who is behind it since then. It was not so hard to imagine that the spokesman was killed because he almost disclosed a secret about the cult beyond what he is supposed to announce. The relation between the [Aum Shinriko] guru and SGI... (SGI is North Korea friendly) was originally close. The guru's two brothers were believers of SGI. Note that many zainichi are the believers of SGI.** Around 1991, he [the Aum guru] happened to meet with a couple of believers talented in collecting money, who now turned out to be... from SGI and Unification Church, another Korean religious groups. Note that SGI and Unification Church are Korea friendly religions, and those gurus are both Korean. (SGI's leader, Ikeda Daisaku is zainichi, a korean staying in Japan.) Aum Shinrikyo started the refinement of drugs... and produced a lot of profit. The raw product of the drug was bought from North Korea, and the underground business contributed to the maintenance of the regime of North Korea. Gotogumi, one of yakuza, was involved in this smuggling. At that time the police couldn't inspect Gotogumi or Aum Shinrikyo because Gotogumi had been exploiting weakness of the head of the police. The... SGI in Aum Shinrikyo instigated the guru of Aum Shirikyo, and they began to plot a terrorism in Tokyo. The president of Tokyo metropolitan police was sniped [shot] at by someone on his way from his house. This is obviously interpreted as [a] plot by North Korea (SGI) and South Korea (Unification Church). Remember that the victim was the president of the entire Japanese police! Everyone including me thought that it must be something to do with Korea Meanwhile, the guru thought he was safe because SGI was trying to cover up everything. The guru of Aum Shinrikyo was arrested by riot squads in one of the cult's facilities. TBS and Mainichi, two Japanese major mass media, which by the way are subject to SGI, [spoke] up only [about] Aum Shinrikyo, [t]aking watchers attention away from North Korea. All mass-media couldn't reveal the sequence around SGI because ALL of them are afraid of the revenge by SGI. The health condition of the guru was all fine and his brain was sharp when arrested, but now he presents a symptom of addiction to drug to the extent of enteruria control disorder [loss of motor control??]. The rumor says that the correctional officers were sent from SGI, and drug was mixed with food and provided to the guru in order to shut his mouth. The guru was supposed to be the only person who can possibly testify the truth behind Aum Shinrikyo. And the truth has gone. Aum Shinrikyo had also been collecting nuclear secrets around Japan's nuclear plants, sending many spies to electric power companies. The spies sent those information to North Korea for the development of North Korea's knowledge on nuclear power. In 1993, North Korea encountered a crisis due to the conflict with Clinton on nuclear inspection and seceded from IAEA in 1994. At this point, Kim Jong Il needed to cover up all the relationship with the spies in Japan's nuclear plants, and decided to make Aum Shinrikyo a scapegoat.
Why did Joyu, the media spokeman of Aura Shinrinkyo, meet the foreign press April 4? Because he knew that the Japanese media would never report the evidence that he was prepared to present. What Joyu claimed -- and what was recorded on videotape by major networks -- is that Aum's "self-defense" squads, which have been accused of various kidnappings and murders, were trained and organized by former members of the Soka Gakkai using methods developed by SG's own security forces.Joyu identified 27 Aum self-defense personnel as former Soka Gakkai members, and charged that many of these individuals mysteriously disappeared after the Sakamoto and Kariya kidnappings and before the subway gassing. One member of Aum's self-defense team described his training in strong-arm tactics in Soka Gakkai, and claimed that identical techniques were used in Aum. These revelations could still have a direct bearing on the puzzling series of violent crimes attributed to Aum. So why haven't they broadcast or reported by the print media? Because, at the close of the press conference, a foreign male, posing as a Frenchman, claimed to have taken photographs that proved No. 7 Satyam was an operating chemical-weapons plant. The next part of his act was to accuse Joyu of lying. An investigation by the Weekly has shown that the cameraman was not French as he claimed to the Japanese media. The Embassy of Italy confirmed that he is an Italian citizen. The spying charges against Soka Gakkai International France, which claims 152000 members, were further detailed in a recent issue of the Shukan Bunshun. Quoting the newspaper Le Parisien, it reported that a secret network of Soka Gakkai operatives allegedly infiltrated the Mitsubishi group offices in Paris, which were used as cover for intelligence operations. It did not specify whether the secret agents were corporate employees sent from Japan or local hires, or a combination of both. According to Le Parisien, the sect also tried to purchase a site next to one of France's most sensitive nuclear-research facilities. According to the Bunshun, the sect's spying had the support of Japan's diplomatic corps, specifically two former ambassadors of Japan to France, Akitane Kiuchi and Yoshihiro Nakayama.
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