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Re: im looking at anime

Post by !saak (?) » Wed Jun 03, 2020 10:55 am

ZLS is one of those rare lightning-in-a-bottle kinda shows

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Zayonara Letsubou Sensei is pretty great.
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gloomy you're so good

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Post by Adiwan (?) » Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:12 am

Because I'm a sucker for self-punishment I saw a few more Ghibli films
* Pom Poko
* From Up on Poppy Hill.

Both were fine, however From Up on Poppy Hill had some incest in the air for a short while but it resolved shortly, but not quick enough not to feel awkward during that time.
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Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:33 pm

Manga recommendation I wanna toss out:

Shiori Experience - My Plain Self and an Odd Old Man

At 16, Shiori Honda had a dream in high school, to play music in a light band with her friends. But that dream was locked away seemingly forever when her older brother was scammed into accepting a huge debt, and ended up running away from home to try and become a musician in Tokyo. She and the rest of her family have spent the next 10 years struggling to pay back that debt, living in destitution as a result. Now 26-years old, Shiroi Honda is a plain, meek, unassuming English teacher at a prestigious Japanese preparatory academy whose only dream is to maybe one day get married and start a family.

But then, on the evening of her 27th birthday, after a fight between one of her younger sisters and her father reopens those old wounds...
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... the ghost of Jimi Hendrix shows up in her bedroom. She wakes up the next morning to discover that the spirit of the rock legend is now bound to her by some kind of occult contract that she has no memory of making. Worse, she now has only one year to become a legendary musician, or she'll die on her 28th birthday.
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Post by !saak (?) » Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:40 am

that premise sounds amazing I'm into it

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It's extremely good. You can tell that this is a passion project for both the writer and the artist, because it's not split up into normal, bite-sized chunks like most manga stories that run in various magazines are. These chapters run upwards of 50 pages on average, and that's even counting multiple two-page spreads per chapter as single pages. And each of those chapters is packed full of fantastic art and character development for the cast.

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Post by !saak (?) » Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:21 pm

Characters and Spaces in Violet Evergarden: Eternity & the Auto Memory Doll

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Post by !saak (?) » Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:24 pm

there's an airiness and spaciousness to the direction in the Violet Evergarden movie that I really appreciate, owing to the widescreen aspect ratio

overall the art direction is a lot more confident than the series. it revels less in excess, preferring a more grounded sense of verisimilitude

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Post by !saak (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:52 pm

right now

yeah

it's a problem

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Post by !saak (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:53 pm

im looking at the Violet Evergarden screens up there

and my criticism of the series that precedes it is that it's overwrought and overproduced, which detracts from the core message that's simple yet effective

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Post by !saak (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:05 pm



then

uh

there's this

Kizumonogatari is the name of a prequel film to Bakemonogatari, an (in)famous anime by Shaft.
Shaft's previous titles include Madoka, March Comes in like a Lion, Arakawa Under the Bridge, etc etc etc

Shaft is known for directing their series n films with a very... specific style. Style should be the operative word here cuz often they'll make directorial choices that make me go "why am I looking at this".
style > substance

Simple dialogue scenes will drag on for forever, and include shots that add nothing meaningful. Weird compositions, random objects popping up, characters completely changing art styles.
I'm not sure whether it's done for comedic effect, or to make things appear more surreal/theatrical.

the director at Shaft responsible, Akiyuki Shinbou, worked with Ikuhara (Utena, Sarazanmai, Penguindrum) under... uhhh another famous director who also had a flair for the dramatic. I think they all worked on Rose of Versailles.

But whereas Ikuhara has channeled his influences into "trying to say something while having fun with it", this dude...

like, it doesn't have to have a point per se. but... you have to earn it right?
otherwise it's just annoying wankery

and Kizumonogatari is wankery to the point of exhaustion

can I please just have two people talking to each other normally good god

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Post by !saak (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:21 pm

I havent even gotten into all the shit it's pulling while dressing it up as ~art~

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Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:38 pm

The Monogatari series is an adaptation of a novel series, which is also known for wordplay and wordiness.

But it's one of the rare series that makes me genuinely uncomfortable enough to stop watching, so I don't really have anything else to say about it.

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Post by diribigal (?) » Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:38 pm

I really like the Katanagatari anime; and the novel(s) it's based on are not part of the monogatari series (though they have the same author). The Monogatari series has a lot of stuff "that makes me genuinely uncomfortable enough to stop watching".
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Post by !saak (?) » Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:08 am

I dug Katanagatari, it didnt quite go as far with its themes n such as I thought it would, but I really respect it nonetheless

It also had a sense of fun and humour about it



Given the praise this franchise routinely gets I'm legit wondering whether I'm missing something, or whether this is just it lol

Apparently the series is less up its own asshole aesthetically, but yeeeaaahh

It quite literally pulls the "she looks like a kid but she's actually 500 years old!" and then proceeds to show off her thigh gap in the preview for the next film and dear fucking god

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Post by !saak (?) » Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:09 am

this is hatewatch material but I gotta go through writing abt Darling in the Franxx first

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Post by !saak (?) » Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:05 am

speaking of backlog

A while back I started an impromptu post-war/post-apoc/post-post-apoc series watch to compare and contrast.

Let’s talk a bit about them!

So Ra No Wo To



So Ra No Wo To (Sound of the Sky) is the series that set this exercise off, primarily because it’s not very good.

The premise is straightforward: a seemingly low stakes, slice of life story set in a world that’s dealing with the aftermath of a conflict that devastated much of the planet.

There’s potential here to juxtapose the coziness of SoL with the realities and consequences of war and make some interesting points on how you can still find comfort and peace amidst the ruins of civilization.

It goes in hard on the SoL angle, all but aping K-On’s character designs and archetypes,
while at the same time dropping in little nuggets of worldbuilding. But then it continuously sabotages its own premise by overly sexualizing its characters and pulling other β€œanime hijinks”.

One episode explores a character’s PTSD, while the next has the main character peeing herself. Oh, also some dude falls into a pile of the cast’s underwear because _of course_.

It wants to have its cake and eat it too and the result is a derivative, tonally inconsistent mess.

Girls’ Last Tour



Let’s swerve towards something better.

Girl’ Last Tour is both beautiful and profoundly sad.

Humanity is all but extinct, with its only remaining traces of humanity being massive metal concrete cities and concrete plains that stretch on for hundreds of miles.

Traversing through this brutalist and desolate landscape is a pair of young girls. They’re aimlessly riding their motorcycle from one little story vignette to the next, meeting the occasional fellow drifter, making due with what little resources they have and amusing themselves with what’s left of civilization.

They speculate on how humanity may have lived in the cities they pass through, what they ate, how they had fun. They delve into questions about what it means to be human and the place of religion, art etc in the human experience. But it manages to never feel overbearing or on-the-nose. Because everything gets framed from the girls’ perspective and filtered through how they see what’s left of the world.

It’s bleak and desolate, yet they still manage to appreciate the little things, finding humanity not in what is forever lost, but in what they have:

Eachother.



Violet Evergarden




I already wrote about this earlier so imma just keep it short

Violet Evergarden is sometimes too pretty for its own good, to the point where its overproduction and excess detract from its fairly simple premise.

It harkens back to a more old-school, operatic presentation which overpowers the smaller, more human stories that would be better served with a more down-to-earth style.

Still, the show’s core message signifying the importance of expressing yourself and connecting to one another is sound.

Kemono Friends



Kemono Friends is the kind of underdog show I naturally wanna root for.

Friends takes place in a massive zoo where β€œunexplained phenomena” have mutated the wildlife into anthropomorphic creatures. Trying to find her way home is Kaban (romaji for β€œbag”), a human girl trying to find her way out of the park

It was made to tie in with a sosage/gacha game that would go offline a month before the series’ premiere, and was produced on a budget of approximately 3 cents and a bit of unused floss.

So the whole universe was moving against it, and it’d be easy to frame this as just a β€œshow that could”.

I think it’s more than that. It might not linger on the eventual implications of its worldbuilding too much, yet it still has a bonafide edge to it that is wholly unexpected and elevates it to honest-to-god greatness

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:21 am

kemono friends is such a big surprise
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Post by !saak (?) » Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:41 pm

imma binge the rest of bofuri tomorrow as my potato day

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*nods*

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if you liked kemono friends did you watch the sequel

not season 2, but kemurikusa
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Gloomy Rube wrote: ↑
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if you liked kemono friends did you watch the sequel

not season 2, but kemurikusa
not yet!

I just finished Bofuri



which is fun but also very, very thin
I wanted it to delve more into the nature of the game and more meta stuff surrounding it, maybe actually show how the protag McGuyvers herself into these skills she picks up

idk have just a bit more (self-aware) energy to it

as it stands it's too mary-sue-ish and there's virtually no stakes to anything
you don't have to have stakes for something to be interesting, but you need something

after avoiding isekai and VRMMO series like the plague I'm dipping my toes into em a bit, so I might watch bikarina next
or maybe something with a bit more meat on its bones

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Jun 24, 2020 4:59 pm

rip isaak got isekaid into isekai

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Post by Adiwan (?) » Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:47 am

I have finished reading all of Inu Yasha.
More than 10000 pages of manga.
Towards the end it got a little bit too lengthy that resembles a DBZ fight that goes on and on and on.

All in all it was solid. For a more serialized story with higher stakes it could be easily cut down to half the length without losing too much of the essence. But I didn't mind most of the filler because the of the character interactions.

As for the anime... I tried to locate a cheap solution but I only had Netflix available that had only the first 44 episodes and I'm not willing to shell out the money for the DVDs/BluRays. Until that point I'd say that it was very faithful to the manga with very little deviation during the adaptation. Beyond that I cannot say.
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Post by !saak (?) » Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:11 am

I always mix up Inuyasha with Ranma 1/2 for some reason :-I

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Post by Adiwan (?) » Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:26 am

Same author.
Same style.
Transforming boy when hot/cold water,
transforming boy when detached from sword and on new moon and transforming sword.
Both relationships are based on some level of annoyance and misunderstanding with a "will they, won't they?" thread through the whole thing.
Both have lots of fighting.
The anime shares a lot of the same voice cast in Japanese.
Both have supernatural elements.

There is not a lot that could prevent that both stories could be in the same universe.
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Post by !saak (?) » Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:07 am

oh so I actually mixed them up for good reason :-I

they're regarded as... classics(?), at the very least famous, but I never really vibed with it

maybe a 'before my time'/'needed to grow up with it' kinda thing



it did bring the world this tho

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Google Translate wrote:Nakagawa Natsuki is in a slightly old car, but it feels uncomfortable, noisy, does not have an air conditioner, and occasionally breaks on the road, so Yuko Yoshikawa does not want to ride if possible.

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