JJK’s fights are getting me seriously hyped for MAPPA’s Chainsaw Man
If you haven't watched Mappa's Garou series, they're super good action things too, although do lean a bit heavily into Mappa's janky CGI. You don't have the excessive in-battle exposition that plagues JJK's adaptation though because Mappa (like most anime studios to be honest), is pretty awful at trimming/editing out unneeded fluff.
Well, the first and third Garous were really good. Crimson Moon was aggressively mediocre because it... how to put it... decided to very heavily chase popular trends and so leaned in very hard to having a bitchy magical girlfriend and a Scrappy Doo sidekick.
Oh god I just saw promo shots of Dragon Maid season 2
I forgot they're gonna have to introduce Iruru :bigfrown:
I'm not sure I can watch season 2
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Oh god I just saw promo shots of Dragon Maid season 2
I forgot they're gonna have to introduce Iruru :bigfrown:
I'm not sure I can watch season 2
Is there a specific reason why that's bad or is it just the standard 'dragon maid is too horny' stuff
It's a character who's supposedly a young child, who is 75% breasts, and wears only a cloak and a G string.
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Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
It's so frustrating to me because I really like the wholesome queer found family subtext of most of the characters, but then the author throws in that child body big boobs shit because that's their fetish I guess, or the other big boob dragon who was already in season one who is always hitting on the ten year old who thinks he summoned her, and just, COME ON.
Plus the Mega64 sweded recap.
Actually I think it may have been an Evangelion AMV that got me digging into those as well. Set to Europe's The Final Countdown.
I'm just trying to remind myself I like anime after the last page.
It's so frustrating to me because I really like the wholesome queer found family subtext of most of the characters, but then the author throws in that child body big boobs shit because that's their fetish I guess, or the other big boob dragon who was already in season one who is always hitting on the ten year old who thinks he summoned her, and just, COME ON.
Sometimes Im worried Im desensitized to all this. Then I remember Eiken and realize Im fine I just found the absolute worst and my tolerance is higher than most now
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Well decided to rewatch Yu Yu Hakusho since Hulu has it. Man, I forgot that there are some parts that just didn't age well from the get go. I'm hoping it's not my memory failing me because I want to say those parts are pretty infrequent in the series and only really towards the start. One being the part where Yosuke flips up Keiko's skirt and another where he possesses Kuwabara and gropes her. Like I would say in hindsight that those parts did age well the moment someone decided to include them.
@Mill I started the show from the beginning a few months ago (something to have on in the background while I build my UCS Lego Millennium Falcon) and yeah, there are some rough patches at the beginning and sprinkled throughout.
I think the next gross thing after the first arc is when Yuuske and Kuwabara are fighting through the Black Black Club demons and there is a really awkward trans joke.
After that the collar-pulling moments are few and far in between (the last one I can think of is Kuwabara being weirded out about one of the demons being gay in the second to last arc). I don't think there is anything egregious in the final arc, but I'm not 100% finished with it.
If they remade it, most of it could stay intact, with minimal changes outside of the above instances.
Even though it had too much fanservice and lost momentum in the back half, I'm still thinking about season 4 of Nanoha. It did several things I'd been wanting to see something do, and I liked those parts of the show a lot. So now it's just like, damn, I was finally able to find a show that did those things and it ended abruptly and wasn't that good. So, I figure I'll just shout into the void about it for a bit, try and get it out of my system.
I mean the biggest thing is probably just that I'm a mark for that trope of "this antagonist is a sad kid who doesn't really want to do this, but has some anime bullshit going on where they feel like they don't have a choice or they're being coerced or whatever. Will the protagonists show them that they do have a choice and that they deserve to be happy? Yes, they will," and the first few episodes are like a speedrun of that arc.
So, this character Nove, who was one of the minibosses from last season and is now teaching the main kids of this season magic kickboxing, gets a heads up from two of the main characters from last season, Teana and Subaru, that there's been a string of assaults by someone targeting martial artists. That night, Nove gets confronted by this person, some girl who's saying some anime bullshit about how she needs to become stronger than the old kings. Nove loses the fight and gets knocked unconscious, and the girl leaves.
So, at this point, I'm pretty sure I broadly know where this is going. This girl's gonna keep popping back up throughout the series, getting stronger and crazier each time, until eventually she's gonna be about to destroy the world or something before the main character gets her to stop through the power of friendship. But then Nove wakes back up, and calls Subaru and tells her she managed to stick a tracker on the girl, and they might be able to bring her in. So they go find her, and she's collapsed from her own injuries from the fight. During the fight she had appeared to be around the same age as Nove, Teana, and Subaru, I wanna say late teens or early twenties, but that turns out to have been a transformation for combat and she's actually like ten or something. They bring her back to Teana and Subaru's apartment until she wakes back up. She does so the next morning, and the three have a talk with her. Her name's Stratos, and her anime bullshit is that she has like, genetic memories from some ancient king who failed to protect something important to him, and so she's inherited his obsession with becoming strong enough to prevent something like that from happening again. This also means she wants to find other people carrying the legacy of ancient kings from the same period and defeat them, thinking this'll prove that the king she's got memories from is the strongest. They're able to at least get her to agree to stop assaulting people as a method of getting stronger.
Something I enjoy about this scene is like, it feels like these are things that would carry some gravitas and obvious import whenever Stratos was just thinking about them to herself, or cryptically hinting at them to someone she's dueling on a dark street, but she's having a bit more trouble creating that mood when she's just explaining it all out loud to someone serving her breakfast.
This has my favorite moment in the show, where Nove talks with Stratos one on one for a bit. Like I said, Nove was one of the antagonists last season, so she can kinda tell what kind of place Stratos is in right now. She's able to get it across that she wants to help and understands what Stratos is going through a bit, before hitting a wall with one of her questions. There's an awkward silence for a moment, and instead of trying to keep pushing Nove backs off a bit, and just asks Stratos to tell her more about her martial arts, and that king. Despite the crazy magic stuff in the premise of this conversation, it felt really human. There's no big emotional breakthrough, just letting this kid know she doesn't have to do this alone and getting her to open up a bit. I liked the moment where Nove backed off a bit in particular. I thought they might have her keep pushing and try and have some big emotional moment, but having her give Stratos a bit more space feels more like what you should do in that sort of situation, and the way Nove had a moment where she wasn't sure what to say in response to a kid saying something like that felt pretty real.
This is, incidentally, another one of the things I'd been wanting to see something do. Having a character who we've seen go through some shit, but make it through that shit, later be able to use that to help someone through a similar situation. I mean season 3 of Nanoha did this too, with Fate and those kids, but the execution didn't really land with me on that one. Honestly it's kinda weird that I liked this example as much as I did, since Nove, like the rest of those minibosses, was pretty light on characterization. Her situation was definitely fucked up, but it's something the characters didn't really talk about and the show didn't give much focus to. It's to the point that when season 4 reintroduced Nove, I had to double check that she was one of those minibosses.
Anyway there's several other things I was planning on talking about with this, but today's been a bit exhausting so I'm just gonna call it done and do something else.
the mage is pretty bad news I think. He casually uses the "isekaijin" as he wants, maybe he knows something about the whole thing being it
Everyone that summons people is shitty but he specifically enslaves them. Thats beyond shitty.
I found it interesting two of the guards were talking about Shogo when he was summoned.
A: "He killed twenty people in rage when we summoned him!"
B: "He's a monster!"
A: "Well, let's be fair, we did just kidnap him from his other world and enslave him."
They acknowledge how shitty they are! They just don't care!
I've never really liked the interpretations that eva is just so self-referential that all its talking about is its own fandom.
Like I think EoE badly missteps with the way it handles a lot of its characters, abandoning subtle characterization and turning the way characters feel about themselves at their worst into how they actually are.
But it's still a story with ideas about its characters beyond just "fuck the fans." I think that only became popular as an explanation years after the fact, when the fandom itself was sick of the fandom assigning deep philosophy to every little reference in Eva.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
the mage is pretty bad news I think. He casually uses the "isekaijin" as he wants, maybe he knows something about the whole thing being it
Everyone that summons people is shitty but he specifically enslaves them. Thats beyond shitty.
I found it interesting two of the guards were talking about Shogo when he was summoned.
A: "He killed twenty people in rage when we summoned him!"
B: "He's a monster!"
A: "Well, let's be fair, we did just kidnap him from his other world and enslave him."
They acknowledge how shitty they are! They just don't care!
Yeah I like that Slime tries to explore how fucked up summoning a hero is even if its mostly a side issue
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Rimuru's spell choice is ruthless and elegant? For a spell named "Megiddo", it's not actually destroying much of anything... it's not making any real noise... and... it's a complete and systematic slaughter. Going to admit I was expecting him to just lay waste with fire and lightning.
And that music choice during it.
The increasing number count did a lot of the heavy lifting for me.
Plus the Mega64 sweded recap.
Actually I think it may have been an Evangelion AMV that got me digging into those as well. Set to Europe's The Final Countdown.
I'm just trying to remind myself I like anime after the last page.
I think eva AMVs by Ermac Studios was my first exposure to AMVs.
They honestly hold up pretty okay for something originally made around the year 2000.
I've never really liked the interpretations that eva is just so self-referential that all its talking about is its own fandom.
Like I think EoE badly missteps with the way it handles a lot of its characters, abandoning subtle characterization and turning the way characters feel about themselves at their worst into how they actually are.
But it's still a story with ideas about its characters beyond just "fuck the fans." I think that only became popular as an explanation years after the fact, when the fandom itself was sick of the fandom assigning deep philosophy to every little reference in Eva.
Yeah. I think with more cerebal works fans can sometimes give the author a bit too much credit.
And since there will never be confirmation either way its all up to interpretation.
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If you haven't watched Mappa's Garou series, they're super good action things too, although do lean a bit heavily into Mappa's janky CGI. You don't have the excessive in-battle exposition that plagues JJK's adaptation though because Mappa (like most anime studios to be honest), is pretty awful at trimming/editing out unneeded fluff.
Well, the first and third Garous were really good. Crimson Moon was aggressively mediocre because it... how to put it... decided to very heavily chase popular trends and so leaned in very hard to having a bitchy magical girlfriend and a Scrappy Doo sidekick.
I forgot they're gonna have to introduce Iruru :bigfrown:
I'm not sure I can watch season 2
Is there a specific reason why that's bad or is it just the standard 'dragon maid is too horny' stuff
It's a character who's supposedly a young child, who is 75% breasts, and wears only a cloak and a G string.
So, yeah.
...No, I'm sorry, this image is no longer a sufficient reaction. Fire, fire is the only response. And lots of it.
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Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
she also changes characters genders and it is not done in a way which can ever possibly be construed as progressive
Man, we got a real contender for most problematic anime character here.
But even if I haven't watched the original series or End movie in a long time, I will always find parodies of the opening endlessly entertaining.
Plus the Mega64 sweded recap.
Actually I think it may have been an Evangelion AMV that got me digging into those as well. Set to Europe's The Final Countdown.
I'm just trying to remind myself I like anime after the last page.
Sometimes Im worried Im desensitized to all this. Then I remember Eiken and realize Im fine I just found the absolute worst and my tolerance is higher than most now
That dude
@Mill I started the show from the beginning a few months ago (something to have on in the background while I build my UCS Lego Millennium Falcon) and yeah, there are some rough patches at the beginning and sprinkled throughout.
I think the next gross thing after the first arc is when Yuuske and Kuwabara are fighting through the Black Black Club demons and there is a really awkward trans joke.
After that the collar-pulling moments are few and far in between (the last one I can think of is Kuwabara being weirded out about one of the demons being gay in the second to last arc). I don't think there is anything egregious in the final arc, but I'm not 100% finished with it.
If they remade it, most of it could stay intact, with minimal changes outside of the above instances.
Coran Attack!
So, this character Nove, who was one of the minibosses from last season and is now teaching the main kids of this season magic kickboxing, gets a heads up from two of the main characters from last season, Teana and Subaru, that there's been a string of assaults by someone targeting martial artists. That night, Nove gets confronted by this person, some girl who's saying some anime bullshit about how she needs to become stronger than the old kings. Nove loses the fight and gets knocked unconscious, and the girl leaves.
So, at this point, I'm pretty sure I broadly know where this is going. This girl's gonna keep popping back up throughout the series, getting stronger and crazier each time, until eventually she's gonna be about to destroy the world or something before the main character gets her to stop through the power of friendship. But then Nove wakes back up, and calls Subaru and tells her she managed to stick a tracker on the girl, and they might be able to bring her in. So they go find her, and she's collapsed from her own injuries from the fight. During the fight she had appeared to be around the same age as Nove, Teana, and Subaru, I wanna say late teens or early twenties, but that turns out to have been a transformation for combat and she's actually like ten or something. They bring her back to Teana and Subaru's apartment until she wakes back up. She does so the next morning, and the three have a talk with her. Her name's Stratos, and her anime bullshit is that she has like, genetic memories from some ancient king who failed to protect something important to him, and so she's inherited his obsession with becoming strong enough to prevent something like that from happening again. This also means she wants to find other people carrying the legacy of ancient kings from the same period and defeat them, thinking this'll prove that the king she's got memories from is the strongest. They're able to at least get her to agree to stop assaulting people as a method of getting stronger.
Something I enjoy about this scene is like, it feels like these are things that would carry some gravitas and obvious import whenever Stratos was just thinking about them to herself, or cryptically hinting at them to someone she's dueling on a dark street, but she's having a bit more trouble creating that mood when she's just explaining it all out loud to someone serving her breakfast.
This has my favorite moment in the show, where Nove talks with Stratos one on one for a bit. Like I said, Nove was one of the antagonists last season, so she can kinda tell what kind of place Stratos is in right now. She's able to get it across that she wants to help and understands what Stratos is going through a bit, before hitting a wall with one of her questions. There's an awkward silence for a moment, and instead of trying to keep pushing Nove backs off a bit, and just asks Stratos to tell her more about her martial arts, and that king. Despite the crazy magic stuff in the premise of this conversation, it felt really human. There's no big emotional breakthrough, just letting this kid know she doesn't have to do this alone and getting her to open up a bit. I liked the moment where Nove backed off a bit in particular. I thought they might have her keep pushing and try and have some big emotional moment, but having her give Stratos a bit more space feels more like what you should do in that sort of situation, and the way Nove had a moment where she wasn't sure what to say in response to a kid saying something like that felt pretty real.
This is, incidentally, another one of the things I'd been wanting to see something do. Having a character who we've seen go through some shit, but make it through that shit, later be able to use that to help someone through a similar situation. I mean season 3 of Nanoha did this too, with Fate and those kids, but the execution didn't really land with me on that one. Honestly it's kinda weird that I liked this example as much as I did, since Nove, like the rest of those minibosses, was pretty light on characterization. Her situation was definitely fucked up, but it's something the characters didn't really talk about and the show didn't give much focus to. It's to the point that when season 4 reintroduced Nove, I had to double check that she was one of those minibosses.
Anyway there's several other things I was planning on talking about with this, but today's been a bit exhausting so I'm just gonna call it done and do something else.
A: "He killed twenty people in rage when we summoned him!"
B: "He's a monster!"
A: "Well, let's be fair, we did just kidnap him from his other world and enslave him."
They acknowledge how shitty they are! They just don't care!
Not even 5 minutes in and it's already fucked up.
Yeah that part is pretty shit.
Like I think EoE badly missteps with the way it handles a lot of its characters, abandoning subtle characterization and turning the way characters feel about themselves at their worst into how they actually are.
But it's still a story with ideas about its characters beyond just "fuck the fans." I think that only became popular as an explanation years after the fact, when the fandom itself was sick of the fandom assigning deep philosophy to every little reference in Eva.
me before searching it: "surely this is an exaggeration!"
...
what the fuck
Wild stuff.
Getting some real Bowsette vibes from her.
Coran Attack!
I think eva AMVs by Ermac Studios was my first exposure to AMVs.
They honestly hold up pretty okay for something originally made around the year 2000.
End of Eva massive spoilers
Yeah. I think with more cerebal works fans can sometimes give the author a bit too much credit.
And since there will never be confirmation either way its all up to interpretation.
But what if we... change it.