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Watching Bungou Stray Dogs as I never finished season three. It's a good series.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Shangri-La Frontier's latest episode had Akio Otsuka singing about blacksmith. It's very kino.
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Its odd, Shangri-la doesn't have any trapped in a video game aspect or "if you die you die in real life" gimmick like some other video game anime but for some reason I'm more invested in the story despite the stakes on paper being a lot less to non existent. Best I got is that the because there's no stakes MC can die when he does something dumb (literately died dozens of times to a bird that kept shitting on him) and I read ahead in the manga and there's a few fun chapters where he kept beelining to an area that's way above his level, getting curb stomped by the area mobs, respawing back at town only to repeat the cycle for a good 2-3 chapters
 
Ok I did not see that plot twist coming from this episode of the 100 girlfriends that really, really, really, really, really love you but I concede it would've shown up eventually.
 

Trailer for a new Grendizer has been released, they're going the CGI mechs route and, the look for Mazinger Z is interesting, like a blend of the 70's Z with the manga version.
 
LightDragonman1 said:
On a different note, I just saw The Boy And The Heron. While a few aspects of the plot I felt were a bit too abstract for their own good, on the whole, it is a really well-made and satisfying film. That makes two times this month that Japanese media has blown Disney out of the water. XD
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Two of the top three films this weekend were Japanese films. Incredible.

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The Boy and the Heron was indeed good. I don't have the time to go into a deep discussion about it in this post, but I appreciated the abstractness. I'm thinking about the dumb Hollywood version of the film which would have a twist reveal. And Mahito himself reminds me of a classic 80s protagonist: a real boy with rough edges instead of some soft innocent faggot.
 
LightDragonman1 said:
On a different note, I just saw The Boy And The Heron. While a few aspects of the plot I felt were a bit too abstract for their own good, on the whole, it is a really well-made and satisfying film. That makes two times this month that Japanese media has blown Disney out of the water. XD
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Just saw it a few days ago and I couldn't disagree more. The movie absolutely fucks up its two major plot points and nothing feels like it's actually resolved.
Him getting over his mother almost feels complete, but they don't really have a moment of connection or resolution for his emotional trauma. It feels so open-ended and there's almost no reaction from him from the realization that it's his mom as a kid.

The plot with his aunt/new mom is even worse as they spend 2/3rd of the movie never talking. Their first actual scene together past her firing the arrow at the heron is him seeing her in the birthing room in the magic world and then again at the end when they escape. There's like 2 lines shared between the two of them.
The main character is written so stiffly that the movie fell flat on its face.
 
Wnrite said:
Just saw it a few days ago and I couldn't disagree more. The movie absolutely fucks up its two major plot points and nothing feels like it's actually resolved.
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So would The Boy and the Heron be more like another Miyazaki self-insert like The Wind Rises was?
 
Betonhaus said:
Is there an anime or manga which is a reboot of an older manga that exists in this world, except it's an isekai so instead of following the original story it has a character that read the original story and put it on a completely different path?
So readers of that manga could read the older one to predict what future events might happen in the isekai manga?
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16-Bit Sensation: Another Layer, which is airing this season, sorta has something like that going on, with a modern character time-travelling back to various points in the early 90s-early 00s where the original story took place. I haven't read the original, but I think the plot is supposed to be quite diverged.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
So would The Boy and the Heron be more like another Miyazaki self-insert like The Wind Rises was?
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Kind of? There's some felating of areodynamics to the lightest degree, but at least there's a coherent story in The Wind Rises. You have a character's life mapped out in front of you, have something to cheer for, and it tells a coherent story with a character who grows through the story.
With Heron, you have a snippet of a boy during a small, termolic period in his life. The issue is that it doesn't have a noticable resolution for the main character and the adventure feels like a total waste for the main character. There might be some liniage shit that's going over my head because there's another familial connection subplot running through the rest of the film, but it's so minor in terms of the character and his relation to the two most important characters to his story, his dead mother and his new mom (who's also his aunt).
 
Wnrite said:
there's almost no reaction from him from the realization that it's his mom as a kid.
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Why would there be?

At that point in the film, there is fundamentally no difference between Himi and Natsuko. Neither are the "mother" who died in the opening. Himi would never be his mother, but Natsuko could be, eventually. When he did show emotion at the end, it wasn't about Himi leaving him, but about trying to stop his "mother" from dying.
 
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The Love Live! franchise turned 10 years old last week, and to celebrate, there will be concerts and screenings, as well as special interviews with the casts and crew of the original series come next year.

The concerts will take place over two days, March 30 and 31, 2024 at the Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall.

There will also be special talk sessions with members of the cast and crew, which will take place on February 23 and 24.

Finally, movie theaters around Japan will screen the 2015 Love Live! film in 4DX starting March 15.
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Either way, it may not be an iDOLm@STER, but it’s still a gem to me.




 
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Stab You in the Back said:
Why would there be?

At that point in the film, there is fundamentally no difference between Himi and Natsuko. Neither are the "mother" who died in the opening. Himi would never be his mother, but Natsuko could be, eventually. When he did show emotion at the end, it wasn't about Himi leaving him, but about trying to stop his "mother" from dying.
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But then at that point what's the point in linking his mother to all of this. If one of the major plot points was his issue with his mother dying, then what's the point of having her there? As for his acceptance if his new mom, there isn't a single instance of them connecting in any way from their point of entry into the magical world.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Bought my tickets to the Gurren Lagann movie showings. I’ve seen them before, but I want to get that theater experience with the big moments.

Also went subtitled because obviously.
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Absolutely based, you just reminded me I needed to get some tickets too.
I actually went to see Promare in theaters 3 times and that's like diet TTGL energy so seeing actual TTGL on the big screen is going to be insane.
 
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