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[Anime] of Fall 2024: Aliens VS Spirits, Remakes VS Isekais
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Mostly I'd give it side eye for a weak ending that speed ran a bunch of stuff in a very boring fashion, and a bunch of cheesecake that started getting somewhat gross by the end of the series
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the last adaptation suuuuuuuuuuuucked. I don't need no teenage "major" with 3d animation. Adult characters plz. 2d animation plz.
The manga is also..... not as good as GitS season 1 and 2 from back in the early 2000s. So I am hesitant.
Science Saru rocks though.
Thankfully, as lax as Jump can be, I don’t think they’ve let their standards drop that far
Closest thing I can think of is like
Science Saru have a solid track record of good shows and I'm interested in seeing a decent take on the original material.
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Celebratory bangers in honor of the news
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Leans way too hard into the "plucky goofball loser" schtick.
e: .....this mashup isn't anywhere near as good as the previous ones
As someone said, not all series need deep plots or complex back stories. I would add to that though, that series that go that route also need to understand that they also have a finite one before that start to feel like they are being stretched thin. Kaiju No. 8, really could have worked well as a short run manga, play to it's strength of absurd Kaiju vs super soldiers with special suits made from the corpses of dead monsters. Sure it would be less lucrative than what the suits at Shonen Jump want, but that could have worked very well. It would have gotten the author more publicity, experience and feedback, that they could have then made use of for their next manga.
I also have doubt that Shonen Jump's approach is really doing them any favors. It's more likely that it creates the illusion that they are getting their money's worth because they have all these long mangas, that start out fairly strong and then just drop off after a few months. Problem for them is they likely keep those going for several weeks, where they aren't really making money or getting more readers off of those titles because the suits don't quite get that this is the information age and we have this thing called the internet. People that have money to burn on entertainment have lots of options and they can and do bolt to entertainment that is keeping their attention. Hell, those of us that are poor, can also leverage the internet to find legal entertainment that meets our fancy, instead of slogging through tiles that have lost our interest.
The scene where fujitora winks at donflamingo is one of the hardest scenes ever and it's a anime original
Also, well.
Dressrosa is 102 chapters.
Dressrosa is 118 episodes.
Assuming an average episode runtime of 22 minutes, that's 42 hours and 16 minutes.
Meanwhile reading a chapter takes... I dunno, five minutes maybe? So 8 hours 30 minutes.
Jjk this week is hilarious
JJK is what?!
It really amuses me, in retrospect, that we never got that with the original GitS, because I think up until, like, the original adaptation if you suggested Oshii as the director of a Ghost adaptation, people would have figured you would of course get that mix of Action Drama and Complete Goofball bullshit, because that dichotomy was 100% Oshii’s Wheelhouse. His work on Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor’s tonal swings, even his first live action film Red Spectacles dwells so heavily within that swing between Serious Political Business and “oh Christ our protagonist is the dumbest person on the planet, aren’t they?” Style Comedy.
And then Ghost in the Shell hits and it’s just 100% serious Philosopher Oshii. No comedic bits, no characters embracing the doofus jester doing a jig at the core of their soul. Just the business.
Not to detract from what the first film was and is, but it’s just fascinating to see Oshii eschew what you would think would be a perfect fit of the wider breadth of his sensibilities to just focus on the seriousness of it all.
Red Spectacles is 100% pure TV Oshii, which is itself a whiplash moment if you’re coming into this after just being acquainted with his other films. Like even Beautiful Dreamer is more serious in tone overall.
Stray Dog definitely goes back to Movie Oshii Oshii, but it’s also got its moments of levity when the time comes.
I need to pick Dr. Stone back up. I think I stopped during the 4th story arc.
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I view this more as funny, personally.
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Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I'm in "Any actual bloody foreshadowing other than the craziest of crazy hypotheticals would have helped this land a lot b etter".
It's dumb enough i have to laugh.
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Apparently the studio isn't being seen as, well, an optimal choice:
It's a fun manga! It kind of has that classic thing where a comedy manga with action eventually moves into being an action manga with comedy, but it's still got some good gags mixed in with the increasingly ludicrous action so I'm fine with it.
It wasn't very effective.
Mio trying to learn a new technique is amusing because it's already been shown when she wants to learn something she'll just throw herself completely into it until she has. She did it with cooking and now she's trying to snatch Left's reflection ability by triggering it repeatedly with her Dark Spirit Gun Yu Yu Hakusho move. Then she'll probably just eat him.
Makoto did not get to HENSHIN but he did place himself in the path of imminent combat next week and Hibiki is right there so I guess that qualifies as "meeting" for now. Nevermind Tomoki at the bottom of a hole somewhere, he can stay there.