Anime
#4821
Posted 07 October 2024 - 01:49 AM
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.
#4822
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
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
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
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.
#4826
Posted 10 April 2025 - 12:42 PM
First episode of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX is on Prime.
I'm not going to lie, I checked it out SOLELY because it's Hideaki Anno and I like his "depressive, but upbeat" vibe in most of his work....but man, the hallmarks and tics of his EVA years is all OVER this....like the military command centre with big chairs occupied by what MAY as well be Misato, and Maya, the shadowed and mostly quiet guy in command standing by the window with hands clasped behind his back is just Gendo Ikari if he was younger and had teal hair and a goatee, the mechs launch off platforms eerily reminiscent of the launch platforms in NERV HQ, The pilot of the one Gundam (in what is basically an Eva plug suit design-wise), the Psychocomm connection between the lead and the Gundam is just AT Field stuff, Heck there is even a PenPen stand-in with whatever that little steel ball robot thing is...I just need the Mistao stand-in to me a beer-swilling, ramen-downing woman and it will be complete.
I'm not super complaining, it was a good opener ep...but man it's like he stepped out of Eva, and then stood right up against Eva to create this. LOL. Never change Anno....never change.
I'm not going to lie, I checked it out SOLELY because it's Hideaki Anno and I like his "depressive, but upbeat" vibe in most of his work....but man, the hallmarks and tics of his EVA years is all OVER this....like the military command centre with big chairs occupied by what MAY as well be Misato, and Maya, the shadowed and mostly quiet guy in command standing by the window with hands clasped behind his back is just Gendo Ikari if he was younger and had teal hair and a goatee, the mechs launch off platforms eerily reminiscent of the launch platforms in NERV HQ, The pilot of the one Gundam (in what is basically an Eva plug suit design-wise), the Psychocomm connection between the lead and the Gundam is just AT Field stuff, Heck there is even a PenPen stand-in with whatever that little steel ball robot thing is...I just need the Mistao stand-in to me a beer-swilling, ramen-downing woman and it will be complete.
I'm not super complaining, it was a good opener ep...but man it's like he stepped out of Eva, and then stood right up against Eva to create this. LOL. Never change Anno....never change.
"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
#4827
Posted 16 April 2025 - 12:00 PM
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX episode 2 was a mindfuck, holy shit.
Amusingly, in the long history of GUNDAM shows, I've only ever seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam (which was what? 40eps?)...but it's enough since this whole episode is a flashback to 5 years previously, and shows that this show is an alternate timeline of the events during and after the One Year War in that original series...and this whole ass episode was a masterclass in hearkening back to the animation of that era, the mech designs, the character designs, the commercial splash logo screen, the score, everything...but it's there to show us that this is a different timeline...
The whole thing blew my mind really. Just a really interesting way to make a new Gundam show, but having it be an alternate reality to the original in a "What if Zeon won the war?"
Anyways, amazing animation and character so far...and the opening is a banger:
Amusingly, in the long history of GUNDAM shows, I've only ever seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam (which was what? 40eps?)...but it's enough since this whole episode is a flashback to 5 years previously, and shows that this show is an alternate timeline of the events during and after the One Year War in that original series...and this whole ass episode was a masterclass in hearkening back to the animation of that era, the mech designs, the character designs, the commercial splash logo screen, the score, everything...but it's there to show us that this is a different timeline...
Spoiler
The whole thing blew my mind really. Just a really interesting way to make a new Gundam show, but having it be an alternate reality to the original in a "What if Zeon won the war?"
Anyways, amazing animation and character so far...and the opening is a banger:
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 16 April 2025 - 12:16 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
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#4828
Posted 16 April 2025 - 12:36 PM
Watching Solo Leveling on Crunchyroll. On ep 4 and seems like fun so far. Very much a litrpg feel, but not to it's detriment.
"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
"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
#4829
Posted 16 April 2025 - 01:05 PM
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 12:36 PM, said:
Watching Solo Leveling on Crunchyroll. On ep 4 and seems like fun so far. Very much a litrpg feel, but not to it's detriment.
I tried to get into it, but I wasn't vibing with it initially. I'll probably go back to I, it's pretty popular.
People rip on it for being Korean, but that's also not a determent to me.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 16 April 2025 - 01:05 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
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#4830
Posted 16 April 2025 - 01:53 PM
QuickTidal, on 16 April 2025 - 01:05 PM, said:
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 12:36 PM, said:
Watching Solo Leveling on Crunchyroll. On ep 4 and seems like fun so far. Very much a litrpg feel, but not to it's detriment.
I tried to get into it, but I wasn't vibing with it initially. I'll probably go back to I, it's pretty popular.
People rip on it for being Korean, but that's also not a determent to me.
Why would people rip on it for being Korean?
"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
"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
#4831
Posted 16 April 2025 - 01:58 PM
We've just finished watching Frieren: Beyond Journey's End on Netflix.
Beautiful looking series and it has a very cosy vibe with occasional peril involving demons and magic. Super powerful elf mage outlives her former adventuring party of heroes and goes on a personal quest to learn more about them, picks up people connected to them along the way and side quests ensue.
Beautiful looking series and it has a very cosy vibe with occasional peril involving demons and magic. Super powerful elf mage outlives her former adventuring party of heroes and goes on a personal quest to learn more about them, picks up people connected to them along the way and side quests ensue.
- Wyrd bið ful aræd -
#4832
Posted 16 April 2025 - 03:00 PM
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 01:53 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 16 April 2025 - 01:05 PM, said:
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 12:36 PM, said:
Watching Solo Leveling on Crunchyroll. On ep 4 and seems like fun so far. Very much a litrpg feel, but not to it's detriment.
I tried to get into it, but I wasn't vibing with it initially. I'll probably go back to I, it's pretty popular.
People rip on it for being Korean, but that's also not a determent to me.
Why would people rip on it for being Korean?
Because there are anime purists out there who think that only Japanese people should make anime. It's wild and stupid, but that's fandom for you.
"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
#4833
Posted 16 April 2025 - 03:01 PM
TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 April 2025 - 01:58 PM, said:
We've just finished watching Frieren: Beyond Journey's End on Netflix.
Beautiful looking series and it has a very cosy vibe with occasional peril involving demons and magic. Super powerful elf mage outlives her former adventuring party of heroes and goes on a personal quest to learn more about them, picks up people connected to them along the way and side quests ensue.
Beautiful looking series and it has a very cosy vibe with occasional peril involving demons and magic. Super powerful elf mage outlives her former adventuring party of heroes and goes on a personal quest to learn more about them, picks up people connected to them along the way and side quests ensue.
It's pretty much considered the best anime of the year. I found it quite slow, but that it was rewarding in the end. It's an emotional ride that's for sure.
"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
#4834
Posted 17 April 2025 - 07:21 AM
We're fairly new to anime - I don't suppose anyone who's seen it could recommend anything with a similar vibe to Frieren for us to try?
- Wyrd bið ful aræd -
#4835
Posted 17 April 2025 - 11:32 AM
TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 17 April 2025 - 07:21 AM, said:
We're fairly new to anime - I don't suppose anyone who's seen it could recommend anything with a similar vibe to Frieren for us to try?
Hmmm. Freiren is pretty unique....but if you want some emotionally rewarding anime movies...anything by Makoto Shinkai. YOUR NAME, WEATHERING WITH YOU, or SUZUME would do.
As for a show, one of the other best anime's of the year is THE APOTHECARY DIARIES on Netflix.
WITCH HAT ATELIER is very much that rural calm vibe with some Harry Potter mixed in...it premieres this year but hasn't popped up yet. You can watch the trailer though.
"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
#4836
Posted 17 April 2025 - 12:39 PM
QuickTidal, on 16 April 2025 - 03:00 PM, said:
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 01:53 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 16 April 2025 - 01:05 PM, said:
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 12:36 PM, said:
Watching Solo Leveling on Crunchyroll. On ep 4 and seems like fun so far. Very much a litrpg feel, but not to it's detriment.
I tried to get into it, but I wasn't vibing with it initially. I'll probably go back to I, it's pretty popular.
People rip on it for being Korean, but that's also not a determent to me.
Why would people rip on it for being Korean?
Because there are anime purists out there who think that only Japanese people should make anime. It's wild and stupid, but that's fandom for you.
OK thanks. Yeah, every fandom has its twats.
"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
"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
#4837
Posted 17 April 2025 - 06:39 PM
Tsundoku, on 17 April 2025 - 12:39 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 16 April 2025 - 03:00 PM, said:
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 01:53 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 16 April 2025 - 01:05 PM, said:
Tsundoku, on 16 April 2025 - 12:36 PM, said:
Watching Solo Leveling on Crunchyroll. On ep 4 and seems like fun so far. Very much a litrpg feel, but not to it's detriment.
I tried to get into it, but I wasn't vibing with it initially. I'll probably go back to I, it's pretty popular.
People rip on it for being Korean, but that's also not a determent to me.
Why would people rip on it for being Korean?
Because there are anime purists out there who think that only Japanese people should make anime. It's wild and stupid, but that's fandom for you.
OK thanks. Yeah, every fandom has its twats.
Especially the Malazan fandom, not mentioning any names butABYSSthey know who they are...
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#4838
Posted Yesterday, 02:27 AM
TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 17 April 2025 - 07:21 AM, said:
We're fairly new to anime - I don't suppose anyone who's seen it could recommend anything with a similar vibe to Frieren for us to try?
Like QT I would also say there really isn't anything I can think of that quite matches the slow and cozy but occasionally epic action-drama vibe of Frieren.
Though there's a show airing right now called Apocalypse Hotel that is scratching a similar itch as Frieren for me. It's about some robots built to help run a hotel that were left behind after humanity fled the planet to escape a catastrophic pandemic. It's a bit more comedic and doesn't (so far) have the same big moments that Frieren went for, but the sort of nihilistic keep moving forward attitude/situation of the robots sort of feels like some of those Frieren moments. Either way it's been quite good so far.
Yuru Camp/Laid-back Camp also comes to mind - a very cozy show about some high school girls that go camping a bunch. Lots of chilling by the campfire or taking in the sights.
#4839
Posted Yesterday, 11:04 AM
That sounds really cool. I’m going to check that out too. Thanks Drek!
"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
#4840
Posted Yesterday, 11:29 AM
TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 17 April 2025 - 07:21 AM, said:
We're fairly new to anime - I don't suppose anyone who's seen it could recommend anything with a similar vibe to Frieren for us to try?
Frieren is fairly unique but there are a couple of older anime that give of something of the same vibe Mushishi, Kino's Journey and Spice and Wolf comes to mind.
This post has been edited by Chance: Yesterday, 11:29 AM