still re-watching utena and i didn’t think it was possible to love as show as much as i love this one. iit’s a masterpiece through and through and i’m enjoying my time with it immensely. i still love anthy and totally relate to utena. i still want juri to call me ( juri i am available pls ditch your crush she is terrible! )
utena forever
i’m on a bit of a break from utena but i’m gonna go back to watching it soon. was thinking just now that it would great to re-watch kill la kill while i’m at it. that was a fun time and i def need to chill and have some fun lately. hunter x hunter is still on hold. i’m near the end of the chimera ant arc.
i miss kurapika and leorio so much. i do appreciate how killua has been developed. gon too. gon is kinda scary lmao. still kinda mad that he came so close to meeting jing but i guess i see why the meeting was delayed a bit longer. have a sense of foreboding ab my fave and i’m just steeling myself because i’m p sure i know what’s going to happen to them even tho i don’t know the details. . .
i have been cursed since hp days of my favorites dying. that’s the main reason i took a break. here’s to having fun with girls with swords soon.
finished “turn A gundam” last week.
truly incredible. it’s the one time i’ve seen a war story treat “pacifism” as a serious proposition. like, usually whenever it comes up it’s all speeches and concern-trolling. in turn A the whole story spins around the idea of how to score a favorable peace deal between two factions, wherein each faction constantly tries to subvert terms and gather advantages for themselves while skirting the thin lines of a fraught ceasefire. in this scenario, pacifism means shedding light to these schemes, trying to mediate with force, assistance and/or dialogue on a case-by-case way to ensure a just deal is signed in the end.
it’s also about assymetric warfare, the social impacts of technological catch-up, shifting identities, the way we read history and israeli colonialism in palestine (!?). pure genius. it’s The Best Gundam Thing
been a while since i made a real post here. hi, everyone!
100% agreed, Turn A is the best Gundam thing by far
all the thematic stuff aside, it’s also really visually beautiful. like if studio ghibli made a giant robot tv show.
i’ve been watching it on blu ray, but when i want to make some gifs for tumblr, i had to dig out my ancient dvd-rs full of fansubs, and the difference in quality is really amazing! i’m usually a bit of a hd sceptic, but it’s really a massive upgrade for this show
true! i forgot to mention but yeah, it’s visually gorgeous and anyone who shittalks the mecha designs because they are weird is a weakling who won’t survive past winter
where’s my perfect grade white doll bandai you shits
We finished the first season of Ancient Magus Bride and it was so good!
Ending thoughts spoilers:
Chise needing to reckon with the fact that all the adults who severely traumatized her were actually just human beings struggling under difficult circumstances themselves and not outsized ogres specifically attempting to make her life miserable was really well handled imo.
It always surprises me that there’s so much media about trauma these days when it’s honestly one of the hardest things to approach with serious honesty without being either maudlin and precious or weird obvious wish-fulfillment on the part of the author. I like that Chise wasn’t ever able to get all the answers about her past because those people are gone, and in the end there is really no glorious revelation of self-discovery—she just needs to decide whether she’s going to keep mythologizing her own past to justify her suffering as some cataclysmic event or, you know, grow up and learn to accept the unflattering and often mundane reality that all the horrible things that happened don’t really add up to anything; they’re just the actions of people.
Kind of a bummer to know that, since it was good, it’s now going to get 20 minutes of OVA a year forever, as is the way of anime.
Hey, at least it actually finished an arc!
turn A was the first gundam I ever watched and that’s why I’ve had tremendous difficulty liking any other robot show or gundam series
The one and only Gundam series I ever watched was Gundam SEED Destiny and I made a decision then and there that I would make a blanket assumption henceforth that every Gundam series is exactly like SEED and for all I know it is TRUE
Sounds like you need to watch Turn A and G Gundam
Then we can enter a suicide pact to watch Wing
i have said it before elsewhere:
evangelion is a mecha show about mentally ill people
gundam wing is a mecha show about insane people
I will do just that.
hey, Duo and Treize seem pretty sane and grounded
though I guess that’s because everyone else is so incredibly off their rockers
and I guess “hey drone warfare is bad and dehumanizing” is a p lukewarm take, even in the mid 90s
As I always say In these: Watch the original gundam and Zeta first. They’re good! They hold up really really well! The first show has occasionally jank animation and both get occasionally goofy but that’s part of why they’re good.
in season 2 of Dragon Ball and just getting into the Muscle Tower arc. it’s funny how just Dragon Ball just set the tone and tropes for the entire genre and people haven’t even really innovated on it that much. like the “punch line” (heh) of One Punch man hits about the same as it does in Dragon Ball, but instead of a kind of apathetic guy with no clear explanation for his powers, it’s a little child with no clear explanation for his powers (until Z, at least).
the series really just did it all.
i’ve heard people say the same thing about Eva and Gundam, and it just makes me wonder about when the actual decline of anime began
anyway, series is a lot of fun. i enjoy how Super really gets back to a lot of what made DB fun. Z has elements of that, but once the Cell Saga hits it becomes pretty morose until Majin Buu shows up
