Loud overreaction day in anime today, huh. Double episode premiere. I’ll probably get to episode 2 a bit later. Dogs to walk, and at least one to two other way more shouty things to subject myself to. Impressions: Can’t say I’m impressed with this episode to be honest, mainly because it didn’t need to be two. …
We open with a shot of an apartment door, its key hanging expectantly in profile, forgotten by an inattentive real estate agent. An unintended invitation, a false offer of cohabitation – but in such a world as this, we take whatever intimacy we can get. A man briefly cradles, inspects the keychain, before loping down …
They’re Bringing Back the OG VA for Luffy for One Piece After all of these years, the OG dub VA for Monkey D. Luffy is getting some recognition. These days, it’s hard to imagine a world in which One Piece isn’t one of the most popular media franchises in the world. But like anything great, …
The production meetings for this show must be interesting. Impressions: You know, a pretty solid twist on that corny-ass opening segment would have been revealing that it was all AI and the actual characters hated it for how utterly generic, overproduced, and lazy it was. Alas, no. That is the magic of music, and meant to …
Just handing out super powers to whatever idiot yells at you, huh? Impressions: Look on the bright side. No CGI concert or idol schtick this episode. Well, until the ED at least, but that’s fairly expected and was still pretty stylized. On the flip side, there wasn’t much of anything else. Which is also …
I think they forgot to give the animators any direction. Impressions: Well, there’s certainly a lot more going on with the visuals than I expected for a war drama, but I don’t think most of it was too effective. There’s both quite a bit of rotoscoping and the framerate is all over the place, …
