a friend showed us Flip Flappers and while I enjoyed it aside from the creepy needlessly horny bits I think by the ending of it I understood about 1/32nd of the plot
can somebody please buy that tween some shorts
i wish ccs wasnt so freaking clamp sometimes
space dandy ep 9 and bna in rotation right now
Hmm? Is this about how the older characters have yaoi marfans
no itās about the pedophile teacher and the incest
Uh oh
I donātā¦ remember that part
jojolion is ending next month
just spent the past 15 minutes screaming to myself out loud about it
i really donāt think thereās going to be a part 9 based on arakiās past comments
end of an era and idk what to do
currently watching the second season of mushishi which is pretty brutal compared to the first. people are dying, losing limbs and itās just out and out not nearly as chill as stoned me was hoping for like the first season is. def more horror and higher stakes for everyone who isnāt ginko getting possessed by mushi.
i finished bna and it was cool. loved the art direction and animation. surprised trigger didnāt do more to advertise this show. i had never heard of it before and yet itās on netflix as an original. weird right? i kind of want there to be more than 12 episodes because i found the whole thing cute really.
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Godzilla: Singular Point continues to be a real delight - Iām up to Ep10, where the kaiju materialās starting to get juicy.
I really like that Otaki Factory is now seen by the general populace as being like civilian heroes, giving them a lot of leeway. Itās a fun angle.
Jet Jaguar confirmed still friend to all children.
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Jet Jaguar rules so much in this show, yeah. I think I am an episode or two behind you.
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I never read about this because everyone was focused on the āauthenticity to the mangaā at the time, but in 2021 the main difference between FMA '03 and Brotherhood is that the Ishvallan conflict is now pointed allegory about Palestine. Apparently The Sacred Star of Milos is also allegory about Palestine in which the Amestrians are cast as a third party and the message is far muddier deontology.
I havenāt read the manga but Iām curious if the plot felt ripped from the headlines running from 2001 to 2010.
I loved Conqueror of Shamballa and itās a much better end to the brothersā characters than the tidy resolution in Brotherhood imo.
(wow that actually called for italicizing titles huh)
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I finished Godzilla: Singular Point, and it does indeed have your standard incomprehensible Godzilla movie ending.
Iād say the actual final battle is a little disappointing after so much buildup, and the core mystery of the show had become so magical at that point that I really disconnected from whatever the fuck they were talking about, but, yeah, overall, I loved that show, I really like the world theyāve built, and I hope it gets another season.
Iām trying to put in sequence what actually happens in that finale, because it has gone full JRPG plot by that point and almost doesnāt want to be followed.
Finale spoilers
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Okay so the original A.I., Naratake, copied itself onto Meiās phone early on, becoming Pero 2, so thereās been two Pero 2ās this whole show - one that lives within Jet Jaguar (Naratake, technically a copy of Naratake, making 3 copies total), and then the one that lives in Meiās cell phone but also small robot body, who renames herself after Meiās dog. Now Naratake, who is now Jet Jaguar, can also converse with Yun via his phone, so telling the two apart is pretty wild - they both have the same voice actor and mannerisms, because theyāre both copies of Naratake. So when the show is jumping between these two itās a real headache to figure out who the fuck knows what. I guess you just do it by proximity? If itās near Mei, you know youāre dealing with the Pero 2. If itās near Yun, itās Naratake/Jet Jaguar.
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Jet Jaguar starts talking about feeling emotions and being moved by matters of the heart, then gets like erased somehow and re-sets, becoming an infant. Itās very unclear why this happens. Jet Jaguar enters into the final battle against Godzilla with the mind of an infant.
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Haberu the Himbo falls to his death from 30,000 ft helping Jet Jaguar launch their flying backpack. The old man also dies. There is zero chance that either of them survived. I mention this only because it will become relevant later.
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Pero 2 meanwhile breaches into the Singular Point, which is I think a region of space underground around which an engine thing has been built in India, that they are slowly raising to the surface. The ones who built this facility donāt really seem to use the Singular Point ever, maybe they donāt know how to? In which case, an insane amount of work put it for something they canāt use. Anyways this leads to:
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Pero 2 enters into the computer system built around the Singular Point, where it fins a virtual boat with a broken hull, which was cute, but, I have no idea what that is. Iām going to assume itās the Singular Point machine sheās within. So she fixes it and then proceeds to experience every possible multiverse version of itself, and theyāre all bickering. Then, next scene with them, thereās just one Pero 2 and she says that they all came to an agreement and merged into one being. Pretty fugginā wild that they like gethed into one being or something. I guess none of that matters but itās extremely odd to bring up and resolve there. Why? It mustāve just been that the author had this idea and wanted to put it in, even if it didnāt matter.
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The virtual boat now repaired, Pero 2 then āsends Jet Jaguar the information they need to become invincibleā, which wakes up the busted-up Jet Jaguar and imbues them with red crackling power, which grows the machine to the size of Godzilla. The two exchange blows, and Jet Jaguar then tells Yun the following:
Jet Jaguarās new controlling intelligence informs Yun that it is an AI system from the future, a descendant of Pelops II and Naratake, which has been broadcasting its own code back through time using the song.
Now this has no bearing on what happens or the larger plot, itās just a thing that is rapidly explained and established. So I guess like, both A.I.s survived this encounter here, lived long into the future, had a kid, and that kid is what was sent back to fight Godzilla here? Then this is where the kid dies??
Then Big G hits Jet Jaguar with his atomic laser breath, which slices Jet Jaguar in half and kills them. So this new character that is the fusion of Pero 2 and Yung in the distant future was introduced, established as āinvincibleā, then instantly killed in one blast.
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Then, the Orthagonal Diagonalizer is triggered somehow, Godzilla is instantly vaporized, the big problem is solved, and the city is covered in crystals. I think maybe like, Peros 2 becoming overwritten with her future child unlocked this ability, I guess you the Orthagonal Diagonalizer is just a piece of code? Itās hard to over-state how frequently they talk about the Orthagonal Diagonalizer, and how little we understand by the end of the show.
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During the post-credits scene, Haberu the Himbo and the old man are both inexplicably unharmed and walking around without a scratch. Did they time travel back or something? How is this possible?
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Mecha Godzilla is shown being built by the guys that made the Singular Point engine.
Jesus.
Fingers crossed for another season of this.
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with singular point focusing overwhelmingly on scientists and shin godzilla focusing on the politics and several movies being mainly the military itās honestly time for the 90% journalist/reporter godzilla project
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odd taxi owns
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yeah itās richard scarry book of my dreams so far, hope it doesnāt choke
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my wife and I finished Hyper Police, an anime Iād somehow gotten ahold of when I was a teenager and never finished (I think I just saw the catgirl and hit download without a second thought)
itās definitely a bit aimless overall (a lot of plot threads are introduced, few will ever return*) but I enjoyed it for the very strange, silly action romp that it is, and particularly for how clueless Natsuki is, despite being seemingly the most powerful being in the universe?
*except, apparently, in the manga, which Iām tempted to try reading to see how I feel about it
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I had a really long, emotionally intense week. Youtube recommended me the ā5 centimeters a secondā soundtrack and when it got to the soaring track for the scene āafter weeks of cold gray skies the warm summer weather returns, Kanae feels a sudden burst of optimism and confidence and sets off to the ocean, and for the first time ever surfs a wave successfullyā I felt an almost desperate desire to rewatch that scene specifically. But itās not on youtube and looks like they recently removed the movie from crunchyroll. Ahhhhhhhh
Oh thank goodness I remembered I have a pirate copy on my hard drive from the old days. I needed that nostalgia hit
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cominā in hot to catch up and ruin some discourse
I donāt know if youāve started yet because itās been a month but Iām begging you, donāt do this to yourself
itās not worth it
just write some fanfic, itāll probably have a more coherent plot, better character motivations and tighter (or any) pacing
oooooohhhhh shit, I missed a chance to dunk on Flip Flappers
let me start out by telling everyone that ultimately the show is about a woman who got turned into a child trying to be Good Friends with her former best friendās daughter and that this late-game revelation just completely makes everything before it a million times skeevier
just imploring everyone to watch one of the billion Precure shows and pretend that the protags are gay for each other instead
stop making magical girl shows for adult male nerds, it just doesnāt work
the opening is real pretty though
hey I watched Beastars S2 because there was nothing better to do. I donāt know how much to blame the source material and how much to blame the adaptation but I donāt think itās trying to say anything because trying to parse any of it is ???
are all the carnivore/herbivore relzationships some kind of psychosexual metaphors for dom/sub? does the revelation of who ate Tem mean it was supposed to be a homosexual thing? did it literally have to be a bear if thatās the case? that seems a bit too on the nose, doesnāt it? are you telling me wolf homeboy ate a grub and now understands the purity of the life cycle? they kinda go back the āfurries as stand-in for race relationsā thing except they also go āwell carnivores can just accidentally main their herbivore buddies at any momentā and I just
thereās so much rich worldbuilding but it seems like the attempt to explore feels inert in comparison
Iām shocked to be existing in a world where, a year later, I think BNA is the saner, more meaningful exploration of things, and BNA is literally āPromare but four times as long and half as confidentā
maybe I should stop trying to read into subtext that isnāt there
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i liked yashahime
felt like i was 14 again watching whatever tapes i could get my hands on, regardless of quality
Odd Taxi really is good, holy shit. I didnāt see the Satoshi Kon comparison at first, but then the fourth episode, the one about addictive mobile games, could slot right into the first half of Paranoia Agent. When the guy broke his phone just after finally getting the rare dodo, I almost expected Lilā Slugger to roll in and wack him.
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