Wow
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harley quinn season 4 has the very specific girlboss satire i need now that inside job is canceled
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Tron Uprising is pretty tight. Even for as old as it is, it still looks really fresh. I guess in general Tron has an aesthetic that holds up.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH yes yes yes yes yes yes YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
what an incredibly specifically strange object this show is to exist
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i’ve recently been thinking about scott pilgrim a lot - without actually engaging with it in any form - so the timing here is good. definitely seems like the right people to hit the high points than the movie did.
it is genuinely bizarre that this is happening, and the way it’s happening even moreso. i am pretty into it
I kinda wish it wasn’t Michael Cera again
It’s weird how, at its peak Scott Pilgrim was kinda like a nostalgia for the mid to late 90s indie rock scene when it was new and now there’s nostalgia for the originally nostalgic thing. It’s a little bit funny
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also it’s Canadian which means they can run like a half decade to a decade between pop culture more earnestly and less ironically
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2018 gegege no kitaro is pretty boring, which is disappointing cause kitaro of the graveyard is good comics
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i watched the 1996 oav sanctuary. i’m surprised it was made so late, as it really feels like some bubble economy passion project.
it’s based on a manga, but obviously, there are a lot of differences between the manga market and the anime market, and the source manga is a very serious story for and about serious men. i actually have an issue of the floppy release it got in the 90s, and in trying to read it, my reaction was “augh, this is just well-drawn men in suits smoking and talking!”.
and, being a pretty faithful adaptation, this doesn’t have any pandering towards an otaku market. it concerns political intrigue in the yakuza and in japanese parliament, with no fantasy or sci-fi elements at all. and though there’s some violence, it’s all pretty realistic, and not even action directed. this could really be made exactly as it is in live action and the only effects you’d need would be a couple of blood squibs. however, it is full of shots that are perfect fodder for “90s anime aesthetic” twitter accounts. lots of people standing around looking cool, cityscapes at night, and so on.
so it’s a surprise that it was made, and an even bigger surprise that it was not only licensed, but dubbed! in the same year that it was made, even! i guess we don’t give viz credit for the risks they took in those early vanguard years.
in contrast to the manga, i actually did enjoy the anime. probably because it was a whole story and not just a small sliver of it experienced in isolation. i guess the manga is something that would really have benefited from being printed in an anthology magazine rather than trying to go it solo in floppies.
if you do watch it, i recommend getting the vhs rip from the internet archive, since it includes a few trailers for other stuff viz were releasing at the time at the start of the file.
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oh… oh yes
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Likely owes much of it to the success of Crying Freeman by the same author.
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Been watching a lot of Disney and Nick Jr. lately because we’ve already fallen into the trap of putting on the TV for Mia sometimes when we don’t know how else to entertain her. The writing in Paw Patrol is painful. “It’s a kid’s show, Mikey” but people really aren’t wrong that the writing in Bluey is actually good! And it’s for more or less the same audience! Peppa Pig is often unintentionally funny, or maybe it’s intentional. But oddly I feel like it’s sorta hollow, like storylines just sort of end and there’s not always some sort of “lesson” like I’d expect from a kid’s show.
Kiff has some of the same energy you’d find in Gumball so I’m into it. Sorta surprising for a show on Disney. Big City Greens is like, fine. They did the Akira motorcycle slide in one episode which at this point just makes me roll my eyes instead of feel any kind of appreciation.
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From what I understand the Disney corporation is so big it doesn’t actually know what happens in the broadcast TV division. And so a lot of folks just swung for the fences and got their pitches made. It takes about two years for Disney execs to find out that your show exists and cancel it, so if you plan your arc in that you can do some weird stuff.
This is how Gravity Falls, The Owl House, and even the new Ducktails all got made basically.
I imagine it’s similar for other shows on the network too.
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despite feeling like adventure time became kind of an impenetrable swamp of a narrative and thinking that it already had multiple good final episodes. i can’t deny how fun it is to revisit the characters in fionna and cake. it’s also a little neat seeing the show in general move from sort of kids tv-pg to adult tv-pg. glad they got donald glover back for marshall lee and andrew rannells is sort of the logical choice for a fake neil patrick harris. they really set up and interesting premise in the first two episodes even if i am a little tired of multiverse stories even though it doesn’t seem to be exactly that. always nice to have a new little rebecca sugar song and i can’t help but be a sucker for making cheers even more of a plot point
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