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Lop and Ocho has a lightsaber but its not about the Jedi, thats one of the things I liked about it. They were entrusted with a lightsaber however many centuries ago but otherwise are just a bunch of force insensitive locals. It was really gorgeous. The bit with lop floating on her umbrella after wrecking her speeder made me think of old 80s anime I'd see on scifi for some reason. Very nostaglic shot.
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teagone posted:I like the first two Appleseed CG films, especially Ex Machina He can do whatever he wants with his own stuff but the Starship Troopers anime films are bad, the CGI season of Ghost in the Shell is crap and Blade Runner Black Lotus looks nothing like Blade Runner.
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Arc Hammer posted:He can do whatever he wants with his own stuff but the Starship Troopers anime films are bad, the CGI season of Ghost in the Shell is crap and Blade Runner Black Lotus looks nothing like Blade Runner. Agreed, but Appleseed was created by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell).
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Sep 23, 2021 05:33
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teagone posted:Agreed, but Appleseed was created by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell). Was it??? I'd always thought that was an Aramaki joint. Unless there's another cyberpunk manga/anime about a robot with bunny ear antennas I'm forgetting.
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Sep 23, 2021 05:40
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Arc Hammer posted:Was it??? I'd always thought that was an Aramaki joint. Unless there's another cyberpunk manga/anime about a robot with bunny ear antennas I'm forgetting. I'm assuming by "own stuff" you were implying that Appleseed was an original creation by Aramaki. Aramaki just directed the CG films, but the manga was all Shirow.
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teagone posted:I'm assuming by "own stuff" you were implying that Appleseed was an original creation by Aramaki. Aramaki just directed the CG films, but the manga was all Shirow. I'll be honest the only stuff I really know about Shirow is he created Ghost in the Shell, Tank Police and a metric fuckton of porn. I thought Appleseed was Aramaki's creation.
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Arc Hammer posted:I'll be honest the only stuff I really know about Shirow is he created Ghost in the Shell, Tank Police and a metric fuckton of porn. I thought Appleseed was Aramaki's creation. Today you learned!  More relevant to the thread, I finished the last Visions episode. Big meh but overall? It's a decent anthology. The Village Bride, Lop & Ocho, and The Ninth Jedi are my favorites. I'd love manga continuations of each. Or anime series. Or feature films. Whichever. 
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Really interesting in seeing how all over the place everyone’s rankings are. Here are mine: Top 3 that I’d love to see a full series for: The Ninth Jedi Lop and Ocho The Duel Not too shabby, I appreciate what they were going for: T0-B1 Akakiri Tatooine Rhapsody And the rest: The Twins The Elder The Village Bride I think I’m one of the only people to be lukewarm on The Elder. For me it felt too pedestrian, pretty by the numbers especially compared to most everything else here. I love Lop. I forget what her race is but I recall them from the old EU so I hope this is a sign they’ll be back in canon. The Village Bride is probably the only one I didn’t like at all. It felt less like a self-contained story and more like a scene in the middle of one. I had no idea what the Jedi woman’s deal was or her relationship with her companion and the villains were total pushovers against them.
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Sep 23, 2021 07:00
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Ballz posted:The Village Bride is probably the only one I didn’t like at all. It felt less like a self-contained story and more like a scene in the middle of one. I had no idea what the Jedi woman’s deal was or her relationship with her companion and the villains were total pushovers against them. I thought it was straight forward enough. The woman is a Jedi on the run from the empire who was responding to a call from the bucket head guy. She and bucket head guy have some history together—we learn they share a mutual friend in the Jedi lady's master. Coincidentally, the lady's master was also a native of the planet they've ventured onto, where we see the locals are in tune with "Magina" which is something spiritual like The Force. We also learn the planet has been stripped of all its resources because of The Clone War. The Jedi lady appears to be coping with what happened during The Clone Wars by completely hiding herself and doesn't want to get involved with the villagers' plight for obvious reasons. Bucket head guy clearly is egging her on to kick some rear end, but more importantly, he also is trying to help her to come out of hiding and to sort of honor the memory of her master by saving the village (and the planet) from further exploitation. You can argue the villains were pushovers because they're basically just local gangsters who got ahold of crappy old battle droids left behind by the Separatists.
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teagone posted:Yeah what the hell, Lop and Ocho was easily my second favorite short. The found family theme is great and works significantly better here than it did in TROS lmao. It's also one of the best looking episodes imo. The Duel is going to get a lot of praise, and it makes for a strong opening to the anthology, but there's very little to it outside of the saber reveal and Kurosawa aesthetic imo. The Village Bride has best depiction of "Jedi in hiding" coupled with easily the best scoring of the anthology—the music is so good in that episode. counterpoint the duel loving rules
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It's pretty good. Wish I didn't know about the saber reveal beforehand though. drat you trailer 
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I forgot lightsaber colors actually mean something since I haven't kept up with the series until Mando so the reveal was real cool to me. Living in ignorance has it's perks.  Speaking of not keeping up with the series has there been a more brutal death than that one dude burning to death in the Ninth Jedi? Edit: spoilered just in case, sorry if my edit was too slow. Electric Phantasm fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Sep 23, 2021 14:34
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Electric Phantasm posted:Speaking of not keeping up with the series has there been a more brutal death than that one dude burning to death in the Ninth Jedi? Nothing comes to mind, as deaths in Star Wars mainly come from exploding ships, laser shots, or a quick stab or cut from a lightsaber. That being said, although it's not the first time we've seen a full body cut, I was still surprised when that little blue Sith dude got sliced right in half at the very start of the fight. I thought it was a nice touch with Juro's cape covering him just as his entire top half started to slide off like a piece of freshly sliced deli meat. A quick question that sprang to mind while doing a rewatch - why did that one guy burn? Was that a massive kyber crystal, and did it kill him because he was from the dark side?
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Sep 23, 2021 15:12
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What do people see in David Harbour anyways? His Hellboy movie sucked.
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Arc Hammer posted:What do people see in David Harbour anyways? His Hellboy movie sucked. He’s decent in Stranger Things and Black Widow. He could be a good character actor if his agent was pickier. He’s a terrible choice for voice acting though, a lot of his appeal is in his exasperated expressions and body language. His voice is pretty average.
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I'm just saying if you want a gravelly voiced dude who has a lot of experience voice acting and was in a good Hellboy movie just go with Ron Perlman. He's already done a Star War when he played that Trandoshan who got shanked by Grievous.
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Is it weird that I sort of liked the Gemini Star Destroyer as a precursor to the TROS ones with the underslung superlaser?
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Sep 23, 2021 18:09
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I started laughing immediately when I saw it. It's such a Trigger design
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Sep 23, 2021 18:48
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Nanigans posted:Stunt casting usually sucks. I don’t really get the decision here. Who would be on the fence about watching a star wars but now that David Harbor and Allison Brie are involved, well sign me the hell up! Uh I dunno about Harbour but Alison Brie has done a decent amount of voice-over acting.
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Sash! posted:Is it weird that I sort of liked the Gemini Star Destroyer as a precursor to the TROS ones with the underslung superlaser? I really like that short as some sort of far-future Saturday Morning Cartoon version of "real" history that just gets a bunch of stuff wrong, either on purpose or accidentally
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Sep 23, 2021 19:00
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i do kinda appreciate how Trigger obviously didn't give a gently caress about anything making sense and had poo poo like the boy's xwing going to lightspeed with him plastered to the nose on the outside of the ship and the whole fighting with no masks in hard vacuum thing
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PlasticAutomaton posted:I started laughing immediately when I saw it. It's such a Trigger design It's such a joke. They do the slow pan of the first destroyer..... and then very quickly ramp to the second destroyer.
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Sep 23, 2021 19:07
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https://twitter.com/TheLachM/status/1440585552856707076
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I'm at a loss for words. That whole episode is just trolling. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Sep 23, 2021 19:14
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It's an edit.  I liked Akakiri as the final episode, the ending was very good imo. Psychedelicatessen fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Sep 23, 2021 20:00
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Hazo posted:Uh I dunno about Harbour but Alison Brie has done a decent amount of voice-over acting. Don’t get me wrong. I love Alison Brie but I’m not going to watch a cartoon because she voices someone in it.
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Four episodes in, and I can't help but notice that there are already three Force-using ladies inexplicably fighting in high heels.
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Sep 23, 2021 20:41
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Madurai posted:Four episodes in, and I can't help but notice that there are already three Force-using ladies inexplicably fighting in high heels. A N I M E
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Madurai posted:Four episodes in, and I can't help but notice that there are already three Force-using ladies inexplicably fighting in high heels. The TIE pilot in your avatar has one eye scarred and the other covered by her hair
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Sep 23, 2021 21:03
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Madurai posted:Four episodes in, and I can't help but notice that there are already three Force-using ladies inexplicably fighting in high heels. Hey,hey, the one in the The Village Bride had high heels that gave her a speed boost and that was so drat rad.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:06
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Arc Hammer posted:I watched The Twins. ... have you watched many Studio Trigger series'? Because they fukkin love going balls-out nuts when they have the opportunity. Twins was 100% them just saying gently caress it and having as much fun as possible because they get to do a Star Wars short completely on their own terms.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:... have you watched many Studio Trigger series'? Because they fukkin love going balls-out nuts when they have the opportunity. Twins was 100% them just saying gently caress it and having as much fun as possible because they get to do a Star Wars short completely on their own terms. Oh I'm aware of the lunatics at Trigger. I'm just not quite sure if they're being intentionally stupid, sincerely enthusiastic and going hog wild, trolling their audience with whiplash between low and high effort, or everything in between. I'm angling for the last one, tbh. The whole short felt like they were saying "lol this is what you get."
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Sep 23, 2021 21:27
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I don't think Hiroyuki Imaishi has an ironic bone in his body
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Sep 23, 2021 21:29
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Waffleman_ posted:I don't think Hiroyuki Imaishi has an ironic bone in his body You can tell because The Twins played "Where are you taking it?" "To a galaxy far, far away." Absolutely 100% straight.
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Jerkface posted:Lop and Ocho has a lightsaber but its not about the Jedi, thats one of the things I liked about it. They were entrusted with a lightsaber however many centuries ago but otherwise are just a bunch of force insensitive locals. It was really gorgeous. The bit with lop floating on her umbrella after wrecking her speeder made me think of old 80s anime I'd see on scifi for some reason. Very nostaglic shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65qqnCVuqo
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Sep 23, 2021 22:55
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T0-B1 was a big Osamu Tezuka love letter and I loved it so drat much. Love that everyone was using their own animation style
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The United States posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iaLHafLbRk owns
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I'm not really a big anime fan but I watched The Twins and did some Googling based on some of the namedrops these last few pages and  makes total sense it's the same dude from Gurren Lagann and Kill La Kill, which I do know about thanks to Adult Swim
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