these unarmed chinese college students must have been built like Baki characters since 40 PLA soldiers and police officers died in the clashes
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most of them by the time the actual violent clashes happened certainly werent maoists. Yeah there was a significant % of the protestors that were coming from the left of the CPC but you have to remember that the unrest span month(s) and many cities. In Tainanmen by that point in the movement and leading to that the make up of those that stayed and engaged in lynchings and clashes with the PLA and police was solidly "pro-democracy/free-s[peech/liberalism" youth. Also western intelligence focus and assets had already zeroed in in Beijing and those elements after smelling blood from the more organic initial country wide unrest.
I also keep getting distracted trying to pick out all the little labor saving animation tricks they used and trying to figure out how they managed to make such janky animations actually look decent, as well as wondering why modern low-budget animation can't manage the same effect even though modern tools should make it even easier and faster to use the old stylistic tricks. Is it just a matter of janky cell animation needing a very specific set of skills that no one today cultivates in order to look good?
A major point to consider is that Sailor Moon was a long running weekly show that went on without breaks for years. Shows like that, no matter the era, require more limited animation tricks in order to deliver an interesting visual product because they will have less movement than 10-20 episode seasonal shows . Also idk what you mean by "janky animations" but Sailor Moon actually moves more and has better, less janky animation than most modern shows of similar length and production.
There is truth that some of the techniques used have faded out and that makes it harder for limited or long productions to deliver a pleasing show visually. Stuff like stylized still frames, color swaps, pans, triple takes and more limited comedic acting with great expressions are somewhat of a lost art form. Either because a some were achieved by analog cel photography and their aesthetic doesn't go well with digital colors and computer compositing but mostly because there is market demand to storyboard shows in a flashier way "like other big hits" and bad productions have lost the ability and realism to try and work around their limitations . Also younger generation of artists simply didn't grow up with those aesthetics so they won't try to reproduce it
Another thing to note is that it was simpler to make a competent looking show back then because simple cel photography of hand painted backgrounds its hard to fuck up aestheticaly. Computer compositing gives people way too many tools to fuck up the aesthetic with filters, digital effects, 3d assets etc being heavily used and usually in a bad or rushed ways due to production issues usually since compositing is also the last thing done. That's why there are 10 isekai every season that look like bland ass aestheticaly . They would be equally crap story wise in the 90s and they wouldn't move more but the art direction, backgrounds etc would have looked at worst cool. Same with sailor Moon. It relies on great backgrounds and color design but in a modern paradigm for a long running show that aspect would look worse and blander
Lastly anime productions are in their worst state ever. Its horrid really. 2-3 great looking shows each season hide the fact that the rest are completely broken, taped together in the last minute and rely on armies of inexperienced animators to patch them up. The production process hasn't been simplified by became more and more complex and fragmentated and without a system of mentorship in place the talent required isn't replaced in good rates despite the fact that many people world wide work o anime nowadays.
There people living in Taiwan. Should we protect and cherish their right to riddle their island with US bases if they want to?
Also even if we take the "argument" at face value and consider that the people doing these gotchas usualy jerk off to co-ops being socialism or doing co-ops under capitalism being the road to that . Welp China has more co-ops and people working on them than the rest of the world combned. Im pretty sure the more chinese people are working just in agricultural co-ops or communal owned agricultural buisnesses than the entire combined population of all European social democracies lmao. Let alone in other sectors. And the rate of co-op establishment has accelerated a ton in the last decade. This breaks a lot of anti-chinese demsoc brains
For Joe you only need to watch till 54 of the first season and then go to the second one. Beggining of Season 2 covers the same content most of S1 post ep 54 of S1 with better animation and without filler. Also make sure you torrent the amazing looking HD remaster S1 got recently . Miles ahead of the DVD rips that were the only way to watch till recently
Since all almost all Macross is standalone there is no harm in putting stuff on hold between entries. Since Yamato is space opera/sci-fi doing a historical melodrama afterwards in RoV maybe would be more refreshing than a Macross entry
https://animepahe.ru/anime/bc9d7baf-85a1-a87d-79a1-e08925ae9276?page=1
This site has it in great quality
The first half may have a lot of plotlines that seem frivolous or melodramatic
The funny thing is that if you look into it most of these melodramatic plotlines actualy happened and French nobles and aristocrats really were like that. You watch and you go "this seems far fetched and made up" but they were petty , vain and overly melodramatic like that. Sure the the presentation in the show and some extra details make it extra melodramatic but most of it is based on real shit these people did and say
But agreed. Great show with an amazing aesthetic (especially if you watch it i crisp BD quality from some torrent and not shitty compressed dvd quality on YT or some streaming site). Second half is directed by Osamu Dezaki who is considered the most influential and one of the best directors in anime's history. His other 70s anime (Gamba, Treasure Island(Takarajima) , Nobody's boy Remi (Ie Naki Ko), Aim for the Ace and Ashita no Joe) are equaly well made and directed as RoV and well worth a watch. Also im sure a lor of people here would love his other adaptation of a manga by the same author as RoV, Oniisama E... . Lots and Lots of amazing looking lesbian melodramma on that one
Actualy Mao was the better orator so if its to visit a speech he would be more hype
From famous communist leaders in order of best at speeches to worst id imagine it would go:
Lenin=Castro>Mao>Stalin
would use any legislative power to move the needle away from social democracy and towards socialism given half the chance.
Man was "too nice" , inactive and compromising to even enact inter-party power to antagonize and go against the reactionaries and neolibs in his party openly trying to bring him down. Imagining a gigazhad Corbyn that not only had a hidden power level "transitioning away from social democracy" agenda but also that he would USE LEGISLATIVE POWER TO ENACT IT GIVEN HALF A CHANCE is pure fancfiction and its imaging a much more based and balsy personality. IF he was elected and IF he whiped the party into a remotely functioning shape that woud even 70% back and vote half of his Agenda and IF a better handling of Covid and Brexit dont still completely throw the country into chaos he would optimisticaly be a good harm reductive socdem materialy with the country under him have being probably a more conductive and energized enviroment of unions and youth communist organization. Also it falls in the "we get this socdem/demsoc party or candidate elected who will successfully then act in the most based way we can possibly imagine for them based on their rhetoric and actualy move the country towards socialism through legislation and reform" which is the dellusion that constantly arose and and constantly ate shit all over Europe after WW2 in dozens and dozens of occasions. Even in the most spectacular failure of someone like Tsipras and Syriza. If he wasnt elected and i after the fact focused on at a bunch of his rhetoric through the years,radcial party members,on paper agenda and radical younger self and comprehensively circlejerk myself into thinking he would be Chavez
Export decrese is in line with almost every other east asian country and its very much so a "western economies go into recession and import less" problem. Groth slowing to ~5% is in line with what everyone is expected and China doesnt sweat too much about it. Its pretty solid especially since its higher quality. Deflation is only a problem if it persists for a long time and if it actualy spans in various types of commodities. If you exclude energy and housing everything else shows small inflation in China still and the real estate sector is going through tough but needed restructuring and regulation periods since last year. Deflation introduced from that part of the economy is more or less a by product of them deleveraging the sector and bursting some bubbles