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crowabunga said:
I missed Redline, so to make up for lost time I just watched it twice: the impeccable animation, action, and style make for audiovisual candy, and it's paired with a merely adequate story that is sufficient to jump between setpieces without fuss.

I'm also surprised at how much I'm fond of this movie for the setting: turns out I dig the notion of interstellar lowlifes, hipsters, and adrenaline junkies operating outside of "advanced" society and partaking in souped-up "archaic" sports, it makes me think of something out of Ian Banks's The Culture series.
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Redline is immaculate there is nothing else quite like it. I think after my initial viewing I also rewatched it a couple of times.
 
SandyCat said:
Season 3 of jujutsu kaisen where Maki goes on a rampage killing the zenin clan had the most ill fitting soundtrack I've ever heard in any anime

Holy shit it completely killed any enjoyment I had. Its supposed to be some heavy scene but the music does not fit it at all. Its light and bouncy and upbeat completely contradicting the entire scene

I'm completely perplexed how so many people are glazing the music choice in that episode. I get music is subjective but it goes against the tone completely

Imagine playing Doom and the entire time the soundtrack is whimsical harmonica
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From what I recall the JP Bros also felt it was off. In the manga. From their interpretation it was meant to be something like a slasher movie- this karmic retribution on the Zenin family in the most horrific fashion for them. But I assume the studio with a "whatever, fuck it" from Gege made the music choice to convey a more "fun" revenge fantasy in the same vein as Kill Bill.
 
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I Know 孤独のせい said:
Redline is immaculate there is nothing else quite like it. I think after my initial viewing I also rewatched it a couple of times.
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animation is like the one thing their studio can do well. sadly it feels like they can't write for shit, like holy hell even by Lupin III standards their plots were dogshit for the adaptation.
on another note, i watched the funny wehraboo isekai recently and it was surprisingly fun. no weird nippon shit , an actually interesting main character and a fun gimmick with him trying to get away from the front and it always backfiring in some comical way. i have no idea where it's going but i really hope the reddit-tier atheism doesn't turn out to be genuine cause it'd suck
 
7.62x38mmR said:
on another note, i watched the funny wehraboo isekai recently and it was surprisingly fun. no weird nippon shit , an actually interesting main character and a fun gimmick with him trying to get away from the front and it always backfiring in some comical way. i have no idea where it's going but i really hope the reddit-tier atheism doesn't turn out to be genuine cause it'd suck
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I love Youjo Senki, obviously. It's hard to tell if it will go full reddit atheist, but thus far, it does not seem to. The anime, manga, and light novel are all quite different stories, more like three different authors were given a story outline and each made their own distinct stories that still hit the same general plot points. In the manga and light novel, Being X isn't some nebulous demon pretending to be God, it's the whole pantheon of gods: the Christian God, the Muslim God, the Hindu Gods, etc all working together. It's really fucking stupid, in my opinion, and is a prime example of why "less is more" has become a saying. Removing the mystery behind Being X just raises so many damned questions around what's happening, and why all these various gods who are directly opposed to one another would be so highly interested in fucking over this one dude in particular, and it remains to be seen if that will kill the story or not. At least when it's a demon pissed that it didn't get instantly worshipped, it makes a lot more sense.

Still, I sort of doubt an "enlightened by my atheism" story route given the source material, for what it's worth. Another season is coming btw.
 
7.62x38mmR said:
animation is like the one thing their studio can do well. sadly it feels like they can't write for shit, like holy hell even by Lupin III standards their plots were dogshit for the adaptation.
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Ninja Scroll didn't need a deep plot to be awesome, my man.
 
I've been really bored of anime and manga lately so I've just been watching old shows.

Yesterday I rewatched The Adult Empire Strikes Back, which is a Crayon Shin-Chan movie from way back in the daya and I was surprised at how well it's aged. To give a brief synopsis: The film opens up with the parents taking the kids to something called a 20th century convention which they basically get to re-experience things relevant to their childhood (re-enacting childhood shows, pop culture events, shops that were trending around that time, it's all there), but what starts as a seemingly innocent trip to the past turns into all the adults basically being brainwashed into literal adult children who can't grow up. Ultimately, it's up to the adults and children collectively to decide if the 21st century is worth living in even despite all the challenges that will undoubtedly come with that. I think it's one of those anime films that hit harder the older you get so it's probably good to rewatch every couple of years.

I highly recommend it. You can find a torrent in the usual places if you're interested.
 
Actually speaking of Crayon Shin-Chan, how caught up are fansubs? I've held it off for so long simply because there's just hundreds of missing episodes.
 
Fount of BadSpeak said:
I love Youjo Senki, obviously. It's hard to tell if it will go full reddit atheist, but thus far, it does not seem to. The anime, manga, and light novel are all quite different stories, more like three different authors were given a story outline and each made their own distinct stories that still hit the same general plot points. In the manga and light novel, Being X isn't some nebulous demon pretending to be God, it's the whole pantheon of gods: the Christian God, the Muslim God, the Hindu Gods, etc all working together. It's really fucking stupid, in my opinion, and is a prime example of why "less is more" has become a saying. Removing the mystery behind Being X just raises so many damned questions around what's happening, and why all these various gods who are directly opposed to one another would be so highly interested in fucking over this one dude in particular, and it remains to be seen if that will kill the story or not. At least when it's a demon pissed that it didn't get instantly worshipped, it makes a lot more sense.

Still, I sort of doubt an "enlightened by my atheism" story route given the source material, for what it's worth. Another season is coming btw.
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honestly it just being the devil would make so much more sense it's insane. some absolute cunt decides to prey on a sociopath's soul as he's about to die, sending him to a parallel universe to basically torture him to try to have him basically snap and embrace the war ; it would also explain why he gets powers when praying to God (just the devil toying himself doesn't really make sense, unless he's actually managing to reach out to the real God there who helps him out) or why other characters seem to be empowered similarily by magically turning to God (they're succumbing to their wrath and need for revenge).
 
An old anime promo for Philippine TV which has feedback via phone calls.
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GMA Anime Feedback: A Trip Down Memory Lane for 80s & 90s Kids (Phone Call Survey Participation)For many "Batang 80s and 90s" kids in the Philippines, GMA Network, then a strong contender in the broadcast landscape, holds a special place in their hearts. This video captures a unique moment: a phone call survey gathering feedback on GMA's beloved anime programs that dominated the afternoon and evening airwaves.Relive the era when GMA was a go-to station for animated adventures, and hear how viewers participated in shaping their favorite shows. This is a nostalgic look back at a time when Filipino youth eagerly tuned in for their daily dose of Japanese animation on the Kapuso network.
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Felt nostalgic so I rewatched Strange Dawn.

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tl;dr it sucks dick

It's about 2 girls who get spirited away to a bland world of chibi people who are some flavor of ethnic tribal "noble savages" at war with each other. Oh and they're foot fags too. It was impossible to care about a single thing going on since none of it is well-written or interesting in the slightest: whether it's the ooga-booga-sounding names it kept throwing at me, the "war is bad, mmkay?" baby's first political commentary, the relentlessly nagging dialogue of everyone bitching at one another over NOTHING, or the laughably melodramatic love-triangle. It just sucks, plain and simple. I guess the only thing mildly competent here was the music, but that's about it.

Call me optimistic for getting excited for an original anime, but I genuinely thought this one might be a hidden gem. I mostly feel bad for my kid-self who only caught glimpse of a few episodes on TV then spent years wondering what's it about, and honestly whatever I imagined the story to be was 100x more fun than the real deal. Hey, at least I finally got some closure!

 
What is this? It's not a joke, my retarded nigger mind is struggling to grasp the concept of what this is. From my understanding this is an anime based on or a followup to a FOTM game from like three years ago about managing a menhera Vtuber. Silly premise and probably tried to be all deep like Oshi no Ko tried to before wetting the bed with incest fetishizing. I do not play FOTM games and I won't knock this series if it's for fans of the game exclusively. I can understand that as someone who's defended Fate works.
My main...well not really gripe but self imposed annoyance causing confusion is to what this show is trying to even be. From the two episodes I've seen it's a lot of overly flowery dialogue and exposition regarding streamer culture which I don't really engage in outside of shitting up threads, clips (and of course Mad at the Internet, every Friday at 12pm EST) so maybe I'm just in the shallow end of an Olympic swimming pool. This like weird distinction between the real and streamer world, how these Karamazov characters and KAngel are seemingly real but not. The "real" KAngel being obsessed with this person called P who from what I gather is the player character in the game who never really gets a happy ending. This odd almost self insert character Kache. It's all very jarring and confusing- almost like it's trying to ape Serial Experiments Lain but in an Idubbz level of irony.
Or not, it could just be my autism causing overthinking about a shill game anime with the thematic depth of an inflatable pool. I'll still watch it to try and figure out what the actual fuck it's trying to say or if it's really just some surface level "Yo, streaming is Le bad. Go away, parasocial fricks."
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Wilson The Ball said:
What is this? It's not a joke, my retarded nigger mind is struggling to grasp the concept of what this is. From my understanding this is an anime based on or a followup to a FOTM game from like three years ago about managing a menhera Vtuber. Silly premise and probably tried to be all deep like Oshi no Ko tried to before wetting the bed with incest fetishizing. I do not play FOTM games and I won't knock this series if it's for fans of the game exclusively. I can understand that as someone who's defended Fate works.
My main...well not really gripe but self imposed annoyance causing confusion is to what this show is trying to even be. From the two episodes I've seen it's a lot of overly flowery dialogue and exposition regarding streamer culture which I don't really engage in outside of shitting up threads, clips (and of course Mad at the Internet, every Friday at 12pm EST) so maybe I'm just in the shallow end of an Olympic swimming pool. This like weird distinction between the real and streamer world, how these Karamazov characters and KAngel are seemingly real but not. The "real" KAngel being obsessed with this person called P who from what I gather is the player character in the game who never really gets a happy ending. This odd almost self insert character Kache. It's all very jarring and confusing- almost like it's trying to ape Serial Experiments Lain but in an Idubbz level of irony.
Or not, it could just be my autism causing overthinking about a shill game anime with the thematic depth of an inflatable pool. I'll still watch it to try and figure out what the actual fuck it's trying to say or if it's really just some surface level "Yo, streaming is Le bad. Go away, parasocial fricks."
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I liked the manga version better with an ex idol producer helping Angel setting up her streams and tackling her BPD episodes. That concept sounded alot better because you get to see how mentally dysfunctional Angel is outside her streams and the producer having to basically be her tard wangler.

The anime by compression just sounds cringe.
 
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I was reading a manga and guess who are the bad guys? The coveting coin promised people. LOL

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Also this would be nightmare fuel.
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