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I hate anime fans they’ll come into a character design server, claim the first image doesn’t represent same face, and then defend the second image by saying that “well the eyes are different” THE EYES ARE DIFFERENT? FUCKING BARELY. YOU HAVE BEEN POLLUTED BY ANIME NONSENSE.
TADC didn’t click with me from the beginning, but I figured I should binge it now that it’s all mostly out and. I want to just say “this is a reminder to make the most interesting character in your story the main character of that story,” but that feels so reductive. A story’s POV and a story’s main character can be two different people, Sherlock Holmes did that after all, but comparing TADC to Sherlock Holmes is even more reductive.
So I try to step away from the problem of who the show focuses on and try to think about what it focuses on to understand it from that angle, but then I run face first into the fact that it’s just… a worse Ride the Cyclone? Like spoilers for the leaked version I guess but it gives all the character’s a happy ending outside the circus in traditionally fulfilling lives. And I get what it’s going for! Never kill yourself, life gets better, which is true! But it also kinda contradicts with the shows stated theme that a stagnant life can still be a good life right? Ride the Cyclone has a very similar message, that whatever life you have is valuable even if it’s short and not traditionally fulfilling. Which I guess is what the character’s lives in the circus are supposed to represent? But they’re… not that. Maybe the morals aren’t supposed to be similar at all, maybe I’m just making an unflattering comparison but I can’t stop dwelling on it.
Anyway can’t wait for the spoiler ban to lift so I can see people with less scattered brains discuss this thing because currently it’s just the people who already hated the show and that’s just. Not a super useful perspective to me?
In England on a school trip and do not have the time to draw but can’t stop thinking about a Superman design where the costume is purposely high-visibility. The red of the suit glistens in reflective lines like a stop sign, the yellow accents are safety yellow retroreflective stripes, blue nearly black to provide high contrast. A suit that says “I am okay with looking goofy, I am okay with disregarding all stealth, because it’s more important that you can see me so I can help you.”
I mean I should hope they’re not.
Female Frankenstein’s creature is good for a lot of reasons but I am possessed by the creature taking the name Venus. The true name of the morning star, yes, but also however incidentally Galatea and the Venus de Milo.
4th round!
Who goes next?
Shapeshifting Monster Actor
Radio-Bound Alien
Lost Air Mailman
Finally reading Astro Boy now that I finished Pluto and I’ve seen everyone point out that Brau1589 isn’t just an adaptation of Astro Boy’s “The Blue Knight” but is literally Blue’s skeleton, but I’ve never seen anyone discuss the implications of that?
Because Blue at least hates being seen, even by his enemies, his entire Blue Knight identity is built around the armor he wears to physically hide how his body changes. Blue literally runs away from fights multiple times rather than be seen.
And then there’s Brau1589, who’s entirely stripped down to his skeleton. The mechanics of a body he can’t control, a body he hates, entirely visible. Is there any comfort that in this state of utter ruin that this function of his body is almost entirely obscured?
Anyway. The Blue Knight says trans rights and I am fascinated by what that says about Brau1589 as an adaptation of him.
I have basically never talked about it but I’ve been spinning around a sophant based on Springhares for MONTHS because like.
What do you mean you’re a friendly, social species that regularly trades dens with each other as you migrate but also if anyone other than your young are in your den with you you’ll loose your shit??? That’s such a wild instinct to have that’d create such a weird fucking society.
