This is neat! No, I’m just watching the cut that’s more or less like the original because a big part of it for me is to practice my Spanish listening.
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you better not be shitting on the greatest anime op of all time grandpa
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Watching the Spanish dub of One Piece is paying off because I just recognized a very good pun. Smoker is called Malhumo. Malhumo is a combination of bad and smoke but it also sounds like malhumor which is Spanish for grumpy.
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Tried watching Gundam F91 but called time after 30 minutes. What a mess.
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so soon? I feel like the first half hour of f91 is absolutely splendid because you get all that gorgeous animation. It only really falls apart once it expects you to care about the characters or plot
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Bullet shells falls down, makes big sound and one of them pounds a woman to death.
All I remember F91 is this, very rare scene to show how destructive a Mobile Suit to human in Gundam animation, 10/10
Of course I admit that the ending hug is little awkward, many music vids like it.
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This opening was, no joke, 100% responsible for getting me to try One Piece (also, the very first One Piece thing I ever saw). My bro and I had been watching the 4Kids Ninja Turtles when the first ep of this came up on afterwards, and the sheer amount of WTF in the opening sold us on giving it a shot better than anything else would have.
As a general comment I’m as much of a cynic about trends in animation as anyone but Stone Ocean 2, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Tatami Time Machine, Chainsaw Man, SpyxFamily 2, Mob Psycho 3, To Your Eternity 2, Bleach Whatever AND Urusei Yatsura coming out in the next six weeks is pretty cool.
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def excited for these three
Swap Mob for TYE and that’s about where I’m at, more referring to stuff people want to see et al there.
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Combattler V ended up being a rougher watch than I had expected, and I probably wouldn’t have finished it if I’d been giving it my full attention instead of keeping it on in the background while crafting in FF14. The show started out with the extreme violence against cities that I’d expected and anticipated from a 1970s anime, and had some weak implementation of multi-episode plot threads. The first quarter even ends with a climactic final confrontation with the leader of the antagonist force…
…who then comes back completely unscathed in the next episode. This is /almost/ a plot thread that the last episode of the first half resolves, except that the rest of the part 1 episodes have almost no other plot threads between them, and they largely scale back on giving any of the characters any internal life outside of being a robot pilot.
And then the second half of the show replaces the first villains, who have realistic emotional goals that drive them to their antagonism, with a new set of villains who want to fight the Combattler because they’re strong. It also introduces 2 Scrappy Doos.
These two brats invite themselves onto the show, become the lead characters of each story, and make the next 15 episodes almost unwatchable.
And then halfway through part 2 there’s an episode with noticeably better animation, the two kids are onscreen long enough to do something useful to the plot and then get off screen, Hyouma ramps a car over a Magma Beast, and then each episode after that becomes significantly more watchable. Friends, at one point Combattler V does an electromagnetic hurricane, and the electromagnetic hurricane is cross countered. I cheered.
I suspect the kids were added to the show at the request of the sponsor, and after a month or two the studio pushed back and argued “Putting child characters into the anime isn’t going to sell the toy. Making the toy look good is going to sell the toy.” By the end I can understand the series having its fans, even if you can very easily make a trimmed down watch order of the first 12 episodes, the middle two episodes, and the last 12 episodes.
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hmm maybe i should watch gundam for the backgrounds
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DIRECTOR’S CUT OF LEGEND OF HEI, BEST SEASON EVER 
My girlfriend had gotten really into decorating things with stickers and she got a pack of Beastars stickers and I asked her if she’s seen the show and I found out she hasn’t I said ‘no, sorry, I gatekeep’ so now we’re watching that.
We’re about halfway through the first season and I was rambling while doing errands that part of what makes it so special to me is how female gaze it is. You’d be confused as to why a romance from the girl’s perspective doesn’t even have her appear in most episodes but the show’s actual fantasy is imagining that the extremely boring men with no personalities that you crush on actually have extremely rich inner lives and she told me ‘no shut the fuck up stop talking.’ The universal experience of women who are into men 
Once you realize Beastars is a boyfriend fantasy it gets so funny because it’s like, here’s Legoshi who is basically a herbivore egg and his big character development moments are always filled with voice overs going ‘For the first time ever, I acted like the wolf I am!’ or ‘For once, I acted like a man and it felt great!’ and it’s like, homegirl, leave the non-functioning, anxiety ridden slouchboys alone and just date someone who already likes being the person you want them to be
And then! the show is good and people like it because Legoshi is the saddest, most pathetic boy ever and all character development does for him is make him less what people like lol
Like, the appeal of Legoshi, as stated in the show, is that he’s ‘nice’ and the whole show is like, ‘boy I like guys who are nice but I don’t like all this other stuff about them. I sure wish a boy could be nice but actually behave like a giant dickhead’
To put it another way, it’s about being into a boy because he’s nonthreatening and then being like, ‘yeah but I wish he would threaten me ykwim 
’ and it’s just like, not really? You want to date the biggest bottom on the planet, you’re gonna have to learn to live with, you know, dating a bottom 
I love how it just introduces plot points at its connivence and doesn’t feel beholden to making them make any sense with what we’ve already seen, or feel the need to keep them up. Minor example but it really stood out to me this time through: there’s a scene that straight up says ‘Everyone has to eat in the cafeteria, it’s a rule!’ but we’ve already seen Haru eating outside the cafeteria, and literally every scene of people eating we’ve seen so far after it is somewhere else. Completely unhinged storytelling.
People make a big deal out of the Legoshi/Rouis homoerotic/t4t vibes but the actual secret of the show is that the lady can not write dialogue between two characters without it being horny. There’s a scene where two girls are talking about trying to find boys to date and I yelled at the screen ‘those two are gay wtf!’ and then it is immediately followed by two guys talking about getting girlfriends and I had to yell, ‘those two are also gay!’
Just an entire tv show getting by on vibes where the vibe is ‘I’m horny, but not in a functional member of society way, or even in a furry way, but the tinnitus buzz of a teenage fanfic writer’
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It’s wild to read 25 years of a comic in two months, but I’ll say - One Piece is pretty good.
Now I gotta read something else on this app. Guess I’ll get into Chainsaw Man.
Edit: OK all read up on Chainsaw Man. It’s OK. In like, “it’s OK,” not the way I’m saying One Piece is “pretty good” when it’s actually incredible.
Started Dragon Ball and holy shit, this translation is all over the goddamn place. Jarring enough that I jumped to Dr. Slump, which still rules, save some deeply problematic gags, at least early on.
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i had never even heard this name before i read these tweets but rip
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I finished watching the Urobuchi-authored parts of Psycho-Pass (season 1 and the first movie). Intriguing how it’s in a totally different genre from Madoka but very visibly by one author with similar interests. In particular the core idea of mental health as objectively manifested outside of the self for all to see, with the machine-analyzed “latent criminality number” on the one hand, and the cloudiness of the magical Soul Gem on the other.
There’s an almost existential anxiety about burnout very close to the surface here. The possibility of reaching one’s psychological limit hangs over every character in both of these shows, so much so that it starts to feel less like a possibility and more like a fated inevitability. And the consequence of it is an Oedipus-like shocking destruction of their identity.
It’s because losing faith is one of the sources of burnout that the futility and malice of the systems they are working for resonates so strongly. In these worlds, even after the rot at the core of everything has been revealed to you, you still have to find your own reasons to believe in the virtues of the system and continue to perpetuate it at least in essence. Because to allow yourself to truly listen to a revolutionary urge amounts to nothing other than a death drive (physical, or even worse, moral).
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I forgot how much flashing GaoGaiGar has if you experience any form of eppilepsy do not watch this show. If you do not, this show fucks and you should watch it
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Just marathoned Cyberpunk, Trigger’s Gungrave (I mean it in a good way, although it’s definitely not nearly as subtle an adaptation). I quite liked it, although it’s only maybe like the fourth best Trigger show at most.
The adherence to the game’s UI and cityscape is really amusing, although for the backgrounds I suspect it’s also a cost saving measure.
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