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[Firebird]

Evangelion: The Next Generation has been announced!

Evangelion Franchise Announces New Series

From Nier's Yokō Tarō, directors Kazuya Tsurumaki & Tōko Yatabe, Khara & CloverWorks

www.animenewsnetwork.com

The project was teased as the franchise's "Next Genesis" from series script supervisor and scriptwriter Yokō Tarō (NieR:Automata game and anime franchise, SINoALICE, KamiErabi GOD.app), directors Kazuya Tsurumaki (Rebuild of Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX) and Tōko Yatabe(Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time assistant director, Chainsaw Man storyboarder/episode director, The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe character designer/chief animation director), musical composer Keiichi Okabe (NieRgame and anime franchise, Nisemonogatari, Yuki Yuna Is a Hero), and Studio Khara and CloverWorksas the production studios.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Evangelion: The Next Generation has been announced!

Evangelion Franchise Announces New Series

From Nier's Yokō Tarō, directors Kazuya Tsurumaki & Tōko Yatabe, Khara & CloverWorks

www.animenewsnetwork.com

The project was teased as the franchise's "Next Genesis" from series script supervisor and scriptwriter Yokō Tarō (NieR:Automata game and anime franchise, SINoALICE, KamiErabi GOD.app), directors Kazuya Tsurumaki (Rebuild of Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX) and Tōko Yatabe(Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time assistant director, Chainsaw Man storyboarder/episode director, The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe character designer/chief animation director), musical composer Keiichi Okabe (NieRgame and anime franchise, Nisemonogatari, Yuki Yuna Is a Hero), and Studio Khara and CloverWorksas the production studios.

Jerry Goldsmith has joined the chat.

 

[Noname Given]

Evangelion: The Next Generation has been announced!

Evangelion Franchise Announces New Series

From Nier's Yokō Tarō, directors Kazuya Tsurumaki & Tōko Yatabe, Khara & CloverWorks

www.animenewsnetwork.com

The project was teased as the franchise's "Next Genesis" from series script supervisor and scriptwriter Yokō Tarō (NieR:Automata game and anime franchise, SINoALICE, KamiErabi GOD.app), directors Kazuya Tsurumaki (Rebuild of Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX) and Tōko Yatabe(Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time assistant director, Chainsaw Man storyboarder/episode director, The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe character designer/chief animation director), musical composer Keiichi Okabe (NieRgame and anime franchise, Nisemonogatari, Yuki Yuna Is a Hero), and Studio Khara and CloverWorksas the production studios.

Break out the Orange Juice...oh, wait...

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Last night, MeTV showed The Little People, ep #93. Two astronauts and some other people.

The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his copilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're there, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone.

Serlings narratives were always a good hook to draw you in.

This one was okay, but it didn't enthrall me.

 

[Set Harth]

sir this is a wendy's

 

[Firebird]

Last night, MeTV showed The Little People, ep #93. Two astronauts and some other people.

The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his copilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're there, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone.

Serlings narratives were always a good hook to draw you in.

This one was okay, but it didn't enthrall me.

I'm assuming this was intended for another thread?

 

[Skipper]

Last night, MeTV showed The Little People, ep #93. Two astronauts and some other people.

The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his copilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're there, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone.

Serlings narratives were always a good hook to draw you in.

This one was okay, but it didn't enthrall me.

 

[JD]

Universal Studios Fan Fest Nights will include a new One Piece Grand Pirate Show, that will be done at the Waterworld stunt show venue. They will also include have a fan zone with Sanji's Galley with themed food and drinks, and photo ops with the characters.
https://www.ign.com/articles/univer...sters-dungeons-dragons-and-more-is-so-special

 

[Christopher]

(Also, I'm not sure the Crunchyroll people have actually watched [Dirty Pair], since they list it with a content advisory for nudity among other things, but it's actually pretty tame in the skin department by anime standards. I think the title leads English speakers to expect the show to be racier than it is.)

Okay, I've reached episode 24 of Dirty Pair (the last episode of the original series, though the streaming packages include the two extra OVA episodes as #25-6), and I see now why that nudity advisory was there. Yuri has a shower scene in which her nipples are shown for 2-3 seconds, though only as featureless red dots. I've seen this before in some Japanese shows -- almost entirely without graphic nudity but with a brief glimpse like this in just one episode, two at most. It's a weird practice. I wonder if their broadcast standards have an explicit "you can do it once per series" rule, like how a PG-13 American movie can (I think) get away with a single F-bomb.

It's also kind of weird when streamers give content advisories for the series as a whole instead of episode-by-episode, so you get cases like this where every episode has an advisory for something that appears only once or only occasionally.

 

[Steve Roby]

I've bought every available volume of the Kowloon Generic Romance manga in ebook form and the first one in print, I bought the anime series on iTunes, I bought the anime soundtrack on iTunes, I bought the live action movie soundtrack on iTunes... but I have not found a way to legally buy or even just watch the live action movie.

Anyway. The anime series compresses a lot into the time it has, but manages to feel quite faithful to the manga, giving all the characters some screen time, though Reiko Kujirai gets most of the attention. The live action movie really, really drastically trims the story, giving Yaomey, Xiaohai, Gwen, Hebinuma, and Yulong pretty brief appearances, and shoving in some explanations about Geneterra and the city fairly quickly. The movie also gives a lot of the focus to Kudou's perspective, so it's at least as much about his grief as it is about Kujirai figuring out who she is. It's... not bad, though I imagine it would be confusing to anyone who started with it. But if you're reading the manga and watched the anime, this doesn't add much of anything, though Riho Yoshioka does a pretty good job as Kujirai. But it's probably for completists only.

One interesting (well, to me, at least) note from an otherwise not entirely glowing review I read somewhere: it has a bit of a Wong Kar Wai feel, with the focus on place and the way Kujirai and Kudou don't have a typical romance for much of the movie. It'd pale pretty badly next to Chungking Express but I can see some hints of similarities.

 

[JD]

The digital first tankoban of the Naruto manga from Libby yesterday and started reading it. It's been pretty fun so far. I'm planning giving the anime another go, I watched the first 10 or 15 episodes a few years ago, and I've been wanting to give it another go. So the timing of the manga becoming could not have been better, since I've been wanting to read it before I started the manga this time.

 

[Christopher]

I've finished Dirty Pair and its specials/movies. I'm pretty sure I saw a dub of the movie Project Eden on TV back in the late '80s or '90s, since the opening sequence looked familiar, and I know I saw at least some DP on TV back then. Rewatching it now, I found the movie to be an overblown mess, one of the weakest installments in the series, with a deeply annoying villain.

Does anyone know the history of when dubs of Dirty Pair first appeared in the US? I'm trying to remember how much of it I might have seen back in the '80s, but I can't find any reference to the original series getting an English dub until relatively recently. Maybe it was just the movie, and maybe the specials too.

I've started in on the reboot, Dirty Pair Flash (they're all on a YouTube anime channel called Nozomi, Japanese for "Wish"). I'm only two episodes into Flash, but so far I'm unimpressed with the writing. It's got too much telling rather than showing, and too much gratuitous and overblown action and mayhem getting in the way of the minimal plotting. And making Kei and Yuri rivals who can't stand each other doesn't work for me. The key to their relationship in the original was that they bickered constantly because they were as close as sisters, and their friendship and mutual trust always came through in a pinch. The new versions are also portrayed as incompetent at everything but fighting, while the originals were accident-prone but otherwise good at their jobs.

 

[korblborp]

there's a reason i like FLASH! the least of all the versions, but it has sort of.. blocks of episodes, and the first block is origin/intro and after that they kind of settle down into the normal dynamic... kind of...


have you read/do you plan on reading the light novels or the Dark Horse comics?

i dunno why the tv series didn't get a dub back in the day, just that there are two english ones (i keep meaning to actually compare them), and there was a kickstarter to bring the women who did one of them back, along with a restoration, which got disrupted slightly when crunchy ate right stuf....

 

[Christopher]

have you read/do you plan on reading the light novels or the Dark Horse comics?

No. I was curious enough to want to refresh my memory, and to see what Flash was like, and there are few enough episodes that I might as well watch them all, as long as they're easily available. But I'm not enough of a fan to seek out any more. It can be kind of fun, and I have a nostalgic fondness for the animation style of that era's anime, but I don't care for the recurring joke of the Lovely Angels accidentally causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and having it treated as a punch line.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I'm really enjoying "Lycoris Recoil" right now.

The main character, Chisato is awesome to watch.
Her CQB Gun Fighting Style is unique & her SuperHuman like abilities is kinda broken, but interesting at the same time.

 

[Steve Roby]

Many years ago I read about Boogiepop Phantom and thought, I'll have to get around to that someday. So why not now. I understand there's a bunch of light novels, a live action movie, the 2000 Boogiepop Phantom anime, a 2019 Boogiepop and Others anime, and some manga. I do not foresee myself getting through all this, but the 2000 anime, which was what I read about back then, is on Youtube, and I understand that series is set after volume 1 of the light novels and everything is set after volume 6, a prequel to the whole thing. So maybe I can limit myself to the 2000 anime and those two light novels. It could happen. After all, I only read the first two Your Forma light novels before watching the anime; I don't always go overboard. I've watched the first episode and will start reading volume 1 shortly.

Has anyone watched this? How much of the Boogiepopverse did you explore?

 

[Firebird]

Anime News Network recently published a three-part feature examining the early days of the Evangelion fandom during 1995-1998. Really fascinating having that look back to see how the show was received by Japanese and American fans alike, as well as some of the goings-on with ADV bringing the show to the States (there's a really good fan documentary on YouTube which goes into a lot more detail about the dubbing of Eva that's an oral history with everyone involved).

—

Brian Stremick crosses the Absolute Terror Field to chronicle the inseparable mingling of technology, early fandom, and Evangelion in this three-part retrospective.

www.animenewsnetwork.com

Absolute Borderline: The Early Days of Evangelion Fandom, Part Two

It's time to boot up your Commodore Amiga. We're making fansubs on tape.

www.animenewsnetwork.com

Absolute Borderline: The Early Days of Evangelion Fandom, Part Three

Brian brings us to the end of the beginning in the final part of his history of Evangelion fandom.

www.animenewsnetwork.com

 

[Christopher]

I read good things about the new anime adaptation of the manga Witch Hat Atelier (Tongari Bōshi no Atorie, literally "Pointed Hat Atelier"), whose first two episodes premiered today on Crunchyroll, so I tried it out, and it's brilliant. It's beautifully animated, well-written, and well-directed. I want to call it a magical-girl series, since it has some elements of the genre, but it doesn't have transforming superheroes fighting monsters; rather, it focuses on preteen girls at a magic school in a fantasy world with a very distinctive and interesting magic system. The main character starts out as an enthusiastic magic-lover dying to learn about the craft's secrets, but her first attempt backfires in a tragic way, so getting her wish to learn magic becomes a painful necessity rather than wish fulfillment, which makes it a lot more potent and nuanced. I was going to pace myself and save episode 2 for later, but I got so drawn in that I watched them both back to back.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Just finished 'Lycoris Recoil', that was so much fun.
Really great "Girls with Guns" action.
The main character was awesome & has soo much personality.