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Fishy Flip posted:So I looked it up and the main character, Miyamoto Musashi was a legendary warrior/philosopher who was one of the most renowned samurai in japan. As far as I can tell he has never appeared in any of the games. Also, his character is modeled after Toshiro Mifune, one of the most famous actors in japan, which is kind of cool. Toshiro Mifune played Musashi in a trilogy of movies back in the 50s, so that works.
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It’s wild that Jordan Peele is still in the Big Mouth opening credits even though he’s had like two lines total in the first half of the latest season As far as shows people itt are actually talking about goes, Scavengers Reign absolutely rules and I’m really looking forward to starting Blue Eye Samurai! Also I am still watching Krapopolis. The latest episode was pretty good! It’s basically an ideal Fox Sunday night animation show tbh, even if it’s slightly below Bob’s.
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So how do the NFTs with Krapopolis work?
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pixaal posted:So how do the NFTs with Krapopolis work? You ignore them and they go away.
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Nov 7, 2023 01:38
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You play the episode with your NFT open next to you and it gains watch XP for each time it laughs. Every NFT has a different sense of humor though so best to get a few just in case one hates the show.
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pixaal posted:So how do the NFTs with Krapopolis work? something something icarus, blind because of the sun, topical humor
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Nov 7, 2023 02:14
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How many eps in a row has Krapopolis been about the main character dating someone? It's felt like a lot of times to go to that well for a very, very uncharismatic lead.
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Nov 7, 2023 02:15
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Neeksy posted:How many eps in a row has Krapopolis been about the main character dating someone? It's felt like a lot of times to go to that well for a very, very uncharismatic lead. Yeah feels like they are already out of ideas
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Nov 7, 2023 02:23
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Neeksy posted:How many eps in a row has Krapopolis been about the main character dating someone? It's felt like a lot of times to go to that well for a very, very uncharismatic lead. There have been a plague of shows with uncharismatic failsons these past few years.
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socialsecurity posted:Yeah feels like they are already out of ideas - me 10 minutes into the first episode
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A.o.D. posted:There have been a plague of shows with uncharismatic failsons these past few years. Tyrannis isn't a failson. He's actually remarkably intelligent and successful -- though yeah, he lacks emotinal intelligence and savoir faire. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Nov 7, 2023 |
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Nov 7, 2023 02:44
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Other characters call him smart and such but I don't often -see- him being smart or successful. In fact the show went out of its way in the latest episode to show he doesn't know what he's talking about with the wheat blight.
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Neeksy posted:Other characters call him smart and such but I don't often -see- him being smart or successful. In fact the show went out of its way in the latest episode to show he doesn't know what he's talking about with the wheat blight. His city is super successful compared to the other cities around him, he helped fend off an attack by a neighbouring army and brokered a peace deal with them, he's got strong management and organisational skills and has found ways to implement them in a setting that's actively hostile to him and his ideas. He's so successful that his mother moved in with him and now leeches off his wealth and success. If anything she's a failmum. He doesn't have the practical skills of his sister or the technical skills of his brother, but he's got the ability to manipulate and utilize those skills so that it benefits him and the people around him i.e. he's basically an embodiment of a certain kind of city-state paradigm (or to use the show's conception, "civilisation").
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Nov 7, 2023 02:55
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Neeksy posted:How many eps in a row has Krapopolis been about the main character dating someone? It's felt like a lot of times to go to that well for a very, very uncharismatic lead. That's such a common thing with TV shows in particular that it's got a few names, plenty of leads who the show revels in being idiots and jerks and/or complain about how they don't get any dates get a ton of love interests every season if not in a long term relationship. It's certainly not new.
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Escobarbarian posted:I’m really looking forward to starting Blue Eye Samurai! I still can't get over what an absolutely stacked cast Blue Eye Samurai has. George Takei, Randal Park, Masi Oka, Brenda Song, Ming-Na Wen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, loving Kenneth Branaugh. And it looks goddamn amazing both in action and still. There's so many shots where it feels like it's a 2D animated show, and then a character will turn in a certain way or it will shift perspectives in a way that you can't do in 2D, at least that seamlessly, and you go "oooh poo poo, that's cool." I'm about halfway through it right now and just not wanting it to end.
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Nov 7, 2023 08:22
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It's definitely some of the best 3D animation I've seen that isn't some pixar thing. The facial expressions are great too.
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blue eye samurai was fantastic. i was initially put off by the english voiceacting (not the the actors themselves, mind) and watched it in japanese instead it's fun to compare a show like that to the hbo trailer of shogun which was just your expectable 
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nine-gear crow posted:I still can't get over what an absolutely stacked cast Blue Eye Samurai has. George Takei, Randal Park, Masi Oka, Brenda Song, Ming-Na Wen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, loving Kenneth Branaugh. And it looks goddamn amazing both in action and still. There's so many shots where it feels like it's a 2D animated show, and then a character will turn in a certain way or it will shift perspectives in a way that you can't do in 2D, at least that seamlessly, and you go "oooh poo poo, that's cool." I'm about halfway through it right now and just not wanting it to end. Bonkers isn't it, yet they don't seem to be pushing it much?
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Pretty impressed Scavengers Reign exists. I haven’t gotten through it all yet but man I hate Kamen as much as his wife does right now
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i am a moron posted:Pretty impressed Scavengers Reign exists. I haven’t gotten through it all yet but man I hate Kamen as much as his wife does right now It still seems weird that his name is spelled "Kamen" and not "Cayman". 
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Taear posted:Bonkers isn't it, yet they don't seem to be pushing it much? Netflix and just loving burying insanely good poo poo go together like peas and carrots.
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Escobarbarian posted:I’m really looking forward to starting Blue Eye Samurai! I just finished this and it owns.
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Nov 7, 2023 23:05
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they don't seem to have made a trailer with the japanese va, just the original trailer with subtitles. i've spent like an hour finding out who the voice actors even are without luck
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I expected my favorite netflix animated show recently would be Pluto, but I haven't been able to finish it. Blue Eyed Samurai I finished in a day. Pluto is not a bad show I think, but its certainly sub-par compared to the manga which was a compulsive read.
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I enjoyed it but it felt like it may have been an episode or two too long.
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Normally I absolutely loathe 3d animation, and there are so many awful examples of it. And I decided on a whim to check out Blue Eye Samurai and they absolutely made the 3d animation work. It's beautiful. I'm terrified it cost a tremendous amount of money because it's the kind of show Netflix would love to kill off, when it deserves to fully fund the entire story they want to tell.
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a lot of 3d animation also has incredibly lazy camera work and framing, which makes the action look way stiffer. this was "shot" basically like your typical 2d animation
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kliras posted:blue eye samurai was fantastic. i was initially put off by the english voiceacting (not the the actors themselves, mind) and watched it in japanese instead
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I mean it's an American show by a bunch of Americans with issues relating to their mixed cultural heritages, why the gently caress would Japanese be the superior way to watch it?
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Seriously, check out Blue Eye Samurai if you are a fan of the artistic medium of animation, regardless of the setting and themes. Be ready for lots of boobs and dicks, little to no actual sex though. Only half way through, savouring this one. That assassination plot of the deaf-mute girl was super engaging and had me wondering until the end, such a fantastic show. E: Show isn't really anime, ignore this weeb vvv Jehde fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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anatomi posted:Why? It's not a Japanese show. Is it an immersion thing? i kinda had the same problem with the first season of pantheon earlier in the thread, although i feel like that one might have been due to a wfh situation during lockdown castlevania nocturne worked fine, but i don't know enough about how (differently) things are done in american settings and how much it varies. something just felt off in a way that rubbed me the wrong way, and in case anyone felt the same way, rather than having them drop the show, they could just watch it with the japanese va kliras fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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Speaking of, having watched the Castlevania anime for the first time recently I discovered it was made by (or at least had some involvement with) the same studio behind Adventure Time Haven’t seen Nocturne yet but have they said anything about possibly doing more with the series in the future?
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kliras posted:the quality just felt off fairly early into it, and some pronunciation annoyed me a little. just felt more effort was put into the japanese version, or at least it was more consistent, even though the japanese version didn't blow my socks off per se. it's probably down to time and budget, especially with some of the audio mixing also seeming off. i think dragonball might probably be more fun in english than japanese, so i generally just go with subs unless there's a good reason not to I agree on Pantheon. The voice acting was just fine — bit too flat.
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i also think just being exposed to so many forms of recording and audio mixing through livestreaming, youtube, and podcast has made me more acutely prone to tuning out stuff that sounds off, less than being some kind of snob wrt animation and (the recording and direction of) voiceacting specifically
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Jehde posted:Seriously, check out Blue Eye Samurai if you are a fan of the artistic medium of animation, regardless of the setting and themes. Be ready for lots of boobs and dicks, little to no actual sex though. Yeah the rescue-assassination was incredibly well done and I love that it goes perfectly until the escape and then Mizu fucks it all up in a split second because she got overconfident and put her trust in someone she thought was innocent and it turns out that the whole drat town is in the pocket of the mob boss. E: I really liked how her killing the bird in the rafters was thematic of the whole assassination in general. The ostensibly right thing to do in the moment, but it just hosed everything up for a lot of otherwise innocent bystanders (the unborn baby birds and the town itself). nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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Jehde posted:Be ready for lots of boobs and dicks, little to no actual sex though. I was surprised with how many times they showed people masturbating. I can only think of 2 times but compared to other media that's a shitload. Its a show that took adult themes and ran with most if not all of them, yet not in an edgelord or gratuitous way. At no point did I think "Yes yes, this is violent, lets's move it along" or "ok, enough with the nudity, we know this an adult show already."
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limp_cheese posted:I was surprised with how many times they showed people masturbating. I can only think of 2 times but compared to other media that's a shitload. Yeah, most of the sex scenes so far have been about showing just how skilled of a manipulator Akemi is because she can just wrap people around her finger in seconds because they think she's hot. The town festival with the whole crowd of free flowing dongs got me laughing though. I was not expecting them to commit that hard to it after the tease earlier that episode of "everyone gets naked and jumps in the ocean".
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I finished Blue Eye Samurai, very good show. I liked every character (other than the noodle guy, who sucks), and god do I appreciate that 3d animation lets you do action in a way that's so more dynamic and easy to understand than your usual Hollywood action film with their constant mid-fight edits. I did get very weirded out by the ending, however, in one way: I was under the impression that Fowler's plan revolved around importing more guns than the Shogunate could feasibly match, but the ending makes it seem like the Tokugawa clan threw away all their guns after taking power or never had them in the first place. The samurai loving loved guns, especially the guy who did most of the work conquering the islands of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, so it felt really odd that this was a thing.
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Whirling posted:I finished Blue Eye Samurai, very good show. I liked every character (other than the noodle guy, who sucks), and god do I appreciate that 3d animation lets you do action in a way that's so more dynamic and easy to understand than your usual Hollywood action film with their constant mid-fight edits. I did get very weirded out by the ending, however, in one way: I was under the impression that Fowler's plan revolved around importing more guns than the Shogunate could feasibly match, but the ending makes it seem like the Tokugawa clan threw away all their guns after taking power or never had them in the first place. The samurai loving loved guns, especially the guy who did most of the work conquering the islands of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, so it felt really odd that this was a thing. Isn’t pretty much what happened? after the Tokugawa shogunate was established Japan insulated itself from western influence until the XIX century and that included destroying or rejecting western firearms.
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papasyhotcakes posted:
Not really. Guns continued to be produced under the shogunate, its just that they weren't ever produced in the numbers that they were in the Sengoku period and the attempted invasion of Korea by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (for reference, the latter had 160k soldiers and a quarter were equipped with guns, which is pretty impressive). The samurai caste would have a decent stock of matchlock rifles, but the few peasants that had firearms mostly just used them to scare the poo poo out of wild dogs and foxes eating their chickens. I'm being nitpicky, it doesn't detract from the story, but I did get confused when the samurai in Edo didn't have a single rifle.
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