hosannainexcelsis
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Spring Anime 2013 |OT-8| What could be beyond OT-8? Possibility.
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You're right; my mistake.
Regulus Tera
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Dude, would you rather Anno worked on more Evangelion? This is a great thing!
It's still quite uncommon for a show to have two studios jointly credited for the main animation production though, right?
Also, I'm remarkably impressed you knew that off the top of your head.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
If Miyazaki wanted him to do it, why force him to audition! lol
Miyazaki to star in 4.44 as old Shinji.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
So he could say he passed and was qualified!
As stupid as this sounds, Ghibli movies are always voiced by famous (miscast) people anyway. Howl was voiced by the super famous Takuya Kimura of SMAP. The father from Totoro was voiced by Shigesato Itoi of MOTHER/Earthbound fame. etc etc
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I can feel my brains going tang on me.
Another new thing I learned today.
Jewelpet Happiness 04:
This show is bonkers. I'm sorry for the image-heavy post, but it's easier to entice people with visual gags than to kill jokes by dryly and methodically explaining them.
This episode finally put Ruruka in the spotlight, and I really adore the husky voice that Aizawa Mai uses for the character. It really helped to emphasize
I suppose this'll only mean something to hosanna since he's the only other one who's seen any of Kira Deco, but it weirds me out just slightly that in one season, there are no native humans in Jewelland and it's a society developed and maintained entirely by little mascot creatures, but in this series, they suddenly coexist with humans as part of a mixed society. What little I've seen of Sunshine, which predates Kira Deco, indicates that it's similar to Happiness in that there are humans native to Jewelland, and so their glaring absence in Kira Deco and sudden reappearance in Happiness is a bizarre bit of intentional discontinuity. I like that each season apparently tries to be something different, but if each season is going to take place in the same setting with the same core ensemble of characters, I don't think that the human presence in that world should be something that can simply vanish and reappear. It seems like something that even the target demographic would notice and be confused by.
This show is bonkers. I'm sorry for the image-heavy post, but it's easier to entice people with visual gags than to kill jokes by dryly and methodically explaining them.
This episode finally put Ruruka in the spotlight, and I really adore the husky voice that Aizawa Mai uses for the character. It really helped to emphasize
Ruruka's initial annoyance at being stuck with Labula as her mascot partner. Even if differences were resolved by the end of the episode, Jewelpet dares to expose shrill, infantile mascots for what they really are.
I suppose this'll only mean something to hosanna since he's the only other one who's seen any of Kira Deco, but it weirds me out just slightly that in one season, there are no native humans in Jewelland and it's a society developed and maintained entirely by little mascot creatures, but in this series, they suddenly coexist with humans as part of a mixed society. What little I've seen of Sunshine, which predates Kira Deco, indicates that it's similar to Happiness in that there are humans native to Jewelland, and so their glaring absence in Kira Deco and sudden reappearance in Happiness is a bizarre bit of intentional discontinuity. I like that each season apparently tries to be something different, but if each season is going to take place in the same setting with the same core ensemble of characters, I don't think that the human presence in that world should be something that can simply vanish and reappear. It seems like something that even the target demographic would notice and be confused by.
hosannainexcelsis
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I've only seen Kira Deco, but my understanding is that each Jewelpet season is its own continuity. For instance, humans can do magic in the original and Twinkle, but not in Sunshine or Kira Deco. The personality of the Jewelpets seems liable to change for each season too. So I don't think they're really supposed to take place in the same world.
I thought this was semi-common knowledge. You guys really should listen to Retronauts.
KirbYuuYuu
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It occurs to me that I forgot about this.... Well.... Should probably fix that soon.
No wait, what if Anno did a Miyazaki movie and Miyazaki did an Evangelion movie?
The Evas would be WAY more adorable.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam 37
Yo, okay, hold on a minute. CHAR AZNABLE, you know, the guy who was a member of Zeon, who murdered commanders and friends in COLD BLOOD, is now advocating the full-scale evacuation of the planet Earth, and these people are listening?
WHAT IN THE GREAT BALLS OF FIRE?
No one should be listening. He's CHAR AZNABLE. He's a traitorous, cold hearted bastard, and he wants you to evacuate the Earth! Yes, the Titans are corrupt, but this doesn't lend credence to his wacky ass claims. Why is everyone on this guys side? Why are Hayato, Bright and even Amuro, who LIVED IN CONSTANT FEAR OF THIS MAN FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR in a rush to drop trow and take it from Char? I mean, yeah, he's Char Aznable and it is all well and good for us to joke that being Char is good enough to bounce you through whatever, but I'm straight up confused here.
I mean, I could believe "7 years and the loss of Lalah have changed Char to be a nicer guy" if it wasn't for the fact that he doesn't seem changed. Oh, sure, he's nice and caring to them, but then, wasn't he nice to Garma Zabi, too?
They are both cool!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Huh. That's random.
So what is this thing anyway? A Precure knockoff?
KirbYuuYuu
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Well it's not about Mahou Shoujos as far as I'm aware of, but I think it's a parody of a genre nonetheless.
firehawk12
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So what are the mascot characters? Just random aliens? lol
hosannainexcelsis
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The setting is Jewelland in all of the seasons, isn't it? That's the basis of my assumption that they're all in the same world/continuity, but I could be mistaken. Elements of one season being removed or re-added in another wouldn't mean anything at all to me if the show made no pretense of having any sort of continuity, of course.
KirbYuuYuu
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They're mascots obviously.
Basileus777
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More characters? There are already so many characters whose identities I barely know. No one has been given a background, motivation, or any sort of development, my brain will explode if they just keep churning out more of them.
Jewelpet definitely isn't mahou shoujo. It's a comedy that just happens to heavily incorporate mascot characters.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Well partly them as well. Just characters shown in the OP/ED and show in general that have yet to be properly introduced!
Show is full of boundless potential.
hosannainexcelsis
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Sure, the setting is always "Jewel Land", but given how much it changes between seasons I don't think it means much. The name was probably part of the basic concept originally created by Sanrio/Sega, but each anime season is free to put their own spin on it.
firehawk12
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Man, so there's another weird competing girl-anime-toy franchise out there that also runs year long? Well, why not.
(I almost don't want to know what Pretty Rhythm Aurora is about...)
KirbYuuYuu
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Romantic Dancing with Middle school girls just looking at genres
There are a lot. There's alslo Rirupuri (Little Princess?) and its basically the same thing. Magical Girls wanting to be idols this time.
Betterman 19
So it turns out the Super Human Institute is behind it all. Keita runs in fear of his own ugly reflection and meanwhile the cast is caught up in some serious introspective reflectiony stuff that seems right out of the last episodes of Evangelion. Interesting Revelation of the episode is that, in addition to losing his wife, Akamatsu also had children in his broken marriage.
So it turns out the Super Human Institute is behind it all. Keita runs in fear of his own ugly reflection and meanwhile the cast is caught up in some serious introspective reflectiony stuff that seems right out of the last episodes of Evangelion. Interesting Revelation of the episode is that, in addition to losing his wife, Akamatsu also had children in his broken marriage.
Bob Coffee
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ERU ERUFU SUPER HAPPY MUSICAL TACTICAL STEALTH OPS FUNTIME 5
cant wait untill next week!!
valvrave ep 5
Sunrise and co continues to impress, surprisingly light on the musical aspects, i was expecting a full on music video dance number with ERU ERUFU and haruto to the tune of totsugeki love heart, unfortunately i didn't get that. what i got is some peacetime lulz including haruto's friend taking a page of the the silicon knights precursor games playbook and starting a space kickstarter for the colony called haruto's fund. I wonder what the streach goals will be? for 1,000,000 space bucks get the valvrave at your birthday party, it can make balloon animals!. Secondly we got some drill hair vs zettai ryouki slapping super battle, with some of the best bitch slapping this side of zeta gundam, so good it would bring a smile to bright noa's face. and this is all before the musical number.
so after the colony gets power restored, and to stop the fighting somehow haruto and shoko come to the magical conclusion that making a music video is the best solution to there problems. as a viewer at this point, i dont know wtf is going on. so they enlist best zettai ryouiki waifu saki rukino to do the requisite idol singing, and we are treated to a compilation of different scenes of student propaganda streamed through the space internets. the highlight being a-drei tossing his glove at the screen, a man dressed in a not gundam, gundam box, and bouncing boobs. of course this made the space kickstarter explode faster the susan wilsons internet scamming.
but the real highlight this ep goes back to our main man ERU ERUFU, whos creeper look stole the show, as haruto and best waifu got to know each other a little better in the valvrave. also it will be interesting to see what ERU ERUFU plans to do with his new found toys. the ed transition this week was fantastic, best show of the season.
cant wait untill next week!!
And if that's the case, that's fine. The franchise's strength seems to lie in the fact that it's not hamstrung by the plethora of traditions and standards that other plastic shit shows rigidly adhere to out of fear of alienating their consumers.
I should probably have familiarized myself more with the original series and Tinkle before commenting on the static/fluid nature of the setting; I've only seen bits of Sunshine and of course Kira Deco and the current series, and because Sunshine also seems to involve mascots paired with middle school girls attending an academy like Happiness, I assumed that Kira Deco was somehow an outlier in premise when this may not be the case.
There you go.
I really need to take up the death pact I made with Narag on this someday.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Even weirder, fucking Haruomi Hosono cameos as a record shop owner in the movie. He and Itoi and classic post-war Japanese pop-culture icons, so I guess it makes sense.
There you go.
I really need to take up the death pact I made with Narag on this someday.
This is disgusting.
The Vision of Escaflowne 18
OH MY GOSH THE MAIN VILLAIN, EMPEROR DORNEKIRK IS ACTUALLY
HIS EVIL MAGIC IS SCIENCE. THIS IS ALL THE WIZARD OF OZ. ALAN IS THE LION, VAAN AND ESCAFLOWNE ARE THE TIN MAN, AND MERL IS TOTO.
OH MY GOSH OH MY GOHS OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH. HE LOOKS LIKE DR. WEIL FROM MEGA MAN ZERO 4
OH MY GOSH THE MAIN VILLAIN, EMPEROR DORNEKIRK IS ACTUALLY
ISAAC NEWTON.
OH MY GOSH OH MY GOHS OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH. HE LOOKS LIKE DR. WEIL FROM MEGA MAN ZERO 4
firehawk12
Subete no aware
This makes about as much sense as Valvrave.
Man too bad that movie was crap and basically was the director trying to copy Terrence Malick really poorly.
You figured it out pretty fast.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I take it that girls age out of anime faster than boys?
It'd explain the glut of shows for middle school and younger girls but nothing really for teen girls.
Looks like Da Vinci, is named
Isaac, is a scientist from Earth obsessed with the Arcane.
They move on quickly to Johnny's Jr. and Arashi.
Or at least get some more interactions with his ex-boyfriend(s).Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Eh, don't think so. The God Warriors were pretty scary.
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