I wonder how many people will get references to Fractale.
I mean I watched it and remember it okay but I might miss a reference to it because who the heck talks about fractale ever
I heard it gets really bad and dumb really quickly despite the pretty art, which is sad because, again, pretty art and odd premise with some potential.
Apparently everyone else heard the same and avoided it like the plangue which is why no-one talks about it.
Eh, I enjoyed it for the most part. It's definitely not anything I'd recommend watching, but I don't remember it being atrociously bad. The ending was pretty dumb though.
It struck me as basically a "what if Eureka Seven didn't go right". Also, smashed into 11 episodes.
The ending theme, which is Down By The Salley Gardens (the Yeats poem, set to the popular musical arrangement by Herbert Hughes), is especially memorable to me.
I am not sure I understood what happened in it, especially the reveals at the end, but it feels like there's some sort of poetic meaning in it -- especially with that ending theme drawing out that feeling.
The ending theme, which is Down By The Salley Gardens (the Yeats poem, set to the popular musical arrangement by Herbert Hughes), is especially memorable to me.
It was affecting in some ways, and the entire end sequence of the last episode is utterly beautiful. Really the whole episode was terrific with that tense bit on the rooftop in the beginning with the stadium lights blowing out and flicking back on in time with the characters' arguments. Shinobu finally doing something (and being Sonic The Hedgehog) was just a bonus at that point.
I will probably never fully process all of that, considering how often I still think about Serial Experiments Lain, but I am glad I finally finished it. What a peculiar series, very surreal and bizarre and out of step with most else I've watched. Deeply interesting stuff.
Another show I basically accidentally dropped. Will get back to that. I really like Akiyuki Shinbo when he uses his penchant for ludicrous self-indulgence to an actual end, and the writing was pretty spot-on and clever despite the apparent fluffiness of it all.
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress sounds like the version of Attack on Titan I would actually *like,* Seraph of the End and its cute Sredni-pandering side characters notwithstanding. I'll be looking into it.
on one hand i realized that angel beats and beyond the boundary are actually pretty well appreciated and liked so it's not much of a surprise that i enjoyed them too
on the other hand i finished yuyuyu and suddenly realized i walked into another minefield of opinion since i got onto irc and the first thing that happened was a friend arguing that that show sucked
on the other hand i finished yuyuyu and suddenly realized i walked into another minefield of opinion since i got onto irc and the first thing that happened was a friend arguing that that show sucked
That chat was interesting all around.
Waiting to let the dust settle first is generally a good idea for when you've got feelings on a show, though, yeah.
[11:37:12] <GMH> maybe the thing with my perspective on anime series is actually that i just don't hate anything [11:38:06] <GMH> and so i either find no interesting ways to make sense of something, in which case i am meh toward it, or i find interesting ways to make sense of it and thus enjoy it
as the show gets further along, they seem more willing to have kinda disturbing Yokai around (*shout out to the shadow thing that kills you instantly if it touches you and slowly follows Takashi into the house*)
also the second season has noticably more budget to throw around
and they spend a biiiit too much time recapping stuff
Yeesh. If he'd filed he'd still have over seven hundred grand of those royalties easy. I'm guessing this had something to do with his management, seeing as they're getting sued, too.
Well it makes sense when the dude is charmed by Yamada, that blue-haired dude there, but yeah it really is. Overall, I like Yamada-kun, even if it's not really blowing the doors off or whatever.
Barely apropos, but I've only semi-recently realised just how rare good gay male representation is in anime. I mean, yes, lesbian and trans* representation is scattershot, much of the former in particular being fetishised in the same way that yaoi is, but it's there and some of it's exceptional. There's no real gay/queer male analogue to Aoi Hana or Wandering Son or Yurikuma. Which, seeing as how the opposite is often true in American media, is a little confusing.
Barely apropos, but I've only semi-recently realised just how rare good gay male representation is in anime. I mean, yes, lesbian and trans* representation is scattershot, much of the former in particular being fetishised in the same way that yaoi is, but it's there and some of it's exceptional. There's no real gay/queer male analogue to Aoi Hana or Wandering Son or Yurikuma. Which, seeing as how the opposite is often true in American media, is a little confusing.
It's not an anime, but you should read Otouto no Otto/My Brother's Husband. The story is about Yaichi, a single father, who gets a visit from Mike Flanagan, the husband of Yaichi's estranged brother who passed away. Yaichi is pretty homophobic at the start of the story, though in a quiet, non-violent, but omnipresent manner, while his daughter Kana is open minded and more interested in Mike being Canadian than him being gay. Yaichi starts to be less homophobic through Kana's influence and as he gets to know Mike better. I've only read a few chapters, but it's definitely a good manga if you want to see good gay male representation. The author, Tagame Gengoroh, is apparently known for is work on Bara manga.
Also, new Cardcaptor Sakura manga to celebrate it's 20th anniversary.
Tagame! I know that guy! His stuff is usually... so NSFW I probably couldn't describe it in a public thread.
I was, I admit, talking more about anime than manga, which is even more open to just running with anything if there's a paying audience due to the minimal cost of production and relative ubiquity of the medium even outside of otaku/niche circles.
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Apparently everyone else heard the same and avoided it like the plangue which is why no-one talks about it.
The ending theme, which is Down By The Salley Gardens (the Yeats poem, set to the popular musical arrangement by Herbert Hughes), is especially memorable to me.
I am not sure I understood what happened in it, especially the reveals at the end, but it feels like there's some sort of poetic meaning in it -- especially with that ending theme drawing out that feeling.
Here's a version that's in the same key, but without the Engrish:
Also I thought the English dub was well done. I remember the characters that way.
It's in my list of "don't hate" things.
on the other hand i finished yuyuyu and suddenly realized i walked into another minefield of opinion since i got onto irc and the first thing that happened was a friend arguing that that show sucked
[11:37:12] <GMH> maybe the thing with my perspective on anime series is actually that i just don't hate anything
[11:38:06] <GMH> and so i either find no interesting ways to make sense of something, in which case i am meh toward it, or i find interesting ways to make sense of it and thus enjoy it
Also, new Cardcaptor Sakura manga to celebrate it's 20th anniversary.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-04-26/new-cardcaptor-sakura-manga-is-sequel-launching-in-june/.101473