Also like, don't get me wrong I'm a nostalgia goblin and love the old aesthetic of anime from before the 2000s, but the new Urusei Yatsura and Ranma look very nice. I found the new UY also to be a little bit less insufferable with the EVERYONE IS SHOUTING as comedy.
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I think Re:Zero is going on the back burner for a week or so. I don't have the emotional bandwidth to feel feelings or think thoughts right now.
I'm still not mentally ready and I'm two seasons behind
Season 2 doesn't quite hit the lowest lows of Season 1, and it is fairly hype.
This week re zero had a small curveball in that
Oh turns out it wasn't a case of total failure. Now Subaru has a dragon blood leg that can regenerate, one of the towers probably got retaken by the good guys.
I'm also have a REALLY hard time keeping all the names straight at this point. Regulus has a ton of wives, many dead. So I am fully onboard with it being an aspect of his witch authority to burn through them like fuel. I know he's been around for nearly 200 years but that is a fucking lot of dead wives. Emelia is not being a damsel and is being smart and proactive, realizing she's in enemy territory and cannot just fight Regulus straight up.
Red princess candidate is also way WAY deeper of a character than could have been imagined in S1.
I did end up watching this week.
The only casualty was Crusch, which was surprising.
Priscilla's swordsmanship was absurdly well animated compared to normal.
Subaru managing to impress the merchant with the Kyoto accent impressed me, given how much she was able to exploit him during their first meetings.
It wasn't a super heavy episode, all things considered. Lots of chess pieces moving around the board to set up the next big plot beat.
I'm sure the other shoe will drop eventually and Subaru will start looping again.
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Even though the 4K isn't out yet, I picked up something close to it on the cheap:
Thanks for nothing, Harmony Gold.
Still looks great, I think. No subtitles, though(which I think the 4k will have?), but it's region free, at least.
It's been a loooooooong time since I saw the original Ranma anime, but the remake feels pretty beat for beat.
I don't really understand the point of a remake that tells the exact same story in the exact same way.
I agree here. It rubs me the wrong way on a lot of levels, but it's also been a trend in anime for like 10 years now, so it's not exactly new. I understand it a lot more for video games where there are significant technical and usability issues to older games, but less so for shows/movies. Like, if someone made a new Star Wars, but it was just a shot for shot remake of New Hope with CGI instead of puppets/models, or a new Simpsons that was just a re-animated season 1, I can't see how that would be anything but reviled as trying to replace the original, and with characters like Happosai, there are certainly warts that I don't think anybody but shitheels would be too upset if they changed him to obsessing over... I dunno, earrings or hats instead.
Stuff like the Duck Tales remake or Spiderverse shows that you can absolutely use older franchises with shit-tons of nostalgia bait while making your own thing and telling your own story with a ton of respect for the previous, both existing together. But I suspect that remakes, like the things that get published/adapted because they won popularity contests, get made because it's safe, and for every one genuinely autuer show, there have to be a dozen remakes and two dozen isekai.
Ranma is so old that making a remake is fine, even without changing the original premise. Stuff like He-Man or Transformers were all about selling toys, so changing those up to have actual stories is far more palatable.
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Did we really get any proper remakes in last few years outside of Urusei Yatsura and Ranma? Trigun was a full reboot.
Rurouni Kenshin and Spice and Wolf are both in the last year. Go back further and there's Fruits Basket, Sailor Moon, Dororo, HxH, Kanon, Yamato 2199, etc etc.
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Well, that list becomes a lot narrower if you consider them as 'good' remakes.
Personally, I love seeing that Sailor Moon Crystal is worse than dead, it's forgotten. Merch has almost universally shifted to focus on the classic series, and the world is better for it.
In the case of Ranma, a remake seems valuable to me because a.) it didn't even get close to the manga ending originally and b.) the later eps of that original series were Not Great, animation-wise. So at least the second of those issues can be addressed here.
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In the case of Ranma, a remake seems valuable to me because a.) it didn't even get close to the manga ending originally and b.) the later eps of that original series were Not Great, animation-wise. So at least the second of those issues can be addressed here.
To be fair about the manga,
you could say it doesn't have an ending either. heyo
I have only vague memories of watching the first Ranma 1/2 dubbed in Spanish as a wee little Fig, but the new show is moving at a pace that aged anime curmudgeon me can appreciate. They remade Ranma 1/2 for me, personally, so I can appreciate the awkward relationship hijinks that missed me as a child. You can watch it too, I guess.
That's not a remake of the original tv show. Instead it is adapting the original novels more faithfully.
More faithful attempts at adaptions after the first one makes anime only changes have happened for decades.
So are you saying the new Ranma and UY are remakes of the original TV shows, not new adaptations of the manga?
Haven't watched either, can only comment on what I know. I'm also not invested in this really I'm just talking about the explicit reason why DNT was made, which the creators have come out and said.
This isn't really a new phenomenon (making a show again) and it's kinda weird that it's being talked about as if it suddenly popped up out of nowhere recently.
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That's not a remake of the original tv show. Instead it is adapting the original novels more faithfully.
More faithful attempts at adaptions after the first one makes anime only changes have happened for decades.
So are you saying the new Ranma and UY are remakes of the original TV shows, not new adaptations of the manga?
Haven't watched either, can only comment on what I know. I'm also not invested in this really I'm just talking about the explicit reason why DNT was made, which the creators have come out and said.
This isn't really a new phenomenon (making a show again) and it's kinda weird that it's being talked about as if it suddenly popped up out of nowhere recently.
Okay well your post read as though you were correcting me on something.
That's not a remake of the original tv show. Instead it is adapting the original novels more faithfully.
More faithful attempts at adaptions after the first one makes anime only changes have happened for decades.
So are you saying the new Ranma and UY are remakes of the original TV shows, not new adaptations of the manga?
Haven't watched either, can only comment on what I know. I'm also not invested in this really I'm just talking about the explicit reason why DNT was made, which the creators have come out and said.
This isn't really a new phenomenon (making a show again) and it's kinda weird that it's being talked about as if it suddenly popped up out of nowhere recently.
Okay well your post read as though you were correcting me on something.
Your post was just the latest and also was talking about a show I know about. It was more of a side comment really.
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I think of anime adaptations as more like remasters than remakes, if that makes sense. Generally the anime only deviates from the manga when it has to, e.g. is in danger of catching up, and V2 anime like Ranma 2024, DBZ Kai, FMA Brotherhood, etc. are focused on creating a product that is more like the original manga, not less.
I'll take remakes of good shows instead of new isekai shows any day.
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Normally it feels like characters just show up and we're meant to recognise them, no matter how many hundreds of chapters it's been since we last saw them, so it was nice to have a bit of help for once -- I just don't remember this ever happening before.
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Latest One Piece, is this the first time we've had a "previously on One Piece" reminder of who someone is?
Normally it feels like characters just show up and we're meant to recognise them, no matter how many hundreds of chapters it's been since we last saw them, so it was nice to have a bit of help for once -- I just don't remember this ever happening before.
No, it happened ALL THE TIME during the Revelry arc. Because people were making their first non-art page appearances in 500 chapters
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Aw, just found out that You and I Are Polar Opposites is ending in less than two weeks.
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Oshi no Ko ended with chapter 166 today (ENDING SPOILERS):
*spits* Another terrible ending from Akasaka Aka. Dude just needs to commit to a ~2000 chapter series like KochiKame that never ends.
I guess it's about living with your grief, putting on a brave face, and turning your pain into illuminating the darkness in other's lives, when your own life has no hope of escaping that same darkness.
I am honestly in no fucking mood for such a message given current events and *gestures broadly at everything*
There were a bunch of banger arcs, only to see it end as a fart in the wind. Nobody wins!
E: Someone on Reddit encapsulated my feelings pretty well:
It's got it all; a drawn-out gratuitously painful death for the MC (complete with him taking a moment to openly criticize the wisdom of his final choice, as if he's hinting to players what to do differently on the next playthrough! All we're missing is the Taiga Dojo) followed by one chapter of misery porn and a final chapter speedrunning through (some of) the remaining loose ends in the most perfunctory way possible.
When I read this I don't feel like I'm watching the culmination of a four-year journey. I don't feel like I've watched the final beat of an unfolding tragedy. I feel like I need to go through my previous save files to find the dialogue choice that lets me see the Good Ending.
Latest One Piece, is this the first time we've had a "previously on One Piece" reminder of who someone is?
Normally it feels like characters just show up and we're meant to recognise them, no matter how many hundreds of chapters it's been since we last saw them, so it was nice to have a bit of help for once -- I just don't remember this ever happening before.
No, it happened ALL THE TIME during the Revelry arc. Because people were making their first non-art page appearances in 500 chapters
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Ranma is old. A new series is a way to introduce it to a new generation(s).
If creators want to do something new, then they should do their own story, straight up.
I did end up watching this week.
Priscilla's swordsmanship was absurdly well animated compared to normal.
Subaru managing to impress the merchant with the Kyoto accent impressed me, given how much she was able to exploit him during their first meetings.
It wasn't a super heavy episode, all things considered. Lots of chess pieces moving around the board to set up the next big plot beat.
I'm sure the other shoe will drop eventually and Subaru will start looping again.
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Still looks great, I think. No subtitles, though(which I think the 4k will have?), but it's region free, at least.
The Zentraedi dialogue is hard-subbed, I think.
I agree here. It rubs me the wrong way on a lot of levels, but it's also been a trend in anime for like 10 years now, so it's not exactly new. I understand it a lot more for video games where there are significant technical and usability issues to older games, but less so for shows/movies. Like, if someone made a new Star Wars, but it was just a shot for shot remake of New Hope with CGI instead of puppets/models, or a new Simpsons that was just a re-animated season 1, I can't see how that would be anything but reviled as trying to replace the original, and with characters like Happosai, there are certainly warts that I don't think anybody but shitheels would be too upset if they changed him to obsessing over... I dunno, earrings or hats instead.
Stuff like the Duck Tales remake or Spiderverse shows that you can absolutely use older franchises with shit-tons of nostalgia bait while making your own thing and telling your own story with a ton of respect for the previous, both existing together. But I suspect that remakes, like the things that get published/adapted because they won popularity contests, get made because it's safe, and for every one genuinely autuer show, there have to be a dozen remakes and two dozen isekai.
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Did we really get any proper remakes in last few years outside of Urusei Yatsura and Ranma? Trigun was a full reboot.
Right?
Rurouni Kenshin and Spice and Wolf are both in the last year. Go back further and there's Fruits Basket, Sailor Moon, Dororo, HxH, Kanon, Yamato 2199, etc etc.
Personally, I love seeing that Sailor Moon Crystal is worse than dead, it's forgotten. Merch has almost universally shifted to focus on the classic series, and the world is better for it.
To be fair about the manga,
No shame on the reboot existing, it's just not what I was looking for yet.
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More faithful attempts at adaptions after the first one makes anime only changes have happened for decades.
So are you saying the new Ranma and UY are remakes of the original TV shows, not new adaptations of the manga?
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Ranma definitely follows the manga and not the original anime.
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Haven't watched either, can only comment on what I know. I'm also not invested in this really I'm just talking about the explicit reason why DNT was made, which the creators have come out and said.
This isn't really a new phenomenon (making a show again) and it's kinda weird that it's being talked about as if it suddenly popped up out of nowhere recently.
Okay well your post read as though you were correcting me on something.
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Yeah Bec the guy who made it is a pedo
It does, but the sort of people you probably talk about anime with are ignoring it because *looks at mangaka*
It has anti-marketing, because the Kenshin author was revealed to be a pedophile. Kept me from watching, or reading the sequel series set in Hokkaido.
Your post was just the latest and also was talking about a show I know about. It was more of a side comment really.
That's a decent point, actually. For instance, I don't know that I'd consider the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies to be "remakes".
...Or the David Productions JJBA Stardust Crusaders, for that matter.
Normally it feels like characters just show up and we're meant to recognise them, no matter how many hundreds of chapters it's been since we last saw them, so it was nice to have a bit of help for once -- I just don't remember this ever happening before.
No, it happened ALL THE TIME during the Revelry arc. Because people were making their first non-art page appearances in 500 chapters
Manga continuing past high school challenge: Impossible
I guess it's about living with your grief, putting on a brave face, and turning your pain into illuminating the darkness in other's lives, when your own life has no hope of escaping that same darkness.
I am honestly in no fucking mood for such a message given current events and *gestures broadly at everything*
There were a bunch of banger arcs, only to see it end as a fart in the wind. Nobody wins!
E: Someone on Reddit encapsulated my feelings pretty well:
Think Dorry and Brogy also got one.