For promptmepromptly, I got the following prompt:

What tropes that came from Star Trek have resonated most with you as a viewer, possibly with examples of them in alternate medias? If that scope is too broad, feel free to pick a trope and talk my ear off about it.

It's hard for me to tell what tropes Star Trek originated, and what it just popularized. So instead, I just decided to brainstorm some elements that frequently feature in Star Trek, and which resonate with me, and talk about them. I chose two topics:

( Humanistic Renaissance men / random ship concerts )

( Characters caught between different cultures )

And here's my fannish update post.

• The main exciting thing is that a new Mana series game has been announced -- Visions of Mana! *_* Here's the announce trailer:



I'm sososo excited about this. It's been so long since a mainline Mana game has been released, and HACCAN's character design is very fitting for the series. The producer for the series announced quite a while ago that a new Mana game was in development, but then we didn't hear anything for, like, two years? So I was starting to lose hope a bit lol. But I'm so glad about this! :D

( Exchange updates )
( Reading updates )
( hbomberguy video )