Zombieland Saga - Night of the living Aikatsu School Idols

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Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Oh god, what is it with 2018 that's delivering so much choice anime? At which point did the normally super rigid people who approve projects said "HELL YEAH, UNDEAD IDOLS TACKLE DIFFERENT GENRES PER EPISODE. THAT'S WHERE THE GRAVY TRAIN AND GOLD-PLATED DIAPERS ARE, BABY" and went on their merry ways?

... you know what? I'm fine either way. I love this drat show already.

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Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

Where the gently caress is Woody Harrelson

No Woody Harrelson, but he'll be in your heart... if you imagine this one song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EI8JN-fSLo

# ¿ Oct 12, 2018 05:50

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

The one thing I lament is that SatoshiMiwa beat me to the punch in creating the thread and we couldn't use the doofus title I had in mind :cheeky:

# ¿ Oct 12, 2018 06:44

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Ibblebibble posted:

Watch as Tae is revealed to have been voiced by KanaHana all this time.

I wouldn't put it past this project to do a goofy stunt casting like that, taking into account that she did the "Zawa, zawa" effects for one segment of the Middle Manager Tonegawa series.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2018 09:51

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Torquemadras posted:

Kotaro covertly starting to beatbox killed me, I am now a zombie

I loved that part. The whole episode was a slam-dunk of emotions, music, zombies and not-Mamoru-Miyano-but-totally-voiced-by-Mamoru-Miyano being larger than life. This and double decker are depantsing everything else this season.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2018 15:33

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

I liked this episode because, while not as gag-heavy as the previous two (which were, to be quite honest, complete grand-slams), it shows that, y'know, they've just been doing this for a couple of days. It's not magic.

I mean, maybe they're using magic (reanimated zombies, y'all), but... yeah. :shobon:

# ¿ Oct 19, 2018 03:08

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

What I like the most is that the girls have been performing by the seat of their pants literally the whole time, but the one performance where they all actually sorta practice and they both tank it + it has the weakest audience response so far is like I get that. Hell, you don't even need to be a performer to get it.

I love this goofy-rear end show.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2018 04:23

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

I can roll with(and, hell, you can even say that I can dig) the goofy just fine, y'know. :3:

# ¿ Oct 19, 2018 14:53

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

While I was feeling somewhat lukewarm on parts of the episode, the extremely great faces and those last 3 minutes absolutely slayed me.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2018 00:00

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Mulderman posted:

But it was adorable yes.
Has the dub of episode 2 come out yet? I really wonder how they'll handle the rap battle.

Hopefully even more 8 Mile-esque.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2018 15:38

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Also, y'know: The highest profile VA and she's mainly just doing grunts, bawks and silly noises. :mmmhmm:

# ¿ Nov 6, 2018 20:34

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

I'm starting to like all the Zombie Girls due to her varied approaches:

Sakura is obviously sorta like the audience surrogate in that she's trying to figure out what's her post-life deal gonna be like... but she's also not a complete pushover or a blank slate MC.
Saki is loving awesome because she just wants to start poo poo and have fun.
Lily seems like the cute little kid... until she starts making cutting remarks and you're like "Wait, why is an elementary school-aged girl so drat snarky?"
Yuugiri rolls with the punches and seems to be easily adaptable/incredibly talented (which makes sense, since to be an Oiran you had to be an incredibly proficient entertainer)
Junko seems oddly shy and kinda boring... until you realize all the hangups she has due to the fact that she used to fly solo and was often used to things in this particular way
Ai was kinda my sore point... but these past episodes have totally sold me on her.
Oh and Tae. Tae is awesome because she probably has a really interesting backstory... but right now she's a gag-manga character incarnate and the writers seem to be using her really well.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 21:24

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Is it cool to post some killer fanart?

Absolutely loving Saki's expressions.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2018 11:09

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

LibrarianCroaker posted:

Only when you post the source.

I'll be good and post them, then.

Here's a fairly cute Zombie Sakura:

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 06:25

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Cuntellectual posted:

I like Sakura's look of vague embarassment.

It's her signature. Her faces when pushed into ridiculous circumstances are so drat funny, starting with her "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH?!" reaction to Death Metal Scream Saki in episode 1.

Also this gem (Remote linking because it was slowing everything to a crawl on my side).

:allears:

Wark Say fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Nov 14, 2018

# ¿ Nov 14, 2018 07:13

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

CrazySalamander posted:

Given that this is a contender for top anime of the season for me, are there other shows (from any point in time)people recommend? Are idol shows usually this good?

As Endorph has mentioned (and me also deciding to tackle the show) I can confirm that the much referenced Aikatsu is pretty drat good at idol'ing anime.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 09:15

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Argas posted:

You didn't bring up Cinderella Girls you monster.

Cinderella Girls is good, but the 2011 Idolm@ster series is a goddamn treat to the senses. :dance:

# ¿ Nov 17, 2018 03:22

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

I think you already know her gang. I mean, we've been following their shenanigans all along. :grin:

# ¿ Nov 22, 2018 18:18

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Cao Ni Ma posted:

We still have Yugiri and Tae. I'm thinking Yugiri is next after Saki, then a saga propaganda episode, a Sakura episode and then finally Tae.

Although the show has done incredibly well and having Tae snap out of her feral state would hinder the probability of a second season. I want the show to branch out to not just Saga, but the rest of japan. Show me cool tourist locations through japan with zombie girls Mappa

And a new producer guy, too! Since Kotaro is visually based on (and voiced by) Mamoru Miyano, maybe the next producer should look like / be voiced by... I dunno, Kissho Taniyama or Showtaro Morikubo?

# ¿ Nov 22, 2018 20:30

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Come on Kotaro, you can do this

Mamoru Miyano becoming best boy of the season based on playing what's basically a slightly quieter version of himself would rule really hard. Sakuta is a delightful, endearing little jerkface, though, so I think that's gonna be an uphill battle.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2018 18:54

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

This week's episode destroyed me. This is not fair, Zom-Com show! Not loving fair at all! :qq:

# ¿ Nov 25, 2018 02:24

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

It was a really loving grand slam of an episode. And I'm really really glad that aside from Saki being kind of blunt about it, all the girls, the dad and Kotaro were like "It's her identity and what she wants".

# ¿ Nov 25, 2018 16:33

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

SatoshiMiwa posted:

https://twitter.com/Liuwdere/status/1066678752548134912

This is completely in character for everyone involved and whoever did this gets the show. Perhaps too well. :mmmhmm:

# ¿ Nov 25, 2018 22:00

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Yeah, the "sute" explicitly means Lily discarded/renounced Masao as an id. Like, I'm guessing CR was trying to both "find a happy middle" and get things translated ASAP, but if you know Japanese it's not so much "What did Lily meant by that?" as it is "There's no ambiguity. Lily straight up gave up the name/id she was born with". I should probably re-watch the episode with the Spanish subtitles, but I'm honestly not sure if there'd be that much difference, since I'm guessing they're running off a similar translation script/whachamacallit.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2018 22:36

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Endorph posted:

Crunchy translators are both rushed and underpaid - it's far more likely that whoever was translating this show wasn't really considering any kind of nuance at all, more than any kind of intentional attempt to 'find a middleground.'

Well dang, that's no good. I mean, half the time I'm already watching most shows either with no subtitles (especially if I'm using headphones) or just to see if they do anything different. I was rewatching Slayers on CR before the funimation thing got it struck down (I basically switched to YouTube afterwards) and I liked how Gourry straight up says in Japanese something along the lines of "Well, I guess it's time we stopped pretending this is a gag series and get serious, huh?" and I think that the subtitles just went with something like "Well, I guess it's time to get serious, huh?", which kinda bummed me out, because it's one of my fave things about Novel gourry that the anime's first season didn't quite eschew in that he had his smarty-pants, 4th-wall-breaking quips comments.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2018 23:12

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Daxing Dan posted:

Adabana means a flower that fails to produce any fruit before it wilts, or figuratively, something that may appear impressive, but has no substance to back it up.

Endorph posted:

A flower that fails to bloom, and its used as a metaphor for something that fails to meet its fullest potential.

So you can either read it as 'they failed to meet their full potential, than necromancy happened' or you could read it as 'necromancy that won't actually accomplish anything'

Indeed. Specifically, Adabana is written like this:「徒花」 (funnily enough, is quicker to type "to" in the IME and just scroll down a couple of entries to get that first kanji; curse you, windows IME! :argh:

)

The first kanji is often used for a couple of meanings, but the one used here is akin to "failure", "in vain". So Daxing and Endorph are basically going with the "Fruitless Flower" reading, which is most likely the intended meaning by the song's lyricist for the final result to be something like "Fruitless Necromancy". :eng101:

The second kanji is the fairly common "Hana" (which is sometimesabbreviated like "ka"), which means flower in most cases. Unless you want to make puns/wordplay/read it like a translation of its Chinese counterpart. Yay.

e: To quote the two posts since other posts happened in the interim.

Wark Say fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Nov 28, 2018

# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 18:18

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Yeah, that probably makes more sense... though now that I've read the posts above mine and the ones on the SSSS.Gridman thread that often brim with speculation and theories, I now can't remove my :tinfoil:

completely. Speculation about a currently airing can truly be a double-edged sword.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 18:48

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Daxing Dan posted:

It seems reasonable to me that the zombies themselves are the adabana. The singers seem to be singing about themselves, which would mean that they're calling themselves adabana in the first chorus.

By the way, you don't have to derive the meaning of adabana from first principles when it's a pre-existing word with an established definition that you can look up in a dictionary

Hey neat! More resources. :dance:

I kinda want to see what more the show does as far as presenting idols, since the only two shows I've seen about it are Idolm@ster and Love Live and those have their own things going on.

Wark Say fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Nov 29, 2018

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 09:09

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

It's probably deliberate. That a show is willing to go to that length to show how much their main cast has grown is rad as heck.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 18:37

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

「夜露死苦！！」 :kamina:

Also, the funky Fantastic Lovers (the first song we hear in the first episode) is out, for your audio pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJrYdqkCSgE

# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 14:10

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

SatoshiMiwa posted:

https://twitter.com/sekoipirochi/status/1066767273287774208

I lost it when I noticed what made up Tae's "odangos". :cawg:

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 18:18

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

a kitten posted:

https://twitter.com/aicnanime/status/1071931158349406208

good

Would get one!

e: Oh boy, first post on new page. Here's a Tae!

Wark Say fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Dec 10, 2018

# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 06:11

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Holy poo poo, life just kept on dumping it on poor Sakura. Like yeah, at times it felt like too much, but I guess I sorta understand her. Kinda want to give the poor girl a hug. :ohdear:

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 04:21

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Endorph posted:

the dog's brain is in tae and tae's brain is in the dog

That makes a lot of sense... maybe Kotaro has been trying to do this Zombie thing for a while but Tae/Romero were his first attempts and he totally messed up. That's why he went to Hollywood and then he picked up makeup artistry along the way.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2018 16:11

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Just saw the finale. I basically already had an idea of what it would be. I still absolutely loved it, cheesy moments, warts(, grunts) and all.

Kotaro, you big dork. You big, stupid, beautiful dork. :cry:

Sakura is a good egg. Yugiri best mom. And Tae don't need no words to show she cares for her buddies, and that's why she's the best. :kimchi:

# ¿ Dec 22, 2018 08:44

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Nitrousoxide posted:

I skipped every cgi dance scene.

You're in the wrong neighborhood, sonny. :toughguy:

# ¿ Dec 22, 2018 22:30

Wark Say: Feb 22, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Like, she doesn't have the set of pipes that Ms. Kawase has, but Risa Taneda does have a really nice voice. And I'm glad that she seems to have recovered from her throat condition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5ZIZ6v7egU

# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 17:10