What do you guys think? I for one am excited to see harley kill some dragons and orcs.

This is one of the best Fate spin-offs without an adaptation imo. This should be good!

Courtesy of @carlytm@lemm.ee, !dragonball@lemmy.ml will be rewatching the entire Dragon Ball franchise, starting from the OG series. You can find this week's 5 episodes pinned to the top of the !dragonball@lemmy.ml community, or simply by visiting this link.

This post is merely to invite anyone who would care to participate and to point out that the Dragon Ball community has a presence on Lemmy, albeit small.

I hope everyone enjoys it. Remember to thank @carlytm@lemm.ee for setting everything up!

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MAL entry, Anilist. The zeroth episode is a spin-off-ish, focusing on Sylphy after the Calamity meeting with Ariel, becoming "silent Fitz", and struggling with her new situation; as well as the power struggles between Ariel and her brother I-always-forget-his-name for the Asuran throne.

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Hi friends, I really want to get into Gundam but god it's just to much, I can't spend months watching all of it and what I want is to watch the new shows that are coming out now (like the shows that where made between 2020 and now) while also knowing what's going on.

So where should I start and is there like a youtube video that recaps the main like plot points up to it? Please help!

Movie in Japanese theatres January 26, 2024

Sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny

Mobile Suit Gundam: Suisei no Majo Season 2, episode 12 (24)

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Let's start with the obvious: the animation is brilliant. It's MAPPA after all. The production quality on this show is very good, and leaves very little to be desired. Sure, it's not the pinnacle of modern animation, but it's more than serviceable, and it posed no issue whatsoever.

Regardless, this show is very interesting, visually. The characters too, but mostly the environment is totally CRAZY! It's weird, and beautiful, and creepy. The flowers are just stunning, and knowing what they mean in the story just adds a special layer to such stunning visuals.

The voice acting (sub) is great as well, but the general sound design was subpar. I felt like a lot of scenes were very silent, and not in a cool or creepy kinda way, just in a "they didn't know what to put in the background" kinda way... The OP is a TOTAL BANGER though, and it was hard to skip, honestly.

Still, all of this isn't that big of a deal if the plot and the characters make up for it.

But they didn't really.

There's a varied cast with their quirky personalities and origin stories, but they're so poorly explored that that barely matters. The only characters that have any emotional weight are Gabimaru (MC) and Sagiri (MC). To be fair, these two do have very compelling backstories and cool chemistry. The rest of the cast either didn't have enough screen-time for us to truly engage with their stories, or had basically NO backstory at all.

Gabimaru specifically is a very emotional character. His struggle with his up-bringing, with love, family, and freedom is really compelling, and so is Sagiri's struggle with human nature, sexism, and her place in the world.

The plot is just OK. The setup is awesome, and promises a lot of action and adventure with lots of tension and high stakes, but that just ends up not being the case. We spend most of the time watching cool fight scenes. The fight scenes are very cool, sure, but where's the substance? I think a big problem is that Gabimaru is way too strong. His plot armour is just too much...

And the ending... I mean, come on. IT'S A FUCKING JOKE! If they were gonna end the show like this, it should've just been a 24/25 episode release. I know S2 is already in the works, but this season simply felt incomplete.

Well, the show does a lot of things right, and a few things wrong. If more time was spent developing the characters and advancing the plot this would've been way more satisfying. For that reason, I'm still looking forward to the second season.

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Rating: 3/5

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Maybe I'm an old person, but I feel like one of the weakest ideas for a show or movie is a remake. It's like, you can't find anything new to do? The reasons to do remakes I can see (outside of just money chasing):

• It's been like 60 years and no one remembers. This is the weakest.

• You do a interesting twist or change(The various Sherlock Holmes in modern day, redoing in a different language, doing a live action version).

• The previous adaptation was completely off the rails and considered bad.

• There were shots that you just couldn't do in the past due to less technology.

For the recent Trigun, and now Spice and Wolf and Rurouni Kenshin - were the previous anime's way off the source material? I don't think Spice and Wolf was, I haven't read the source for Trigun or Kenshin. If not, I'm struggling to see why anyone who was interested in these would wait to see the "new" version versus just watching the existing one RIGHT NOW.

For those of us who watched the existing version, why would we want to waste time on re-watching the same story when there's other shows that are new, either to everyone or at least to us? I guess in my limited time to watch a firehose of entertainment (heck, just in Anime, forget about shows like The Witcher, various Star Trek, books etc), tell me what I'm missing by just skipping these and remembering the stuff I watched 15-20 years ago?

Heck, I even tried to watch the live action movies of Kenshin, and while the first was interesting enough, I was also kind of just like, oh yea - this scene now. And never watched the rest because I know the story.

OTOH, I recall these being enjoyable enough that I watched Trigun and Kenshin several times, bought the translated light novels for Spice and Wolf (though I did peter out around book 11).

There's always more Natsume

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Just finished it. I like this show the comedy is pretty amazing and also it gets pretty emotional too without too much backstory. I did like the more backstory of the demons in seasons 2 and 3. I thought the humanizing of them gave an interesting perspective.

Looking forward to season 5, does anyone know the release date?