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And like 8 million other fantasy books. The whole "warrior guy in the middle looking away from the camera at bigger thing looming on the horizon" layout has been done to death and Malazan definitely wasn't the first.
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D'rek 
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Posted 07 October 2024 - 01:49 AM
worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:
I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
#4822
QuickTidal
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Posted 13 January 2025 - 07:41 PM
A bunch of MACROSS content has been aded to Disney+ and so I've added it as my MACROSS knowledge is limited to MACROSS PLUS (which was a thing when I was getting into Anime in the 90s), and having watched Harmony Gold's massacre of the original series which was called ROBOTECH over here as a kid (which I loved, but I understand why it's hated)....the only place I can find SUPER DIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS is on Youtube, so I'm watching it there before I dive into the rest of the peripheral stuff that D+ has...and I forgot how 80's this series was even when it was only ROBOTECH....so great.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#4823
Maark Abbott
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Posted 13 January 2025 - 08:59 PM
This season is mental.
I have close to FORTY seasonal shows if we include stuff running on from last season. And of those forty or so, only six are continuations from Autum 24.
I have close to FORTY seasonal shows if we include stuff running on from last season. And of those forty or so, only six are continuations from Autum 24.
Debut novel 'Incarnate' now available on Kindle
#4824
QuickTidal
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Posted 15 January 2025 - 06:24 PM
SDFM update. I'm 6 eps into the initial run...a few things stand out.
1. The casual misogyny in the show even though its Japan in 1982 is occasionally blatant. Add in that for no reason at all in episode 3 when Hikaru and Lynn Minmay are lost on Macross and they accidentally burst a water pipe...and Minmay decides to drop trow and have a shower in it....which...Japan, Japanning.
2. The animation goes super wonky sometimes and I was curious about it...so it turns out that Big West, who secured the ad rights to get SDFM onto the air, under Studio Nue who created it, wanted it to be done cheaply (they didn't realize they were going to have a smash hit on their hands; it jumped from a planned 24eps to 36 once they realized just how popular it was), so some of the animation duties were handed to Artland (who did a stelar job, and when SDFM looks the best...it's when they were the ones doing those scenes), and then secondarily to Tatsunoko who's work is fine, but not quite Artland....but reportedly Tatsunoko could not accomplish all the scenes they'd been given to animate in the timeframe given, so they farmed out a bunch of it to a third party subsidiary called AnimeFriend, who did an absolutely ratchet job of their scenes. So I'll be watching and I'll be like, "Oof, this is bad even for 1982" or a character will jitter in place for no reason at all, and then other times I'll be like "wow, this looks very good for 1982"....I now know that these are due to the Frankenstein production of the thing.
Content wise? It's great. I'm having a blast. It's nice to drop back into my Robotech Youth with the actual show that it was cobbled together from, and the 80'sness of it gives me the warm and fuzzies.
1. The casual misogyny in the show even though its Japan in 1982 is occasionally blatant. Add in that for no reason at all in episode 3 when Hikaru and Lynn Minmay are lost on Macross and they accidentally burst a water pipe...and Minmay decides to drop trow and have a shower in it....which...Japan, Japanning.
2. The animation goes super wonky sometimes and I was curious about it...so it turns out that Big West, who secured the ad rights to get SDFM onto the air, under Studio Nue who created it, wanted it to be done cheaply (they didn't realize they were going to have a smash hit on their hands; it jumped from a planned 24eps to 36 once they realized just how popular it was), so some of the animation duties were handed to Artland (who did a stelar job, and when SDFM looks the best...it's when they were the ones doing those scenes), and then secondarily to Tatsunoko who's work is fine, but not quite Artland....but reportedly Tatsunoko could not accomplish all the scenes they'd been given to animate in the timeframe given, so they farmed out a bunch of it to a third party subsidiary called AnimeFriend, who did an absolutely ratchet job of their scenes. So I'll be watching and I'll be like, "Oof, this is bad even for 1982" or a character will jitter in place for no reason at all, and then other times I'll be like "wow, this looks very good for 1982"....I now know that these are due to the Frankenstein production of the thing.
Content wise? It's great. I'm having a blast. It's nice to drop back into my Robotech Youth with the actual show that it was cobbled together from, and the 80'sness of it gives me the warm and fuzzies.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#4825
LinearPhilosopher
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Posted 16 January 2025 - 01:51 PM
I tried getting into a a pair of newer anime
1) The Isekai Headhunter Anime. Good Premise, too bad the writing is poor and the other characters from what we've seen are just walking tropes.
2) The villainess ISekai. I mean at least this one had heart. I could see what they were going for. I might watch a bit more in the future but Idk if I can see myself watching this over...
3) Dr. Stone. Loved the premise. Loved the whole, soap is super important now as we don't have modern medicine. I just wish it wasn't dumb teenagers with dumb teenager reactions to everything.
NEW CASTLEVANIA BABY!!!!! Now here's some quality Anime.
But that aside, I think i'm getting old as I just don't care for most new Anime. I'm tired of seeing the same character across multiple shows, and the same character reactions over and over again.
Why does it feel 90% of anime is teenagers writing for teenagers.
1) The Isekai Headhunter Anime. Good Premise, too bad the writing is poor and the other characters from what we've seen are just walking tropes.
2) The villainess ISekai. I mean at least this one had heart. I could see what they were going for. I might watch a bit more in the future but Idk if I can see myself watching this over...
3) Dr. Stone. Loved the premise. Loved the whole, soap is super important now as we don't have modern medicine. I just wish it wasn't dumb teenagers with dumb teenager reactions to everything.
NEW CASTLEVANIA BABY!!!!! Now here's some quality Anime.
But that aside, I think i'm getting old as I just don't care for most new Anime. I'm tired of seeing the same character across multiple shows, and the same character reactions over and over again.
Why does it feel 90% of anime is teenagers writing for teenagers.
