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Huge loss if true, CSM was my favorite anime in years. I watched it upwards of four times, still loved it, and I thought the direction was a big part of what made it so good.
ep 18
* This episode only raises more questions. Are all these other Eri's more clones, like Suletta, but they all died in some sort of failed way of extracting Eri from the Gundam? Is Eri now some sort of hive-mind inside Aerial consisting of her and the Coven children?
There was such a stylistic strength of vision, it would be a shame to not see it followed through
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
What blows my mind is people saying it took away the "comedy" and "levity" of the manga when it had added scenes that focused on just that, half of an entire episode is an original scene with the cast chilling in Aki's apartment. I'm worried now S2's just going to focus on breakneck action and nothing else(which is a crying shame, because the next arc is going to rely HEAVILY on mundane things if they can stick the landing).
The heart of the series is the quiet moments with the cast being a family. The action scenes are really a small percentage of scenes overall.
Because to her, being unneeded is a death sentence. (That whole "if you don't work, you don't eat" mentality rearing its ugly head.) That last scene looked almost like a tribunal, with the Eri gun-bits being the jury/hecklers and Eri in the center like a judge in their seat. When Eri's pronouncement was passed down, Suletta's protestations felt like an innocently accused pleading for their life. Which ended with her falling through a figurative trap door into a shark pit Prospera's arms and the void of space.
Also, I 100% understand Suletta's "it wasn't Miorine at fault, it was me" attitude. She feels social/interpersonal anxiety, so the thought of communicating with others is rejected at a near-unconscious level. Since she doesn't think she can talk to (and non-destructively affect) other people, she's limiting herself to working on her own behavior. It's easier to focus on that when you think the other person has nothing to work on, AKA "did nothing wrong". I know from experience that fooling yourself at that level means numbing your inner awareness, which leads to feeling like there's nothing inside, or empty. Which is the title of this episode.
God this show is good.
I can be unhappy and still want those people to remain unhappy.
So much world building this week.
Mappa announced a bunch of new info about their series, though were sparing about CSM details.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/amp/anime/news-chainsaw-man-anime-disappoints-fans-season-2-trailer-mappa-stage-2023
Universally? Nah. Even outside the weird dumb opinions about the adaptation, nah.
Yeah I don't understand that criticism at all. The tone seems perfectly adapted to me.
Sigh. I'll spoiler my thoughts so people can ignore them
So basically, it has lost some of the edge, the comedic bits have been altered. The faces are extremely dumb in the manga and have been changed to be a little less over the top. It's more noticable when characters like Kobeni are on screen where her whole character is making horrible expressions. The most Denji and Power look like their comic forms is actually in the OP bit as they cross the street.
Personally, I'd have loved a black and white series. I think Fujimoto's character design work better without color. The less detail the better.
You aren't going to get a black and white anime production for tv. Like that's a neat idea but no way would the license holders or studio sign off on that.
This style works so well for me
Oh, I thought those dragon heads in the opening were just a metaphor.
The studio head was interviewed, and while the series did pay for itself and make money (Mappa funded it themselves fully), the DVD sales weren't great. He spoke about maybe changing the adaptation to cater to the tastes of people who buy dvds (hard-core Japanese anime fans).
https://www.sportskeeda.com/anime/news-mappa-ceo-shocks-everyone-confirming-chainsaw-man-match-jujutsu-kaisen
Chasing dollars leads to a niche product that won't be as cinematic. Sad if it ends up that way.
they went in being promised blood and guts and instead get messages of radical humanity and are completely incurious about why that shit matters
anime fans do not deserve good things
That feels pretty uncharitable but then again most of them are sending death threats on Twitter so I don't really care why they don't like it tbh