Damn it, I seriously need to watch Jojo.
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Iaboo, Youaboo, Weallaboo for Anime!
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Damn it, I seriously need to watch Jojo.
Dangit.... I've been fairly ambivalent about Netflix anime exclusivity, but now they got their hands on JoJo and I'm feeling some kind of way about it. Crunchyroll was fine! We had a whole weekly group watch thing going for every new season of JoJo! But with the uncertainty about how Netflix is gonna release the episodes... I dunnoooooo.
I know a significant demographic likes to poop-sock their media. And it works for some things, but it's hardly an axiom that always succeeds. One of the bigger appeals to JoJo for me is the sense of going on a journey with the cast. An adventure if you will. Tuning in every week and having a new place or a new villain to fight, and having it stretch out over the course of a year or more, really helps that feeling. That's part of why Part 3 is so successful/popular IMO because by the end it really felt like as a viewer/reader that it had lived up to the title and that you'd really gone on a Bizarre Adventure with these characters. And the sense of that is significantly lessened for me when you can marathon through the entire thing in just a few days. When a character reminisces about a thing you watched just a few days prior, it kinda loses the impact, you know? I really hope that the success of some of these Disney+ shows where the weekly release format has helped sustain and even increase interest in the shows has helped convince Netflix a little that their business model is frequently dumb and counterproductive.
im sorry to have manifested this
You guys see this teaser right here?
This is the stuff hype is made of.
This is a trailer for the just announced adaptation of "Yojohan Time Machine Blues". Which is the sequel to Tatami Galaxy that came out last year.
Science Saru is handling production, but Yuasa won't be directing this time. Instead, Shingo Natsume is being brought on as director, which is probably the most perfect fit there could be for a Yuasa replacement. Natsume's currently airing show Sonny Boy is killing it, and if I didn't know better, you could easily convince me the show was being directed by Yuasa instead.
Dis gon be guuuuuud
This is the stuff hype is made of.
This is a trailer for the just announced adaptation of "Yojohan Time Machine Blues". Which is the sequel to Tatami Galaxy that came out last year.
Science Saru is handling production, but Yuasa won't be directing this time. Instead, Shingo Natsume is being brought on as director, which is probably the most perfect fit there could be for a Yuasa replacement. Natsume's currently airing show Sonny Boy is killing it, and if I didn't know better, you could easily convince me the show was being directed by Yuasa instead.
Whaaaaaaatttttttt!!!!
And not a 'spiritual sequel' that vaguely takes place in the same setting like Walk On Girl, but a direct sequel w/ the same characters. I read a short plot synopsis of the book and it sounds bonkers.
This week's episode of Villainess was incredible, because it takes what was literally a three page filler comic and turns it into a complete episode.
I love what they were able to do with such little material to begin with, and yet it still feels true to the characters.
I love what they were able to do with such little material to begin with, and yet it still feels true to the characters.
I watched the first episode of this. The whole thing struck me as almost... antiquated? There's just something to the aesthetic that feels OLD (but in a good way) about this show. The directorial voice of the first episode is filled with a need for almost constant kinetic energy and there's a willingness to break model to exaggerate emotions and reactions that just feel like the show belongs more from the 70s or 80s than what the modern industry trends are for anime. Combine that with heavy European flair for the characters/setting (again, something more at home in the 70s and 80s before anime/Japanese culture became more insular and inward looking) and it just feels like a cozy and retro show versus something more contemporary.
I watched a second episode of Jahy and started the third and I just couldn't keep going. Not that it was horrible, it was just boring and bland. You can already see that Jahy will continue to get forward a little bit and then get knocked down only to refuse any help because "I'm the demon lord!" If that's your jam, have at it.
She's a rock star and was one of Kyoto Animation's best talents. She directed K-On!, A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird, Tamako Love Story, and Tamako Market for them. This show is being produced by Science SARU (Masaaki Yuasa's former studio) so it's probably not going to look as good as a KyoAni production but it'll be interesting. Surprisingly great get for Science SARU to land this director. That makes them 2 for 2 lately. It's a little odd that Yamada is moving on from KyoAni, but I also don't blame her for doing so.
There's a trailer with English subs now, for anyone interested. Apparently it's going to be a Funimation show in the US.
Seen some English articles attributing authorship of The Tale of Heike (1300s or earlier) to Furukawa Hideo (a still living novelist), when what Furukawa did was an adaption of Heike into modern Japanese...
There are some elements in the trailer that are clearly inventions, probably obvious even to someone who has not read the original, although I'm not sure if those are from maybe some other Heike inspired fiction by Furukawa or new elements for this new cartoon...
Seen some English articles attributing authorship of The Tale of Heike (1300s or earlier) to Furukawa Hideo (a still living novelist), when what Furukawa did was an adaption of Heike into modern Japanese...
There are some elements in the trailer that are clearly inventions, probably obvious even to someone who has not read the original, although I'm not sure if those are from maybe some other Heike inspired fiction by Furukawa or new elements for this new cartoon...
Fena: Pirate Princess made me swear at the latest episode. Not because it was a bad episode, far from it! No, I'm swearing because they left it on a massive cliffhanger and now I have to wait a week to see what's going to happen. Oddtaxi made me do the same thing and I loved Oddtaxi.
Tsukimichi this week made me think of Sealab 2021, specifically Bizarro Debbie and Quinn.
Tsukimichi this week made me think of Sealab 2021, specifically Bizarro Debbie and Quinn.
Fens is a really good show. It feels like a show that would have been made 30 years ago, in all the right ways and hardly ever in the wrong. Like, I get very strong Nadia vibes off of it.
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This looks fantastic.
I recently completed a rewatch of Paranoia Agent, with the Blu-ray Funimation released last year. I don't think I've seen it since it aired on Adult Swim. I'm still processing how it made me feel, but my initial takeaway is that I'm less impressed/blown away by it now having seen it as an adult. Happy Family Planning is perhaps the most striking episode in the show, but I will admit the Final Episode had me feeling pretty emotional as well. The actual ending is kind of a huge downer coming off of the emotional high points from the rest of the episode, and I think that's what making me feel... uncomfortable? with the show's message. I mean, Satoshi Kon is definitely not about giving you a neat and tidy ending, so in that respect, the ending probably had the desired effect on me. Also, between this and Tokyo Godfathers, I have to wonder if Satoshi Kon personally knew people experiencing homelessness (can't remember if there's homeless characters in his other works too).
I've been meaning to do that someday, as I actually think something came up and I never made it to the end when I was originally watching it near when it first was made. Wonder if it's streaming somewhere...
This is manga but whatever; this rules though. This is so good
She's just like TIME TO PLAY RETURNAL SEE YOU IN A MONTH
She's just like TIME TO PLAY RETURNAL SEE YOU IN A MONTH