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     Thunderbolt Fantasy is a Taiwanese wuxia glove puppet show made by Pili International Multimedia (a Taiwanese company that has been making shows like this since the 90s), with writing from Gen Urobuchi (Madoka Magica, Psycho-Pass, Kamen Rider Gaim) and music from Hiroyuki Sawano (Gundam Unicorn, Attack on Titan, Promare). Unlike Pili's normal shows, which have a single voice actor performing all roles (to represent the historical single puppeteer, even though today the shows have multiple puppeteers and dozens of people working on the detailed puppets and sets), the Japanese dub of Thunderbolt Fantasy (which is what's getting an international release) has individual VAs for each character whom you'll most likely recognise from other shows; for example, Aoi Yuuki voices a sexy evil sword in season 2. The show itself is about the adventures of a handful of accomplished fantasy martial artists who get wrapped up in an evil sect's (the Divine Order) plot to get their hands on a number of very powerful magical swords in order to rule the world. Our main characters are Shāng Bù Huàn/Shō Fu Kan (every character has both a Chinese and a Japanese version of their name), a boorish but kind-hearted vagabond who claims to come from beyond the uncrossable Wasteland of Spirits and just wants to be left alone, and Lǐn Xuě Yā/Rin Setsu A, a master thief and colossal rear end in a top hat. Unfortunately for Shāng, Lǐn keeps finding ways to trick him (and a colourful cast of friends and foes) into doing his dirty work for him. From season 2 onwards, Shāng is also reunited with Làng Wū Yáo/Rōfu Yō (modelled after and voiced by TM Revolution, who sings his songs and a chunk of the show's music), a wandering bard who followed Shāng all the way from their homeland of Xī Yōu and fights with soundwaves produced by his magical talking pipa, Líng Yá/Ryōga, who can also transform into a sword. Season 3 acts as a direct sequel to the first season, second season and second film, featuring several returning characters including Juǎn Cán Yún/Ken San Un from season 1 (now promoted to core cast member), a young, idealistic martial artist who just wants to help but is unfortunately extremely out of his depth. Where Can I Watch It? Crunchyroll has the international distribution rights for the series: https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/thunderbolt-fantasy The show consists of two completed seasons so far with a third currently airing, and two prequel films:
All seasons and films currently released are available to stream on the Crunchy page linked above.  Season 3 started broadcasting on the 3rd of April 2021.
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Oct 2, 2018 00:47
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The recap part of the movie is extremely good despite being a recap too.
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Oct 2, 2018 01:01
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I randomly watched this stoned out of my mind shortly after air and fell so deeply in love that i finished it in two nights, I also wouldn't have had any idea there was a second season without this thread
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Oct 2, 2018 01:04
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it's actually amazing how sane and chill screaming phoenix killer was, in hindsight.
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Oct 2, 2018 01:04
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the only crime is that the Screaming Phoenix Killer will never return, owned to death forever by the mysterious "Enigmatic Wind"
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Oct 2, 2018 01:05
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Can Of Worms posted:The recap part of the movie is extremely good despite being a recap too. Yeah, it's great. It's the only time I've seen a "recap" that was actually worth watching. Anyway I'm real glad that this season is going to be all about dealing with Shang Bu Huan's past. I like the new characters introduced so far - the villains are cool and I really like that Lang Wu Yao and Ling Ya are old friends of Shang Bu Huan. I'm also a big fan of the fact that Lin Xue Ya is completely absent from the season so far, hopefully never to come back.  Screaming Phoenix Killer, you were too good for this world
Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 01:07
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Lemon-Lime posted:I'm also a big fan of the fact that Lin Xue Ya is completely absent from the season so far, hopefully never to come back. Scheming in the darkness can not be considered real subterfuge True strength is being able to mislead the eye under the light of day Fact and fiction are opposites of the same sheet of paper Who can see beneath the surface and glimpse my true nature
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Oct 2, 2018 01:33
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Oh man, season 2 is happening? I am ready for Anime Puppets like woah.
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Oct 2, 2018 02:14
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Aw yeah, this is probably going to be my favourite show of the season. I just love all the details on the puppets, its amazing. Each episode of this must have taken a long time to make. Also can't wait to see how Enigmatic Gale will screw over people this season, he's an amazing character.
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Oct 2, 2018 02:44
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Lemon-Lime posted:
Hmm, this guy looks familiar. Needs a pipe...
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Oct 2, 2018 03:47
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I love music fighters and a talking instrument makes it even better.  edit: I'm going to assume the Jojo vampire looking motherfucker in the ED is the main bad guy Sindai fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 05:49
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i never asked but i dropped the first series after the very strong first episode lead into a bunch of boring episodes (relative to an episode where a guy cuts his own head off) and stopped at like ep 4. did i miss more action? because there was so much walking and talking
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Oct 2, 2018 07:21
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you missed more action. but the walking and talking was great and you shouldn't have found it boring, and it's weird to say it but thudfan is actually a character-driven show with awesome wuxia action instead of an action-driven show.
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Oct 2, 2018 07:55
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But the action is pretty awesome. I mean, you missed a dude's ribcage blowing out of his body. From his back.
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Oct 2, 2018 09:54
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Scheming in the darkness can not be considered real subterfuge I'm glad this season translated all the introductory poems so far. A bunch of them just weren't subbed in the Crunchy release of s01. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 10:11
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I just watched through all of the first season over the past two weeks. It was amazing, super hype for season 2!
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Oct 2, 2018 11:46
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it's actually amazing how sane and chill screaming phoenix killer was, in hindsight. Really makes you understand why he was so keen on killing that duck. He was going to turn everything around but that was never meant to be.
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Oct 2, 2018 20:54
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Anyone know if it's possible to get this in Mandarin with English Subs?
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Oct 2, 2018 21:05
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P-Mack posted:Anyone know if it's possible to get this in Mandarin with English Subs? International distribution is only in Japanese (since it's Nitroplus handling this everywhere outside of Taiwan), and this is a Taiwanese show, so it wouldn't be in Mandarin even if you found it. Plus, the Taiwanese version doesn't have a voice cast the way it does in Japanese (it's voiced the traditional way, with one man doing all the male voices and one woman doing all the female voices).
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Oct 2, 2018 21:10
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decided to finally take a look at this series and laughed my rear end off in the first episode when the white haired dude bamboozled the bad guy with some kind of forbidden Vape Spell these puppets are alright
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Oct 2, 2018 21:11
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Lemon-Lime posted:International distribution is only in Japanese (since it's Nitroplus handling this everywhere outside of Taiwan), and this is a Taiwanese show, so it wouldn't be in Mandarin even if you found it. Plus, the Taiwanese version doesn't have a voice cast the way it does in Japanese (it's voiced the traditional way, with one man doing all the male voices and one woman doing all the female voices). I have to clarify this, since it's close but not quite and this is literally my mom's childhood here. Thunderbolt Fantasy is based on the traditional puppets of southern Fujian, China, the closest approach to Taiwan. This area is rife with tiny dialects that are often mutually unintelligible- a saying about the area is "Go 20 kilometers, learn a new language." Both of my parents are from the area and they spoke two mutually unintelligible dialects as well as Mandarin, which could lead to some comical arguing when they got too heated and lost track of what language they were in. Many of the people who fled to Taiwan during the split were from the area, and from them spread what is inaccurately referred to as "Taiwanese" but is more properly either "Hokkien" or "Minnan Proper" since it is still spoken by millions of mainlanders.The original dub for all glove puppet shows (and there are a lot of them) is always in Hokkien, as it has been since it was a bunch of dipshits in a cart in Fujian going street to street performing for tips. Also traditionally there is only one voice actor because it's supposed to be a puppet show- one guy moving his hands and doing his own voices and narration. Obviously that's not what it is any more but tradition is tradition. This voice actor is always male. The one thing they kept undubbed in the Japanese version are the little poems that introduce each character. If you want to get a sense of how the original sounds, listen to those- including the funny high pitched voice he does to portray the women. K Prime fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 23:14
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Thanks for the extra context, since I'm definitely not an expert! e; here's what it sounds like in the original Hokkien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kadad5oYMg4 Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 23:35
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That is cool and interesting, thanks! Wikipedia is telling me there was also a Mandarin dub for mainland China, if I can track it down I'll report back.
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Oct 3, 2018 00:39
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This ep was fun and I'm looking forward to watching more adventures of Scruffy, and his friend Vapey, and his new old friend Twangy.
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Oct 3, 2018 05:11
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Ccs posted:Hmm, this guy looks familiar. Needs a pipe...  You called?
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Oct 3, 2018 06:24
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it's hilarious how vape wizard is using shang as bait to attract innumerable villains just so he can torment them
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Oct 3, 2018 10:34
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discworld is all I read posted:
were the dramatic poses during the poem really necessary wasn't he in the middle of a conversation gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it's hilarious how vape wizard is using shang as bait to attract innumerable villains just so he can torment them yeah this is basically his dream scenario
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Oct 3, 2018 12:52
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Yinlock posted:were the dramatic poses during the poem really necessary Absolutely necessary
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Oct 3, 2018 12:55
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I don't know why everyone keeps talking about the vape wizard, he's not even in season 2.
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Oct 3, 2018 13:04
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Lemon-Lime posted:I don't know why everyone keeps talking about the vape wizard, he's not even in season 2. agreed, inspector vape puts no stock in things like "magic"
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Oct 3, 2018 13:07
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Yinlock posted:yeah this is basically his dream scenario Sho has a conga line of people who need to be taken down a peg following behind him. It's like the gift that will keep on giving.
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Oct 3, 2018 16:59
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Not to mention how in the movie, he presumably thought that was they weren't showing up quickly enough, so he started telling everyone that Shang was a super cool badass.
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Oct 3, 2018 20:30
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LunarCress posted:Not to mention how in the movie, he presumably thought that was they weren't showing up quickly enough, so he started telling everyone that Shang was a super cool badass. at least he refrained from public announcements about the codex. that'll have to wait until after he's worked his way through all of shang's old rogue's gallery.
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Oct 3, 2018 20:33
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LunarCress posted:Not to mention how in the movie, he presumably thought that was they weren't showing up quickly enough, so he started telling everyone that Shang was a super cool badass. tbf Shang is a super cool badass, it's not like he was trying to hide that part
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Oct 3, 2018 23:01
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Yinlock posted:agreed, inspector vape puts no stock in things like "magic" In keeping with how Screaming Phoenix Killer can be read in at least two ways, I propose that we should call him Vape Inspector.
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Oct 4, 2018 00:41
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theCalamity posted:In keeping with how Screaming Phoenix Killer can be read in at least two ways, I propose that we should call him Vape Inspector. it does kinda make it confusing as to if he's an inspector who vapes OR if he inspects vapes themselves, presumably for illegal wizardry who can glimpse his true nature Yinlock fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Oct 4, 2018 11:20
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Ok, just watched season 1 and the reveal in episode 12 made the whole thing worth it. Even if if the rest of it was crap (which it wasn't although the actual final battle was a bit meh) that moment made me mark out hard.
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Oct 4, 2018 11:33
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that alone made shang my favorite character shang: oh btw i was never using a sword this entire time everyone else: what shang: *explodes a dude's head with a tree branch*
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Yinlock posted:that alone made shang my favorite character They had been building up to this reveal for the entire show as well, by using a distinctive wooden "thunk" sound every time he sheathed his sword
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