GateOfD posted:

how about that Detective Pikachu movie

Waffleman_ posted:

https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mewtwo_(M16)

Genesect: The Legend Awakened. It's Mewtwo but like another one.

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In Genesect and the Legend Awakened, Mewtwo was having a flying race with several bird Pokémon, and went on to challenge its own powers by Mega Evolving and speeding as high as it could go, until it reached the edge of space. Feeling that it could not stay at this hostile environment, it let itself fall down, until it heard a telepathic voice, asking to get back home. It went towards the source of the voice, and found the Genesect Army at a snowy mountain area.

Waffleman_ posted:

Yeah no they were really phoning these fuckers in for a while

FilthyImp posted:

I mean, The Land Before Time went from a coming of age story about finding community through hardship to...The Land Before Time: Littlefoot's Dad Comes Home From Buying Milk.

GateOfD posted:

only ever watched the first movie, and wow, even as a 6 year old, i was like 'some heavy stuff is going on in this movie'

The Colonel posted:

the first movie rules

it explains so much about it that the writer deliberately wrote it during the porygon controversy because he knew that was an open window to write whatever he wanted, and also he heard mewtwo's va was going to be the same guy who was famous in japan for voicing the phantom of the opera so he literally just wrote mewtwo as the phantom of the opera and the va read a few lines of the script, turned to him and said "this guy is the phantom of the opera." and the writer nodded with a grin

GateOfD posted:

i know some definitely cried a bit when Ash fake-died in the first movie

GateOfD posted:

how about that Detective Pikachu movie

Waffleman_ posted:

Wasn't there one where Mewtwo was in it but it was like

a different Mewtwo somehow

and it was a girl

Tree Goat posted:

the concept of “two people who are clearly both in love with each other and spend all of their time together but never work up the courage/self-actualization/articulation to actually date” is of course a precarious one to hang at the center of a long-running series. progress is both required (to move things along/develop characters/stave off frustration or impatience) but also is by no means allowed (since it will unravel the central conceit if allowed to progress too far). status quo must be restored, undermined by some new misunderstanding or accident, or, at least, this new understanding must be tacit but never foregrounded.

the actual moment of consummation (or, the demure shonen/shoujo equivalent, the confession) is therefore treated as forbidden, an unavoidable excess, yet also the articulated object of desire for both the readers and the characters. this jouissance, or surplus enjoyment, "overruns" "the principle of the least tension, of the minimum tension that needs to be maintained for life to subsist." (seminar xvii). this is why so many "will they/won't they" romances destroy themselves once they resolve this tension (the tv show "moonlighting" is the stereotypical example here). yet the "holding pattern" is likewise an intolerable, unsustainable force, especially as the series drags on over the course of years.

there are several solutions to this dilemma, employed with various degrees of success. for instance, one can hope that there are enough other characters to cushion the blow of the loss of the central characters and their pairing as a narrative force (either with or without resolution, or hope of resolution, of the central pairing: kaguya and nozaki-kun i view as examples of these options, respectively), or one can introduce new potential love interests that the characters are permitted (or forced) to choose between, or simply end the series at the confession with perhaps a brief epilogue, etc. etc.

takagi-san provides an interesting solution in that the creator made a spin-off series in which the central pair are married and with a child. this (temporarily, at least) sidesteps the issue that the "satisfying" culmination of desire is both not permitted and fatal to depict: we are assured that it happened at some point in the future of the series (so there's no need to complain about a "lack of progress") but we are (as far as i know) not witness to it: it can therefore have whatever qualities the reader wishes to ascribe to it, without the burden of being realized or realizable.

but i'd argue the most successful resolution of this style of plot (and the most straightforward line to the notion of the objet petit a) is don quixote: his beloved dulcinea does not (strictly speaking) exist, except as a delusional projection onto another. even if she did exist, the strictures of courtly love would make any consummation or resolution of any sort impossible: per capellanus, "when made public, love rarely endures". quixote is therefore motivated by this love to drive forward and progress, but the notion of a romantic resolution is an impossibility, and so the reader has no expectations or dissatisfaction.

i therefore argue that the ideal form of the "girl teases/bothers her oblivious crush because they are both in love but don't know how to express it" plot would be one where the teaser does not literally exist, or exists only in the symbolic order. a nagatoro where it is a fisherman constantly chastised by the mercurial sea, say, or a shut-in drawn out by the needling, uzaki-like demands of a proletarian revolution.

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/hyakkano_anime/status/1635294647395184640?s=20

A hundred girlfriends?!

Waffleman_ posted:

A hundred girlfriends?!

Coaaab posted:

oohhhhhhhh it's by the studio who did quints s2 and the movie

Julias posted:

We've still got a couple of weeks before Spring season is here, but it can't hurt to look at what's coming out and to get some thread title recommendations based on them.

https://anichart.net/Spring-2023

https://myanimelist.net/anime/season/2023/spring

Sleng Teng posted:

Brutal Garcon posted:

I thought that was a pretty clear ending, but apparently To Your Eternity is getting a third season. I mean, I guess they could do pretty much anything at this point.