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" Vivy, To Your Eternity, Megalobox 2 "Nomad' (if you've seen 1), Odd Taxi are all pretty much guaranteed 'good'. 86 Eighty-Six is prestige anime but so far nothing we haven't seen before. Quirkier stuff includes Mars Red (artistic vampire series), Pretty Boy Detective Club (Shaft being Shaft), Shadows House, and Jouran (more artistic vampires, loosely based on Lady Snowblood) -- all very stylish, but not everyone's cup of tea. That's just off the top of my head. Between those, more light-hearted fare and continuations such as Moriarty part 2 and of course My Hero Academia, GF and I are watching probably around 20 shows this season. So yeah, pretty good season. And if you don't mind sailing the salty seas, Beastars s2 and Godzilla SP are both doing quite well on Netflix Japan. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
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This season somehow managed to be even more ridiculous than the last one. And that one already had an overload of great shows.
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Watched Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie: Mugen Ressha-hen this past Friday at AMC........SUBBED with Japanese Audio cause it is more immersive that way.
The movie was just plain awesome considering it was from ufotable. That ending made me shed manly tears with the battle scene at Rengoku.....and that demon. My favorite arc of the series live up to the hype in the cinemas. To hell with Mortal Kombat, Demon Slayer was better. ;) Sometimes you can take the game out of the garage but you can't take the garage out of the game.
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" The local cinema is only airing the dub of Mugen, so we'll wait for the bluray and/or the high quality animelab stream. I deeply enjoyed KnY when it aired but I found it personally superseded in terms of premium shounen by the likes of Jujutsu Kaisen. That and, well, ufotable gonna ufotable. I know it'll be great, but I'm not hanging on a thread to see it. As for Mortal Kombat, this isn't an either/or situation; it's merely an artificial 'contest' created by nigh-simultaneous release. Is Mugen superior to MK? Almost certainly, on every significant level. But they can co-exist. Happily. Bloodily, even. I do like that we live in a world where somehow a premium anime continuation movie and a cheeseballs r-rated whiplash-paced video game slugfest movie are actually *the* competing forces in the Western cinema battleground, but eh, seems a weird consolation prize for the past year or so. __ Thunderbolt Fantasy season 3 is just around the corner. Either that sentence is enough for you, if you've missed something really special. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
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" Well, seems at least ONE video game got a good adaptation this year... yes, I'm looking at you, Monster Hunter. I still hope that I'll get to see Heaven's Feel 3 in the cinema at some point. Too bad that planned Heaven's Feel triple feature event got cancelled last year :( I make dumb builds, therefore I am.
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" Uh...yeah, okay...Mortal Kombat was significantly better than Monster Hunter. And I say that as someone who's seen both and has played MHW a heck of a lot lately -- and soaked up Mortal Kombat since its release. They're both silly as hell as far as movie concepts go, but at least MK has a proper Aussie Kano and the legendary Sanada Hiroyuki (for lack of that other legendary Hiroyuki, although the replacement Shang Tsung at least looked the part) occupying the two best polar opposite ends (crassness and stoicism) of an otherwise forgettable adaptation. MH has...Rathalos and Diablos and that's about it. Kind of ironic given MH's director gave the world what remains the most beloved Mortal Kombat movie (low, low, low bar there). As for HF3, been and gone here sadly. The three movies will make for a nice bluray binge at least. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable. Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Apr 26, 2021, 3:27:04 AM
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" I mean I did grew up with Mortal Kombat playing them in Sega Genesis and even up PS2 with Shaolin Monks, dressing up as Scorpion in one of my childhood Halloween events, and even watching the older Mortal Kombat movies from the 90s. There is something about the movie version of MK that triggers disappointment all over for me. Not like the new MK movie is the only MK movie I felt 'meh' about it, the ones in the 90s felt like a cash grab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8YtTz9xWu4 I still remember the scene around 2:20 to 2:34 from this link that made me wan to roll my eyes, especially if you are sharp in details, you will notice something behind something. lol Edit: Maybe this is just me growing older and a bit more cynical in life. I need to take it easy and just go with the flow. :P Sometimes you can take the game out of the garage but you can't take the garage out of the game.
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" Someday I may forgive you for blind-linking me to MK: Annihilation. Someday... ___ Tokyo Revengers is finding its footing. Odd Taxi does a crazy left turn and pulls it off wonderfully. 86 is A-1 flex as usual. Shadows House channels the best of Promised Neverland. Vivy continues its march towards the Matrix. To your eternity evolves, again. Dai remains criminally underwatched. Mars Red gives us more Yamadera and Ishida and is better for it. Joran completes its first and feels like a 90s OVA. Osamake picks up Horimiya's torch. Super Cub beautifully putters along with the Power of Dreams (this update brought to you by Honda). 300 Slimes gives Aoi Yuki something to do when she's not eating everything in sight in Kumodesuga...Pretty Boy Tantei reminds us why Shaft/Shinbo/Nisioisin is such a blessing. Slime Diaries hearkens back to happier times. Mashiro Oto toys with memory. What a season. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
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" That is why I never had faith in live action Mortal Kombat movies. lol Sometimes you can take the game out of the garage but you can't take the garage out of the game.
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Well, thanks to the ever-awesome sakugabooru blog, we've found our sleeper hit for the season: see their write-up here: Backflip!!! Bakuten.
Men's rhythmic gymnastics high school team anime with *so* much positive energy, a ridiculously high-end cast, REALLY good character animation (there's a flex in pretty much every scene for some reason), actually creative usage of CG/rotoscoping for the routines, and just plain high quality production throughout. The director is what caught my attention: same guy who did the spectacularly underrated 'The Great Passage', and it shows. Studio Zexcs isn't known for any of this stuff, but with the right director, a powerhouse of key staff (Yamashita Shingo!!), a composer with relevant background (before composing, this guy was actually a rhythmic gymnast), and a healthy-ish time-frame (show's been in pre-production since 2016), a studio can easily transcend its norms. The show was made to highlight Miyagi prefecture in the wake of the Tohoku disasters, which is far from the worst reason to make a really good looking anime. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable. Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Apr 29, 2021, 11:46:30 PM
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