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[Anime] of Fall 2024: Aliens VS Spirits, Remakes VS Isekais
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Then I watched a few more episodes of frieren. It is so weird how one episode can be at a 0 and then the next is balls to the wall 100. Still have around 11 to go, but the trek north has been less interesting since they fought the demons.
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I've tried reading JJK twice now and both times got a few dozen chapters in before it lost me; I was curious about what's going on now, though, so I tried reading the most recent chapter to see if I could work out what the fuss is about, and to be honest I couldn't tell. Is there any way to explain what's so surprising about these events without needing hundreds of chapters of backstory?
Spoilers, obv
Except he wasn't killed, they got him out in time barely, and used his ability to steal the powers of one of the other primary bad guys which lets him transplant his brain into other bodies (which, sidenote, also means said bad guy is MC's mom, but that's a while separate things), which he then used to put his brain into Gojo's body, which is now back
Wow! I thought it couldn't get worse emotionally but it always definitely can!
Why do I enjoy this? I cannot say.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I've seen the first season, which was fun as hell. And the movie, which was aggressively mid.
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JJK 0 I feel like mostly gives you some characters and context. The internal narrative arc as a movie could've been done better.
But yeah you should watch season two! For real for real!
And then just like let go of everything you love from that point on, proactively.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
The second half is... unrelenting, I'll give it that.
All the character deaths are melding together at this point, and most of them barely even register, since you never know if the character truly died or if Gege's going to come up with some crazy way to bring them back.
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Anyone know what TMS has done? I realize I haven't watched any of their works.
THIS SUMMER
EVERYTHING
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Wait, since when has TMS been considered bad animation?
Like, did their pedigree drop off somewhere? They’ve been around forever, their 90s output was gorgeous, and while I haven’t seen Angel Dust yet, I rewatched Shinjuku Private Eyes and that looked fantastic
[EDIT: wait no right, City Hunter is sunrise, but I think TMS is connected in some way to them?]
Assuming there’s not some other TMS, it’s Tokyo Movie Shinsha, in which case their pedigree is decades long. Lupin, Detective Conan, basically every 90s western cartoon you loved as a kid when they Good Animation Studio was on call for an episode.
in the last decade or so, you’ve got The Woman Named Fujiko Mine, Lupin Parts 4 through 6, both seasons of Megalobox, the Doctor Stone adaptation, etc.
That’s why I’m baffled that people would think TMS is bad animation.
EDIT:
are these people high?
From what I gather, it's less that they're bad per se, and known for being a workhorse studio that just churns stuff out without much in the way of real effort.
a lot of big deal stuff in the distant past, but in more relevant recent work I recognize the fruits basket remake, dr. stone, undead unluck, and rent-a-girlfriend.
That’s definitely the vibe I’m getting reading the thread the quotes are from
Meanwhile, again TMS has put out some of their best work in year after year.
[I’m assuming these jump cuts are by the uploaders? I still need to check out the UU anime; also lord I didn’t realize how fast that adaption consumed chapters going by some of these uploads]
That’s the weird part about the reaction, because TMS is like one of the biggest and most established studios. It’s like Complaining Sunrise (god I don’t wanna call it by its new name man…) isn’t a good studio just because it’s not MAPPA or MADHOUSE
Both are Nippon TV, yeah
EDIT: wait no, that’s broadcaster, double checking studio to see
EDIT: okay yeah, OLM did both, specifically Team Iguchi for Berserk, and Apothacary is a joint OLM/Toho production
And it is a shame, because high pace is one of the strenghts of the manga's story.
Yeah, my first thought was "oh, the folks that did the best-looking episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures/Animaniacs" -- which was a long time ago, and in a different context, but, still, they definitely come with a bunch of positive associations for me. (edit: hang on, they did _Akira_, and that's not enough?)
No one is going to get a perfect track record, the more work a studio puts out, the higher the odds are that they are going to get a dud. Sometimes that is on them, but sometimes it's out of their hands. Some series are really hard to adapt well into an anime format, be it a movie, OVA or standard TV seasons. Sometimes the fans are just being too damn unreasonable and a decent or good adaption just gets panned by the fandom and doesn't have the appeal, that you get a bunch of anime fans who find it as a hidden gem later on. Sometimes the people distributing the work fuck the studio over, point in case what Disney has been getting up to.
Hell, IIRC the author does get to input on the adaption and that alone can hose over an adaption, depending on a combination of things with the author.
Also I have to wonder how much of the angst is driven more by "I don't like this art style and I'm butthurt that the studio stuck with it for it's adaption!" I tend to disagree, I'd argue a studio that is trying to do a great job at adapting someone's work, should incorporate the art style; especially, if the original source material is a manga. The art style is almost always going to be part of the appeal a manga has because I know I'm not the only one that has passed up on some stuff that sounded interesting because I really didn't care for the art style.
I haven't seen all their stuff, but from what I have seen and based on the overall reception. It seems like TMS is a fairly solid studio and people are being unreasonable here. Sakamoto Days probably has a very good shot of getting a very solid adaption.
this depends a lot on the individual production
Well, I found the OP:
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