#anormal talks

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mayb that's just me but having played dofus before watching the wakfu series, one thing I was surprised with is all the classes having their own "kingdoms" and I didn't really like it; I still feel like that

The fact that the worship of the gods in the world of twelve works differently than IRL religions or even most fantasy religions make it make sense to me that the world is multicultural and all those people can mix in without major problems (say, no conversions or holy wars). Like I'm okay with some worships having a root somewhere, pandawas from Pandala, sadidas from near the Tree of Life, whatever. But the series going oh there is a Sadida Kingdom. A Cra City. A foggernaut nation. an osamodas kingdom. all completely uniform in their population. I never jived with that

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I like the eliocalypse quest line, I think they're fun! It's the first time I genuinely get the feeling that the world of twelve is prey to chaos and destruction (as it's said the loss of the 6 primordial dofus caused)

War is an interesting character? that's pretty rare for npcs to be much more than their gimmick/plot twist. The act of resurrecting the legendary Autumn Knight to give her a distraction felt bitter, even if she was ok, even happy with it, for once it's not a all well that ends well thing- it's a grey shade

I finished the Corruption line too, the ending was nice. I get that my character is not going to stop the Eliocalypse, since the status quo can't be changed much, also it's also in the Wakfu mmo so yeah... at least weakening it and give some hope for the people that will live through it is a big enough job

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So I started rewatching Kill La Kill and I just wanna gush over the art direction. It's so fucking cool. It constantly knows what it's doing! It's Bold, it's Extra, unashamedly so! Keep up or drop out!

The art style and animation style are so snappy and full of personality (that's just that good TRIGGER shit!)

Yes! You can bend reality to have the huge character that's the chief of discipline of the school take up the entire room! Right after interrupting a lecture about the rise of fascism in Germany in 1933! Subtlety is for the weak!

So many shots are clearly well thought about in terms of composition, colors, iconism, and it's pretty consistent not just for the first episodes/a few trailer-moments but when the story needs to be intense or serious- The planning of all that must have been crazy, imagine storyboarding this madness

The camera movements during some action scenes?? insane

They used a BUNCH of 3D cgi models and you wouldn't even see it because they're worked into the art style and used very smartly, notably in the heavy action shots with the aforementionned insane camera movements (watch that gif closely! the characters, the desks, the background! I don't think it would have been possible to do all that fully hand drawn! even if only for a time/budget reason) I fucking love that! It came out in 2013 and it's so clean!!

Ah, I just like it a lot when a production is unique and carefully thought about. Anime is really fucking cool.

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Savoir ce qu'il s'est passé dans la série wakfu ça le rend vachement stupide quand même

L'idée de la Fratrie des Oubliés peut être intéressante pour le worldbuilding du monde des Douze mais genre de un, vu que le perso jouable est du côté des dieux ça fait syndrome de Magnéto (quand les "méchants" sont contre des parties du système établi qui sont effectivement mauvaises mais que du coup les "gentils" se retrouvent à défendre un status quo défaillant)... Je pense que justement la Fratrie devrait compter pas mal de douziens normaux (non demi-dieux) et de sans-classes (si le concept est encore canon), ça serait logique, non ? Que les plus opprimés par le pouvoir des dieux soient ceux qui s'y opposent.

M'enfin bref, de toute façon apparemment les membres de la Fratrie étaient tous trop cons pour se douter qu'Oropo voulait tuer les dieux et pas juste leur demander poliment de virer d'Inglorium pour être remplacés par leur progéniture abandonnée remplie de daddy/mommy issues et de complexe du sauveur, pour qu'au final Oropo revienne sur son objectif à la dernière minute parce que ? something something love et de toute façon, ça n'aurait pas marché parce que ? les dieux étaient déjà plus en Inglorium for some reason (probablement la réponse dans Waven j'imagine mais urghhh)

C'est toi et ta clique qui ne serez plus qu'un souvenir, Oropo. Le monde ne change que si les scénaristes en ont la volonté et le talent

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Watching Scavengers Reign.

My fantasy worlds are definitely not weird enough.

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feels weird not to have an original project/characters going in the background

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problem with media I love and is actually good is I can't bring anything to the table about it. I say it's good and that's it. there are REASONS why it's good but there's nothing I can bring up that smarter people haven't already elaborated on yk and I don't feel as much of a compulsion to participate in those fandoms or even create anything about it

anyway some of those I currently love and find great but don't talk about too much or at all:

Made in Abyss

Wolf's Rain

Golden Kamuy

Scarlet Hollow

Scavengers Reign

After God

Runaway to the Stars

definitely others but that's what sticks out to me rn

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One random fun fact about Tamirga

According to my Eliotrope headcanon, Eliotropes' birthdays (in his community at least) would be the day they got found and brought to the temple.

Tamirga rejected that one and chose his new birthday on the day he decided to never come back to the temple, which happened to be Javian 1st- because Descendre has a changing amount of days one year to the other*, he tends to only know it after the fact... it is how it is

*iirc, Descendre's protector Djaul dukes it out with Jiva and when she wins Javian and the new year begins, the fight is sometimes longer or shorter