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Wizardizar
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I dunno, it worked for Fleetwood Mac and they made Rumors. It was nice to have an episode that was a bit more positive and touched on the aspirational aspect of streaming and the ability to be yourself (which isn't surprising considering Nyarla is a fan of vtubers). |
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dm
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The screen-grab for the review reminds me how much I enjoyed the step out of 2D into 3D stop-animation section with SuperKawaiiAngel violating the 3.5th wall like an obnoxious Sadako.
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Wizardizar
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Broke: Wanting plot progression in your anime
Woke: Wanting an episode that is 23 minutes of meditation on beauty and art, name dropping Goddard's primary colors, and ultimately ending on the hardest line I've heard in a while: "Beauty is challenging God". 5/5, no notes. |
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dm
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The series has been flirting with that all season.
The black-outs and the intertitles are Godard, yes? And the long, beautifully-framed images with minimal movement (set to classical music) are pure Kubrick (as they explicitly state this episode). Masaoki Nakashima is a director to keep an eye on. |
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#yoobik
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I hated the first one but tried a few more. If you didn't like episode 1, you're probably not going to like the next ones either. I don't know if your appetite for this kind of stuff depends on how much if it you've already consumed or if I just got old, but for whatever reason I couldn't possibly eat another bite of Fellini or sit through another episode of this pretentious filler. When you have a lot to say you don't have room to fill most of the page with nonsense or most of the canvas with doodles. |
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Bern73
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Has anyone checked out the dub yet? It seems they're going with the same idea of "keeping the VA for KAngel" a secret, which the only reason I can fathom for doing that in both languages is if they're actually voiced by the same person, and I can't think of many in the industry who could do both
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Wizardizar
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From listening to the dub and then going back to listen to the original, I think it's pretty clear it's Sally Amaki. It's not even that different from the voice she used for Carol in Tomo-chan is a girl. |
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Key
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For anyone that's interested, the painting Michiha is picturing herself being a part of in episode 6 is The Swing, a famous late 18th century French work depicting a playful rendition of a love triangle. The way the lady on the swing is flinging her shoe off is symbolic of lost innocence. Seems too relevantly meaning-laden to be a casual choice.
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dm
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About ten minutes into episode six (just after the scene with the door carried down the street, opening on the school hallway), Michika says she was “brought up on the underground theater of Terayama Shuji”. Off to Wikipedia….
Terayama Shuji was an influential playwright and film-maker of the mid-20th Century. Kunihiko Ikuhara has cited him as an influence, and descriptions of Terayama’s style — staging that looks theatrical rather than cinematic, sets that look like sets, spatial impossibilities accepted without comment, ritual actions repeated with variation, and any moment where the apparatus of performance itself becomes visible as subject matter is both very Ikuhara and very prominent in this series (being an ignorant anime nerd, I’d thought of those as touches of Akiyuki Shinbo). It’s interesting, we have this pretentious teen-angst character name-dropping Terayama, Kubrick, and Godard at the same time the series has, from the beginning, oozed Kubrick, Godard, and Terayama visual and aural elements. It’s like she’s a Greek chorus commenting on the staging of the series. |
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dm
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Episode 7
Kind of nice to see Ame (with all the comparisons between this show and Serial Experiments Lain can it be a coincidence that the character with the X-shaped hair ornament is named “Rain”?) offer support in a way that doesn’t seem likely to end in disaster, unlike her encouragement to the bullied otaku). |
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dm
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Episode 8
Is the song Ame and Lollipop sing after the Night on the Galactic Railway section more traditional than the ending theme of the Key game Planetarian? The lyrics come from Kenji Miyazawa’s Hoshi meguri no uta (“Song of the circling stars”). I don’t know if it was composed for Planetarian, or if it has an independent source. Loved the Cartoon Network “Detective Michika” sequence. Another question: in the game is spoiler[P a delusion of Ame-chan’s? The blank screen Ame showed Lollipop, and Lollipop’s stunned reaction seems to suggest this.] Is there deeper meaning to Ame’s response to Lollipop’s “Ame-san” by saying “You can call me Ame-chan” (not “You can call me Ame”)? |
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RoboYuji
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The Western Cartoon Network style segment was done by Orbitten, who has similar videos on YouTube using audio from Hololive streams, so it's show subject matter related even!
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TJ_Kat
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Were we supposed to interpret that as "deliberately not show to the audience"? I interpreted it as there was no picture, it was just a blank screen. |
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Wizardizar
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In the game spoiler[you can unlock a .txt file in the in-game PC after getting all the endings and it does reveal that P-chan is Ame's imaginary friend. The anime actually subtly reveals its hand in the first scene if you know a little about the game. In the game, the "Dirty Stuff" button implies that Ame and P-chan have sex, but in the anime it shows that she's handling her business on her own.] |
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Wizardizar
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The writing once again shows that it understands streaming (and I'd say vtubing in particular), because there is 100% a romanticization of mental illness and substance abuse (maybe less now but def back when the game was made) in some circles. I love that the show decides to hit the break, do a 180 and straight up say "no, cut the drugs and get therapy", instead of either doing some romanticization itself or go for cheap melodrama and like kill someone.
I don't think we'll truly know the final thesis of NGO until the credit rolls on the last episode, but so far it continues to build the contrast between the best case and the worst case scenarios when it comes to online fame. |
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