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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    The first episode of Oshi no Ko apparently had only one commercial break, and so is 82 minutes long.

    That's... uh... ambitious.

    It probably covers the whole prologue in one sitting, which I would agree is the best way to tell that part of the story.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    The first episode of Oshi no Ko apparently had only one commercial break, and so is 82 minutes long.

    That's... uh... ambitious.

    Is there a version of the guy in the sickos shirt looking through the window that just devolves into maniacal laughter?

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I feel like you could've probably found something in the 55 minutes of "We're adults... IN BABY BODIES!?" to edit down to get to the start of the story in under the length of an entire feature film.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The sleeper has awoken.

    New trash edgelord magical girl show has arisen, and it *must* be consumed.

    https://youtu.be/2tL2632EF9M

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    PMAvers wrote: »
    The sleeper has awoken.

    New trash edgelord magical girl show has arisen, and it *must* be consumed.

    https://youtu.be/2tL2632EF9M

    Wow, serious "OC do not steal" energy.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The one piece voice actors haven't seen the light of day since before y2k they have been chained to the wall in a bunker 20 miles below sea level and the only thing keeping them going is the occasional fast food tie in so they can finally eat solid food again delivered by many tubes and pipes directly into their feed bags

    For a while the Luffy voice actor was just a pair of larynx on the ground but with enough shaka shaka chicken has recovered somewhat

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That Cafe Terrace thing really is just Love Hina.

    Almost literally just character expy with some later series jokes ran as up front character traits and removing Su because she'd be a bit problematic.

    I am impressed.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    That Cafe Terrace thing really is just Love Hina.

    Almost literally just character expy with some later series jokes ran as up front character traits and removing Su because she'd be a bit problematic.

    I am impressed.

    Love Hina arguably codified the harem genre, so this isn't surprising.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That Cafe Terrace thing really is just Love Hina.

    Almost literally just character expy with some later series jokes ran as up front character traits and removing Su because she'd be a bit problematic.

    I am impressed.

    Love Hina arguably codified the harem genre, so this isn't surprising.

    Fair enough but like, there is a difference between something being like DBZ and something having Gaku the chimpanzee space alien.

    It's amusingly overt. Well except the guy. He has to be cool because modern weebs are obv very cool.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That Cafe Terrace thing really is just Love Hina.

    Almost literally just character expy with some later series jokes ran as up front character traits and removing Su because she'd be a bit problematic.

    I am impressed.

    Love Hina arguably codified the harem genre, so this isn't surprising.

    I'd say mainstreamed more than codified. Harem dating sims like Tokimemo were a whole genre that got popular about 5-10 years before Love Hina came around.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    An unexpected cameo by, of all things, the demon core, in the latest Anjou-San?!

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Komi-san had wingperson fireworks for once, instead of confession interrupting fireworks.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Apparently this 'season' of Ranking of Kings is just a collection of completely random flashbacks and sidestories from all over the place. Like the first episode is two separate segments of Despa throwing a tantrum during the training part (like... slotting in around episode 8 I think?) and sending them off to find some mushrooms/give him more money.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I guess they are doing a filler season?

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Looking to buy tickets for Suzume on Friday, but my theater seems to have accidentally their entire online infrastructure. It's... really terrible.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Rewatching Demon Slayer S3E1 reminded me of how fun it was to just watch straight-up anime episodes in a theater, especially one that so effortlessly shifts from hilarity to tension.

    Blatant cash grab or not, I'd be all for more of that experience. Imagine CSM in a theater, I'd be down for that.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I should rewatch Castle in the Sky before Tears of the Kingdom comes out.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    I should rewatch Castle in the Sky before Tears of the Kingdom comes out.

    Ah, a movie that had to have it's international title changed because an Irish satirist had a poor opinion of academia.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    sure, i'll bite. what

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    sure, i'll bite. what

    Looks like it's from Gulliver's Travels and was one joke name amongst many, that he couldn't have known would wind up the title of an unrelated film.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    sure, i'll bite. what

    Looks like it's from Gulliver's Travels and was one joke name amongst many, that he couldn't have known would wind up the title of an unrelated film.

    Oh, I'm pretty sure the guy who wrote about genuine baby back ribs knew exactly what he was calling academia with that name.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    sure, i'll bite. what

    I thought it was just that it used a Spanish insult in its title that had to be removed?

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    sure, i'll bite. what

    I thought it was just that it used a Spanish insult in its title that had to be removed?

    So, the original title was Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which was going to be a non-starter for any area which had a non-nominal number of Spanish speakers for obvious reasons. And the reason Miyazaki used that in the title is all the fault of famed Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, and his famed novel/slam book, Gulliver's Travels, in which he made snide commentary on various groups.

    Most of us are aware of the first travel to Lilliput, populated by people diminutive in form and mind, who were at war over which end one opens to eat a soft-boiled egg. (Yeah, that was a rather unsubtle dig at the English - Swift was Irish and wrote during the Famine, so he had reasons to mock them whenever he could, and did.) But the people starving his homeland were not his only target of ire and mockery, and thus in the third of the four travels, Gulliver finds himself upon the flying island of scholars engaged in esoteric research with no practical application, separated from the world, called Laputa.

    Swift was an expert wordsmith and satirist, so he was making some pointed commentary on academia here, and his choice of name is very much part of that. Of course, it's unlikely that Miyazaki realized all that when he chose to use it as a reference, and likely didn't realize the issue until Disney began international localization and pointed out that prefixing a movie with a term for a woman of loose morals would not go over well.

    And with that, I do believe this particular joke has been explained into the ground.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    sure, i'll bite. what

    I thought it was just that it used a Spanish insult in its title that had to be removed?

    So, the original title was Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which was going to be a non-starter for any area which had a non-nominal number of Spanish speakers for obvious reasons. And the reason Miyazaki used that in the title is all the fault of famed Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, and his famed novel/slam book, Gulliver's Travels, in which he made snide commentary on various groups.

    Most of us are aware of the first travel to Lilliput, populated by people diminutive in form and mind, who were at war over which end one opens to eat a soft-boiled egg. (Yeah, that was a rather unsubtle dig at the English - Swift was Irish and wrote during the Famine, so he had reasons to mock them whenever he could, and did.) But the people starving his homeland were not his only target of ire and mockery, and thus in the third of the four travels, Gulliver finds himself upon the flying island of scholars engaged in esoteric research with no practical application, separated from the world, called Laputa.

    Swift was an expert wordsmith and satirist, so he was making some pointed commentary on academia here, and his choice of name is very much part of that. Of course, it's unlikely that Miyazaki realized all that when he chose to use it as a reference, and likely didn't realize the issue until Disney began international localization and pointed out that prefixing a movie with a term for a woman of loose morals would not go over well.

    And with that, I do believe this particular joke has been explained into the ground.

    I'm glad you took the time to explain, because I learned something interesting, and none of the references you made were obvious to me.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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    Anyone else find it a little odd to see a big media push for a series about how shit the Japanese entertainment industry is?

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »

    Anyone else find it a little odd to see a big media push for a series about how shit the Japanese entertainment industry is?

    I kinda remember a screenshot from the game Disco Elysium with an NPC explaining how corporations use criticisms of corporations as a marketing strategy.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    At least it's focused on how shit a different part of the industry is, not like all the manga and anime talking about how shit it is to be making manga and anime.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've been catching up on the some of the anime I missed last season. I'm currently watching Hero-King reincarnates as a Squire, and while it's mostly fine, I'm not sure if I buy the MC's motivation.
    They wanted to enjoy their 2nd life alone and pursue the peak of combat. I get that. But the MC comes off as mostly amoral. They don't seem to care at all about the absolutely cartoonish villainy being perpetrated against the general population. They view the world in terms of "what's acceptable for me to kick," but are otherwise afraid to intervene on behalf of "justice," lest they get sucked into noblesse oblige.

    It probably sticks out because the villains are so ridiculously over the top. "Our class of people has the right to rape, maim, and torture anyone we want, and we'll unleash hell on everyone collectively if anyone resists." Tone it down a little!

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This week on Magical Destroyers...
    Anarchy and Blue get high as absolute shit in order to fight Pink in drug world to bring her back into the fold and convince her to fight again.

    And I mean HIGH. AS. FUCK.

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've been catching up on the some of the anime I missed last season. I'm currently watching Hero-King reincarnates as a Squire, and while it's mostly fine, I'm not sure if I buy the MC's motivation.
    They wanted to enjoy their 2nd life alone and pursue the peak of combat. I get that. But the MC comes off as mostly amoral. They don't seem to care at all about the absolutely cartoonish villainy being perpetrated against the general population. They view the world in terms of "what's acceptable for me to kick," but are otherwise afraid to intervene on behalf of "justice," lest they get sucked into noblesse oblige.

    It probably sticks out because the villains are so ridiculously over the top. "Our class of people has the right to rape, maim, and torture anyone we want, and we'll unleash hell on everyone collectively if anyone resists." Tone it down a little!

    This is somewhat addressed later in the season
    The "Fight for Justice" route, if you are good at it, tends to put you in positions of power/authority, and the higher up you go the further away from the front lines you get. This is why she turns down the Captain of the Guard post when it is offered to her late in the season. Also, while she does talk a lot about not caring about the cartoon villainy, it is kind of in a "thou dost protest too much" sort of way. She is perfectly happy to smash the villains when needed, since they tend to put up the best fights. She just doesn't want to be responsible for the cleanup this time around.

    Not every story has to go the Spider-Man "Great Power = Great Responsibility" route with the heroes. One is allowed to have their own goals and ambitions.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Aaaaare you? If you had the power to personally fix an injust system and chose not to for petty reasons, I'm not sure that actually is morally defensible. In fact I think that's pretty obviously evil.

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I say yes, one is allowed to have their own goals and ambitions, and work towards those. It would be morally indefensible to require someone to sacrifice themselves to be a messiah, in this case. Just because one can does not mean that one must.

    The old saying "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" comes to mind. It's a virtuous saying when the one saying it is in the few. It is evil when the one saying it is in the many. (I.E Lenord Nemoy saying it in Wrath of Khan is good. Lenord Nemoy saying it in Transformers: Dark of the Moon is evil.)

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Cururu wrote: »
    I say yes, one is allowed to have their own goals and ambitions, and work towards those. It would be morally indefensible to require someone to sacrifice themselves to be a messiah, in this case. Just because one can does not mean that one must.

    The old saying "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" comes to mind. It's a virtuous saying when the one saying it is in the few. It is evil when the one saying it is in the many. (I.E Lenord Nemoy saying it in Wrath of Khan is good. Lenord Nemoy saying it in Transformers: Dark of the Moon is evil.)

    The MC doesn't really need to sacrifice anything. They could effortlessly stop people from being enslaved, but don't want to create unrealistic expectations of being rescued from slavers and rapists when other people hear about being saved.

    If you walk by a dying man in the gutter and could save them by snapping your fingers, but you let them die, you're morally a monster. At the same time, if you save one person, that doesn't mean you need to go work in a hospital.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Feels like libertarianism kinda. Ayn Rand-esque.

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Feels like libertarianism kinda. Ayn Rand-esque.

    The alternative ends up being the Good Place morality system, where one gets condemned because you could always be doing more.

    Don't get me wrong. If you can help people, it is good to do so. But it is the fact that it isn't a requirement to do so, and that there is a sacrifice involved, no matter how small, that makes the act Good.

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