The Good: Stone Ocean is coming
The Bad: It's going to Netflix-Jail
Damn it, I seriously need to watch Jojo.
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The Good: Stone Ocean is coming
The Bad: It's going to Netflix-Jail
we need to get that crunchyroll/funimation merger accelerated to destroy this netflix monster.
less Godzilla v. Mothra and more Alien v. Predator
im sorry to have manifested this
Whaaaaaaatttttttt!!!!sequel to Tatami Galaxy
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.Fena: The Pirate Princess' first two episodes dropped this past weekend on Toonami and Crunchyroll. Not sure where the story is going, but it is pretty.
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.The director is Yamada Naoko. Does anyone know what her other work is like?
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...
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...I recently completed a rewatch of Paranoia Agent