zabadoh
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- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 3 days ago:
How about none?
If I wanted to see soulless retreads of older franchises whose time and relevance has passed, then I’d watch Hollywood shit.
UY 2022, Ranma 1/2 2024, I’m looking at you.
- Comment on Ninja Kamui Anime Gets 2 More Seasons 1 week ago:
Wow, really? The guy must have a silver tongue to keep conjuring that production money, because that first season was shit.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 1 week ago:
Oh sure, of course CEOs want us to think they can’t be replaced by AI…
- Comment on "Wash It All Away" Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) 1 week ago:
Wow, snapshot from a bygone age.
Dry cleaners around here have just about all been wiped out, because nobody wears “nice” clothing anymore.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 10 discussion 1 week ago:
Going back a couple of episodes, it just occurred to me where I heard the “Ventura, ventura, space people” chant before:
In an episode of 80s Urusei Yatsura:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kbmZdeuBnU
This is from the a dubbed version, but it’s the same thing in the original Japanese.
According to a reddit post, it came from a Japanese UFO society …kookscience.com/…/Cosmic_Brotherhood_Association…
- Comment on To whom it may concern. 2 weeks ago:
I had hoped that the humans of the 25th Century Federation had evolved or developed educational, political , and other social systems to where this wasn’t a problem anymore.
Kind of like money.
Otherwise, there will always be a dark undercurrent of prejudice and hatred in all human dealings, and maybe the Romulans, Klingons, and other antagonistic spacefaring civilizations are justified in not wanting to deal with a human-led Federation.
- Comment on xkcd \#3098: Trojan Horse 3 weeks ago:
Foals will begin to eat grain, if accessible, within the first month. …okstate.edu/…/foaling-management-and-care-of-the…
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Voyager seems to work fine with the newly migrated communities.
Try !television@piefed.social for example.
Unfortunately, adding a piefed user account doesn’t work because Vger fails at the capcha step.
So register at a different Lemmy instance, and access piefed communities.
- Comment on What if you literally had all the money in the world? 3 weeks ago:
Depriving everyone else of physical cash would just hasten the spread of electronic transactions into the corners of the global economy where it doesn’t already reach: Drug cartels, rural villages in 3rd world countries, etc.
And with that, lack of privacy from prying eyes in governments, banking, and corporate databases.
- Comment on Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion 3 weeks ago:
“The Dragon Keepers, their reputations and organization shattered, and identities revealed, must now continue their fight for Justice against the monsters as part of the underground…” Sounds like the tone just moved into grim 'n gritty…
Red needs to learn some impulse control…
And how exactly did Hwalipon escape from a room full of Rangers?
- Comment on Favourite Series of Anime Games - 25 000 Votes on Eurogamer 3 weeks ago:
Or anime style characters, like Touhou, Melty Blood, etc.
- Comment on The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 9 discussion 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s good. I wrote what I thought of things so far on last week’s episode: ani.social/post/14125743/10588189
If you’re looking for super action sakuga, this is not it though.
- Comment on Nearly 3 Years Later, Cartoon Network's Tom & Jerry Anime Is Finally Coming to Streaming 4 weeks ago:
I was all prepared to dislike the trailer, but it was unexpectedly… good?
- Comment on Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion 4 weeks ago:
The story is good, setting up interesting situations, and even conflicts of interests for our protagonist, Fighter D…
He’s supposed to be destroying the Dragon Keepers, but Green Keeper/Chidori seems like a really cool guy, even having a nice family despite his gothy emo looks, and showing mercy to D despite knowing that he’s a kaijin infiltrator.
Even if D does destroy the Keepers, there are lower ranked rangers waiting in queue to pick up the mantle.
And the kaijin bosses don’t seem to be very sympathetic, so what’s D fighting for?
The Snake Boss arc was fun.
Going back to episode 2, apparently the Boss monsters are themed after the Eto Animals, which are pretty much the same thing as the Chinese Zodiac animals: www.nippon.com/en/features/jg00110/
Of which the Dragon Keepers had defeated 7 of them as of episode 2:
Team Green just defeated Magatia/Snake 巳
The 4 remaining bosses are:
- Peltrola/Rooster 酉
- Hwalipon/Horse 午
- ?/Monkey 申
- ?/Rabbit 卯
- Comment on The Unaware Atelier Meister • Kanchigai no Atelier Meister: Eiyuu Party no Moto Zatsuyougakari ga, Jitsu wa Sentou Igai ga SSS Rank Datta to Iu Yoku Aru Hanashi - Episode 9 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I just binged and caught up with this…
,…/,
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 4 weeks ago:
Oh shit! 😭
- Comment on The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 8 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I binged and caught up with this yesterday.
I am really enjoying the story.
It’s turning into a wish fulfillment from someone who’s made a lot of cruel choices and gets an incredible opportunity to make better choices in a second chance at life.
Arthur’s perspective is from that person of middle age and he rightfully gets called out for it by Tessia.
Arthur’s incredibly good luck, and OPness are touched with touches of kindness in the middle of the injustice and cruelty happening in the background: The human bandit slavers, Elven prejudice, King Grey’s ruthlessness, etc.
Even the cute mascot, Sylvie, comes on the price of Sylvia’s death.
The animation is low budget, but it’s not bottom of the barrel (I’m looking at you, Tegonia), but like I said the story is strong.
- Comment on Exposure to Sucralose and Its Effects on Testicular Damage and Male Infertility: Insights into Oxidative Stress and Autophagy 5 weeks ago:
Enh, I didn’t want to be fertile anyway.
- Comment on !2010s_music@lemmy.world not appearing in community search? 5 weeks ago:
I clicked on my own ! community link, subscribed, and it now appears on a search.
I guess the database for searching in “all” communities only extends to the communities that the instance population has subscribed to at some point?
Or maybe this one /c’s existence wasn’t federated to here for some reason?
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to meta@ani.social | 1 comment
- Comment on A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof • Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi - Episode 5 discussion 1 month ago:
Some of the references in this episode:
The scene with Roboko’s schematics
…is a reference to the 1972 Mazinger Z ED: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYzzcOZQCMc
The start is right at the beginning, if you skip to 1:00 in the ED you’ll see the half cutaway drawings.
They got that down to the weird shading, which is from the technique the 1970s animators used to transfer their drawings to cels using photocopying machines. Large dark areas just turned out like that on really old photocopiers.
Roboko’s powers to shoot beams from her eyes and chest is again a reference to Mazinger Z’s powers shown in the 1972 OP www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRoF689VRE&t=31s
Oddly enough Mazinger never uses those powers, or they’re really ineffective, otherwise the episodes would have been over with really quickly.
Some references when the screen turns all CRT/raster-ized, I am not familiar with.
I’m guessing Nichijou?
- Comment on Once Upon a Witch's Death • Aru Majo ga Shinu Made - Episode 6 discussion 1 month ago:
That’s a good point though, although Meg has a demanding quest, it would be easy to become cynical and mechanical in her approach to completing it.
But I don’t really see an alternative to doing that to some extent, if she has to get it done in time.
But of course this show is also doing a “trick” to keep its audience, so it feels somewhat disingenuous.
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations - Lemmy 1 month ago:
On the other hand, there are only two lemmy developers, nutomic and dessalines.
So what’s a realistic path forward?
- Submitted 1 month ago to meta@ani.social | 6 comments
- Comment on Star Trek is finally getting its due at (Universal Studios Universal Fan Fest Nights) 1 month ago:
The event runs on 12 select evenings through May 18th.
- Star Trek is finally getting its due at (Universal Studios Universal Fan Fest Nights)www.sfgate.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to startrek@startrek.website | 1 comment
- Comment on Aoashi Season 2 Announced (Teaser Visual) 1 month ago:
It’s a very different show from Blue Lock, and quite enjoyable in its own right.
I enjoyed both shows even though they started airing at almost the same time.
- Comment on Chainsaw Man Limited Edition Blu-ray Set Launches This July 1 month ago:
No, TBATE is actually just fine.
Blue Lock is famously powerpoint animation, but it actually works well. I think of it as an animated manga panels, kind of like 60s Thor/Hulk/Sub Mariner/Captain America cartoons. Actually Blue Lock does throw in some sakuga at appropriate times.
If you really want to see bad animation, watch Teogonia episode 1, but I don’t to trash it too much because art and story have their merits.
- Comment on 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess Season 2 New Visual 1 month ago:
Oh no, the tortures of living in a socio-consumerist society!
I think the real torture for the Princess would be returning to the socially and economically backward Kingdom.
Then again, she’s a member of the ruling class, so it’s not like she would go back to be a miserable peasant.
- Comment on Chainsaw Man Limited Edition Blu-ray Set Launches This July 1 month ago:
I got the impression that it was mostly superfans who didn’t like some story changes.
Similar to how the TBATE anime adaptation is getting trashed by its own superfans.
