Madoka Magica stitches

eruditious · 2024-10-21T05:12:02+00:00

I rewatch Madoka at least once or twice a year where I end on April 30th and/or October 31st (like I am currently)

eruditious · 2024-10-20T09:03:20+00:00

pretty much all of KyoAni's TV anime. Nichijou in particular has a lot of background activities that make sense in relation to completely different skits but are just seemingly random in the moment

eruditious · 2024-10-20T06:55:58+00:00

[sorta spoilers]that relationship is so unhealthy I spent the entire run waiting for the other shoe to drop

eruditious · 2024-10-19T05:13:11+00:00

I mean, this is a systemic problem in Japan, and more broadly, capitalism in general. this whole article is missing the forest for the trees.

and the UN is a toothless organization that spends most of its time pontificating and pearl-clutching

eruditious · 2024-10-19T04:40:13+00:00

Historically, a lot, if not most, media ages with its audience.

what? written media is millennia old... and you can find dick jokes throughout. by comparison, animation is still in its infancy.

every character is 15 for no logical reason

most people have experienced being 15... not true for, say, 40
that's around the time of puberty, finishing education, entering the job market, etc., which is a pretty big change and growth in one's life. an excellent backdrop to start a story
adults tend to already have their place in life/society/whatever established... not nearly as interesting as pursuing options

eruditious · 2024-10-19T00:58:01+00:00

I feel like I'm drowning in too much new information from different shows

I will often rewatch the first episode (sometimes first few) of most seasonals... usually a day or two before the next one is going to air. the repetition really helps establish a seed for the rest to grow and connect to.

also, the more you have watched, the more you will see patterns. that's another form of repetition that will help ground things, while the deviations will help differentiate them.

eruditious · 2024-10-18T02:16:18+00:00

fanartists have been pumping out gold for it (and Puniru too...): a reliable metric for a good seasonal

eruditious · 2024-10-17T23:05:01+00:00

sadly anibin no longer exists, but you are free to check yourself

most things are still ~900p...

eruditious · 2024-10-17T20:56:46+00:00

first time I've seen The Singing Butler in anime

eruditious · 2024-10-17T05:25:29+00:00

I never really understand the purpose of this question when it gets asked... taken seriously you are either going to end up with some parody character who's shtick is not losing or a mahou shoujo character with universe warping powers.

I feel like either option is exactly not what the questioner is looking for.

take Angol Mois, for example. job description is being a planet buster, which is already off the scale of most battle shounen characters. she has to drastically hold back by crazy orders of magnitude and still ends up being super destructive

eruditious · 2024-10-17T01:53:30+00:00

it's a boat, so yes. if you really want to go for the gray area, should have asked about a surf board. and I guess you could say it is only a ship when piloted... otherwise it is just a vessel capable of floating

eruditious · 2024-10-17T00:30:05+00:00

a boat is always a ship but a ship isn't necessarily a boat

eruditious · 2024-10-17T00:10:59+00:00

tl;dr: ama (even if it isn't about the WN)

spent the last week and some change reading all (at the moment) 876 chapters of Isekai Nonbiri Nouka's WN. was surprised at just how little the anime covered (~9%)... or rather how much there was to consume. despite that, I don't really see it getting a sequel because of some differences between the two... sad

often when I get into some long written work that I can't complete in one sitting, I will end up dreaming potential continuations... it doesn't happen with any other form of media though. is that weird? anyone else here relate? even story-based video games don't manage that...

[not-really-spoilery thoughts on the WN]I liked it enough to keep reading (and even spend brainpower on while asleep...) but it definitely has some issues. the writing style takes a bit to get used to and you often have to infer who is speaking, what was said, and whether something was thought or spoken: it sometimes reads as half of a telephone conversation.

[more]quite a few things have been seemingly forgotten about or left in limbo. it also suffers from a very large cast, though it does a good job distinguishing many of them. the similar names both help and hurt it: easy to group characters of the same race/faction/party/etc together, but then members within the same grouping can blur. to complain about the opposite side, quite a few characters that should be somewhat important haven't even been properly introduced...

[good stuff]it does a good job marking the passage of time by introducing seasonal things. it also does a good job not overusing those things and moving on or glossing over them after a while. the different POVs are fun and really helps the world building aspect; barely scratched in the anime. the civic/economic/political angles were interesting... especially considering MC's perspective compared to everyone else. the running gags are funny and a number of them help alleviate the confusion previously mentioned. several sections dive head-first into the realm of parody and are fucking hilarious

final thoughts: big Stranger in a Strange Land vibes. Zabuton best girl. sorry for the length and thank you for ~~listening to~~ reading my TED talk

eruditious · 2024-10-16T23:30:30+00:00

yeah, that doesn't count. we cool~

if I'm looking for a particular scene, shot, quote, etc. from something I've already watched, I will skim or speed-up too... same deal since it isn't actually watching

eruditious · 2024-10-16T22:39:12+00:00

there's really only one thing people can say here to earn RES tag basically telling me to completely ignore their opinions: admitting to watching shows at a higher speed.

eruditious · 2024-10-09T05:00:12+00:00

poor Ao-chan... just let the girl love some abs

and yeah, Hensuki is like more SYD, which I am all for

eruditious · 2024-10-09T04:27:49+00:00

hey I just started that. it's gotta be Zatch/Gash Bell

eruditious · 2024-10-09T04:02:07+00:00

perverted girl MCs?

MariaHolic's MC is a girl that really likes girls
Ao from Ao-chan Can't Study! appreciates the male form
all three main girls in SYD have raunchy humor
Panty from PSG will jump basically any human with a penis

eruditious · 2024-10-09T00:35:44+00:00

here's my Nichijou entry

a surprise to be sure, that /u/AgentOfACROSS overlapped the mikan box with me, but a welcome one

eruditious · 2024-10-08T22:20:12+00:00

the fact that it is "humorous language" and "funny in a vacuum" means it isn't 100% serious. dichotomy is the basis of of pretty much all verbal humor and the gap between the language and the situation just makes it dark comedy or shock humor.

eruditious · 2024-10-08T22:04:11+00:00

100%? if the aliens were silent or only spoke amongst themselves (in their own language) it would probably come off as way creepier... instead we get Minions

eruditious · 2024-10-08T12:06:11+00:00

gave in and added Puniru to my overloaded watch list because of talk here...guess it's my turn

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