attack on Titan is based on a manga
Significant social premiums for emotional repression and decorum IRL is a lazy answer I hope to be corrected on one day
Having lived there quite a lot there is definitely a manic quality to pop cultural objects - think of the ubiq smiley mascots for goddamn everything while people are working protracted hours with not a great deal of personal space - that is hard to think very good things of. It’s novel and then it’s kind of sinister and infantilising (Kon was much about this shit, as we’ve seen)
I’m not eager to perpetuate stereotypes of Asian Dronehood whatsoever, to be clear - drones don’t need entertaining
Yeah that’s about as good an explanation as I’ve seen anyone offer.
Anyway, apparently there are more seasons or are supposed to be or they aren’t on Netflix yet or something because the end of season 1 was not a series finale. I just wanted to see how the plot turned out, maybe I’ll check wikipedia.
You might want to abandon ship now. The manga is still running and it’s on a monthly schedule which is a painful schedule when you just want to get through and see the next development. I kind of like the setting and the world mystery so its a painful journey if you just want to watch/read it for that. I’m sure there’s a second season in the works but I forget if any dates have be released yet.
Oh. I thought the whole point of anime was that the only ever made a couple seasons and had a beginning, middle and end planned out from the start. That’s like one of the only things I like about anime. Welp, it’s official, fuck Attack on Titan then. Time wasted once again.
OK so there’s this other thing on Netflix called Kill la Kill which I’ve also heard of before and the preview images make it look like it has way more interesting art and animation. Thoughts?
Anime has often been a promotional tool for the past decade or so and if the work being adapted isn’t already over then you’re probably going to get a “lol read the manga/light novel” ending
So, lol read the manga
Some anime maybe but alot of shows these days are essentially big commercials for the comics. Sometimes big pretty, well executed commercials. Other times not so much.
Enjoyment of Kill la Kill is mostly going to come down to how much you like watching silly moving pictures push the boundaries of good taste for an action show about teenage girls in fight costumes that leave very little to the imagination. It starts off with feel of a 70s anime in tone and mostly a love letter to Go Nagai type of stuff. Halfway it gets its “Real Plot” and while I still found it a fun ride it did kinda lose the spark it started with. I enjoy its bombastic nature and quirky animation tricks but its def not for everyone.
Man, if you’re watching cartoons on Netflix, just watch Little Witch Academia with the kids and Silver Spoon
edit: and fucking new Voltron, watch that hot shit
New voltron is real good
I’m glad Joachim Dos Santos finally got his own show at long last, after directing all the best in western action cartoons for the past decade.
Just watch Space Dandy. It’s 60% made by the same people who made Cowboy Bebop, only every single episode has a different team of greatest-animators-in-japan and most of them are stand-alone sci fi anthology stories
Don’t listen to people who didn’t like it. They watched maybe 3 episodes and gave up because the main character goes to space hooters a lot.
I watched most of Space Dandy and while I liked the idea of it, only about 3 episodes worked for me. I want to like it but most of the show just fell flat for me.
As Botagel put it once, it feels like a comedy that doesn’t know how to tell a good joke.
space ramen episode, zombie episode (that does the whole zombie plot before the first commercial break and then goes further than any other zombie story afterwards), the finale of the space undies and vests episode, cowboy bebop/laika homage episode, eunyoung choi’s biopunk episode, the sentient book episode, masaaki yuasa episode, the fishing episode, space dandy joins a band episode, the bangsian afterlife episode
and this is just being very harsh and excluding anything that was less than better-than-every-other-anime-released-in-the-10s
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Somebody mentioned Ping Pong anime and I can’t find the post, had never heard of it before, signed up for a trial of the Funimation app, real cool show so far; thanks playa.
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I don’t get how people could ever possibly hate Space Dandy, a show that at a point features a literal titty monster
I blame the New York Times review, which was several paragraphs of “This isn’t Cowboy Bebop, what the fuck”
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Obligatory:
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I really didn’t like that zombie episode. The delivery of the joke really grated.
Still haven’t watched the back half of Space Dandy but there was a batch of solid episodes with the plants, the library, and Meow’s awkward visit home.
Ping Pong is super good and pretty much at the top of my list of Recent Anime Normal People Can Enjoy
It’s a fantastic show and I rarely see people talking about it. Plus that ost.
The beat is ping pongs how sick is that
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watch kaiji people and feel good.
I also really liked Space Dandy but never got around to watching the second season.
The joke of going to someone’s childhood home and making fun of essays they wrote in grade school still gets me
i’m about two-thirds of the way through legend of galactic heroes now, including the prequels
so in addition to reinhardt looking more fabulous than ever (literally the entirety of the third opening is dedicated to him walking and posing with it, which i have no objection to whatsoever), one of the major characters is now heavily implied to be trans and it’s been handled pretty gracefully so far, which was not something i expected from a show whose source material was written in the 80s. not sure how that’s going to develop. the show’s politics are smart in general–which is good, since they’re omnipresent–but its attitudes towards women can be a little weird (plus they killed off both of my OTPs and that is unforgivable)
i’m saving up a longpost about this show until after i finish it, but yeah, for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with what i just wrote: it’s very good.