NeatHeteroDude posted:

I am really struggling to find anime that doesn't suck or is not gross on Netflix. Watching the insect cage of the cagister show after finishing spriggan and it sucks rear end in comparison!

Communist Thoughts posted:

3D CG is a pox on anime, there's never been a good looking one, no, not even that one.

Its a travesty what they've done to this august king of the genre, especially since broly was pretty much the first dragon ball with (segments of) great animation and it owned

Reik posted:

is the disastrous life of saiki k still on netflix?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

3DCG has come a long way in anime, and it''s getting close to the point where best practices disseminate through the industry enough that it'll get consistently OK.

Reik posted:

is the disastrous life of saiki k still on netflix?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I'm starting to see SAC 2045 in a whole new light while rewatching it from the beginning. The first time I saw the episode where the Tachikomas root around Purin's memories it didn't phase me much, but last night it had me bawlin. I think all of the problems with production detract massively from the narrative, which is extremely solid now that I know how to approach it critically. You can only appreciate this by being able to contextualize it with the other SAC seasons. Before I wouldn't have recommended it, but this really ought to be a must-watch for fans. You just have to learn to live with the problems because the story being told is worth it.

Stairmaster posted:

okay but when are you gonna watch film of the year dragon ball super hero

bitmap posted:

the only time I've seen it look good is in the character announcement animation for bridget in the new guilty gear.

Gripweed posted:

War and Pieces posted:

Is the Gundam crouching?

HootTheOwl posted:

That Gundam looks like it's trying to explain to it's gun-parents that it's ok to date s cop

War and Pieces posted:

Is the Gundam crouching?

Homeless Friend posted:

i just noticed berserk is updating again…..and its back on the boat for a decade

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I'm starting to suspect that SAC 2045 is bad at communicating its political ideas, because it has to dance around an endorsement of communism without getting explicit.

KomradeX posted:

That just sounds like every vaguely political bit of pop culture made in the last 10 years as everything falls apart in the West

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Yeah, but the thesis is actually there. The most overriding theme I can identify is the autism of political radicalism, and the way that it makes things harder to advance a political agenda without any kind of dialogue. I can't go into too many details without spoiling why, but each post-human is attempting to fulfill the directive imbued in them (which involves overthrowing the existing state of capitalism) by pursuing their own personal ideologies. It's difficult to tell that's what's going on at first watch because none of the Post-Humans think they have anything to gain by trying to communicate with the authorities or the public, but it's that lack of communication that makes Section 9 try to take down the N-commune in Tokyo without knowing what Shimamura is actually trying to do. He's navigated the contradictions of "sustainable war" by aping its idealized state in 1984, but he's gone further than Ingsoc by founding a genuine cybernetic commune that actually makes peoples' lives better and liberates them from the world as it is, dominated by imperialist forever war. The FORM of N seems insidious and repulsive because it's aping conventions from the only political work he's ever read in his life as a teenager.

The underlying contradiction that's always underrunning the SAC series is that, as a post-cyberpunk story, the team is protecting society from the worst excesses of cyber crime. But protecting Japanese society in GitS world also means protecting the imperialist relationship that Japan has with the American Empire, and the way that Japan acts both as an intermediary of American power and an imperial power in its own right. The story in 2045 is directly confronting that contradiction by setting the team up against a force which could actually revolutionize the world's condition and make things better for everybody. It's more than just mashing up the themes of the GitS movies, it's actually making it contemporary by dealing with the "war on terror" and constant ongoing conflict in the world as a political economy.

It's really loving smart it's just a shame that this story was told with so many baffling production decisions and a change of medium to 3DCG that turned a ton of fans off. I mean, the first part is just plain ugly. It's clearly unfinished. I'd only ever recommend watching this to fans.

Retromancer posted:

Netflix is making a Parasyte series

https://gizmodo.com/parasyte-netflix-live-action-yeon-sang-ho-train-to-busa-1849451070

I kind of want them to do with this the same thing that they did with the Resident Evil series. Just do their own thing that's only extremely tangentially related to the source material, with a complete genre shift.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Yeah, but the thesis is actually there. The most overriding theme I can identify is the autism of political radicalism, and the way that it makes things harder to advance a political agenda without any kind of dialogue. I can't go into too many details without spoiling why, but each post-human is attempting to fulfill the directive imbued in them (which involves overthrowing the existing state of capitalism) by pursuing their own personal ideologies. It's difficult to tell that's what's going on at first watch because none of the Post-Humans think they have anything to gain by trying to communicate with the authorities or the public, but it's that lack of communication that makes Section 9 try to take down the N-commune in Tokyo without knowing what Shimamura is actually trying to do. He's navigated the contradictions of "sustainable war" by aping its idealized state in 1984, but he's gone further than Ingsoc by founding a genuine cybernetic commune that actually makes peoples' lives better and liberates them from the world as it is, dominated by imperialist forever war. The FORM of N seems insidious and repulsive because it's aping conventions from the only political work he's ever read in his life as a teenager.

The underlying contradiction that's always underrunning the SAC series is that, as a post-cyberpunk story, the team is protecting society from the worst excesses of cyber crime. But protecting Japanese society in GitS world also means protecting the imperialist relationship that Japan has with the American Empire, and the way that Japan acts both as an intermediary of American power and an imperial power in its own right. The story in 2045 is directly confronting that contradiction by setting the team up against a force which could actually revolutionize the world's condition and make things better for everybody. It's more than just mashing up the themes of the GitS movies, it's actually making it contemporary by dealing with the "war on terror" and constant ongoing conflict in the world as a political economy.

It's really loving smart it's just a shame that this story was told with so many baffling production decisions and a change of medium to 3DCG that turned a ton of fans off. I mean, the first part is just plain ugly. It's clearly unfinished. I'd only ever recommend watching this to fans.

Gripweed posted:

iirc in the manga the parasites landed all over the world. So the show could be about what happens in Korea when the parasites show up. But I'm not sure why you'd want to change the genre

Gripweed posted:

iirc in the manga the parasites landed all over the world. So the show could be about what happens in Korea when the parasites show up. But I'm not sure why you'd want to change the genre