What anime are you watching?

[Average Joe]

Pumped for this one.

The manga is fun as hell.

 

[SouthtownKid]

Pumped for this one.

The manga is fun as hell.

What is it? Video unavailable in Japan.

 

[Tron]

CDJapan used to be one of the biggest music and co sellers from Japan for an outside audience.

not sure if that changed.

They still sell soundtracks i just went with CDjapan since it was the cheapest i seen for the macross dyrl 4k set.

 

[Average Joe]

What is it? Video unavailable in Japan.

Gachiakuta

 

[Average Joe]

I'm on episode 12 of Frieren and fucking hell this show is mesmerizing.

My normal inclination when I find a show I like is to just binge the hell out of it, but despite how I feel towards this I'm inversely inclined to take my time with it.

Perhaps that is the theme/pacing of it rubbing off on me and realizing that some things are better when slowed down and considered instead of just being consumed for the sake of consuming.

I know I'm still early in, but this is already up with Edgerunners (total opposites lol) as the best modern examples of the genre to me.

 

[Taiso]

I think some series are meant to be consumed more gradually and not binged.

I think binging a show like Frieren is antithetical to what the series' themes are.

Frieren is a stellar example of what the medium of anime can do in telling a story. I'd say that the manga is just as good.

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

 

[Tron]

I think some series are meant to be consumed more gradually and not binged.

I think binging a show like Frieren is antithetical to what the series' themes are.

Frieren is a stellar example of what the medium of anime can do in telling a story. I'd say that the manga is just as good.

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

I watched frieren last week on netflik and i did watch it all the way through.Sure it's a slow burn with not much action but i found the series to be charming to say the least.Still season two can't come soon enough but it's not until 2026.

 

[LoneSage]

My normal inclination when I find a show I like is to just binge the hell out of it, but despite how I feel towards this I'm inversely inclined to take my time with it.

Perhaps that is the theme/pacing of it rubbing off on me and realizing that some things are better when slowed down and considered instead of just being consumed for the sake of consuming.

Although it was touted as one of the selling points of Netflix ten years ago, I think binge watching shows in general is a terrible way to enjoy television. It makes it so much more disposable.

Just think about a show that helped define your youth, and instead of going through that for a year or even years it's done in a few days and boop off to The Next Thing to distract me.

Delayed gratification lil homies.

On thread topic, I guess I oughtta check out Frieren.

 

[Taiso]

I watched frieren last week on netflik and i did watch it all the way through.Sure it's a slow burn with not much action but i found the series to be charming to say the least.Still season two can't come soon enough but it's not until 2026.

I'm not going to say that you 'did it wrong' but the action is really besides the point. In this series, the action is the 'thing they have to do' to get to the meat of the story. Whereas with other shows that are supposedly anti-violence, they seem to go out of their way to show you how awesome, stylish and cool violence can be. Frieren has its moments of spectacle but overall, it does a good job avoiding narrative dissonance. None of the heroes want to be killing people or even demons. It's just an inevitable part of the job that I'm sure most of them would have preferred to avoid. Even Eisen trembles before every fight because he's scared and would rather chop wood all day.

I rather think the violence of the series is unfortunate but unavoidable. And the biggest irony is that people will eventually forget what Himmel and his crew did, what they went through, to make the world safer for them. And then, when more violence will be done, they will be horrified by it all over again. It's almost as if those statues were built for a reason or something and Himmel wasn't merely being vainglorious.

 

[Average Joe]

Spoiler:

The Frieren vs Aura fight was one of my favorite recent fight scenes and it was barely a fight. The fight was decided by hundreds of years of diligent practice of something most people didn't even ever consider worth doing and that was unique as hell.

 

[Taiso]

Spoiler:

Frieren killing undead heroes wasn't even the point. A more conventional anime would have wasted half an episode on a visually spectacular but utterly meaningless action sequence. Again, there's nothing wrong with dope ass action sequences, but most of the ones I see in most popular anime are missing personal stakes or tension. It's a squash match, utterly devoid of any true value. This is why I hate tournament arcs.

Watching Frieren and Aura dump their mana into a scale was an almost Tarantinoesque sequence of mounting tension and anxiety. I mean, we knew Frieren would win but the mangaka and Madhouse both did a good job fixing your gaze on what mattered and not the fluff.

 

[Taiso]

 

[terry.330]

Excited for that. It’s by the studio that did Redline so my expectations are fairly high.

 

[Taiso]

This is a really awesome video about Record of Lodoss War, its original connection to Dungeons & Dragons, why it diverged from that game and ultimately resulted in the birth of the Sword World TTRPG and its enduring cultural impact. I am interested in all of what this video has to say, although some of you might only care about the anime. It also covers the first eight episodes of the OVA, talks a little about the many spinoff manga and books and ends with the recent video game Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, which the video posits is a capstone to Deedlit's time with the original cast and how appropriate it is that she's the face of the entire series. Worth a watch if you were/are a fan of Lodoss.

P.S. he references the recent sequel, Covenant of the Crown, which is pretty great (I read the manga) but unfortunately remains unfinished a few years later (to my knowledge).

 

[terry.330]

The Professional: Golgo 13- This is that old school manly shit, just blowing people’s brains out while smooth jazz plays and titties bounce. It’s also incredibly stylish and very atmospheric. The animation quality is all over the place and the opening sequence is really bizarre but since it is so damn stylish it all works. The plot is convoluted and basically just an excuse for Duke to kill a bunch of weirdos, drive cool cars, use cool guns and bang every chick he meets. Again though the movie is so cool looking and has so much atmosphere that it really doesn’t matter.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

The Professional: Golgo 13- This is that old school manly shit, just blowing people’s brains out while smooth jazz plays and titties bounce. It’s also incredibly stylish and very atmospheric. The animation quality is all over the place and the opening sequence is really bizarre but since it is so damn stylish it all works. The plot is convoluted and basically just an excuse for Duke to kill a bunch of weirdos, drive cool cars, use cool guns and bang every chick he meets. Again though the movie is so cool looking and has so much atmosphere that it really doesn’t matter.

Ngl, that intro kicked mega ass!

 

[Taiso]

 

[mainman]

Ngl, that intro kicked mega ass!

I'm more of a fan of Turquoise Blue

 

[terry.330]

Watched Cyber City Oedo last night, hadn’t seen it since the VHS days. It still kicks ass in that old school gritty cyberpunk way. It’s not high art but it’s not trying to be, just pure over the top action and atmosphere.

 

[Taiso]

 

[Tron]

I don't know i see there using computer animation.

 

[Taiso]

I don't know i see there using computer animation.

I used to feel the same way but I still enjoy the medium when it produces things I want to see and CGI is just the way it is now. Understandable if people don't want to engage with the newer material for that reason or any reason. I feel the same way about books, but the analogy might be 'CGI is to anime as shitty millenial romantacy is to the fantasy genre'.

That said, Gundam: the Origin is a delightful adaptation of the manga and all the mecha sequences are CGI. Definitely didn't stop me from loving it.

 

[Average Joe]

 

[terry.330]

The chicken from the Yakuza games finally got his own anime, nice.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

This looks pretty good