I keep forgetting there’s more FLCL and I should probably keep it that way
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i like Dicktown even though a lot of it is 40 year olds just slightly missing the mark on parodying teens. it’s david rees of get your war on and john hodgeman playing kid detectives who are now adults but still functionally only take kid cases. when it’s good it’s something like achewood meets king of the hill vibes. pretty solid stuff
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well on account of sustained depression i finally finished all 110 episodes of the legend of the galactic heroes ova. its dry detachment and war criminal yaoi were a comfort until they weren’t. by no means perfect but a masterpiece of incredibly willful narrative orgasm ruining and hatred for the subject of its obsession. it winds up in the least satisfying way possible, nothing good ever happens, no one gets what they want and nearly every reason to continue is eliminated, then it spends another 12 hours running on fumes and sputtering to a halt as it exhausts every possible loose end, which is exactly right for better or worse.
i care so much about this morally irredeemable motherfucker and just thinking about him triggers uncontrollable cute aggression
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God that is the best summary of this show I’ve ever heard.
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After really enjoying the first season I’m finding season 2 interminable – 6 episodes in, a politically-focused show that illustrated depth and nuance through understated reactions to plot events has become a politically-focused show that illustrates the limits of its political nature through interminable talking with no plot. Honestly it feels more like the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex than anything; a second season that leaned into what worked in the first but ended up thin and underwritten.
Does it pull out of this, or should I expect it to stay at this level?
assuming you’re talking about the 1988-1997 ova adaptation, you’re at one of the talkiest bits (yang’s interrogation, right?) and there’s quite a bit of plot ahead of you, but a fundamental characteristic of the show is that its politics are extremely limited because it’s a tragedy about military-driven political stagnation and its consequences that doesn’t or can’t go beyond that. like, i think the spinning wheels textual hollowness is basically intentional, and big things happen but nothing really changes. if you’re still unsatisfied with how the series is progressing by the end of season 2 then imo you can safely drop it, especially because the second half requires quite a bit more masochism and prior investment to get through.
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Yep, that’s where I’m at. I’m fully into the themes of the show and where it was going in the first 26 episodes but maybe that’s because the plot was moving quickly enough that they didn’t have time to linger long enough to become fictionally Untrue. Plot is the last thing I want out of anything, but if extended dialogue just sketches the limits of a work’s sophistication, they should shorten the dialogue and spend more time pensively staring, letting me think through it.
I’ll keep going for now
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Haven’t read the manga or watched the first episode, but the opening for the Jujutsu Kaisen anime is really cool.
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serial experiments lain is really fucking good. i don’t know why i didn’t watch it years ago. normally when i think that it’s a good thing, like i’ve remembered something that was always there and it fit right into the things i love. for some reason though, this is just making me sad, and kind of frustrated. like, dammit, i could have really used this.
the sound design is impeccable. ive been watching with headphones. the voiceover is strangely lo-fi and echoey, it rarely feels “clean” (i am watching it subbed). and the LOUD buzzing hum of the tangled wires is so striking. Ive listened to “duvet” like a hundred times this week. fuck.
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yeah, Lain is pretty amazing. there still isn’t really anything like it, and it’s wonderful in that it’s both a time capsule for the end of the 90s, while still being incredibly relevant and interesting now.
i watched it in high school and then again in my mid 20s, and in the rewatch, i was surprised by how much of it made even more sense, because its predictions of internet culture had really become reality.
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hey
did you ever wake up at like, 5-6 AM and absentmindedly flip on the TV and channel surf and land on adult swim and see Inuyasha ending and Forrest of Sorrow is playing and think it’s a good jam
Yashahime is like that, but in 2020 form
It’s considerably more brutal especially in contrast to Lain’s melancholy and unease, but the same people followed up with Texhnolyze, which I empathically recommend. It’s the slow death of humanity helped along by solipsist technocrats as witnessed by a profoundly traumatised assault victim.
Also, credits themes by Gackt and Juno Reactor.
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And here I thought I was the only person who ever watched it.
The DVD releases were something because each disc had a “fake” dub on it that were mostly bad but were worth a few chuckles.
Namely Yasuyuki Ueda, Chiaki J. Konaka and Yoshitoshi ABe.
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duvet is probably the best anime theme i’ve seen yeah
like Utena’s is good but it doesn’t set the mood as succinctly
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vodselbt posted the op the other day in the non-videogame thinksabout thread and watching it immediately made me look up where i could stream the first episode
edit: it’s on youtube if anyone’s curious
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