majestic

Jotaro and the Empress, her teeth crushing. Platinum, his hands fast. Chibi? Chibi chibi! Chibi!

Let me know if that's worthwhile to watch. It certainly looks nice. I will probably start OCD'ing Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle really soon. As soon as I have Girls' Last Tour wrapped up. May or may not post more on Revolutionary Girl Utena too. The last two episodes and the movie sort of saved the preceeding episodes for me, even though it's still a horrible mess of bad pacing and needlessly opaque allegory, metaphor and imagery. That's not going to excuse the way it is set up, but it really becomes better in hindsight. Although, I wonder how many viewers those last two arcs lost while it was airing. No, but any such questions are easily answered. The only manga I've read is Sailor Moon - and there only the first arc and bits and pieces of the third and fourth, and one graphic novel (A Dame To Kill For - and that only to make sense of the film). I never really got into comics for some reason, and by "for some reason" that's mostly because reading for entertainment is still a fairly new thing for me. The anime is on Netflix though, so I might give that a try, when I have the time. Which is a little difficult lately, but should clear up really soon.

It's on Netflix and I ended up watching the first episode. Yuuri is voiced by Kayo-Chin from Love Live! (haha). Anyway, there was something endearing about the two, even though I must admit that I absolutely hate the character aesthetics. I wonder what the 12 episodes are going to be about though, because while it was interesting to see them traverse an empty wasteland, I'm not sure that would stay interesting for much longer.

Meirei wo. Meirei wo! I wonder how many takes Yui Ishikawa had to do for that scream she lets out after Violet's nightmare.

Could have fooled me.

Man, that's SHIIIIIIISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!

Jesus Christ, did you just peek?

Massive movie ending spoilers, so @KP the meanie zucchini, @InsaneCommander : No peeking. @Bartimaeus: Feel free to look, just set yourself into spoiler mode, just in case you might want to watch it at some point.

Do you mean the one with the Russian dub? Because that really is god awful.

edit: Language warning, obviously.

edit: I can't fully decide if it's episode 6 or 12 that I liked the least. They're both not bad and have their place, but they're... kinda next to better episodes. Eh.

So how's that working out for you on your quest for something lighthearted and fun?

It is, isn't it? Episodes 8 and 9 are a two parter, you might want to watch them back to back.

That's something that is hard to answer. The anime itself has the first six episodes as a really slow setup, adding the first OVA - the one with 35 minutes runtime - that was made after the anime itself to that extends it to seven episodes. It bridges the time skip between episodes 4 and 5, has some really nice imagery and gives Violet's coworkers something to do, including collaborating with her. It's not necessary to put it into the timeline where it belongs, but it really fits neatly into there. The 90 minute special is split in two parts, one that happens between 6 and 7, and one that happens after episode 13, but that you really best leave for after the anime because splitting it up makes it narratively awkward. There's also a 2 hour and 20 minutes movie afterwards, but that was just recently released (and I hated the ending).

Who said I was? The ending of Lost needs to be seen on two seperate levels. First, as an ending to the series, which was simply put terrible beause it resolved nothing, much like the ending of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime. Secondly, as a thematic ending, it was fitting for the setting and completely fine. I just disagree with people who say the ending is bad because it makes no sense. That's not true. It does - make sense, that is. It's still a bad ending to the series.

6 was probably my least favorite episode. It's an important growing moment for Violet, but the episode was mostly visually impressive. One might not like the character models, but it's impossible to deny the amount of work that went into drawing this.

I just realized something there... Also, yeah, to be honest, I'm like totally surprised you didn't immediately get all that, it was so obvious that it was already unsubtle in the way it hit you over the head with what it means!

I'm still surprised they followed through with Discovery and did not do anything on season three. Mostly because its just financially unsound to not do anything on it - or Mandalorian season two - and as much as we like them, at the end of the day Mike still runs a business. That's like automatic clicks by the alienated Star Trek fanbase. Guess going on Patreon really paid off for them.

No, no. The movie makes perfect sense. I'll show you how! The forum software ate my post, but luckily I saved it! Looks like that crap happens when you start typing and someone posts and the forum creates a new page out of it. Stupid forum software. It then tries to post on the old page and cannot because it is full, and simply eats the post. Here's the post: So, five minutes of processing, I end up with an idea, and, believe it or not, the movie actually cleared up a WHOLE LOT of the things that were a bit weird in the show. No, really, I'm... serious. Have another essay! Yay! Done reading? Too long? Here's a TL;DR: edit: Anyway, that's my take on the whole thing. It might mean something else entirely, it was set up to be open to interpretation after all, but the pieces fit neatly together. As much as they can. I also edited the text a bit where my stream of consciousness failed to produce coherent sentences.

Wait, wat... is... is... edit:

This Utena movie is... not what I expected so far. Oh dear. This very quickly turned squickier than the anime.

edit 2: edit 3: I also felt a lot like Charlie does while watching this anime. Here's the full episode, just in case someone here hasn't seen it. The others are good too, but three is clearly the best. Feel free to disagree, but know that you're wrong.

Without having seen the movie (that will most likely happen tonight) or doing any research, a shortish guess after sleeping on it: Shortish. Yeah, right.

PORNAREFFU and Sherry, on the island. That was certainly an unexpected departure from the usual and suddenly turned serious. PORNAREFFU also proves - once again - that he's a "bit" of a nincompoop.