Yeah, Shinbo is the main director at SHAFT, although technically he was a freelancer until recently. If a show has a lot of weird angles and technically difficult edits, head tilts, symbolic imagery and intense colour stuff with a generally kind of cool, detached directing style... it's probably either Shinbo or a follower or imitator. It's an extremely distinctive style, to the point that his recent work has veered into self-parody, PMMM aside.
Negima is to my understanding basically a really strange harem story that takes place in a fantasy world.
I'm told it's better than it sounds but the manga is massive, so I have no plans to read it any time soon. Might as well read the original run of Dragon Ball at that point.
Madoka was an intriguing and artistically appreciable but exhaustingly bleak show
it was with that context that the ending stuck with me the way it did, and i'm a little apprehensive that any change might ruin that
don't get me wrong, i definitely mean to watch it. when i get around to it, though. and i might wanna rewatch the series first.
i dunno, i hate arguing about Madoka, like i can see why GMH dislikes aspects of it but those aspects are always bits that i thought were strengths, not flaws, so i'm like "no stop suggesting changes that will RUIN it"
also i feel like probably my reaction to Madoka had a LOT to do with my emotional state when i watched it and therefore i don't feel comfortable debating it or confident that i can give a rational assessment of it
I rewatched the series before I first watched Rebellion, too. It was a seriously good thing that I did.
Once again, I am trying not to be GMH about this, since how he argues about the series kinda irritates me, too.
Without spoiling Rebellion for you, there were certain aspects of Homura's relationship with Madoka that I thought didn't quite add up once they dawned on me during my rewatch. That's essentially the main thing I meant with my last post.
I actually have a similarly unpopular opinion regarding Evangelion but the pattern is different.
I have yet to watch Rebellion so there's really no good way even for me to tell whether I'll like it or not. I can only guess. From what I've heard about it it is pretty insane, which just means guessing is less likely to work, though by no means does it mean it won't either.
Yeah, Shinbo is the main director at SHAFT, although technically he was a freelancer until recently. If a show has a lot of weird angles and technically difficult edits, head tilts, symbolic imagery and intense colour stuff with a generally kind of cool, detached directing style... it's probably either Shinbo or a follower or imitator. It's an extremely distinctive style, to the point that his recent work has veered into self-parody, PMMM aside.
This sounds like it may actually have been a significant reason I was not too much a fan of MadoMagi, one that I'd neglected mainly because people kept on emphasizing Urobuchi's contribution.
also i feel like probably my reaction to Madoka had a LOT to do with my emotional state when i watched it and therefore i don't feel comfortable debating it or confident that i can give a rational assessment of it
I'd say whatever you felt of it is fair.
I've recently come to the realization that media is far more enjoyable when one can relate it to one's life.
i kinda look at it like, Madoka *would* have been the main character, were it not for Homura
Regarding the main series, I agree with this -- which, if anything, says that the core of the magical girl tropes are actually based in what would be an initially sensible/normal/expectable human reaction to things, because that's basically what Madoka Kaname does/represents.
My thoughts on Madoka: I admire it for its superb execution and design, and i cried a little at the end, but i never really connected to any of the characters
My interest in Madoka begins and ends with admiration for its execution and design, so I can get that. I guess that might be one other reason why I don't talk about the series very much, just in general.
i google image searched this to see if this was real and i discovered that you can buy hand colored signed prints of individual Zippy strips for 185 bucks
The eyes are good shorthand for the emotional state of a character. You see this in cartoons on this side of the Pacific just as often, just not in the more "traditional" comic book style; that it is more prevalent in Japanese comics and animation is a cultural thing, but it is by no means just a Japan thing.
damn jane, did nobody tell you about despera? i already went through the "holy shit!!" "aw fuck" holy shit!!" "aw fuck" cycle, like, five times, two years ago
My thoughts on Madoka: I admire it for its superb execution and design, and i cried a little at the end, but i never really connected to any of the characters
damn jane, did nobody tell you about despera? i already went through the "holy shit!!" "aw fuck" holy shit!!" "aw fuck" cycle, like, five times, two years ago
I don't know if this is the right thread for it, but there's this guy on Reddit's anime subreddit who makes these rec pics and they're really informative and what not.
im going to bookmark that post so when i watch this show and it turns out to be more brutal than that i will have a hearty laugh at my foolish past self
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If you don't know that name... *meaningful psychotic head tilt*
Speaking of Shinbo, The Soul-Taker looks outrageous enough that I might watch it.
Or, as I am doing, Hunter x Hunter, which is really, really good, you guys. Like, really good.
It did admittedly take me a rewatch to catch them, though.
(I hasten to add that this isn't a GMH type of thing, since I did like Madoka even before Rebellion.)
it was with that context that the ending stuck with me the way it did, and i'm a little apprehensive that any change might ruin that
don't get me wrong, i definitely mean to watch it. when i get around to it, though. and i might wanna rewatch the series first.
i dunno, i hate arguing about Madoka, like i can see why GMH dislikes aspects of it but those aspects are always bits that i thought were strengths, not flaws, so i'm like "no stop suggesting changes that will RUIN it"
also i feel like probably my reaction to Madoka had a LOT to do with my emotional state when i watched it and therefore i don't feel comfortable debating it or confident that i can give a rational assessment of it
Once again, I am trying not to be GMH about this, since how he argues about the series kinda irritates me, too.
Without spoiling Rebellion for you, there were certain aspects of Homura's relationship with Madoka that I thought didn't quite add up once they dawned on me during my rewatch. That's essentially the main thing I meant with my last post.
I actually have a similarly unpopular opinion regarding Evangelion but the pattern is different.
I have yet to watch Rebellion so there's really no good way even for me to tell whether I'll like it or not. I can only guess. From what I've heard about it it is pretty insane, which just means guessing is less likely to work, though by no means does it mean it won't either. This sounds like it may actually have been a significant reason I was not too much a fan of MadoMagi, one that I'd neglected mainly because people kept on emphasizing Urobuchi's contribution.
I've recently come to the realization that media is far more enjoyable when one can relate it to one's life.
Regarding the main series, I agree with this -- which, if anything, says that the core of the magical girl tropes are actually based in what would be an initially sensible/normal/expectable human reaction to things, because that's basically what Madoka Kaname does/represents.
the characters were hard to connect to, except for Homura in an unexpected way
but then i watched it, and found that it was, indeed, someone else's transcendental, life-changing experience
but it was not mine
it was indeed awkward, too (though i didn't feel the interrupting part)
If it helps, I pretty much felt this way when playing Yume Nikki. The dub doesn't seem appreciably worse than the sub to me, the inexplicable decision to leave "kamui" untranslated aside.
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