Netflix anime productions come in a few different flavors. There’s stuff they pay for and have input on and others they just pick up that had normal production schedules and to have some exclusive content. Then there’s the bargin bin shows that feel like everyone was checked out while making it like all the polygon picture shows.
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seems like the overall trajectory of Attack on Titan was to carefully attempt to actually prove that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength, after all.
i don’t know what to say about it, in the end
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i’m finding the hour long episodes of pluto pretty rough. each one is a slog to get through for me, and i don’t think they are doing anything with the format that more shorter episodes wouldn’t have got them. it’s really just feeling like a ‘we did it becuase no one told us not to’ type of thing rather than being additive for me.
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I’m still reeling about the fact that Netflix released an entire season of a show with fully realized Yoshitaka Amano art and a Ryuichi Sakamoto soundtrack and no one cared
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wait what
i’ve not watched Nocturne coz i haven’t had Netflix access for a while but i thought the original series was if anything a little too heavy on this stuff. working the flail and the cross boomerang thing in was very fun but the amount of talking around then they had to do to fit them in felt a bit indulgent
anyway as a lover of Bram Stoker’s Dracula i adored big man’s characterization in the cartoon
i love when someone on a show is really into activewear
it’s called “exception” i think? i haven’t seen it either 
I posted about it in this thread before! No one cared then either!!
i would give it a shot, but i constantly just forget it exists
i think part of the problem is from the trailers it definitely seems like a sort of lesser than the sum of its parts type thing. the plot seems like very standard light body horror stuff, and unfortunately despite having cool designs it looks like shit in motion. ps3 cutscene core
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My solution is don’t talk around them to fit them in. Just have them in without explanation and be confident in their existence that the audience has to accept that they are part of the fiction they are watching. Don’t explain the magic, just let it be there.
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The plot decides it wants to be about a new science fiction trope every episode and never really gets to the logical conclusions of any of these premises it tries out and the ending is both very bitter and hopeful at the same time… ultimately gave me a Princess Mononoke vibe. I dunno, in the end I had no idea what it was “saying” but it interested the hell out of me. Incredibly weird show.
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oh thats cool. i did kind of wonder if the trailer was trying to make a weirder story / setting look more normal for the sake of marketing… i will check it out if i don’t forget it exists by the next time i’m looking for something new to watch
watching michiko & hatchin now. it’s good, kind of interesting mutation on the same basic set of character archetypes from cowboy bebop->samurai champloo, but with its own twist. i think in this case i really wish there was a third protagonist as with those other two, whereas i think carole & tuesday really works with having only 2 main characters. i know michiko and hatchin is sayo yamamoto but it still definitely feels like it’s in the same vein as those other ones. i do like it, i guess i have to watch yuri on ice? is it ok if i just like… don’t care about that…?
yuri on ice is well written and frequently funny, with some great animation throughout
but it is okay to not care about it
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Just a note that this series keeps getting better and better. Definitely my favorite show of the year.
Also catching up on Pantheon, which unexpectedly got a season 2. It is still very cool. I think this is maybe the only depiction of a post-Singularity event I’ve seen in media. I love the notion of them just shutting off the internet, and towns setting up their own weird local intranets.
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Didn’t finish the first episode of Pluto. May still go back to it, but the entire time I was thinking about how much I liked the manga and maybe I should just go upstairs and read the copies on my shelf.
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the main thing i’ve taken from the 3 episodes i’ve seen is that maybe i should just read astro boy. i’m glad someone who likes the manga also isn’t sold on it, because most other people i’ve spoken to who have read it seem to be impressed by… the length of the episodes and perceived budget of it all?
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both urasawa’s ‘pluto’ and the ‘greatest robot in the world’ story by tezuka are vital reading. highly recommended
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so i finished michiko and hatchin and honestly ended up really liking it, even though it is like… very … weird … about race … in a way that makes it seem like doing a whole anime show set in notbrazil was maybe uhh overly ambitious. idk. i’m curious to hear how it was received among brazilian anime fans.
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