Just tried to watch it. Since I'm off today, I was going to watch both GitS 1&2. Fell asleep right after the garbage men part.
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Just tried to watch it. Since I'm off today, I was going to watch both GitS 1&2. Fell asleep right after the garbage men part.
So I looked up ebay prices for those Evangelion McDonalds toys.
. . . . . FFS, why the hell are those sets $200 and up?! Good Christ.
Anyway, saw that they're adapting Sakamoto Days to anime. Has anyone else read the manga? I started reading it this past year and really enjoy it. It's very funny and super violent.
. . . . . FFS, why the hell are those sets $200 and up?! Good Christ.
Anyway, saw that they're adapting Sakamoto Days to anime. Has anyone else read the manga? I started reading it this past year and really enjoy it. It's very funny and super violent.
From what I understand, there was some kind of lottery to even get them? I don't think they were available for normal purchase, at any rate, so there's an unobtanium markup, I guess?
From having read the manga, the writer 100% gets toku. And the studio adapting it definitely knows too, as they not only recorded a Kizuna 5 opening song and an insert song(sung by Akira Kushida no less!) for the mecha at the start, they hired some previous sentai actors for the other Kizuna 5 VAs, and from what I hear even wrote up actual "episode summaries" for the non-existant Kizuna 5 show.
The whole thing is played 100% straight, which is what makes it great. Rather than being some harem fantasy or power fantasy, they just drop toku cliches and tropes right into a JRPG fantasy world and let them bounce off each other.
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There is a new Aquarion, series called Aquarion: Myth of Emotions, the art style is one of those poshed yet strange looking ones with a blend of 2D & 3D, the first ep is ok, trying to setup the cast and threat, of course its using the whole 12 thousand years later thing but the ep is kind of uncertain about who the main character is as its flip flopping between various characters! Its openning theme is a remix of the original theme but its makes a great song feel a lot lesser, so I'll give the series a bit of time to see if its truly good or not, but to be honest, the last Aquarion series was rubbish with bad writing, where's the first two are vasty superior
Is this one of those franchises where if I'd seen the previous series it'd make more sense? Because I watched this first episode on a whim and I have no freaking clue what the hell is going on.
For these shows, no, they normally explain everything, thou Evol is the direct sequel to the original, just set 12 thousand years later, while the third series, Logos, is its own thing, but doesn't make a whole lot of sense, thou the purpose of the show is to sell the toys/models of the mech, this latest series, I think could of benefited from having its first two eps air at the same time as it would explain things (I hope) better but the first ep, feels like they were to busy trying to set things up and not give the characters much personalty, about the only character with some thing to make them stand out, is that they do parkor!
Nope. All you need to know is there's 12000 year cycles of reincarnation, and an off-brand Getter Robo somehow linked to this. There's room for callbacks, but that's the only things the new series seems to have in common with the first two from the first episode so far. (Logos was its own beast.)
The lack of personality on the main characters I think is intentional, given that the characters talk about "lacking a heart" and the theme seems to be linked to emotion this time(rather than a race of ancient angels and destiny like the first two, or the concept of language like Logos was). They even state this explicitly in the first episode, pretty much.
Hmm so what I'm getting is the show is just a way to go: "Hey look at these ships/mechs being animated. Don't they look cool?"
While the characters are my biggest focus for anything I watch. I'm not having that big a problem with the 'no heart' thing. I mean they do have some personality. The Parkor one is a bit hot headed and eager to spring to action. The one with the greenish/light blue hair who appears to be always looking downward is the nervous shy type, and then we have the blue haired one who wears a tie. He's... there? He's the calm one and the one with the least amount of anything so far.
Everything just comes across as a rushed mess, leaving me with more questions then I have answers.
While the characters are my biggest focus for anything I watch. I'm not having that big a problem with the 'no heart' thing. I mean they do have some personality. The Parkor one is a bit hot headed and eager to spring to action. The one with the greenish/light blue hair who appears to be always looking downward is the nervous shy type, and then we have the blue haired one who wears a tie. He's... there? He's the calm one and the one with the least amount of anything so far.
It's more of how they drop you into the 'story' if you can call it that.
Hey, this girl is dead. The red hair boy seems upset at that.
He talks to the other two boys in the library. Oh wait that girl is there.
I guess having no heart makes it so this doesn't freak you out as much as it should.
So what's up with her? No idea. Some plot point they likely want to drop later.
Oh right they are the new students of the 'element' class. But it's apparently a secret they pilot ships?
Except everyone knows the Class they are going to is special, but I guess no one questions in what way.
The kids are forbidden from talking about it, but I kinda wonder how long you could keep a secret of 'I pilot a spaceship' when you are the age they are. Even if they lack hearts/most emotions, the other kids should hound them or something.
Oh yeah we have these monster things that appear sometimes. Don't worry about why we know this or what their goal is. Just go shoot at them.
Oh, seems like sending kids to fight the monster was a really bad idea. So say, why aren't more people doing stuff? Do we have documentation that just sending attack choppers or something doesn't work? These ships don't seem to be doing much else that those couldn't...
Girl: Remember how you had wings!
Oh my gosh! The ships became a mech!
It's kinda implied, or so I felt it was, that they built the ships, so how did they NOT know it could do this?
Hey, this girl is dead. The red hair boy seems upset at that.
He talks to the other two boys in the library. Oh wait that girl is there.
I guess having no heart makes it so this doesn't freak you out as much as it should.
So what's up with her? No idea. Some plot point they likely want to drop later.
Oh right they are the new students of the 'element' class. But it's apparently a secret they pilot ships?
Except everyone knows the Class they are going to is special, but I guess no one questions in what way.
The kids are forbidden from talking about it, but I kinda wonder how long you could keep a secret of 'I pilot a spaceship' when you are the age they are. Even if they lack hearts/most emotions, the other kids should hound them or something.
Oh yeah we have these monster things that appear sometimes. Don't worry about why we know this or what their goal is. Just go shoot at them.
Oh, seems like sending kids to fight the monster was a really bad idea. So say, why aren't more people doing stuff? Do we have documentation that just sending attack choppers or something doesn't work? These ships don't seem to be doing much else that those couldn't...
Girl: Remember how you had wings!
Oh my gosh! The ships became a mech!
It's kinda implied, or so I felt it was, that they built the ships, so how did they NOT know it could do this?
Everything just comes across as a rushed mess, leaving me with more questions then I have answers.
That I can agree on
I just been watching: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster
Its another reincarnation story, but our MC is reincarnated as a s ranked monster that looks like a normal cat and becomes a elf girl pet and adventuring compaion, they were a human knight but died in battle or something and reincarnated as a monster and he decided to be the elf girl "knight" & pet, its not really adding much to Isakai, but its more of a switch off your brain and enjoy type series
I agree with that, but it'd be nice if we got rid of the... *cough* Heavy implications
that she wants to... 'Do certain things' with her new pet.
If you can look past that though, it's a fun turn off your brain show.
And by heavy, I mean they pretty much out right say it
She was WAY too excited about that crossbreed skill.
If you can look past that though, it's a fun turn off your brain show.
Just checked out the new Wataru show.. it's Mashin Creator Wataru this time, instead of Mashin Hero, and it looks like they just kept the archetypes rather than the actual characters. It looks like his cousin's going to be a major character(and possibly the rival character this time?) and the whole thing looks like it's going to be riffing on youtube and streaming.
Like the preview shows, he seems to be able to make stuff out of blocks. I admit I'm mildly disappointed that so far there doesn't appear to be a reference to the old 7 layers/7 stars/7 whatever things like all the previous Wataru shows had, other than a backdrop that the kids are making during part of the ending sequence(which is catchier than it has any right to be)
I'm also inordinately amused given the cube theming, that Ryujinmaru's dragon form carries a cube isntead of an orb and has cube-shaped pupils.
- The Himiko equivalent looks just like a Vtuber that they were idolizing at the start
- The Shibaraku equivalent is now named Offline and doesn't get any of this
- The villain of the first episode is forcing people to press stone tablets that make them "subscribe to his channel" and like everything his mech does references that.
- Instead of killing or defeating they "ban" the enemies(and the enemy was trying to "ban" them from the world.
Like the preview shows, he seems to be able to make stuff out of blocks. I admit I'm mildly disappointed that so far there doesn't appear to be a reference to the old 7 layers/7 stars/7 whatever things like all the previous Wataru shows had, other than a backdrop that the kids are making during part of the ending sequence(which is catchier than it has any right to be)
I'm also inordinately amused given the cube theming, that Ryujinmaru's dragon form carries a cube isntead of an orb and has cube-shaped pupils.
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So, the next arc of the anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man was announced as a theatrical release. (Possibly inspired by how Demon Slayer: Mugen Train revived the Japanese cinema revenues.
I'm still largely in the "Aware that the characters exist, owing to various cosplay skits" category, but even I know that things are about to get.... explosive.
I'm still largely in the "Aware that the characters exist, owing to various cosplay skits" category, but even I know that things are about to get.... explosive.
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