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by Justacrazyguy
Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:08 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324629

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

For all that the first episode hit the beats of "Utena in Mobile-suits" (as has been the apparent summary of the series), Suletta is no Tenjou-san - indeed I can't offhand think of another example of such a wittering ninny as the eponymous witch in the MC role, at least in anything I stuc...
by Justacrazyguy
Sat Aug 20, 2022 5:36 am
Forum: Old Stickies
Topic: A New Official Happy Birthday Thread
Replies: 1961
Views: 502828

Re: A New Official Happy Birthday Thread

Damn, that's right, I did have my birthday :lol:
Weird to think I've been here for some 10 years now. Not like I'm really very active anymore, but still, I think it counts for something.
Thanks guys.
by Justacrazyguy
Sun Jun 19, 2022 6:28 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

You can watch any Gundam UC stuff independently if you want, but there are these things called themes that carry on from one anime to the other, regardless if the writers or team changes. It is simplfying things to say one doesn't see Hathway or any other Gundam anime with different eyes if you've s...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:20 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

For the love of God Tomino, finish the Reconguista movies soon so the world can see your madness 2 or 3 more times. Sure, the Hathaway moves were written by him, and you can tell, but it's not quite the same thing.
by Justacrazyguy
Sat Aug 14, 2021 2:55 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Sequel Theory - General
Replies: 178
Views: 27812

Re: So Rebuild is sequel of NGE/EoE or not?

My take has been echoed in this thread already, but it's basically that it isn't a sequel inside the Evangelion universe. It's just that once we get to the final stretch we go into ridiculous extremely vague meta stuff, where the movie is very obviously assuming you know the TV series and movie to g...
by Justacrazyguy
Sat Aug 14, 2021 7:26 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: LONG HAIRED Rei IS NOW CANON CELEBRATION THREAD
Replies: 10
Views: 5576

Re: LONG HAIRED Rei IS NOW CANON CELEBRATION THREAD

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply it's a definitive, extremely obvious romantic pairing (hell, I don't see the Shinji scenes with Mari as that, for example), it's just that I personally like the idea of her settling down with a more mature partner, so I'm sticking with it in my head. In fact, as far as I...
by Justacrazyguy
Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:06 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: LONG HAIRED Rei IS NOW CANON CELEBRATION THREAD
Replies: 10
Views: 5576

Re: LONG HAIRED Rei IS NOW CANON CELEBRATION THREAD

The best thing to come out of the rebuilds, to be honest. With Asuka x Kensuke ship being a close second.
by Justacrazyguy
Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:03 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

I quite like most women in Tomino anime, so this article is specially funny to me (the guy with a female Gundam character likes female Gundam characters, what a surprise). He's just such a goofball, it's great. But anyway, finally watched the first Hathaway movie too, and it was pretty good. Gigi is...
by Justacrazyguy
Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:03 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Did Rebuild ruin the original series for you? [NO SPOILERS]
Replies: 73
Views: 16861

Re: Did Rebuild ruin the original series for you? [NO SPOILERS]

The old series looked old next to the beefed up EoE footage. CG can certainly age, but animation doesn't really work the same way. NGE doesn't look old next to to EoE, it's quite simply not as good visually. Akira is from the 80s and is better animated than most. Fantasia is from the 40s and still ...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:31 am
Forum: Related to the Filmmakers and Artists
Topic: Hideaki Anno WANTED To Direct a Nausicaa 2
Replies: 35
Views: 58246

Re: Hideaki Anno WANTED To Direct a Nausicaa 2

Nausicaa in live action doesn't sound like a particularly great idea to me, mostly because it would almost certainly change it's feel radically. I had always thought Hideaki wanted to do an animated sequel (reboot?), no this. Not to mention that if it was to be a live action then it would need to be...
by Justacrazyguy
Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:58 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

Changing topic slightly, I've been rewatching Unicorn after I bought the Blu ray recently (on ep 4 right now), and I'm still not sure how I feel about some of the intentional similarities to previous UC Gundam anime. On one side, the repetition of conflict, the toll on peoples minds and cycle of ven...
by Justacrazyguy
Wed Apr 14, 2021 5:58 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

most of the shows have a ton of padding that could easily be left out, and the show would probably be better off for it, it's what I meant with "when average out the quality in it", just by episode count a third to half of Gundam's runtime is definitely just a quote battle shoved into an ...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:08 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

Gundam, on the other hand, has always been mainly intended to sell expensive toys The producers intended that, I'd be shocked if you could find evidence of Tomino or any of the directors saying the show is about that. It's something that they had to take into account when making the anime, but I wo...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 13, 2021 2:24 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

I'd say it's more lots of talking and buildup to the battles that actually don't last that long, but I get what you mean. That said, it being comprised of lots of action and being dumb action are kind of different things on my mind, and I can't help but think that if we are going with the amount of ...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:03 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

I guess I'm pretentious then. I don't really mind if that's the case, I'll stand by most of Gundam (well, most of what I've seen, again, I've yet to touch Seed or Wing) being actually meaningful. I'm not sure smart is the right word, but I do think there is worthwhile stuff to be discovered between ...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:35 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

The vast majority of Gundam I've seen are not brainless action. They are thoughtful commentaries on war. Some more nuanced than others, sure, but with plenty of stuff to chew on nonetheless. Granted, I haven't seen SEED or Wing yet, but even if those fit into that category, I would safely put all of...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 13, 2021 7:38 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387227

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

Having seen only the Kong movie by that director, I'm going to assume that's it's going to be a brainless action movie in the best of cases and an insult to the entire franchise in the worst.
Zero hope for this project, just like every other garbage anime to live action adaptation.
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:05 pm
Forum: Related to the Filmmakers and Artists
Topic: Sadamoto fighting on Twitter, denying war crimes and discriminating Koreans, possibly falling out with Khara
Replies: 62
Views: 47555

Re: Sadamoto fighting on Twitter, denying war crimes and discriminating Koreans, possibly falling out with Khara

I find it kind of a leap to go from "Miyazaki admires this particular german soldier" to: Miyazaki supporting all aspects of nazism, which he clearly does not. Even if he somehow secretly did, which I do not believe for a second, none of his movies present views that are even close to nazi...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:06 am
Forum: Related to the Filmmakers and Artists
Topic: Sadamoto fighting on Twitter, denying war crimes and discriminating Koreans, possibly falling out with Khara
Replies: 62
Views: 47555

Re: Sadamoto fighting on Twitter, denying war crimes and discriminating Koreans, possibly falling out with Khara

I guess you’re kind of right here. But I feel like focusing only on the perspective of Japanese civilians is inherently biased, in that pretty much all injustices against them were committed by Americans. And because of that, the crimes committed by the Japanese (which were much, much worse) get do...
by Justacrazyguy
Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:36 am
Forum: Related to the Filmmakers and Artists
Topic: Sadamoto fighting on Twitter, denying war crimes and discriminating Koreans, possibly falling out with Khara
Replies: 62
Views: 47555

Re: Sadamoto fighting on Twitter, denying war crimes and discriminating Koreans, possibly falling out with Khara

Miyazaki has similar problems too: pretty much all of his World War 2 movies have painted the Japanese as the sympathetic good guys and the Americans as the evil bad guys who ruined everything. I never was a big Miyazaki fan anyways, though. Dude’s seriously overrated. All? He made one movie that h...

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