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Speaking of, they recently released an OVA of Cucuruz Doan's Island, as a full length movie rather than the 20 odd minutes it got in the original. It's real fucking good! Just a really enjoyable extended dive on what was a short episode.
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The OG shows (that feature kid heroes) seem to treat saving the city with your Super Robot as an after school job, in terms of importance. Since Eva, the life or death stakes have been re-emphasized, which is what makes something that very deliberately throws to the old school stakes like the two SSSS shows interesting.
SEED is passable, Destiny is a pile (too many recap episodes, plot went in a direction that shat all over the new cast, Jesus Yamato).
If you want to know what shows Evangelion is cribbing from, watch Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Space Battleship Yamato, and any show that Yoshiyuki Tomino was involved in from 1975 up until 1993.
This is far from a complete list of influences for Anno, of course, but it's gonna get you the big beats.
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Jeddy's take is a good one, but also...
One, it's trying to be a reboot of the original gundam while also updating it to the then and now that was 2004. This pulls it in all kinds of directions and it really just does not manage to thread the needle. It's also trying to have really serious conversations about genetic engineering and racism while also doing a lot of Wow! Cool Robots! that just undercuts the message. There's a lot, and I mean, a LOT of melodrama which gets in the way of the actually good drama. The bad guys on both sides tend to crash straight into "Straight up cackling evil" as well, while the protagnists are going "We should all be friends!".
I'd say probably more than anything it's issue is you can see a ton of really good, strong ideas in it that it just struggles to execute with the level of examination that they really needed.
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another example of something I loved with COOL surf/skate life and being on magazines covers and raves and being famous for being good at skating, but then DRAMA. So much drama.
dropped it in the middle of its original run and didn't stick around to witness the trainwreck that was seed destiny
me losing interest and dropping the show after it introduces the ramba ral analogue
Right, I've seen these and know this. I'm saying I want to see the alternate universe version of Eva where it stuck to those inspirations and played everything straight, and there's no twist or deconstruction or hatred for the fans or etc.
still very pretty probably but not worth discussing like this 30 years later
There's a reason why a lot of people prefer the Super Robot Wars franchise's take on SEED Destiny over the actual series. Hell, Shinn Asuka's Japanese VA apparently stated he preferred the SRW-Z versions of the plot and his character over the anime's.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Thanks for all the responses, folks! Picking this one in particular to respond to as one where I can explain more details.
First off, reason for Attack On Titan showing up is that one of the younger kids friends has recommended it; reason for Evangelion is that older kid is curious about it. (and I'm curious about both of them myself, to be fair). Both of those sound skippable, or at least there's better alternatives. I know there's an awful lot of other good shows out there -- we watched One Punch Man already, and started on Mob Psycho 100 but sort of faded away from that one a few episodes in. Same thing with FMA -- though in both cases, the kids had already read the manga so they knew what the story was going to be and weren't quite keen enough on seeing it animated to want to stick through it.
The Big Name stuff (MHA, One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball, etc) have one major problem, that there's too much of them. Younger kid has read through all of One Piece (and multiple times, too, so I constantly disappoint him when he says "hey dad what do you think is the deal with [the devil fruit of obscure character X from Impel Down or something]" and I just can't remember what he's talking about), and Naruto, and Dragon Ball, but also knows the pacing issues with trying to _watch_ those. MHA just never really caught on around here either way for some reason.
I haven't watched any of the mecha series myself, so none of those ones came to mind for me -- the only one of those that I've heard them mention / be curious about is Gurren Lagann, and that's only because of something one of them saw about "biggest robots in anime".
And as for "is it too old for them" -- they know what's real and what isn't real, my wife and I are trying pretty hard to get them to watch out for dubious elements in movies/etc. For context, they're currently doing a weekly movie-watch with the (same-aged) kids of one of our friends who's curating them through horror movies and have made their way from The Blob (1958) through Them! and will be heading on to Tremors and Alien, which I'm not particularly concerned about. Now, to be fair Jojo (at least the manga) does tend to have a particularly, uh, innovative ways of doing things to bodies, so I'll need to keep an eye out if we watch that one.
All that said, someone recommended Cowboy Bebop, which is great but I'm also not sure if they'll like it; in lighter terms, one thing that I did forget exists that we've read is Laid-Back Camp, and we should get back to finishing off Azumanga Daioh, and there's also Silver Spoon to watch which we've read and enjoyed.
Enjoy Disney buying and subsequently censoring a bunch of anime.. next time on dragon ball z!!!!
Oh yeah, also, perfect show for a young teen, unless they really can't deal with a few episodes of Everything Is In The Shitter in the middle.
Still not bigger than Gamagori
Still waiting for them to do something with the anime they licensed this season in the US.
They'll get to Summer Time Render someday!
...I genuinely think they somehow licensed it without realizing it was a bloody action show. Haven't looked at the DVD/Blu-Ray releases to see if they rolled back the (welcome) censorship to the manga levels either, so could be that too.
The idea of a galaxy-spanning super robot being dwarfed by some angry guy is inherently funny
When all you have is a fork...
So it feels less like a wacky misunderstanding and more of like a couple of teens safely exploring their same sex attractions without yet having to admit that that's what they're doing or having to come out to anyone yet
Yes, I am 100% here for this. This music still slaps so many years later.
It works though! Ecosystems are fundmentally built around how energy moves through them, and for most things, that's by getting your omnomnomnom on. A lot of dungeon meshi is just let's take a dnd dungeon and examine it throguh a serious science lense - of course everything revolves around eating.
Om nom nom nom.
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(this isn't me saying the new writing is bad, i have not read it yet)
though i mean, i feel like they already missed the easiest layup in the world by not making the first chapter back a "hey what's Rickert up to?" chapter
Supposedly they're working directly from the planned story beats as laid out by Miura to his best friend some time ago, so the lack of infuriating scene-changes is on him I guess.
We concluded Rolling Girls, a show I don't think quite worked at the structural-level, narratively speaking. No shame against it or its fans, just didn't work for me.
But you know what did work for me? The first episode of Golden Boy (dubbed).
An episode that almost made me vomit due to laughter.