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a long time ago I heard someone weigh in on Cowboy Bebop that it was pretty good but it’d be better without the “filler,” and it became clear that “filler” meant “anything that didn’t have to do with the Spike-Vicious-Julia” triangle, and thus something like 20 of the 26 episodes were “filler”
thinking about that as I watch Lazarus
it’s the title sequence feeling like low-rent Cowboy Bebop nostalgia that kinda breaks my heart
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This is one of the craziest anime opinions I’ve ever seen
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I’ve encountered that opinion before though their definition of filler at least allowed for the other character specific episodes to count as non filler so it was like 12 “important” episodes and 14 filler episodes
Pearls before swine.
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This was good for something that is Sanrio stop motion. They could have played it safe, like they have with the Supercute Adventures web series and Hello Kitty Super Style.
Starts light hearted, then gets more serious as it goes along. Not full dark given the IP and target audience, but serious enough to not be dismissed away as more Sanrio fluff.
If you are only going to look at one episode, the chase in Episode 4 is the best stand alone episode. Full story kicks in around Episode 6-7.
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Out of the other “kids doing kids shit” shows of the '00s, this was the one that I liked most. It is not on Disney+, because most of their '00s shows are missing for whatever reason.
It is really weird for this one to be still be unavailable for (legal) stream shit when it is one of the few '00s Disney shows to be fully sold in home media. The DVD quality is not too shabby.
Why keep the entire show from being legally streamed? It is not like you are missing episodes from the 4 seasons or the masters. You would think there is a demand, if they put out box sets.
I did not catch this show at all when it aired, because I only watched anime in high school, when I was a hardcore weeb. So I got zero nostalgia, bias, or rose tinted goggles for its original run.
It beats watching similar shows about '00s kids hanging out, unless you are going to lump Class of 3000 with this genre. I liked it better than 6teen, Kids from Room 402, As Told by Ginger, What’s with Andy, Rocket Power, Stoked, Jacob Two Two, Braceface, and all that nerd shit.
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despite being in most people’s minds as “the cartoon people”, disney seem to spend a lot of time acting like they’re ashamed of the fact that they ever made cartoons
ther late 90s/early 00s tv cartoons seem to be the most hidden. i remember that for over a decade there were episodes of pepper ann that just weren’t available anywhere, not even through piracy.
fillmore seemed like they were keeping it a secret even when it was actually airing, too.
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Other than the German dub, finding dubs for this show is really hard. It is not very popular abroad. I heard that no one from Latin America gave any shit. I am dying to hear the dub from Spain, because they dubbed the title, Findemanía, which is a very cute pun.
Many countries just called the show “Weekenders” as it is, zero points for effort.
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saw the first Episode of New Panty & Stockings earlier today, glad to report it manages to keep the spirit of the first run alive and (at least in the first episode) offer pacing that matches the randomness/no-fill-bs that made the original run so good.
Might be so because i prepared myself to come away disappointed?
Maybe, but it left me much more optimistic now that i will at least enjoy the rest of the run.
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new king of the hill didn’t fuck it up
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minimalist logo mega lo mart
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finished Fight Da!! Pyuta. truly anarchic cartoon
the opening credits is very good
i need to watch more 60s anime. i checked out seiichi hayashi’s 60s-70s shorts and they’re pretty cool as well.
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I’m 28 years late, but I’m watching King of the Hill and it’s good as hell.
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independently-produced anime about a tv outside broadcast crew in an rpg fantasy world
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I remember watching that Children of Ether pilot at a crunchyroll theater event. I think it was a forward look at Magus Bride so watching the first 3-4 eps in a row in a theater was a fun night.
But yeah, that pilot tried to do a whole lot and it just wasn’t landing without knowing there would be more. Played to much like a real first ep but asking alot of the audiences attention without any promise of the set up past a few vibes. Can’t say I was a big fan of Cannon Busters either. On some level I could be down with a collage/pastiche of nostalgic imagery but after 4 ish episodes the mood board just got to big and any cohesion it had for me snapped once there was also a technomagical kingdom with in earshot of dusty bad lands with American Wild West aesthetics. And the MC skewed a little to close to discount Deadpool territory which started to wear thin as it went.
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not particularly worth watching but generally fascinated by the new “accurate” detective conan dub where they finally dumped the case closed branding and use real names and whatnot. it’s always interesting to me when they go back to dub a very old anime in the 2020s like when the current lupin cast went back and dubbed season 1
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In the early 2000s when the Detective Conan anime was first localized, American culture had already started turning against disloyal translation choices, so I was curious why the name ended up changed.
Apparently, the reason Funimation renamed it in the first place was purely because of vague fears that Conan O’Brien or Conan the Barbarian rightsholders might file a frivolous lawsuit. They totally misread the situation:
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i always assumed it was the arthur conan doyle estate that were the problem
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