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Anime/Manga - Discuss Japanese cartoons and comics here; NO CULTURE WAR DOOMPOSTING!
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I used to watch a ton of this cause it reminded me of sesame street and barney. Great show, unironically although its adhd bait and each episode is like 5 minutes so its like those disney channel animated shorts, like the owl.
In other news I got round to watch Battle Angel Alita, Vampire Sensou and Ad Police Files. Alita is very meh, the art is pretty good but everything else is meh. AD Police files I really really like, probably went up there in my top 5 anime just cause of how exploitationy and cool it is like Wicked City and Ninja Scroll. And it rips off good Hollywood source material, really good source Hollywood material. IDK how a prequel to fucking Bubblegum Crisis is this good. Vampire Sensou is trash, hilariously bad.
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Unironically peak of Japanese media. It also has a great community too. Some great examples below:
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Two episodes wasn't good enough. It should've at least got to the Motorball tournament instead of condensing a character arc into two episodes.
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I believe the Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita OVA was a similar situation to the Gunsmith Cats OVA, the producers wanted to animate a lot more of the manga but both series were expensive to animate and didn't sell enough Laserdiscs and VHS tapes to warrant continuing.
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Speaking of which, what happened to the live action Alita? I thought it made bank and that assured a sequel
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Last I heard, a sequel was in development.
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I don't know what I'm going to do when this manga ends next month. This ending is going to be sad as shit.
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There's always the old reliable of seeing if the creators of you favorite works have made any new series since you took a break, sure you might get a few who's recent works pale in comparison to their former, but most are able to maintain some level (especially if they didn't get axed or canceled after 1 season). Another method I've been using for manga is keeping track of obis and recommendations by mangaka/creators I kind of like.
I ended up picking up this ragako series called Akane Banashi because Hideaki Anno was recommending it and I might pick up another series called Snowball Earth he was also recommending along with ONE, Kojima, and Masami Yuuki.
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Funnily enough, I think Gunsmith Cats is just old enough to get a Rurouni Kenshin/HunterxHunter/Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood style revival. Enough time has passed from the OVA and the manga is long since finished. The only issue is that they would probably adapt Burst, too. And I doubt whatever team takes over the production would be willing to do the amount of research the producers behind the OVA did.
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So development hell. I have a feeling it was axed after Ghost in the Shell bombed
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Today I learned that Disney is branching out into Anime.
This also has a cringe westaboo looking game that was announced a year ago apparently.
I'll just play AC6 instead.
This also has a cringe westaboo looking game that was announced a year ago apparently.
I'll just play AC6 instead.
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Yeah I think it was last December that they made a deal with Kodsansha that they get first dibs on any future anime based on their manga. So unless there's a bunch of deals already in place maybe expect a few of already announced sequels to go there.
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The first episode of Synduality didn't really capture my interest -- it had too much CGI and honestly felt pretty soulless, mediocre, and edgy. It felt like it was trying to copy Gridman. Sakura Wars was at least fun, creative, and inventive; this wasn't. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though -- I did at least think that city was cool.
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A modern Gunsmith Cats series would almost certainly animate the cars with cel-shaded CGI, which would be substantially cheaper than animating the cars by hand. The downside is that the cars would lack that lavishly-animated hand drawn charm of the original OVA series but, the plus side would be that we'd get at least 12 episodes out of it this time.
I wonder if they'd be able to show Goldie's F40 considering Ferrari's a lot more strict about licensing today compared to the 1990s? I could see them licensing the Shelby GT500 (to be able to show emblems in close ups) but the Ferrari might be too expensive.
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It's got interesting environments, but I guess it has to since it's based on a video game. Everything else about it is like a really generic modern game with muh open worlds and muh crafting, except it's like they took a game which doesn't really have anything beyond an excuse for a plot, ripped out the cutscenes, and called it an anime. It's very bland.
But I do appreciate how everyone in the show seems to be backstabbing alcoholic. I feel like there's some real potential there for "damn, this society and lifestyle sucks ass, me and robot waifu need to get out of here" but the writers aren't ballsy enough to put that in their adaption.
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Youtube recommended this to me, and since it was only 10 minutes, I watched it. I've always been intrigued by this series because of its modern 2D mech animation, but I've heard the writing and politics aren't very good. So far, in this first episode, I enjoyed the mech fights and designs, and I also appreciated the use of wheeled vehicles in combat, especially that cool white truck. I like the setting of a war on Earth between several world powers, though I'm not very sold on the use of a battle AI. I'm looking forward to see how this unfolds. Hopefully it's just more cool mech battles like this episode, and hopefully they're able to write the war and politics better this time.
I didn't skip either the OP or ED for this, which is rare for me.
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For the political aspects, AMAIM is in a weird place. The backstory is that Japan's demographic collapse eventually caught up with it, leading to the nation economically collapsing. Four power blocks send troops to the country initially as peace keepers to maintain order, only to begin fighting each other, eventually dividing the country between themselves into occupation zones. The power blocks are thinly veiled stand-ins for America, Australia, Russia, and China. As Tv Tropes points out, the backstory is basically every nightmare of Japanese right wingers from throughout history all rolled up into one: modern fears of Economic and population decline plus immigration, Showa era fears Japan's Subjugation, Meiji era fears of the Colonization of Japan, and even Tokugawa era fears of Japan falling back into the Warring states.
Then the story itself goes in a weird direction. The show pulls no punches showing the not-Australians being dicks (it was their dickbaggery that lead to the main protagonist becoming a fugitive), the Chinese faction engage in freaking human trafficking and are otherwise corrupt, while I can't actually recall what the Russians did, but their dicks. The American faction are largely not that bad for most of the show's run. Its the Americans who also support the "legitimate" Japanese government that still operates in Tokyo. However, by the end of the show, the Japanese rebels who are the ostensible "good guy" faction side with the Chinese, Russians, and Australians to oppose the Americans and the legitimate Japanese government, which led to the show getting shit on by right wing Japanese as being Anti-America/Japanese. And Pro-Chinese/Russian. To be fair, it probably isn't pro-Chinese since the obviously Chinese faction are portrayed as the worst of the four factions, but that just makes it all the weirder that the good guys decided to side with them regardless. I won't spoil how the first series ends since your watching it, but leaves off with one hell of a weird political situation and I have no idea how they are going to handle it with this second series.
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Kyoukai Senki's backstory and setting are really great. I just wish the show itself committed to some more interesting stories. The actual plot for the first, I dunno, six or so episodes, are the most generic, bog-standard war plots that I've seen a dozen times over. Seriously, the one where the lead winds up staying with the elderly couple and he reminds them of their kid is one of the most overused episode concepts ever. I wish Sunrise invested in a better writer, since the mechanical design and the animation is pretty solid.