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The "Wind Waker" Zelda designs take their cues from the designs in this film.
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That actually explains why I hated wind waker as a kid. I generally dislike low-detailed characters and/or cel-shading, it's one of the reasons I fled western cartoons for animu, the anime just looked more time consuming to create...
One of these things takes real effort to draw, and the other does not. I can only respect art that looks like I could never draw it for myself.
One of these things takes real effort to draw, and the other does not. I can only respect art that looks like I could never draw it for myself.
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I'm weirdly enough getting Samurai Jack vibes scrubbing through the movie. Is it possible Genndy Tartakovsky grew up with this movie?
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Quoting a tweet by character designer Chris Battle I came across on the matter
Though only the dubbed version has been available in the US, it aired on Cartoon Network some times back when. There was a restored Blu-Ray release in Japan back in 2020, with supplemental material, I'd like to see an accessible subbed version myself, and in higher quality, the final battle against the titular eight-headed dragon is one of the most impressive spectacles in Toei's film history.
Though only the dubbed version has been available in the US, it aired on Cartoon Network some times back when. There was a restored Blu-Ray release in Japan back in 2020, with supplemental material, I'd like to see an accessible subbed version myself, and in higher quality, the final battle against the titular eight-headed dragon is one of the most impressive spectacles in Toei's film history.
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I continue to be baffled at how well Ninja Kamui is holding itself together. It's not particularly great or even good, but it still looks like a miracle compared to every other Toonami original.
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Since it's kinda apt that SGC2C turned 30 I found some info on this
There was a Space Ghost manga. Toonami should get this adapted into an anime.
There was a Space Ghost manga. Toonami should get this adapted into an anime.
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I just can't believe it's rated so high on literally every website. The fight scenes stopped being impressive after episode 3 and if you held my family at gunpoint and told me to recount the plot of the anime I'd tell you to shoot. It's barely functional fight porn.
Also anybody have hidden gems this season? If not I'm probably going to go back to finishing the fuck huge backlog of older anime I have to watch.
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The new Shinkalion is good -- it looks like it may even live up to the original.
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Decided to actually catch up on and binge (the small amount of) Boruto: Two Blue Vortex. Like the rest of the series it’s pretty mixed but overall I’m surprisingly leaning a little more positive.
The Good:
-Boruto (the character) is better. His design is much improved, he’s at least matured a bit. His change also makes sense since Sasuke is his mentor and who has influenced him, so essentially he’s actually a less annoying Sasuke at this point. Boruto’s biggest issue in Part 1 was that he was an ungrateful brat and it makes him really unlikeable because we as readers were following Naruto’s journey from the start. Now though Boruto actually has gone through a lot of tough shit himself so he’s actually far more sympathetic now. Not to the degree of Naruto but he’s a lot better, the series has actually fixed the biggest problem with Boruto’s character.
-Code is a good joke villain. He has delusions of grandeur without realizing that he’s just not capable of being the main villain. He’s not strong, smart, cool, or competent enough. And no one else really takes him seriously or views him as the true threat either, just an annoyance at best. He was literally Issihiki’s last option for doing anything. It would be annoying to have a villain like this if it wasn’t on purpose but it is so it works out pretty well.
-Outfits are a bit better
-Sarada, Sumire, and Himawari get to do stuff.
-Kashin Koji is alright
-Delta is alright
-The pacing is slightly better and the story is at least slightly interesting now
-Mitsuki actually getting to do stuff and getting some focus is pretty nice
The Bad:
-Art still sucks
-Eida and Daemon still suck, probably the worst mistake the manga has made
-New villains are pretty meh, interesting concept but meh in personality, the series is in desperate need of a Madara or even an Isshiki at this point
-Amado is kind of annoying
-Would be nice to see characters like Sakura, Orochimaru, etc. do more. In fact Sakura and Kakashi haven’t appeared at all. The world feels small and even kind of empty, it’s my biggest issue with how the sequel feels right now
-Literally what are half the adults doing in all these chapters that take place in Konoha?
The Ugly:
-What is this series actually trying to do at this point? What is the plan, the message, the idea, what does it want me to think and feel when I read it? I just feel like Boruto has been stumbling through the dark from the start.
-Kawaki is basically all of this at once. I don’t know what his character even is.
-Pretty sure I still wish that only the movie existed and things ended there
The Mixed:
-Not sure how I feel about the recent Kyuubi reveal. Though it’s cool to see Himawari being made more important like this and being essentially a jinchuuriki, it weakens the sacrifice of Kurama. Now to begin with I didn’t like Kurama’s death because he and Naruto really earned happy endings and him dying like that was like in Alien 3 when Hicks and Newt die. But at the same time it was still one of the most genuinely emotional and powerful moments of Boruto. And everything about Baryon Mode and what happened implied it was “perma death” for him, that he wouldn’t regenerate and revive like is normal for a Bijuu when they die.
-The weird cosmic Otsutsuki stuff is at least interesting when they lean into it but it’s pretty far removed and out there from what the manga used to be like. Even by the end of Naruto.
I can't believe I'm actually excited for the next chapter.
The Good:
-Boruto (the character) is better. His design is much improved, he’s at least matured a bit. His change also makes sense since Sasuke is his mentor and who has influenced him, so essentially he’s actually a less annoying Sasuke at this point. Boruto’s biggest issue in Part 1 was that he was an ungrateful brat and it makes him really unlikeable because we as readers were following Naruto’s journey from the start. Now though Boruto actually has gone through a lot of tough shit himself so he’s actually far more sympathetic now. Not to the degree of Naruto but he’s a lot better, the series has actually fixed the biggest problem with Boruto’s character.
-Code is a good joke villain. He has delusions of grandeur without realizing that he’s just not capable of being the main villain. He’s not strong, smart, cool, or competent enough. And no one else really takes him seriously or views him as the true threat either, just an annoyance at best. He was literally Issihiki’s last option for doing anything. It would be annoying to have a villain like this if it wasn’t on purpose but it is so it works out pretty well.
-Outfits are a bit better
-Sarada, Sumire, and Himawari get to do stuff.
-Kashin Koji is alright
-Delta is alright
-The pacing is slightly better and the story is at least slightly interesting now
-Mitsuki actually getting to do stuff and getting some focus is pretty nice
The Bad:
-Art still sucks
-Eida and Daemon still suck, probably the worst mistake the manga has made
-New villains are pretty meh, interesting concept but meh in personality, the series is in desperate need of a Madara or even an Isshiki at this point
-Amado is kind of annoying
-Would be nice to see characters like Sakura, Orochimaru, etc. do more. In fact Sakura and Kakashi haven’t appeared at all. The world feels small and even kind of empty, it’s my biggest issue with how the sequel feels right now
-Literally what are half the adults doing in all these chapters that take place in Konoha?
The Ugly:
-What is this series actually trying to do at this point? What is the plan, the message, the idea, what does it want me to think and feel when I read it? I just feel like Boruto has been stumbling through the dark from the start.
-Kawaki is basically all of this at once. I don’t know what his character even is.
-Pretty sure I still wish that only the movie existed and things ended there
The Mixed:
-Not sure how I feel about the recent Kyuubi reveal. Though it’s cool to see Himawari being made more important like this and being essentially a jinchuuriki, it weakens the sacrifice of Kurama. Now to begin with I didn’t like Kurama’s death because he and Naruto really earned happy endings and him dying like that was like in Alien 3 when Hicks and Newt die. But at the same time it was still one of the most genuinely emotional and powerful moments of Boruto. And everything about Baryon Mode and what happened implied it was “perma death” for him, that he wouldn’t regenerate and revive like is normal for a Bijuu when they die.
-The weird cosmic Otsutsuki stuff is at least interesting when they lean into it but it’s pretty far removed and out there from what the manga used to be like. Even by the end of Naruto.
I can't believe I'm actually excited for the next chapter.
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So Netflix is doing a live action adaptation of City Hunter. I haven't read the original manga, but the isekai revisit makes it seem like there will be a lot of erection jokes that Netflix is unlikely to faithfully translate
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Does it really matter if it's canon or not? I only read the first few volumes of the manga a while ago but I did watch the movie when it was on Regal Mystery Mondays a few days ago (saw a lot of confused boomers in the theater lol but at least it was packed) but the film didn't seem to actively progress the story in any way since they went back to the status quo just by the end.
It was kinda like taking a side quest in an RPG or one of those Fallout 3 DLCs where you go on an adventure in Pittsburgh or Maryland, but ultimately coming back to D.C. as if nothing happened besides maybe bringing a souvenir.
Which reminds me; Quite a strange choice for the Mystery Movie Monday. Never thought they'd pick the Spy X Family film out of the bunch. Apparently there's stories around saying confused boomers left in droves but so far in my experience they stuck around and seemed to like it a lot.
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Anyone else reading Nine Peaks? It's a manga by Tetsuhiro Hirakawa, the dude who did Clover. The story is basically a delinquent manga + back to the future + how I met your mother. MC is a punk who doesn't get along with his straight-laced dad, dad gets hit by truck-kun (on page 1), and every badass in town attends the wake to pay respects. MC is bummed he didn't get to know his pops before he passed but gets transported 20 years into the past and uses it as a 2nd chance to get to know him (and his dead mom). Real heart warming stuff in between all the fist fights.
That said the story takes place in the ancient, far off year of 2000 so any millenials who are interested expect to take some psychological damage.
That said the story takes place in the ancient, far off year of 2000 so any millenials who are interested expect to take some psychological damage.
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There is a brazilian blog that sometimes cover these manga adaptations of western productions that I love it, you can translate the pages and see more.
Here some more examples
(This is funny to me because the only expose I got to James Bond/007 is the manga, even the 007, I never pronounce double oh seven, I pronounce zero zero seven because of cyborg 009)
What fascinates me the most were the oneshot film adaptions that were made and lost in magazines to never be republished again.
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Sandland is amazing. Pay your respects to Toriyama and watch the fruits of his last work. The anime contains everything from the original manga and picks up a new story where the manga ends.
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Wind Breakers is a lot better than I was expecting.
A lot of what I'm watching this season is continuations of great existing series (Yuru Camp, Mushoku Tensei, Euphonium, KonoSuba, Date A Live).
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More bullshit & character assassination. The series should have died with Miura.
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The artists making it now seem to be doing a decent job. They have his notes and worked with him for a long time. No one seems put of character and while the art is different, it's not awful. Brandon Sangerson finished the Wheel of Time, and that wasn't horrendous.
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The vampire brother storyline was the worst. All that build up with literally no payoff. As someone with family it pissed me off.
Great manga though, I loved how it progressed and ended. It was strangely sweet to witness an R rated shock manga become hopeful and relatively wholesome.
Vampire hunter D was supposed to get an all CGI cartoon that never came out. This is pure speculation but I suspect the cg berserk shows negative reception doomed it.
Another interesting cancelled show that got a promo was G-breaker
This was based on a Japanese only videogame series that was sort of a Gundam version of armored core. It's actually pretty wild because it uses designs that would be imported into the Gundam G saviour game. ( Yes the live action movie, it's legitimately a grood game that for some reason is entirely in English dubbing)
G-breaker was a apparenty a BIG deal late 90s early 2000s but is virtually unheard of now. They were the POV characters for a big budget series of sunrise heroes crossovers between everything bandai owned at the time.
When I say big budget I mean it, there's full blown voice acting (amuro can hold a conversation with the OC characters) original story and mechs for established characters, and hand drawn stills.
Frankly criminal how there isn't a translation.
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they are so nonsequential people forget they're a thing
even the protagonist forgets he has a brother