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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    If you're on the fence about buying it, I wouldn't be surprised if it hits streaming after the smoke clears, like Kimagure Orange Road did.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
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    Lanz wrote: »
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    Anno getting to co-direct Shin Godzilla and subsequently Shin versions of all his favorite tokusatsu properties probably threw a big wrench in the schedule

    (worth it)

    The big thing is at teh time, from what I remember, 3.0 basically sent Anno back into a depressive state which, when you know about Anno’s past, the way Eva is basically his most personal work, and 3.0 basically being about “What if you did desperately run back home to your abuser thinking that everything was all your fault and thought you could fix everything by doing what they wanted from you?” And then… yeah, can see how that grinds further production to a halt for someone like Anno.


    Supposedly, it was the Shin Godzilla project that helped pull him back out of that state.

    Oof, I actually hadn't heard he was in a bad place after that one, that certainly explains the timelines a bit better.

    Maybe they should just... stop driving him into depression in order to make anime.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
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    In an incredible demonstration of not getting the joke, there are people accusing Mashle of plagiarizing Fullmetal Alchemist, because apparently the education system failed them and didn't teach the definitions of homage, parody, and satire.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    JayKaos wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    Anno getting to co-direct Shin Godzilla and subsequently Shin versions of all his favorite tokusatsu properties probably threw a big wrench in the schedule

    (worth it)

    The big thing is at teh time, from what I remember, 3.0 basically sent Anno back into a depressive state which, when you know about Anno’s past, the way Eva is basically his most personal work, and 3.0 basically being about “What if you did desperately run back home to your abuser thinking that everything was all your fault and thought you could fix everything by doing what they wanted from you?” And then… yeah, can see how that grinds further production to a halt for someone like Anno.


    Supposedly, it was the Shin Godzilla project that helped pull him back out of that state.

    Oof, I actually hadn't heard he was in a bad place after that one, that certainly explains the timelines a bit better.

    Maybe they should just... stop driving him into depression in order to make anime.

    Yeah; I imagine things too like the small net controversy that kicked up in the wake of the NHK documentary about the making of Shin Kamen Rider don’t help either. There’s a bit there where Anno and the action director end up getting into an argument about how they’re doing the fight sequences for the end of the film (from the documentary you can tell that Anno is clearly not very experienced in directing fight sequences in live action, at least not at this scale, and has difficulty expressing just what he’s looking for), and at one point the action director walks off set because of it, then Anno goes and apologizes to him for his behavior and asks him to come back to set, which, you know, being a professional he does.

    But you have, for some reason, folks on the net comparing Anno’s behavior on set to, like, domestic abuse, and it’s pretty shitty because Anno himself was actually on the receiving end of that as a kid from his dad (he’s written about it in Asahi Shimbun before; there’s an English language edition floating around somewhere still), who sounds like a pretty big bastard.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    In an incredible demonstration of not getting the joke, there are people accusing Mashle of plagiarizing Fullmetal Alchemist, because apparently the education system failed them and didn't teach the definitions of homage, parody, and satire.

    That's ridiculous.

    It's clearly just Harry Potter with muscles.

    (Mashe's FMA jokes are great).

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The gap between Evangelion 1.0 coming out and 3.0+1.0 coming out

    Is longer than the gap between End of Evangelion and 1.0

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oghulk wrote: »
    In an incredible demonstration of not getting the joke, there are people accusing Mashle of plagiarizing Fullmetal Alchemist, because apparently the education system failed them and didn't teach the definitions of homage, parody, and satire.

    That's ridiculous.

    It's clearly just Harry Potter with muscles.

    (Mashe's FMA jokes are great).

    Wait

    what jokes

    Mashle chapter 148 spoofs:
    Ed meeting Truth in FMA.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Rebuild of Eva 3+1 was genuinely kind of impressive in how much it felt like a final capstone on all of Evangelion

    like I don't know if that movie lands the same way if you're new to the franchise and watching all at once, but with >15 years of buildup like I had, it hit like a goddamn freight train

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched all the rebuild movies in a row over a couple days at some point, they didn't really land for me sadly. I could not put my finger on what worked and didn't work though, it's complicated. The original TV series was pretty important to me so the ways it deviated from it felt bad to me, and the ending didn't really feel like a more satisfying conclusion than the end of the TV show, or End of Evangelion was either.

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    If anything Mashle is copying from Black Clover given that also has a main character than can't use magic so instead just works out all the time. But that's the extent of that comparison.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mashle is copying a manga I read years ago where the main character has "Muscle Magic", which is just him being so ludicrously strong he can do impossible stunts that baffle everyone around him who can use magic, and is socially awkward because he doesn't fully comprehend societal norms resulting in shenanigans.

    This is the nature of manga though, most of them copy what came before and sometimes they end up more popular than the original.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The gap between Evangelion 1.0 coming out and 3.0+1.0 coming out

    Is longer than the gap between End of Evangelion and 1.0

    It didn't feel as long due to how long it took for 3.0 to come out in america officially, but yeah, its wild

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Wait wait wait
    You're telling me the guy who wrote Gendo Ikari might have had a bad dad?

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maybe I should watch NGE again. It's been 20+ years and my memory is full of holes. I don't think I watched The End of Evangelion either.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Satire is useless, the world is too stupid

    We're living in a post-irony world.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    shadowane wrote: »
    If anything Mashle is copying from Black Clover given that also has a main character than can't use magic so instead just works out all the time. But that's the extent of that comparison.

    Both are actual just copying M×0.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I should probably catch up on Mashle soon; it’s one of those Jump manga like Witch Watch and Akane-Banashi where instead of week to week with the rest of them it just feels better to let them build a back log up and read in one go

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Re: Eva - 3.33 just sucks. 1.11 and 2.22 are great, and then 3.33 is basically built around "no one explain anything, then yell at people when they do things because you didn't explain anything".

    3.0+1.0 has a rocky start because it's got to deal with all of 3.33s crap, but actually ends really well.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Wait wait wait
    You're telling me the guy who wrote Gendo Ikari might have had a bad dad?

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    Jesus

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah

    Stuff like that is why I don’t think Rebuild 3 is actually bad as a film; yes, it’s a lot, but it’s also echoing the kind of trauma, confusion, and longing that someone who’s been abused and neglected feels.

    It’s understandable to be frustrated with it because of what happens to Shinji, and to be frustrated with how Shinji seems to just lean hard into repeating mistakes and leading to more pain. But I think that, ultimately, Anno is trying to explore and explain that kind of trauma and state of mind as he understands it from his own life, but through Eva’s metaphors and imagery.

    The title is the ultimate message of the film: You Can Not Redo. You can’t go back to these places, these ways of life, and come away with healthy outcomes. You can’t return to the place that hurt you, over and over again, and expect to not be hurt again, no matter how much you long for it to be otherwise. 3.0+1.0 provides the answer instead, even as slow and painful as it can be, that you have to extricate yourself from there, and find healthy and supportive places and people in your life.

    And sometimes one of the hardest things is coming to understand all that, and pulling yourself away from the toxic thing thats’s killing you, despite the initial pain and difficult recovery.

    EDIT: Blargh, is not isnt

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I couldn't make it to the 3rd rebuild. The new ones started out feeling so incredibly different and unconnected to the original that I can't even begin to understand how it's the same director. It felt like someone who wasn't even a fan of the original was hired to make the sequels.

    Edit: I'm not even sure what exactly it was that made it feel that way. Maybe the action scenes just got too "cool fun" and less reverently epic? Just the vibes were all wrong. The character interactions didn't feel the same. I dunno.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm finally sitting down and actually watching Birdie Wing, instead of just out of context clips of Birdie Wing, and

    this show is fucking amazing?

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
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    Announced tonight on AniMenagerie: Season 7! The one where we destroy democracy!!!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Code Geass is a hot mess, but seriously has one of the best OPs I've seen in a while.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CFuZ9MseQ

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
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    There's a virtua fighter anime????

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Code Geass is a hot mess, but seriously has one of the best OPs I've seen in a while.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CFuZ9MseQ

    I actually like code geass and it's ending, I just feel it kinda meanders through the middle and thinks it's smarter than it is.

    It's a miracle I never had that moment spoiled for me by the time I finally saw it.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
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    ph blake wrote: »
    I'm finally sitting down and actually watching Birdie Wing, instead of just out of context clips of Birdie Wing, and

    this show is fucking amazing?

    GOLF MAFIA

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    CG isnt amazingly well written but its "badness" is hugely exaggerated. I dont take it seriously. Shows a bit silly but its fine.

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