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MonsterEnvy posted:I will recommend it. I have read some of the first few chapters as well. This has to be a happy coincidence that it happens to coincide with a massive cultural fad sweeping the youtube/twitch community.
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Nitrousoxide posted:I would presume Among Us. by rights the show feels extremely morally ambiguous yet i can not help but hoot and holler every time those eyes turn red
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Wandering Witch seems like Kino's Journey, except with a proper sense of morality and empathy, rather than an amoral aloofness. It's the difference between silently judging someone and going "heh, they're yet another human" and trying to understand other people with "ah, they're humans just like me".
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Oct 7, 2020 12:42
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Wow, I see what people mean about Ikebukuro West Gate Park. Their cunning plan to expose the guy running a drug ring, after finding his grow op, was planting a small amount in a stupidly-fabricated place and tipping the police off... instead of tipping them off about the actual illegal grow-op in the apartment? the contrast between these two shows is impressive, one is utterly cowardly, the other dgaf and will bulldoze all social mores to make its point
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Oct 12, 2020 13:14
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Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst, a show with a nigh incomprehensible name, seems to be getting zero press or hype. It's based on a mobile game. It is very seineny and seems tailor made for netflix. But you know what? It's telling a pretty interesting story. It's about the lives of two people getting completely upended by accident after intersecting with revolutionaries and smugglers and corrupt self serving governments. It has a turn of the 20th century aesthetic. It has the classic fantasy manga trope of scary magical monsters and uses them as the backdrop of a society falling apart at the seams.
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Oct 14, 2020 13:12
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the guy has a ridiculously distinct voice and has been typecast as psychotic sleazebags, but he did play the main character if ID: Invaded a few seasons ago, and the worse he did was challenge a serial killer to a fistfight and then pull out a gun when he started losing
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Oct 18, 2020 12:16
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Talentless Nana and Moriarty the Patriot are fairly different shows but they can not help but make me hoot and holler
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Oct 19, 2020 13:26
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My fave thing about Moriarty is just how "William" managed to worm his way into the Moriarty family: it was nothing more than a whim of charity, a bunch of rich nobles competing in an inscrutable game over charity, demonstrating who could virtue signal harder. The Penieres probably exploited and abused their orphan just as if not more than the Moriarties ever did, whilst reaping the social rewards for their actions. But WIlliam caught a lucky break, and all three of them are totally down with the plan.
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Oct 19, 2020 13:46
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starting in media res is a very deliberate decision by any storyteller and there is no reason to complain when it happens
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Oct 21, 2020 01:26
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Nitrousoxide posted:Eh, I really didn't like the second episode. They spent all of like 5 seconds on the kill and it just left me confused as to what actually happened there. Nana used dirt to cover up part of the frozen lake. The time traveller warped back onto the same location, before it was covered with ice and soil, fell into the water, and drowned. I think it's a fun show. There's a word Nana is using to describe Kyoya which they're translating as fuccboi, ora-tsute. The heck is up with that word?
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Oct 22, 2020 11:44
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"The Day I became a God" is a great title but I dropped it a few minutes into ep 2 because it is neither funny nor poignant nor does the mystery box seem worth opening.
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Oct 23, 2020 07:30
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If your complaint is that Albert is too anachronistic, then a better complaint of anachronism is that there is absolutely zero mention of Marx and Engels and socialism and the revolutions of '48 and these later developments in class solidarity and the political economy. Instead it is frozen in time from the French Revolution's simpler values of gently caress the ancien regime. But this story was written in 21st century Japan, by and for a society that has deliberately suppressed the left, and are clumsily grasping at metaphors to get across their dissatisfaction with the status quo. And 19th century British nobles are truly loathesome, which fits the metaphor. It is at least a start.
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Nov 1, 2020 08:53
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There are things Japan was doing right, they hit upon an interesting contact tracing strategy that relies on the observation that the coronavirus tends to overdisperse in clusters: most people rarely infect more than one other person, often don't spread; but on rare occasions a person will spread to dozens or even hundreds of others. So when an infection is identified, they prioritize going back through that person's contacts looking for an environment that is conducive to superspreading events. This misses alot of silent spread, but it is good at busting big clusters. That innovation let them punch way above their weight for the volume of coronavirus circulating through the community, in spite of poor management in other fields. Once contact tracing is overwhelmed, that is bad. Expect delays, hope for the best, and hope they wind down risky activities safely.
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Nov 7, 2020 11:31
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I enjoyed the first episode because it seemed to be Kino's Journey but less judgemental and less implicitly self-congratulatory and more empathetic, but at this point it's more like "how more can we demonstrate that the main character is a moral coward?" Perhaps there's room for character growth in there, maybe there was some of that in the recent episode, but the stakes were sufficiently low that she never really risked anything.
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Nov 12, 2020 11:14
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This latest Elaina was sold as wow, this is the darkest story yet. It is instead just gratuitous and stupid. Like it was obvious the shoe was going to drop, and it instead drops in the stupidest way possible. And the way the camera just lingers on the situation and the characters broadcast their intentions is less horrifying and more revolting. Like the only thing it has going for it is it might spur some reflection and character growth on the part of Elaina herself. But will the writer/director be able to express this? Who loving knows, because they botched this episode.
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Nov 30, 2020 00:45
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I've honestly been a bit of an apologist for Elaina's Journey, and even in the depths of despair I still see that the show could be going somewhere, doing something with the character writing. Like this story could be a watershed moment for Elaina: I'm this much of a fuckup, I need to grow into something better or else more suffering will occur. Like this show could turn into a comfy version of Witcher, or a fluffy version of Mushi-shi, Gerlaina going around breaking curses and solving problems. But this episode was a colossal setback that I'm not sure you could even recover from. The well is poisoned, the curse has set in too deep.
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Dec 2, 2020 07:45
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Moriarty and Nana are good for Mind Game Mondays. The two antiheroes just can't help but be sus wherever they can be. Obviously Moriarty in-story can't possibly know who Sherlock is and the threat he represents, but in his arrogance and willingness to show-off his smarts in response to someone else flashing their own intelligence, he ends up signalling how sus he is. And now he performed a direct attack on Sherlock, giving them obvious clues, in a "test", which does nothing but cue them in that he is an actual threat and will be monitored. At this point it's about exalting Moriarty, and not empowering the working class. But that's par for the course. If only Moriarty read theory.
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Lord Koth posted:Depends on whether you are looking solely at Japanese adaptations or not. If not, here's a lengthy discussion on the topic from 2 years ago by Rick Riordan. It's... probably worse in hollywood, a place infested with arrogant monied assholes convinced their coke-fueled writing sprees will appeal to their perfectly perceived audience. Also Hollywood doesn't work under a just-in-time production mode. Meanwhile, wasnt there a recent isekai show where the author got mad at the character designs, forcing a re-do that completely borked their production schedule, making everything look like crap? And also it took years between Attack on Titan S1 --> S2, when in the meantime the a ton of 3rd parties had written their own interpretations of the material, and the cultural relevance slowly faded away, until the mangaka finally nailed down what they were going for. Meanwhile The Expanse lucked out, with a showrunner who worked out that the very hard science fiction elements were what made the story unique and allowed it to stand out from its competitors.
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Dec 6, 2020 11:58
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Shield Hero seems to have been a draw for the audience, the higher ups aren't going to be upset over that. The Ex-Arm fuckup is an actual problem. Though it's not critically bad, it's not much worse than Netflix making Sword Guy or Dragon Dogma, but CR has less to work with than Netflix, much fewer resources to stave off mis-steps.
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Dec 10, 2020 12:13
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Live action Death Note was hilarious because it was clear they had zero respect for the source material. Look you have to either give every single gently caress or give zero fucks like Verhoven's Starship Troopers.
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Dec 17, 2020 00:36
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Akudama Drive: molotov the police.
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I think I've bounced off every single Jun Maeda show I've ever seen. I watched Charlotte through, and can't recommend it at all. Anyway I'm going to miss Sus Sundays/Mind Game Mondays, now that Nana and Moriarty are finished. Those I whole-heartedly enjoyed and recommend.
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