That’s fair! I really enjoyed Part 5 (minus the throwback eps, which could have stood to be considerably less faithful to their source material*). This is not as easy to enjoy.
*At least, I’m assuming they’re faithful. They certainly don’t have much of anything else going for them. That, said, they provide useful context as to why Fujiko Mine was something they felt they could do.
I love fujiko mine the character but my rememberance of that particular ova was that it was just as sexualized as normal but everyone told me it was feminist because a woman directed it lol
The main thing that’s consistent with her character in every lupin series is that she gets naked, probably sexually menaced, but has zero redeeming qualities whatsoever which is of course the real reason why we love her
she is a very talented motorcyclist!!
Just finished watching the last two seasons of the new Urusei Yatsura and for some reason the subs have the dark dominion characters talking almost entirely in British slang. Lots of ‘knob head’, ‘guts for garters’, ‘chuck a wobbly’, ‘twat’ etc. Maybe it’s supposed to be a reference to that UK dub of the original?
excellent
Commonwealth English anime subtitles are the perfect way tae see awthing fae the '80s an '90s, cos it reminds ye o when Manga Entertainment wur the lords o the Anglo anime VHS boom.
a new indie oav with very 90s-looking character designs
Another cartoon that I like, that I wish I had grown up with. I like its jazz and white backgrounds. They really make you feel like you are reading a picture book. Most of the episodes are found in good quality in YouTube, so I went with these two VHS rips to nail a rainy afternoon watch vibe.
A SB member asked me why I mostly post and talk children’s cartoons here. I have got this crazy idea where I run a stream / feed that plays mostly slow and/or reflective animation. Like what a chill out lounge would be like if it did animation instead of chill out music to people who want to relax or enjoy the quiet. I have always made a spot with low stake and down to earth narrative animation because as I got older I got tired of JRPG / save the (noun) driven media, with the epic, character / story arc that span multiple episodes.
A lot of what I like is aimed at young kids because a lot of them were from children’s literature or from children’s channels, but I still like more serious animation like Lain, and stylish action like Bebop or Champloo. Most of the anime that I go back to are for music or creative direction. I don’t like most cute girls doing cute things canon. To me, the iyashikei genre is only good when it deals with a setting or subject matter that I am interested about.
I wish the sub genre had caught on to western studios into adult animation, like, Downtown, Mission Hill, Daria, Beavis & Butt-head, Crapston Villas, 3-South, Undergrads, The PJs, etc. Where it is about teenager and adult life and the people near them. Other than Daria with her family, those are not really another family sitcom that tries to get on The Simpsons formula.
They were more Seinfeld; mundane. So it is not for lack of maturity most cartoons I post about are for kids or teens, they are the majority of slow cartoons that I find online, because slow cartoons for older viewers are more rare than ever, outside passion movies from Europe, because every adult cartoon in America and Canada wants to look and be like Family Guy, South Park, and Rick & Morty. These days you won’t get the kind of improv comedy you used to in the first Adult Swim years or the creative animation you saw from MTV / Liquid Television.
I know it is live action, but my dream cartoon would be something like this. A series about 20 something adults living in a flat in the United Kingdom while taking place between 99 to 01. Especially because of the music that was featured on this show.
We are going to party like how good life was before 9/11.
like a british version of downtown?
Yes, that would be ideal. It is usually American and Canadian life that gets portrayed in cartoons. Would be nice to see in Scotland, for me, personally. Since a lot of attempts to capture life in Scotland that is not from children’s books like Katie Morag, usually ends up being Irvine Welsh imitators. I like his stories, but there is more to being Scottish than that or Still Game, you know? Especially in the late '90s and early '00s, when the British electronic scene had a notable presence in non British media, idm, jungle, drum and bass, ambient techno, big beat, and all that tasty bleepy shit, being heard in video games, movies, shows, etc. outside Britain.
Halfway through season 8 of Rick and Morty.
Thankfully every episode since has been better than episode 1 so it’s shaping up to be a good season.
aww now i wanna rewatch Spaced again for like the fifth time
i wonder how my life would have changed if it successfully got me into Prefab Sprout at an earlier age. probably not much, but definitely for the better
it definitely influenced my sense of humor a helluva lot, if i ever get blessed by a djinn with a cartoon show of my own you’ll get at least a little bit of what you’re looking for Fado. i think about the episode with the finger gun fight scenes all the time
Having read many manga about music, I do wish there was manga about record collecting and record stores. I don’t mean the record collecting part like just buying and hoarding stuff. I mean like the people who look for rare records and there is a story behind them. One of the things that got me interested in hip hop albums, when I was still new to the hip hop scene, and its history, was how some musicians would look for rare records to build samples out of them for their own music (rare grooves), and how some people repurpose old songs, and make new songs out of them, in a way that gets other people interested in both the original source, and the genre being used for it. I am aware that sampling as a creative medium, has a lot of controversies and prejudices behind it, some of it which is the fault of people who just take samples without doing anything creative, it is true that lazy sampling exists, but there are people who know how to make sampling into an art form, and as a learning opportunity for other music nerds. I think that some controversial hip hop historians like Questlove, can make good stories (either through comic or animation) as what it is like to grow up interested in black and latin music, how people from different cultural and ethnic lives have come together through shared love of music (records, artists, history, producing, DJing, dancing, etc.) be it through a band, a record store, or a club.
Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou hits a lot of these notes about DJing and crate digging and the community around it. I don’t know if the manga is in English but they translated the anime. (The live action migh also have a sub/fansub?)
