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Usagi Drop: The Movie



That much, I promise you!

What, no complaints about the

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dancing?

Watching the movie on BD was a different experience for me as this time I had the advantage of perspective and could see the warts. The story, for me, is just so well done and the actors themselves playing their roles good enough (lets be honest, Daikichi and Rin carried the movie. Everyone else was window dressing) that it wasn't enough to detract from my enjoyment.

I still wholeheartedly recommend the whole thing to anyone who would bother to track it down.

 

[Enron]

I dont pay attention to the thread for a week or so, come back and try to read it and have no idea what the fuck is going on. Where the shit is that awful gif from?

 

[Geneijin]

Cure smiles 3

Glad they got the heartcatch character design person back. Peace has such an adorable henshin =)

Precure peace lightning... I better not think too deeply about this...

It's the Yes 5 guy. The eyes are a giveaway.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Mirai Nikki 19: This show is truly a great piece of education. Don't forget, trust is the most important component of a romantic relationship, even shady secrets like

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you not being the person you claim to be

.

Don't care. Utena had her ass handed to her, even with her hax, and should have lost that fight.

You could say she won because of a miracle!

 

[Branduil]

The Secret World of Arrietty
Well, this was about as safe and perfectly acceptable as they get, which in some ways are qualities that simply instill disappointment within me.

What it hit right: Movie was absolutely gorgeous. Even going in with an expectation for that the art really blew me away. One of the most important pieces to the success of Arrietty though is the attention to detail. A great deal of care and thought is clearly put into rendering the scene and it shows all over. Its effect on the way the movie look is probably the biggest thing, from the way characters and objects attached to them move to the minute density of the world is really impressive. This carries over pretty well into the way everything sounds. There is an appropriate massiveness instilled in the way certain (insignificant) things sound that really helps establish the setting from such an unusually tiny perspective.

Where it fell flat: I wasn't too into the actual stuff going on in the movie. The only characters who every really seemed to establish themselves were Pod and Arrietty. Because of this it sort of felt like none of the relationships between characters could ever really become that meaningful. What's left is a movie without much plot, character, or relationship development that winds up feeling like a somber vignette of Borrower life. There's nothing in this movie that even really approaches the realm of the evocative, so when the ending rolls around trying to create some emotional moments none of it really feels earned.

I don't really regret watching Arrietty, but ultimately it feels like a massive waste of talent on a product that is a well pieced together interpretation of a really poor script. I'm pretty used to my opinion being fairly off from how other people react to movies, but in this case I'm a little surprised at just how positive critical reception of this movie was. The writing was simply disastrous, as though a list of things needed in a movie were compiled by some emotionless robot and crammed into a script. Massive pieces of plot simply seem missing, as characters have strong emotions that feel unfounded and awkward as they are never really established.

I found the writing problematic the first time I watched the film, but I find myself growing more fond of it over time. Not exactly sure why, other than perhaps some things clicking on a rewatch that I didn't fully notice before.

 

[Femmeworth]

I dont pay attention to the thread for a week or so, come back and try to read it and have no idea what the fuck is going on. Where the shit is that awful gif from?

Well, there's your problem. AnimeGAF waits for no one.

 

[lvl99 Pixel]

I dont pay attention to the thread for a week or so, come back and try to read it and have no idea what the fuck is going on. Where the shit is that awful gif from?

so mean =,(

 

[Regulus Tera]

I dont pay attention to the thread for a week or so, come back and try to read it and have no idea what the fuck is going on. Where the shit is that awful gif from?

Coming back to this thread after a week off is akin to a cocaine addict dropping by the street-dealer two blocks away from the rehab center.

 

[Branduil]

There's some really clunky stuff that was clearly straight from Miyzaki. I'm sure he wrote the part that was all "your race is doomed, soon you will all be dead. It's inevitable" because that's exactly how Miyzaki describes humanity when he in interviews. Such a downer!

They actually rewrote that scene in kind of a weird way in the American dub. It's much more generic and vague. I don't think it was really an improvement.

 

[Instro]

so mean =,(

Deep down inside he likes it. Enron is just tsundere.

 

[Hitokage]

 

[firehawk12]

What, no complaints about the

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dancing?

Watching the movie on BD was a different experience for me as this time I had the advantage of perspective and could see the warts. The story, for me, is just so well done and the actors themselves playing their roles good enough (lets be honest, Daikichi and Rin carried the movie. Everyone else was window dressing) that it wasn't enough to detract from my enjoyment.

I still wholeheartedly recommend the whole thing to anyone who would bother to track it down.

Naw, that was another part of the doubling that the director seems to be enamoured with - this time between

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Daikichi and Milf

- so I was fine with it I guess. The moment they meet was a bit silly though.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot, but they used the song from the anime OP as the film's credits song... and they also used a random German pop song in the middle of the film. You know, if anything can be said about Japanese films, it's that their music directors don't have to worry about finding songs that are only Japanese... they seem to be free to do whatever they want and not have to worry about alienating audiences or whatever.

 

[Jex]

What podcast was this anyway?

This Utena Podcast of course:http://reversethieves.com/2012/01/2...ary-girl-utena-mawaru-penguindrum-discussion/

It's really good.

 

[Dresden]

I dont pay attention to the thread for a week or so, come back and try to read it and have no idea what the fuck is going on. Where the shit is that awful gif from?

gnislleh s'ti

 

[firehawk12]

http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/b572/hknishino/smstest_zps8b98bbf5.jpg

Holy shit!

This Utena Podcast of course:http://reversethieves.com/2012/01/23...um-discussion/

It's really good.

A podcast strictly about Utena?

 

[Ultimadrago]

Quite the fill-in-the-blank scenario.

 

[Makoto]

Yosuga no Sora - 01-12 (END)

What is love? What does it mean to receive love? What does it mean to love someone else? Methodical and hauntingly intriguing, Yosuga no Sora explores the lengths man will go through to find love and what loving another entails. The general theme of acceptance is handled with surprisingly decent care here. The show's visual novel structure was just engrossing as each arc outdid its predecessor. Haruka's struggle becomes more apparent with each character arc. His development as a character is often subtle but accommodates the show's progression with an ease that is as smooth as the animation itself. It must be commended that a few of the arcs were so short and as a result, the drama rarely blows up into something larger than it should have been. Go into this show with little to no expectations and there is depth to be found, especially coupled with its limited but very moving soundtrack. While the show slowly begins to show its maturity as it progresses, its the final exchange of words between the characters Nao and Kozue in the finale that levitates the show beyond its seemingly shallow content and leaves the viewer something to ponder as it closes out with an arguably ambiguous but satisfying end. Those who rejected the show as boring just simply couldn't appreciate it. It's akin to dismissing The Assassination of Jesse James as boring. While that's an entirely understandable assessment, the surface isn't the only layer of the cake.

If Kiss x Sis (TV) is Transformers, then Yosuga no Sora is clearly the There Will Be Blood of the harem-ecchi-incest genre. Without a doubt, the show is pure class.

 

[Dresden]

Bravo.

 

[Enron]

A podcast strictly about Utena?

I challenge the internet to be worse than this.

 

[Branduil]

Glass Fleet: The Legend of the Wind of the Universe 3



"Look, I told you. I only put things I like in my pocket.

Don't get me wrong Michelle. Once I put something in my pocket, I go to great lengths to protect it, no matter what." - Cleo Aiolos Corbeille de Veil a.k.a. The Wind

this dude has a rather unhealthy obsession with putting shit in his pocket. *throws handkerchief*

Renaissance.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Yosuga no Sora - 01-12 (END)

Congratulations!

 

[Deleted member 10571]

Steins;Gate 3-9

Oh my God, this is good.

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They took away all the moe from Akiba!

Yeah, the

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Akihabara change

was the moment I realized I'm in for a wild ride, too

 

[Jex]

A podcast strictly about Utena?

Well, about 1.75 hours on Utena and then about the same on Penguin Drum. It's an episode, not the whole podcast.

 

[Enron]

.gif has too many frames. C-

 

[CSX]

lmao. Used to do the same thing for my Japanese quizzes back in high school. Somehow got an A all four years. Came out knowing about one semester worth of first year Japanese

 

[dimb]

Quite the fill-in-the-blank scenario.

Hey, it could happen to anyone.

 

[zeroshiki]

Naw, that was another part of the doubling that the director seems to be enamoured with - this time between

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Daikichi and Milf

- so I was fine with it I guess. The moment they meet was a bit silly though.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot, but they used the song from the anime OP as the film's credits song... and they also used a random German pop song in the middle of the film. You know, if anything can be said about Japanese films, it's that their music directors don't have to worry about finding songs that are only Japanese... they seem to be free to do whatever they want and not have to worry about alienating audiences or whatever.

The Japanese think all Western foreign languages are cool. No worries about that!

 

[Enron]

Well, about 1.75 hours on Utena and then about the same on Penguin Drum. It's an episode, not the whole podcast.

holy fuck, its worse than I thought.

 

[Regulus Tera]

holy fuck, its worse than I thought.

Can I return you to the store or are you already past-warranty?

 

[Hitokage]

That english test paper is one of Usagi's from Sailor Moon S.

Usagi's answers: "I don't know", "Sorry", etc.
Teacher's remark: "I'm begging you, please study a little more!"

 

[firehawk12]

Well, about 1.75 hours on Utena and then about the same on Penguin Drum. It's an episode, not the whole podcast.

Ahh, that makes more sense!

lmao. Used to do the same thing for my Japanese quizzes back in high school. Somehow got an A all four years. Came out knowing about one semester worth of first year Japanese

Take a closer look at what the English says...

The Japanese think all Western foreign languages are cool. No worries about that!

You'd be hard pressed to find a non-English song in a mainstream American movie anyway!

 

[lvl99 Pixel]

Deep down inside he likes it. Enron is just tsundere.

ahhh I see, well I think someone needs a hug lol.

 

[Enron]

Can I return you to the store or are you already past-warranty?

What does warranty have to do with return policy?

 

[Jex]

Weird in the sense that I had begun to think the writing hadn't changed from Bake, and that the show just didn't work for me anymore. Thinking about it now, the fact that it did with that arc's endgame leads me to believe that the writing throughout Nise has indeed been much worse--Dialogues, structure, etc...etc... The 'strings of intent' are as blatantly strung as they've always been, and even more so now, annoyingly, due to the discussion that surrounds those particular scenes in here after each ep, but the show has shown that it can still cross me up with the narrative when it counts most. I'm in it for another couple eps, at the least.

It's pretty interesting that, due to the writing of the source material, it feels like they've taken 7 episodes to discuss what could have been finished in three. There's just so much random meandering built into this arc, where Araragi talks to every girl even though only a handful of them were relevant to the main 'plot'.

 

[Branduil]

Just checked up on Five Star Stories. Looks great to me.

http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showpost.php?p=1686580&postcount=6 screenshots found here

That reminds me, does Gothic Made still exist? Are they finished drawing every rain drop yet?

 

[Jex]

Dayum, what that tan girl do to deserve so many slaps?

Wait, are you referring to Utena's Anthy as 'tan girl'?

 

[CSX]

Take a closer look at what the English says...

Holy shit, totally missed that 3rd sentence xD

 

[iavi]

ahhh I see, well I think someone needs a hug lol.

I'm surprised to see that you're so honest.

 

[wonzo]

being caught whilst new-half is the worst shit ever.

Yosuga no Sora - 01-12 (END)

chapa chapa

such raw emotion. the kind only a show like glass fleet could truly deliver.

 

[Enron]

Wait, are you referring to Utena's Anthy as 'tan girl'?

Well, if he said "annoying" girl, you wouldn't know who in the show he was talking about! So tan girl it is.

 

[Jex]

The way I saw it was less

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fake lesbian and more indifference to the situation (Homonormativity if you will). Like you said, a byproduct of the time, but now it's what I wish more homosexual relationships could be like.

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I would also have proffered her commit suicide in the show. It would make more sense than her accident.

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I always assumed she did commit suicide. I mean, it didn't even make sense as an accident!

 

[lvl99 Pixel]

I'm surprised to see that you're so honest.

Im confused did I miss something here?

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

That reminds me, does Gothic Made still exist? Are they finished drawing every rain drop yet?

Last news was that it's supposed to release this spring.

 

[Regulus Tera]

What does warranty have to do with return policy?

Tell the Apple® Store guys then. I don't know how many times I've had to pay them money for replacing my Apple® products that break just precisely a week after the warranty expires.

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still bitter

Wait, are you referring to Utena's Anthy as 'tan girl'?

I must have the sexiest tan ever then.

 

[Jex]

Oniisama e Series
Overall a really amazing show, even if

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the OP and ED are terrible

.

Man, what the heck are you saying about that awesome opening?

 

[Ultimadrago]

Wait, are you referring to Utena's Anthy as 'tan girl'?

She's dark, but with some art styles I'm never sure if it's necessary to call someone black or call out another ethnicity. So I decided to just call her, tan. That, and I didn't know her name. :S

 

[Enron]

Indians just have a bad tan amirite or amirite

Is she Indian? Or are you just assuming that because of her skin tone? racist.

 

[Hitokage]

being caught whilst new-half is the worst shit ever.

Ikuhara wants his call girls heteronormative after all.

 

[Branduil]

Last news was that it's supposed to release this spring.

So what you're saying is, it might release next year?

 

[Regulus Tera]

Is she Indian? Or are you just assuming that because of her skin tone? racist.

Most of the people I meet on the street think I am Indian. :/

edit: actually, i was called out by some dude once who told me to go back to afghanisthan. that one was awkward