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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Started Mushoku Tensei today while I was dogsitting. Ended up marathon-ing about 14 episodes of it. It's not a bad series by any means, but it does lose me pretty reliably every time Rudeas starts perving on an underage girl... which is distressingly frequent. Thus far, I'm feeling like the series is a more-or-less capably written isekai story with an engaging plot and some likeable characters that's mainly brought down by its protagonist's whole family being slimeballs.
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    It's true. Sony's press release from after the acquisition of Crunchyroll was finalized in 2021 stated that they intended to merge the Funimation and Crunchyroll streaming libraries, and they confirmed about six months later in Q1 2022 that all of the different anime streaming services under their banner (Funimation, Wakanim, and VRV) would be consolidated into Crunchyroll. They started merging the streaming libraries shortly after that announcement and AFAIK they finished merging the libraries months ago. The last few months the news has been all about merging user accounts for people who'd had both services, but that finished for all outstanding accounts weeks ago and they've shut down the Funimation servers as of April 2. That said, Funimation stopped adding new titles to their catalog around the time the acquisition was finalized. I'm pretty sure they didn't have MOSPEADA on their service when the catalog was frozen. It may be something they've picked up recently as an addendum to having the rights to Robotech delegated to them by Harmony Gold a few years back.
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    Not surprised it's the same transfer from the DVD release in the 2000s. There would've been a lot more fanfare if they were going to remaster the series again. Still, it's nice to have it available. I'm surprised it took this long for it to land on Crunchyroll since Funimation's been dumping most of its back catalog there with little-to-no notice.
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    Starting Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master... it feels like it might be a very similar series to The Raven of the Inner Palace, which would be quite welcome. (If nothing else, there's certainly a fair bit of courtly cattiness in the first part of this medieval fantasy series...)
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    Proudly representing the Commorragh Chamber of "Commerce" since 3rd Edition! Picked up Necrons for a bit after they were first introduced, but never updated to the "Newcron" range when they graduated to being Space Tomb Kings because I didn't enjoy their ruleset as much.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    Watching HIGHSPEED Etoile's latest episode, and while it was already easily the worst thing out this season it's actually getting worse with each episode... which is impressive in its own very strange way. Episodes 3 and 4 are almost the exact same story of Rin bumping into a top-ranked driver in public, missing absolutely every clue as to who they are even though the're making ZERO effort to disguise their identity and doing things like signing autographs for fans, and spending the entire episode with them blissfully unaware of who they are until they spell it out to her. She's also apparently so bad at racing that the series decides to stop showing the races... it skips straight to the results and when she's not disqualified she's in dead last against even the unmanned cars.
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    Yeah, I do seem to skew heavily towards "disappointed" in a lot of the streaming originals don't I? I've thought about that a lot, and while I know my own eccentric tastes are probably a part of I also feel like a common thread in a lot of the ones I've found disappointing has been a "style over substance" approach to showrunning. A lot of these new shows sink most of their time, effort, and money into making a series visually spectacular without taking the time and care to make sure it's narratively spectacular too. As someone who's more engaged by compelling characters and a well-composed narrative than pure eye candy, that's become a deal breaker for me on several titles. As long as it makes internal sense... though it definitely feels like it's counting on shock value to carry it in quite a few places, both in the violence and the humor. The second episode is certainly atmospheric. Hasn't really done much to explain things, but there's a definite sense of direction to proceedings by the end of it.
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    To be honest, yeah... I'm inclined to agree. If the setting is underdeveloped to the point that the answer to "why are things like this?" is "just don't think about it" or "it has been left as an exercise for the viewer", that often means the rest of the writing is going to be similarly lacking. Not always, but often enough to be a pretty reliable indicator of quality. After watching the first episode, I definitely feel like Fallout expects me to already be familiar with the setting from the games and I definitely feel like I'm missing some critical context and/or knowledge. Given that the whole streaming race is driven by visual quality above all else, it's a safe bet Amazon will spend big to make Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 series look every bit as nice as Fallout. What Cavill's project will end up spending that money on is anyone's guess, since we don't know if he's adapting an existing story or developing an original one, or what the focus of the story will be. It's a really big setting with a LOT of options, and quite a few of the most celebrated candidates for adaptation are devoid of things like powered armor.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    ... really? 🫤 I hope Fallout has a better explanation than that, because that's some hot nonsense. That actually sounds less believable than those old Star Trek episodes where some aliens find a book someone left behind, assume it's a description of the ideal society, and model their entire culture on it or build an entire world based on it. Cultural development just took a powder for 120 years?
  10. Seto Kaiba
    The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio is shaping up to be one of my favorite titles for this season. Yumiko and Chika's dynamic makes their interactions a lot of fun, and the premise is a fresh and interesting one. I'm very keen to see where this goes in the future.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Looking into starting this one tonight or later this week How necessary is it to have played (or at least be familiar with) the game series? (Asking because I have never played the games and have basically zero familiarity with the franchise beyond hearing some friends complain about Fallout 76.)
  12. Seto Kaiba
    My assumption would be that the person who created the 3D model probably used the animation itself as reference instead of the line art from the animator's model sheets. These kinds of issues are very common in fan projects by Robotech fans, who frequently fail to even consider the existence of things like off-model animation, animation errors, or dialog errors and inconsistencies. Southern Cross unfortunately had a fair amount of off-model animation, and that's led those fans to some... interesting... incorrect conclusions about the designs of the series. Inconsistencies in how the Tactics Air Force fighter "Sylphid" is drawn led Robotech fans to conclude there were as many as three different types with different wing designs when there's actually only one, for instance. I'm betting that 3D model was put together using a combination of incorrectly-proportioned fan art and a stills from the animation, some of which are off-model. Considering the weird lengthening of the nose and widening of the body, I suspect it's Yui's fan art they referenced.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Interesting, I honestly wasn't expecting to see them roll out something from that grand tome we call Codex: Australian Wildlife... er... Codex: Tyranids. It looks like they've done a great job with the sculpts as always, though the color scheme from the cover of the Codex is definitely one of the less interesting/appealing ones. 🤔
  14. Seto Kaiba
    Seeing a decent-quality arming doublet figure really makes me wish Tatsunoko Pro would go back and revisit the Science Fiction Sengoku Saga pitch they canned back during the development of Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross. There's a fair bit of love for retro designs on the air right now and that could actually go over pretty well. Certainly a lot better than their attempts to get back into the mecha genre.
  15. Seto Kaiba
    It is, yeah. Designing a believable transformation for something like a car, a tank, or a plane is pretty damned hard even when you're cheating and using "anime magic". It gets far harder if you have multiple alt-modes to consider and they all have to plausibly look like they belong to the same vehicle. Designing that same transformation in a way that can be applied to a transforming toy or model kit is exponentially harder. Keeping it simple while still getting the job done is a virtue, even if it sounds silly in the abstract... and the Spartas's transformation is simple enough that it CAN be replicated on toys or model kits with a minimum of "cheating". The Ammonite design team did all right job considering they were trying to keep the designs simple enough for merchandising and were not by any means specialists in designing transforming robot toys the way Kawamori is. (There are certainly transformations that could be described in less dignified terms out there... like the Gundam Arios and GN Archer from Gundam 00. Their combined flight form essentially involves the GN Archer jamming its head up the Arios's backside.)
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