"Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare" creator Yuhki Kamatani will start a new Female Sniper War Drama Manga Series titled "Comrade Girls, Shoot the Enemy" on July 23, 2024 on HayaComic Web based on the eponymous novel by Touma Aisaka.

Historical War Drama set in war-torn Soviet Union in 1942. The life of a young russian girl in a farming village is turned upside down when german soldiers destroy her home & kill all villagers including her mother. To take revenge, she joins an all-female soviet sniper squad, eventually ending up at the frontlines of Stalingrad.

(Doushi Shoujo, Teki o ute)

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New Rayearth anime

Magic Knight Rayearth is 30 years old

I have no idea how this movie could end up good, but I'm still a lil excited

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Best anime I've seen in ages

So Girls Band Cry basically did the literal exact same ending that Jellyfish tried to do, except it actually involved all the cast instead of just being one of them getting to have a small personal win while the rest sit around watching from the sidelines like , and was also paced for that to actually work as the climax.

The first seven episodes of Jellyfish were better, hands down, but the last five were like an entirely different show (in fact, I'd say the tail end of Jellyfish was literally just the tail end of Girls Band Cry but worse because it didn't fit the characters or story trajectory at all and also wasn't executed well), with the one exception of episode 11 and how it dealt with Watase's gender. In contrast, the first half of Girls Band Cry wasn't great: the characters were abrasive and annoying and all the narrative drama was just Nina or Momoka getting mad and then storming off because of it, over and over, but it admittedly did manage to turn it around in the last five or so episodes and give it all some semblance of a coherent story arc.

Also tell me I'm not the only person who didn't realize until episode 10 that Tomo and Rupa were a couple? They never say anything about it that I caught, but it's pretty clear in retrospect that the two women who live together, spend every waking moment together, and who have a categorically different sort of relationship than they do with anyone else are together, at least after seeing these scenes from ep10 and ep11:

Unfortunately the Nina/Momoka pairing people were meming over never happened, though it's not particularly surprising since they just didn't have any particular chemistry past the first episode or so. In fact, looping back to the "Jellyfish turned into a worse version of GBC in the end" point, the heel-face turn Jellyfish did with Mahiru and Kano basically turned them into Nina and Momoka: friends, but held at arms length.

The last point to mention is the art: third act narrative problems aside, Jellyfish was a stylish and gorgeously animated show with vibrant static-but-lively backgrounds; Girls Band Cry had a fair bit of style to it and was probably the least bad looking CGI anime I've ever seen, but the CGI still just looks bad most of the time and the added motion from animated background action dilutes the shot and distracts from the actual focus of any given scene. I've come to strongly believe in the value of a static background as an economy of motion and focus thing, and a crowd of janky moving repeated-model extras wiggling in the background absolutely brings down the scene in a way that a static panel of out-of-focus background characters doesn't - so it should be no surprise that the best looking shots in GBC are the ones without a ton of background action or jarring movement that the CGI exacerbates.

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 151 through 156 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the continuation of the SuperS arc, which focuses particularly on Chibiusa and her silly aatics, as well as the bad guy’s various attempts to obtain Pegasus.

After that is The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), an animated adaptation of the most popular French comics character of all time, Asterix. This is generally considered the best Asterix film, also. Come see the infinitely-strong Gaul and his rotund friend Obelix obliterate the Romans and do some adventurism against Julius Caesar, all while accomplishing twelve tasks to prove they are strong as the gods. The comics’ two authors Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, were also co-directors on this film, so it is almost panel-for-panel faithful to the source material. Looks cool; let’s check it out.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• The Twelve Tasks of Asterix: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-twelve-tasks-of-asterix/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• The Twelve Tasks of Asterix: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072901/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix:

• Nudity.
• Cartoon violence.
• Alcohol.
• Mental illness.
• Facial hair.

Links to movies:

• Sailor Moon episode 151: https://tankie.tube/w/n5uAZ4Dy7Uxj7VPDnMVbA6
• Sailor Moon episode 152: https://tankie.tube/w/krZhKNHPe8gB6w5gPN9bN9
• Sailor Moon episode 153: https://tankie.tube/w/nVsWce9auDg7m61p638ZTi
• Sailor Moon episode 154: https://tankie.tube/w/opoeK6aN3xFGN4SEHkfsUv
• Sailor Moon episode 155: https://tankie.tube/w/jYKmYtwgvfqDvd9ryRuxyo
• Sailor Moon episode 156: https://tankie.tube/w/hZ7YhGrC9pAm4w4vXxF69Y
• The Twelve Tasks of Asterix: https://tankie.tube/w/wS9fxDLn3M3gfGLMhX1wWH

ROBOT

What did you think of this week's chapter?

Break next week

https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Ernesto

Thinking about ironically watching this, but it's going to be absolutely cursed. Go Nagai adapted by cuckoldry-obsessed Fukuda

BABE WAKE UP, NEW PYRAMID INU VIDEO DROPPED

WITH BLACK DRESSES MUSIC IN IT AAAAUUUUUUOOOGGH

Laughingfish, more like fucks

I have never been so compelled to watch so many smelly shows.

The queerbaiting will go crazy but hey at least this will be good for the eggconomy

There's this hot new thing out of America called "Animation", idk if I'm spelling that right. Very big in Japan right now. I don't know that it's gonna last though. :latest-fad: