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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.
Steam ID - VeldrinD
Steam ID - VeldrinD
Leans way too hard into the "plucky goofball loser" schtick.
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'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.
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?
Wow! I thought it couldn't get worse emotionally but it always definitely can!
Why do I enjoy this? I cannot say.
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