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Like, I cannot believe I held off on watching this for so long.
It's likely that it's going to be a rolling kind of random list for probably the rest of the year. Different studios have very different production and delivery schedules. Shaft, for example, for a long time would deliver things at the very last moment, frequently having to put in filler cards saying "animation not finished yet" or similar. Other shows, particularly in the nascent days of streaming, got into trouble because the studio would deliver an entire month of episodes to simulcaster(s) in advance which were uploaded early and/or leaked.
(wikipedia tells me Bakshi did them in the late 70s, which means they're technically cartoons)
That being said thank goodness most anime studios have decided to be sensible and not keep up production during this. That being said I hope a bunch don't fold leaving people unemployed.
Its so good and it just gets better tbh.
Also I haven't factchecked shit so that might be wrong.
This anime is a 10/10 masterpiece.
Sort of...
The missing thing here is that the social distance, cleaning, masks, sanitizer, etc that the rest of the world has to scramble to setup and enforce is actually already there. They might have to turn the knob from like a 5 to a 7 but they aren't starting from 0 like most countries. Fukushima helped with some of that. Well, 'helped'.
The government itself is a lot of fuckery tho. While they did try to get companies to more heavily rely on work from home as early as late February to early March, they didn't really put as much pressure as they could have. They also pushed through a couple trillion in support for companies to continue keeping people on payroll and such but Japan actually has a pretty healthy smaller business/mom & pop sector of businesses and they got screwed as you'd expect. So it's going to end up working it's way through that level of working class that can't really afford to close up.
It'll probably get pretty bad in the bigger prefectures, especially with such a large number of elderly citizens. I dunno if it'll get Italy bad but they definitely should have done things better. Abe is shit tho so no surprise there.
And Okinawa is giving exactly 0 shits at all so I expect them to just burst into flames.
Uh, excuse me, it was Capcom calling the interquel between Street Fighters 1 and 2 "Street Fighter Zero" (at least the english version's name, "SF Alpha", makes a little more sense).
God , I haven’t seen that since I was a kid ...
Kingdom Hearts 3; the 8th game in the trilogy.
Bakshi did a different one (the "Lord of the Rings" animated movie that covers Fellowship and the first half of Two Towers).
The clip Munkus Beaver linked is from the Rankin/Bass "Return of the King", and they're the ones who did the Hobbit movie. Yeah, the people who made those cheesy old stop-motion Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer tv Christmas specials made the Hobbit cartoon.
I'm not paying for Funimation, so I'm a week behind, but I was incredibly impressed by the 1st episode of the 2nd season I watched today. The actors (including the narrator) have impeccable delivery and timing for the jokes. The first skit with Hayasaka Ai was perhaps too short, since in the manga:
Also watched Bakarina ep. 3 this week, and this prequel arc has been incredibly fluffy and heart warming. I'm interested to see where the main story will go now.
Different song
And since I had to resub to funimation to watch that, I watched Kaguya. Still great, OP less great. Hard to live up to Love Dramatic though. I do hope the plot moves forward this season.
The Japanese economy has been in the shitter for 30 years so questions about who is going to be able pay for any sort of economic relief or stimulus is a bit more doubtful. There was a game of chicken between the mayor of Tokyo and the Prime Minister about who would declare the state of emergency where the loser would need to foot the bill. I don’t think Tokyo-ites are particularly good at Social Distancing measures (because of the reliance on public transportation), but mask-wearing is deeply ingrained into their culture (there’s a pun there) and there may be something either genetic or environmental that makes them less susceptible to the disease. That being said, most of the prefectures and the country as a whole are very bad at testing, usually only testing those with the worst symptoms. Coupling that with the cultural norms regarding work, and Japan (Tokyo especially) may be getting worse before it gets better. I think your observation about the Mom & Pop shops may be correct, but then again they may be fine as (outside of the major cities) they probably own the land, and inside the cities they probably can count on the local governments to appeal for aid to them.
Where I live on the outskirts of the greater metropolitan area (like how Pomona is technically in L.A.) the crowds on the streets are noticeably smaller, but they’re still there. Nothing at all like what my brother describes back at home. It’s a bit surreal, especially considering I’ve been ordered to essentially become a Hikkomori by my job.
Edit: Scratch what I said earlier, it’s a ghost town here now. I went on my weekly grocery run and there were probably only a quarter of the people on the street from last week. Pretty much all non-essential stores were closed too.
【公式】『ポケットモンスター ソード・シールド』オリジナルアニメ「薄明の翼」 第1話「手紙」6:21
English dubs:
Pokémon: Twilight Wings | Episode 1 | Letter 6:06
Pokémon: Twilight Wings | Episode 2 | Training 6:33
Pokémon: Twilight Wings | Episode 3 | Buddy 6:19
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My wife and I watched it last night too and enjoyed it.
May have to wait a while for another season though. The first season covered the first 5 light novels, and the movie covered #6 & 7. The tenth just came out two months ago so it might be a while before they have enough material for another season. I also haven't been able to find out what 8-10 are about beyond their titles.
The novel series has been licensed in English though, and the first volume comes out in a little over a week.
Who needs story when an anime looks this pretty? Kenny lauderdale (me), reviews Dragon's Heaven, a beautiful anime from the 80s that history has almost forgotten. Moebius may have never lent his art to an anime, but if watched this & told me he didn't make it I wouldn't believe you. The best Mecha anime tend to get overlooked, but this ova is one of those anime that's so beautiful to look at that it may as well not even be mecha. Moebius's art style influenced anime artists so heavily in the 1980s that for a brief time, anime like this was indistinguishable from what it was paying respect to. Makoto Kobayashi was one of those artists.
Man I want to watch this, it looks so good
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Fun trivia: a couple of the mecha designs in it (Gampf & Neo-Geo) are based on ones (Bound Doc and The O) the same designer used in Zeta Gundam.
oh yeah, fortunately he's a pretty easy artist to divorce from his creative output from ~25-35 years ago, but it's still a bummer
neo-imperialism in anime is probably one of the medium's (and Japanese nerd culture in general's) worst trends from the last couple decades
man's been a pillar of the fandom for ages, even before his full animations blew his clout the fuck up to DBZ levels
edit: wait woops I'm thinking of the British Otaking, Paul Johnson, who made the 2008 fansubs documentary (which youtuber gigguk just did a 2020 followup to) and that crazy TIE Fighter animation, but that twitter account linked is a different sakuga gif thing woopswoopswoops
But enough about Zenitsu.
The Lion King music makes it work even better
E: Actually, let's be fair to Zenitsu as well:
Thinks: surely it can't be _that_ Makoto Kobayashi? 6 and a half minutes in -- okay, that makes more sense, sheesh.
(on which note, it's a real shame that the end of Club 9 never got collected so the only way I could read it is to hunt out back issues of Super Manga Blast. Though Dark Horse are republishing What's Michael? in new compilations, so maybe there's hope)