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Sentai, like Precure and Kamen Rider, have an enormous advantage, as the big three Toei shows, in that most things are handled by the same decades old crew, so there's a basic quality level that is kept constant. On live action in particular, as anybody that watched live action super hero shows the last decade or so can tell you, turns out that making action scenes, specially with super powers, that do not drop suspension of disbelief is hard.
Random Twitter account with an example:
If memory serves, this one was directed by a long time Ultra director too, so also a lot of experience working at incorporating the two scales (Heisei and Reiwa ultra has gotten particularly good at working the two together)
And the finished scene:
These shows, the craft that goes into them, it’s just pure film magic
Studio Bind is 2 for 2 as far as I'm concerned. They seem to have a type of story they like.
I get it.
On the other hand the people who are basically degenerate neets that these shows are aimed at wouldn't notice it otherwise.
You bait degenerates with degeneracy. Then drip feed them a message.
But goddamn does this writer feel the need to cram his fetish garbage into every episode and it just sours me every time it shows up.
I can't think of many great ways to adapt that without it just looking goofy.
Regarding Yuka:
Later on in the manga (don't think the anime ever gets this far) Yuka and Yatora get a lot closer, and have some heart-to-hearts about, among other things, Yuka's gender identity. She's switching to using feminine pronouns, but she still identifies as basically gender queer, trying to decide if she's trans or a femme gay man or what. She talks to Yatora about how figuring out her gender identity has been a lifelong, ongoing struggle for her, and there's also a couple of pretty dark chapters about her home life and the abuse she faces because of her refusal to fit into a cis-male gender role.
The manga's always been tremendously empathetic to her as a character, I think if the author has pushed back on labeling at all it's more in that sense of "plz don't label her when she's still trying to figure it out herself." But it's most definitely not in the "lol nono all these queer themes are definitely not queer they're just adolescence!" way that we still run into sometimes.
The nude self painting arc is in the anime and it's very well done.
Maybe the anime toned that down I dunno. *shrug*
By all accounts it toned it up.
The premise is a lesbian couple of two college grads are now job hunting and it's making them miserable. One thing leads to another and they make the impulsive decision to move to Okinawa to get away from everything. With a premise like that you might expect drama but so far it has been very cute, pure gay wish fulfillment. (For example chapter 2 ends with one of them shouting over the island of Okinawa "I'm gonna marry this woman!" Then the other tells her-suprisingly chill-aunt about how she's eloped to Okinawa with her fiance and the former lets the two of them bum out in her unused beach condo for the time being.)
So this series is pretty promising. It's got some similar vibes to Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man. From the first six chapters I think I like it a little more than what I've read of JJK, not as much as CSM.
It's on CR and Hulu now.
https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G8WUNMMMW/attack-on-titan-final-season-the-final-chapters-special-1
i mean, back when it was just giant naked weirdos eating ppl there was the worry that the giants were a metaphor for invading immigrants
and well
More to the point, the main plot became less about giants eating people and more about its questionable politics
Kay Yu has worked on some high profile anime and games. That amount is... yeesh.
Specifically, the author had a burner Twitter account they used before writing the manga to basically do a little playful revisionist history and say the Japanese occupation of Korea basically wasn't that bad and that 'comparing them to Nazis is wrong.' There's enough meat on the bones to say that the ending of AoT
In the end, I think everyone agrees the ending of AoT is baffling and frankly disappointing as hell. What a way to squander an excellent chance to really make a statement on the horrors of war, and instead use it to soapbox for some alt right ideals
i think the actual reporting around that was largely pretty, uh, dogshit in a way that clarified nothing and in fact made things more confusing, but also y'know. Sometimes the Vibes Are Bad
personally my read is just that Isayama is a very bad writer who managed to stumble into basically every possible pothole once he actually had to start resolving and revealing things, sometimes getting weird and bad force multipliers from the way individual bad decisions interacted with each other (blatant, subtlety-free historical analogues x bioware-ass "in the past this group was the oppressor but now they're the oppressed, makes u think" type writing hits worse than either on their own, for example). He might be an ultraconservative dipshit but imo comes off as more just fucking terrible at making an uninteresting, nihilistic point. wet fart of a storyteller.