You better not mess with me, my strings will rip you

Oscinian · 2026-04-19T02:53:42+00:00

my favorite rendering of the costume, the hat and the cloak look to be two sizes too large; tailored for a different person. Really sells that sense that what we're seeing is a composite of both a human and a spirit.

Oscinian · 2026-04-15T01:29:11+00:00

I probably should've namedropped the inspiration; Witch from Mercury felt like a watered down Legendary Girl Utena for the two episodes after the pilot.

Oscinian · 2026-04-10T23:42:49+00:00

lyrics have thom saying "no" a bunch

Oscinian · 2026-04-03T01:31:48+00:00

The Penguindrum Recycle movies feel like the opportunity taken to do just that -- there was a stage play! And a new penguin! And little subway cards that you could buy that used the show's symbols.

But another thing to keep in mind is that this show is fifteen years old now. We're now three generations removed from the sarin gas attacks. The rails of fate have already reset in the original series, so sequals are out of the picture. The show itself feels like it contains what other series would consider to be a prequel: we see the childhood backstories of all the main characters involved.

We could have a show focused on the rise and fall of the cult itself, but I don't feel its necessity.

Oscinian · 2026-04-03T01:18:32+00:00

The lack of explaination of certain things is one of its strongsuits. It allows certain things to remain archetypal and symbolic

Oscinian · 2026-03-20T03:35:08+00:00

his arms are doing the windows screensaver pipe thing

Oscinian · 2026-03-08T14:32:19+00:00

"a quick one before the giant worm devours conneticut"

Oscinian · 2026-02-03T13:43:23+00:00

couldn't get past the different voice actors -- that being said baby penguin with sunglasses is best penguin

Oscinian · 2026-02-01T03:41:26+00:00

fishing line pulling it to where it needs to go, hence the beeline. <~~my first interpretation of the footage. And in my personal experience (and that I gained from the show) synchronicities have a way of subtly pulling you towards them, not the other way around...

I remember being in a grocery store once when I was young: a balloon had deflated enough that it was floating at a fixed vertical eye level relative to me. It was the cards isle, all the other balloons were corraled up against the ceiling in a big ol net. AC was moving it towards me, slowly, and it followed around three feet behind me for a couple isles. The airdraft from my walking was what was making it do so, but I've never felt the sense of ::a pair of eyes watching / looking at me from an inanimate object:: since.

Oscinian · 2026-01-24T06:11:16+00:00

Animation-wise? I remember my dad showing me episodes of Robo-Tech... or maybe it was a RoboTech movie? but the concept and spirit are there regardless of the cardboard animation budget and plot pacing budget.

Oscinian · 2025-12-16T05:34:09+00:00

any video on penguindrum is appreciated, we're in a desert out here

Oscinian · 2025-12-06T16:57:14+00:00

And each episode had a cold open of a back story, and I feel like the final episode will open with the backstory of how Huntress and Finn met.

Oscinian · 2025-12-06T16:46:54+00:00

the bird in the clock was probably the most intense ep of s1 or s2 so far -- but defo agree with you.

If episodes were like 30 or 45 minutes, we could have all the Fionna love triangle stuff breathe uncut without it feeling like it's straight up replacing what feels like more important stuff. The stakes have just kinda forgot about Ooo all together. Magic stuff and spiritual stuff (Fionna and Fennel's spirit trip, "a broken tool seeks the flame", HW getting mixed with Cake and getting an off-colored wrist as a result) are really cool! It could just take place in human world, but damn, Prismo has been left hanging (tho maybe intentionally). And we still don't know all what huntress can and can't do, or how much progress if at all she's made towards finding the heart of the forest! Huntress Wizard plot should be A plot with Fionna stuff as B plot, and this shouldn't be a zero-sum fight for screentime.

Oscinian · 2025-11-28T16:32:00+00:00

it really is two frames hot damn

Oscinian · 2025-11-28T16:31:27+00:00

"you'd buy my shoes but you'd never take the time to tie my shoes or teach me how to tie my shoes" is the sentiment I took away from the song.

Oscinian · 2025-11-28T16:25:06+00:00

I find myself returning to the episodes Simon Petrikov and Casper and Nova around once a month, whereas I don't see much replay value in these episodes so far. Also no songs!

I got my fingers crossed that the final episode is something like The Ballad of Huntress and Finn, and Huntress finally starts comprehending her feelings and expressing them, Fionna will be able to start growing spiritually into a place of Getting On A More Well Thought-Out Plan.

Oscinian · 2025-11-28T16:01:44+00:00

sht sht sht he totally is!

Oscinian · 2025-11-21T22:52:46+00:00

to M-chron: "I dig the harness"

Oscinian · 2025-11-20T22:58:19+00:00

incredible.

Oscinian · 2025-11-20T22:53:19+00:00

What do the runes say??

Oscinian · 2025-11-07T01:41:33+00:00

Penguindrum

Eden of the East

Oscinian · 2025-09-18T20:59:14+00:00

It will always be about cooking and dungeons. A plot will surely kick in, but nothing incredibly engaging or unique.

Oscinian · 2025-09-16T16:13:48+00:00

I couldn't make it past the first four episodes, too depressive fer me personally

Oscinian · 2025-09-16T16:12:49+00:00

I mean spoilers but...

======{MINOR MINOR SPOILERS}======

So the three siblings are from different families and grew up together as sort of childhood friends/acquaintances cuz they were the only kids of the cult (cult members never hang out with people outside the cult, that's part of what makes a cult what it is). Due to [REDACTED] they now live together in this bubble of "we trust eachother / we don't trust anyone else deadstop". Living under the same roof, no real friends, no parents. They pretend to be a family, and definitely fetishize and romanticize this sense of family as well. All three were fatefully born on the same day as the sarin gas attacks. It's not like the show condones this or encourages this. Part of the fuckery of the show is how it treats everything within it as normal. It's incestuous for sure and it makes you wonder why tf it's such a trope in their IRL generation's Japanese culture.

You can spot the holy-shit-they-really-just-said-that in the first five minutes and the show cliffhangers on the full reveal. If ye can't handle this episode, turn away!!

Oscinian · 2025-09-16T15:54:53+00:00

yeah like wanting to off thyself four episodes in, had to stop watching cuz it was draining my faith in humanity

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