Thank you. I was waiting for the series to be released and I didn’t know there were already some episodes out there.
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Watched the first episode. It was really weird, to be honest. Not only the anime got almost any kind of marketing outside of Japan, but for such a high-quality anime as this was the subtitles were really weird (titles aren’t subtitled, but some gestures do?).
The series seem to be possibly shaping to be awesome, so that irritates me more.
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Also: How about make teens fight biblical figures AND STILL make them attend school
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If Sailor Moon could do it (actually I’ve never watched Sailor Moon so I don’t know if this quip is founded on evidence)
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There’s gotta be someone out there who saved the world a few times while still passing Geography
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doogie howser is american evangelion
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so I’ve been watching sand land and I got to the part with the angel and I’ve been like… did I block all this out from the manga? Did I block it out because it’s not as interesting? And then I read up on it and they added it for the anime. That would explain it! It’s fine, but tonally it’s much more sour and less friendly than the original stuff, which was very like “there’s only ONE bad guy and everyone is either trying to get along and will come around or they are stupid.”
I guess toriyama drafted the story but still, the 2nd half is kinda bleh.
I’ve been avoiding the anime and the movie for this exact reason (I suppose the bad reviews didn’t help either.)
I love anything new Toriyama but maybe the solution is to go back in time and make this the 90s OVA it should’ve been.
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you can just watch the original arc and enjoy that! it’s quite nice. and the other stuff isn’t bad, it’s just not as good.
(also if you went back in time to make a 90s ova you’d need a second time machine for toriyama because sand land came out in 2000!)
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Yeah I remember Viz serializing it in the Shonen Jumps I used to get at the supermarket back when they were trying to do an American jump. Perhaps we need some sort of anime Biff Tannen scenario.
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this series has the most well drawn capybaras ever
This new season of anime seems to be good for romantic comedies / dramas. There are many and they are looking good.
The most interesting is Shoushimin, that is a full mood and slow as heck, i’m amazed something like this even got made.
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I finished up Gundam Zeta over the weekend. Honestly nothing like it when the melodrama and music are both firing on all cylinders. Excited to get to ZZ since I hear it’s pretty divisive.
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ZZ has some absolutely peak 80’s bonkers mech designs, and that’s what I love about it. It’s like they looked at Z and they were like ‘yeah, but how can we somehow make it more so, but on all the axes’. I think it’s a real love it or hate it thing. The anime is also waaaay lighter in tone that Z, not that it takes much. I’ll be curious to hear what you think about it!
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I’ve heard that it’s lighter in tone before which after the end of Z is something I’m all for lmao
Also how can the suit designs get goofier than my man the Baund Doc
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I had some time off so I watched Redline again a couple of times and then checked out 2 out of 3 of Takeshi Koike’s Lupin iiird films. Jigan’s Gravestone and Goemon’s Blood Spray. Goemon’s was definitely more exciting but they both were pretty interesting. JG did have some messed up stuff in it. Next up is Fujiko’s Lie which I think I might like the most.
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I love ZZ. It’s jarring, the aforementioned lighter tone, at first but later in the series shifts into a series of episodes I consider the best UC stuff ever made. The tone also settles down into more of what you’d expect in the second half.
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Do any of these new crop of romantic comedies/dramas NOT use misunderstandings/people not communicating as the core source of conflict or plot advance? If so I am interested.
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