I honestly can see that being the case since Imaishi is a Western animation geek and he obviously wanted to parody that while showing his love for the style (at the time). Seems like more often than not Imaishi just makes whatever it is he thinks is cool.
Watched two episodes of New P&S. As I expected, the dub of the renewal is vastly weaker than the old dub. More literal dialogue, a bunch of times where they deliberately delay dialogue for the sake of lipflap matching, changing "Repent, motherfucker!" to "Repent, bitches!"...hell, changing the entire transformation sequence creed, and while I'm not torn up at the replacement of the supporting cast and especially not with replacing Sabat with An Actual Black Guy (though it sucks that the circumstances of the replacement are almost certainly because Amazon won a bidding war and cheaped out with hiring new VAs), Panty now sounds oddly hoarse in a bunch of her dialogue while Stocking is just Christina Vee doing her high-pitched default voice I got bored of hearing during Miraculous Ladybug - has she grown too old to do her Rei/Sailor Mars voice instead?
The show itself is way weaker, too. The constant male gaze is gone, there's a bizarre dedication to staying on-model that's erasing the stylistic suck and making all the style-shift hallmarks feel vestigal, and there's a very noticable absence of sex joke deluges. Panty wastes her money at the end of episode 2 on a shopping spree when her character should be spending it on strip joints and brothels. It also seems really weird for them to just draw a derpy-looking penis on a middle-aged guy instead of trying to prudishly hide it like the old show and Kill La Kill always did. This feels like a cashgrab akin to Soul Eater Not or Onepunch Man season 2 rather than an actual renewal.
And for an episode involving a card game, they really should've found a way to sneak this Galo Sengen reference in.
I will limit myself to after the Shibuya Incident arc to save time and because I think the second half of the series has more problems. The first half is mediocre, but the second half is an unfinished rushed mess. I wrote a big long synopsis but halfway through I realized it was getting too long. Instead I think I'll just hit over some of the things I hated with the story/characters and world building.
I remember reading about what happens next and seeing how retarded it is. The Shibuya Incident was a lot of shock deaths, but it comes way too late compared to AoT wall breach. The Culling Games is like an entirely fucking different genre, and every character I read about has some super power that didn't save it from being jobbed. Having the curse power only be regional to Japan, or somehow be weaker in modern times is also an asspull.
Jujutsu is aimless, derivative and bad. Shows that giving anything a big budget will make people like it.
Looks pretty, but 08th MS Team still has other Gundams beat for me. Don't get me wrong I really liked G gundam and Wing growing up, but after being in the military, then watching 08th MS, it's hard to watch the super kids fighting wars schtick. Rather I'm really kindov tired of it because that type of story is everywhere in Japan. The few grounded Gundam stories just do so much more for me now, like 0080 War in the Pocket. I really like it when you see gundams being the lumbering giant mechs that they are, like futuristic tanks operating alongside infantry units and vehicles.
I want to see Gundams having to deal with incredibly simple shit like sand in the desert... because realistically environmental factors and logistics would be a huge problem for them if they were real. That probably sounds boring to most people, but that's what the actual military is like, shit tons of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme stress.
Watched two episodes of New P&S. As I expected, the dub of the renewal is vastly weaker than the old dub. More literal dialogue, a bunch of times where they deliberately delay dialogue for the sake of lipflap matching, changing "Repent, motherfucker!" to "Repent, bitches!"...hell, changing the entire transformation sequence creed, and while I'm not torn up at the replacement of the supporting cast and especially not with replacing Sabat with An Actual Black Guy (though it sucks that the circumstances of the replacement are almost certainly because Amazon won a bidding war and cheaped out with hiring new VAs), Panty now sounds oddly hoarse in a bunch of her dialogue while Stocking is just Christina Vee doing her high-pitched default voice I got bored of hearing during Miraculous Ladybug - has she grown too old to do her Rei/Sailor Mars voice instead?
The show itself is way weaker, too. The constant male gaze is gone, there's a bizarre dedication to staying on-model that's erasing the stylistic suck and making all the style-shift hallmarks feel vestigal, and there's a very noticable absence of sex joke deluges. Panty wastes her money at the end of episode 2 on a shopping spree when her character should be spending it on strip joints and brothels. It also seems really weird for them to just draw a derpy-looking penis on a middle-aged guy instead of trying to prudishly hide it like the old show and Kill La Kill always did. This feels like a cashgrab akin to Soul Eater Not or Onepunch Man season 2 rather than an actual renewal.
And for an episode involving a card game, they really should've found a way to sneak this Galo Sengen reference in.
I heard Courtney’s deep sounding panty and paused it for 12 minutes before continuing. I did not start liking the dub from then on.
Male sexuality is being completely erased cause of fagginess and just feeling uncomfortable with it for no reason in these shows that people pay more attention to. I can just see ANN writing 3 articles about if panty were to be just wearing nothing for this season it would trigger a colony of men feeling they can say the awfulest of stuff to women or them kidnapping women for several years cause of this. It’s crazy.
Where I live there are a lot of Jujustu Kaisen advertisements on the subway and in malls, so the popularity is also being supported by major advertising and merchandising efforts. I went in with low expectations only wanting a brainless battle shonen to waste time with, but it still surprised me by how bad it was.
I want to see Gundams having to deal with incredibly simple shit like sand in the desert... because realistically environmental factors and logistics would be a huge problem for them if they were real. That probably sounds boring to most people, but that's what the actual military is like, shit tons of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme stress.
I agree and thematically it makes more sense to have a show be more grounded if they really want to represent the reality of war. The designs should reflect this as well. The Ez8 has a more utilitarian look that is not overdesigned or ugly.
Where I live there are a lot of Jujustu Kaisen advertisements on the subway and in malls, so the popularity is also being supported by major advertising and merchandising efforts. I went in with low expectations only wanting a brainless battle shonen to waste time with, but it still surprised me by how bad it was.
It's not even a good battle shonen, I can't remember a single fight in it besides the fact it happened. Too much of it is literal "My power is stronger than yours" bullshit.
It's not even a good battle shonen, I can't remember a single fight in it besides the fact it happened. Too much of it is literal "My power is stronger than yours" bullshit.
I was so annoyed when people couldn't shut up about le ebbin fights and how they're always jumping like niggers do.
All I see is dozens of punches and occasionally kicks that all do no damage whatsoever. There is no technicality, practicality, or thought. Just mindless violence without the consequences of it. Sukuna against the most powerful shadow puppet thing was just a bunch of shitty scratch lines on a screen that did nothing until he just finally obliterated him in one swoop, which makes you wonder why he didn't just try that in the first place.
Compare this
To this
and that second bit is from one of the shittiest parts of naruto where the first is at jjk's supposedly best
jesus
Ive been very out of touch as far as manga is concerned but I stumbled upon something that really knocked me out with the quality its had.
Make the Exorcist fall in love.
This series asks an honest question. What does it REALLY look like when a demon and a human fall and love?
It's horrific. Utterly horrific. The author for this understood the assignment and knew the bible. She had the balls to tell the truth and play it straight in a Shonen jump manga.
They labeled this story an action romantic comedy. That is not what this is. Granted there are moments were the main character acts like a biblical superhero and the two leads have "seemingly" normal romantic hijinks. But this has practically screwtape letters level of psychological horror. That being said, the pacing of this manga is excellent. It is unrelentingly graphic in showing exactly what demons are and what they desire, but it knows when to pull back. There's time to breathe with the supporting cast and enough feel good moments to balance things out, even as there is this foreboding sense of slowly encroaching disaster.
Basically there's one kid with no name
highly likely to be the antichrist
who has the power to defeat the devil. The kid is good at heart and wants to save the world. Unfortunately he has a lot of emotional baggage from being trained/tortured by a hardass priest before the church found out and replaced his mentor. Baggage the devil brilliantly exploits, by slowly wearing him down, encouraging his insecurity's and emotional instability.
It gets Constantine levels of screwed up. And the best part is the romantic co lead, the main co character that's trying to get the boy to fall in love and help him?
She's a demon in disguise. And no matter what she tells herself or how low she is on the totem poll of evil, she's a seductive monster slowly worming her way into his soul. At best putting the hero in an unhealthy relationship he craves at the expense of everything else.
I love how this manga doesn't try to sell a "good" demon narrative. At best some of them have what could be considered a "positive" trait or fixation but they are all poison. Slowly corroding everything around them or carelessly wrecking everything like a bull in a China shop. Utterly Incompatible with human life. For example The demon of lust's big regret is not defiling the one girl that got away from her. So basically it's been R rated Frieren for the most part.
Im a bit concerned with the ongoing current arc in hell that gives the demons a bit more sympathy and focus, but I did notice that they made them appear more likeable right as the kid is getting more and more corrupted. So there's good cause and effect. They chose Sloth to be the most friendly of the sins, hilariously being portrayed as a shy, low energy NEET that wants to be friends with everybody. The thing is, no matter how genuine he may seem to be, he's always in favor of taking the easy way out. (suicide, running away from problems, encouraging short term pleasure over long term stability) So friendly doesn't equal good.
One thing I really liked was the chapters having written notes and letters that expanded on the lore and character drama. There were well written enough that I seriously wonder why more manga dont do it.
This manga is further notable to me for having my favorite portrayal of Lucifer in anything. And somehow pulling off a gay side character reveal in a cool way that furthered the plot. The author seriously needs to be hired to work on fate stay night. As her research and understanding of Christianity, would do wonders for a story set in that verse.
I agree and thematically it makes more sense to have a show be more grounded if they really want to represent the reality of war. The designs should reflect this as well. The Ez8 has a more utilitarian look that is not overdesigned or ugly.
I love the Ez8's design, it's the first gunpla model I ever completed next to the RX79. Gundams are just tools, military weapons designed to kill people and hold territory, utilitarian is a good word for it. The ground types just look like they should have camouflage on them, treading through the jungle or fighting in between buildings.
The constant male gaze is gone, there's a bizarre dedication to staying on-model that's erasing the stylistic suck and making all the style-shift hallmarks feel vestigal, and there's a very noticable absence of sex joke deluges
The first episode has them carrying a gaint cube of pussy trying to incert it into a gaintess panty's crotch hole and the newest episode has a segment with the cast dressing like sluts to get likes that make them cum until they eventually cum so much that the ghost explodes with a goooooon fx as well as a fast and the Furious parody that takes place entirely in pantys vagina.
Was watching this video from AnimEigo in their interview series "The Anime Business", which deals with the fall of Manga Video, and interviews the man who'd been the head of Manga's UK office. One unrealized project briefly mentioned towards the end, besides a potential Wu Tang project was a Spice Girls anime from Production I.G., which wouldn't have been the weirdest anime project I'd heard of involving some Western product or celeb that never got past the "talking" or "concept art" stage.
It sucks. The Battleship Yamato guys could never come to an agreement on what to do next. That is still one of the best enemies ever made. It takes its subject 100% seriously, no? Stupid jokes. We are in an intergalactic war for human survival. Fuck you and fuck your morality. Humanity will survive.
