my favourite part is the typography lol
You knowā¦ I love my Froppy and All Mights and everything to death, but My Hero Academia has got to have some of the crappiest pacing and plotting of any anime in recent memory.
This latest season, which took forever to come out, dicked around aimlessly for the entire season before cramming an entire arcās worth of information into three episodes at the end. There are so many dramatic moments and reveals in the second-to-last episode that couldāve been sprinkled throughout the season, rather than forced to occupy a single half hour.
Bleh.
Edit: Oh! I guess thereās eight more episodes?? I take it back I guess. Weird how little has actually happened so far, though.
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Yeah, MHA is a very faithful adaptation that made the choice to rely on filler as little as possible but as a result the pacingās much slower than it should be, with stuff like panels you can tell were meant to last barely a blink in the manga being turned into anime still frames that last uncomfortably long.
That being said Iām happy because weāre on the brink of entering the youtuber villain arc which features one of my fave bad guys ever. Itās also interesting as a glimpse into what can steer the creative process since it started about a month after whatshisname went to film himself with a dead body in japan, so the inspiration seems obvious (even though social media as a villain promotion factor has already been a thing earlier in MHA).
@cylindrome Iāve got an acquaintance whoās super into anime typography, especially in Gainax and Trigger shows. I think heās written a treatise on Eva typography for fun and the bits heās explained are super interesting.
EDIT: a propos of nothing, the otherwise forgettable new ending credits are kinda doing a thing. As in, most of those happy school life photographs feature a person who died or got tragically depowered in the service of justice, or who became a villain because they couldnāt find their place in society (in two cases because their quirk is perceived as inherently problematic despite being a core part of their identity), which I guess is in keeping with the themes of this arc and the manga in general. Theyāre failures but failures of the system which is interesting in a work that places a lot of emphasis on education.
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iām reading akira for the first time rn (just started book 4) and how has no one told me about Chiyoko and how much she rules???
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Her absence is definitely the biggest loss in the jump from book to film
So can anybody give the rundown on that new anime that Funimation suddenly stopped dubbing after only three episodes because they realized they had accidentally licensed hentai?
Yes, this sounds worth talking about extensively.
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If that sounds sardonic, itās not meant to be. I mean, I donāt know what this is, but it promises to be amazing.
And/or this being an earlier conjecture than the linkās official statement:
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from what some people are saying, the show showās more stuff than the comic did in terms of actual sexual content
having watched the uncensored version of the third episode, which pretty much stops short of showing penetration (though you do get to see the halfling take a dildo in the ass, which, Iām sure someone will make the argument that showing two nude halflings is just a stand-in for loli content) and also features sort-of bestiality, no, itās actually pretty much porn and I get the feeling theyāre thinking ahead and getting cold feet on releasing the uncensored version come time for the home video release. which they probably donāt want again since theyāve had some unpleasantness with putting out a censored cut of a show in the past year or so (their claim was they put out what they got masters for)
I like show well enough so Iām bummed (god bless the cool lady doing the translation and script for it) but also if IR dying is the trade-off for the teased Paranoia Agent release, well 
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Weathering With You was a pretty good music video that got blown up into a movie. Stellar visuals of big blobby water and backgrounds tied together to find the shortest distance to your emotional centers. Not any good at actually trying to convey a message or asking the audience to take anything from it.
Thereās nothing we can do about climate change unless we want someone else to take care of it. We certainly canāt make a group effort to help it.
so if patlabor sounds like a really cool thing i have somehow never checked out despite reading a lot of super play praise in ~1995 uh, whatās the first thing to watch? thereās a series and some movies right?
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IIRC, thereās only two animated continuities and they both are pretty easy to follow?
Early Days OVA->Patlabor The Movie->Patlabor 2->WXII is one, and it tends a little to a lot darker and more dramatic but the OVA is still pretty goofy.
The other is Patlabor TV->New Files OVA series. This one tends much goofier.
The first OVA is probably the place to start, IMO. It balances the serious and goofy in equal measures.
Much to my great shame, I still havenāt seen the movies yet. But Iām working through my big Patlabor box set slowly. I have seen the original OVAs and TV show all the way through though and they are delightful.
Also Noa Izumi is the literal actual best girl even though she is tragically, a cop.
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Patlabor 2 is real cool if you want to see Mamoru Oshii do his thing two years before Ghost in the Shell with an equal number of pretty shots of Japanese city sprawl
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like tiger said,
first ova (āearly daysā) -> tv series -> second ova (āthe new filesā) is basically the cronology.
the movies are very much their own thing, w the first two being about corrupt corporate groups, uneasy relations w japanese nationalism + the jsdf, international crime and the āforever warsā. the third movie is kind of a sober halloween-special type deal
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having just gone through it all in the last few months, i did the tv timeline first (Patlabor on Television --> The New Files) and then the movie chronology (Early Days OVA --> Patlabor (movie) --> Patlabor 2).
that works fine, but even though it wouldāve been disrupting the movie chronology with an extended break for the tv chronology, i think production order (so putting the so-called āEarly Daysā OVA first, then TV, then New Files, then all movies) would make the most sense for a new viewer. the tv series totally makes sense without the ova, but i think production order is the way to go.
(i still havenāt watched the third movie, I confess)
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I feel production order is the way to go for basically just about anything.
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thatās really, really true
Pat 2 really feels like its in the Ghost In the Shell universe.
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I watched a few episodes of the new Fruits Basket this week and observed the same thing, that itās nearly identical to the older series in many ways. The characters looked a little off at first because I was used to the old art style, but I quickly got used to the new look. Since it had been many years, I watched a few clips of the old series just now and I guess the new animation is better.
I never finished reading the comics because I was collecting those bargain-priced hardcover editions until the publisher went out of business. I donāt think they made it very far past the end of the original show. Maybe if I stick with the new series I will finally get to the end of the story.
finally watching an an*me after many years. iām watching secret of blue water. only 7 episodes in and shit already got really dark.
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