#mlb tokyo

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a favorite of mine

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An exclusive look at Kagami and Marinette in the Tokyo special with 2D style!

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Miraculous World - Tokyo, stellar force thoughts:

Oh I see we have an origin for Felix and kagami flying to see each other

I can't believe Marinette's parents are okay with this. And you would say yes anyways??? Does she not have school???

Damn Tomoe. Making Kagami perform feats for you involving the ring that controls her existence. Why am I even surprised anymore.

Good on kagami for sticking up for herself though

And hey is that the same bonsai tree? Probably not but It has leaves on it....

Ouch. I'm sure kagami is totally fine ... You know ... Not knowing what love without conditions is ... She's fine.

Pffft "be my friend for two weeks" and yeah she didn't specify.

No lie though the animation change was a bit jarring

Oh my God are they the power rangers / voltron? What in the primary colors is this.

The astrology signs in Japan? Okay...

Marigami cuddles. More please.

Oh hi Sauron. What is the supreme doing here.

Uhhh is the modeller an alien or something??

Marinette you sneaky little! Stop stealing people's phones girl!

Meow pfft. Marinette definitely picked that up from chat

Aww they're trying to protect kagami

Ooo. A motorcycle. Nice.

*crosses fingers* Akira bike slide. Akira bike slide. Akira bike slide. Please please please.

Yesss!!!!!

The dancing metaphors

I'm sorry but kazuno has like Deku hair

Oh my God it IS voltron / power rangers

Crying the giant ladybug mech falling over 🤣

Loving the kimonos and noh masks

Hey the new haircut.

I knew some bullshit was happening in New York! Wonder if we'll see what Adrien was up too.

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LOOK AT THIS SCENE , I LOVE THEM SM 🥺🥺

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big lesbian energy with this one

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Miraculous tokyo special is quite something

This contains small spoilers and it does contain my opinion, so please be respectful.

So... I watched the tokyo special halfway through and had to take a break.

I am currently in said break, as I am quite displeased with the special this far. I am aware it can change and I will finish the post, but these are my initial thoughts:

Style

The style was quite odd, it reminds me of a mix of pokemon and dragon ball, which in themselves are amazing, stylistically and story telling wise, however for miraculous it didn't entirely work.

The style felt quite low in quality, compared to the other 2 anime I have named and overall anime with a simpler style (for example assassination classroom).

It lacks depth, aswell as a good color palette that actually fits the scenery. They focused too much on appealing to kids they left out what it takes to actually make something that holds weight and depth. They could've used vibrant colors, but in ways that would blend into the world and not make every color feel out of place and too saturated.

I understand the studio is primarily a 3d studio, which obviously works entirely differently in terms of coloring (this is coming from someone who's studies 3d animation), however they could've seen where it doesn't work and where it doesn't fit and fixed it.

Storytelling

So far the storytelling has not impressed me.

It feels incredibly rushed. Telling Kagami's backstory this quickly doesn't make sense.

Many bits of her backstory are honestly not that great, as it doesn't feel like a backstory, it feels like bits and pieces stuck together in a "this should work if they don't think closely" type of way.

We get parts of what the friendship was, then the explanation how it came to be. Within that it's just random photocard-like representations of a "good friendship".

Their portrayal of anime and japan

As I have said I'm not even close to being done with the special, alot can change, but so far, their portrayal feels stereotypical.

We get the random anime expressions, that feel more like a meme edit, rather than how they appear in actual anime.

We got the gyaru appearance, that Marinette labeled as "yokai". Instead of kagami saying something like this just being a vibrant style and tokyo having many styles, she said it's just her grandma's friend. I understand not necessarily wanting to introduce little kids to gyaru this fast, as it is a style heavily involved in night life, but it would be nice to at least addressing that she just dresses in a different way.

The competition felt like a way of trying to have that "classic anime competition moment", but it lacked any proper logic as to why it happened in the first place. I understand kagami wanting her opponent to be her friend and her opponent (I forgot her name sorryyy) wanting to just have a good competition, but it felt more like a "look, we're doing the anime thing", rather than contributing to the overall setting (even if it has logical consequences to the plot).

Overall thoughts

So far I can't say that I enjoy the special. It's hard to watch and it makes me feel like instead of being a safe entry into anime for new people or just being this fun remembrance of the initial plan of the show being an anime, it just looks like a bad portrayal.

It feels like it's an anime, just to say "look, we're doing this fun thing, look, it's totally anime", not to embrace a form of art with depth and history.

Like I said, this is just my opinion. You're free to voice yours, but remember to be respectful towards me and other people who might voice their opinion.

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mlb tokyo aah review thingy.

firstly like i said i absolutely love the anime style like sure they couldnt do it ten years ago and now theyre taking their revenge. idk it makes the special feel special.

also i love kagami and the fact that we got to see more of her backstory. we really are eating good these days. im not the biggest fan of romantic miscommunication (though i will say sometimes i love it) but thank fuck in this case they just settled for it being in the past and kagamis feelings not having been reciprocated because holy shit i cant believe what a mess a love triangle would have made.

also i liiike the japanese heros and the fact that they really played their tropes to a hundred. that was neat and although we only really focused on two of them, i wish they would be expanded upon or even get a small cameo in the future, like heros from other specials did.

overall i really liked it and it was such a breath of fresh air after the london basement special, which felt more like a normal episode than mlb world.

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