Been watching the new Fruits Basket, which is supposed to follow the manga all the way, now that the manga’s finished.
It is like, identical, to the original show, almost exactly. A few refinements here and there, art’s better, slightly less charming (the lower budget of the orig led to some fun touches), music is great, voice actors are completely the same… overall, it’s… the same show again.
Which isn’t a bad thing, honestly! I am an absolute sucker for this show and the most sappy shit that happens gets me sobbing, each episode. It’s hard to mind any of the re-treading when the story is so delightful.
Definitely enjoying it a lot. I don’t know why this show is so cathartic and adorable to me, but it really is and it’s always a delight to put it on after a stressful day.
one impression i can’t really shake is that the overwhelming majority of new toon material is about teenagers-to-young adults and i can find that more than a little exhausting where are the cartoons about old shits like me
i miss watching incredibly bad slayers vhs dubs in my friends basement at 2am and feeling like the world must be much, much bigger than i had once believed. it was similar to the feeling i got stumbling upon IC in my late teens
idk why anybody is surprised over the forum dads (ilu) arguing with queer ID’d folks about why anime makes them uncomfortable. this is a tale as old as time
idk where this fits into the conversation here, but something i’m continually intrigued by is how thoroughly anime has become mainstream at this point in teenage culture, at least with my kids.
like, all kids watch anime. the jocks, the nerds, the artsy kids, whoever. everyone loves the shit out of My Hero Academia and Dragon Ball Super and Attack on Titan and all that other stuff.
they are aware hentai exists, they are probably (mostly) unaware of nazi boat girl anime.
regardless, they understand multitudes.
edit: i like to do the old man thing and tell them “in my day, if i wanted to see anime, i had to buy bootlegs VHS tapes from some guy in a basement in a Chinatown”
i guess i just felt compelled to share because i feel like whatever “stigma” wrt anime is being discussed here is largely unfelt by anyone under the age of probably late 20s.
