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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2026 4:18 am Reply with quote
Re-starting thread. Please discuss the actual article.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2026 8:49 am Reply with quote
Wonder if she actually knows where the plush comes from

She came back after retiring at just age 16, then came back from 3rd place short to take this Olympics gold medal. Congrats!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2026 9:12 pm Reply with quote
I don't know what happened to my original post, but congrats to her for winning the gold medal at the time it was announced. I'm so proud of her!!! Also, here's something else some of you may not know, her friend and fellow Olympian, Amber Glenn is a big superfan of Magic: The Gathering. So we do have some nerds on the Team USA Olympic team (yes, that includes Stephen Nedoroscik).

enurtsol wrote:
Wonder if she actually knows where the plush comes from


Uh, she is a big anime fan BTW and that does include Chainsaw Man.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2026 10:50 am Reply with quote
Wow, imagine how amazing it must feel to give her a gift, and see her bring it to events with her.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2026 11:58 am Reply with quote
Tempest wrote:
Wow, imagine how amazing it must feel to give her a gift, and see her bring it to events with her.


Slightly off topic, I mentioned Amber Glenn is a Magic: The Gathering superfan in one of my post, but like Alysa Liu's love of anime, it looks like Amber is also an anime fan too, and it looks like judging from what I heard on social media, Amber seems to have a Crunchyroll account, and I just found out that Amber was on Crunchyroll podcast last month (how the hell did I not know of this?).

Tempest and Lynzee, are there any chance that we can have both Alysa and Amber to appear on a future ANNcast, that would help ANN get some more celebrity creds amongst non-anime mainstream fans that don't go to ANN a lot. Maybe we can have them talk about anime and manga. That would be awesome to see.
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