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Iaboo, Youaboo, Weallaboo for Anime!

Chainsaw Man - First episode of this was very painstakingly animated and there's a lot of obvious love being put into this show. The CGI is not the best but it's solid enough. If you're not a fan of this comic, be ready for every normie and their mom to mark out about this show though.

My Hero Academia Season 6 - Started out with a bang. And that's actually kind of remarkable. My Hero's last several seasons dedicated their entire first episodes to basically being glorified recap filler-episodes. And this 6th season jumps right into the beginning of what will become a huge war. The beginning of this war focuses on Mirko though, and I'm not looking forward to the next few episodes since I know how her character arc goes. For as much fun as this show is, it's got some borderline misogyny problems.

Legend of Mana -The Teardrop Crystal- - This show began a few days ago and I'm actually kind of gobsmacked. I had zero expectations for it going into it. We're only one episode deep, but so far... it might be one of the best video game anime adaptations to have ever been made? That's not saying a lot, admittedly. But still. It's *super* faithful to the original game, to the point where it's very obviously being made by huge Seiken Densetsu fans. It uses a ton of music from the game too, which is the correct and just choice that many a game adaptation fail to do.

The change in artstyle for the character designs is still a little weird, but I assume it was mostly a pragmatic choice. Drawing more closely to Shinichi Kameoka's character designs probably would have been both extremely hard for animators to replicate and animate, as well as potentially alienated younger audiences. So it's fine, and it looks fine. The names for many of the characters in the subtitles don't match the game's localized names because they're more in line with the original Japanese names, and that's also fine. (Don't cry about missing hamburgers or I will judge the fuck out of you.)

Mostly, it's just a really good looking show, that just feels super nostalgic to watch because of how much attention to detail and love/care is put into everything. Like, there's a whole sequence where Shiloh picks fruits from his tree to feed to his rabites! It's the friggin' best. If any of y'all enjoyed Legend of Mana, please give this show a try. It's streaming on Crunchyroll.
 

Peklo

Oh! Create!
(they/them, she/her)
I'm just waiting for the Phantasy Star adaptation surely to be released within our lifetimes to finally canonize burgers and cola.
 

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Ok fine, I guess I’ll sub Crunchy at some point soon for both Legend of Mana and Witch from Mercury. Do they have an actually decent smart-TV app these days?
 
Gundam: Witch from Mercury is hella gay. Lots of obvious references to Utena, both superficial and structural, but it's also confidently doing its own thing which is good.
We've discussed this in the Gundam thread, and yes. So far things look pretty good. It's a little too early to tell if it's going to be great for the long haul, but so far things are very promising. I would give a stronger recommendation, but the guy handling series composition has a pretty mixed history so it could go well or very poorly. Guy handled the story and/or script for shows like King Gainer, Wolf's Rain, Planetes, Princess Principal, Lupin Part 5, SK∞... but also for shows like Code Geass, Kabaneri, and Valvrave.

Ok fine, I guess I’ll sub Crunchy at some point soon for both Legend of Mana and Witch from Mercury. Do they have an actually decent smart-TV app these days?
Depends on what you mean by 'decent'. The app (at least on my apple tv) works which is better than could have been said at one point in time. The UI isn't particularly great or helpful to say the least. But if you load up a watchlist on a desktop browser that should make things easier.
 

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Depends on what you mean by 'decent'. The app (at least on my apple tv) works which is better than could have been said at one point in time. The UI isn't particularly great or helpful to say the least. But if you load up a watchlist on a desktop browser that should make things easier.

Ugggggh so I looked into this more last night and apparently there is no native Crunchy app for LG TVs, nor can you get it through the Prime player, so it looks like my best bet is to run a Crunchy app on iPhone/iPad and then AirPlay to the TV.

Christ, companies, it’s 2022, could you please make buying content and putting it on my living room TV less of a hassle than piracy already?
 

gogglebob

The Goggles Do Nothing
(he/him)
Christ, companies, it’s 2022, could you please make buying content and putting it on my living room TV less of a hassle than piracy already?

Okay, but hear me out? What if instead of improving your services, you just consumed literally all of your competitors, so the consumers had no choice but to put up with whatever you wanted to do? Could that maybe work?
 
Christ, companies, it’s 2022, could you please make buying content and putting it on my living room TV less of a hassle than piracy already?
You don't own a modern-ish console? Crunchyroll app is on PS4/XBOne/Switch/PS5/XSX

Also, media apps for "Smart TVs" are always, always, always going to be inferior/buggy or just straight up missing. Because Smart TV manufacturers more often than not will orphan their products with a swiftness, and developing for the 11,000 different SKUs of TVs and their various operating systems is a friggin' nightmare. It's 70% why I switched over to a Fire Stick, and then to an Apple TV. Most media companies give top priority to publishing their streaming apps and keeping them updated on an Apple TV.

Apparently Tatami Time Machine Blues - the more or less direct sequel to Tatami Galaxy is out in the wild!? It's on Disney+ in Japan and a few other regions, but not in the US just yet. But that's not gonna stop me. It was distributed to Japanese theaters as a film, but apparently on D+ it's cut into a 6 episode mini-series with extra content. I'm only one episode in, and if I didn't already know it wasn't directed by Masaaki Yuasa I wouldn't have been able to tell. Shingo Natsume (Director of One Punch Man S1; Sonny Boy; Space Dandy; ACCA) worked on the original show and the guy is a friggin' All-Star director in his own right.
 

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Silly me thought TVs were standardizing on some WebOS or something, but I guess in a competitive hardware marketplace everyone wants to add their own bells and whistles they can advertise which just end up making everything worse in terms of actual usability.

I do however, have a PS4 hooked up to the TV (just haven't turned it on in a while, heh), so I guess that's another option. And a Switch nearby for that matter.

(The Amazon/Netflix/Disney apps are mostly fine directly on the LG, but I guess those companies are big enough to throw resources at being on everything, and/or have clout to get TV manufacturers to accommodate them directly. The dang remote has Prime and Netflix buttons baked onto it.)
 
Silly me thought TVs were standardizing on some WebOS or something, but I guess in a competitive hardware marketplace everyone wants to add their own bells and whistles they can advertise which just end up making everything worse in terms of actual usability.
That's exactly what it is. It's just like the clusterfuck that's become of Android.

Anyways, Urusei Yatsura (2022) just began today and it's about as good as you could hope regarding an adaptation of 44 year old source material that centers around a guy who is basically a sex-pest. I dunno if David Production can keep things up, but the first episode looked real good. You can tell they're hoping that this one will catch on and be a cash cow for them for the next several years.
At the very least, it's got goat-tier bangers for an OP/ED.
 

Dark Medusa

Diamond Crusader
(He/they)
That's... that is indeed a Doki Doki Literature Club reference in an anime OP. Huh! Or maybe another visual novel, but only one glitches out like that as a regular feature!
 

Peklo

Oh! Create!
(they/them, she/her)
I doubt it. DDLC was released officially in Japan only in the middle of 2021, and the kind of glitch effect it uses for its metafiction purposes is a really non-specific concept in the genre. The video game iconography in the show's OP either gestures toward Urusei Yatsura's period-specific contemporaries (so Space Invaders), or rough analogues of the video game adaptations the series itself accrued over the years, on many platforms and in various genres--Lum no Wedding Bell is the most direct self-reference that I can discern at a glance.
 
Finished Tatami Time Machine Blues. It's not as good as the original show, and probably not as good as Walk On Girl either. But that's mostly just an effect of it not feeling fresh and brand new like the original show 12 years ago. But it was still a really good time and worth watching. It's very competently made, and it was very much a strong and loving sequel. Watching it felt like returning home, it was a very pleasant and comfy experience. It was also very charming and it's great that Akashi was made into a much more robust character with fun things to do and real agency. I figured out the plot and most of the twists about 10 mins into the movie, but that's alright because the journey was a good one. If you liked the Tatami Galaxy, have no fear this will be a good way to spend a few hours.
 

conchobhar

What's Shenmue?
It was also very charming and it's great that Akashi was made into a much more robust character with fun things to do and real agency.
This was the definite highlight to me. In Galaxy, Akashi being at a bit of a distance from the protagonist meant her character never really went beyond her cool and unflappable exterior, even though we got hints of her sillier side. But here, she's already acquainted with the protagonist, and fully involved in the story, so we actually get to see those sides of her. It was really fun to see her fully involved in the ridiculousness of it all, with regular moments of panic and doubt and anguish.

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BEAT

LOUDSKULL
(DUDE/BRO)
Saw the new Trigun trailer and it brings me no joy to report that I was, and continue to be, right about everything.
 

BEAT

LOUDSKULL
(DUDE/BRO)
They took Meryl, the woman who keeps 40 loaded guns under her cloak, and made her a wannabe kid photojournalist.

They took Milly, the 7 foot tall brick shithouse with the gun that launches tire irons, and made her an old dude with a pervert moustache.

Just.

Fucking A.
 
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Thanks Beat. I had to go and watch both trailers and now I'm mad. No Milly, Vash looks stupid and his hair isn't spiky, this is probably going to be bad.

I'm still going to watch an episode or two, but I'll be grumpy the entire time.
 
This was the definite highlight to me. In Galaxy, Akashi being at a bit of a distance from the protagonist meant her character never really went beyond her cool and unflappable exterior, even though we got hints of her sillier side. But here, she's already acquainted with the protagonist, and fully involved in the story, so we actually get to see those sides of her. It was really fun to see her fully involved in the ridiculousness of it all, with regular moments of panic and doubt and anguish.

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Yeah. It's a nice little coda to the original show in that respect. A primary theme of the original show is about the doofus main character growing as a person enough to empathize and consider other people as whole, three dimensional people. So it's nice to see what is essentially the product of that, where he is interacting with these characters in a bit more normal and functional manner and seeing them more for who they are as a result. (Well, all except for Ozu lmao)
 

Purple

(She/Her)
They took Meryl, the woman who keeps 40 loaded guns under her cloak, and made her a wannabe kid photojournalist.

They took Milly, the 7 foot tall brick shithouse with the gun that launches tire irons, and made her an old dude with a pervert moustache.

Just.

Fucking A.
... named Robert Di Nero.
 

BEAT

LOUDSKULL
(DUDE/BRO)
Thanks Beat. I had to go and watch both trailers and now I'm mad. No Milly, Vash looks stupid and his hair isn't spiky, this is probably going to be bad.
I cannot fathom the logic of looking at Trigun in the year of our lord 2022, and saying "The best thing we can do with this is remove Milly entirely."

I mean.

Did they somehow miss the world historic simping for Resident Evil Village?

... named Robert Di Nero.
So did The Irishman do huge numbers with anime fans or... what.

Fuck is even happening here
 
I too am fondly attached to Trigun (1998). If this looks like a bad time to you, that is what it is. But I’ve never found it wise to judge/condemn a piece of media on a 90sec trailer.

The show looks good to me so far. I’m not married to any specific details or aesthetics to the original Trigun show. I’m much more interested in if they can manage to keep the Nightow’s sense of humor/comic timing. I thought this studio did wonderful things with Land of the Lustrous; I’m willing to give this a chance.

Consider this: the original Trigun show still exists and still looks great. If you’re going to do a remake, I’m much more interested in a wild reimagining like this than a by-the-books Trigun: Brotherhood that would honestly be a pretty pointless and boring exercise. If it ends up flopping, oh well. Nothing of value was lost. If it ends up being unique and interesting, it could be a fun alternate take in the same way lots of modern stuff reimagines say, old literature like Shakespeare. Imagine crumbling into histrionics because someone made a gender bent Hamlet.
 

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
It's probably its own thing that is attached to Recognizable 90s Property because capitalism is making it increasingly difficult for non-adaptations to get made at all.
 

BEAT

LOUDSKULL
(DUDE/BRO)
Counterpoint:
The existence of the Previous iterations are WHY this has me so fucking pissed!

If you're gonna tell me "Hey we're making Trigun" I'm allowed to call out when the thing delivered doesn't look, sound act or meaningfuly resemble Trigun in any way.
 

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
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Staff member
That's not a counterpoint at all, BEAT! It's just the other side of the same problem! Not only is the new thing shackled to the old thing, the old thing is also shackled to the new thing!
 
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