Anyone else notice that MAL locked their forum discussion on this same topic for the reason of "Please refrain from posting thread topics which extend beyond the discussion of anime/manga as an entertainment medium."
What kind of brain dead take is that? There was nothing controversial happening in that thread, then still locked anyway.
Admin sees an anime illustration: "Oh my god this is child porn. DEFEDERATE DEFEDERATE!"
Love the player, hate the contract.
Good for him, I guess... bad for the Leafs long term success.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I did not like this game because I thought the voice acting was really inconsistent in acting and production quality.
I've been holding out on JJK season 2 all this time. I finally watched 22 episodes over the last few days and am going to watch episode 23 after I have dinner tonight.
I've enjoyed it a lot despite knowing about the production issues behind the scenes. I guess I am just greedy, but while watching I have just been thinking, "OK, can't wait til season 3 comes out."
Kind of a "whoa dude" moment to realize we have gotten 45 episodes and a movie of top tier animation in just about 3 years. Remember how we all had to wait 3.5 years in between Attack On Titan seasons 1 and 2, and it was just for 12 episodes?
That Nashville fan's reaction at 0:46 is pretty good. "You seeing this shit?"
Are you familiar with Monster? Both this and Pluto are anime adaptations based on the same author's work.
Pluto felt like a distilled version of Monster in the way that it built its mystery up over only 8 episodes rather than 74. The beginning part of Pluto did a good job of evoking that same feeling of tension and fascination that made Monster so enjoyable to me.
There were times during Pluto where the dialogue felt obnoxiously obvious, clearly providing exposition that the audience didn't really need. These moments pulled me out of the show a bit. Off the top of my head as one example: in one scene there is an explosion, there is a 0.5-1s pause, then one of the characters says, "It's an explosion!" Thanks, script writer, much halp, very explain.
Though even despite those moments, and also even despite its kind of unbelievable concept of robots exploring emotions, Pluto did a good job of pulling me in and I was able to suspend my disbelief for most of the series.
I liked it more than I disliked it. Would recommend it to any fans of this author or people who are interested in sci-fi murder mysteries.
Thanks for the news roundup. I know it probably takes more time than you want and gets fewer votes than it would on Reddit or something, but it is good to see here.
More recently, Nishii Terumi (former animation director for JJK 0 and Jojo), posted to twitter (stop trying to make X happen) about problems training talent (English article) due to studios focusing on profits rather than talent development.
Sakuga Blog has been pushing the "anime is dying because the talent is being stretched too thin and/or not being cultivated properly" angle for a long time. At first I thought it was overly alarmist, though maybe we are actually seeing it in real time and we just don't realize it. After all, it's not like there will be one day where suddenly every studio in Japan stops producing anime, it will of course be a gradual change.
As the viewer, you're not required to like Makoto. As a character, I thought he was great. He felt extremely human as the kind of guy who let his dick make all of his decisions for him and tried too hard to please everyone at once.