Gundam seems to have a pretty good track record of great credits songs.
Obviously Beyond the Time is great too but I just love Meguriai.
I really like the manga for the girls love elements especially even if i can understand some of the more handsy spirits being a bit off putting
haven’t seen the anime so I cant speak for that but my spouse watched it and thought it was a good and faithful adaptation
i know its getting a second season which is exciting since it didnt get to the later chapter with my FAVORITE character
the manga is worth powering through! i think its very fun and has a great rhythm now
I also just love the art especially in a recent chapter where they played a parody of momotaro dentetsu called nashi tetsu with some fun designs
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In the anime it wasn’t even the handsy spirits, it was the completely out of place nudity that felt like it had no attachment or relationship to anything.
That and no aspect of the premise going anywhere in particular until the final episode.
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oh wow I found a compilation of all the fanservice and that is ridiculously horned up what the hell
im pretty sure it was originally short comics on twitter before getting serialized, which gave it a cute pace with the variety of spirits she has to stone face around but it is a bit meandering
definitely can see it being unsatisfying for a single season of anime! even the overarching moments in the manga are bad frankly I just like her and her friends
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I just watched 3.0 + 1.0 and finished the Rebuilds after going through all of them the past month and I think I actually prefer them to the original series (which is saying a lot for how much I love Eva), which I never expected to say because I put them off for years because I saw them as unnecessary, but I thought they were brilliant and gave me emotional catharsis I never really got. I also interpret them as a them as a time loop from the original series based on some stuff alluded to by Kaworu and Gendo plus some fourth wall breaking stuff near the end which I thought was brilliant as well.
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Apparently a PBS station promoted Serial Experiments Lain.
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I watched the first Rebuild last night which has some intriguing differences(Kaworu scene) and cool additions. Was mostly a straight remake from what I remember of the show. Excited to see how it goes all bonkers after this one.
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Totally agree on the pure catharsis the ending of 3.0+1.0 gave. There is a hug in that movie that just broke me, I won’t say more for spoilers but I felt like I was waiting for that for a decade.
I count seeing both 3.0+1.0 and end of eva in theaters as probably two of my favorite screenings ever.
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It very much becomes its own thing from the second film onwards if you found the first one too 1:1.
I think this is one of the most interesting albeit strangest remake projects imaginable. In some ways, it shares DNA with the FF7 remake series.
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What I found most interesting about 3.0+1.0 is how it both devolves into near asemia while also delivering a powerful emotional punch. In some ways, I think of it as being similar to Angel’s Egg, where the symbolism and iconography is so idiosyncratically personal to the creator that it’s almost impossible for someone else to really make sense of it all, or even grapple with it.
Yet despite this, both deliver something extremely powerful.
I think there’s something to be said to what an artist puts into a work. Not just the time and artistry, but the pieces of self that dissolve into the art. I think the audience tends to feel that in ways that are a bit beyond or aside from language. And so even though the Rebuild series culminates into some absolute nonsense, I think it also manages to deliver something profound about Anno. And in doing so, it hits us with the same profundity, even if we don’t entirely understand.
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Last year I started more seriously working on localization so I got a free crunchy roll trial to get a sense of what anime spanish dubs are like right now since my knowledge of that stopped in like 2010. Have watched like half a dozen animes in spanish since then. Mostly shonen that I wouldn’t usually watch.
I don’t watch my usual animes this way cause there’s a certain kind of voice that the naive dumb girl has in more slice of life/shoujo stuff that I can’t stand at all.
My brain works in a way where I can watch these animes in the background while I do menial work tasks and it helps me focus. So here’s some quick reviews of stuff I’ve watched with spanish dubs:
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Started Haikyuu got way too into it but only has a spanish dub until season 2 so I watched the rest paying more attention and in Japanese.
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Dr. Stone was fun and also got very into it and started reading the manga from where the anime stops.
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Rewatched Death Note for the first time since it came out and the first 10 episodes are extremely funny.
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Hajime no Ippo was also good but kinda lost interest after like 60 episodes.
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Got bored with Demon Slayer after like 20 episodes. It started getting to slow and plotting.
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Rewatched Skip and Loafer in spanish and it was still very cute and good and surprisignly none of the voices bothered me.
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Tried to watch Adachi and Shimamura but watching yuri while working is too much, cause I get too emotional.
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Reborn as a Vending Machine wasn’t engaging enough and the dialogue is really bad.
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Spy x Family had some problems but was fun enough to watch all of it.
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My latest is Hunter X Hunter which is just fun over-designed nonsense and it’s really something how season 5 really becomes even more non-sensical nonsense that I just keep on watching cause it’s kinda entretaining nonsense.
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I don’t want nothing except to tell yall that you should be watching Apothecary Diaries (CR) and My Happy Marriage (Netflix).
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I like the manga so much that I’ve been holding off on watching the anime cause i’m afraid of how much i’ll like it.
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Finished the G no Reconguista movies and overall really liked them. Felt like a slightly more unhinged Turn A which is frankly a good trajectory for Tomino to be on post-depression. The main thematic backbone of them seems to revolve around forgiveness and prejudice. It’s definitely a little strange in how it communicates these themes, like it seems like Tomino had a lot to say and chose a slightly awkward way to do it. Still, it’s a beautiful show and I really enjoyed it. Been thinking about it a lot since finishing it. I think this is a strength of Tomino and his shows, they burrow into you a bit.
@HeavenlyHalberd I’m really curious to hear what your thoughts are as I think we might be the only two on this forum who have seen it lol
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Alright watched Rebuild 2.22 tonight and yeah….there’s something going on here. It has the juice. It is clearly so in conversation with the original work and fan expectations for what a reimagining of the series would be. I love the changes they’ve made to Asuka in this though it’s not limited to her, everyone feels like a really interesting play on their original selves. The whole thing is also just really fun to watch, the mecha action scenes are a blast and really have some of that classic Gainax feel. So you’re not just getting an Eva thing but it also feels like we’re getting an all timer piece of mecha media.
I’ll say the two things I’m not super crazy about so far is the amount of fan service there is so far and Mari’s sorta awkward introduction. I can see the fan service being some kind of commentary like the infamous EoE scene but I could also just see it being pretty straight faced for the otaku audience. Mari I don’t so much dislike as I’m not sure where it’s going with her or what the point is. She feels almost like Haruko from FLCL stepping into Eva.
Stoked to watch the next two!
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Dude, 2.22 is an all timer for me. It’s so good!
I’m curious to what you’ll think of the next two movies. I’ve only watched them both once each and have been meaning to watch through again.
Also, Mari is a weird addition for sure especially in 2.22. But she totally grew on me especially in the final movie.
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So I haven’t seen the movies but just the TV series, and some people seem to think the movies fix some things, but I love G-Reco and was baffled watching it having known its reputation beforehand and felt like I was watching a different series than everyone else. I will say I feel like I both understand and like Tomino’s writing style better than most, and I think a lot of the weirdness is a feature, not a bug. Really glad to see someone else enjoy G-Reco and I feel like its reputation among hardcore Gundam fans is improving recently, at least from my bubbles online.
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Yeah, I went into the Rebuilds thinking Mari was going to be Poochie and by the end she felt like she belonged.
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I think an unstated and underexplored aspect to the Rebuild series is boob jiggle physics, because I do have a theory that this is not an insignificant reason Rebuild exists and especially why Mari was added.