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Patatitta
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baby invasion

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Baby Invasion is a experimental movie made gummo's director Harmony Korine. The gimmick of this movie is that it's some sort of gameplay for a hyper realistic videogame called "Baby Invasion", in this game it's not very clear what you do. The movie is essentially plotless, this is a vibes movie.

The movie is just this guy walking around with a first person, fish eye lens camera attached to the head POV, with 4:3 screen resolution, random twitch chat overlapping and facecam appearing and disappearing at random intervals.

This movie fundamentally doesn't understend gaming, streaming or the internet. First of all, the game (and the movie in general) is really fucking boring, whenever you say you want a hyperrealistic game, what follows after is usually hyperviolence, of which this movie has little. So the fact that this would even have a audience of twitch chat members is honestly unrealistic

secondly, this chat is in russian, japanese, english and spanish, I only speak the later two languages, but i'm pretty sure the spanish comments are either created by chatGPT or google translate. The way this is written is like a film/book guy trying to write twitch chat, not how twitch chat actually is or how people in the internet actually speak.

I say chatGPT because this movie already uses AI extensively to cover the face of the actors and for a couple extra things

Another thing that annoys me is that the movie, the gameplay has cuts, but the chat is uninterrupted, if this is another vibes choices I don't get it

the actual "game" also has minigames and shit in it, in general it's just again, all vibes but completely and utterly nonsensical

One point of the movie is that it's so realistic that you can't know if it's a videogame or reality, which would be a interesting point if they did anything with it

to finish off, I read the wikipedia article on this movie and found this interesting paragraph

wikipedia wrote:

Baby Invasion premiered out of competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2024.[1] During the Venice press conference, Korine sat next to visual effects artist Joao Rosa and fellow filmmaker Gaspar Noé, who was wearing a neon green mask, and smoked a cigar, causing smoke to fill the conference room. He expressed that "Hollywood ... would be smart to — encourage the youth, the kids. Why we're starting to see Hollywood crumble creatively is because they’re losing a lot of the most creative minds to gaming and to streaming. They're so locked in on convention and then all those kids who are so creative are now just going to find other pathways and go to other places because movies are no longer the dominant art form." He also revealed that, "When we release the film, there'll be a way to watch it through your phone, but there'll be certain codes within the movie that'll take you to other movies. So the film, what you're seeing, is just a base layer film. There'll be three or four other sub films."[5]
I have no words

placed on how could you do this to me tier

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nothing else to watch, going to keep playing this war of mine now, already tried 30 minutes but it isn't hitting, let's see if I can get into it or not
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Patatitta
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this war of mine (dropped)

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sadly could not get into it :(

this war of mine is a resource management game about the horrors of war. You manage a small refugee colony inside a warzone, during the day yo ueat and craft, during the night you scavange for resoruces. The game is heavily random, it's unfair, it's a bad experience, but this is on purpouse, as war is like this

my problem is the gameplay. You're in a refugee situation, it's meant to be tense and awful and scary, this game is not doing that for me, I don't feel tension, I kinda just feel... bored, I know it's probably heartless of me but I don't think the gameplay is doing a good job of getting me into that state of mind it seeks. The day segments involve a lot of waiting, and so far it's not like i'm running out of time to do whatever I need to do, the night segment are a bit better but savescumming is way too powerful as you can restart from the beginning of the day without much cost, and you can keep rerolling until the RNG is good enough and you find a good enough route

you may say "well then just stop savescumming" but honestly, what's the difference between restarting a single day and restarting the whole playthrough?, the second one takes more time, but that's about it, in both cases you're just rerolling until you learn of a good route and get good RNG

it's a shame because this company/studio actually made my favourite resource managing game, frostpunk, which actually completely solves this problem, it's extremely tense and feels frustrating just in the right way, you think you're doing so good and then everything goes to shit, with frostpunk savescumming does not work since it's often mistakes you did like an hour ago biting you in the ass now, so you're meant to start a new playthrough, however the difference between one playthrough and the next is massive, as there is A LOT more of a learning curve and optimization than this war of mine

placed in D rank

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next: bastion
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Reyalp51
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Reyalp51
play lsd dream emulator until you get tired because you aint beating that
Patatitta
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Reyalp51 wrote:

play lsd dream emulator until you get tired because you aint beating that
idk, I already did yume nikki and I don't think i'km going to have that different of thoughts, also, it's not exactly the type of game I cover
burgernfat
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burgernfat
tobacco, a book by dimitar dimov. if you happen to find 2 versions of the book by chance, go with the 1 tome version
Patatitta
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burgernfat wrote:

tobacco, a book by dimitar dimov. if you happen to find 2 versions of the book by chance, go with the 1 tome version
accepted
Patatitta
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Patatitta wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

tobacco, a book by dimitar dimov. if you happen to find 2 versions of the book by chance, go with the 1 tome version
accepted
I am completely unable to find a copy, if you manage to locate one in either spanish or english please dm me it
TeeArctic1
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Might become pretty busy over the next couple weeks so just dropping in to dump my suggestions. Scoured for a bit, feel free to pick and choose whichever ones you want:

  1. My child Lebensborn
  2. In Stars and Time
  3. Before Your Eyes
  4. Brothers a Tale of Two Sons
  5. Grim Fandango
  6. Spiritfarer
  7. Oxenfree
  8. Transistor
  9. Return of the Obra Dinn
  10. LISA: The Painful
  11. Blasphemous
Hopefully some of them pique your interest
Patatitta
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Patatitta

TeeArctic1 wrote:

Might become pretty busy over the next couple weeks so just dropping in to dump my suggestions. Scoured for a bit, feel free to pick and choose whichever ones you want:

  1. My child Lebensborn
  2. In Stars and Time
  3. Before Your Eyes
  4. Brothers a Tale of Two Sons
  5. Grim Fandango
  6. Spiritfarer
  7. Oxenfree
  8. Transistor
  9. Return of the Obra Dinn
  10. LISA: The Painful
  11. Blasphemous
Hopefully some of them pique your interest
In stars and time is my favourite videogame, may talk about it if i'm feeling like it
lisa is already reviewed
blasphemous I already played, met one of the devs at a convention once in fact
spiritfarer I have already played

I may probably add transistor to the queue since i'm really enjoying bastion and they are made by the same company
Karmine
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Karmine
Grim fandango is great, never finished it but loved it.
tapperruiii
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tapperruiii
onimai.
Patatitta
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tapperruiii wrote:

onimai.
are you being serious?
Patatitta
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Patatitta
Bastion

Solid game

Bastion is the first game by supergiant games, this game was a hit on it's own right, but they're mostly known today as the creators of hades, (fantastic game btw).

The gampeplay is actually not that different from hades, they're both relatively fast paced action games where you unlock a lot of new weapons and fighting styles with a fair ammount of metaprogression, the difference is that hades is a roguelike and this isn't. This game actually just features a very traditional, very tipical level selection screen

there isn't that much in terms to plot to go through, while there is a plot, It's not really the focus, I feel the point was the combat, which was fun

ost is pretty solid, I actually had listened to that last song somewhere before and I was like "holy shit so this is where it comes from"

I don't really have much to say about the game in general, it was fun, I enjoyed, not the type of game I would usually cover in this thread but since I knew I was going to finish it anyways, eh, why not

placed in B rank

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next: transistor, I want to clear out the supergiant catalogue
Patatitta
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Transistor

pleasently surprised, good game

Another game by supergiant games, creators of bastion, the previous game I covered. This game is about this singer girl who picks up a super cool technological sword that gives her powers and it's her duty to restore the world, funny that both bastion and this are about restoring the world

the game is once again, a top down hack and slash, however this is more original than bastion and I would even say more original than hades, the game by itself is very fast, you're going to be overwhelmed easily, but you can quite literally stop time, planify your moves and then do a perfect sequence, and you can do that on a cooldown, I really liked this, adds more tactical depth to the combats above just "go hit things very fast very hard"

the skill system is also generally pretty genius, you have 4 ability slots and a lot of skill functions, every skill function can also be applied as a mod for another function or as a passive. Most of these effects aren't very different to what the base attack does, so you can just have the skill of shooting a laser with the debuff and damage of the melee attack, which makes it fairly well balanced

now for me the best part is how they force you to make lots of different builds. If everything is well balanced and new skills don't power creep, how do you encourage the player to experiment?, in this game, after you lose all your health, you don't die, instead, you regen to max health BUT you lose a function you're currently using, and that function won't be available until 2 checkpoints later. Meaning, you once again have to go to the drawing board and design a new build

it's hard to die, but at the same time the is tension because you don't want to lose your super cool build, but again, not losing makes it not very likely that you lose progress, which feels bad

now, having said that, I kinda wish the game was harder. The game has this thing called limiters that you can use to buff enemies, kinda how you can increase the difficulty of your runs in hades or how you can buff enemies in bastion, this carries with itself a xp boost but honestly it's so small that if you turn it on it's mostly because of you wanting a harder difficulty

even with all my available limiters on, the game was really never that hard, so for me to lose a function was difficult and only happened a few times during the playthrough, I wish I was forced to experiment even harder. Bastion defenitively felt like a harder game, I didn't go all blessings on that game, but that also may just be me being better at strategy than real time action combat

The game is also very short, I beat it in only 3 days playing maybe a hour and a half each day, which, honestly good length

I really don't have much to comment on the story, it's cleary not the focus and everything in terms of worldbuilding and plot is very limited

ost is good as usual

placed on A rank

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i'm going to be playing Pyre to finish out the SuperGiant games library but since that hasn't been requested i'm not going to cover it, going to label the queue as empty for now
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abraker
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Patatitta wrote:

Transistor

pleasently surprised, good game
ooooo I remem playing this game back in 2014. I liked the deco vibes
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Patatitta
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abraker wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Transistor

pleasently surprised, good game
ooooo I remem playing this game back in 2014. I liked the deco vibes
ngl I think the "deco vibes" actively retracted from my experience because i'm studying IT and this game is all about technology and that sort of stuff and like the skills are functions and are written like a function so I come back tired from thinking about code and then I Breach(); and I go fuck off
Ymir
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Ymir
The Dry

Australian Film, good
Patatitta
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Ymir wrote:

The Dry

Australian Film, good
sure
Patatitta
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The Dry

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not very strong opinions about this one

this movie is your typical obsessive detective investigates murder in small town, it really does not do anything that you haven't seen alerady a bunch of times, it's more of the same for people who are into that. It's quiet and slow to give this feeling of complexity and drama but it doesn't really say anything particullary deep

the biggest attraction of this movie is that it's a australian movie about australia, but i'm not australian so idk

placed in C rank
Karmine
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Karmine
The Hollow Point
Patatitta
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Karmine wrote:

The Hollow Point
sure
Patatitta
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The Hollow Point

I completely forgot to write about this movie, I think that showcases my thoughts on this perfectly

It's just bad, it features a very simple and unoriginal western story, with some famous actors on it but that's about it, while the actors themselves are famous the general level of acting in this movie is pretty bad and idk I think i've already forgotten about the plot of this movie

how did you even discover this movie/why did you think of requesting it?

placed in D rank
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Karmine
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Karmine
Tbh I mostly forgot about it too lol I don't know why I randomly remembered it.

It's not that bad though.
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reffty_gag
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The Caricature of Reincarnation (manga)

this is my first manga i read (it's just a random manga my brother found at the book store), and i hate it but keep reading it for no reason. anyway i can guess your rating (it's C or B)
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Patatitta
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reffty_gag wrote:

The Caricature of Reincarnation (manga)

this is my first manga i read (it's just a random manga my brother found at the book store), and i hate it but keep reading it for no reason. anyway i can guess your rating (it's C or B)
this?, if it's that one, then it's not fully scanlated, so I can't really read it
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reffty_gag
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Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

The Caricature of Reincarnation (manga)

this is my first manga i read (it's just a random manga my brother found at the book store), and i hate it but keep reading it for no reason. anyway i can guess your rating (it's C or B)
this?, if it's that one, then it's not fully scanlated, so I can't really read it
its ok brotha
reffty_gag
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reffty_gag
FLCL
Lycoris Recoil
Patatitta
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already watched flcl not too fond of it will write later and also will watch lycoris
Corne2Plum3
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Snow White 2025 :troll_face:
frothyyy
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frothyyy
are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
Patatitta
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Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Snow White 2025 :troll_face:
it requires for you to have seen the movie


frothyyy wrote:

are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
I love ultrakill, however it's neither story focused or finished so i'm going to have to pass
Patatitta
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FLCL

it's fineeeeeeeee

FLCL is a 6 episode OVA mecha anime created by gainax, most famously the studio behind evangelion. It's short, and it places all of it's bets on the animation. The story isn't bad by any means, but it really feels they're just letting the animation and comedy breathe rather than try to tell a super deep complex storyline

the actual animation is pretty neat, there are some pretty original shots like the manga one in chapter 1 and the end and the famous 3d rotating shock gif that you've seen hundreds of time



now, did I actually laugh that much while watching it?, no, not really

do I feel that the animation is actually really fucking interesting outside it being a neat comedy piece?, no, not really, while it is avant garde it doesn't really do anything that I go "oh more animes should adapt this" or did it have anything where I go "ohh so flcl coined this technique"

I feel a lot of the fame this anime has mainly comes from the cult following studio gainax has developed over the years, but personally it just didn't hit that much

placed in C rank
frothyyy
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frothyyy

Patatitta wrote:

frothyyy wrote:

are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
I love ultrakill, however it's neither story focused or finished so i'm going to have to pass
haha that's fine! what about a review of just shapes and beats? it's a completed story and i would like to hear your opinion on it
Noreu
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frothyyy wrote:

are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
i love that game so fucking bad that ive speedrunned through it and played it for hours lmao
reffty_gag
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Noreu wrote:

frothyyy wrote:

are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
i love that game so fucking bad that ive speedrunned through it and played it for hours lmao
818,5 HOURSS ???????
Noreu
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Noreu
wanna see what those hands can do?


theres more speedruns in my channel if you wanna see lmfao
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reffty_gag
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Noreu wrote:

wanna see what those hands can do?


theres more speedruns in my channel if you wanna see lmfao
OKAY OKAY OKAY
Noreu
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Noreu

reffty_gag wrote:

Noreu wrote:

wanna see what those hands can do?


theres more speedruns in my channel if you wanna see lmfao
OKAY OKAY OKAY
I WAS SO SHOCKED THAT IDK HOW TO REACT..
frothyyy
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frothyyy

Noreu wrote:

frothyyy wrote:

are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
i love that game so fucking bad that ive speedrunned through it and played it for hours lmao
my friend got me into ultrakill and let's say i didn't regret it. it's also the first fps game i've played after 10 years or so
Corne2Plum3
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Patatitta wrote:

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Snow White 2025 :troll_face:
it requires for you to have seen the movie
Patatitta
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Lycoris Recoil

it's nice

lycoris recoil is a action/slice of life-ish about this group of people called the lycoris which are basically secret police dressed as high school students because it's "urban camouflage" (it's just moe)

I feel there are two main, and fairly distinct element in this anime, you have the segment where the actual plot is happening with the arms deal and conspiracy and mistery and then you have all the moments of just the two main protagonist living their life together

I don't think the actual mistery part is that well fleshed out, I think the villain motivations are weak, the plan idiotic at best, and in general I don't think it has much to say. It constantly talks about this balance between the different factions and how it must always be equivalent but honestly idk where they were going with that

every character has a marked and very strong personality, in many ways them """"camouflaging"""" as high school studetns help beacuse it's more normal for someone in that age range to behave in that way, however all the adults are the same with like 2 exceptions so I don't think they really thought about it that much

they're not exactly complex or deep or whatever, they're just cute, which works well enough for the slice of life segments but no so much for the big mistery action thing.

In many ways I feel those two things are at odds with each other, a lot of the time they just use the action segments asa a plot device to get them into cute situations at homes, and sometimes they just talk about panties for a whole episode without much explanation or plot relevance in the future

it's a anime that I respect but honestly I think they would have been better off just embracing the slice of life elements (or maybe even going full yuri because yeah there is a lot of yuri bait in lycoris), I feel they just used guns and death and destruction as a way to get audiences that aren't directly interested in that type of anime due to the negative connotation that we have here of the slife of life genre to watch it, which I can understand but I just think this anime is as inferior version of what it could have been

anyways, I still enjoyed it, placed on B rank
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A Minecraft Movie

technically it's PG 13+
Patatitta
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JLuca913 891 wrote:

A Minecraft Movie

technically it's PG 13+
are you saying that to say "the movie is not for kids it's like adult and whatever" or what exactly

also, i'm sorry but I do not want to watch the minecraft movie
JLuca913 891
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Patatitta wrote:

JLuca913 891 wrote:

A Minecraft Movie

technically it's PG 13+
are you saying that to say "the movie is not for kids it's like adult and whatever" or what exactly

also, i'm sorry but I do not want to watch the minecraft movie
yes, I thought you like watching movies that aren't for kids sooo


oh ok
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Patatitta
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JLuca913 891 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

JLuca913 891 wrote:

A Minecraft Movie

technically it's PG 13+
are you saying that to say "the movie is not for kids it's like adult and whatever" or what exactly

also, i'm sorry but I do not want to watch the minecraft movie
yes, I thought you like watching movies that aren't for kids sooo


oh ok
you're right I like adult movies, still, I don't think the PG indicator is the best measure for that
frothyyy
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frothyyy wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

frothyyy wrote:

are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
I love ultrakill, however it's neither story focused or finished so i'm going to have to pass
haha that's fine! what about a review of just shapes and beats? it's a completed story and i would like to hear your opinion on it
bump in case you haven't seen this :)
Patatitta
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frothyyy wrote:

frothyyy wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

frothyyy wrote:

are you able to do a review of ULTRAKILL (video game)? let me know :)
I love ultrakill, however it's neither story focused or finished so i'm going to have to pass
haha that's fine! what about a review of just shapes and beats? it's a completed story and i would like to hear your opinion on it
bump in case you haven't seen this :)
I missed it, my bad

still denied, it having a story mode is different than it being story focusesd, the game is good tho
179bpm
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179bpm
i don't know if this counts because it sort of requires music but can you do the because the internet screenplay

basically it's a screenplay that's supposed to be read while certain songs from the album of the same name are played to represent a soundtrack, i'm not asking for you to review the music but just the screenplay

here's the screenplay itself
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Patatitta
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I don't think i'm doing that one
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listen to PUP's newest album "Who Will Look After The Dogs?"
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IAMACROBA wrote:

listen to PUP's newest album "Who Will Look After The Dogs?"
he doesn't analyze music
Patatitta
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IAMACROBA wrote:

listen to PUP's newest album "Who Will Look After The Dogs?"
1- I don't do music
2- you quite literally did a "quitw" topic today i'm not going to accept something of someone who is not going to read it
CLICKMACHINE
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Patatitta wrote:

2- you quite literally did a "quitw" topic today i'm not going to accept something of someone who is not going to read it
C'mon you know he ain't gonna quit. He'll probs still chill around in forums...

IAMACROBA wrote:

listen to PUP's newest album "Who Will Look After The Dogs?"
Still listened to 4 songs but I'm kinda digging 'em. Way more chill than the previous ones...
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https://myanimelist.net/anime/33352/Violet_Evergarden
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reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/33352/Violet_Evergarden
already watched will do later
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Violet Evergarden

I don't remember that much as i've probably saw that anime 5-6 years ago by now, but I will do my best to recall everything, I also wont mention the movie as I assume you just have finished watching the anime and you've not seen it.

Violet evergarden is about this girl who was born in the frontlines, and was raised as a soldier, told to ignore any sort of human emotion, but as the war ends, she must fit in society for the first time ever, in doing so she obtains a job writing letters for people who don't know how to write

The catch of that job is that we don't write the same way we speak, and in order to be good at the job you had to write something different than they were saying, to convey the feelings in a more effective way, feelings our protagonist doesn't understand

The cards that the protagonist must write are not exactly business letters or very plain things, but instead, they're all very emotional. For someone uneducated to pay the not insignificant ammount of money required to get a letter written and sent, it requires for something big to happen. By listening on the story the protagonist is also adquiring second hand life experiences that later makes her grow as a person, and that is reflected on her writing

the appareance of the protagonit is also very interesting. In the war, she lost a arm, so she has a prosthetical arm. This works to dehumanize her, to make her feel more of a robot, the rest of the anime is trying to fight against that perception of her and really show she is still just human

there is also a romance subplot that sets up a logical climax to the story. Feeling first hand love is a good way to show the character has already reached a point where she's functional in society, that she has learned to understand and express emotion, however most of that comes in the movie.

the animation is beautiful and the constant traveling of our protagonist really allows them to really flex that.

Great anime, really enjoyed, placed on A rank
czeczotka
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czeczotka
Read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Patatitta wrote:

Violet Evergarden

I don't remember that much as i've probably saw that anime 5-6 years ago by now, but I will do my best to recall everything, I also wont mention the movie as I assume you just have finished watching the anime and you've not seen it.

Violet evergarden is about this girl who was born in the frontlines, and was raised as a soldier, told to ignore any sort of human emotion, but as the war ends, she must fit in society for the first time ever, in doing so she obtains a job writing letters for people who don't know how to write

The catch of that job is that we don't write the same way we speak, and in order to be good at the job you had to write something different than they were saying, to convey the feelings in a more effective way, feelings our protagonist doesn't understand

The cards that the protagonist must write are not exactly business letters or very plain things, but instead, they're all very emotional. For someone uneducated to pay the not insignificant ammount of money required to get a letter written and sent, it requires for something big to happen. By listening on the story the protagonist is also adquiring second hand life experiences that later makes her grow as a person, and that is reflected on her writing

the appareance of the protagonit is also very interesting. In the war, she lost a arm, so she has a prosthetical arm. This works to dehumanize her, to make her feel more of a robot, the rest of the anime is trying to fight against that perception of her and really show she is still just human

there is also a romance subplot that sets up a logical climax to the story. Feeling first hand love is a good way to show the character has already reached a point where she's functional in society, that she has learned to understand and express emotion, however most of that comes in the movie.

the animation is beautiful and the constant traveling of our protagonist really allows them to really flex that.

Great anime, really enjoyed, placed on A rank
watch the movie pls, i just finished it
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czeczotka wrote:

Read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
have you read it yourself?


reffty_gag wrote:

watch the movie pls, i just finished it
I did already watch the movie, I don't think I will cover it tho since I remember jackshit about it, it was good tho, probably would go on A rank.
czeczotka
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Patatitta wrote:

czeczotka wrote:

Read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
have you read it yourself?
yes, that's why I am asking u to read it, it's a good book imo
Patatitta
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czeczotka wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

czeczotka wrote:

Read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
have you read it yourself?
yes, that's why I am asking u to read it, it's a good book imo
okay then I will read it, whenever people ask stuff like that I usually ask because it's not exactly common here in OT
czeczotka
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Patatitta wrote:

czeczotka wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

czeczotka wrote:

Read The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
have you read it yourself?
yes, that's why I am asking u to read it, it's a good book imo
okay then I will read it, whenever people ask stuff like that I usually ask because it's not exactly common here in OT
icic, I hope you enjoy it, its not too long so shouldn't be an issue to get through
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The Master and Margarita (sadly dropped)

this is going to be a weird one, TLDR, I sadly could not get through this book, although, I don't think the book is bad by any means, and it's definitively not going to stop me from talking at length from a related tho largely not directly relevant to the books topic.

The Master and Margarita is a masterpiece of global literature, a part of the literary canon, one of the best and most important novels from the USSR and in general that entire century, it's been discussed at length by many scholars, but sadly, myself, a 19yo, it student in a medium size city in spain, wasn't really vibing with it

whenever I made this thread I made it under a certain thought and philosophy, even tho I actually didn't directly think all of this back then. I just like to talk about stuff, not only that, but I do think of myself as someone who, compared with the rest in OT is well cultured, therefore making my thoughts and general analysis of certain works remotely interesting. In addition, it gets me to break new ground, get out of my comfort zone and try new things.

most media I interact with, and most media that was requested on this thread, are very friendly to that type of conversation, however, classic books are a different beast, not because they're long or wordy or complex, but because they feel solved, as I said earlier, this is a book that has discussed at length by people way smarter than me. The edition that I got from the book even starts with a fairly long prologue that is just an essay of the editor about the book themes and message, that completely changes the way I engage with it, not just because the essay puts a certain expectation and ideals onto my mind, just that concept of that essay existing, and it having a wikipedia page as long as it is, that changes the dynamic

The way I feel is that I can't just read the book, enjoy it my way, and just interpret it here (which there probably will be a lot of very bad interpretations that just have not been corrected by other people, be that indifference, people not reading the review, or people thinking I was onto something, I do not know, probably a mix of all of them). But instead, it feels like i'm just trying to get and understand and follow that official explanation. That opinion feels like a authority, it feels like an exam

I don't read that many books, I enjoy them, but it's not my primary fix, and I feel that these people writing the wikipedia and the essay and the reviews are completely right. If I come to a different opinion, that's a failure on me as a reader, on my reading comprehension, at the end of the day, they got the historical context, they got a better view and general understanding on the medium, hell, they even studied that at university

I can't possibly come up with anything that they haven't alraedy said, and if I were to do so, I would probably feel like i'm reading it wrong. This thread has kinda conditioned to actually just look at everything with a critical eye, and just doing that in this book is stressful, that doesn't really happen in any other medium. The whole concept of the literary cannon and universal literature, the culture surrounding it, just doesn't exist in movies for example. Even if there are people who have studied movies as much as people do literature, and even if there are movies that have been discussed to earth and back, it stills feels legal to give your opinion, the sentiment is different

so what's my actual opinion on the book?, well, i've not got much of one, I actually just started reading this book during dead time in class, like I normally do with most literature. But be it the pressure of the final exames or whatever, I didn't get completely hooked into it, and I grew a bit distracted reading it, at some point my brain just stopped registering the words, and while I tried to get back in the groove, reading this book felt like a slog and I just wasn't enjoying it. I got to chapter 20 before dropping it. I bet that if I were to give the book a second chance, starting again from page 1, and force myself to not try to read it like I would a typical book I could probably enjoy it, I just don't reall want to do that.

it's just, i've learnt I don't like reading books like this, again, they just feel stressful man. Don't take it against universal literature tho, I think that's just a personal problem of me having the wrong mental, i've not met or read anything online that shares a sentiment like the one I have on this topic, so it's probably just a me thing.

Honestly this may just be a manifestation of my academical stress in book form LMAO


not placed on tier list

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Could you do Persona 4? I'm a little over halfway through the game according to howlongtobeat and I'd be pretty interested in seeing what you think of it compared to p5. hopefully you don't mind it being 70h since there's no queue
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Patatitta
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179bpm wrote:

Could you do Persona 4? I'm a little over halfway through the game according to howlongtobeat and I'd be pretty interested in seeing what you think of it compared to p5. hopefully you don't mind it being 70h since there's no queue
while I did enjoy p5, I don't really plan on playing any more persona soon, they are really just too long. There is no queue right, but honestly I don't think i'm going to play what could probably the second longest game i've ever beaten (just behind p5) based on a recommendation of someone who hasn't even completed it
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Radiation House
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CLICKMACHINE wrote:

Radiation House
accepted
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Radiation House

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I think the core of this manga is really good, it's just maybe there is too much fluff, the good is too diluted

Radiation House is a still ongoing medical drama manga following a radiologist who is very good and very skilled. The structure of the manga is quite reminiscent of a CGDCT manga, as it is fairly goaless. It's not a murder mistery when, whenver they catch the killer that's the end of the manga, instead patients just come and go, and the manga showcases different problems and different diagnosis and tries to educate the reader.

This is a manga with A LOT of exposition dialogue, because again, I feel a lot of the focus of this manga is purely educational. The protagonist will dedicate a whole chapter about monologuing about the specific intricacies of a diagnosis citing real world cases, I think it's a very interesting read in that regard, and again, reminds me of CGDCT anime, as those are also very educational.

At least for the first third or so of the manga, it also humanizes the profession of a radiologist quite a bit. First of all, they just do diagnosis, they aren't doing the surgeries or curing the patients, and sometimes you just got to say to the patient "lmao you're going to die", which is sad, and I really like that. Another aspect is that it shows that medical professionals can also make mistake, that health science is complicated, that while the career may be long, there are still new advancemetns and things that are not taught, and that the medics may not yet understand

What I do dislike is that there is a subtle powerscaling on the manga, I feel the cases do get more intense, kinda abandoning what I said of humanizing the radiologist and having the protagonist be extremely heroic and superhuman, like in one section where they solve a crime, I don't know, I felt that was excessive, they start trying to add more character arcs and drama between the cast and I just think it pushes the manga away from what it does best, that is all the actual medical stuff

the art is really solid but I don't think the manga takes much advantage on it. I remember, it was around chapter 35, I remember there being some panels that quite shocked me in how good they were, and further along the manga you can spot really subtle techniques and stuff that are REALLY good but the manga doesn't really allow the art to shine, I don't think there are many big panels or moments where you can go "holy shit the art is GOOD" which is a shame because really, the mangaka can draw very, very well

so yeah, just a solid manga where I don't think all the potential is realized, the good segments are really good but I wish there was less stuff between the good segments you know

placed in A rank
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Read Akane Banashi.
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https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
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Patatitta wrote:

Radiation House

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Review
I hella agree with allat. The author did his research very well. Apparently he even did a mammogram on himself too.
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Kobold84 wrote:

Read Akane Banashi.
accepted


reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
have you watched it yourself?
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Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
have you watched it yourself?
yessir
Patatitta
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Patatitta

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
have you watched it yourself?
yessir
I watched it while it was airing and I greatly enjoyed it

chi is a anime about the discovery of the astronomical model of heliocentrism, and all the problems that created with the church. While it's very known that the church wasn't exactly a big fan of changes like this, there aren't really all that many movies or animes about it

chi offers once again a really detailed picture of not only how the research was conducted, but of how it was to live in that era, the anime shifts between many characters and I feel every character offers a different perspective on the society of it's time, from the priviliged to the poor, from men to women, from believer to non believer, etc.

I don't think it's a spoiler to say chi is a very brutal anime, like i'm surprised at the ammount of characters that die, and I really enjoy how death is portrayed in this anime, it's not always dramatic or like the climax of the character arc or whatever, most of the deaths in this anime and unceremonious and unfair. This anime isn't supposed to have "hype momenst and aura", it's just a portrayal of it's era

the art is fucking amazing, like the sky looks STUNNING, you see it and you understand why every character in this anime is seemengly interest in astronomy LMAO, I don't really have much to say other than that

the ending is just also really good, it turns out that at the end of the day, what seemed like to be the big moment where the theory was complete and was going to be released to the public... never ends up happening, the anime ends with a message that goes "oh yeah this shit went on for another 200 years lmao" or something like that, I don't remember the exact timeframe, but you didn't feel cheated out

the anime carries this concept of that while you may die, your ideas may persist. The first protagonist basically commited suicide due to that mindset, them failing doesn't come to great surprise having seen the brutality of that era, but it's hopeful, we live in the current day and you know their research does end up making it big and revolutianizing the world, the anime didn't want to show the full process, it didn't just want to show the life of the final guy, they wanted to depict the era, and they do an amazing job at that

really solid anime, great animation, really interesting story of astronomy, great commentary on the era, super cool narrative structure, great finale, I don't know what else to say, this is a S rank.
reffty_gag
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reffty_gag

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
have you watched it yourself?
yessir
I watched it while it was airing and I greatly enjoyed it

chi is a anime about the discovery of the astronomical model of heliocentrism, and all the problems that created with the church. While it's very known that the church wasn't exactly a big fan of changes like this, there aren't really all that many movies or animes about it

chi offers once again a really detailed picture of not only how the research was conducted, but of how it was to live in that era, the anime shifts between many characters and I feel every character offers a different perspective on the society of it's time, from the priviliged to the poor, from men to women, from believer to non believer, etc.

I don't think it's a spoiler to say chi is a very brutal anime, like i'm surprised at the ammount of characters that die, and I really enjoy how death is portrayed in this anime, it's not always dramatic or like the climax of the character arc or whatever, most of the deaths in this anime and unceremonious and unfair. This anime isn't supposed to have "hype momenst and aura", it's just a portrayal of it's era

the art is fucking amazing, like the sky looks STUNNING, you see it and you understand why every character in this anime is seemengly interest in astronomy LMAO, I don't really have much to say other than that

the ending is just also really good, it turns out that at the end of the day, what seemed like to be the big moment where the theory was complete and was going to be released to the public... never ends up happening, the anime ends with a message that goes "oh yeah this shit went on for another 200 years lmao" or something like that, I don't remember the exact timeframe, but you didn't feel cheated out

the anime carries this concept of that while you may die, your ideas may persist. The first protagonist basically commited suicide due to that mindset, them failing doesn't come to great surprise having seen the brutality of that era, but it's hopeful, we live in the current day and you know their research does end up making it big and revolutianizing the world, the anime didn't want to show the full process, it didn't just want to show the life of the final guy, they wanted to depict the era, and they do an amazing job at that

really solid anime, great animation, really interesting story of astronomy, great commentary on the era, super cool narrative structure, great finale, I don't know what else to say, this is a S rank.
finally an S rank after awhile
Patatitta
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Patatitta

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
have you watched it yourself?
yessir
I watched it while it was airing and I greatly enjoyed it

chi is a anime about the discovery of the astronomical model of heliocentrism, and all the problems that created with the church. While it's very known that the church wasn't exactly a big fan of changes like this, there aren't really all that many movies or animes about it

chi offers once again a really detailed picture of not only how the research was conducted, but of how it was to live in that era, the anime shifts between many characters and I feel every character offers a different perspective on the society of it's time, from the priviliged to the poor, from men to women, from believer to non believer, etc.

I don't think it's a spoiler to say chi is a very brutal anime, like i'm surprised at the ammount of characters that die, and I really enjoy how death is portrayed in this anime, it's not always dramatic or like the climax of the character arc or whatever, most of the deaths in this anime and unceremonious and unfair. This anime isn't supposed to have "hype momenst and aura", it's just a portrayal of it's era

the art is fucking amazing, like the sky looks STUNNING, you see it and you understand why every character in this anime is seemengly interest in astronomy LMAO, I don't really have much to say other than that

the ending is just also really good, it turns out that at the end of the day, what seemed like to be the big moment where the theory was complete and was going to be released to the public... never ends up happening, the anime ends with a message that goes "oh yeah this shit went on for another 200 years lmao" or something like that, I don't remember the exact timeframe, but you didn't feel cheated out

the anime carries this concept of that while you may die, your ideas may persist. The first protagonist basically commited suicide due to that mindset, them failing doesn't come to great surprise having seen the brutality of that era, but it's hopeful, we live in the current day and you know their research does end up making it big and revolutianizing the world, the anime didn't want to show the full process, it didn't just want to show the life of the final guy, they wanted to depict the era, and they do an amazing job at that

really solid anime, great animation, really interesting story of astronomy, great commentary on the era, super cool narrative structure, great finale, I don't know what else to say, this is a S rank.
finally an S rank after awhile
after requesting quite literally every anime you've seen the moment you finish watching it

also, if you wanted an S rank that bad, you could just have looked at my MAL profile or something you know?
reffty_gag
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reffty_gag

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
have you watched it yourself?
yessir
I watched it while it was airing and I greatly enjoyed it

chi is a anime about the discovery of the astronomical model of heliocentrism, and all the problems that created with the church. While it's very known that the church wasn't exactly a big fan of changes like this, there aren't really all that many movies or animes about it

chi offers once again a really detailed picture of not only how the research was conducted, but of how it was to live in that era, the anime shifts between many characters and I feel every character offers a different perspective on the society of it's time, from the priviliged to the poor, from men to women, from believer to non believer, etc.

I don't think it's a spoiler to say chi is a very brutal anime, like i'm surprised at the ammount of characters that die, and I really enjoy how death is portrayed in this anime, it's not always dramatic or like the climax of the character arc or whatever, most of the deaths in this anime and unceremonious and unfair. This anime isn't supposed to have "hype momenst and aura", it's just a portrayal of it's era

the art is fucking amazing, like the sky looks STUNNING, you see it and you understand why every character in this anime is seemengly interest in astronomy LMAO, I don't really have much to say other than that

the ending is just also really good, it turns out that at the end of the day, what seemed like to be the big moment where the theory was complete and was going to be released to the public... never ends up happening, the anime ends with a message that goes "oh yeah this shit went on for another 200 years lmao" or something like that, I don't remember the exact timeframe, but you didn't feel cheated out

the anime carries this concept of that while you may die, your ideas may persist. The first protagonist basically commited suicide due to that mindset, them failing doesn't come to great surprise having seen the brutality of that era, but it's hopeful, we live in the current day and you know their research does end up making it big and revolutianizing the world, the anime didn't want to show the full process, it didn't just want to show the life of the final guy, they wanted to depict the era, and they do an amazing job at that

really solid anime, great animation, really interesting story of astronomy, great commentary on the era, super cool narrative structure, great finale, I don't know what else to say, this is a S rank.
finally an S rank after awhile
after requesting quite literally every anime you've seen the moment you finish watching it

also, if you wanted an S rank that bad, you could just have looked at my MAL profile or something you know?
no, it's not bcs i REALLY want that S rank, it's only that you rarely give an S rank on this thread
Patatitta
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Patatitta

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/52215/Chi_Chikyuu_no_Undou_ni_Tsuite
have you watched it yourself?
yessir
I watched it while it was airing and I greatly enjoyed it

chi is a anime about the discovery of the astronomical model of heliocentrism, and all the problems that created with the church. While it's very known that the church wasn't exactly a big fan of changes like this, there aren't really all that many movies or animes about it

chi offers once again a really detailed picture of not only how the research was conducted, but of how it was to live in that era, the anime shifts between many characters and I feel every character offers a different perspective on the society of it's time, from the priviliged to the poor, from men to women, from believer to non believer, etc.

I don't think it's a spoiler to say chi is a very brutal anime, like i'm surprised at the ammount of characters that die, and I really enjoy how death is portrayed in this anime, it's not always dramatic or like the climax of the character arc or whatever, most of the deaths in this anime and unceremonious and unfair. This anime isn't supposed to have "hype momenst and aura", it's just a portrayal of it's era

the art is fucking amazing, like the sky looks STUNNING, you see it and you understand why every character in this anime is seemengly interest in astronomy LMAO, I don't really have much to say other than that

the ending is just also really good, it turns out that at the end of the day, what seemed like to be the big moment where the theory was complete and was going to be released to the public... never ends up happening, the anime ends with a message that goes "oh yeah this shit went on for another 200 years lmao" or something like that, I don't remember the exact timeframe, but you didn't feel cheated out

the anime carries this concept of that while you may die, your ideas may persist. The first protagonist basically commited suicide due to that mindset, them failing doesn't come to great surprise having seen the brutality of that era, but it's hopeful, we live in the current day and you know their research does end up making it big and revolutianizing the world, the anime didn't want to show the full process, it didn't just want to show the life of the final guy, they wanted to depict the era, and they do an amazing job at that

really solid anime, great animation, really interesting story of astronomy, great commentary on the era, super cool narrative structure, great finale, I don't know what else to say, this is a S rank.
finally an S rank after awhile
after requesting quite literally every anime you've seen the moment you finish watching it

also, if you wanted an S rank that bad, you could just have looked at my MAL profile or something you know?
no, it's not bcs i REALLY want that S rank, it's only that you rarely give an S rank on this thread
yeah that's fair
Patatitta
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Akane Banashi

I need to stop reading the shounen jump, this is truly going to be the what kills me

The previous manga that I read on this thread, radiation house, started publication in late 2015, and now, almost 10 years later, it has released 12 volumes, pretty impressive, nice, steady rate. Akane banashi started publishing in early 2022, and now, 3 years later, it has 17 volumes.

I very much didn't enjoy akane banashi. It is a manga about rakugo, in the same way ping pong is a anime about football. Akane banashi follows akane, a young promising rakugo star, rakugo being the old japanese type of theater where it's just one guy sitting and doing all the characters and telling a funny or interesting story. Mangas about rakugo or featuring are nothing new, in fact, I think this is the third i've seen. It is a very ancient way of storytelling, and frankly, a dying one, it's popularity is limited and most of it's audience is old, it's not something new generations generally engage with.

However, the essence of rakugo, the one guy sitting talking, I feel that even in 2025, there is value to that, like, hell, you could probably replicate the whole 1962 movie harakiri in rakugo format, and that shit is amazing, so it's not like you can tell a compelling story with rakugo.

Whenever rakugo is usually displayed on screen, it's usually very slow, very calm, very introspective, as this type of ancient theater is considered noble by society standard.

So how does akane bashi deal with rakugo? well, they just use it as a medium to have different characters fight. Instead of a fist fight, or a fight with magical powers, or even playing volleyball, they just do rakugo. Again, this is nothing new, maybe the specifics are, but using a third thing to make characters fight without actual violence is a tale as old as time.

In most manga, whenever they're explaining something, they just do some narration or exposition dialogue, of the character calmly explaining how something works, like for example, in radiation hosue, they explained a lot of medical science, in yuru camp, they teach about camping and local views, however, akane banashi isn't like this, if you end up learning about rakugo, that ends up being a side effect.

There is a difference between going "He is currently doing a technique known as [...] which involves doing small talk before telling the story to see the moods of the audience", and, HOLY SHIT, HE IS DOING THE [...] TECHNIQUE?!?!?! HE IS TALKING TO THE PEOPLE TO KNOW THEIR MOODS!!! HE IS TO BE FEARED... if you couldn't already guess, the second is what the manga uses.

It's not only the dialogue that is like that, but the art too, the lighting and shadows are menacing, the way the characters are introduced feels like they're talking about enemies to be feared, sometimes they do these imaginary backgrounds, which is a very common technique don't get me wrong, featuring skeletons and generally unpleasant things to show the power of the adversary

so yeah, this is just a typical battle shounen, just with a layer of abstraction. That battle shounen story isn't particullary interesting either, I don't feel like it's trying to say a message, it isn't making me any strong emotions, in fact, I was just bored half the manga, the story is exceedingly typical. If i'm being cynical, I would say the rakugo layer just tries to give a artsy feel to the manga, whenever it isn't like that.

placed on D rank
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did i ever requested bobobo
Patatitta
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Reyalp51 wrote:

did i ever requested bobobo
no you didn't, manga or anime?
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Patatitta wrote:

so yeah, this is just a typical battle shounen, just with a layer of abstraction. That battle shounen story isn't particullary interesting either, I don't feel like it's trying to say a message, it isn't making me any strong emotions, in fact, I was just bored half the manga, the story is exceedingly typical. If i'm being cynical, I would say the rakugo layer just tries to give a artsy feel to the manga, whenever it isn't like that.

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Your review pretty much echoed my thoughts, though I think it's a decent manga for what it is. I feel like Akane-banashi is a poor man's act-age (rip), but it focuses too much on shounen instead of rakugo and personal stories. The constant power levels were especially annoying.

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju had a much better rakugo story, can you review that too? Either manga or anime, but I only watched the anime.
Patatitta
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Patatitta

Kobold84 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

so yeah, this is just a typical battle shounen, just with a layer of abstraction. That battle shounen story isn't particullary interesting either, I don't feel like it's trying to say a message, it isn't making me any strong emotions, in fact, I was just bored half the manga, the story is exceedingly typical. If i'm being cynical, I would say the rakugo layer just tries to give a artsy feel to the manga, whenever it isn't like that.

placed on D rank
Your review pretty much echoed my thoughts, though I think it's a decent manga for what it is. I feel like Akane-banashi is a poor man's act-age (rip), but it focuses too much on shounen instead of rakugo and personal stories. The constant power levels were especially annoying.

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju had a much better rakugo story, can you review that too? Either manga or anime, but I only watched the anime.
tbh I did watch it but I frankly don't remember shit, I remember enjoying it tho
Reyalp51
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Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

did i ever requested bobobo
no you didn't, manga or anime?
anime goes hard, i would suggest spanish dub because im biased
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Reyalp51 wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

did i ever requested bobobo
no you didn't, manga or anime?
anime goes hard, i would suggest spanish dub because im biased
sure
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Watch the first season of video game highschool

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsMtUWKCmBPRFzqglpk4YQlNFy8wzSXBN
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abraker wrote:

Watch the first season of video game highschool

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsMtUWKCmBPRFzqglpk4YQlNFy8wzSXBN
denied that sounsd awful
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exile pata
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Fujiya
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I didn't find this in the list of finished maybe I'm blind there is no way no one mentioned it

«How Do I Improve!?»
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Fujiya wrote:

I didn't find this in the list of finished maybe I'm blind there is no way no one mentioned it

«How Do I Improve!?»
I did read it when it initially came out but it wasn't requested

it's kinda bad, art is extremely plain, and kinda uninspered, it's all very standard paneling, and the character designs/backgrounds, outside of the obvious references aren't exactly polished, it's no usuzumi no hate it's my point. The oneshot just repeats a lot of anime tropes repeating it to osu, which I know it's supposed to be the comedy but it just doesn't land, repeated with the osu memes which eh. I don't think shounens work well on a oneshot format, given that you don't have the emotional weight of the training arc or frankly care about any of the characters.

It's just a funny "haha it's osu!", but there really isn't anything else going for it. D rank.
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fair enough
Corne2Plum3
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Deltarune chapter 3 (not the 4 didn't started it yet!)
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Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Deltarune chapter 3 (not the 4 didn't started it yet!)
can't talk about 3 without talking about 4
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Apothecary Diary
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Rezq Gokou wrote:

Apothecary Diary
anime is still not finished
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really? I thought it's already finished. Well, I'll leave forum again then
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Rezq Gokou wrote:

really? I thought it's already finished. Well, I'll leave forum again then
even if it had finished i'm not going to talk about it if you've not watched it you know
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skipping bobobo, too long for my body rn and also reyalp watched it when he was 7 which does not count in my books
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