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He's legit a good guy.

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Takahata critique summary by Gainax co-founder Toshio Okada A.K.A The Otaking. Dunno if the full thing is online.

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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 85 through 90 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 conclusion of the Black Moon Clan arc, including the series’s only clip show; we will finish off with the first episode of season 3, which features the long-awaited debuts of Sailors Uranus and Neptune.

After that is The Illusionist (2010), a French cartoon directed by Sylvain Chomet of Triplets of Belleville (2003) fame, based on an unproduced 1950s script by filmmaker Jacques Tati (known for Mon Oncle [1958] and Play Time [1967], among other films.) A French magician goes to Scotland in search of fame and glory, and meets a young woman who thinks his magic is real. Can he keep up the masquerade? I guess we’ll find out. Excellent reviews for this one across the board, and Belleville was a hit, so we’re watching it.

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

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 Illusionist:

  • Animal abuse.
  • Alcoholism.
  • Shaving.
  • Hanging.
  • Destruction of child’s toy.
  • Clowns.
  • Suicide attempt.
  • Sad ending.

Links to movies:

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And I don't really understand the point..I guess? Like it's about a group of kids who are part of an oppressed caste of people forced to go to war and fight on behalf of the decadent republic that they are not citizens of. They have a "handler" who sympathizes with them but does nothing but cry. Ostensibly the show seems to be about finding happiness despite your lot in life but I find that really unsatisfactory for a few reasons.

First the world they've established is extreme. The child soldiers are slaves being sent to die as part of a genocide. Second the republic is pretty much demilitarized except for officers who are in charge of the "86ers" who do the fighting. Third the show is about an elite unit and their politically well connected handler. The republic is losing the war that they are sending the 86ers to die in.

To me this seems like a good setup for a show about a revolution, but instead it's a show about accepting that you can't change anything so just try to be happy despite it. I feel like you could get that message across more effectively without making the world so evil. And besides it's not really that interesting of a message. What is the point of making the viewer angry at the world if the characters do nothing? Why do we care about these characters?

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Read Oresama-Teacher. It's by the same author and basically a deranged mix between GSNK and... Angel Densetsu? Yup, an actually funny delinquent comedy. Featuring basically a less malicious Seo Yuzuki and evil Umetaro Nozaki expies.

Instead of a 4-Koma, the Manga features Shojo manga standard ~50 page chapters and it's completed too.

Maybe there's a big cringe moment in it, but even though I am far from finishing it, I wanna recommend it.

That's all.

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as a mecha model obsessed madman, i have ended up with Kyoukai Senki model kits without having heard of or watched the show. Most of my knowledge comes from packaging art and google-translated text and the scant few wikis that exist. A cursory google search reveals that at least some people interpret the show as being nationalist, touching on themes like Japan being dominated by foreign governments and declining japanese birth rates. How bad is it, is it worth a watch? its supposedly one of the few recent shows with 2d mecha animation.

i read somewhere that China or some province in china banned the show because of its portrayal of one of the leaders of the chinese-coded faction as being involved with human trafficking, even though the faction's higher up leadership retaliates and gets rid of the human trafficker in their faction after its brought to their attention, which seems to me like something the real china would do as one of the few places where billionaires can get a death sentence, and more than the other factions apparently do when corruption is revealed. so it's weird to me that a nationalist japanese fiction would portray China (or the Oceanic Economic something-or-other in the show i think) as actually effectively fighting corruption.

Gimme the Based Leftist Take on the show before i watch it and become brainwashed into imperial japan apologia, Hexbears! Is it Cringe, Based, Both, or Incoherent?

in terms of the models, i like the angular militaristic designs and smaller scale (models are 1:72 instead of gundam's usual 1:144 scale, meaning the mechs are smaller and therefore slightly more realistic), but i am conflicted about the whole 'most of the mecha are autonomous or remote-operated' thing. I like that most of the mechs (except the china/oceanic faction's Nyuren) CAN have a pilot even if they usually don't though, and i do enjoy a mech-borne drone commander remote operating their squad as they pilot their own craft. The AI chibi animal hologram things on the packaging art look like they would be annoying in the show, i cringe just imagining their helium-pitched voices. it's also cool that the mech hands have 3 fingers and 2 thumbs, i like a slightly de-anthropomorphized mecha that plays around with human proportions and limbs like that. Also the American faction's mecha names are super american-sounding, with names like Jo Hound and Brady Fox, definitely stupid enough to be american, and reminiscent of real vehicles like the M1 Abrams and Bradley APC.

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James is best girl

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Someone posted some cute (but nsfw so i cant post here) Marcielle/Falin yuri and someone asked what they were from, and I looked it up because I forgor the names and learned in that exact moment that Frieren was NOT the same character.

My friend was watching frierien and talking about it, and i started talking like how she's inevitably going to be lesbian and my friend was confused. that was like three weeks ago and just TODAY i had to clarify "actually i was talking about marcielle lmao"

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thinking about this post again. they don't have to be directly about it, subtext is a real thing to take into consideration here. artists who have strong opinions on it should be taken into account. i have pretty broad standards for what counts here, i'm just trying to figure out how accurate the post is generously

right off the bat we've got a bunch

  • patlabor (2 especially)
  • gate
  • gits sac 2nd gig
  • kyoukai senki
  • zipang
  • drifters
  • code geass
  • gundam seed
  • aot (iirc iseyama has opinions)
  • kantai collection (this level of nostalgia for ww2 military stuff definitely goes here)
  • space battleship yamato
  • universal century gundam (abstractly, if you take the read of zeon being close to 1 to 1 with imperial japan to be true)

i know there's way more on the tip of my tongue but i can't think of them rn. and if you could include any details on what makes you say it's about article 9 i'd appreciate that

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thankfully the vibes are good, and i'm a sucker for seeing a thriller where the cops are arguing with the suits and have to go on a boat ride in the fog, because in the monologue-y bits i just kept going "uhuh, yep. that's true. yep, that's true. peace in the imperial core IS propped up by violence elsewhere that will inevitably blow back on the core somehow. the fall of the soviet union DID leave the imperial core thinking it was the end of history when that was obviously bullshit. i KNOW japan is a client state of america and i have a good idea of the jsdf's complex role there where it's a "self defense force" but is still effectively a major military and contributes to global hegemony. yep. uhuh. going to say anything new to me before before we get back to the plot? are you going to do anything involving the characters or themes or tone of the show/movie patlabor? no?"

still good, though the first one was way better. imagine if a patlabor movie that included noa izumi, main character of patlabor, as a character! that'd be so crazy

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So the message of these past few episodes where Yor is trying to find her life mission is "You must kill for an unspecified goal, and secure the existence of your family and a future for your children"? (along with all the Shinzo Abe child-rearing bullshit)

I like this show just because Anya and her relations with her mom and dad cute cute, but ugh. Why does my political education have to ruin my enjoyment of mainstream media. I especially like (abhor) how the target audience (anime fans) are exactly the wrong people to be receiving these shit themes, although it's a chicken and egg scenario - maybe their prior anime watching habits made them the way they are.

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