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There's one next season about Zhuge Liang being dragged to the modern era.
We did have a brief isekai span of people getting sent to usually Ro3K times with the knowledge of how things went, though that was usually an excuse to make all the Ro3K/Sengoku warlords women. I swear there are at least 20 different female Nobunagas running around out there in animeland from about a five year span. I honestly have no idea where that trend came from, though I guess it hasn't gone away either, just moved into mobile games and calling girls ship/weapon/planes.
I really want to see Fate Redline animated.
do not "actually" me about the gacha
well actually
you win this time, fate
It's actually pretty neat! Protagonist is a shit mage (Fate loves this type of protagonist tbh) reading a fictional book about a Holy Grail War that destroyed Tokyo back during Industrial Era of Japan. His grandma was a mage and he's on his way to her place to clean up after she died of old age, but while he's cleaning up he accidentally triggers an unknown Mystic Code that sends him back in time where he's on a train right between Lancer, and his Master, and a young girl in the middle of summoning a Servant. She gets interrupted and he inadvertently activates the summon himself, calling forth Saber aka Okita Souji. Lancer gets murked because being a Lancer is suffering, and Okita reveals there's still another Servant on the train. Enter one Archer aka Oda Nobunaga, and the train explodes shortly thereafter from their clash. Protagonist and the girl escape, protagonist figures out the girl is his grandma and that she was supposed to be Saber's Master and now he's mucking up the timeline by accidentally usurping her position, and things kick off as he works to figure out what happened to destroy Tokyo and how to stop it.
Current Servant lineup so far has been:
Saber: Okita Souji
Archer: Oda Nobunaga
Lancer: some knight dude who lasts one chapter so who cares
Actually this is Lancer (No this is Patrick): Li Shuwen
Rider: Sakamoto Ryoma (and Oryou who isn't technically a Servant but what she actually is has enough power to waive little details like that) [side note I really enjoy Oryou's antics especially when they involve frogs]
Assassin: Okada Izou
Caster: Maxwell's Demon
Berserker: Mori Nagayoshi
What I like about it is that aside from Maxwell's Demon (who has massive restrictions on when he can do anything) and Oryou it's basically all people famous in Japan who actually existed, meaning they've got goals more in line with other humans and their abilities, while absolutely turned up to 11 as Servants, are relatively mundane compared to things like Herakles and his God Hand or Artoria and Everything Just "Goes Away" In a Ten Mile Length Excalibur. Even Nobunaga's Noble Phantasm, Ten Line Formation, is just drawing on her history of extensive rifle usage during the Warring States period to manifest floating rifles that move according to her command. Highly effective against many things but severely lacking in Mystery, which is what powers magecraft.
She cant just magically fix everywith with her healing. It takes a hell of a lot of her, rahter than seeming effortless like a lot of healers come across, and her yelling POWWWWWWWERR as she heals people is never not funny. Angriest healer i've ever seen. Then again, she has to KEEP ON DONG it. You'd think that people would stop getting injured for .5 seconds!
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Her response: "This is some really weird shit, honey."
She's only seen episode one.
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also 5) Okinawan or Pacific Island folks.
There is a big ol' kettle of fish with racism and beauty standards regarding skin tone in E Asia. Same with plastic surgery to remove epicanthic folds. E asian countries (Han Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) have a lot of history of discrimination against folks from SE asian countries (well, and against each other, but it's even more pronounced against SE Asia), who are typically darker skinned. And there's a whole lot of history there, including intra-Asian colonialism, which complicates it beyond just the randomness of cultural beauty standards. So lighter skin (or at least "lighter than those other guys") has often been seen as a sign of superiority over their lesser neighbors.
OTOH a lot of western observers look at that, and because there's a similar thing going on in America/The West, they assume that it is the same thing, or that it only exists because of western cultural imperialism. And like, western culture definitely didn't help with that stuff, and you can go back to scientific racism and phrenology, portions of which Asia definitely listened to with interest. But also they listened because it was reinforcing beliefs that were already there, and also those theories never really permeated the society at large beyond some foreign specialists and intellectuals. And also that western attitude of "the west caused this" can quickly overlap with just more imperialism, as western liberals unintentionally veer dangerously close to essentially "we invented racism, these simple people never woulda thought of it otherwise." Waaay overestimating the centrality of the culture that happens to be central to them, and ignoring all of Asia's own history of war, racism, imperialism, and colonialism.
More specifically about Japanese beauty standards, the whole Yamato Nadeshiko style of woman - pale skin, straight dark hair, demure, ladylike, mothering, beautiful but not erotic - has been around in Japan for a long-ass time, but the idea was really canonized into a complete package during the latter half of the imperial era, when the culturally conservative government wanted to idealize what they perceived as traditional Japanese values, as embodied by a sorta pop culture take on the samurai class. They wanted strong samurai wives who would never complain, raise children, and send them and their husbands off to wars.
Getting a bit out of order here but geisha are an interesting simultaneous example and also counter-argument to that beauty standard. Geisha use white body paint, and certainly a big part of their job is fitting right into that charming but humble pseudo-upper class style. OTOH geisha are also courtesans and objects of desire, and the focal point of that desire is the back of the neck, which they "forget" to cover up in makeup, showing a glimpse of their real (and less white) naked skin. It's not like they've had a tan job under there, but it is kind of a suggestion that that white-painted skin is more a sign of propriety than something to be desired on its own. The eroticism is finding out what's under the makeup.
"Gyaru" fashion starts up in the 1970s, and it's a very conscious political rejection of traditional Japanese beauty standards and the subservience that it implies. Where the Yamato Nadeshiko is pale, dark-haired, and demure, the gyaru is tanned, dyed, and boisterous. Fashion steals from fashion, and there's definitely bits of gyaru fashion that have at times borrowed from African American culture, but generally that's not what's going on, instead it's that ongoing pushback against the traditional samurai wife image. Shorter skirts, darker skin, bigger lips, bigger boobs, louder voices - just like any fashion subculture folks inside of it were regularly trying to out-do the other girl and be the most gyaru gyaru. Within that movement is also the high school gals - kogals, kokosei gyaru - which are basically gyaru who're trying to get away with as much gyaru fashion as they can while still wearing school uniforms (whether because they're actually teenagers or they just think it's a cool combo). That's most of what you see in anime - the ridiculous socks, shortened skirts, and tanned skin.
As for the last one, Okinawans, in the west we'd mostly just think of them as Japanese who happen to be a bit darker toned, but the Ryukyuan people who lived on multiple small islands south of Japan have their own ethnic heritage, language, and cultural history, which is closely linked to Japan (more recently colonialism, before that pirates!) but is still distinct. It's worth mentioning how Okinawa constantly pops up in anime as like a popular vacation spot and occasionally the source of cute tanned girls, buuuut Ryukyuan culture, Ryukyuan accents or Ryukyuan main characters are very rare.
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Enter precocious child character.
He does that tho
Either that world's greatest detective claim is bullshit or he's not being honest with himself about his true motivations for punching people in the face at night.
To be fair he has a contingency on how to stab everyone's ass. Including his own. Mentally stable he is not.
Being the world's greatest detective means jack-shit if your city's entire system of justice & governance is corrupt to the bone.
1) These promos are unlocking 20 year-old memories I didn't know existed.
2) I didn't fully appreciate it at the time because of the perceived similarities to Cowboy Bebop, but Outlaw Star was kind of a banger. Not so much Tenchi in Tokyo, though.
Sounds like they could use some punching too.
Yeah this one I've watched probably 200+ times throughout my life
Outlaw Star is a favorite of mine. If they changed just a few things (how the characters react to Fred Luo is the big one), it would basically be perfect in my eyes.
It's a free WEBTOON with a new chapter every Thursday, and basically features the best versions of the characters (which means Barbara Gordon is Oracle like she damn well should be).
At one point there was going to be a live action adaption (on Youtube or something, not on TV), but plans apparently fell through. One of the recent Power Rangers was going to be Nightwing and he was super excited about it, so it was a bummer it fell through.
Two weeks after it had to unplanned skip an episode due to ongoing production issues, it had to do it again this week (though this time they threw together a clips/recap episode)... which was in turn pre-empted by the earthquake.
Oh shit there was an earthquake https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/asia/japan-earthquake-fukushima-intl/index.html
Decent size, 7.3
Tsunami could happen still tho
I'm reminded of kaptainkristian's piece on Toonami, talking about how it became more than a block, and it was in part these videos that did that: