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Terminator Zero - 8 episode anime | Production I.G | Netflix, Aug. 29

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Director: Masashi Kudo
Writer/Showrunner: Mattson Tomlin
Animation studio: Production I.G
Episodes: 8

2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity.

Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he’s hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future, which forever alters the fate of his three children.
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There is a small teaser trailer but it has no animation. Some first look images have dropped on the other hand:

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https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/terminator-anime-release-date-photos-news
https://www.netflix.com/title/81217220

Just stumbled on this and it quickly got me excited. Hype?
 
Werewolf Jones

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Masashi Kudo was the character designer on BLEACH. Interesting to see he's directing now. I'll give it a go. Production IG are actually a good studio... Mostly.
 
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In general.

How hypocritical is Hollywood and especially Warner Bros, mocked and even ridiculed Japan and Anime.

And now it turns out that now they do want their productions with Japan.

How pathetic they are in Hollywood and those companies.

The same thing are in videogames.
 
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Lambogenie

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Heimdall_Xtreme said:
In general.

How hypocritical is Hollywood and especially Warner Bros, mocked and even ridiculed Japan and Anime.

And now it turns out that now they do want their productions with Japan.

How pathetic they are in Hollywood and those companies.

The same thing are in videogames.
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Now?

Matrix did this time ago. A few others but probably Matrix was most well known.

I'm still waiting for Harry Potter anime. Can't stand the movies.
 
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Heimdall_Xtreme said:
In general.

How hypocritical is Hollywood and especially Warner Bros, mocked and even ridiculed Japan and Anime.

And now it turns out that now they do want their productions with Japan.

How pathetic they are in Hollywood and those companies.

The same thing are in videogames.
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Yeah it is funny seeing this happen when they were shitting on Japan a couple of years ago

Also I have hope that this Terminator Anime might be great due to how awesome Cyberpunk Edgerunners turned out

Yes different anime studios but anime studios in general tend to focus on quality and making sure to tell a good story over anything else
 
thefool

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Heimdall_Xtreme said:
In general.

How hypocritical is Hollywood and especially Warner Bros, mocked and even ridiculed Japan and Anime.

And now it turns out that now they do want their productions with Japan.

How pathetic they are in Hollywood and those companies.

The same thing are in videogames.
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Anime is popular and it's not been meddled as much as their stuff. They want to control the medium.
 
March Climber

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Heimdall_Xtreme said:
In general.

How hypocritical is Hollywood and especially Warner Bros, mocked and even ridiculed Japan and Anime.

And now it turns out that now they do want their productions with Japan.

How pathetic they are in Hollywood and those companies.

The same thing are in videogames.
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt said:
Yeah it is funny seeing this happen when they were shitting on Japan a couple of years ago
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I was wondering if you guys could provide more context here. I am confused about this sentiment that Hollywood hates anime when there have been anime adaptations of multiple western I.P. for 2+ decades and counting. I am also confused about WB since they have producers in WB Japan.

Was this just one guy mocking anime or an entire group of people?
 
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March Climber said:
I was wondering if you guys could provide more context here. I am confused about this sentiment that Hollywood hates anime when there have been anime adaptations of multiple western I.P. for 2+ decades and counting. I am also confused about WB since they have producers in WB Japan.

Was this just one guy mocking anime or an entire group of people?
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I’m not sure who they’re talking about either.

I’m probably forgetting one, but the last big live-action anime film in the US was Battle Angel Alita, and most anime fans seemed happy with that one.

While not a live-action anime, Jordan Peele’s latest film Nope used Evangelion for reference when it came to designs of (spoilers for the film):

the alien creature (specifically using the Angels from Eva as references), as well as an homage to Akira’s iconic bike slide.
Also the Animatrix was a thing, Warner Bros approved the Suicide Squad Isekai, etc.
 
Heimdall_Xtreme

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March Climber said:
I was wondering if you guys could provide more context here. I am confused about this sentiment that Hollywood hates anime when there have been anime adaptations of multiple western I.P. for 2+ decades and counting. I am also confused about WB since they have producers in WB Japan.

Was this just one guy mocking anime or an entire group of people?
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I mean that Warner Bros. has always been hypocritical, in previous years, they made crude parodies of everything, more of Disney and Anime... Now it turns out that they are interested in animation, and yes... Animatrix is fantastic, but it doesn't take away from what a rude Warner Bros is.
 
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Heimdall_Xtreme said:
I mean that Warner Bros. has always been hypocritical, in previous years, they made crude parodies of everything, more of Disney and Anime... Now it turns out that they are interested in animation, and yes...
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The problem is that I genuinely don't know what you're talking about. This isn't an attempt at a gotcha, I literally have zero knowledge about this and I was wondering if you could at least send me a url or point me in a direction to what you're talking about.
 
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Heimdall_Xtreme said:
I mean that Warner Bros. has always been hypocritical, in previous years, they made crude parodies of everything, more of Disney and Anime... Now it turns out that they are interested in animation, and yes... Animatrix is fantastic, but it doesn't take away from what a rude Warner Bros is.
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uh warner is producing all of this stuff
myanimelist.net

Warner Bros. Japan - Companies - MyAnimeList.net

Trying to find anime produced by Warner Bros. Japan? Discover anime by Warner Bros. Japan on MyAnimeList, the largest online anime and manga database in the world!
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and a shitload of anime live-action movies
 
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Heimdall_Xtreme said:
In general.

How hypocritical is Hollywood and especially Warner Bros, mocked and even ridiculed Japan and Anime.

And now it turns out that now they do want their productions with Japan.

How pathetic they are in Hollywood and those companies.

The same thing are in videogames.
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The cancer always spreads to the healthy cells
 
March Climber

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Heimdall_Xtreme said:




Like this kind of toxic teasing...
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So I finally managed to watch both. I’m going to give a raw opinion, zero bias.

The first one looks like an homage to eastern animation. If it wasn’t, I feel like they would have simply told a crass joke instead of cranking the animation quality to 11 for an extended period of time. The only way for one to consider this ‘toxic teasing’ would be for the same person to consider the Death Note Simpsons episode to be ‘toxic teasing’.

The second video I can kind of understand what you mean, but it has nothing much to do with anime at all. It’s 90s/early 2000s WB making fun of their competitor, Disney, through animation. They used to throw shots back and forth at each other in subtle ways back then and this was not so subtle. This is clear cut, but since Disney isn’t a country I call it fair game.

I came out of this still confused as to your claim, and I’d like to ask NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt if he can link what he mentioned earlier about what they did a few years ago that was offensive to Japan.

I’m trying to get to the bottom of what this is, or if this was a case of an influencer/youtuber making a random claim/rumor, or if this was a game of telephone about WB and Japan.
 
Stitch

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It says fanmade in the description, looks fanmade (a bunch of anime, gamescenes and crappy AI put together) and there's no original upload on the netflix channel
 
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Werewolf Jones

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Writer for this is the aspiring showrunner for the Aegon Conquest show for GoT. Will have to see how this goes. 40 or so days left.
 
John Bilbo

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Sure I'll check the first episode.

It would be dope if they could deliver something as profound in anime form for the Terminator as the Animatrix was for Matrix.
 
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Key visual:

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Japanese cast:

Terminator voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya (Magma in Dr. STONE)

Malcolm voiced by Yuya Uchida (Aka in Wonder Egg Priority)

Eiko voiced by Toa Yukinari (Claudia Peer in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt)

Kokoro voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki (Chise Hatori in The Ancient Magus' Bride)

Misaki voiced by Saori Hayami (Maria Campbell in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!)

Kenta voiced by Hiro Shimono (Connie Springer in Attack on Titan)

Hiro voiced by Shizuka Ishigami (Hugo in The Duke of Death and His Maid)

Reika voiced by Miyuki Sato (Emperor Antoku in The Heike Story)

 
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The series dropped today. I watched the first episode and enjoyed it. The story is told via two different timelines. I don't like it when shows do this because what normally happens is we end up jumping between time periods too frequently, and the brevity of each act won't allow you to digest either timeline. But that just wasn't the case here, they really nailed the storyboarding in the first episode. It's easy and clear to understand how each timeline is relevant and how they tie together. As a result, the pacing is just *insert chef's kiss gesture*. Now, I'm not huge on Terminator lore, but it certainly felt like the writers know what makes Terminator as a franchise so interesting. Albeit it was just one episode, it was a very good first episode in my opinion. I'll watch some more episodes later today. Also, the animation and sound design seemed good.
 
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Does the show avoid the forced political bullshit at least? Shocked I haven't heard the survivors of judgment day don't have PTSD from being oppressed before the nuclear war.
 
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First episode was pretty meh.
I'll probably watch a couple more but the first impression wasn't very strong.

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That first episode, in the opening minutes, where the terminator is blasting away with his minigun but somehow the girl manages to evade all of it without getting a scratch ...
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Yeah the opening scene was really weirdly directed.
The Terminator is straight out of XCOM
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