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Posted 14 May 2025 - 01:45 PM
QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 12:58 PM, said:
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX episode 5 & 6:
Are Machu, Nyaan, and Shuji a throuple? I'm not complaining, but the two girls just competitively got into their skivvies to lay on the "cold metal" of the Gundam with Shuji when he said that it felt nice...and then Machu was mad that Nyaan saw the Kira-Kira lights when she connected to the Omega Psychommu as she felt that was just for her and Shuji...feels like it's headed that way. Which is actually more interesting than just a love triangle.
GUNDAM IS ABOUT GIANT ROBOTS SHOOTING THINGS DAMMIT
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Are Machu, Nyaan, and Shuji a throuple? I'm not complaining, but the two girls just competitively got into their skivvies to lay on the "cold metal" of the Gundam with Shuji when he said that it felt nice...and then Machu was mad that Nyaan saw the Kira-Kira lights when she connected to the Omega Psychommu as she felt that was just for her and Shuji...feels like it's headed that way. Which is actually more interesting than just a love triangle.
GUNDAM IS ABOUT GIANT ROBOTS SHOOTING THINGS DAMMIT
Oh it's got tonnes of that too. LOL
"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
After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?
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.
After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?
That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.
"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
After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?
That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.
Hmm I don't know, it's the same Anno who said Studio Khara would be directly involved with ensuring the Evangelion translations were correct went it got re-licensed to streaming companies and then Netflix changed Kaworu saying he loved Shinji into just liking and "being worthy" instead.
Besides, Anno isn't the director or lead writer on GQuackers so his opinion/clout probably doesn't matter much here.
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.
Yes, there's a bit of the idol stuff here and there but Cinderella Grey especially is all about running, rivalry and that sort of thing. The little bit of idol stuff there is gets played for laughs because Oguri is spectacularly bad at it which becomes a running joke.
Your Forma this season has been interesting. Sort of ID Invaded but focused on AI / Automatons etc. Would recommend.
After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?
That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.
Hmm I don't know, it's the same Anno who said Studio Khara would be directly involved with ensuring the Evangelion translations were correct went it got re-licensed to streaming companies and then Netflix changed Kaworu saying he loved Shinji into just liking and "being worthy" instead.
Besides, Anno isn't the director or lead writer on GQuackers so his opinion/clout probably doesn't matter much here.
Khara is all old school Gainax people though...people who cut their teeth in the industry under Anno's direct supervision on Eva, FLCL ect..and he's written and storyboarded two of the existing episodes, and the dude writing the rest is Yoji Enokido who is Anno's protege from his Gainax days.
Re: Eva Netflix: It can be translated as "I love you". It's literally in the dictionary definition ("liking (romantically); being in love with; beloved"), and it's still translated as "I love you" in the Netflix version when Kaworu says that he represents the words "I love you". Translating it either way is fine. It's actually the most common way to confess your romantic feelings for someone in Japanese. Anno, in an extensive interview with yaoi magazine, said that Satsukawa was "right on the mark when it came to homoeroticism", and that there was nothing wrong with the earlier drafts (where Shinji and Kaworu kiss, for example), although some of the more racy elements had to be toned down because the producers at the time would not allow it (ex: skinny dipping turned into time at the baths).
I'm not saying that Anno has some master smackdown clout with everyone involved, just that this is not the same situation as Witch of Mercury by a long shot, and Anno and Kara history speaks to more progressive tendencies than not.
Nevermind, See my other reply.
Maark Abbott, on 15 May 2025 - 07:44 AM, said:
QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 11:27 AM, said:
Maark Abbott, on 14 May 2025 - 07:39 AM, said:
Yeah, no. Never make that comparison again.
It's mostly a sports / running show.
Yes, there's a bit of the idol stuff here and there but Cinderella Grey especially is all about running, rivalry and that sort of thing. The little bit of idol stuff there is gets played for laughs because Oguri is spectacularly bad at it which becomes a running joke.
Your Forma this season has been interesting. Sort of ID Invaded but focused on AI / Automatons etc. Would recommend.
I'm mostly teasing you.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 May 2025 - 05:09 PM
"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
D'rek, I take back what I said..episode 6 has it as a regular ass love triangle with Machu just complaining about Nyaan "stealing Shuji" now, and not a throuple. So you are likely right and they've avoided the progressiveness. Sigh. Oh well.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 May 2025 - 05:09 PM
"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
After the execs got so mad that they wrote lesbians in G-Witch surely they are monitoring GQuackX with an iron fist to not let anything remotely progressive happen in it, right?
That was Kadokawa though (not Sunrise), and they are not involved with this new show. Plus I would expect that Anno has SIGNIFICANTLY more pull behind his name than Hiroshi Kobayashi had with Kadokawa being prudish.
Hmm I don't know, it's the same Anno who said Studio Khara would be directly involved with ensuring the Evangelion translations were correct went it got re-licensed to streaming companies and then Netflix changed Kaworu saying he loved Shinji into just liking and "being worthy" instead.
Besides, Anno isn't the director or lead writer on GQuackers so his opinion/clout probably doesn't matter much here.
Khara is all old school Gainax people though...people who cut their teeth in the industry under Anno's direct supervision on Eva, FLCL ect..and he's written and storyboarded two of the existing episodes, and the dude writing the rest is Yoji Enokido who is Anno's protege from his Gainax days.
Re: Eva Netflix: It can be translated as "I love you". It's literally in the dictionary definition ("liking (romantically); being in love with; beloved"), and it's still translated as "I love you" in the Netflix version when Kaworu says that he represents the words "I love you". Translating it either way is fine. It's actually the most common way to confess your romantic feelings for someone in Japanese. Anno, in an extensive interview with yaoi magazine, said that Satsukawa was "right on the mark when it came to homoeroticism", and that there was nothing wrong with the earlier drafts (where Shinji and Kaworu kiss, for example), although some of the more racy elements had to be toned down because the producers at the time would not allow it (ex: skinny dipping turned into time at the baths).
I'm not saying that Anno has some master smackdown clout with everyone involved, just that this is not the same situation as Witch of Mercury by a long shot, and Anno and Kara history speaks to more progressive tendencies than not.
Nevermind, See my other reply.
Maark Abbott, on 15 May 2025 - 07:44 AM, said:
QuickTidal, on 14 May 2025 - 11:27 AM, said:
Maark Abbott, on 14 May 2025 - 07:39 AM, said:
Yeah, no. Never make that comparison again.
It's mostly a sports / running show.
Yes, there's a bit of the idol stuff here and there but Cinderella Grey especially is all about running, rivalry and that sort of thing. The little bit of idol stuff there is gets played for laughs because Oguri is spectacularly bad at it which becomes a running joke.
Your Forma this season has been interesting. Sort of ID Invaded but focused on AI / Automatons etc. Would recommend.
I'm mostly teasing you.
There's teasing and then there's levying the B-word against someone. They are... a whole thing, and a fandom to be avoided at all costs!
Quite fun, if a little simple and extremely farcical at times.
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
Quite fun, if a little simple and extremely farcical at times.
Wow, ep 11 "I Parry Divine Wrath" ...
Spoiler
that shit got dark rather quickly! The punishment for Emperor Deridus - whoa!
Dude even pisses himself twice!
Otherwise it's pretty much a fun little brain-switch-off romp.
Six point five ridiculously OP stats out of ten.
This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 20 May 2025 - 11:24 AM
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
Converse has done a collab with NARUTO, and they are fire. The official Converse site was sold out within hours of release, but CDN company Soft Moc had stock (and they refuse to sell to Americans right now so less scalpers to deal with; WOOT) so I nabbed the Kakashi ones in my size. $100 all in including shipping.
I wanted the Sasuke ones as that purple demnon rope binding laces are amazing...also the curse is on the back and gets revealed in the sun...but my wife didn't like the look, and Kakashi is my fave character anyways, so this works out.
Took my daughter to Anime North this past weekend and got nothing for myself (I spent $50 on what she wanted instead), so this is my treat for myself. YOLO.
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Posted 28 May 2025 - 01:56 PM
Abyss, on 05 May 2025 - 04:38 PM, said:
Chance, on 05 May 2025 - 02:09 PM, said:
Abyss, on 05 May 2025 - 01:54 PM, said:
DEMON SLAYER...
...this is far more entertaining than it has any right to be.
Think the art style is what gets me, much of the newer anime feels a bit sloppy in that regard but Demon Slayer delivers with style. Most other animators seem to lean a bit to heavily on 3d animation really.
It IS very nicely done animation. I could live without the 'character is screaming and crying and waving their arms a lot and looks like an old Flintstones cartoon' bits but even Zenitsu is growing on me.
QuickTidal, on 05 May 2025 - 03:46 PM, said:
Oh man, if you just started you haven't seen anything yet. SUCH a great show!
it IS!
My experience w 'modern' anime is pretty scattered, I watched a bunch of classics - Akira, Ninja Scroll, GitM, etc - in the 90s, Full Metal Alchemist and various Gundam - Mobile Suit, Wing, Seed - through the 00s, and other than the odd ep here or there not much til recently when some small people i spend time with were bingeing Demon Slayer and i ended up watching ten eps or so cherry-picked across the entire run, including the (insane) finale. Now i'm watching from the beginning, about 3/4 through S1, with intent to finish before the movie drops in Sept because i am absolutely going to see it and if Nezuko does the soccer kick thing and takes someone's head off on the big screen i'm going to lose my mind.
Abyss, on 07 May 2025 - 01:54 PM, said:
Maark Abbott, on 07 May 2025 - 07:54 AM, said:
Abyss, on 06 May 2025 - 04:31 PM, said:
Maark Abbott, on 06 May 2025 - 06:46 AM, said:
Demon Slayer is all spectacle and little substance.
Not that this detracts from it - switch brain off, enjoy flashy animation, come away happy.
Accurate to a point. There's a running subplot about Tanjiro's empathy towards others, that manifests for the viewer as he slaughters demons and we get a sympathetic origin story before they dust out. It runs just a wee bit deeper than the basic 'travel around, kill demons, train, kill more demons' premise. It's not Full Metal Alchemist's deep ruminations on brotherhood and fascism and science, but it's not DBZ level fight fight yell yell fight more either.
True. I'd still argue don't go into it looking for any particular depth because it is a surface level spectacle show - but not in a detrimental way. The bits of backstory flesh things out just enough to not drag it away from what makes it good. It's like seasoning.
Fair to say both perspectives are fair, the depth is there to an extent but it works perfectly fine as a superficial fight show that's nice to look at. I'm enjoying the sheer diversity of demons and Hashira characters, some of it is standard trope done well but some are genuinely original and the design work is exceptional.
Just Finished S2...
Spoiler
k the end of season one against the spider-family demons was fun and well done but felt over-extended at times, and i disliked how the Hashira just show up and save the day at the end, but overall good fun, very watchable, and it advanced the characters. I was a little sceptical about S2 being a movie, split into episodes, all set on a train, but the pacing and tangents are nicely done and it works. Lower One was a convincing villain and the end of the fight where Tanjiro and Inosuke have to sever the spine in the engine is intense and mildly insane... Tanjiro repeatedly killing himself in his dreams to fight off the sleep attack was nuts, Inosuke being immune because he's either wearing a god's head, masked, or just so hyperactive scattered that One couldn't make eye contact was a fun touch, and i laugh myself stupid every time Zenitsu breaks out his one move. Then they win, tentacles everywhere, train rolling, crashing, yay, we survived HOLY SWORDFUCK ANOTHER DEMON for no other reason than to give us a wild as fuck three episode Rengoku fight. It's contrived, borderline ridiculous, and absolutely glorious.
Great fun. On to S3.
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Posted Yesterday, 07:27 PM
And so... DEMON SLAYER INFINITY CASTLE ....
But first a recap....
Abyss, on 28 May 2025 - 01:56 PM, said:
Abyss, on 05 May 2025 - 04:38 PM, said:
Chance, on 05 May 2025 - 02:09 PM, said:
Abyss, on 05 May 2025 - 01:54 PM, said:
DEMON SLAYER...
...this is far more entertaining than it has any right to be.
Think the art style is what gets me, much of the newer anime feels a bit sloppy in that regard but Demon Slayer delivers with style. Most other animators seem to lean a bit to heavily on 3d animation really.
It IS very nicely done animation. I could live without the 'character is screaming and crying and waving their arms a lot and looks like an old Flintstones cartoon' bits but even Zenitsu is growing on me.
QuickTidal, on 05 May 2025 - 03:46 PM, said:
Oh man, if you just started you haven't seen anything yet. SUCH a great show!
it IS!
My experience w 'modern' anime is pretty scattered, I watched a bunch of classics - Akira, Ninja Scroll, GitM, etc - in the 90s, Full Metal Alchemist and various Gundam - Mobile Suit, Wing, Seed - through the 00s, and other than the odd ep here or there not much til recently when some small people i spend time with were bingeing Demon Slayer and i ended up watching ten eps or so cherry-picked across the entire run, including the (insane) finale. Now i'm watching from the beginning, about 3/4 through S1, with intent to finish before the movie drops in Sept because i am absolutely going to see it and if Nezuko does the soccer kick thing and takes someone's head off on the big screen i'm going to lose my mind.
Abyss, on 07 May 2025 - 01:54 PM, said:
Maark Abbott, on 07 May 2025 - 07:54 AM, said:
Abyss, on 06 May 2025 - 04:31 PM, said:
Maark Abbott, on 06 May 2025 - 06:46 AM, said:
Demon Slayer is all spectacle and little substance.
Not that this detracts from it - switch brain off, enjoy flashy animation, come away happy.
Accurate to a point. There's a running subplot about Tanjiro's empathy towards others, that manifests for the viewer as he slaughters demons and we get a sympathetic origin story before they dust out. It runs just a wee bit deeper than the basic 'travel around, kill demons, train, kill more demons' premise. It's not Full Metal Alchemist's deep ruminations on brotherhood and fascism and science, but it's not DBZ level fight fight yell yell fight more either.
True. I'd still argue don't go into it looking for any particular depth because it is a surface level spectacle show - but not in a detrimental way. The bits of backstory flesh things out just enough to not drag it away from what makes it good. It's like seasoning.
Fair to say both perspectives are fair, the depth is there to an extent but it works perfectly fine as a superficial fight show that's nice to look at. I'm enjoying the sheer diversity of demons and Hashira characters, some of it is standard trope done well but some are genuinely original and the design work is exceptional.
Just Finished S2...
Spoiler
k the end of season one against the spider-family demons was fun and well done but felt over-extended at times, and i disliked how the Hashira just show up and save the day at the end, but overall good fun, very watchable, and it advanced the characters. I was a little sceptical about S2 being a movie, split into episodes, all set on a train, but the pacing and tangents are nicely done and it works. Lower One was a convincing villain and the end of the fight where Tanjiro and Inosuke have to sever the spine in the engine is intense and mildly insane... Tanjiro repeatedly killing himself in his dreams to fight off the sleep attack was nuts, Inosuke being immune because he's either wearing a god's head, masked, or just so hyperactive scattered that One couldn't make eye contact was a fun touch, and i laugh myself stupid every time Zenitsu breaks out his one move. Then they win, tentacles everywhere, train rolling, crashing, yay, we survived HOLY SWORDFUCK ANOTHER DEMON for no other reason than to give us a wild as fuck three episode Rengoku fight. It's contrived, borderline ridiculous, and absolutely glorious.
Great fun. On to S3.
S3 ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT did not disappoint, especially amazing finale and really raises Zenitsu and Inosuke from comic relief to supporting characters. Sound Hashira Uzui was great fun and the demons were excellent.
S4 SWORDSMITH VILLAGE amped everything up even higher. Great fun all around. Then S5 HASHIRA TRAINING which does great things for Tangiro and co but mostly sidelines Nezuko in favour of the Hashiras... honestly it works great because SPOILERS SPOILERS
SPOILERS FOR THE
ENTIRE
DEMON SLAYER SERIES
SPOILERS BUT NO MOVIE SPOILERS YET
Spoiler
...the finale, dumping the entire DSC into the demon sanctum, is especially huge because we've spent the entire season watching them prepare for an entirely different fight. The Hashiras are there and that's awesome, but the corps members we've watched the Hashiras train, that ups the stakes, and that last shot of the crows flying through the castle is both insanely threatening and a weird note of hope.
Which brings us to INFINITY CASTLE... spoiler-free review... it's glorious. Seriously some of the most beautiful animation and impressive animated fights i've ever seen. They spend far too long on the flashback stories making veryone sympathetic but that's a minor complaint in the face of the sheer HOLY FUCKING DEMONFUCKS AM I ACTUALLY WATCHING THIS??????? of it.
SPOILERS NOW
SPOILERS
INFINITY CASTLE MOVIE SPOILERS
Spoiler
...yeah so it's great and totally worth seeing on the big screen. The initial moments with the DSCs falling and recovering is utterly effective, the tension is thru the roof(s) in seconds, then we get our pairings and ok, we think our heroes are struggling.
AND THEN THE TWIST.... the crows are mapping the castle, in touch with the Master's (surviving) kids and coordinating the heroes towards taking out Muzon... it's a wild swerve and great and shifts the entire desperate tone to something more like a war. I don't need to say anything about the three major fights, they're all great, i resent that one was left a cliffhanger, the peeks at what the rest of the cast are up to are fun, Inosuke is kind of wasted but i laughed so hard at his one scene rampaging through the castle looking for bigger demons to fight that i didn't care. We did not need 30 minutes of Akasa's back story... we really really didn't, tho it did make his (final) death work... there were actual sobs in the audience. The hooks set for the next movie were excellent
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