Meet you back here in half an hour. What are you going to do? What I always do - stay out of trouble... Badly.
Friday, November 18
Re: Re: Zero
Now I see what all the fuss was about.
But Betty is clearly best girl.
I want to see where this goes, but the 25 episodes that just ran covered all the published material (and some that wasn't yet published when it aired; the author was directly involved in the anime production). Since it started in 2014, it will be at least 2018 before they can do another run, unless they slow the pacing down significantly, or add filler, neither of which I want to see.
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Saturday, August 27
Dear Netflix
Glitter Force is not a "Netflix Original". It's a bastardised version of season nine of Pretty Cure.
Speaking of which, Pretty Cure is up to season 13 with no signs of slowing. Unfortunately only the first season is worth watching unless you're a girl between the ages of five and ten. With the second season they narrowed their target audience, and since then their targeting has become laser-precise. But on the fourth hand, the franchise is a massive commercial success, so I can't exactly blame them for that.
Season one - the real Pretty Cure - was directed by Daisuke Nishio, who also directed the little-known Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. It's a lot more action-oriented than the later seasons, and that would go a long way to explain why.
I've never watched any of Pretty Cure, but I had the impression that each season had an entirely new set of Cures, replacing the previous set. Is that right?
At this point the alumni number something like a hundred; I saw a fan picture of all of them and it was immense.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, August 28 2016 12:59 AM (+rSRq)
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Also, wasn't there a movie that brought all the older Cures back together again?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, August 28 2016 01:04 AM (+rSRq)
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Of thirteen seasons, I think only two directly continue from the previous season; all the rest switch out the entire cast. (Season two has the same cast as season one, but isn't nearly as good.)
And yes, Pretty Cure All Stars brings the casts of various seasons together. Not just a movie though - there's nine or ten of them, plus thirteen movies with just the cast of one particular season. This thing is huge.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 28 2016 11:20 AM (PiXy!)
Update: Wait a minute! Did they just create a four hundred year stable time loop using only whipped cream, sponge cake, and a magnetised needle stuck through a cork?
Update: And to top it all off, a practical demonstration of the Curie temperature of iron, which I've never seen done before.
Update: "Did they just create a stable time loop with a cake and a compass needle?" Yes. Yes they did. This series is about three things: The electromagnetic force, stable time loops, and cake. Works better than you might expect.
Promo
I love the music in the promo. I don't know where it's from, or if it was written specifically for this series. It's not the opening theme, which is below, or the ending, which isn't available on Youtube. But without spoiling anything, it is used within the show when the situation calls for it.
Opening
Ending
I know I just said it wasn't on Youtube, but I finally found it by searching for MariWaka rather than Time Travel Girl. (The full name of the show is Time Travel Girl - Mari, Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi. Mari and Waka are the two girls in the picture above.)
I'm enjoying this more with every episode. Recommended. Streaming on Funimation and (in Australia) AnimeLab.
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Saturday, July 09
My Hero Academia
Is actually really good. It's pure Shounen Jump fare, but it's up there with the best of that genre.
Rather than reading through a lengthy review, watch the opening credits. It's truth in advertising, what you see here is exactly what you get.
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Friday, April 15
Priorities
I was tinkering with RPG Maker MV last weekend, and wanted to see if I could create a character with red half-rim glasses.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, April 16 2016 12:10 PM (+rSRq)
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The one problem is, the layer for eyewear (glasses/goggles) goes in front of the layer for the front hairstyle (frings/bangs/whatever). I'm going to ask if there's a way to change that, because it means that glasses don't work with about three quarters of the available hairstyles.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 17 2016 01:15 PM (PiXy!)
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You seem to have lost 3 months on your front page. IIRC my adding this comment will fix it.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, April 20 2016 12:13 PM (+rSRq)
I guess this is sort of like the Azumanga Daioh OP, which has had several parodies with characters from other shows (or mangas).
If you wanted to add Mugi, who would you leave out? (And having chucked that grenade, I'm heading for a fox hole.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, February 01 2016 05:57 AM (+rSRq)
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I think the first one of these I saw was this one.
And of course you'd leave out Azusa, or relegate her to a background spot.
(Oops, should have made the foxhole first, and commented second. /dig /dig...)
Posted by: Mikeski at Monday, February 01 2016 11:00 AM (LIUK5)
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Azusa isn't in the real credits until episode 8 or 9, so that would work. Interesting thing is that only after they put her in was it obvious that they'd left room to add her later.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 01 2016 11:45 AM (PiXy!)
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I've seen the AD opening done with Yatsubato characters, and a different one with character from a manga called "Pretty Face" which was never made into an anime.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, February 01 2016 02:48 PM (+rSRq)
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You don't need to watch the second series to understand the movie. I haven't watched it, and it's been since the original release that I watched the first series, but I had no trouble with the movie when it came out.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, January 09 2016 01:10 AM (+rSRq)
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If you really remember the first season well you don't need to watch the second season to understand the movie. But the second season can still help.
The Tanabata episode (a.k.a. "The Only Good Episode") is really the key to the whole series. There are some references to it in the first season but it's helpful to watch the real thing.
If you can force yourself to sit through "Endless Eight" you will really be able to appreciate what motivates Yuki.
Posted by: Jonathan Tappan at Saturday, January 09 2016 08:01 AM (Bkf8Y)
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I'm half-way through Endless Eight. I quite like it for what it is, but my God that must have been annoying to watch week-to-week. The way they reshuffled season one for broadcast was a stroke of genius, but this would have been a bit much even for me.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, January 09 2016 10:21 AM (PiXy!)
4I loved Endless 8 as it was airing, and I still like it now. I'm still annoyed at people who trash it without having actually WATCHED the episodes, but whatev'.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, January 09 2016 03:10 PM (zAcee)
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Having seen it all now, I think the Endless Eight sequence was handled very well, but between that and the five-episode making-of sequence, it meant that there wasn't much story in season two.
If they'd compressed Endless Eight to four episodes (it can't really be done in less time than that) and making-of to three, plus the Tanabata episode, that would have left six episodes for the Disappearance arc. That would have been a really strong season two, with a nice mix of new story and back story. But of course then we wouldn't have gotten the movie that we did in our timeline.
And Jonathan, you're right, you really need to watch Endless Eight (I think all of season two) to get the full impact of the movie. Everyone else has had eight months of Haruhi;
Yuki has had
nearly 600 years.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, January 11 2016 10:45 AM (PiXy!)
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Wonderduck, I agree with you about the way KyoAni handled the Endless Eight arc. Every chance they had to be lazy and re-use animation from the previous loop they avoided.
And I only noticed now that one of your commenters signed his message as John Smith.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, January 11 2016 09:57 PM (PiXy!)
