ha, I just watched this with my partner recently and that part stood out big time. didn’t know it was him
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No idea why this is necessary when it already has a perfectly good anime and a great live action film. MAPPA brand is all shine no soul.
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it’s like the worst thing you could try and map onto their all gloss house style. absurd.
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Not sure if this counts as Shojo, but I loved the manga for Midori no Hibi when I was a teen. I feel like it would hold up:
Double Dragon series
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i cant stop thinking about how unavailable gothicmade is and how fucking badly i wanna see it
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watched a show i found out abt through the pc engine catalogue called Variable Geo; it takes place in a world where the whole of earth culture seemingly revolves around a brutal fighting tournament among waitresses representing various family restaurant chains. so like the heroine is shown clocking in for her shift at the restaurant, and then she looks outside and sees someone staring at her through the window on the street, and walks out like she immediately knows whats up. they each tap some little card things aganst the streetlights and the street outside the restaurant opens up and a full boxing ring setup emerges from the ground. every other tv screen cuts to footage of the fight in progress and everyone stops to watch, and in my favourite detail, someone goes into the president’s office to personally alert him that a new family restaurant battle is going down so he can watch on the big screen behind his desk. psychic powers of some sort also seem to be involved.
i watched a longplay of the vgame and had a good time sort of trying to imagine a plot from the difficulty or lack thereof the anonymous longplayer had with the various waitresses and their fighting styles, so it was kind of interesting to then see the semi official version of the same procedure in a cartoon. there was also good part where the heroine senses the power of the reigning family restaurant champion as the latter is driving past, so she leaps off of a moving bike and onto the hood of the car where they glare fiercely at each other. and then in the next scene the heroine is visiting a sick child in the hospital with no indication of how that all resolved, whether it was symbolic, how she got off the car again if not etc. pretty good but i didn’t want to watch more than an episode bc it seemed like it would only get further into creating horrible “bad end” situations for the people who lost the matches. this is what you get for failing the Perkins brand… i guess they made a few Variable Geo games, idk if they ever explained the backstory. it seemed like a series someone would invent after playing too much street fighter and then having a horny fever dream abt whatever the japanese equivalent is of a hooters
i also watched another show after seeing the pc engine game about it, called Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl, which i didn’t realise until an embarrassing way in was based on a comic i guess by the Pluto guy? it seemed slick and readable by sports comic standards and it wasnt until a non-japanese character appeared that i finally clocked the style. anyway it starts out a kind of listless romcom, like a ranma kind of thing without the comic energy, but gets a lot more fun as the supporting cast grows… i like fujiko the ballerina turned judo fighter… looking it up just now it was apparently his first as writer/artist and it does sort of feel like a thing where the real interest of a work is only gradually discovered midway through
the animation on the cartoon is good. it feels like there are some funny effects from stretching out the chapters to cartoon length. for example one episode feels like it has about 500 distinct shots of a character being kicked in her broken leg during a match; in a comic i feel like it would have been a tigher and more obvious effect than actually watching like a ten minute long sequence of seemingly nothing but leg kicks, rpg maker sound effects, screams and horror movie incidental music.
anyway it has been fun to watch and be reminded of the period where i just read baseball manga all day and eventually had to stop myself from staring into the horizon with the wild fervor of youth and making silent vows to my friends and rivals that i’d meet them again, at the Koshien…!! the first pc engine game looks like a visual novel, the second one interestingly seems like a visual novel with an optional fighting game component sort of stapled onto it.
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i don’t know how hooters-like it is, but a big influence on what i guess could be called the waitrtess fandom is a chain that was popular in the 70s and 80s called anna millers.
iirc, the main character in advanced vg wears their uniform (as do many many other characters in anime and videogames)
back in the early 00s, some rom sites had the game listed as “advanced virgin girl”, rather than variable geo.
yawara is one of those shows that lots of people have wanted an official english release of for a long lnog time, but it’ll never get one because it’s a sports anime with 100+ episodes
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There’s a sequel to that Variable Geo OVA that’s straight up hentai.
well in an effort to escape a relapse of Dennoh Coil brain rot brought on by discovering that disc 2 of its soundtrack has been uploaded to youtube, i have been watching Ghost Hound. striking thematic parallels despite airing at almost the same time
its very watchable and definitely more put together than dennoh coil. more dense and efficiently/deliberately expository of theemes, altho i feel like im missing the point by fixating on this. not sure if i’ll like it more or less in the end. i’m trying to not go into konaka joints subconsciously wanting to hate them because of the digimon debacle. its a bad habit!!
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konaka was a good writer before his brain melted and he became a covid truther dumbass.
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Spain had this charming anime called Azuki, that I only hear about from the adult / kids that had a similar channel / dub in their childhood. I only saw the series in Catalan, but it looks like the Spanish dub aired a lot more.
AnimEigo were only able to license 40 episodes. I remember the Catalan dub instead going through the whole anime (I think).
Unlike Azuki, fansub groups did finish the whole Yawara anime story. While the only way to see most of Azuki is through the ripped dubs (ESP, CAT, POR, POL, etc.)
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first (?) trailer for the witch hat atelier adaptation
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There’s still time for Anno to reach his hand out to Uru In Blue.
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I was just thinking about this the other day. Can’t remember much about it (watched it like a decade ago) other than enjoying it.
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i mean in one of the episodes a character casually throws out that theres no evidence of fossil fuels contributing to climate change and its a myth made up by nuclear power advocates so i think the seeds were already there
idk if its too obvious of me but i felt like Lain foreshadowed his turn to Internet Information Hell, even if its ostensibly about the opposite (i think?? i sort of rushed thru that show)
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He wrote an episode of Devilman Lady where taking a vaccine turns you into a monster.
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