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Best of all, no one judges anyone for it. At worst there's some light teasing, like "don't give up, there's still lots of men out there!".
Nobody respects the bass player
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Fuck Joe Manchin
Keep on chugging until they adapt the whole thing!
Honestly if they use the anime to take the scissors to a few places, such as cut down on the sheer length of the last part, this could be great. Helck is a great manga that gets super bogged down in the last 20%.
Three different shows, all twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Tonight there will be a special presentation of AniMenagerie, as we'll be watching Rebuild of Evangeleon 2.22 at 6pm PST / 9pm EST, if anyone wants to join in.
It's entertaining enough, mostly for being different from most other shows, but goddamn, do you need to completely turn off your brain and just swallow every nonsensical thing that it spits out, especially since the second season started.
Magical Girl Mononucleosis-Chan is coming for your spleen
edit: it also might have been the fact that we smoked a lot of weed together and just passed the implements around.
Nice. Especially since the current arc/season just ended today
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You Can(not) Skip This One
Also recent spoilers:
Really looking forward to the next seasons.
If you read the non Disneyfied, cleaned up ones anyway.
I'm at episode 5 already!
Hmm, yeah I'd be down. Let me rewatch the first one real quick.
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though. Too much of this feels like a real heavy handed lesson about how nationalism, xenophobia, child soldiers and fleshy mecha can only ever create even more unstoppable hatred and violence and big, fleshy, damp mecha.
Can't wait to see what the Love Hashira can do.
Heavy disagree. It especially loves to have characters re-declare things that are already known and then everybody reacts like it's brand new information. The most recent episode was particularly egregious with this, having three or four shocked announcements that the guy with immortality powers, who has shown his immortality powers in three or four prior episodes, is still immortal. Or conversations like:
"You have usurped the throne, opened a portal to hell, filled the castle with monsters, have released a band of murderous criminals, and are trying to kill literally everybody. Why?"
"I wish for destruction."
"NAAAANNNIIIIIII!?"
But also, and not a comprehensive list:
An entire episode spent showing the demonic ritual of grinding up Daida's father to him, mixing it with monsters, and then cajoling him that he has to drink it himself. Nooo! How could my plan of grinding up his father's corpse in front of him have made him uncomfortable with drinking it! Well, just to club him over the head and pour it in his throat while unconscious, we never needed to corrupt him or his cooperation in the first place. This was all for theatrical drama!
I sense great evil in this mirror. Get rid of it. So, put it in your infant son's room where it can Sith whisper to him as a surrogate mother and she won't notice for the next decade and a half? Yeah, good enough.
Also, speaking of her, they're leaning in WAAAAY hard into her being a tragic, sympathetic character because she's a girl with big eyes, unjustly persecuted, even while she remorselessly accumulates a bloody body count in the thousands across decades of dedicated massacring women and children.
I think every single named character that has been 'killed' has come right back to life. Often because someone suddenly remembered they had an extra healing potion or just random snake powers. As snakes have.
They keep going on about how weak and helpless Bojji is every week lately when he has the power to disintegrate all physical matter with a touch. Which he gained in an afternoon. After about half a season of saying it was impossible for him to do anything. Which was the whole thing of his character in the first place.
And they keep going on about how much training Bojji did to become strong when it was literally 30 seconds with a dude who gave him said power by putting his hand on his shoulder. Also, that learning what atomic bonds are and then touching him somehow counts as training.
The whole episode about how torturing and murdering children for the amusement of racist genocidal soldiers is an ends justify the means kind of thing. Because the other dude is eviller. No we're not going to tell you how or why. Just trust us on this one.
There's at least a story and most episodes it moves in some direction, which is a shitload more than can be said for the vast majority of anime which still makes it easily watchable, but there is plenty of dumb nonsense almost every week, and the pacing grinding to a halt lately hasn't done it any favors.
barely 1 kilo episodes left
Edit: Excluding movies and such
I know we're watching the same show here, but I frankly feel like our brains are processing everything in entirely different ways - there are absolutely shows out there where I feel like they fall apart in the second half or have total ass pulls, a la BNA or Fena: Pirate Princess, where this one's arc feels to me a lot more like Mob Psycho 100 or a more standalone One Piece plot (Dressrosa particularly feels comparable)
I don't know what I have to say to you beyond that
and if I'm gonna get into the themes of the show and why I'm ok with the occasional tonal dissonance when it does pop up
a) a classic tale of how power corrupts
b) a deconstruction of both shonen fantasy and classic fairytales
c) and combining both of the above to create an especially rich tale about not just the sins of the father, but actively learning about and confronting them
Bojji's whole deal is being a bright unstoppable force burning against the immovable object of generational traumas and a power structure of the world that's objectively amoral (I suspect we're gonna learn a lot mroe about this soon too), but unlike the comparable protagonist of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann's Simon, we can't get any big bombastic speeches about breaking through the heavens. All we can get is a smile, some tears, and a boldly outstretched rapier in one hand and the other hand open to reach out in embrace
And I think that's wonderful
I have genuine contempt for that series. You have a genuinely incredible premise (mortals who slay gods and gain their powers), and it got shat on by harem gooseshit.
I forgot amazon got the OG cast back to redub it instead of uploading the original takes
Hearing the voices and script be just slightly off from the version burned into my brain is fucking me up. I feels like a fever dream
Any themes about power corrupting or that Bojji has nothing but gumption and positivity struggle hard against
That isn't fairy tale logic. Fairy tale logic is implying romantic love but actually being familial love, or the true form being an ogre instead of a princess, or the real power was confidence and/or inside you all along and/or trying really hard despite your disadvantages. Or if a classic fairy tale, that witches will eat everybody. I'd rather it was moving towards a lesson like that, that the inspiration he provides by never giving up in the face of adversity is true strength, but we're at the point of pulling Dragonball or Bleach shit where he's cowing people with the aura of his power level.