Just Passing Through: The Comeback

I've returned from a 10 year hiatus... Blame Hibike! Euphonium for this.

[jibunbosh]

i wish american girls were at least as gyaru as anime makes them out to be. unfortunately no. in real life instead they're just american.

[jibunbosh]

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Shirube Kagari is Kazanari Tsubasa if she grew up in a stable family with loving parents.

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They've done it! Princession managed to Crystallize Phonic Gain. S.O.N.G. in shambles!

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Over the Blaze is so far my favourite Princession song. That Spanish guitar just RIPS.

[danshive]

"Welcome to the VTuber interview. Step one: How thirsty are you for other women?"

"Is... Is that important?"

"Critically so."

"Then very?"

"You're hired."

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She said the thing!

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Hold up...

She's just legally distinct Hiyajo!

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Hot take time: If the first episode of Uzumaki looked the same as the rest of the series, people would have been foaming at the mouth saying that the stilted animation was a brilliant artistic choice that perfectly encapsulated the unease and uncanny horror of Junji Ito's works.

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Yanami Anna is basically a wine aunt in the body of a 15 year old girl

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John Makeine

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One thing that really should bear mentioning is the fact that Hibike! Euphonium is as much KyoAni's story as it is Takeda Ayano's.

Kyoto Animation is headquartered in Uji. It's a story about their city; about kids that could have just as easily been them. Even if you say that maybe the staff aren't from Uji, them working there, being headquartered there, living in its environs allowed them to take ownership of their version of the story in a way that not many creators get a chance to. Add to that all the foundational work that's been done in the previous seasons, as well as them rising back from the incident and the years since.

While I don't doubt that Kyoani is gonna make more great works.

It'll be a while before they produce something as special as Season 3.

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Got to thinking lately about how absolutely dark YuYuYu's setting is.

Madoka Magica gets a lot of the discourse on how some of the early 2010s magical girl anime explore darker themes. While this is absolutely warranted for Madoka, there's something equally if not more horrifying about how YuYuYu is set in a society whose leadership has become so complacent and so protective of the status quo that they've willingly fashioned generations of young girls into child soldiers and have twisted the act of doing this into some bizarre militaristic act of nobility and sacrifice.

I should rewatch the series one of these days.

[samisiimi]

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Absolute sweetheart

[s-lycopersicum]

[slpytired]

cat

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One thing I really like about SHY is just how genuinely wholesome and hopeful the tone of the series is. It just fills me with the fuzzies like a nice wholesome Saturday morning cartoon does.