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  1. Bartimaeus
    Only when everything else that remains is pure shonen. So...the gist of it is that the seinen anime gets less melodramatic and more shoujo-y after aging up the characters. Doesn't really make that much sense to me, but I guess that's okay, . Example #4719 of me being unsure if there's any truth to anything HoonDing says...
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    The Polish, uh, don't pull many punches with their posters, do they?
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    Is Drew Struzan the guy responsible for making all the "let's just throw all the characters into a giant hot mess a la Star Wars" posters? ...Yes, yes he is. Ugh. Okay, so I'm going to look real quick for some where he DIDN'T do that. It turns out, there weren't very many where he didn't do that, and most of them where he didn't were ultra cheesy in some other way, so this ended up being a very easy choice: The Thing. In retrospect, it's probably not necessarily his fault all his posters look the same, but more likely a function of the types of movies he's being hired to make posters for (i.e. big action/adventure movies that want a poster that "looks the same" as other successful action/adventure movies' posters in order to help sell it) and being "type-casted" into doing the same kind of poster over and over. I guess at least his posters are actual posters, unlike what we get today.
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    As I recall, I had my fingers in my ears and my eyes closed during most of the final act of Tales from Earthsea because of how deeply embarrassed and ashamed I was with the totality of that film. Of all the anime movies I've watched, including some pretty miserable ones like the final two Rebuild films but also some other misbegotten garbage that doesn't need to be mentioned, only the second Madoka film rated lower than Tales from Earthsea. Nausicaa was the very first anime film I watched (...two years ago now?) and it didn't even slightly make me want to pluck out my eyeballs and puncture my eardrums while watching it. In contrast, Tales from Earthsea was the very last Ghibli film that I chose to watch (outside of the recently released Earwig and the Witch*), both because of its horrid reputation as well as the fact that it was a shonen fantasy anime, so it was admittedly pretty predictable that I would utterly despise it**. Still, I am shook. *Which, for as much as I didn't like it and as kind of terrible as Earwig and the Witch was, I still liked a bit better than Tales from Earthsea. **Originally, I wasn't going to watch Tales from Earthsea, but I got roped into it along with Ghibli's more dubious Ocean Waves, but I actually surprisingly liked Ocean Waves...no dice for Tales from Earthsea. Anything that shoots down bad shonen is a winner in my books...uuunless it came out past 2000, in which case it's still inherently trash, .
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    e: shoulda watched samurai champloo
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    I think I remarked that was the only thing I even kind of liked from what I saw of the show, since it reminded me of 80s animation and less of modern-day anime like the rest of the show. A couple of the face close-ups I saw in that show in the ten or so minutes I watched of it were legitimately revolting to me, so the "can't speak" face was a hugely welcome contrast to that. Codename: Sailor V, episode 2:
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    I have not played any Final Fantasy games, . And it's not as though I am bigly into JRPGs - I've played a handful of S/NES-era ones, but that's about it. I've definitely never abused Ranger -> Cleric dual-classes before, no sir.
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    Don't know what a "white mage" is, so I guess I'm not really in on the latest JRPG tropes (latest true JRPG I've played for at least ten minutes is...ah, yes, MOTHER 3 on the Game Boy Advance), but pretty much everything about it the poster as a whole sure looks terrible very bad ungood I don't like it. If this is what is what modern JRPGs sell themselves as...
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    It sounds like they gave him a two year paid vacation as part of the settlement to avoid lawsuits, so at least there's that?
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    I wouldn't necessarily count on Samurai Champloo to play entirely by historical rules.
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    "There's bound to be some secrets about that sunflower dude written somewhere in there..." I'm not a hundred percent sure she ever said the sunflower samurai was a dude? But I'm not sure, maybe she did in like the first episode. Anyways, episode 12 was a clip show, but it was a pretty good clip show, since it was told through Fuu's diary and gave her thoughts and reflections on the events that have happened so far, as well as her frustrations with her companions.
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    Speaking of the next episode...Samurai Champloo, episode 11. It's a Jin episode, but, like...the real Jin, not the not-Jin I was calling Jin before.
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    Sakura, episode 64. Looks like we got ourselves a skiing episode, folks.
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    I was looking for evil laughing gifs until I read this. Pfeh. I was promised a disaster, and instead I get this? Guess it'll just have to wait until the next season...
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    I closed my eyes so I wouldn't be biased by the video itself, since I famously despise all things music videos which can bias me against the song, and the first few seconds I was like "hmm, this doesn't SEEM familiar...". Then she started singing, and I was like "oh yeah, the chipmunk girl". It's not the worst ever by any means, but I certainly don't care for it. Maybe if I fall in love with the show... Did you listen to the intro on every Sakura episode like I have? Maybe you need some more brainwashing...it seems to have worked on me, . I maintain that I can barely understand and practice English - Japanese is wholly out of the question except as it pertains to precisely one person: me.
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    It's fine. The opening lines are O.K., the middle part of the song immediately after that sucks because it slows to a crawl and the way the lady sings it is weird and it all sounds just kind of uneven and bad, but then the song finally kicks off when the Sakuras merge, and that part's pretty decent. Plus, seeing Sakura in the broken mirror turn towards the camera is pretty cool animation-wise. Yes, the Sailor Stars song is better, but so is the Sakura animation, . In other words, I don't have to worry about you finishing it before me, .
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    I started reading Sailor V because I've been listening to Sailor Moon music over the last week or so and felt such a...nostalgic longing, I guess you could call it, that I needed *something* to ameliorate it. The breaking point, strangely, was a very silly song I had never heard before called Ai wa Energy (specifically some random choral piano version that's not even remotely in the style of the show!), the words of which I could not but did not need to understand, as it somehow made me a little emotional even without knowing. Don't ask me why that specifically, because I don't know - I don't usually like choral OR piano stuff. It's a special show that I watched all of for the first time just last year that I can feel that way about it. Sounds pretty good to me, but I do tend to enjoy non-movie movies - i.e. movies that just depict life in a simple and grounded manner. Yeah, that's fair, I actually wondered if you bringing that up was was for that. May or may not have helped me take notice...but it surely couldn't have hurt. I'd noticed a few such things somewhat myself, e.g. when I asked why it seems like Sakura almost always calls her brother by the brother term (onee-chan?) instead of his name, or when I asked why it seemed like only Meiling was the only one to ever call Xiaolang by actual his name while Sakura would always say something I couldn't decipher (which you helpfully explained was Li-kun), so who knows, I might've noticed on my own, especially given how she reacted, .
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    In animation and with sound, I'm a bigger fan of using expressions and tone to signal most of this stuff. In writing, it's admittedly a little more difficult, especially because writing "tone" can be pretty difficult to convey precisely and concisely. And I also think back to that moment between Sakura, Xiaolang, and Meiling when Xiaolang called Sakura just...Sakura instead of her last name, and though I picked up on it immediately even without the subtitles mentioning it, you can see how moments like that wouldn't have their significance noticed for many viewers. ...Actually, I wonder how that was handled in the English dub, now that I think about it. Regardless, I get very tired of seeing those honorifics in writing constantly - it's a weird repetition thing that peeves my pets. I obviously don't have as much of a problem with hearing them, given that I've heard Tomoyo say "Sakura-san" approximately two million times throughout Sakura. ...A tomboy, then? I don't remember Yukari being particularly tomboy-ish... Why wouldn't you just cut out one of the instances?
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    Hell yeah, sign me up! I'm assuming I have at least a fighting chance at being one of the five million since I took his vaccine very early on and he would presumably want sensible and agreeable people on his starship. Definitely don't want brainless, gun-toting "rebels", anyways. Yeah, but any kind of anti-science position really seems like a leaping point for any number of other insane positions. Today "global warming is a hoax" or "the Earth is flat", tomorrow it's "**** your vaccines" and "give me the horse paste". People are nuts. Hope everything works out.
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    Lmao, hell of a way to draw Artemis, Ms. Takeuchi. Episode 1 of 16 of Codename: Sailor V down. It was pretty fun! It generally reminded me a lot of the Sailor Moon show, which is good because what I'd read of the actual Sailor Moon manga kind of didn't! There are two translations - an unofficial one by "Miss Dream", and an official one by "Kodansha Comics". I vastly prefer the unofficial one. It all just reads kind of clunky compared to the fan translation, plus it does that thing where you're going to read words like "chan", "sempai", "sama", and "san" about a billion times because those words are going to be included the vast majority of time anytime a character's name is said out-loud, and I just ain't got the patience for it. Sakura, episode 63: @majestic Pretty good but very silly episode - yeah, they probably should've put it earlier into the season. It was a weird fusion of season 1 and season 3 stuff that at least wouldn't have felt as out of place if it at least came earlier. The end of the episode re: Rika drowning and stuff also wasn't the most convincing of action resolutions, . "Sakura still has some left. Oh, the brat has some left too...but though the kid is dumb, he has some good sense. So this one [Sakura's]!" Did Kero just call Sakura dumb? (e): I just did some post combination/reshuffling in order to not triple-post.
  21. Bartimaeus
    Hope everyone (also including ShadySands here) makes it through okay...and if you're vaccinated, then at least you can feel 99.9% confident that you will, . Guess there is a pretty serious worry for the immuno-compromised sister, though... All of my direct family is pro-vaccine; meanwhile, also literally all of my extended family is anti-vaccine. It's made for some...interesting conversations over the past year. No, Grandpa, I am not going to go to discover "the truth" on InfoWars or [insert other hack publication here]...and I wish I were joking about InfoWars specifically here, but no, I am not.
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    That's good, because the "Serious Mode" action/story bits you'd shown and talked about of the first two seasons reminded me a little too much of the worst over-dramatic "Serious Mode" bits of Sailor Moon, . For me, watching/playing new things is pretty exhausting, even if it's something that's great. If I start to re-watch episodes of e.g. Steven Universe, I can plow through a whole pile of episodes without really feeling it, but two episodes of Sakura or Champloo gets to me. There are times I have greater fortitude and am able to do more, but it's only every so often; that's why I will go through bouts of like watching a new film most every day for like an entire week or more, and then don't watch even a single one for the month after.
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    Rhetorical questions are a lot easier than...well, that show has gone on for way too long to be able to make any kind of real sense of what's happening no matter how detailed you get with your descriptions, .
  24. Bartimaeus
    I hate 17 games, and I hate 7 post-season teams. 16 and 6 was so much more mathematically pleasing, plus it used to be that two teams got a bye, now the #1 seed has an overwhelming advantage compared to all the other teams when #1 seeds were already representing their conference at too high of a rate...ergh. NFC is very top-heavy this season, although this week did some pretty serious damage to that with the Packers (lmao), Rams, Cowboys, and Saints (double lmao) all losing.
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    I do believe the Falcons are, shockingly, the seventh seed right now.
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