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Its weird to be nostalgic for something 8 years old but after 2020...
Hey, speaking of. I've been watching a show called Back Arrow. Like, objectively, it's nothing incredible or groundbreaking. But I adore it. All tyrant mecha-heads should give it a try.a combination of franchise nostalgia and cool giant robots and kaiju will certainly be enough to get me to watch it.
There's literally not a single moment of animation in that entire trailer. What a hatchet-job.Ouch, that looks really cheap in a number of places. More like a motion comic than an anime adaptation.
Yeah, watching that trailer again the only things even close to animation are the flapping mouths, the spray of ketchup, and cheap Flash-ish stuff like moving the stills around and the cat's paw.There's literally not a single moment of animation in that entire trailer. What a hatchet-job.
Must have hit the wong button but anyway it’s not Netflix’s fault the animation sucks. It’s the producers.Netflix commissioned an anime adaptation of Gokushufudou: Way of the House Husband a while back, and now we've got the first meaningful look at it through a PV and...
I fucking hate Netflix so god damned
Pretty sure Netflix is on the production committee? Which makes them some of the producers? Like, they commissioned this. Why are they handing out money to people who would do this kind of hatchet job to such great material?...it’s not Netflix’s fault the animation sucks. It’s the producers.
Yep! This. I'm really beginning to understand the manga version, and why it is the way that it is. In the manga, they basically strip out the other students POV and it's all spooder, all the time. I still think the students POV is important because it serves thematically as a contrast to Kumoko's whole experience. And later when their stories inevitably intersect, things will make more sense for it. But maaaan does it drag.Been breakin' my usual habits and watchin' Spider Anime and I actually love it? Like I don't usually like isekai but I'm enjoying this; I think it's very telling that I'm spending all of the scenes with the human nobles just like "come on, get back to the fuckin' spider" though.
'cept for Katia. Katia can do no wrong.
I'm intrigued but I don't speak Japanese. What is the English title of this Anime/Manga?Guess what’s coming back after nine years?
Sorry, my bad. It's "Hataraku Maou-sama!" aka The Devil is a Part-Timer! It's like the reverse of an isekai show, where instead of a normal person going to a fantasy world, the end boss baddie from a fantasy world comes to the real world and has to learn how to get by as a regular joe and works at a McDonalds. It's mildly problematic in the way most late night anime is, but it's generally a fun show. It should be streaming on Netflix IIRC.I'm intrigued but I don't speak Japanese. What is the English title of this Anime/Manga?
Oh? I've been slowly working my way through the localized novels and they're pretty alright, but this makes me really concerned nowWhat’s funny to me about all this, is that this comes not too terribly long after the original Light Novels ended. And apparently the ending of the source material had a legendarily bad ending that caused all of its fans to turn on it.
Yes, that's a perfectly valid point. However, when the central thrust of your entire story is written around a specific romantic pairing, and the vast majority of your fans get invested in that romance, and then at the very end you pull the rug out from under your readers and don't fulfill that pairing in favor of a different one nobody likes and is actually kinda problematic, it's uh. Gonna understandably ruffle a lot of feathers when you do that.Just from unwanted cultural osmosis it seems like mostly fans being upset that the wrong girl "won" which is to say their favored romance did not become canon and a different romance did. Because as we all know if you're a love interest in a story and don't end up marrying the protagonist then your existence is retroactively meaningless and holds no possibility of future happiness
I watched the first two eps so far, and yeah, it's not bad. Polygon still hasn't quite perfected CG-animating people, but the Kaiju and Jaegers all look great, though they have the more agile disposition of Uprising rather than the lumbering weight of the original. Speaking of Uprising, I'm not super clear on the timeline but I think this may come after it, as it's including some concepts tangentially from there like small kaiju and the idea of kaiju/jaeger hybrids. Not to mention addition rifts weren't a thing in the timeline leading to the first movie.
The second episode does introduce the most anime of tropes, a mysterious mute probably super-powered waif in a test tube, but I'm willing to see where they go with it.
(Peklo, that awesome Sailor Moon R write-up makes me wish I'd actually watched more of the series, so I could get the most out of just popping it on some time.)
Oh. I think I know what this means, and that does make me kind of unhappy if true. Not for the reason you say, but if it is that one then I just really don't think it makes sense or works. I can't really express what I mean, but the LNs have suggested this at times and it just feels wrong.Just from unwanted cultural osmosis it seems like mostly fans being upset that the wrong girl "won" which is to say their favored romance did not become canon and a different romance did. Because as we all know if you're a love interest in a story and don't end up marrying the protagonist then your existence is retroactively meaningless and holds no possibility of future happiness