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ZLS is one of those rare lightning-in-a-bottle kinda shows
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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.
* 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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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...
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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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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Characters and Spaces in Violet Evergarden: Eternity & the Auto Memory Doll
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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
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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right now
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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
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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then
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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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I havent even gotten into all the shit it's pulling while dressing it up as ~art~
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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.
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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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".
Very math.
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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
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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this is hatewatch material but I gotta go through writing abt Darling in the Franxx first
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speaking of backlog
A while back I started an impromptu post-war/post-apoc/post-post-apoc series watch to compare and contrast.
Letβs 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 itβs not very good.
The premise is straightforward: a seemingly low stakes, slice of life story set in a world thatβs dealing with the aftermath of a conflict that devastated much of the planet.
Thereβs 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-Onβs 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 βanime hijinksβ.
One episode explores a characterβs PTSD, while the next has the main character peeing herself. Oh, also some dude falls into a pile of the castβs underwear because _of course_.
It wants to have its cake and eat it too and the result is a derivative, tonally inconsistent mess.
Girlsβ Last Tour
Letβs swerve towards something better.
Girlβ 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. Theyβre 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 whatβs 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 girlsβ perspective and filtered through how they see whatβs left of the world.
Itβs 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 showβs 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 βunexplained phenomenaβ have mutated the wildlife into anthropomorphic creatures. Trying to find her way home is Kaban (romaji for βbagβ), 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 seriesβ 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 itβd be easy to frame this as just a βshow that couldβ.
I think itβs 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
A while back I started an impromptu post-war/post-apoc/post-post-apoc series watch to compare and contrast.
Letβs 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 itβs not very good.
The premise is straightforward: a seemingly low stakes, slice of life story set in a world thatβs dealing with the aftermath of a conflict that devastated much of the planet.
Thereβs 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-Onβs 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 βanime hijinksβ.
One episode explores a characterβs PTSD, while the next has the main character peeing herself. Oh, also some dude falls into a pile of the castβs underwear because _of course_.
It wants to have its cake and eat it too and the result is a derivative, tonally inconsistent mess.
Girlsβ Last Tour
Letβs swerve towards something better.
Girlβ 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. Theyβre 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 whatβs 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 girlsβ perspective and filtered through how they see whatβs left of the world.
Itβs 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 showβs 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 βunexplained phenomenaβ have mutated the wildlife into anthropomorphic creatures. Trying to find her way home is Kaban (romaji for βbagβ), 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 seriesβ 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 itβd be easy to frame this as just a βshow that couldβ.
I think itβs 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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imma binge the rest of bofuri tomorrow as my potato day
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hm yes
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if you liked kemono friends did you watch the sequel
not season 2, but kemurikusa
not season 2, but kemurikusa
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not yet!Gloomy Rube wrote: βWed Jun 24, 2020 2:56 pmif you liked kemono friends did you watch the sequel
not season 2, but kemurikusa
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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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.
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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I always mix up Inuyasha with Ranma 1/2 for some reason
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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.
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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oh so I actually mixed them up for good reason
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
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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