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Whelp time to reverse this trend: I'm a few episodes into Gankutsuou.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love being right, this shit is fucking TRASH. The PS1 cutscene stuck-at-SD Gonzo visuals, the music, the goddamn kid Anakin-level "yipeeeee"-ness ay fuck nah Last Exile is obsolete. My future work is not so much a spite manga anymore as it is a service: A replacement for dead untertainment. So being I dropped that LE rewatch after an episode, I moved on to Gonzo's succeeding work Gankutsuou and what a night & day difference in texture and mood. I had to stop after like 10 minutes unfortunately because pre-HD digital animation injures my cornea when trying to watch it on my OLED, but luckily I found a semi-upscale of the JP Blu-ray so that should help me out. Oh, and the bassist from THE STRANGLERS crooning over the opening? The post-punk masters responsible for "No More Heroes" and "Golden Brown"??! Fuck...

Finished Now And Then, Here And There: A dour slog with an insufferably righteous MC. I love characters suffering as much as the next guy, just don't bore me in the process. Made In Abyss is much more effective misery porn in comparison (which is funny to say because I wouldn't be surprised if there was some influence from N&T, H&T). Last Exile and Gankutsuou are next. Haven't seen either in over a decade through some really shitty Kissanime streams but I remember really digging the latter. With LE however, I recall being pissed off enough at the show squandering its potential to make a spite manga. Maybe I'll change my mind this time (maybe I won't).

Lawrence Kasdan wrote a draft? That sounds like a lost holy grail the likes of Gore Verbinski's Bioshock.

Interlaced beta tape scans of Pilot Candidate confirmed for 5/20.

Midway through Now And Then, Here And There and I'm annoyed the MC has no other character traits other than "heroic."

Still not seen S2 and not sure I care enough to see more (I paused Mugen Train halfway through and never got around to watching the rest).

no me mortifique

I can't see Ari Aster doing Akira. Evangelion tho...

HBO had Real Sex. That was... a show.

Yeah let's air out garbage from literally a decade ago, sure.

I wish I can relive watching Evangelion for the first time. But at the same time being 17 fucking sucked, so nah.

Kids don't watch linear TV.

Aw man. What am I gonna grind into this tinder date's breakfast now?

If there was ever a time to have Redo of Healer lined up...

The venn diagram of people who think Pickle Rick is the funniest thing on earth and the people who think She-Hulk is humanity's greatest sin is a fucking circle. By that logic, this shit's gonna trigger the worst online discourse.

lol

Speak of the devil: Finished Future Diary. This thing is a trainwreck holy shit. Great premise that derails pretty quickly but continues to pile up the wreckage in the biggest cyclone of bullshit that has ever fondled my corneas. Doesn't help I saw this practically off the heels of Chainsaw Man which does all the angsty horny mourning teen stuff too, but with better writing, characters that act like people, and balances the weeb shit with film literacy. In other words, this is a Friday night drunk groupwatch. 10/10

Very quickly making way through a show I've been meaning to see for like 10 years: Future Diary. Strong "2012 was a different time" vibes lol

Fuck y'all and your AI.

I do find the trajectory stange. AS went from a small block in the middle of the night shouting at the kids to get out of the pool (which at the time being 9 years old made me feel rebellious watching it) to AS now practically being Herbert inviting kids to go skinny dipping.

I'm really not a fan of this tumblr faux-anime style.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1640454996821934082 I've not seen a more predictable plot twist since Knock at the Cabin.