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The mouths can move, but they cant do proper mouthflaps, and the faces are incapable of emoting outside of mouth movement and eyelid movement, both of which are limited to going up and down a bit to memory. So any and all emoting has to be handled by full body posing or movement, which gives things a very theatrical and overdramtic feel that i know puts some people off - you cant just have a subtle eyebrow raise, or similar.
There's also multiple puppets for every character - the ones with legs are different puppets to the ones they use most of the time, which dont have legs (to memory, i could be wrong).
It's also really funny to watch the behind the scenes and see how they achieve some of the practical effects: By picking up the puppets and yeeting them from off screen.
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Or I should say, if that puts you off, it's your loss.
That anyone could see these scenes and not be utterly blown away by what they're managing to get puppets to do, instead only looking at inescapable flaws, that's a failure of perspective.
The puppetry is world class level.
The high octane action, primarily adult cast, and constant forward momentum help a lot, too.
(I enjoyed the sequel/original, Unlimited Blade Works' version especially, but it falls prey to a lot of Fate tropes that Zero largely avoids.)
I agree it shouldn't put people off, but i dont think it's unfair to note it's an adjustment - i've seen multiple people commentate that it really threw them at first, and i can understand that! It's stylistically VERY different to how anime is well, animated or how live action is acted, and the result is a visual language that people are simply not familiar with. Personally i love it, and i think everyone should give it a go - as you say, what they get them to do is crazy impressive, the blending of both CG and practical effects is fantastic. It gets even better when you realize how they've framed the camera so that the puppeters are literally just below the line of sight moving the puppets.
Or that most of the time when there's dust or debries flying, there's someone juuuuuuuust off camera throwing it at them.
...and dammit, i just went and looked up that crossover and it spoils one of the best season one twists. Arrrgh! Hopefully no one noticed.
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Zero was not my introduction to Fate (sadly, it was the original VN that does the whole "magic refill"... thing.) But honestly between that and UBW they're some of my favorite anime. Could never really get into any of the others (Apocrypha kind of was close to being good IMO, but was missing something. And Heaven's Feel is good quality but I'm not a fan of the story.)
Playing Saber in Melty Blood is probably the best Fate game ever
I'll second Hotel Del Luna. I watched it a few months ago and it's fantastic. One hell of a tear jerker too at times. There are a ton of really good Korean shows on Netflix, some bad ones too like Sisyphus: The Myth, but The Stranger, Beyond Evil, The Silent Sea, The Lies Within, Signal, My Name, and The Good Detective were all good to phenomenal.
I really need to dig into more k-dramas. It's one of the few things i miss about my netflix subscription (currently cancelled because of netflix's handling of the shitty david chappelle thing, and also a price hike)
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Tribe Nine is about a future where youth gangs are running amok, so Japan passes a law saying that all turf wars need to take place through baseball. This is a premise that somebody was paid to create.
What's Michael?
(That's the name. Not sure if it's the OVA or TV series.)
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I dunno if the twitter person is doing a bit but the title is "What's Michael?"
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In the anime, first season was a mostly straightforward adaptation but organized into what felt like the normal flow of a school year. Then in season 2, they iterated on that by taking some plotlines from the manga and combining them for the end, including an anime original story for the final episode that actually develops the characters further than the manga has so far. And now Season 3 seem to be doing that and then some, the first episode is already taking a few plotlines and then reworking them in a really fascinating and satisfying way together. I'm actually shocked how good it is, the source material is wholesome but the show is really taking that and running with it, and it's an improvement on all fronts.
in other news yomi no tsugai's second chapter is great
I found it fascinating, it maybe not be exactly accurate, but it capures the feeling of the new age of anime that Gundam unleashed.
for example I think I remember a plot point was that gunpla saved the production, but in reality gunpla took off years after the original series finished. It was more like records of the music saved the production I think?
Smokin Out The Window by Silk Sonic/Bruno Mars
Have you read/watched blue blazes
What's that? They're in their 30s and are ossans?
turns to dust.
The "Gundam DX Combine Set" is not Gunpla, they specifically mean this toy, that was the only one that sold well from the original Clover catalog:
Found this article expanding a bit:
https://www.zimmerit.moe/unlucky-clover-gundam-toys/
And is still around the same timeline, little before the movie Sunrise had gotten Bandai on board, that was the company to use the movie as a springboard to sell their (much better) toy line and the rest, as they say, is history.
Not even just in their 30s. Are 32. You know, ancient. I couldn't stand more than five minutes of that. I don't know when Japanese comedy went from 50% overreaction screaming to 98%, but I wish it would go back to weird absurdist shit like Excel Saga or even Azumanga.
Of the three new obnoxious teenager power fantasy shows today, the sage one was by far the worst, but to a level where it's fascinating how fucking bad it is. The CGI alone is next level horrible, the premise makes zero sense, the entire first half is just two long infodumps, and with about seven minutes left in the episode, it does the reincarnation into a girl bit and just silently montages until the episode unceremoniously ends. A fucking seven minute montage.
But I seriously cannot understate how bad the CGI is nor how prominent it is. It looks like it could have been done on an N64.
(It's only mentioned in passing, but I knew I liked her as soon as you find out about her skirt. Their school uniform regulations require her to wear the boy's jacket, but the rules only say students must wear a skirt or slacks, without thinking to specify which gender wears what. So Yuka seizes on this legal loophole and starts coming to school in a skirt.)
But then instead of making Yuka a punchline or a pervert character or a weird sexy pinup... Yuka and Yatora become good friends, and he starts learning more about her? Yuka's bisexual and nonbinary or trans, trying to figure out an identity that works for her, and after high school graduation starts transitioning to using feminine pronouns as well. And Yatora's response is... To be respectful and accepting and to care about his friend??? And also not to treat her like a charity case or as different from his other friends???
There's just a lot of little details to her story I like a lot. Like the girls in high school all rally around her, but there's a time Yatora and Yuka are talking where she says how frustrating it is for the girls to treat her as this like un-sexed, harmless Gay BFF. Or that she struggled with suicidal thoughts in middle school and that her parents are abusive and transphobic, but that neither of those things is like, her main narrative - they're additional challenges to her becoming the artist she could be, but they don't define her character.