Unfortunately it's hard to find a lot of Symphogear clips on Youtube because most of the clips get copyright claimed for the music, so you're stuck with stuff like the official Crunchyroll channel that unfortunately only put out videos for Season 5 (a lot of which have massive spoilers in them).
So I can't post the video of Hibiki suplexing a space shuttle.
Instead, here's the team fighting a giant robot penguin in Antarctica:
So now that I've finished Evangelion (until I can get Evangelion 1.11 and start the Rebuild series, at least), what should I watch next? I made a list a while back, so I'll just go ahead and post the ones I'm most curious about.
Black Butler
Blue Exorcist
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
Magia Record
Mob Psycho 100 II
SSSS.Gridman
Symphogear
Mob Psycho 100, cause it's the best show on this list.
So I'm almost caught up to current on Re:Zero now. I'm liking it quite a bit. I was definitely on the fence in the early goings, but was always left curious enough about where things were going to stick with it.
Glad I did, it's been a good one, season two really escalates. The pile of villains you will hear back from again some day is getting a bit tall.
Also started a bit of Jujutsu Kaisen which has been good so far, but we're only around 4-5 episodes in. It'll probably get focused on more once we're fully caught up on Re:Zero.
I have been shopping around for a new side show I watch on my own. Which Re:zero started off as but graduated to prime time.
I've decided to bail on Made in Abyss. There's a lot to like there, but I can't escape feeling incredibly suspicious of the show every time it gets its kids naked or reminds me for the second time that the robot boy has a real penis.
It sucks, all signs point to it being a pretty unique show with a neat setup, but my benefit of the doubt on this stuff is pretty much non-existent right now. So I think I will move on, there's still plenty of other shows I haven't watched yet.
That's super uncommon for shonen adaptations, I hadn't realized it was much more hardcore...
I guess it's for the violence? Can't think of much else. There's a fair bit of splatter.
W: Burying the lede! April 23rd premiere!
What, April 23rd in theaters? Physically? While the pandemic is still raging and more contagious than ever? Hrm.
Hopefully a lot of shots in arms between now and then. I know near me movie theaters are starting to open gradually.
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Yeah if you show up to a pharmacy and tell them you gotta go watch an anime movie that puts you up on the priority list.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
So now that I've finished Evangelion (until I can get Evangelion 1.11 and start the Rebuild series, at least), what should I watch next? I made a list a while back, so I'll just go ahead and post the ones I'm most curious about.
Black Butler
Blue Exorcist
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
Magia Record
Mob Psycho 100 II
SSSS.Gridman
Symphogear
Gridman is one of those shows that seems pretty okay for the start, then gets worse and worse when you realize what the show itself is driving at until it ends with a supremely bizarre and godawful last second twist ending.
Light spoilers
Basically, it really, really, REALLY wants you to empathize with and feel sorry for the antagonist, who is a remorseless psychopath. She gets frustrated because the good guys stop her from wantonly murdering everybody who displeases her, creates and then physically abuses slave children, attempts to destroy everything around her in a tantrum, and the show's attitude toward her is "But look how sad and frustrated she is. We've all been there. Isn't she adorable and sympathetic?" She's sad because she's not being allowed to be a genocidal maniac, you fucking lunatics. "She was manipulated!" No, she wasn't. She was given a shitload of power and used it to go on a murder spree, and when it was taken away, grabbed a knife and tried to kill people herself. Stopping her is not a 'character arc' for her, for fuck's sake.
Last second twist ending
Literally in the final closing minutes of the show, the antagonist goes "Anyway, I'm leaving this world" and it smash cuts to a live action version of her waking up. Then it ends. So, uh, apparently it was all just a dream she was having.
SSSS Gridman
Is about depression.
To her it's a made up world of not real people(she's right) that she can vent her frustrations on and make as perfect as she wants. The main heroine of the series IS HERSELF. As in, the entirely separate character from the antagonist is herself, as she see's herself, and she hates herself.
The whole story is literally Superman(Gridman), who is real and WILL find you, swooping into a depressed girl's dreamworld(she somehow tapped into the digital setting, thanks to the real big bad, of literally one of the Gridman tv shows where their battles take place. I wanna say its the American one, actually.), and getting her to like herself again.
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong. It's just that there's more stuff going on
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SSSS Gridman is the greatest Isekai. Fight me.
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Bebop had explicit drug use there is an obvious reason it was rated R.
E: wait you were talking about the movie nvmd me I havent seen it. Dunno then!
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(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
So now that I've finished Evangelion (until I can get Evangelion 1.11 and start the Rebuild series, at least), what should I watch next? I made a list a while back, so I'll just go ahead and post the ones I'm most curious about.
Black Butler
Blue Exorcist
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
Magia Record
Mob Psycho 100 II
SSSS.Gridman
Symphogear
Gridman is one of those shows that seems pretty okay for the start, then gets worse and worse when you realize what the show itself is driving at until it ends with a supremely bizarre and godawful last second twist ending.
Light spoilers
Basically, it really, really, REALLY wants you to empathize with and feel sorry for the antagonist, who is a remorseless psychopath. She gets frustrated because the good guys stop her from wantonly murdering everybody who displeases her, creates and then physically abuses slave children, attempts to destroy everything around her in a tantrum, and the show's attitude toward her is "But look how sad and frustrated she is. We've all been there. Isn't she adorable and sympathetic?" She's sad because she's not being allowed to be a genocidal maniac, you fucking lunatics. "She was manipulated!" No, she wasn't. She was given a shitload of power and used it to go on a murder spree, and when it was taken away, grabbed a knife and tried to kill people herself. Stopping her is not a 'character arc' for her, for fuck's sake.
Last second twist ending
Literally in the final closing minutes of the show, the antagonist goes "Anyway, I'm leaving this world" and it smash cuts to a live action version of her waking up. Then it ends. So, uh, apparently it was all just a dream she was having.
SSSS Gridman
Is about depression.
To her it's a made up world of not real people(she's right) that she can vent her frustrations on and make as perfect as she wants. The main heroine of the series IS HERSELF. As in, the entirely separate character from the antagonist is herself, as she see's herself, and she hates herself.
The whole story is literally Superman(Gridman), who is real and WILL find you, swooping into a depressed girl's dreamworld(she somehow tapped into the digital setting, thanks to the real big bad, of literally one of the Gridman tv shows where their battles take place. I wanna say its the American one, actually.), and getting her to like herself again.
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong. It's just that there's more stuff going on
Except that stuff isn't supported by the show.
She's bubbly, happy and having the time of her life at the start, while murdering everybody and everything that wrongs her in any slight way. She delights in sadistically torturing her own pets and toys, abusing them and throwing them away when she gets bored of them. She's not a troubled kid desperate for positive attention. She's showered by that from literally everybody by the very design of her created world. She's a psychopath who takes the power she was given and uses it to construct a playpen full of sentient beings that she proceeds to torture and murder for her own amusement.
At best, she's Sid Phillips, still without any redemption at all, or even acknowledgement that, you know, maybe you shouldn't want to murder everyone around you for all perceived slights.
That seems to be REALLY missing the characterization we get on her
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.
That seems to be REALLY missing the characterization we get on her
In what way?
She attempts to kill her teacher for not being apologetic enough after accidentally bumping into her. She kills a group of dudes because they hit on her at a mixer. She literally tortures Anti repeatedly. She tries to knife Yuuta.
What does she do that leads you to believe she is justified in doing these things, or at any point understands that her actions are wrong? It really seems like it's just "I was sad, so everything I do is justified," which yada yadas over that she's sad because she's being prevented from enacting all her murder fantasies.
E:
I'm also old enough to remember when I was called stupid for not understanding that Mushoku Tensei was a deep and compelling story. Calling me stupid again isn't going to faze me.
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Please mark your spoilers carefully.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
"Turn this way, please" and the next two chapters reminded me just what the story can do when it's not hi-jinks all the time, oof. That is some good stuff.
So now that I've finished Evangelion (until I can get Evangelion 1.11 and start the Rebuild series, at least), what should I watch next? I made a list a while back, so I'll just go ahead and post the ones I'm most curious about.
Black Butler
Blue Exorcist
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
Magia Record
Mob Psycho 100 II
SSSS.Gridman
Symphogear
Gridman is one of those shows that seems pretty okay for the start, then gets worse and worse when you realize what the show itself is driving at until it ends with a supremely bizarre and godawful last second twist ending.
Light spoilers
Basically, it really, really, REALLY wants you to empathize with and feel sorry for the antagonist, who is a remorseless psychopath. She gets frustrated because the good guys stop her from wantonly murdering everybody who displeases her, creates and then physically abuses slave children, attempts to destroy everything around her in a tantrum, and the show's attitude toward her is "But look how sad and frustrated she is. We've all been there. Isn't she adorable and sympathetic?" She's sad because she's not being allowed to be a genocidal maniac, you fucking lunatics. "She was manipulated!" No, she wasn't. She was given a shitload of power and used it to go on a murder spree, and when it was taken away, grabbed a knife and tried to kill people herself. Stopping her is not a 'character arc' for her, for fuck's sake.
Last second twist ending
Literally in the final closing minutes of the show, the antagonist goes "Anyway, I'm leaving this world" and it smash cuts to a live action version of her waking up. Then it ends. So, uh, apparently it was all just a dream she was having.
SSSS Gridman
Is about depression.
To her it's a made up world of not real people(she's right) that she can vent her frustrations on and make as perfect as she wants. The main heroine of the series IS HERSELF. As in, the entirely separate character from the antagonist is herself, as she see's herself, and she hates herself.
The whole story is literally Superman(Gridman), who is real and WILL find you, swooping into a depressed girl's dreamworld(she somehow tapped into the digital setting, thanks to the real big bad, of literally one of the Gridman tv shows where their battles take place. I wanna say its the American one, actually.), and getting her to like herself again.
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong. It's just that there's more stuff going on
Except that stuff isn't supported by the show.
She's bubbly, happy and having the time of her life at the start, while murdering everybody and everything that wrongs her in any slight way. She delights in sadistically torturing her own pets and toys, abusing them and throwing them away when she gets bored of them. She's not a troubled kid desperate for positive attention. She's showered by that from literally everybody by the very design of her created world. She's a psychopath who takes the power she was given and uses it to construct a playpen full of sentient beings that she proceeds to torture and murder for her own amusement.
At best, she's Sid Phillips, still without any redemption at all, or even acknowledgement that, you know, maybe you shouldn't want to murder everyone around you for all perceived slights.
These are...intensely major spoilers for SSSS Gridman. Please watch it, it is very good.
There is literally an entire episode of Rikka talking and hashing things out with Akane. Akane for the dirty people who are spoiling themselves, is the antagonist. And Rikka is the Heroine.
At the end of the series, it's revealed that Akane IS Rikka when she wakes up in the real world(identical clothes/phone/hairstyle ect.)"Akane" is a fantasy, her ideal self, who's loved by everyone and has infinite power to change things she doesn't like. She even inserts her interpretation of her REAL self into said simulated High School to prove how much she herself sucks and can never be happy.
Gridman however, intervenes since the world does in fact exist in the digital space and the big bad is taking advantage of it to harvest her emotions(The other interloper is Gridman's best monster bud.) by taking the form of the crush she created and possessing it(There's an entire mini-subplot about him not remembering what he told her, in which simulated crush confessed to Akane, because crush is no longer crush, crush is literally GRIDMAN.)
The entire series is literally resolved by a conversation between Akane and Rikka, who refuses to give up on herself thanks to Gridman(It's almost like it's a theme.).
You seem to be hung up on her being a psychopath spoiled brat and....YEAH, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. She was enacting her fantasies to escape from the real world. To her she was just having a Lucid Dream, and we do all sorts of crazy shit in our dreams. And that's before the very obvious mental health issues she has.
It seems to me you're missing the forest for the trees.
So now that I've finished Evangelion (until I can get Evangelion 1.11 and start the Rebuild series, at least), what should I watch next? I made a list a while back, so I'll just go ahead and post the ones I'm most curious about.
Black Butler
Blue Exorcist
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
Magia Record
Mob Psycho 100 II
SSSS.Gridman
Symphogear
Gridman is one of those shows that seems pretty okay for the start, then gets worse and worse when you realize what the show itself is driving at until it ends with a supremely bizarre and godawful last second twist ending.
Light spoilers
Basically, it really, really, REALLY wants you to empathize with and feel sorry for the antagonist, who is a remorseless psychopath. She gets frustrated because the good guys stop her from wantonly murdering everybody who displeases her, creates and then physically abuses slave children, attempts to destroy everything around her in a tantrum, and the show's attitude toward her is "But look how sad and frustrated she is. We've all been there. Isn't she adorable and sympathetic?" She's sad because she's not being allowed to be a genocidal maniac, you fucking lunatics. "She was manipulated!" No, she wasn't. She was given a shitload of power and used it to go on a murder spree, and when it was taken away, grabbed a knife and tried to kill people herself. Stopping her is not a 'character arc' for her, for fuck's sake.
Last second twist ending
Literally in the final closing minutes of the show, the antagonist goes "Anyway, I'm leaving this world" and it smash cuts to a live action version of her waking up. Then it ends. So, uh, apparently it was all just a dream she was having.
SSSS Gridman
Is about depression.
To her it's a made up world of not real people(she's right) that she can vent her frustrations on and make as perfect as she wants. The main heroine of the series IS HERSELF. As in, the entirely separate character from the antagonist is herself, as she see's herself, and she hates herself.
The whole story is literally Superman(Gridman), who is real and WILL find you, swooping into a depressed girl's dreamworld(she somehow tapped into the digital setting, thanks to the real big bad, of literally one of the Gridman tv shows where their battles take place. I wanna say its the American one, actually.), and getting her to like herself again.
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong. It's just that there's more stuff going on
Except that stuff isn't supported by the show.
She's bubbly, happy and having the time of her life at the start, while murdering everybody and everything that wrongs her in any slight way. She delights in sadistically torturing her own pets and toys, abusing them and throwing them away when she gets bored of them. She's not a troubled kid desperate for positive attention. She's showered by that from literally everybody by the very design of her created world. She's a psychopath who takes the power she was given and uses it to construct a playpen full of sentient beings that she proceeds to torture and murder for her own amusement.
At best, she's Sid Phillips, still without any redemption at all, or even acknowledgement that, you know, maybe you shouldn't want to murder everyone around you for all perceived slights.
These are...intensely major spoilers for SSSS Gridman. Please watch it, it is very good.
There is literally an entire episode of Rikka talking and hashing things out with Akane. Akane for the dirty people who are spoiling themselves, is the antagonist. And Rikka is the Heroine.
At the end of the series, it's revealed that Akane IS Rikka when she wakes up in the real world(identical clothes/phone/hairstyle ect.)"Akane" is a fantasy, her ideal self, who's loved by everyone and has infinite power to change things she doesn't like. She even inserts her interpretation of her REAL self into said simulated High School to prove how much she herself sucks and can never be happy.
Gridman however, intervenes since the world does in fact exist in the digital space and the big bad is taking advantage of it to harvest her emotions(The other interloper is Gridman's best monster bud.) by taking the form of the crush she created and possessing it(There's an entire mini-subplot about him not remembering what he told her, in which simulated crush confessed to Akane, because crush is no longer crush, crush is literally GRIDMAN.)
The entire series is literally resolved by a conversation between Akane and Rikka, who refuses to give up on herself thanks to Gridman(It's almost like it's a theme.).
You seem to be hung up on her being a psychopath spoiled brat and....YEAH, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. She was enacting her fantasies to escape from the real world. To her she was just having a Lucid Dream, and we do all sorts of crazy shit in our dreams. And that's before the very obvious mental health issues she has.
It seems to me you're missing the forest for the trees.
Admittedly, they are pretty big trees.
I'm not arguing against almost any of that. And yes, I'm definitely hung up on that thing. I think it's a very good thing to be hung up on and you guys are glossing over what it says about her.
I'm saying that eradicating people because YOU don't consider them to be REAL PEOPLE is a pretty holy shit over the line thing that is not justified or redeemed. No matter what angle you take, from social to racial, it's an inherently repugnant thought. She was given power, and nine times out of ten, she chose to use it to inflict pain or death on beings that she (and we, the audience) assumed were thinking, feeling people. To paraphrase Howard Taylor, a sociopath will accept any justification to do things nobody else can stomach. That she's troubled or hates herself is not an excuse for capricious sadism, and using it reeks to me of the excuses tossed up for people like Rittenhouse. She's not lashing out from emotion or confusion. She deliberately and purposefully chooses petty vindictiveness and cruelty. Her violent impulses count even if they aren't genuinely real people, which I feel is a wholly separate arguable thing that could go either way to be honest. I can't accept "who among us wouldn't go on a killing spree if we could get away with it consequence free."
There are plenty of stories that do similar things about people acting as the god of a world to cope with a mental problem, though usually unknowingly or inadvertently. Akane's approach to it is almost exclusively through inflicting violence and pain, impulsively and gleefully. Her redemption arc is tainted (above and beyond being triggered by a 'fix everything beam' saving her from the anguished souls of all the people she killed) by the people redeeming her being forced to love her from the start, and only after all her power is taken away does she express remorse.
I'll drop it at this point and we can agree to disagree. If you (collective you) can read Japanese and are interested in this stuff, I highly recommend checking out a game called Negative Zero. Terribly written, but fascinating concepts and presentation about dealing with grief in a similar way. Basically Melody of Oblivion meets WandaVision meets Nanoha in a game that's one part Phoenix Wright, one part Super Robot Wars.
Since I'm all caught up on Re:Zero now I watched a couple of first episodes yesterday, see what catches my attention and what seems like a good fit for a new joint watch for me and my wife.
I watched the first episode of Golden Kamuy, seems OK, not much to go on just yet other than the basic setup. CG bears were a little odd. I'm interested in the chosen era, and the fact that it has Ainu characters.
But unfair to Golden Kamuy the other show I watched the first episode of was March Comes in Like a Lion, and that is gorgeous. I did not pick up on that from still images of the show. But I love the watercolor/painted look to all the background art. Plus it's got a bunch of cats and seems like it'll be a good story. I think that's the one that's going to win the prime time opening for sure. I'll check back in with Golden Kamuy as the "I'm not quite ready to fall asleep show" and see how it develops.
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I get that the guy's seen and done some gnarly stuff in the war, but they really no-sell the I'm gonna skin a human body now moment. Like, no big deal.
That is also a very convoluted treasure map setup, but I get that it's that kind of hidden treasure show.
Since I'm all caught up on Re:Zero now I watched a couple of first episodes yesterday, see what catches my attention and what seems like a good fit for a new joint watch for me and my wife.
I watched the first episode of Golden Kamuy, seems OK, not much to go on just yet other than the basic setup. CG bears were a little odd. I'm interested in the chosen era, and the fact that it has Ainu characters.
But unfair to Golden Kamuy the other show I watched the first episode of was March Comes in Like a Lion, and that is gorgeous. I did not pick up on that from still images of the show. But I love the watercolor/painted look to all the background art. Plus it's got a bunch of cats and seems like it'll be a good story. I think that's the one that's going to win the prime time opening for sure. I'll check back in with Golden Kamuy as the "I'm not quite ready to fall asleep show" and see how it develops.
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I get that the guy's seen and done some gnarly stuff in the war, but they really no-sell the I'm gonna skin a human body now moment. Like, no big deal.
That is also a very convoluted treasure map setup, but I get that it's that kind of hidden treasure show.
Golden Kamuy = What if the hospital of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was actually Meiji era Japan
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.
Oh man the Golden Kamuy manga is very good if you don't mind looking at the gore, the characters are super fucked up but very intelligent and charismatic at the same time
Developed a genuine fear and respect of bears reading it though
I definitely got the sense that the bear crashing through the fire sending the logs flying is a pretty high spectacle moment that I don't think the anime capitalized on very well.
One thing the anime is extremely good at is amplifying character moments
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.
Meili: Elsa, you were such a fool. I should have died first.
Meili: Do you mean that, you can't die?
Elsa: It's a very sudden question.
Meili: I don't think it's really sudden. Your stomach was stabbed by that spear. But you look totally fine. I don't really get to know you.
Elsa: Well, it's not something that is worthy to hide, but if you ask, I will answer.
Meili: Well then, why will the wound on the stomach be healed so quickly? It's unnatural in any way I can imagine.
Elsa:You're right. I admit that this is not somethjng natural. Because this is caused by a curse.
Meili: Curse?
Elsa: Yes, people who are affected by this curse cannot die. But normally, this curse makes people lose their minds. The man who used this curse on me was very skilled in incantation. Therefore I can still live by my own will.
Meili: Cannot...die...
Elsa:Yes. No matter how much I want to die, I can't.
Meili:Well then…
Elsa:Um?
Meili:Well then, do you want to die?
Elsa:Why did you ask?
Meili:Why? Because your words give me that feel.
Elsa: Is that so? Well I think I mislead you. I never wanted to die. I pretty love this body on many aspects. In the fragrance of blood,meat and knife, I earn the solid feeling of living. With this body, I can go to confirm lots of things. I am satisfied with this body. So you don't have to put a worried face.
Meili: I am worried? For you?
Elsa: Your face shows that you are thinking "What should you do if I really want to die." No wonder you will be lonely when the time comes. You are really a girl who gets lonely easily.
Meili:Please don't say such foolish words! You...you need to work harder...Get it? Compare to you who doesn't die, I may die first at some day
Most of the season is hitting its climax about now.
I was thumbing through the new shows next season, and boy, there are a lot of particularly... uh... on the surface deeply unpleasant seeming romances. Multiple shows about 27 year old dudes falling in love with 16 year olds. A show about getting revenge on your crush for rejecting you because she already has a boyfriend. On top of multiple isekai 'parodies' where they summoned a dude who was supposed to be their slave but they ended up being his slave instead.
And then there's a show about kabaddi.
Truly the yin and yang of anime.
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Meili: Elsa, you were such a fool. I should have died first.
Meili: Do you mean that, you can't die?
Elsa: It's a very sudden question.
Meili: I don't think it's really sudden. Your stomach was stabbed by that spear. But you look totally fine. I don't really get to know you.
Elsa: Well, it's not something that is worthy to hide, but if you ask, I will answer.
Meili: Well then, why will the wound on the stomach be healed so quickly? It's unnatural in any way I can imagine.
Elsa:You're right. I admit that this is not somethjng natural. Because this is caused by a curse.
Meili: Curse?
Elsa: Yes, people who are affected by this curse cannot die. But normally, this curse makes people lose their minds. The man who used this curse on me was very skilled in incantation. Therefore I can still live by my own will.
Meili: Cannot...die...
Elsa:Yes. No matter how much I want to die, I can't.
Meili:Well then…
Elsa:Um?
Meili:Well then, do you want to die?
Elsa:Why did you ask?
Meili:Why? Because your words give me that feel.
Elsa: Is that so? Well I think I mislead you. I never wanted to die. I pretty love this body on many aspects. In the fragrance of blood,meat and knife, I earn the solid feeling of living. With this body, I can go to confirm lots of things. I am satisfied with this body. So you don't have to put a worried face.
Meili: I am worried? For you?
Elsa: Your face shows that you are thinking "What should you do if I really want to die." No wonder you will be lonely when the time comes. You are really a girl who gets lonely easily.
Meili:Please don't say such foolish words! You...you need to work harder...Get it? Compare to you who doesn't die, I may die first at some day
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So I can't post the video of Hibiki suplexing a space shuttle.
Instead, here's the team fighting a giant robot penguin in Antarctica:
Mob Psycho 100, cause it's the best show on this list.
Glad I did, it's been a good one, season two really escalates. The pile of villains you will hear back from again some day is getting a bit tall.
Also started a bit of Jujutsu Kaisen which has been good so far, but we're only around 4-5 episodes in. It'll probably get focused on more once we're fully caught up on Re:Zero.
I have been shopping around for a new side show I watch on my own. Which Re:zero started off as but graduated to prime time.
I've decided to bail on Made in Abyss. There's a lot to like there, but I can't escape feeling incredibly suspicious of the show every time it gets its kids naked or reminds me for the second time that the robot boy has a real penis.
It sucks, all signs point to it being a pretty unique show with a neat setup, but my benefit of the doubt on this stuff is pretty much non-existent right now. So I think I will move on, there's still plenty of other shows I haven't watched yet.
What, April 23rd in theaters? Physically? While the pandemic is still raging and more contagious than ever? Hrm.
Hopefully a lot of shots in arms between now and then. I know near me movie theaters are starting to open gradually.
Only of it's top tier anime though
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
SSSS Gridman
To her it's a made up world of not real people(she's right) that she can vent her frustrations on and make as perfect as she wants. The main heroine of the series IS HERSELF. As in, the entirely separate character from the antagonist is herself, as she see's herself, and she hates herself.
The whole story is literally Superman(Gridman), who is real and WILL find you, swooping into a depressed girl's dreamworld(she somehow tapped into the digital setting, thanks to the real big bad, of literally one of the Gridman tv shows where their battles take place. I wanna say its the American one, actually.), and getting her to like herself again.
I'm not saying your opinion is wrong. It's just that there's more stuff going on
SSSS Gridman is the greatest Isekai. Fight me.
E: wait you were talking about the movie nvmd me I havent seen it. Dunno then!
Sexual asault, maybe?
Except that stuff isn't supported by the show.
At best, she's Sid Phillips, still without any redemption at all, or even acknowledgement that, you know, maybe you shouldn't want to murder everyone around you for all perceived slights.
In what way?
What does she do that leads you to believe she is justified in doing these things, or at any point understands that her actions are wrong? It really seems like it's just "I was sad, so everything I do is justified," which yada yadas over that she's sad because she's being prevented from enacting all her murder fantasies.
E:
I'm also old enough to remember when I was called stupid for not understanding that Mushoku Tensei was a deep and compelling story. Calling me stupid again isn't going to faze me.
These are...intensely major spoilers for SSSS Gridman. Please watch it, it is very good.
At the end of the series, it's revealed that Akane IS Rikka when she wakes up in the real world(identical clothes/phone/hairstyle ect.)"Akane" is a fantasy, her ideal self, who's loved by everyone and has infinite power to change things she doesn't like. She even inserts her interpretation of her REAL self into said simulated High School to prove how much she herself sucks and can never be happy.
Gridman however, intervenes since the world does in fact exist in the digital space and the big bad is taking advantage of it to harvest her emotions(The other interloper is Gridman's best monster bud.) by taking the form of the crush she created and possessing it(There's an entire mini-subplot about him not remembering what he told her, in which simulated crush confessed to Akane, because crush is no longer crush, crush is literally GRIDMAN.)
The entire series is literally resolved by a conversation between Akane and Rikka, who refuses to give up on herself thanks to Gridman(It's almost like it's a theme.).
You seem to be hung up on her being a psychopath spoiled brat and....YEAH, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. She was enacting her fantasies to escape from the real world. To her she was just having a Lucid Dream, and we do all sorts of crazy shit in our dreams. And that's before the very obvious mental health issues she has.
It seems to me you're missing the forest for the trees.
Admittedly, they are pretty big trees.
specifically
I really liked this video which helped me wrap my head around it
(massive spoilers of course)
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
On the other hand, I probably won't have a local theatre that'll be running the movie.
I'm not arguing against almost any of that. And yes, I'm definitely hung up on that thing. I think it's a very good thing to be hung up on and you guys are glossing over what it says about her.
There are plenty of stories that do similar things about people acting as the god of a world to cope with a mental problem, though usually unknowingly or inadvertently. Akane's approach to it is almost exclusively through inflicting violence and pain, impulsively and gleefully. Her redemption arc is tainted (above and beyond being triggered by a 'fix everything beam' saving her from the anguished souls of all the people she killed) by the people redeeming her being forced to love her from the start, and only after all her power is taken away does she express remorse.
I'll drop it at this point and we can agree to disagree. If you (collective you) can read Japanese and are interested in this stuff, I highly recommend checking out a game called Negative Zero. Terribly written, but fascinating concepts and presentation about dealing with grief in a similar way. Basically Melody of Oblivion meets WandaVision meets Nanoha in a game that's one part Phoenix Wright, one part Super Robot Wars.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
I watched the first episode of Golden Kamuy, seems OK, not much to go on just yet other than the basic setup. CG bears were a little odd. I'm interested in the chosen era, and the fact that it has Ainu characters.
But unfair to Golden Kamuy the other show I watched the first episode of was March Comes in Like a Lion, and that is gorgeous. I did not pick up on that from still images of the show. But I love the watercolor/painted look to all the background art. Plus it's got a bunch of cats and seems like it'll be a good story. I think that's the one that's going to win the prime time opening for sure. I'll check back in with Golden Kamuy as the "I'm not quite ready to fall asleep show" and see how it develops.
GK spoiler
That is also a very convoluted treasure map setup, but I get that it's that kind of hidden treasure show.
Golden Kamuy = What if the hospital of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was actually Meiji era Japan
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.
Developed a genuine fear and respect of bears reading it though
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
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.
Translation stolen from comments:
Meili: Elsa, you were such a fool. I should have died first.
Meili: Do you mean that, you can't die?
Elsa: It's a very sudden question.
Meili: I don't think it's really sudden. Your stomach was stabbed by that spear. But you look totally fine. I don't really get to know you.
Elsa: Well, it's not something that is worthy to hide, but if you ask, I will answer.
Meili: Well then, why will the wound on the stomach be healed so quickly? It's unnatural in any way I can imagine.
Elsa:You're right. I admit that this is not somethjng natural. Because this is caused by a curse.
Meili: Curse?
Elsa: Yes, people who are affected by this curse cannot die. But normally, this curse makes people lose their minds. The man who used this curse on me was very skilled in incantation. Therefore I can still live by my own will.
Meili: Cannot...die...
Elsa:Yes. No matter how much I want to die, I can't.
Meili:Well then…
Elsa:Um?
Meili:Well then, do you want to die?
Elsa:Why did you ask?
Meili:Why? Because your words give me that feel.
Elsa: Is that so? Well I think I mislead you. I never wanted to die. I pretty love this body on many aspects. In the fragrance of blood,meat and knife, I earn the solid feeling of living. With this body, I can go to confirm lots of things. I am satisfied with this body. So you don't have to put a worried face.
Meili: I am worried? For you?
Elsa: Your face shows that you are thinking "What should you do if I really want to die." No wonder you will be lonely when the time comes. You are really a girl who gets lonely easily.
Meili:Please don't say such foolish words! You...you need to work harder...Get it? Compare to you who doesn't die, I may die first at some day
Elsa:Well, who knows?
Meili:Tiger boy,it's enough, thank you. I'm satisfied.
Garifiel: Is it really enough?
Meili:Yes.
Garifiel: (shows impatience) It does not matter to me anyway.
Meili:Um?
Garfiel: No one will say anything when you want to cry and cry.
Meili: I don't really want to…
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I was thumbing through the new shows next season, and boy, there are a lot of particularly... uh... on the surface deeply unpleasant seeming romances. Multiple shows about 27 year old dudes falling in love with 16 year olds. A show about getting revenge on your crush for rejecting you because she already has a boyfriend. On top of multiple isekai 'parodies' where they summoned a dude who was supposed to be their slave but they ended up being his slave instead.
And then there's a show about kabaddi.
Truly the yin and yang of anime.
Wait, so