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[SteelPlatedHeart]

Mai-Otome is one of the few shows that actually gets under my skin with how bad it is. Coming off of Mai-Hime I was expecting something of equal or greater value but what I got was a spit in the face. Mai-Otome is low brow, low effort, and only worth watching if you really like making fun of bad shows... which is why I have all the episodes of the dub on a USB for parties.

Huh, that’s too bad to hear. Mai-Hime’s twist of “it’s not you that dies, it’s the one you love most instead” was a pretty good take on the whole “last one standing” stories.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Mai-Otome is one of the few shows that actually gets under my skin with how bad it is. Coming off of Mai-Hime I was expecting something of equal or greater value but what I got was a spit in the face. Mai-Otome is low brow, low effort, and only worth watching if you really like making fun of bad shows... which is why I have all the episodes of the dub on a USB for parties.

I had no idea, but I guess it makes sense given how obscure it is compared to the more popular Mai-Hime.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Huh, that’s too bad to hear. Mai-Hime’s twist of “it’s not you that dies, it’s the one you love most instead” was a pretty good take on the whole “last one standing” stories.

Oh yeah, Mai-Hime was brilliant in my opinion. Where I feel it lacked in animation at times and a few other small general things it made up for that tenfold with it's storytelling and emotional pay off. The music is probably it's strongest asset though by far.

 

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rhxUjVbX_EU

This means read it. But don't get attached to any characters

 

[Namekian George Floyd]

Yeah, I'm not caught up but CSM has a really bad habit of getting you to absolutely love a character and then killing them off like they never even mattered in the first place, then you feel like crying every time they're brought up again since it's never just an offhand remark. It's always very clear that the people who die had an extremely substantial part in other character's lives but despite them getting more screentime through living on in the memories of other characters, it just makes you feel worse that they're dead. I'm like 30 chapters behind but this could end up being a legit masterpiece if they don't manage to fuck it up.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Yeah, I'm not caught up but CSM has a really bad habit of getting you to absolutely love a character and then killing them off like they never even mattered in the first place, then you feel like crying every time they're brought up again since it's never just an offhand remark. It's always very clear that the people who die had an extremely substantial part in other character's lives but despite them getting more screentime through living on in the memories of other characters, it just makes you feel worse that they're dead. I'm like 30 chapters behind but this could end up being a legit masterpiece if they don't manage to fuck it up.

Oh you ain't ready for the massive shit that's happening right now bruh. I ain't spoiling, but let's just say it'll hit like a Road Roller.

 

[A Random]

If what I hear about it is correct it's a lot like s-CRY-ed and it's manga wherein they might as well be entirely different.

The mangá is also written and drawn by the same guys behind The Qwaser of Stigmata and its spiritual sequel The Nectar of Dharani. While My-HiME isn't as much like these, the sequel starts the trend of 'boobs lol' to the point where a side character's special ability is her boobs.

And then the sequel is just bad.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

The mangá is also written and drawn by the same guys behind The Qwaser of Stigmata and its spiritual sequel The Nectar of Dharani. While My-HiME isn't as much like these, the sequel starts the trend of 'boobs lol' to the point where a side character's special ability is her boobs.

And then the sequel is just bad.

There is one idea from Mai-Otome I really dig that I want to rework into a maguffin for a D&D game. I like the idea of The Harmonium, a wish granting device in the form of a massive pipe organ. It's very grandiose I think.

 

[OnMoTi]

Every time I read a manga it gets turned into an anime. I watched Irregular at Magic High whenever that came out (7 years ago?) Then about a year ago I read ahead to see what happens. Then it comes out that it's getting a second season and it's going to be the visitor arc. Fuck me. After that, I read ahead in Slime bro, though I should've figured a next season would happen with how insanely popular it was. And then I read all 130~ chapters of Spider bro-ette only to find out that was going to get an anime adaption. Screw it. I'm not reading anymore.

 

[Atatata]

Every time I read a manga it gets turned into an anime. I watched Irregular at Magic High whenever that came out (7 years ago?) Then about a year ago I read ahead to see what happens. Then it comes out that it's getting a second season and it's going to be the visitor arc. Fuck me. After that, I read ahead in Slime bro, though I should've figured a next season would happen with how insanely popular it was. And then I read all 130~ chapters of Spider bro-ette only to find out that was going to get an anime adaption. Screw it. I'm not reading anymore.

Read Houseki no Kuni, the studio the originally adapted season 1 went full Beastars and never bring it up.

 

[Vapewizard]

God hypnosis mic is so stupid. I love it.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Every time I read a manga it gets turned into an anime. I watched Irregular at Magic High whenever that came out (7 years ago?) Then about a year ago I read ahead to see what happens. Then it comes out that it's getting a second season and it's going to be the visitor arc. Fuck me. After that, I read ahead in Slime bro, though I should've figured a next season would happen with how insanely popular it was. And then I read all 130~ chapters of Spider bro-ette only to find out that was going to get an anime adaption. Screw it. I'm not reading anymore.

Please read Black Bird. No real reason, really, but the art is so very pretty.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Last week on Monday, Squid Girl turned 10 years old.



It surprised me since this anime looks to be one of those that has since stood the test of time, regarding how an anime like this could still be memorable after all those years.

Plus, this scene is funny:

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

No idea how many people here will care, but the author for Kimagure Orange Road Izumi Matsumoto passed away. He doesn't seem to have done any works past Kimagure due to ongoing health problems, though apparently a couple years ago he claimed to have been getting better and was interested in starting up a new series. From what I can parse from the rough translation of the announcement it seems he was in the hospital due to an unspecified complaint because of cerebrospinal fluid depletion (apparently due to an accident suffered when he was a kid) while also worried about his heart which he had surgery on a couple years ago. It doesn't go into much detail about what actually caused his death, just says he passed peacefully in his sleep.

http://www.comic-on.co.jp/hidiary/hidiary.cgi?yyyy=2020&mm=10&dd=13

まつもと泉は今月6日午前0時過ぎに、
かねてより入院療養中の病院にて永眠いたしました。
これまで公私に亘ってお付き合いをいただきました方々、
そして作品を愛してくださいました方々に
心より御礼を申し上げます。

近年のまつもと泉は脳脊髄液減少症による不定愁訴に苦しみながらも
仕事復帰への意欲に燃えて闘病を続けてまいりましたが
数年前に手術をした心臓にも不安を抱えており、
残念ながら身体が保たなかったようです。
ただ医師によりますと、苦しむことなく睡眠中に
そのまま安らかに旅立ったとのことでした。

なお葬儀はすでに近親者のみで執り行いましたので、
お供えやご香典はご辞退いただきたくお願い申し上げます。

略儀ながら書中をもちまして、
まつもと泉についてのご報告とさせていただきます。
あらためまして生前お世話になりました皆さまに
感謝をお伝えしますとともに
今後ともまつもと泉の作品を広く楽しんでいただけますよう
お願いをいたします。

WAVE STUDIO

A sad reminder that probably a lot of creators behind classics are going to be passing away in the coming years, I'm always nervous I'll wake up to some of my favorites passing on. A lot of those considered foundational creators were born in the war years (1940s+) or a little before.

 

[sasazuka]

That's horrible news, and it happened only a few days shy of Izumi Matsumoto's 62nd birthday, which would be October 13th (today in Japan).

I have all 18 volumes of the Kimagure Orange Road manga in French and the Groundhog Day-like Christmas episode is one of the anime Christmas episodes I watch annually. I still want to own Kimagure Orange Road on DVD or Blu-Ray but it's a bit pricey.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

No idea how many people here will care, but the author for Kimagure Orange Road Izumi Matsumoto passed away. He doesn't seem to have done any works past Kimagure due to ongoing health problems, though apparently a couple years ago he claimed to have been getting better and was interested in starting up a new series. From what I can parse from the rough translation of the announcement it seems he was in the hospital due to an unspecified complaint because of cerebrospinal fluid depletion (apparently due to an accident suffered when he was a kid) while also worried about his heart which he had surgery on a couple years ago. It doesn't go into much detail about what actually caused his death, just says he passed peacefully in his sleep.
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http://www.comic-on.co.jp/hidiary/hidiary.cgi?yyyy=2020&mm=10&dd=13

A sad reminder that probably a lot of creators behind classics are going to be passing away in the coming years, I'm always nervous I'll wake up to some of my favorites passing on. A lot of those considered foundational creators were born in the war years (1940s+) or a little before.

Sucks.

Next to Maison Ikkoku, I thought Kimagure Orange Road was one of the most unique romantic animes I’ve seen in years. And yeah, to the poster above, it is very expensive to even get, let alone find, the original DVDs. Hopefully his family can find peace, even though a disease like that sounds like hell to live with.

EDIT: I didn’t know if I wanted to post this, but KOR is also known in the lo-fi hip hop/vaporwave fanbase mainly for their use of gifs in their videos, while playing that type of music:




It’s a very comforting feeling.

 

[Vapewizard]

I never watched or read Kimagure orange road but I recall seeing someone post one of the show's openings on twitter as an example of really impressive animation at the time. Just looked it up on youtube and it was the third OP song, "Kagami No Naka No Actress."

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

A sad reminder that probably a lot of creators behind classics are going to be passing away in the coming years, I'm always nervous I'll wake up to some of my favorites passing on. A lot of those considered foundational creators were born in the war years (1940s+) or a little before.

Sometimes, I think about what it's going to be like to wake up one morning and learn that Rumiko Takahashi or a member of CLAMP has passed away, and it makes me depressed.

 

[sasazuka]

And yeah, to the poster above, it is very expensive to even get, let alone find, the original DVDs. Hopefully his family can find peace, even though a disease like that sounds like hell to live with.

Canadians pretty much had to order the Kimagure Orange Road DVDs straight from AnimEigo, which I did for the first three Urusei Yatsura boxes a couple of years earlier but I had a lot more money to do things like that in 2001. I'd later see a couple of individual DVD volumes at an Archambault book/music/video store in Montreal but I didn't feel like collecting that series piecemeal and that's the only time I ever saw them at retail to the best of my memory.

There's also the factor where I first saw Kimagure Orange Road via VHS fansub at an anime club in the mid-1990s and wanted to own it then but it took a few years for there to be an official western release and the first one was Laserdisc-only where I think AnimEigo was only selling it as one big set and, even though I had a LD player and a decent amount of money, buying the entire set at once would've been something like $500 Canadian in 1997 dollars (not taking into account shipping and importation fees) which was just too much. I think it took at least another half decade for AnimEigo to finally put it on DVD, by which time my interest in Kimagure Orange Road was waning anyway (except for the music, which I never stopped caring about).

Eventually, I became interested in collecting it again. I see Right Stuf has Discotek's Blu-Ray release of the TV series for $60, which is reasonable. I just hope that's their regular price and not a sale price because I can't afford to spend that much on anime right now but maybe in a couple of months it'll be doable.

I never watched or read Kimagure orange road but I recall seeing someone post one of the show's openings on twitter as an example of really impressive animation at the time. Just looked it up on youtube and it was the third OP song, "Kagami No Naka No Actress."

That's the most impressive Kimagure Orange Road opening at least for the creative ways that each scene segues into becoming a visual element in the next scene. I also really like the first Kimagure Orange Road opening, "Night of Summer Side", for its one-two-one-two back and forth quick cut editing. But my favourite of the Kimagure Orange Road credit sequences is the second ending, "Kanashii Haato wa Moete Iru wa" ("My Sad Heart is Burning"), both for the song itself and for the chalkboard animation (at least that's what I think it is, the Youtube comments say it's sand animation but I think the faces look like they were done in chalk; I don't think they'd be as sharp in sand but I could be wrong).