finished Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!

I have opinions


This is a weird 90's OVA. And I personally didn't really enjoy it too much. The story is about a girl that travels back in time and goes to live with their ancestors. After that, the family starts to collapse and the space police gets involved.

This feels less of an anime and more of a theater play. There is very little actual animation or movement. Most of the shots are static shots of the characters looking at the camera. And a lof of the time, instead of actually doing any action, they are either repeating what happened in a previous chapter or just saying some other thing

The actual story is fine, but I think that there are a lot of scenes that really just makes the anime drag. For example, each chapter (with the exclusion of the last one) starts with a fake documentary, that while it is funny. I don't see it contributing much to the actual anime

I don't really have much else to say, I finished it but I didn't really quite get into it

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next: samurai champloo

i'm close to finishing song of the long march
have yet to start danganronla lmao sorry blame balatro

Patatitta wrote:

finished Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!

I have opinions


This is a weird 90's OVA. And I personally didn't really enjoy it too much. The story is about a girl that travels back in time and goes to live with their ancestors. After that, the family starts to collapse and the space police gets involved.

This feels less of an anime and more of a theater play. There is very little actual animation or movement. Most of the shots are static shots of the characters looking at the camera. And a lof of the time, instead of actually doing any action, they are either repeating what happened in a previous chapter or just saying some other thing

The actual story is fine, but I think that there are a lot of scenes that really just makes the anime drag. For example, each chapter (with the exclusion of the last one) starts with a fake documentary, that while it is funny. I don't see it contributing much to the actual anime

I don't really have much else to say, I finished it but I didn't really quite get into it

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next: samurai champloo

i'm close to finishing song of the long march
have yet to start danganronla lmao sorry blame balatro

The mockumentaries in the beginning are mostly a foreshadowing on what is going to happen or a metaphor to analyze what are the characters doing. Take in the first episode:

Also yeah recommended it because of the unusualness factor, while I did enjoy the interactions and the quirky dialogue, as well as the wtf factor that the overall anime had. I can agree that the pacing is quite slow and not for everyone, but there was summary movie that lasts like 70% of what the story which I think I should have recommended instead but I don't recommend stuff I haven't watched even if I know the story.

song of the long march:

This is a fairly famous manhua. It's about this girl, who is part of the elite of society, who gets caught in a war. It's a mix of interpersonal drama and military strategy.

The panel structure is overall standard, but during the first 20 chapters or so, you had the 3-gatsu no lion black lines, which I appreciate seeing. For those who hasn't read 3-gatsu no lion (everyone reading this). I mean this (screenshot from 3-gatsu since I don't remember in which chapters this appeared in song of the long march)



you have two active conversations going on at the same time, the ones happening in the actual patterns, and then, the narration happening in the black rectangles. However, this concept gets droppead really early on and afterwards everything in terms of art and structure is pre3tty standard

honestly I don't have much to say about this. It doesn't really to do anything crazy or whatever, it's just a pretty normal manhua all things considered

also as far as I know this manga is on hold with no signs of returning

My requests pls

The Familiar of zero (Anime)
Plastic Memories (Anime)

Fat Fish Pete wrote:

My requests pls

The Familiar of zero (Anime)
Plastic Memories (Anime)

added to the list


btw forgot to add the previous two to the tier list, both are c tier

Patatitta wrote:

Fat Fish Pete wrote:

My requests pls

The Familiar of zero (Anime)
Plastic Memories (Anime)

added to the list


btw forgot to add the previous two to the tier list, both are c tier

crap I forgot to add

Jigoku Shoujo/Hell Girl (Anime)

Fat Fish Pete wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Fat Fish Pete wrote:

My requests pls

The Familiar of zero (Anime)
Plastic Memories (Anime)

added to the list


btw forgot to add the previous two to the tier list, both are c tier

crap I forgot to add

Jigoku Shoujo/Hell Girl (Anime)

added

Wonder how you’d react to Dodonpachi (Any game in the series is fine, but preferably Dodonpachi Resurrection or Dodonpachi 1997)

Bump

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Wonder how you’d react to Dodonpachi (Any game in the series is fine, but preferably Dodonpachi Resurrection or Dodonpachi 1997)

yeah I can do so, but it will take a while since currently i'm focused on other things

samurai champloo:

this is cowboy bebop but slightly worse

completely episodic anime, even more than cowboy bebop as new we don't get new main characters during the runtime of the anime or whatever. The episodes themselves are pretty simple, none of them are particullary mind-blowing or something I hadn't seen before.

The OST is worse than in cowboy bebop, I don't like that rap/beatbox style they went for on this anime. I also think the characters have less chemistry than on cowboy bebop

There is a filler chapter at chapter 12 so that is also kinda bad

This anime doesn't really try anything new, and it's just a worse version of another anime that already exists, don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed it, but I don't know, it definitively could have been better

placed in C tier

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haven't started danganronpa and probably wont for a while
next: coraline

Read this:

Behrauder wrote:

Read this:

denied

review whatsapp

burgernfat wrote:

review whatsapp

good but I prefeer the sequel

Do albums count?

My Angel Anaxii wrote:

Do albums count?

nope, I know shit about music

when you watch movies for this thread, do you watch the spanish dub or do you watch in full english or do you watch english with spanish sub

sametdze wrote:

when you watch movies for this thread, do you watch the spanish dub or do you watch in full english or do you watch english with spanish sub

Depends, I normally watch them on original language with english subtitles, mainly, because there are more things with subtitles in english than on spanish and I don't want to keep flipping between languages



Caroline:

it was good, i'm not the demographic tho

halloween movie about this kid that moves and discovers an alternate dimension. The art was good, nothing mindblowing. Like in most western animation, all of the characters are different shapes, this works to make the characters more easily recognisable. Their personalities are also greatly exaggerated, these aren't very well fleshed out characters that really feel humans and there is a lot of nuance to them, most characters just have one or two character trains associated with them, this works because the actual story isn't too complex, and none of the characters are actually hateable or anything like that

As i've said, the story is pretty simple, it honestly follows the formula of all of those stories about someone who walks into the mirror and discovers a different world, there really isn't much to say in terms of plot

This was a enjoyable watch, however, it's not the type of thing i'm personally really into. It isn't particullary ambitious or new, it's good if you just want to watch pretty colors and be entertained for a while, but for me, that's about it. The fact that I watched this only a few days after I watched All About Lily Chou-Chou (my new favourite movie), didn't help either lmao

Placed in C tier

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actually did start danganronpa, downloaded it last night, played 30 minutos, so i'm still basically in the introduction, and so far so good

next: Nightmare before christmas
nightmare before christmas

danganronpa poggies

Review the 2 firsts chapters ever made in the OT!Library

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Review the 2 firsts chapters ever made in the OT!Library

I forgot I promised that


there isn't much to say so far in terms of actual plot so far. The actual unedited docs had pretty bad english from both of you, but that's why i'm here, your book seems a lot like a weird furry fanfiction and manishhh seems to go for a more comedy style, both of you write dialogues in this almost theatrical way which is strange to me

it's a start, for sure better than the ot!book IMO


--- the nightmare before christmas ---

turns out I had already seen this movie like it was originally intented, in high school, near the end of the school year, in english class when the teacher just wanted their vacations already so they put a movie and forget about teaching that day, and of course, I didn't pay attention as I was talking with my friends and crushing over girls, not only that, but the movie is like an hour and a half and you normally don't see more than 50 minutes of a movie during a class (because the actual class is an hour long total)

pleasantly surpised about the actual movie tho. I think that in terms of western animated movies this has to be one of the better ones, if not my favourite currently. It uses stop motion, but the fact that it's older than something like corpse bride gives it more charm, since it's even more apparent that it's stop motion. The movie is a musical and the OST is like actually really fucking good, features "this is halloween" like that song is already better than any other song from any animated western musical

the actual plot is very simple, nothing too special about it, it's just that the combination of the art and ost that just creates a really enjoyable movie

placed in B tier

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played more danganronpa, so far so good


next: The Familiar of zero

will you make a review for each chapter in danganronpa or just when you finish?

Reyalp51 wrote:

will you make a review for each chapter in danganronpa or just when you finish?

just when I finish the first game, after that I will decide if I want to play the rest or not

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

Patatitta wrote:

--- the nightmare before christmas ---

turns out I had already seen this movie like it was originally intented, in high school, near the end of the school year, in english class when the teacher just wanted their vacations already so they put a movie and forget about teaching that day, and of course, I didn't pay attention as I was talking with my friends and crushing over girls, not only that, but the movie is like an hour and a half and you normally don't see more than 50 minutes of a movie during a class (because the actual class is an hour long total)

pleasantly surpised about the actual movie tho. I think that in terms of western animated movies this has to be one of the better ones, if not my favourite currently. It uses stop motion, but the fact that it's older than something like corpse bride gives it more charm, since it's even more apparent that it's stop motion. The movie is a musical and the OST is like actually really fucking good, features "this is halloween" like that song is already better than any other song from any animated western musical

the actual plot is very simple, nothing too special about it, it's just that the combination of the art and ost that just creates a really enjoyable movie

placed in B tier

im glad you liked it!!

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

dont forget 50 Shades Freed

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

ooh, wait you should also review tim burton's edward scissorhands!

lostsilver wrote:

ooh, wait you should also review tim burton's edward scissorhands!

added to the list

Hydreigon wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

dont forget 50 Shades Freed

Damn, haven't heard of the freed one. Gonna check it

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

It is

How about

Barbie in the Nutcracker

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

It is

How about

Barbie in the Nutcracker

honestly that is something that I wouldn't actually really mind that much but denied

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

It is

How about

Barbie in the Nutcracker

honestly that is something that I wouldn't actually really mind that much but denied

Cocomelon

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

It is

How about

Barbie in the Nutcracker

honestly that is something that I wouldn't actually really mind that much but denied

Cocomelon

now we're back in the deep end

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

It is

How about

Barbie in the Nutcracker

honestly that is something that I wouldn't actually really mind that much but denied

Cocomelon

now we're back in the deep end

Say yes?

watch Hyouka

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

It is

How about

Barbie in the Nutcracker

honestly that is something that I wouldn't actually really mind that much but denied

Cocomelon

now we're back in the deep end

Say yes?

that's a no



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Jangsoodlor wrote:

watch Hyouka

damn surprised you didn't recommend a anime full of lolis, will watch

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

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Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Can you analyze

50 shades of gray
And 50 shades darker

I would rather kill myself

Why? This is a certified classic

The whole American Pie series then

denied

How about Victor Magtangol

denied

Frieren and the seven dwarfs

I don't think that was frieren

It is

How about

Barbie in the Nutcracker

honestly that is something that I wouldn't actually really mind that much but denied

Cocomelon

now we're back in the deep end

Say yes?

that's a no



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Jangsoodlor wrote:

watch Hyouka

damn surprised you didn't recommend a anime full of lolis, will watch

What? Mine was denied? Why? Watch Powerpuff Girls Z

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Patatitta wrote:

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Selos by Shaira

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Selos by Shaira

not doing music also denied

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Selos by Shaira

not doing music also denied

Fruit catchers monthly January: a bunch of cool scores by dahcreeper

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Selos by Shaira

not doing music also denied

Fruit catchers monthly January: a bunch of cool scores by dahcreeper

wow best video ever made whoever did it sure is the best youtuber in the platform

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Selos by Shaira

not doing music also denied

Fruit catchers monthly January: a bunch of cool scores by dahcreeper

wow best video ever made whoever did it sure is the best youtuber in the platform

I give up

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Selos by Shaira

not doing music also denied

Fruit catchers monthly January: a bunch of cool scores by dahcreeper

wow best video ever made whoever did it sure is the best youtuber in the platform

I give up

skill issue

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Scyla wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

I fear getting muted for spam so breaking the chain


denied

Selos by Shaira

not doing music also denied

Fruit catchers monthly January: a bunch of cool scores by dahcreeper

wow best video ever made whoever did it sure is the best youtuber in the platform

I give up

skill issue

https://youtu.be/Rd8a3T_P2gs?si=_E5Bo80Wl6oIGb8j

Here's the link

actually laughed, denied

kingdom hearts is an amazing series

twewy(the world ends with you) is also really good

i havent seen re:Zero or mob psycho 100 requested and those are like my top 2 (anime)

id also recommend Follow the Clouds North-NorthWest and Dragon and Chameleon

im just throwing out my fav stuff sorry about the long list!

try league of legends xDDDD

Why

igorsprite wrote:

try league of legends xDDDD

I would rather kill myself

_GameFlow wrote:

kingdom hearts is an amazing series

twewy(the world ends with you) is also really good

i havent seen re:Zero or mob psycho 100 requested and those are like my top 2 (anime)

id also recommend Follow the Clouds North-NorthWest and Dragon and Chameleon

im just throwing out my fav stuff sorry about the long list!

since you recommended so much at once i'm going to be slightly more picky than usual to not bloat the queue too much, sorry


I don't think I will be playing kingdom hearts, mainly because it's split in a lot of different consoles and emulating some of the recent ones may be a struggle (+ it's a really long franchise)

the world ends with you was already recommended by an IRL friend, so will play it

I'm fine with giving a second try to re:zero and watching mob psycho

I actually started Follow the Clouds North-NorthWest like a year ago, but didn't end up finishing it, so may give it a second show

will read Dragon and Chameleon


edit: also, since you seem to be new to the forum, let me informe you, I'm slow and the queue is long, so I may start watching/playing/reading your reqs in like a month or two

edit 2: also, do I know you? your name sounds familiar ngl

edit 3: apparently, I had no reqs for mangas/books at the moment so I will start reading Follow the Clouds North-NorthWest right away

review tiger, tiger: a memoir

igorsprite wrote:

review tiger, tiger: a memoir

the Margaux Fragoso book?

Patatitta wrote:

igorsprite wrote:

review tiger, tiger: a memoir

the Margaux Fragoso book?

Yes

seconds by bryan lee o'malley please

igorsprite wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

igorsprite wrote:

review tiger, tiger: a memoir

the Margaux Fragoso book?

Yes

will do

179bpm wrote:

seconds by bryan lee o'malley please

okay

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Now review Helluva boss as I've the 666th post

/j

I saw the /j, but, denied

review the atletico madrid vs inter match

burgernfat wrote:

review the atletico madrid vs inter match

denied

update: realized The Familiar of zero is ecchi so i'm skipping it lmao, will do Plastic Memories

Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike

I gave this a try a year ago, didn't get into it, but now, I actually did get into it

Don't let anyone fool you, I don't care what anyone says, this is a slice of life. The manga starts trying to do drama/mistery type of thing, but that really only gives motivation for the main character to just go out into iceland and showcase cool natural formations. I feel that this in part is needed, because unlike other SoL, the main character isn't a cute teenage japanese schoolgirl, but a pretty cool and chill adult guy, so there needs to be a hook to actually get people to read it

The art is really good, definitively above average, as I said earlier, it really focuses on the environment, they often use these aereal shots of the entire area, which are extremely pretty.

Outside the main character, there really aren't any "fixed" second characters, the one accompaning the main protagonist always changes with each volume

my only real complain is that there are some things that aren't quite expanded or explored as much as I would like, for example the fact that the main character talks to his car

good manga overall

placed in B tier

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next: Dragon and Chameleon

still playing danganronopa

MONSTER/KAIBUTSU (2023) its a japanese movie.

reffty_gag wrote:

SOUND VOLTEX

denied, I don't do arcade games, for games I only review the ones that are story focused

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

SOUND VOLTEX

denied, I don't do arcade games, for games I only review the ones that are story focused

i just edit that recently, and its a movie request (pls respone before you offline)

How far are you into danganronpa?

Kobold84 wrote:

How far are you into danganronpa?

still early

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

SOUND VOLTEX

denied, I don't do arcade games, for games I only review the ones that are story focused

i just edit that recently, and its a movie request (pls respone before you offline)

I actually have already seen the movie but since you're so impatient i'm going to proceed to not tell you what I think for like 6 hours

Patatitta wrote:

Kobold84 wrote:

How far are you into danganronpa?

still early

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

SOUND VOLTEX

denied, I don't do arcade games, for games I only review the ones that are story focused

i just edit that recently, and its a movie request (pls respone before you offline)

I actually have already seen the movie but since you're so impatient i'm going to proceed to not tell you what I think for like 6 hours

ok

Bumping

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Bumping

no need to bump this thread, I always bump it myself with these types of post

----- monster (2023, not the anime from 2004, or the american movie from 2003) -----

This is a japanese movie by director hirokazu kore-eda, i've actually seen multiple films from this guy, i've seen nobody knows and shopliftes. This director seems to specialize in dramas involving families, however these are NOT family movies as some of these are emotionally painful (mainly nobody knows)

monster is a very unique film, it showcases a very difficult case of bullying from 3 different perspectives, in order, the mother perspective, the teacher perspective, and the child perspective. The timeline of the movie starts with a totally unrelated fire happening somewhere in town, you know you've went to the past and changed perspective by that fire appearing again. Neither the mother or teacher have an actual clear and accurate perspective of the situation, as they're competely filled with external bias, meaning that they see the exact same events in totally different ways.

the child's perspective is the most interesting tho, turns out, that the root problem of the issue was a conflict that involved him protecting another kid who was gay, adding another whole dimension to the already complicated problem. Japan is not really the most tolerant country for LGBT people, so if there is a case like this, it actually makes it very difficult for the kid to actually speak up about the actual situation out of fear or having consequences for taking that stance in support of LGBT people. After that, the teacher understood the situation in a very different way and the mother understood in a very different way, adding a layer of distortion each time, making things worse and worse.

It's also important to say that while the mother's and teachers perspective aren't pure or "true", I don't really think they were wrong, that distortion of the original problem has created another entirerily different issue, and that problem is as worthy of being solved and creating emotional distress as any other.

I really enjoyed this movie, had watched it in the past, It's my second favourite movie of last year (my top 1 is la sociedad de la nieve) and I find the fact that maestro was nominated in the oscars over this really fucking funny if not insulting, but as we know the oscars are very america-focused so it was to be expected

placed in A tier

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still have to beat danganronpa
haven't started the anime or the manga I have to watch now

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Bumping

no need to bump this thread, I always bump it myself with these types of post

----- monster (2023, not the anime from 2004, or the american movie from 2003) -----

This is a japanese movie by director hirokazu kore-eda, i've actually seen multiple films from this guy, i've seen nobody knows and shopliftes. This director seems to specialize in dramas involving families, however these are NOT family movies as some of these are emotionally painful (mainly nobody knows)

monster is a very unique film, it showcases a very difficult case of bullying from 3 different perspectives, in order, the mother perspective, the teacher perspective, and the child perspective. The timeline of the movie starts with a totally unrelated fire happening somewhere in town, you know you've went to the past and changed perspective by that fire appearing again. Neither the mother or teacher have an actual clear and accurate perspective of the situation, as they're competely filled with external bias, meaning that they see the exact same events in totally different ways.

the child's perspective is the most interesting tho, turns out, that the root problem of the issue was a conflict that involved him protecting another kid who was gay, adding another whole dimension to the already complicated problem. Japan is not really the most tolerant country for LGBT people, so if there is a case like this, it actually makes it very difficult for the kid to actually speak up about the actual situation out of fear or having consequences for taking that stance in support of LGBT people. After that, the teacher understood the situation in a very different way and the mother understood in a very different way, adding a layer of distortion each time, making things worse and worse.

It's also important to say that while the mother's and teachers perspective aren't pure or "true", I don't really think they were wrong, that distortion of the original problem has created another entirerily different issue, and that problem is as worthy of being solved and creating emotional distress as any other.

I really enjoyed this movie, had watched it in the past, It's my second favourite movie of last year (my top 1 is la sociedad de la nieve) and I find the fact that maestro was nominated in the oscars over this really fucking funny if not insulting, but as we know the oscars are very america-focused so it was to be expected

placed in A tier

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still have to beat danganronpa
haven't started the anime or the manga I have to watch now

TY !!!

Review Shrek lol

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Review Shrek lol

LMAO

hmm how bout...



review Ford v Ferrari

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Review Shrek lol

I don't know if this is a joke submission or not but given that I don't want to analyze shrek I will say denied

Hydreigon wrote:

hmm how bout...



review Ford v Ferrari

sure I can do that

Ryuu to Chameleon

Ongoing manga, has potential but I think it will end up disapointing me on the end

the manga is about two people who swap bodies, one of them is a very popular mangaka who has created something as popular as dragon ball or naruto or whatever and someone who has 0 individuality but is really fucking good at copying other people. Now the one who is very good at copying is on the body of the successful mangaka and the succesful mangaka is forced to start over and try to publish something new

this concept is very interesting, you can explore a lot of stuff with this, mainly, how much does the fandom and the community aspect of a work affect the actual percieved quality of the end product. And with the other guy, how discrimation can happen torwards newer mangakas and how for someone as talented as them, they cant seem to get something serialized, much less actually recreate the success of the previous manga

The second half I spoke about, about how hard it is to become serialized is true, however, the manga seems to go in a direction that reminds me more of action shonen or sport manga than something like blank canvass which was more of what I was expecting. There are a lot of panels and scene that shows like a dragon forming when the guy picks up the pen to draw and everything is very over the top and whatever. This mainly applies for the person who copies (the chameleon in the title), as this character doesn't seem to exist to make a cool point or get in interesting moral or ethical situation, but more to act as an antagonist, which I guess it's fine, but honestly makes me less excited about the future of the manga

so far this is an enjoyable read tho, I recommend it

placed in b tier

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next: tiger, tiger: a memoir

started plastic memories, not the best but i'm going to finish it


about danganronpa, i'm enjoying the game but tbh I may blacklist requesting videogames for this thread, they're wayyyyyyyyyy too much of a time commitement to just do because of the funnies and whatever, idk if I will do that or if I will finish danganronpa or whatever

Patatitta wrote:

about danganronpa, i'm enjoying the game but tbh I may blacklist requesting videogames for this thread, they're wayyyyyyyyyy too much of a time commitement to just do because of the funnies and whatever, idk if I will do that or if I will finish danganronpa or whatever

You should probably limit video games requests to like 6-10 hours of playtime judging with this website: https://howlongtobeat.com/

Kiss x sis

Review the OT President Building and the OT Parliament

- Marco - wrote:

Review the OT President Building and the OT Parliament

Do a review for 2023, wait one month later, and review the new parliment

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

- Marco - wrote:

Review the OT President Building and the OT Parliament

Do a review for 2023, wait one month later, and review the new parliment

denied

i swear to god i might aswell review all the things that patatitta has denied at this point...

If I had time I'd do a similar thread to this.

But everything tells me that this next semester might try to kill me.

Nuuskamuikkunen wrote:

If I had time I'd do a similar thread to this.

But everything tells me that this next semester might try to kill me.

And everything in my mind tells me that it's impossible to do this, because my work time is about 8 hours long for the first four days. And then Friday's like a short day, but then that Friday quickly gets wasted and then here we finally go! Saturday! And then when Saturday's gone. Sunday's coming and then I'll get sad, because then it'll be MOnday on the next day, cycle repeats, cycle repeats and I uhhhhhhhhhhhhh sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

MrMcMikey22 wrote:

i swear to god i might aswell review all the things that patatitta has denied at this point...

80% all of the denied are troll requests so I would advice against doing so

review ww2

burgernfat wrote:

review ww2

wtf do you want patatitta to write, bro is gonna be like

"you see when theodore james miller got shell shock it was a very horrifying scene, i truly feel like the directors perfected this scene"

was theodore james miller even in ww2? honestly cannot remember

burgernfat wrote:

review ww2

denied

plastic memories

ngl this anime was kinda mid

for a little bit of context, whenever I watch anything I usually go in blind, I don't read the synopsis, I don't watch trailers, I just take recommendations from people or see that it's in a genre I normally enjoy and watch it, but with this thread, I don't even do that, so yeah, went into this 100% blind

The first episode seem kinda interesting, I was like "oh shit this is kinda like violet evergarden" and then the next episode was like "oh this is a male oriented romance"

this anime just didn't hit, and honestly I think the fault resides in the actual cast of characters, the main protagonist is just your typical male fantasy romance protagonist, so, just doens't actually have a strong personality or whatever, and it works more as an outlet for you to insert yourself into the show. The female MC is the typical robot girl who isn't good at handling feelings. So yeah, not both of the main characters actually have any sort of real strong personality.

The actual circumstances are interesting tho, they're both of a pretty emotionally intense job, however, I feel this is barely explored, just mainly focusing on the actual day to day of both characters (since they live together). I feel that everything this anime tries there is an anime that does it better.

TBF i'm not the biggest fan of this type of male focused romance (surprisingly, most romance I consume is more female-oriented which is kinda weird since i'm a male myself but idk they just seem to be more interesting and emotional lmao) so my view is a little bit biased because of that

still, I didn't enjoy this anime very much


placed in D tier

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haven't continued danganronpa, may drop it and limit the duration of games, idk
have not started book, i'm lazy

next: Hell Girl

Wonder what would you think about ef - a tale of memories (and sequel, ef - a tale of melodies)

Stardew Valley

Nuuskamuikkunen wrote:

Wonder what would you think about ef - a tale of memories (and sequel, ef - a tale of melodies)

sure

Ymir wrote:

Stardew Valley

denied, I only do games with plot as I said now probably only short hames

There is a plot in Stardew Valley, though I haven't played enough to get a grasp of how good it is.

I'm not sure how short the game is, so I'll just request Postal-2 instead.

ooooo
can you do portal 1? only if you want to im not forcing you