whatever it is, it’s extremely impressively made
i mean the only pili show i ever saw was wulin warriors but the level of tech and artistry seems to have gone up exponentially in however many years
anidb lists it, and it doesn’t list inferno cop
For the purposes of this thread, it is.
It’s also incredible.
This weeks Re:Zero sure was something. I dig it.
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It really is. I can see it becoming my favorite thing of the season easily, but I also love flying swordpeople and exploding scenery so they had me anyway.
The chapter 0 where they show a little bit on how they do it is really interesting. They take no shortcuts, that’s really impressive.
Are we talking about those Taiwanese puppet shows? I remember being mesmerised by them when I was over there, and my Taiwanese ex being kind of embarrassed for me because she said only old men like watching those shows.
She bought me two DVD boxsets of really old puppet shows from the 60s or 70s, I have no idea what the titles are but they have the worst picture quality I have ever seen, like they were copied from a severely worn out VHS
yeah, one’s just been released with english subs via crunchyroll. it’s also a japanese co-production
Mob Psycho 100 looks solid, this season is good so far.
How’s Re:Zero, by the way? Want to catch up with some shows of last season and for some reason I am in the mood for some fantasy stuff now.
Tomorrow comes out Danganronpa 3 zetsubou-hen, will watch both eps. in the same day.
I am glad all the good things come out in the same season, like Active Raid, Mob Psycho 100 and double Danganronpa 3.
It starts off, on paper, like a standard “Japanese teen is transported to fantasy land setup”, and then folds in a Groundhog’s Day time loop thing where the protagonist keeps getting booted back in time when he dies. This also starts off seeming like it’s going to be pretty predictable.
But I’ll give the show credit for really never empowering the protagonist that much. He uses his ability to revisit events to his advantage somewhat to get past a few difficult situations but it often takes a lot of trial and error (and repeatedly dying) to pull things off satisfactorily. In addition as the show has gone on his errors in judgment keep compounding their negative consequences and many of his efforts to take charge and be The Man blow up in his face. And while he has begun to become desensitized to the traumatic nature of his own deaths, he often despairs at the loss of what he considers positive progress in his relationships and circumstances at the hands of forces beyond his control/understanding.
I’m inclined to charitable readings of this stuff but I’m really pleasantly surprised by the direction this show went. I thought it was going to be much more cut and dry shonen stuff.
is crunchyroll worth it
If you don’t want to pay or deal with the streaming interface theres also horriblesubs which rips all the crunchyroll and funi releases like right after they come out.
90s - £15 for a tape with 1-4 episodes
10s - £4 for a monthly subscriptions with thousands of episodes that gets stuff as soon as it airs in japan
crunchyroll is better than my childhood wish of a tv channel that only showed anime
I will give it a try then.
I find the manga part is quite useful. There are things that I’d like to read but not to take space on my shelves, so I read them on Crunchyroll.
As someone who likes to Crunchyroll on his Sony PlayStation Home Entertainment Apparatus Advanced, it was worth upgrading to the premium service so I never had to see the pathetic Crunchyroll-produced commercials they air ever again. The placement of commercial breaks is horrendous, too.
HorribleSubs is pretty great, though.
i’m pretty sure i will watch anything if the hand-drawn animation is pretty enough
this is maybe the most anime thing i’ve seen–what wikipedia tells me is one of the first ever anime idols is singing on top of a mech in the middle of a giant space battle to…make the aliens go away??? i’m pretty sure i should not like this as much as i do (destroy idol culture), but yeah if the rest of the show looks this good there’s no way i can stop myself from watching all of it. look at that shot at 5:29, holy shit
(i want her boots)
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To put it politely, the other Macross shows are… homely. And of wildly varying entertainment value, themes, moods. The original TV series is weird and goofy and goes on for about a dozen episodes past the point where most shows of the genre would end: the war’s over, but now the survivors on both sides have to pick up the pieces. I like it a lot, and that’s only probably 40% because I saw it on TV as a kid.
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That’s from the movie, which is one of those interesting metatextual works.
You see, “Do You Remember Love?” the movie is an in-universe film about the events of Macross the TV series, with all the associated bowdlerization and editing of events that an adaptation of ‘real’ events would inspire.
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