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Tomboy Tuti said:
I just watched Redline and I dont know why I really didnt like it. I like sped racer, I quite like racing movies but this was just dollar store sped racer with some gimmicks. Ngl animation was fucking fire though, I wish I got to see more of that.

Edit: Also very liberally inspired character designs, main guy is just Elvis, the four armed dude is taken from Spirited Away, Captain Voltron gives a lot of comic Homelander vibes.
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Redline is like a console tech demo - it looks nifty, sure, but it's a cool idea that is never expanded upon. There isn't any particular memorable characters or plot to remember it afterwards, just cool visuals.
 
SSj_Ness said:
In Goblin Slayer I got to the episode where the resurrection spell is used. Did the resurrected character bone both those girls or what? They kinda grazed over the specifics.
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You got to share a bed with a virgin maiden in a temple for it to work so you can't bone them. Priestess is the stand-in virgin since Sword Maiden got gobbed but she's the one who knows the spell.
 
Redline is just Rule of Cool: The Movie, and I think that's just fine. It was obviously a passion project that had all hands on deck with some of the most stylish artwork and animation around (I wanna see it on the big screen, it screams for that kind of cinematic experience), and it sadly bombed so hard that Madhouse will not do ambitious original projects anymore. The plot is bare bones but it's there once you know where to look, and it's more about J.P.'s character motive as to why he's a racer.

Honestly, I think it would benefit from an OVA series or something to help flesh out the world and allow the animators to get creative. But it's never going to happen.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Redline is just Rule of Cool: The Movie, and I think that's just fine. It was obviously a passion project that had all hands on deck with some of the most stylish artwork and animation around (I wanna see it on the big screen, it screams for that kind of cinematic experience), and it sadly bombed so hard that Madhouse will not do ambitious original projects anymore. The plot is bare bones but it's there once you know where to look, and it's more about J.P.'s character motive as to why he's a racer.

Honestly, I think it would benefit from an OVA series or something to help flesh out the world and allow the animators to get creative. But it's never going to happen.
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coincidentally enough, there WAS an OVA series that fleshed out the world that came out nearly 5+ years before Redline came out called Trava: Fist Planet. It's based off of one of the side characters that shows up in Redline. It's a pretty neat OVA and its relatively short.

As somebody who loves movies like Dead Leaves and Redline, I will always advocate for movies that follow the Rule of Cool. It's a lost art in anime movies where things are either extremely depressing or romcoms. The phrase "they really dont make em like this anymore" applies so much to Redline due to it be a mega bomb but I wish that something with that type of energy was still being made to this day.
 
Betonhaus said:
1. its a fantasy world, don't think about it too hard
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Imagine saying that to someone like Tolkien.
Oddjob OTP said:
If you like Redline and you want to see what it would look like if 1970/80s western animators made a cool shitpost of a movie look into Heavy Metal. I'd also recommend the animated series version of Aeon Flux, although that one likes to alternate between rule of cool and fart huffing.
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Heavy Metal has the mammary maiden correct?
 
Betonhaus said:
Third wave feminism. Woman are equal to men and you're a chauvinist pig if you say otherwise.
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I've never watched, nor plan to watch, goblin slayer. But, what seemed weird to me in that rape scene that got weebs to chimp out, is that the women get raped, but the twink dude that accompanied them was just killed. Even the deranged, sex pest goblins went "lmao, I ain't no fag".


Anyway. It's so bizarre, to me, that out of all the shonen anime that deal with power levels, dragon ball and one punch man bring out the worst within the autists that eat that shit up. I think even the writer of One Punch said that he is just making a comedic story, yet retards still screech about how "King totally has the same strength as Saitama. How? let me explain it to you in this 3 hour YouTube video".
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Redline is just Rule of Cool: The Movie, and I think that's just fine. It was obviously a passion project that had all hands on deck with some of the most stylish artwork and animation around (I wanna see it on the big screen, it screams for that kind of cinematic experience), and it sadly bombed so hard that Madhouse will not do ambitious original projects anymore. The plot is bare bones but it's there once you know where to look, and it's more about J.P.'s character motive as to why he's a racer.

Honestly, I think it would benefit from an OVA series or something to help flesh out the world and allow the animators to get creative. But it's never going to happen.
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I know the solution to this. Just pretend that Space Dandy is in the same universe as Redline.
 
I finished the first season of Goblin Slayer, and I'm gonna wait for the second to finish before watching it.

Is there anything recent that's as good as Goblin Slayer and Shield Hero are? Something like those would be cool.
 
With current shōnen's final war arcs becoming absolute disastrous cluster fucks, it really makes me appreciate the already great Fullmetal Alchemist's final war arc.

It has almost everything, characters getting some cool moments, payoffs that have built up through the entire series, and many satisfying conclusions to character arcs whether they end in tragedy or have a happy end.

Fullmetal Alchemist really managed to do it right, and while Brotherhood is not a perfect anime adaptation, it captured those moments of hype rather well that still outclasses modern shōnen that struggle to write a conclusive finale.
 
SSj_Ness said:
I finished the first season of Goblin Slayer, and I'm gonna wait for the second to finish before watching it.

Is there anything recent that's as good as Goblin Slayer and Shield Hero are? Something like those would be cool.
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I recommend watching the movie Goblin's Crown first, & if you do, start around at the 24:49 minute mark, the 1st 25 mins of the movie are a recap episode. After that, you get a one hour OVA.
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
The most illogical thing about Goblin Slayer is the fact that they keep sending women on Goblin Hunting raids. Especially newbies. Its a known fact that women are used by Goblins as breeding stock, so any woman captured will be used to breed more goblins
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This is a fantastic point actually. In Hunter x Hunter when Netero and the boys discover that the Chimera ants are actually getting smarter/stronger by eating humans, they immediately shut that area down. Netero specifically tells Killua to take Gon and get the fuck out of there, because they can't risk losing more Nen users to Assimilation with the Enemy.
Scarlett Johansson said:
Next on the list is Gunbuster, followed by Record of Lodoss War.
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About to start Lodoss War as well since I've been reading good reviews. And after checking the visuals, I think I'm really gonna dig it, the art looks great (with the opening stills paying direct homage to masters like John Martin (imo)).
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in a bit of thread synchronicity, the first scene I browsed features a girl bathing naked in the woods, and Goblins are about...
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I wonder what they want with her?
 
Doctor of Autism said:
With current shōnen's final war arcs becoming absolute disastrous cluster fucks, it really makes me appreciate the already great Fullmetal Alchemist's final war arc.

It has almost everything, characters getting some cool moments, payoffs that have built up through the entire series, and many satisfying conclusions to character arcs whether they end in tragedy or have a happy end.

Fullmetal Alchemist really managed to do it right, and while Brotherhood is not a perfect anime adaptation, it captured those moments of hype rather well that still outclasses modern shōnen that struggle to write a conclusive finale.
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My hero's war arc has just been dragging along way too long.
 
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