What's the problem with gunsmith cats, for context? Haven't seen more than the first or second episode where I vaguely recall a warehouse shootout styled after 80s action films
Spoiled for You Know The Drill.
One of the main characters is a former child prostitute who had her growth artificially arrested to have her retain a younger appearance, who is romantically involved with someone who is heavily implied to be a former john of hers.
Hub I wasnt expecting the first arc villian of Cheat skill to be
A fashion agent in the normal world
Based on the structure of the episode, I think there will a plotline for each world running in tandem. They will probably each have lessons that teaches the protagonist to grow in the opposite world.
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Fujimoto is great cuz he might be a lunatic, but he's also definitely a colossal troll who will just make up weird stories for his own amusement.
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Between skip and loafer and insomniacs after school, this is a startlingly wholesome season of anime.
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I have never heard of either of those before this season but sure enough when I went to mitsua the other day they had both manga up front and center lol
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Wait, that’s the CSM author?
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Yeah that tracks
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I’ve been rewatching gwitch in the English dub with my partner and
New season sub ep14 spoilers as they relate on rewatch
holy crap there’s just so much little stuff I didn’t notice the first time that ties directly into it. Prospera mentions her “daughters” a lot. Like A LOT and directly in conversation with important characters.
The twitter thread that collected all of the “hints” is mostly things that are obvious on rewatch but I still never noticed that the operating system is Eri’s name before.
The dub only has up to ep 11 so far and that episode ends with her telling Ariel that she’d “never leave you behind, darling” when the attack happens.
I forget what the dev lady’s name is, bunella? It’s also super clear that her suspicions are specific and not just the generic “find out more” directive that she got from the old ladies.
Squire was good. I think after spending 80 years or whatever being the paragon of wasting their life doing everything for everyone, just fucking around in a second life is 100% reasonable.
I also found out Daily Life of the Immortal King has a third season and boy that show it still wildly better than any other CN offering and also just an amazing show. Ended up rewatching the first two seasons and Froggy 2 gets treated dirty so many times. Poor demon king frog dog bro.
Just came out of seeing Suzume at a 1020 showing on a Tuesday night. I'm still processing the movie, but my initial thoughts are mixed to slightly negative. The visuals and music were top notch as usual, and honestly made the trip to the theater worth it regardless. Unfortunately, I felt the character motivations and narrative themes really missed the mark. That being said this movie absolutely broke my girlfriend, so your opinions may vary. More thoughts behind the spoilers:
Getting right to what I didn't like: while Suzume definitely starts out on this journey out of a sense of obligation to right the wrong she inadvertently committed, she ends it absolutely in love with Souta and it just doesn't work for me. Souta's a handsome, nice guy with good intentions but where's the chemistry? There's some great physical comedy between the two, but it's missing the emotional connection from the characters in Your Name and Weathering with You. Aside from buying into the romance, there's really no conflict between Suzume's want of "enable Souta to live out his dreams" and her need of "resolve the feelings of loss from my childhood trauma." Similarly the conflict between her and her aunt just wasn't developed enough to warrant that third act climax they have. And even that is immediately undercut by the presence of the spirit cat. It's all very muddled before we get into the run length and unneeded road trip.
While there are some definite motifs of abandoned areas, recurring natural disasters, and the beauty of Japan's diverse locales, the movie doesn't seem to have anything to say about those images other than the first two are sad and the last one is nice. The comet and ensuing disaster from Your Name directly spoke to the trauma of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in a way that felt cathartic: we experience the violence and devastation and then recover from it. While that earthquake and ensuing tsunami are directly mentioned in this movie, it's only experienced via young Suzume's feelings of loss. Whenever there's an earthquake warning, we get a mix of bystander reactions that range from highly anxious to unperturbed which is realistic but doesn't provide a strong narrative theme to follow. We can anchor our reaction with Suzume, but she's too busy averting the next impending disasters to give us any sense of how to feel about it. There were some other weird things too like the sort of suggestion that Suzume was bringing business with her wherever she went. I'll have to see if there's more to these themes when I watch it again.
The one area where this film excelled was with the ending scene. Confronting the childhood trauma with the assurance that "this too shall pass" was great, and this was where the gf lost it. This movie was absolutely tailored to destroy her as she recently lost her mother-figure who was also a nurse, whom she had a complicated relationship with, etc. etc. She found a lot of herself in Suzume, and so I recognize that this movie hits everyone differently. But for me, I was a bit disappointed.
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what if denji gave pochita lasagna instead of blood????
as I understand it that person is doing a bit but IDK maybe he's real
i dunno, in the wild, i've seen a couple christian apocalypse cars that really shouldn't be legal to drive that were covered in stickers and/or taped, handwritten messages about how close we are to the end of the world/the devil is real/lots of antisemitism and probably other -isms but I didn't spend that much time to find out
why not have the same impulse but for an anime waifu
basically he's a nepo kid (his dad wrote Grease) doing it for the content
I don't think his stuff is good, or even really interesting beyond the initial "wtf lmao" factor, but eh, there's something there at least (plus I'm hella grading on a curve since there are much, much worse things a disaffected hollywood kid could be doing with their time)
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I envy you.
Drawing manga is really how he expresses and comes to grip with his emotions. It's really fascinating.
Based on the structure of the episode, I think there will a plotline for each world running in tandem. They will probably each have lessons that teaches the protagonist to grow in the opposite world.
Tanjiro sure has that god-tier healing factor, not even a scratch in his neck or a mark on his fingers that got snapped.
Also, show some backbone, man, ask that Hashira when the last time he slew an Upper Rank was.
the story of him getting pushed off his bike and bullied by another girl in college, which caused him great happiness, is 100% real though
Truly Japan is just better at snack options
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Yeah that tracks
Was great but then this
Made me lol fr
Think I'm just getting old
Vague spoilers for Honkai
Funniest low-speed car crash I've ever seen in a movie.
it was alright
short but alright
New season sub ep14 spoilers as they relate on rewatch
The twitter thread that collected all of the “hints” is mostly things that are obvious on rewatch but I still never noticed that the operating system is Eri’s name before.
The dub only has up to ep 11 so far and that episode ends with her telling Ariel that she’d “never leave you behind, darling” when the attack happens.
I forget what the dev lady’s name is, bunella? It’s also super clear that her suspicions are specific and not just the generic “find out more” directive that she got from the old ladies.
Squire was good. I think after spending 80 years or whatever being the paragon of wasting their life doing everything for everyone, just fucking around in a second life is 100% reasonable.
I also found out Daily Life of the Immortal King has a third season and boy that show it still wildly better than any other CN offering and also just an amazing show. Ended up rewatching the first two seasons and Froggy 2 gets treated dirty so many times. Poor demon king frog dog bro.
While there are some definite motifs of abandoned areas, recurring natural disasters, and the beauty of Japan's diverse locales, the movie doesn't seem to have anything to say about those images other than the first two are sad and the last one is nice. The comet and ensuing disaster from Your Name directly spoke to the trauma of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in a way that felt cathartic: we experience the violence and devastation and then recover from it. While that earthquake and ensuing tsunami are directly mentioned in this movie, it's only experienced via young Suzume's feelings of loss. Whenever there's an earthquake warning, we get a mix of bystander reactions that range from highly anxious to unperturbed which is realistic but doesn't provide a strong narrative theme to follow. We can anchor our reaction with Suzume, but she's too busy averting the next impending disasters to give us any sense of how to feel about it. There were some other weird things too like the sort of suggestion that Suzume was bringing business with her wherever she went. I'll have to see if there's more to these themes when I watch it again.
The one area where this film excelled was with the ending scene. Confronting the childhood trauma with the assurance that "this too shall pass" was great, and this was where the gf lost it. This movie was absolutely tailored to destroy her as she recently lost her mother-figure who was also a nurse, whom she had a complicated relationship with, etc. etc. She found a lot of herself in Suzume, and so I recognize that this movie hits everyone differently. But for me, I was a bit disappointed.
If you need your Explosions in English, they got right on this. I've found the show amusing but not that great, so far, myself.
This person wasn't
I guess not all commitments to bits are commendable.
i dunno, in the wild, i've seen a couple christian apocalypse cars that really shouldn't be legal to drive that were covered in stickers and/or taped, handwritten messages about how close we are to the end of the world/the devil is real/lots of antisemitism and probably other -isms but I didn't spend that much time to find out
why not have the same impulse but for an anime waifu
basically he's a nepo kid (his dad wrote Grease) doing it for the content
I don't think his stuff is good, or even really interesting beyond the initial "wtf lmao" factor, but eh, there's something there at least (plus I'm hella grading on a curve since there are much, much worse things a disaffected hollywood kid could be doing with their time)