did I mention that Sigsawa is responsible for GGO as a series
maybe I can trick more people into watching it if I say “from the author of Kino’s Journey”
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same
in all fairness, they probably already know what to expect with AoT and Jojo’s since they made their own live-action movies already
Can we make that a law for all cartoons, not just Japanese ones?
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I demand a third Flintstones film
we simply cannot waste all that production design
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okay now that I’ve successfully tricked someone into watching SAO Alt:GGO, I gotta get people into Bofuri
Bofuri is about a girl who doesn’t play videogames playing an MMO and deciding that the answer to “I don’t want to take damage” is “EVERY POINT INTO VIT” and this begins her ascent into accidental godhood
when I say “godhood” I mean the game admins pop up a few times to go “oh fuck she broke the fucking game” and they have to target nerf her build
AND YET SHE ENDURES
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im reading it does that count
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sure, yes
anything to give Kadokawa enough money to convince them to make a Maple figure with big shield that I can have on my desk
My gf and I started watching JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, starting with season 1 on Netflix. The first episode was just boring and extremely unpleasant, barely got through it. We gave it another try and the second and third episodes were not nearly as bad, though they were still nothing special. I believe this show has to get good, based on its rapturous reception here. My gf wants to drop it though. She needs an anime to have heart, with characters that she can care about. Does this show ever get to that point, or is it always just goofy action without any stakes?
absolutely, yes – imo the first season has plenty of heart but it’s the most abbreviated, hyperbolic and macho of them all (in addition to being a naked Fist of the North Star ripoff). Remember it’s like doctor who and the characters and setting change every season when there’s a new jojo. It never gets any less hyperbolic and macho, but it becomes a lot more gay and colourful and adds bigger casts of characters to make up for it. I think the “stakes” as presented are great, but if you aren’t getting along with the tone (and phantom blood doesn’t give you a lot to work with), I can see being turned off by it.
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I personally think the anime is too ugly to watch and I could not stick with it
I went looking for clips to see if it ever improves and there aren’t many on youtube other than reaction videos that go to great lengths to avoid copyright strikes
I bet this guy’s younger and way richer than me but I am still going to feel superior to him because I do not own any Two Things shirts
There’s lots of great anime on Tubi. I recommend checking out Tubi. I’m not kidding here, they have lots of great anime on Tubi.
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Also, the numbering around the first few seasons of the anime is weird – because they only did like 7 episodes of the first chapter and 14 or so of the second, they wound up calling it all “season 1” (as in a single production order and release schedule) even though it’s clearly 1 & 2, and then because chapter 3 has so many filler episodes to match the early 90s tone, that wound up spanning seasons 2 and 3 of the anime. so depending on where you’re watching it, it might not be until “season 4” that you’re actually watching chapter 4 of jojo (and 1:1 thereafter).
2 4 7 are generally the favourites and I co-sign that view. the anime attempts to be faithful to Araki’s aesthetic style in each era, which means that 1 and 3 can look a little off at times.
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oh and Araki loves to kill dogs in order to subvert audience expectations that you should never kill a dog so that definitely comes up again
I guess they do frontload some bizarrely unpleasant stuff in the first episode
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has your gf watched haibane renmei
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also I cannot think of a single straight woman I know who can stand it, come to think of it, whereas all the dudes and queers I know who keep up with anime at all (and in my case jojo is probably like 75% of my anime/manga consumption of the past 5 years) love it. maybe something there idk
Nope, not familiar!
you should watch haibane renmei!! everyone itt who hasn’t watched haibane renmei should watch haibane renmei
yeah i think i’m too straightish for jojos
but also haibane renmei is pretty gay
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I do think a significant part of why it’s so popular lately is that taking a work that’s perceived as too chauvinist and deciding to queer it up rather than tone it down is a very 2010s solution, and jojo has been there all along, but it definitely only expands your audience in one direction
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agreeing with this
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