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The music for Inu-Oh is pretty neat and all, but did they not make their own dance choreography or something? I get the anachronism is on purpose, I just can't help thinking they might've copied frames from like Footloose and Saturday Night Fever, those kinds of movies. Throws me off.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Japan is less of a money printer and more attitude thing. They just absolutely refuse to innovate in any way, be it using old tech, turning corporations into dynasties, or firing anyone trying to do a new thing They will forever do retarded things because either someone upper up said so, or because "that's the way we always did things". Post ww2 they lucked out in having enough holes to have people with talent actually manage to get to high positions, as well as the insane corporate bureaucratic work cycle suited them well. But those times are over, good companies are now helmed by idiots, and you could automate office drone work.
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Post-WW2 they had the Shogun (General MacArthur) who broke up the corporations/ Zibutsus who owned the majority of the land and told them “stop keeping people in serfdom and treating the mountain hamlet people like niggers”.

Post war Japan was basically what needed to happen in French Vietnam. MacArthur actually gave them enough slack without giving too much of a shit about hearts and minds.
 
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Rakuten has its own anime:
It's decent and mildly funny, but now that the Shinkalions and Jobravers are in maintenance and Kira Yamato hasn't returned yet, you can bet this is anime of the season. This came to my attention because it's directed by Shinji Takamatsu, the director of Might Gaine, J-Decker, Goldran, Gundam Wing, and Gundam X.
 
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I'm slowly advancing through this video about Serial Experiments Lain. While it's technically about the PS1 game (that probably few here knew existed), it's a full on autistic deep dive into the series that was a multi media work, including a ton of things that are Japan only. I've got to say that child Lain looks creepy as shit, really weird proportions in the face.

Really need to rewatch the anime.
 
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Well I kind of wish more actually happened in the most recent chapter but I wanted to talk about Boruto anyways so whatever.

The manga is still just too damn slow, even since I last wrote about it almost a damn year ago there hasn't been enough that's actually happened in it. It's at least making improvements and is better than how it used to be but it's still not good. The fight in the recent chapter was good, you had everyone involved actually using their damn brains, and it looks like it might finally be building up to Sarada using her Mangekyo Sharingan. The Divine Trees are alright villains at the moment, they're unique (as far as villains in Naruto are concerned), and they have potential. They're strong but not unbeatably so like Isshiki was so it makes the conflict with them more interesting, things don't feel hopeless or like our protagonists are outmatched. Kind of like how members of Akatsuki felt in Shippuden. Except for maybe Jura since he's different from the others.

Jura's spiel about love this chapter was cheesy but familial love was a huge, huge, part of Naruto and partially Boruto as well. Though Boruto also has this weird teen romance vibe going on. And at least when Jura was making his cliche speech about love it paralleled what was going on in the rest of the chapter at the same time and drew on his own experience when he attacked Konoha.

Some of the things we've learned recently and certain developments have also set up the possibility that the situation in that obnoxious flash-forward at the start of Boruto might not be as bad as it seemed. Which would do a lot to alleviate the worst thing about Boruto and the biggest mistake it made: utterly ruining and undoing the happy ending that Naruto both earned and deserved. Frankly, even if it's a bait and switch I wouldn't care, since it was a mistake from the start. Naruto deserves his happy ending so if that means undoing some things that happened in Boruto then so be it, I'd be a-okay with that.

So right now Boruto is in some weird unremarkable spot where even when the story isn't being actively bad it's still suffering from that flash-forward that soured the whole manga from the start and the sheer disappearance of most of the original cast. That empty world and feeling is the worst thing about Boruto right now. If Two Blue Vortex gets an adaptation that would probably be fixed at least, the first anime served Boruto well in the same way by expanding on the world and characters and actually made the manga feel alive.

Kawaki is the same as he was a year ago and so are all my other complaints and thoughts about Two Blue Vortex. I don't expect the manga to become great, and I don't think that's even possible, but I'm hoping it can at least end well.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
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Yuichi Nakamura was also the voice of Tomoki Kuroki (Tomoko's younger but taller brother) on WataMote.


If the WataMote anime is ever continued (probably not happening without a full reboot at this point) and they get to the still-ongoing, neverending school festival arc (which would probably be the entire fourth season), Tomoki would be almost like a secondary protagonist since so much of the arc revolves around the "Tomoki Bowl" (girls from both Tomoki's grade and Tomoko's grade competing for his affection).
 
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Battle Angel Alita is a lot darker in the manga from the movie. Had most of the elements been transferred to film, the rating would have gone up at higher. Realistically, the film would have been banned in several countries.
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Really did not like Robert Rodriguez directing it. He just has a terrible eye for CGI effects, which is why some effects look like Spy Kids.

Still a better modern movie than most stuff that came out in the past 5 years.
 
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