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Iaboo, Youaboo, Weallaboo for Anime!

I've been watching Ramparts of Ice and I've been liking it a lot, so much so I sought out the original webtoon and read as much as was freely available.

I think what stuck with me is that Koyun is clearly on the spectrum, in a way that is very familiar to me. It's by no means 1:1 but her inability to read people was more or less the same for me. It absolutely turns into a romcom and less and less attention is focused on the 'scary eyes' aspect of Koyun, but the characters are fun so far and I'll probably keep watching it and rooting for her to make friends.

Oh and the way the closing credits song slowly creeps in before the needle drop rules, it's no Roundabout in Jojo but it's still a great touch.
 
Johnny Unusual said:
It Gud?

I think Nippon Sangoku is one of the best shows of the season no one is talking about.
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I'd been meaning to give this show a watch based on looking up PVs a while back, and took the plunge b/c of your rec. Two episodes in, I don't know how to feel about the show just yet, but it's very interesting and looks gorgeous.
 
Anyone else have thoughts on the new GitS trailer?


I’m liking the visual style, very period for the source material. The action scenes evoke a very Cowboy Bebop flavor to me, but that could be the power of suggestion since the major is at the bar in a very Spike Speigel outfit. Batou going full Rainier Wolfcastle is a bit of a tone shift, and overall this version seems a lot more loose and cartoony than the Oshii films or SAC.

I’m not all that familiar with the manga, just the movies and SAC. Based on what I’ve seen online this could be closer to the source material? Overall I’m into it but I think it requires disconnecting from what came before and taking it on its own terms. I think there’s going to be less philosophizing and more robo maids with arm cannons.
 
I'm very excited as someone who holds Shirow's manga dearest of all the iterations the series has had; for non-interactive media it's really only Oshii's work that stands as a truly compelling alternate adaptation to it, while the rest range from point-missing to sore dilutions--including the highly regarded Stand Alone Complex branch, notable to me as a bland procedural, tonal void and character-negation of Kusanagi in the extreme. That what should always have been the foremost point of entry and focus of the franchise to begin with now has a chance to get more eyes on it by the power of Wide Accessibility through a medium that's not as niche is a bargain I'll accept... especially when signs point to maintaining what's interesting and valuable about the source material, Kusanagi's queerness for one. If you get unfiltered Shirow, it's going to provoke absurdly layered musings on technology, civics theory and geopolitical debate through a military otaku sexploitation lens... but some of that is easier to scribble into exhaustively detailed comics margins than an animated medium, so we'll see.
 
Mr Bean said:
I’m not all that familiar with the manga, just the movies and SAC.
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Everything about this trailer is 100% faithful to the original comic. I'm excited that most people will finally get to see a much more authentic version of GitS. And I'm mildly dreading the chorus of ignorance that is already beginning to pop up from people who don't even know GitS was originally a comic.

As great as Oshii's film is in a vacuum, I've always resented it. It completely drains all of the color and joy and texture out of GitS. Deciding to take one aspect/slice of the story's themes, and hyperfocus on it at the expense of everything else. That alone I would find forgivable. But the fact that his adaptation has not just completely overwritten the original comic in the popular imagination, but set the tone for every single adaptation of all of Shirow's works from then on, has been beyond painful. The joyless, monochromatic, dour, collapsing dystopian aesthetic infecting works even like Appleseed that is the polar opposite of that.

On a side note, I just got in a copy of the GitS manga. I haven't read through it in full, in decades. I made the mistake of lending out my Dark Horse copy to a friend to borrow/read and never got it back. I'm very excited to read through it again so be able to make a comparison with the new show in a few months.
 
I'm not crying at the Road to Gundam 50th special animation short A Boy and Gundam,
YOU'RE crying at the Road to Gundam 50th special animation short A Boy and Gundam.
 
Tomm Guycot said:
I'm not crying at the Road to Gundam 50th special animation short A Boy and Gundam,
YOU'RE crying at the Road to Gundam 50th special animation short A Boy and Gundam.
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To anyone who doesn't immediately understand this reference:

This is a short film released this morning celebrating the (three years from now) 50th Anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam.

I personally think it's a very cute short, gorgeously animated, but I can't help but look at it with deep cynicism lol
 
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