Really cannot understand the appeal of LoGH. I watched the first dozen eps when I was sick once, and the pacing is glacial. There wasn’t enough to any of the characters to get me engaged enough to stick with it, and the action is like non-existent.
I feel like people have to be looking for something specific that I missed.
I’m not sure I get the complaints about glacial pacing actually, I wouldn’t really consider anything that happens filler, and things do happen every single episode. It’s a genuinely serious meditation on war and politics.
It doesn’t feel very anime in its writing, because it’s a space opera written like a 19th century german romantic novel.
It’s one of the few things overall that actually delivers on the premise of a Space Opera
the side stories come closest to accusations of poor pacing from me, but this is mostly down to all of the events in each side story being self-contained; Spiral Labyrinth is the worst culprit, with several consecutive episodes of expository backstory that aren’t nearly as entertaining as the history channel style mockumentaries that show up later. i do think some of the side stories are worth watching before the main series, though (like “The Hero of El-Facil” or “Silver-White Valley”) and i’ll probably post my Very Important Headcanon Watchlist when i finish the show.
the first season is the strongest of what i’ve seen, so if it didn’t grab you then it’s probably not your thing and that’s fine
lol, I haven’t watched the last episode, but this is pretty much how I was feeling about Kumamiko near the end. Easily the biggest disappointment of the season for me.
I’m pretty fond of Kumamiko for diving so boldly into black comedy about anxiety and abuse, the special misery of dying rural societies and the people who can’t escape them trying to keep them alive even as the kids dream of fleeing, dressed up with adorable cartoon bears and sitcom antics.
But I can totally understand why others wouldn’t.
I don’t know how the hell the manga author thinks Yoshio could possibly have come off worse in that episode than he did pretty much any other time he does anything, ever.
The show went rapidly downhill for me in the second half with the last three episodes being particularly egregious, and I usually love stuff about social anxiety, like Watamote or Shinozaki. That seems like a extremely generous reading of a show that started off with EDM kagura dancing and ended up with the main character being sexually exploited, with all the adults in the room standing around and nodding approvingly. I did laugh at some JP guy tweeting that it was like an eroge bad end though.
Titans was mildly interesting till shit hits the fan hard and for a good 10 minutes lets you go well wow that was pretty bold for the media, I can see now why it is so successf-yeah nvm it’s just shonen shit with a brown coat
Also let’s be frank, whenever I need a smug Haohmaru image and i type SNK on google images and these assholes come out instead? Just fucking disgraceful
Bombastic shonen shit can be fun so I enjoyed Titans as that once I figured out that’s what it was.
So if I wanted to watch this Space Dandy thing how would I even do that in 2016. I assume you don’t walk into Suncoast and buy $30 DVDs any more.
Well, if there’s still an FYE in your state, maybe.
I forget if Space Dandy’s still on the various streaming services. For a while, it was on Hulu. Funimation probably wants money to stream it on their dot com, but since they published it it’ll definitely be there.
Or you could just torrent the rips of those Funimation streams people do.
install ad blocker -> google “watch space dandy online” -> close your eyes and poke your computer screen -> pick whatever site your finger landed on
Jesus christ, the Japanese have really never learned how to distribute shit have they.
Neither have the west. You just don’t see it because you’re at the locus of their distribution! There’s a crazy web of copyright and distribution rights clogging channels out of the US, see Netflix and regional differences in programming.
They know how to get shows out there, they just want a bunch of money in the process, be it either through protecting the domestic market (Kadokawa infamously forces shows to not be released on Bluray in foreign markets until the Japanese release is done) or by having foreign distributors by the nuts (we’ll probably see a bigger return to Western companies co-producing shows, the process of which has already started).
Anyway, Space Dandy is a Funimation show, give it like, 3-6 months and they’re will be a no-frills boxset for 50-60 bucks. Or download a BD or TV rip (the adult swim rips have 5.1 audio. That’s good!)
I can throw my copy onto Mega if the questionable legality doesn’t bother you.
It’s not that I was expecting Cowboy Bebop but I was hoping the show would be a good excuse to have episodes with a similar feel to Mushroom Samba or Cowboy Funk. At least more of the punchy, high impact, kinetic flow of those episodes. Even the episodes that I like in Space Dandy never quite reached those peaks. Even the wacky races episode felt a little to by the numbers lacking impact to its gags even with the twin racers combining to do a robot attack. Space Dandy checks off almost anything on my list you’d think I’d enjoy but never quite executes in a way I would enjoy. I can see it as an artistic anthology where almost any involved must’ve had enjoyed working on it but I as a viewer don’t feel like I’m part of that fun for whatever reason.
Felt a little forgettable to me, but it’s solid and looks good.
I’m down.
Alright, it’ll be done in a few hours, its a pretty big upload. Since it’s a blueray rip like most of the stuff I have.
I don’t have a problem…
By the way I think other people have said it but definitely turn off subtitles and switch to the english dub. The script is different for the japanese dub and not as good