kenji nakamura def deserves his share of blame
look at his series director credits besides mononoke
Trapeze, [C]: Control, Tsuritama, and Gatchaman Crowds
shallow, pretentious garbage
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hard to argue with that, just several iterations of an inspector calls
It took until this post for me to realize we were not discussing Princess Mononoke. I was very concerned.
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yeah i was gonna say it felt like all style no substance, this makes sense. v glad to not be alone in mononoke hate its been recommended to me multiple times 
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seems like this yearās one good futurama episode might be over already. itās NFTs (i know, three years too late) and iām fucking dying. i canāt even keep up with the jokes theyāre so fast
The episode before that might have been pretty good if theyād thought of an ending.
the medicine seller is an all timer of a character design but the show is just bad mushishi
mushishi is excellent though, donāt let this comparison be seen as a disparagement of mushishi
the director of the mushishi anime is the one doing the new uzumaki adaptation
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i wish i liked junji ito 1/10th as much as i do other guro manga artists ALSO YES MUSHISHI ROCKS
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a new batman cartoon came out today!
i watched the first episode and itās pretty good. uses a lot of the btas formula: tells a whole story in a single episode, set at some vague mashup time of every part of the past hundred years, etc.
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Just watched the first episode as well. Great start! Also loved the call back to the intro sequence from the Animated Series (youāll know it when you see it 
).
Also really digging how theyāre using all the same characters as before but changing them slightly. Didnāt know that Penguin is female this time arojnd! Stuff like thatās a nice surprise.
Hamish Linklater seems to be alright as Batman so far. Heās not quite aping Kevin Conroy and his voice is a bit softer. I think heās fine.
Looking forward to watching the rest. Kind of disappointed there are only 10 episodes. Maybe itāll get picked up again for more.
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I watched three more episodes of Caped Crusader. Canāt say Iāve been disappointed yet. I like how Bruce Wayne doesnāt respond to therapy because of course he wouldnāt. Maybe thatās his character arc. He actually deals with the trauma of losing his parents and stops being Batman.
Osaka station also has the incredibly bizarre āChicago Galleryā beneath it with a dedication from, iirc, Blagojevich, and a bunch of improbably expensive art just hanging in a subway hallway
I got a kick out of it when passing by, because it feels like a sister cities kickback deal that the Japanese treated with characteristic earnestness
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Watching the Olympics had me wondering about it so I looked it up and saw that earlier this year, the Yuri on Ice movie was canceled, which is a drag
So what is Yamamoto Sayo up to now?
after all these decades of being lazy and add-riddled, i finally sat down and watched all 26 episodes of the original evangelion. real controversial opinion here: i thought it was awesome. though, it probably isnāt all that great i found myself relating to shinji an awful lot. an awful, awful lot.
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I finished Caped Crusader. So I guess this was basically an origin story season unlike the original series which didnāt do origin stories, except for original characters. The running theme here seems to be āmake it like the original but different in every wayā. More grounded and realistic, though a couple episodes featured villains that were supernatural.
Like one episode the bad guy is a straight up ghost. You think itās going to be revealed that heās a dude in a costume with clever technology but nope heās just a ghost exactly like he appears to be. Seemed out of place here though thereās plenty of supernatural-ish stuff going on in the overall Batman lore.
Iād watch another season if it happens.
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I sat down for 2 or 3 eps last night. So far perfectly cromulent but for being more obvious a period story my memories of the BTAS feels like it plays better for that despite being a weird era amalgamation that slides closer to modern as it goes. The setting backdrops feel a little to clean for what they seem to want be doing.
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followed up on this by watching end of evangelion today
uh, yeah, wow. yeah, man.
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Finally started watching Steven Universe recently. I had a bunch of character reveals spoiled by Tumblr fanart from years ago but other than that, a lot of the show is small backstory reveals to something bigger which has been interesting to see unfold alongside the show - which is really really good and Iām liking a lot.
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iām gonna be interested to learn what my niece n neph think about that one as and when it appears in their orbit
no idea if kids even like it