Spoilers for episode four of Dragon Ball: Daima:
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My 70 year old mom who had never before watched anime has now seen almost all of Spy x Family and the first 3 episodes of Cowboy Bebop. Her review of bebop was that she likes the music and the visual style but doesn’t care for the violence.
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My 64 year old mom watched Dungeon Meshi this year without even bringing it up to me or my brother. 2024 is the year of anime moms
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Montreux Jazz Festival Japan 2024
December 6 – 8
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new koike lupin movie.
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Neat! Visual novel to anime adaptations are nothing new, but pretty surprised to see this with how Gnosia tells its story around the reoccurring game loop.
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I grabbed the last two tickets to one of the Attack on Titan: The Musical shows in nyc on a whim a couple weeks ago (mostly because I kept seeing Gita post about it on bluesky or something). It was a blast! My partner had no idea what she was getting into, but is pretty dang invested now so we’re picking up with the anime where it left off (~se1 ep10). Kind of a weird place to stop, but I guess they had to wind it down at some point…hoping a part 2 makes it over some day. Anyway, they explicitly allowed/encouraged photos during the finale, so here’s a shot I took on b&w film:
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Well, Steins:Gate has a similar idea, and Summer Time Rendering seems to be also like that. The game is in my wishlist in Nintendo, maybe i shoul buy it.
That’s true, the limited characterization during looping portions isn’t so valuable in and of itself. It just made for an interesting buffer between the major discoveries.
omfg they gave Kazuya Tsurumaki a gundam show. i had hoped now that he’s out of Eva jail he would get to do something original but this seems so cool
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I laughed out loud when I saw the name but hell yeah sure let’s do it
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Somehow that’s apparently pronounced “g-quacks”…
Truly, a rain jerks for a new age.
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I watched the Lord of the Rings anime movie today and it kinda sucked. Animation lacked flair and detail, story was largely just another Two Towers. Wouldn’t really recommend.
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yeah it’s a real bummer. i had a good time coz i am a sucker for this kind of thing but it looked really cheap throughout. a shame coz i think the characters were interesting and i liked the heightened mythic tone of it. it’s really weirdly paced as well, like it was supposed to be a series.
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Speaking of stuff that looks real cheap, I am watching “the healer who was banished from his party is actually the strongest” or whatever it’s called (it’s mediocre-to-bad I’d say) and it is a masterclass in spending as little money as possible. there’s an enemy they fight 3 times that almost never moves except in closeup, constant pans across still images where everyone who’s speaking has their backs to the camera, generic mouth flaps that don’t match anything (two flaps for a single syllable word like “hai”) - it’s all here! If you wanna see a team spend 5 dollars (hyperbole but still) per episode check it out, ESPECIALLY as the series goes along.
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I saw the LotR anime too and didn’t really like it but also felt it was wasted potential. It’s also funny that the villain is a chaotic incel
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i feel like someone was like “we should make it weirdly smooth and too-many-frames-y like the old bakshi cartoon” and they hit an AI button to put a bunch of extra movement in there. if they’d committed to a straight anime style (or even the netflix castlevania thing) it would look better. it did make me want to watch two towers/rotk again for all the good rohan stuff. love those horse freaks.
I don’t know if people followed this, but I found this to be surprisingly better than what it first seemed to be, and well, we’re having a new season in 2026.
Also, the third and final season of Beastars have been released. I really recommend the anime, first because I love what the studio had done since the very beginning with Houseki no Kuni, and also because I love the story and how it focuses from the grupal tendencies into the individual ones, specially with Louis, Haru and Legoshi (I’ll finish the two chapters that I have pending from the second season and watch the series slowly).