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chiasaur11 posted:Upside, it fights a giant cyborg ape with those lasers, so... I guess that's good? So the comic industries obsession with apes in the 60s wasn't just limited to America? Interesting.
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tsob posted:So the comic industries obsession with apes in the 60s wasn't just limited to America? Interesting. Seems there was more in America, but yeah. Seen a few show up in old manga. Continuing through to the end, Moon doesn't get better. There's a lot of awkward pacing from being collected, with cliffhangers repeating whole pages, and not even terribly interesting ones. There's a multimillionaire who makes a small army of robots, but who wants to spend the money on basically the playboy mansion... which he could have easily afforded if not for spending money on an army of killbots. (And also making robot suits powered by hypnotized old people because... themes?) Meanwhile, the kids develop psychic powers to make Moon fly. Also, the last arc of the manga is a race of "peaceful, benevolent" aliens setting off a superweapon to wipe out humanity basically... because. It's not due to the villain of the arc so far killing their diplomats (because he's an rear end in a top hat). Just aliens... being assholes, but they're benevolent, no, really. And then everyone dies. The end! No moral. I talked poo poo about Mars earlier in this thread, and I stand by it, but Mars at least had some thematic setup for its downer ending, and established the stakes from the jump. Moon just has the last part of the last arc be "aliens decided to kill all humans with doom mold because I don't know, heroes almost stop it, then die probably." The manga also has a major structural problem, in that most of a given storyline is spent fighting things the protagonists are irrelevant against. Where Shotaro Kaneda is a crack shot ace detective when it's not time for him to bring out a giant robot, the kids here are just kind of... there. We get no less than three other characters who exist pretty much solely to bail the protagonists out when they're in trouble. Instead of protagonists doing things, they exist to stand around until something comes up that Moon can solve, at which point at least one of them goes missing or unconscious to create repetitive and low intensity dramatic tension. This was, perhaps, the last Tetsujin style mecha manga before Mazinger Z rewrote things, and it really doesn't make much of a case for the old order here.
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Mars benefits from being straightforwardly the plot of The Day the Earth Stood Still, if Klaatu finally decided the planet was not worth saving. It's fatalism is in clear commentary/communication with other works of cold war science fiction.
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Sep 18, 2022 15:42
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new mecha game with designs by Ipperi Gyoubu. He has confirmed there will be a model kit https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1570162975574474758?s=20&t=h4TW6IKGU7q5a94BKNMwfw
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Gripweed posted:new mecha game with designs by Ipperi Gyoubu. He has confirmed there will be a model kit Cool now don't make it suck like New Gundam Breaker did, Bamco.
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This is ancient, but I did finally manage to find out what this manga was about. A giant robot is powered by the pilot's virginity, so sexy aliens try to seduce him to stop the robot. This is the plot of an actual manga that is currently being published, and the sad thing is that, at a glance, it looked slightly less fetishy than the previous mech manga by the same author. So, at least that's an answer to the previous question. Now, back to being excited for more model kits of Gyoubu designs and hoping that the game will be good, especially since there hasn't been a new Armored Core announced yet.
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Funny enough since I was asking about Aldnoah Zero the other week and they're playing one of the EDs on the radio at the Asian street fest right now.
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*sigh* yes, Netflix, I am excited for that https://twitter.com/NetflixAnime/status/1573892299498602496?s=20&t=XZB6x_19xobgh54Jf1t2Tw
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Good to see Ohtakagi still drawing.
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Studio NUT is making a new series called Bullbuster about a robot making company
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Gripweed posted:Studio NUT is making a new series called Bullbuster about a robot making company They're apparently planning a multi-media project for it. Not a winning strategy lately, but we'll see how it goes.
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Has it ever been a winning strategy for anyone to start out planning a multi-media project, rather than making one successful product in a specific medium and then expanding out from there?
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Nov 19, 2022 13:16
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it's worked for some idol/music anime e.g. love live but that's about it that i can think of
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Nov 19, 2022 13:33
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the usual problem with planned multimedia projects is that the anime the rest is all based around loving sucks.
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Gripweed posted:Studio NUT is making a new series called Bullbuster about a robot making company For a second I had hope that Studio NUT were making Ballbuster
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tsob posted:Has it ever been a winning strategy for anyone to start out planning a multi-media project, rather than making one successful product in a specific medium and then expanding out from there? I mean, I think right now at least half of Sunrise's income is from the horse girls. Which took the place previously held by Love Live
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Nov 19, 2022 13:43
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sunrise does not have any horse girls, that's cygames
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Tales of Woe posted:sunrise does not have any horse girls, that's cygames Oh drat. In that case Sunrise wishes they had horse girl money since everybody stopped caring about Love Live
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tsob posted:Has it ever been a winning strategy for anyone to start out planning a multi-media project, rather than making one successful product in a specific medium and then expanding out from there? Patlabor?
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Gripweed posted:Oh drat. In that case Sunrise wishes they had horse girl money since everybody stopped caring about Love Live After the ending of season 2 of Superstar? I'm unsurprised. tsob posted:Has it ever been a winning strategy for anyone to start out planning a multi-media project, rather than making one successful product in a specific medium and then expanding out from there? I'd say .Hack, but that was a franchise that very quickly pivoted towards primarily caring about games with most of the other media being distinctly secondary.
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Arc Hammer posted:Patlabor? Yep. Anime, manga, and movies were all pretty successful, and there's supposedly even a revival project in play right now, although I'll believe that when we get a trailer and a launch date. I'd also bring up Zone of the Enders as an edge case. It didn't make as much money as they'd like when they didn't have Metal Gear demoes to boost it, but three games, an OVA, and a 2 cour anime of decent quality isn't too bad. Wasn't a Gundam competitor like they would have wanted, but it wasn't a disaster like Megaton Musashi's initial sales either.
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Im pretty certain there wasn't any pivot. .hack was always intended as a game series with an anime prequel show, cyberconnect2 is a gaming company
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ninjewtsu posted:Im pretty certain there wasn't any pivot. .hack was always intended as a game series with an anime prequel show, cyberconnect2 is a gaming company That's the thing, .Hack had a manga, a light novel, an anime series, and the tie-in OVA that all released before or alongside the original quartet of games. Even if the games were the ultimate goal they came out swinging with a bunch of non-game content going in many different directions with the setting, the manga series took place after the games, the light novel took place long before them, and the anime also took place before it and the events of all of them were somewhat tangential to the games. Only the tie-in Liminality OVAs were directly connected to the original .Hack games/took place at the same point in time and there still wasn't much overlap between them and the games. .Hack was, by my metric, planned out as a multimedia franchise. Heck, it was the first thing I remember explicitly being called a "multimedia project" back in the day which is why my mind went there. And after that barrage of stuff plus another anime series and another OVA and two more bonus anime episodes and a couple more light novels we got to the GU era whose big franchise releases were an anime prequel that lead directly into the GU games and then the GU games. I call this a pivot simply because all the GU era material was focused on GU in a way that was different from the material released around original .Hack. There were a couple of manga and novel sidestories to the GU games, but those were all very much adaptations of GU or spin-offs from the GU games about characters who were in the GU games whereas the original .Hack era had multiple sidestories before and after the events of the games that often had exceedingly little to do with Kite or anyone else who plays a major role in //Infection et. al.
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.hack was definitely a Multimedia Project in the same sense as these ones today just with console games instead of mobage because mobage didnt exist yet
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All y’all getting subtweeted https://twitter.com/ortho_fl/status/1600101823766855680?s=46&t=pl-TBYkWv711ocpTqOSvLA
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The idea is cool but the implementation kind of sucks because there's literally no way anyone would ever associate those with the intended inspiration under any circumstances unless you showed them that marketing picture, and at that point why spend the 100% markup those are probably going to cost?
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A cane is the sort of tool some people might expect to use everyday of their lives for the rest of their lives. You might as well pay extra to get one you like.
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Schwarzwald posted:A cane is the sort of tool some people might expect to use everyday of their lives for the rest of their lives. You might as well pay extra to get one you like. Yeah but those aren't even cool looking either. 
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Gripweed posted:All y’all getting subtweeted The feet are so close to being accurate
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Kanos posted:The idea is cool but the implementation kind of sucks because there's literally no way anyone would ever associate those with the intended inspiration under any circumstances unless you showed them that marketing picture, and at that point why spend the 100% markup those are probably going to cost? How else are you supposed to show secretly in the old folks home playing high-stakes cribbage you are A Real One?
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but does the getter cane split in 3 pieces?
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Kanos posted:Yeah but those aren't even cool looking either. no, I agree, one with flame decals or like a carved raven handle is a 1000% cooler than just something vaguely reminiscent of a cartoon but on the conceptual level it makes sense
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Gripweed posted:All y’all getting subtweeted Well, at least they know their audience and that their audience is definitely not kids these days.
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I got a younger friend with ortho problems seriously considering the Mazin Cane so it’s not just that. And hey, it’s profit for a paint job.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyRv0bwH2o We're back. Absolutely killer sound design in this video. Just loving loud in the best possible sense.
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Ichiro Mizuki has passed away. I don't know how many hours of his songs I've listened to over the years. He was still singing even for Mazinger's 50th anniversary. Rest in peace. https://twitter.com/aniki_z/status/1602184533524508675?t=tWVA30qTOFJzqZAlqkjSYA&s=19
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Knowing that he was singing until the very end just highlights the impact he had on anisongs and beyond. He was truly a legend that will be sorely missed.
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Tokubetsu posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyRv0bwH2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-n9siHeCQg    
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