With just a couple of high-profile exceptions I have never liked an anime series more than a movie. There’s just so much more concentrated money and therefore artistry
Then again I feel mostly the same way about live action movies vs. TV so maybe it’s more about the punchy and complete way stories are presented
bring back oavs tbh, the people’s anime format
i guess now those would have to be netflix original movies or some crap.
I am not inherently against the idea of outside entities coming in and throwing a bunch of money at studios and going “One anime please”
Netflix has arguably done good for the shows where they came in early instead of swooping in and buying rights and the rise of streaming in mainland China has made the industry flush with cash (that, uh, doesn’t always show up on the final product), which is its own double-edged sword
but hey maybe you guys could throw me a bone and make some more weird or action shit
finished Carole & Tuesday (well, the 12 episodes available atm). a friend of mine seemed pissed that the show cut off at what he described as an inopportune time to cut off buuuttt…idk. if Netflix absolutely has to be dumb about these things, where it ends makes as much sense as it could.
anyway, i love the show
netflix put out a bad doc, nerd hates it but does go on to talk about terrible anime working conditions.
i really like most of carole and tuesday but the way it frequently uses queerness as a punchline is really frustrating
yeah there are aspects of what it’s doing that feel mishandled and like they’re possibly trying to be cool, but not really succeeding.
also i’ve kept thinking that Carole & Tuesday are going to openly start dating for the last few episodes and tbh i’m a little sad that that probably isn’t where it’s going.
given how other queer or gnc characters are handled i hope they don’t cuz they’re gonna fuck it up. like manager-dude being shocked his ex left him cuz she’s not straight and C&T’s awkward reaction to her kissing her partner feels like they’re projecting what they assume their viewer’s reaction would be onto these characters. it feels anachronistic in this ostensibly diverse Neo New York to see someone shocked by a relationship between two cis women
i mean i guess shouldn’t be surprised, watanabe employed similar “look the future is so Weird and everyone is ok with it but you and i, viewer, are shocked!” stuff in cowboy bebop with Gren. but bebop also had the first nb character i can recall seeing in media (and has even clarified in later interviews that Ed’s gender is “Ed”) so i guess he’s always been a mixed bag?
the anime thread is a thread for conflicted feelings
in summary, carole & tuesday’s views on queerness and gender are 
fuuuckin bullshit / fuckin bullshiiit 
i mean what can i say, this is all inarguably true. the show would definitely have been helped by having someone on staff who was queer, considering how much it has a role in the show.
but, yeah:
oh sorry, i guess i was kind of arguing at you when i was more trying to unpack my feelings on it! my bad.
haha no, honestly, i didn’t take it that way, and i more-than-half suspected that someone would eventually voice these concerns after i brought the show up. i just didn’t really see it as my place to do so.
seeing it in the show made me sad, because everything about it touches me really deeply, and i wish it were hitting all of its marks.
oh, also there something that feels hinted at with Angela’s mom that really rubbed me the wrong way and i’m hoping my prediction is totally wrong.
Theatrical version is mostly just an edited down version of the ova, fyi
yeah, that scene is pure koji morimoto energy
If you haven’t yet, watch Noiseman Sound Insect
hell yea koji morimoto
Foravorite
If we get the transient facts
Then we’ll feel the info-high…“lightning speed waltz”
Layered vocals just as so here on the verses with fade-vocoded pitch dropped underneath, are never enough a thing
