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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
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    I liked the Japanese live action Death Note movies

    And the Japanese AoT movies while very silly were filmed on that abandoned island so it looked neat. I remember they changed some of the names like Levi because it was too hard for some of the actors to say?

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I think that Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade live action movie was well received

    wait are we talking about the Korean adaptation or the tie-in live action films also directed by Oshii

    because I've been meaning to watch Red Spectacles for a hot minute tbh

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
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    i hear the (edit: Japanese) live action Death Note has a better ending than the manga/anime

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
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    Young Ladies Don't Play Fight Games had Volume 5 released in English this week and I just finished it this morning.

    I was surprised (but shouldn't have been after they telegraphed it so hard) that they literally did...
    a version of Evo Moment #37

    ...during the tournament.

    Looks like the tournament arc will be continuing into the next volume as well.

    Also, here's a page of a character being salty about a loss:

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
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    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I think that Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade live action movie was well received

    wait are we talking about the Korean adaptation or the tie-in live action films also directed by Oshii

    because I've been meaning to watch Red Spectacles for a hot minute tbh

    Oshii's The Red Spectacles is a different story in the same setting as Jin-Roh.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
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    the korean adaptation changed the ending to jinroh pretty significantly, i heard

    okay yeah looking at the synopsis it sounds like it defangs the story completely

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
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    Lars wrote: »
    Young Ladies Don't Play Fight Games had Volume 5 released in English this week and I just finished it this morning.

    I was surprised (but shouldn't have been after they telegraphed it so hard) that they literally did...
    a version of Evo Moment #37

    ...during the tournament.

    re: spoiler -- ah, thanks for confirming, it looks like I was right:
    So I got all caught up on Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games, but volume 4 ends up with a lot of the characters mid-battle and I am too impatient to want to wait for the official release, so I "read" the japanese version, which, while I can't tell basically anything about what's going on where there's text, at least let me see which character had "1P Win" next to them or whatever.

    And, while I may not know all that much about the history / lore of fighting games, I know enough to recognise that
    about halfway through (chapter 24, I think), that's totally the Daigo / Justin EVO 37 full parry moment, right?

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
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    I'll go more into it when the season is over, but I feel like the Megumin spinoff/prequel show for Konosuba has been pretty bad. There's a bunch of reasons why. Joke density is low and the show doesn't even seem to have a preference for what KINDS of jokes it is aiming for... with one very bad exception. The animation is generally good (it's not all good) and the trademark EXPLOSION does not disappoint... in the rare cases we get to see it. You'd think a show about Megumin would have at least one explosion per episode... but nah. First it's a deeply unnecessary origin story for how she learned it (she... went to school and aced tests), and then even when she finally gets it, the show still seems to forget about it more often than not. The original Konosuba show has a laundry list of flaws, the movie being the worst of it where the humor drifted to outright bigotry, but when it wasn't doing that, it was often extremely funny. Effectively skewering heroic fantasy tropes, mythology, isekai tropes, work culture, capitalism, etc. The spinoff has potential with the village of cringey chunibyos, but it mainly squanders it. What this one seems really interested in is... pervert male characters. Like... nearly exclusively that's the go to joke. This guy is an incel loser who wants to gaslight or even kidnap the girl he "loves". All the girls hate him... and then tolerate his presence one second later. I guess we'll spend the next couple episodes helping this sex pest, why not? When she leaves, she even tells her sister to ask the sex pest for help if she gets into trouble! Then in the next town... pedos. Like, textually and literally. Again, we'll note out loud that this is bad and unacceptable... and then move past it and treat them normally for every subsequent scene. Why is modern anime like this, how did we get here?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    asofyeun wrote: »
    i hear the (edit: Japanese) live action Death Note has a better ending than the manga/anime

    In case you're curious, here's the ending:
    At the time where Light kills L in the normal series, L intuits that since this is a supernatural "things die" book, once it's written it can't be overwritten.

    So he writes that he will die peacefully in his sleep in 2 weeks or something like that.

    Then acts like he's having a heart attack when Light writes his name. Once Light leaves the room to talk to Misa, L gets up, and gets the rest of the police to watch Light to witness his (effective) confession.

    L dies in his sleep two weeks later or whatever.


    ...and then they made a third movie where he solves another death-note related crime which doesn't involve Light during the time he's effectively immortal

    The ending here understands what the Manga missed, that the L vs Light dynamic was the strongest part of the story by far.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
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    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I think that Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade live action movie was well received

    Illang is pretty good, yeah; there’s also a scene there that tips it’s hand at just how aware it is of being in conversation with the original, and exploring through narrative the way (fairy) tales are told, retold, shift and change for their audiences and their needs that I think is frankly really good. It’s not too in your face, but it’s there and I really appreciate the way they handle it.

    Sadly it’s leaving, if not already left, Netflix now so no clue how to get ahold of it.

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    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I think that Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade live action movie was well received

    wait are we talking about the Korean adaptation or the tie-in live action films also directed by Oshii

    because I've been meaning to watch Red Spectacles for a hot minute tbh

    @Mortal Sky as a heads up be aware that Red Spectacles veers wildly in tone; it’s definitely Oshii in Urusei Yatsura or Patlabor OVA/TV mode rather than his more serious mode. Not a knock but it’s definitely a lot more screwball than I expected for one of his features.*

    Stray Dog is more in line with the slow, contemplative Oshii one might expect from his more popular/well known features

    *incidentally watching this makes his take on GitS fascinating, because you can see how Oshii would get tapped for adapting Shirow’s work given the similar tonal flexibility the two share, but Oshii includes pretty much none of the more lively, comedic side of the manga.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
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    And while it’s not anime, I figure this might be up some of y’all’s alleys:

    The Cosmos Troupe of the Takarazuka Revue will be performing a stage version of Casino Royale next month, with two showings scheduled for international, english subtitles streaming via Beyond LIVE:


    Beyond LIVE - Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe “Casino Royale -My Name’s Bond-”

    Enjoy the 100-year history of Takarazuka Revue performances on Beyond LIVE!

    ☑️Beyond LIVE
    🔗beyondlive.com/contents/241

    ⏱Streaming
    June 11th(SUN) 13:30(JST) -
    + Re-streaming:June 26th 4:00(JST)

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
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    While it's incredible to see any effort at all to promote Takarazuka outside of Japan, it's still funny to see that it's stuck with so many of the same old problems as always. The initial live broadcast won't have subtitles, just the replay two weeks later. There doesn't seem to be any way to purchase a version to let you rewatch it, you just show up when the two streams run or you don't see it. Which obviously means there's no way to download a version to keep forever.

    Also it only includes the Bond show itself, none of the traditional Takarazuka performance stuff not necessarily related to the main show that goes on before or after. It's probably the best we've ever gotten, while also kinda sucking.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Back on my One Piece watchthrough (shut up I'm also watching the new episodes)

    Amazon Lily has -alot- of puns. Also how about dem mushrooms?

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Okay so the Hancock Luffy thing is fucking funny and ain't no one telling me otherwise.

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    mashle is such a fun show

    this scene from the current episode made me literally spit out my drink, luckily it was water.
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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
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    Man, where the FUCK is my Hell's Paradise this week?

    Anyway, thinking about the show earlier, I've come to the conclusion that I have no respect for any of the samurai.

    They're all such Very Serious People, yet they're clearly just throwing their own lives away like brainwashed automatons so that their little turd of a Lord can maybe become immortal.

    And I don't even know what Gabimaru's plan is. He'd probably have had an easier time trying to kill his way through the samurai than fight gods on that island. And even if he gets his pardon, he's still got an unkillable ninja lord standing between him and his wife.

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
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    I like Hell's Paradise, but even I can agree that fundamentals of this story are not that well thought out.

    I can kinda assume that Gabimaru expects full pardon not only for himself but also for his wife for completing the mission, and he prefers to do the mission because he prefers to just live in peace instead of being on the run for the rest of his life...

    ... but still, this entire mission is based on sending suicide squad of criminals, because if they suceed then that's great, and if they die, no one will mourn them, which is good... but then samurai are also sent with them, which is just throwing useful soldiers to almost certain deaths, defeating a purpose of sending suicide squad there

    I mean, I know that shogun is shown to be a moron, but still, it's all very flimsy

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
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    it's not clear how dangerous the island is, just that it is dangerous, before they arrived

    also, uh, keep watching because there is more going on with the mission that isn't revealed yet

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
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    the wildest thing about hell's paradise is the ages of the characters

    gabimaru is supposed to be 16
    tiny criminal girl is like 13(yikes)
    samurai captain man is 27

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I love how anime constantly tries to have characters that have "lived a life before now", but then at the same time never wants a protagonist to be older than like... 20.

    Then they wanna act like "five years ago" is ancient history, because if they went back any further their character would've been a literal baby.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
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    I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about samurai training, but in western knightly culture you weren't even eligible to be awarded knighthood(except in certain exceptional cases) until the age of 21

    like, squires didn't actually participate in fighting most of the time, so you weren't even taking part in actual combat until 21

    peasant levies were a little younger, because the age of majority was around 16-18

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
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    RT800 wrote: »
    I love how anime constantly tries to have characters that have "lived a life before now", but then at the same time never wants a protagonist to be older than like... 20.

    Then they wanna act like "five years ago" is ancient history, because if they went back any further their character would've been a literal baby.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxCMyLm6js

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
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    RT800 wrote: »
    I love how anime constantly tries to have characters that have "lived a life before now", but then at the same time never wants a protagonist to be older than like... 20.

    Then they wanna act like "five years ago" is ancient history, because if they went back any further their character would've been a literal baby.

    Tales of Vesperia pulling that shit always makes me laugh.

    "Mankind fought an apocalyptic war with the godbeasts who were afraid of our technology that ravaged the entire world, but we killed them all and banished them. Now they are completely forgotten and mankind thrives. Also, this happened ten years ago."

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
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    Goku is mentally 9 so he still counts.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Badablack wrote: »
    Goku is mentally 9 so he still counts.

    It is utterly inexplicable that he has kids.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Badablack wrote: »
    Goku is mentally 9 so he still counts.

    It is utterly inexplicable that he has kids.

    Chichi.

    ETA: Is the only adult in her house. Luckily, Goku's a good kid.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Man, where the FUCK is my Hell's Paradise this week?

    Anyway, thinking about the show earlier, I've come to the conclusion that I have no respect for any of the samurai.

    They're all such Very Serious People, yet they're clearly just throwing their own lives away like brainwashed automatons so that their little turd of a Lord can maybe become immortal.

    And I don't even know what Gabimaru's plan is. He'd probably have had an easier time trying to kill his way through the samurai than fight gods on that island. And even if he gets his pardon, he's still got an unkillable ninja lord standing between him and his wife.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Man, where the FUCK is my Hell's Paradise this week?

    Anyway, thinking about the show earlier, I've come to the conclusion that I have no respect for any of the samurai.

    They're all such Very Serious People, yet they're clearly just throwing their own lives away like brainwashed automatons so that their little turd of a Lord can maybe become immortal.

    And I don't even know what Gabimaru's plan is. He'd probably have had an easier time trying to kill his way through the samurai than fight gods on that island. And even if he gets his pardon, he's still got an unkillable ninja lord standing between him and his wife.

    Seems to me if Gabimaru can get to that legendary elixir, it would put him at least on an equal footing with the immortal ninja chief, and possibly the journey would also teach him some kind of way to negate the elixir's effects, which would give him the upper hand on the immortal ninja chief.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
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    The age thing reminds me of the character ages in Escaflowne.

    Hitomi, Van, Millerna, and Dilandou are all 15.
    Allen is 21.
    Folken's an old man at 25.
    Merle is 13.

    The movie version seemed a little better where everyone's age was adjusted up a few years.

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