stardust definitely had the broadest popularity/mindshare before the david prod show began (the videogame didn’t hurt!), i’m not sure that’s so true now
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yeah netflix in particular loves foregrounding pt 2 joseph in their marketing? maybe that’s just because they know i’m american and love a good con artist
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pt 2 has the biggest anime crossover appeal, laser targetting both queer anime fans with all the homoeroticism and the nazi anime fans with all the main characters being friends of the nazis.
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I absolutely admire araki’s instinct for bad taste, usually he just kills off dogs or has bad things happen to sympathetic characters but having nazi good guys for really no reason was definitely inspired
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there was a time when i’d only heard him referred to mononymically as Araki, mostly by @cigarette i think, and about the homoeroticism in the work, and i thought he must have been that Gregg Araki guy i’d heard talk about
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At the time I read Part 2 and being around the late 80s, Nazis just felt like such a far away idea that they mostly became an easy spring board for humor. Shame about the whole gestures around the past two presidential terms this.
I love Part 3 because how much of a pillar it has become for JoJo and super power battles. I do agree that it doesn’t quite translate that well on an episode to episode anime viewing. It felt more breezy in the comic so asides like oingo boingo and Hol Horse + boingo chapters felt less like an episode made to pad the episode count.
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if I had to attempt a very generous reading of Stroheim in part 2 I would say that it’s kind of interesting to have written a raiders of the lost ark villain’s opportunistic alliance because Joseph is such a con man that he’s fundamentally incorruptible and Stroheim is likewise so purely fascist in the self-aggrandizing style that he becomes almost harmless, and if you’re as utterly unconcerned about the symbolism as only non-western artists can be, it both works without being alarming and is a funny meta commentary on anime protagonists.
I would also say more succinctly that a close reading of this part is probably a bad idea and Araki arguably gets away with worse in steel ball run (which, speaking of raiders of the lost ark, will benefit greatly and lose nothing from bumping up a certain female character’s age a few years from what it is in the original text)
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yeeepppp
I’m more forgiving of it than I am of… virtually any anime leering because as written, it feels like an intentionally bad joke that she’s underage on paper and that’s pretty consistent with his attitude (when he’s also demonstrated zero interest in objectifying women over 30 years), but David productions would be crazy not to smudge that ink if and when they produce an official localization. really no reason for it.
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WHAT??I Can’t Believe I got Forcefemmed and Forcefurred in the Classic Hit arcade game Tower of Druaga!?!?!?!
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And I’m Still Horny!!!
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Looks pretty well done! Previous Ito adaptations I’ve seen have all been varying degrees of ultra-low-budget and corny. This looks like it might give the source material the respect it deserves.
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from the director of Mushishi, Flowers of Evil, and Detroit Metal City, so it at least has a confident hand working on it.
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i need to binge watch that immediately
this was a great series imo
Finished Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song, and really loved it. Definitely the best anime of the season.
Ending is a bit rushed, and I really wish they hadn’t made time travel be an element of the show, but overall, it has heart and the world-building is great.
A few scattered gripes aside, it had a really ambitious premise and it delivered nicely on it. Wrapped up in one season too!
Also caught up on The Ascendance of a Bookworm, which is adorable, very slow-paced, and generally a very pleasant watch. It’s something I put on while working out and it really doesn’t require constant attention to watch.
Has a bit of an indecisive nature about what it wants this show to be about, which isn’t the greatest thing. Sometimes, it’s this great show about how someone with modern knowledge would invent quality-of-life improvements for a peasant village. Other times, it’s like a fantasy show about some larger concerns of the kingdom in which her slum is located, and, I don’t care too much? Either that stuff needs to go somewhere, or they need to keep the scope small.
In any case, looking forward to the next season.
Regarding So I’m a Spider, So What, I’m starting to fall out of love with this thing due to a long stretch of human-focused stories that suck serious ass. Anything not directly related to the main spider fucking around is awful, and that stuff is starting to encroach on the show more and more. The latest ep had easily the worst fight scene I’ve ever seen in an anime, with like, jaw-droppingly awful CG backgrounds, attacks, etc. Someone needs to do a cut of this show that removes everything that isn’t a spider, because god damn.
Started Godzilla: Singular Point, which I a loving so far, not the least for the prominent starring role of my main man Jet Jaguar:
This show is VERY similar to a regular Godzilla movie, with all the weirdness that brings. You’ve got Psychic Guy, Goth Girl, your Cryptid-Enthusiast Computer Girl, Inexplicably Shredded Guy, and of course, Crazed Old Man Robot Pilot. A real rogue’s gallery here.
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Oh shit, I’ve been really looking forward to that Godzilla anime! I’m glad to hear positive stuff about it. Those trailers really hyped me up.
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read the manga. ive been a manga reader and i had no idea about any of that other plot shit
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