‘wildly’ perhaps overstates it, but it shows up a lot!
and not just the series of games by gust
maybe the word is also just widely used in japanese everyday parlance and i just never picked up on it when i’ve been there or in all the japanese media i’ve seen?
quite a lot of non-JP games, looks like 70% Gust, and then 4 or so other JP games
I checked mangaupdates and there’s ~50 series that used “atelier” in the title. Before 2015, it is mostly adaptations of Gust games, and after that it is manga that use atelier in the title because witch hat atelier was a popular new release.
The JPDB frequency list has it ranked at #25462, low enough for Takaboto dictionary to label it “common” (but not by much, I believe its threshold is 30000).
Japanese dictionaries define it as a painter, sculptor, etc’s studio (narrower than the original French meaning, which is more like a workshop in the general sense). So it sounds like it’s commonly used in the context of the lives of French artists. Not exactly an everyday word, but one that most people would learn to recognize sooner or later from a book or TV. And it has a melodious ring that’s not bloated by long vowels or consonants after katakana-fication.
There’s still some irreducible mystery around, for example, why was it not simply translated to 工房 (workshop) every time instead of transliterated. I sometimes think most of human language comes down to whims and flights of fancy that get solidified over time.
Caught up on The Amazing Digital Circus. I like it a lot. I think it’s funny how often two characters will sit down together and start having a therapy session. Thinking I should catch up on more webtoons but can’t bring myself to try Hazbin. Glitch stuff feels like a comfort zone.
TADC definitely has a lot more meat on the bone… I think it’s just the visual style that makes people compare them. And the fandoms, but please god, never interact with the fandoms. I love seeing the excitement and the enthusiasm, it’s just, it escapes containment every now and then and some absurd controversy has erupted because the fans hallucinated something the creator didn’t intend.
I had the idea to check out the Hazbin spinoff Hellova Boss and like, it’s really nice seeing Richard Steven Horvitz getting work again, but the two eps I watched didn’t do much for me. Just not my kind of humor and not enough consistent character work. This sequence was good though, animation-wise, apparently it was created for Kesha, who voices her but they couldn’t make it happen for the music so a different person sings. Hazbin to me felt worth the watch in the same way you might watch Kpop Demon Hunters, where it’s pleasant enough entertainment, then you forget about it in a week.
Whereas here I am looking up fanfics and fanart for Digital Circus while enduring the six week wait between eps. The agony is a good sign!
“I wonder what Yoko Taro’s been getting up to these days.”
oh!
finally a new drakengard
wait i was joking
i remember reading an interview where anno mentions how he dreamed of evangelion becoming more like gundam, where different authors would make their own version of that universe, with their own characters and stuff. this seems to be a step in that direction.
hopefully this won’t be another meandering nostalgiaslop-fest like G-quacks ended up being, though, seeing that tsurumaki will be at the helm.
wow
yes, please
On some level I feel Taro writing EVA a little redundant but I see if given the space to play it could be its own thing. Unfortunately there’s Tsurumaki on the helm that I have less confidence being a leading force on something tied to a massive title. I’ll just be real disappointed if they make something that can stand on its own after using the source as a springboard only to circle back and say it was only in service to vindicate the source material’s signifigance even more.
journal with witch is such a great “healing” anime. it’s so down to earth and literary and naturalistic and emotionally complex. i’m gonna wait till the show is over to read the comic which is unusual for me but i think the slower pace of being able to sit with it week to week really will enhance the original when i get around to it.
yeah, i’ve been really impressed. just quietly crushing in a lot of ways.
am also waiting to do the manga, which i’ve heard is even slower.
