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    If you have young kids, you'll probably have a good time with them with Hilda, apparently based on a graphic novel series of the same name. I thought it was pretty cute.
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    My 5-year old nephew couldn't sit still, either. I chalk it up to them being kids with short attention spans.
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    I didn't say the CGI character Shank looks like Gal Gadot. I said Shank is a damn gorgeous character design.
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    Shipping the bleep out of Vanellope and Shank. ...or maybe I'm just projecting, because damn Gal Gadot looks great be it real life or CGI.
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    Yeah, the story fell flat to me, too. There's a lot of "JUST TALK!!! SAY SOMETHING!!!" running through my head, and it's fine if it's isolated to just one or two characters, but the entire cast seems afflicted with the inability to say a single thing of consequence. It was infuriating for the episodes I sat through. For a story all about writing and the expression of emotion, you'd think they would be able to do so beyond more than just melodramatic outbursts. Sorry if that rubs fans the wrong way, but eh. Just not for me, I suppose. On another note, the Castlevania (not-)anime was surprisingly great. So... There's that. Happy Thanksgiving.
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    Not wrong. Edit: Specifically needs more gainax.
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    Gridman, yep, that's the one. I was thinking it was something like RRRR Birdman. :/ Thanks.
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    Thanks for the insight, all. Two episodes in, I'm put off by the characters - a bit too generic, too melodramatic - but that animation remains top notch. The world is the more interesting thing here, it's a shame we're so limited in what we see of it. I'll give it another two episodes, see how/if it ramps up. What's that super robot anime that just recently came out that people were gushing over the last few pages?
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    Yep, that's Obari, alright. Good to know his style still holds up after all these years.
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    Or it was a cynical ploy on the writers' part to drum up something to keep the audience's interest because the writing itself sure couldn't cut it.
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    No, it's the regular PS2 version emulated on the PS4's built-in emulator. It also doesn't come with the Deluxe edition specifically, it's a preorder bonus in general that unlocks once the game launches.
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    "Atlantis needs something greater than a king: A hero." That sounds profound at first blush, and it's certainly staged to be the big thematic statement of the movie, but my reaction was decidedly "Really? That's the best you could do?".
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    Anyone have thoughts/insight on Violet Evergarden? I watched the first episode last night and didn't find it all that interesting, though the art sure was top-notch. I'm wondering if there's a reason for such a high-budget first episode...
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    I saw this a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it... until I had to leave with ~45 minutes left after a family emergency (that turned out to be neither family nor emergency) came up. Will definitely try to catch it again in cheapo theaters if I can, or on BD/streaming if that's what's left.
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    Turned way around on this whole Re-Edited for PG-13 Deadpool thing. They just know how to keep sucking me back in...
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    I'm pretty sure it was always $89. What I'm not sure on is what "digital preorder bonuses" implies. Going back a few pages, that phrase seems to cover all the preorder bonuses... - F-4 Phantom playable craft - F-104 "Avril" scheme - 3x additional skins - AC5/6 ...and excludes the season pass from the deluxe digital edition and the physical items from the Japanese/European collector's editions (physical patches, emblem stickers, the Arsenal Bird), but I'm still not certain.
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    I thought all the Walkure sans Freyja's VA had done work in the anime/singing industry pre-Delta? I thought that was kind of the point? Hold an audition for the new talent that would mirror the audition for the new talent in-universe, meanwhile the seasoned vets are voiced/sung by seasoned vets? No---- *looks at Yoko, looks at C Viper, looks at Rei HIno* .......yes. Was that ever a thing? I remember her bringing up her past career no more than thrice over the course of the series, and I don't remember her ever being bitter over it. A bit wistful, perhaps, and maybe being part of Walkure is a bittersweet "consolation prize," but she's not, like, trying to sabotage things in order to get back her old life or anything. This too I feel like it's more something that we read into the characters in lieu of anything else to do. Again, when she talks about being a "failed idol" (which... I dunno, seems maybe she was something of a one-hit wonder? which doesn't seem all that bad, really?), she doesn't sound overly bitter about it. Her worrying about Mikumo usurping her role reads to me more as her seeing the danger that Mikumo's immaturity brings to the team's cohesion. I know they play with it in the movie, her rivalry with Mikumo, but even then it's shown that she's clearly the better leader of the two, Mikumo's just got more raw power. Like Leonardo and Raphael, so to speak. Not to say I wouldn't enjoy a story where this is the/a central conflict.
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    Say what you will about the show and the characters and the singing groups, and I've said plenty, but I will never say no to more fanservice-y promotional art of Kaname or Mirage. I just wish the merchandise would go beyond that. What hints? Your implication is that there was a Sheryl/Ranka-style idolization/infatuation/lust/love thing going on, but I'm not sure if the material supports that thinking. Mostly I remember Mikumo just being a bitch to Freyja and oblivious about it. (On account of her being three years old and all.) Maybe I just don't remember it... Personally, I'd like to see a story arc where Kaname DOESN'T become an idol... and is perfectly okay with that. Like Myung, but with a happy ending. That was the vibe I got from her anyway... at least until they stopped giving any of them any vibes at all. She seemed to be perfectly settled into her role of mentor(/producer?) of the group, and her story seemed to be the burgeoning workplace relationship with Arad, yeah remember that? the interesting story thread they scuttled in favor of Moody McAngstface creeping on her and then awkwardly contrived what passed for them as drama? Blargh, I'm getting sidetracked again.
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    Oh thank god. I'd been scouring the internets and couldn't find it for less than 200% its RRP. I was just about to place a bid on one for ~$65.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Eh, I don't know if the figure looks BAD. If you look at some of the artwork, her face does change sometimes. Risa Ebata seems flummoxed by Sheryl especially sometimes, since her face sometimes goes from very angular with a sharp chin and nose (common in the anime) to... this (which seems to have become more common in the time since the series, especially in the movies and art for CDs, etc.). A longer face, with more curve to the chin and nose and fuller cheeks. Anyway, on another note, I just updated my thread getting rid of some stuff:
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    It definitely feels like a last-minute creation. It has pretty much everything I absolutely wanted from a collector's edition, so I'm happy. Does anyone know if it comes with the preorder bonuses that other versions get? ie - F-4 Phantom - F-104 Starfighter (- extra F-104 skin for digital preorder) - preorder skins/emblems(?) - AC5/6 - preorder theme for PS4 - anything else I'm missing?
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    Cosmic coincidence. In case anyone's interested, there's an art book with a whole bunch of Ishigaki's designs/sketches up through ~2009, titled "Robo no Ishi." (It might have Frontier stuff, might not.) If people remember the original Maganac mobile suit designs from Wing, that was him. His Gundam stuff is usually relegated to side MS/enemy grunt designs. He also worked on Gundam 0083 in some fashion or other. I personally know him best for designing the entire range of mecha from Xenogears.
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    I don't think it is, either. But the similarities to those VF designs are too numerous to just be coincidence. I didn't mean to imply that it IS a VF, just that its design must have come from one/many. I don't know of other Macross designs, used or discarded or otherwise, that share these same features. I mean... it could very well be a ship from M2. And everything about it and its world just happens to be so similar to the Frontier verse that they get fooled into doing the right thing. A big old cosmic coincidence.
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    Well, I'm sure someone(s) must have already brought up the ship's remarkable similarity to Macross II VFs, right? Some more pics of the craft in question: The prominent shape of the nose and the wide, forward-protruding main engines immediately reminded me of the VF-2 et al, and poring through the MMM, I wonder if perhaps this ship is simply a rework of one/many of those designs that was quickly modeled and textured for the animation. The never animated VF-XS:
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    To summarize what would otherwise be a (not unusual, admittedly) wall of text: It trades out the original's Oshii-typical contemplative, metaphorical storytelling in favor of a run-of-the-mill modern action thriller. The fights get spruced up and the story and characters get dumbed down in order to make it ostensibly more palatable to modern audiences, but that just renders it kind of... generic. Soulless. The political backdrop is also understandably reworked, but the result is... unbalanced, to say the least. It renders the events of the movie just that little bit more unbelievable. It doesn't hold up as well under scrutiny as the original does, but as its own entity... I suppose it's just as good and bad as any other Korean action movie. Some spoilery nitpicks:
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