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dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

don't think you have any option other than dubbed in the US.

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dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

the only problem with the JP voice cast is that Nozawa voices every generation of the Goku family when she should only be Goku and Goten.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Funimation couldn't even get a nom for Your Name so i dunno.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

I'm pretty ambivalent about it but it seemed incredibly like a basic "prestige" anime that you'd see in the nominations list since Ghibli collapsed.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Ccs posted:

The fights were really cool except they switch to CGI mid-way through. I wasn't sure if that's because they ran out of animators, or it's a way to put some RnD budget into getting more out of their CG department in the future, or they thought they could do more dynamic camera angles with CGI.

The hand-drawn stuff was grade A though, the best DBZ has ever looked. I'll probably watch it again once it's subtitled to see if that makes the dialogue sound more natural.

I definitely think they're trying to move in on CG in general, since they did their first full CG series in 2017 and have otherwise been using it here and there for stuff like Precure dance sequences or the new studio logo.

e: and I remember Battle of the Gods having some brief, much worse, CG.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

That "kiss" scene is meant to be a joke about how he misunderstands Vegeta, making Vegeta think he doesn't know what a kiss is. People have really hooked onto this misread of it though.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

There are plans to do an adaptation of Pluto from mid-2017. I had the vague sense we got an update last year but am not finding anything.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

I feel like it's being hurt by unfavorable comparisons to the first movie, which exceeded negative expectations, but it does have issues outside of that. Slow to get started, feels a bit too reliant on pop culture gags, and being the fourth overall lego movie means there's less fresh new stuff to do with the visual/animation style. There's also the strong shift towards being more of a musical and more frame story stuff, which I could see being polarizing. I'm a fan of musicals so I loved that aspect to it and once it actually got going it stayed strong through to the finish, which was a welcome surprise.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Stairmaster posted:

I'm glad spider verse won but it's bs broly didn't get a nomination

don't worry, funimation will fail to get it a nomination next year when it would actually be eligible

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

The very first games had an entire town built around a Pokemon graveyard so it's well within the scope of the franchise, especially since they continue to release new Pokemon that have darker pokedex entries about abducting/attacking children and whatnot.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Medenmath posted:

I guess so, but stuff buried in the Pokédex or something relatively fantastical like in wdarkk's spoiler just strike me as being a bit different from what is essentially somebody's dog burning alive in a house fire. To be clear, it didn't bother me, I just felt it stood out. Maybe it's just me.

Having it portrayed in a movie like that definitely is a level beyond text in a game, though I think the experience of traversing that first graveyard tower while encountering ghosts you can't battle and talking to the owners of deceased Pokemon is similarly affecting. The Mewtwo movie did a death fakeout that is easy to see through as a teen/adult but hits a similar dark note for kids, or at least did all those years ago. iirc the third movie centers around a girl hiding from her loneliness by having a Pokemon construct an illusory world for her to live in, where her parents haven't disappeared. I'm not familiar with the entire Pokemon movie canon but in general I wouldn't be surprised if they all dabble in some stuff like this to generate stakes or emotional investment.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

it seemed like a cool proof of concept for a pokemon movie that wasn't just 1:1 with the games but nothing in the performances or story really grabbed me. also a minor complaint but the forced yet barely-there romance subplot between the two leads was awful, why do we even need it? good gags though

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Castle in the Sky, Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Pom Poko, Ponyo, and Spirited Away are the "original" movies. Porco Rosso and Nausicaa are based on Miyazaki's own manga, and you could count Wind Rises as being based on a true story. Everything else has some manga or novel it's coming from.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

A lot of it is adaptations of existing media that are targeted at high schoolers but there's definitely a whole mess of venn diagrams at play.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

They hosed up Zenigata and Goemon but otherwise the designs are good. I just have a healthy skepticism about modern Lupin, not even factoring in how hit and miss the movies have been.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

I like Cats and I've read the book it's based on.

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dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Moon Atari posted:

I need to front load it with either quality or the most broadly accessible ones. Something so long running is hard to approach because it will have a lot of dated entries that are enjoyable once you are well acquainted but hard sells for the novice acolyte. Also I have the attention span and commitment of a goldfish and it requires all my self control to stop flaccidly and joylessly browsing hardcore pornography for the time it takes to watch an anime.

Based on this I would put off Parts 2 and 3, they are the biggest entries and it seems like they may come off intimidating even though they are episodic.

Part 1 is a good intro to classic Lupin while being a manageable length, Part 4 is modern (2015 iirc), similar length, and mostly episodic with some overarching plot threads that tie into midseason and fullseason finales. There's also The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, another modern series centered around the sole female member of Lupin's crew. It's very different from most other Lupin in style and tone but still introduces the characters in a way that is compatible with jumping to other entries.

Part 5 is the most recent but they went almost entirely into serialized mini-arcs, so ymmv on whether that works for you. Personally was not a fan, though it has some great one-off episodes.

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