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So this first post is pretty much spoiler-free, but as this thread is going up after Ep. 6 you should expect spoilers from there on out. KEMURIKUSA is director Tatsuki's latest broadcast anime after getting ruthlessly sacked from Kemono Friends after the first season ended. It's a vaguely sci-fi story in a post-apocalyptic setting where a group of girls and a tree embark on an endless search for water while trying to fight the deadly robots they call "bugs" with magical leaves. Uh, it's kind of hard to explain, so let's talk about the characters. Here are Rin, Ritsu, and Rina, respectively. Rin is the overly suspicious fighter of the group. Ritsu is Midori (the tree's) primary caretaker and has cat ears. Rina is playful and has a healthy appetite for strange foods. They are joined by this lad, Wakaba: I hope you like this kind of dialogue, because he says some variation of it four thousand times per episode. Anyway, the show has (in my opinion) a slow slog of a start, but it gets pretty interesting by episode 5 or so. It has roughly the same production values as Kemono Friends episode 1, so don't get your hopes up too high in that regard, but if you didn't mind it there you probably won't mind it here. I'm curious where this series is going to go. I honestly have no idea. I hope it is good! (Kemurikusa is streaming on Amazon Prime.) Hat tip to Dzhay for the thread title, which is much more clever than whatever I would've come up with
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 07:52 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 22:13 |
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It's pretty cool that this is being made! https://twitter.com/GoodSmile_US/status/1094423232260784130
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 07:54 |
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I don't care for Rin's "poison" schtick but she has a cute design and she is a cool person on her own so I am proud of her and her mega cute figure. Episode 5 pushed it up from Just Okay but Interesting and 6 finished the job by cementing it as Good and Really Interesting for me. That journal was something else. Give me more of that post apocalyptic lore.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 08:00 |
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It’s worth noting that this series is based on a doujin project by Tatsuki that started about 9 years ago. You’ll have to google where to find fansubs, but the animations themselves are on YouTube. Slightly spoilery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyN_O55G5Ew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl5Y_VomkGo Additionally, there are some short animations that tie in to the anime, and reveal a little more. Fan subs are also available for these. https://twitter.com/i/moments/1080473924553428998 El Burbo fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Feb 15, 2019 |
# ? Feb 15, 2019 08:10 |
I haven't seen the doujinshi stuff yet, but I think each girl represents a sense. Rin is Sight, Ritsu is Hearing, the Rinas are Taste (one for each: salty, sweet, etc.?) and the latest sister is Touch. One of the others should be Smell, which leaves one other less classical sense.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 12:59 |
Lurking Haro posted:I haven't seen the doujinshi stuff yet, but I think each girl represents a sense.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 13:18 |
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Lurking Haro posted:I haven't seen the doujinshi stuff yet, but I think each girl represents a sense. That works as a loose theming. The remaining one could be temperature or pain. Better question, what the hell is Wakaba? Did Midori make him? "Normal human" seems unlikely, and slightly lame. Brutal Garcon fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Feb 15, 2019 |
# ? Feb 15, 2019 14:17 |
Dzhay posted:That works as a loose theming. The remaining one could be temperature or pain. He's probably an admin.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 14:54 |
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I can't believe I'm voluntarily watching an isekai in tyool2019. It's good, though! Tatsuki is great at mystery. Having a male MC really threw me off for whatever reason.
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 20:39 |
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Probably the most unique post-apocalyptic concept I've checked out in my life. The twitter shorts are good pre-TV filler but the OAV might spoil depending on changes from the original story. Keep the mystery of this insane show growing, it's unbelievable.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 02:14 |
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Zeruel posted:I can't believe I'm voluntarily watching an isekai in tyool2019. I don't think its an isekai, more likely its a distant future of earth.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 02:19 |
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I don't think its an isekai, more likely its a distant future of earth. Possibly. Various landmarks match up to real life landmarks. For example, they passed by Space World Japan, and the latest episode had an old fountain in Osaka station However the exact geography of their trip doesn't exactly match reality. Also, Space World was permanently closed last year, and the fountain is set to be demolished this year.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 03:02 |
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I wonder why the latest sister doesn't want to reunite with the others? Did they fake their own deaths? That would make sense since the Rins talk like the other Rins are dead.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 03:13 |
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This show is really good, it's a shame it's been cast off to Amazon Prime. Some of the earlier episodes were kind of shaky even with the good world building but 5 and 6 are finally moving things forward and things are getting quite interesting. The atmosphere makes me feel like I'm playing Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight, especially with the "tree leaves as power" theme.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 03:47 |
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El Burbo posted:Possibly. Various landmarks match up to real life landmarks. For example, they passed by Space World Japan, and the latest episode had an old fountain in Osaka station Tatsuki sure likes his decaying architecture.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 04:00 |
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The isekai thing was mostly a joke. Also post-humanity is best basis for anything.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 04:03 |
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El Burbo posted:Possibly. Various landmarks match up to real life landmarks. For example, they passed by Space World Japan, and the latest episode had an old fountain in Osaka station Well that's just great. I rely heavily on that fountain as a landmark to get my bearings. What with being underground, everything there looks the same and I've been lost down there.
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 12:32 |
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Agronox posted:Tatsuki sure likes his decaying architecture. Tatsuki is a softer Tsutomu Nihei
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 12:51 |
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Stumbling Block posted:Well that's just great. I rely heavily on that fountain as a landmark to get my bearings. What with being underground, everything there looks the same and I've been lost down there. Well, they’re gonna renovate the whole place and replace it with a fancy new fountain https://www.sankei.com/smp/west/news/190212/wst1902120023-s1.html
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 17:01 |
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I respect how this guy is making a certain kind of sub par CG into an aesthetic. I mean that in all honesty. It means some interesting stories can be told with bad budgets.
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# ? Feb 19, 2019 02:52 |
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Ccs posted:I respect how this guy is making a certain kind of sub par CG into an aesthetic. I mean that in all honesty. It means some interesting stories can be told with bad budgets. I agree. And I would love to hear Tatsuki and Irodori's story sometime; I suspect it would make a hell of a movie.
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# ? Feb 19, 2019 04:17 |
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Ccs posted:I respect how this guy is making a certain kind of sub par CG into an aesthetic. I mean that in all honesty. It means some interesting stories can be told with bad budgets. It's like the thing where making super widescreen Imax HD U4K blu-ray betamax editions of old things, or things in general, can water down the horror. Grainy VHS tapes made distinguishing things hard, and as a result, you were never safe because your brain couldnt always make out what is hiding in the pitch blackness.
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# ? Feb 19, 2019 05:22 |
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I am honestly very happy to see the growth they're showing, both Midori chan and Rin and Wakaba. It was a bit of a heartbreak to see that their moment of peace was disrupted so callously by the Red Bugs, but it kind of makes another mystery to me. These Red Bugs are like caterpillars, but we hadn't seen a butterfly or moth Red Bug, at least not yet. That might be a tad terrifying to face for their group.
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# ? Feb 21, 2019 03:32 |
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I've been enjoying this more each week and am curious to see how things go for it. I really enjoyed meeting sharp sister the other week and am looking forward to seeing what they found~
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# ? Feb 21, 2019 09:14 |
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The walking on tree at height reminded me of dark souls a bit. I also went from finding Wakaba obnoxious at the beginning of the show to liking him now. Also loving all the music so far. So it looks like the red fog has turned a tree red? And it's somehow generating those caterpillars and is able to regenerate itself pretty fast? I wonder what they're trying to do? Next week can't come fast enough for me.
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# ? Feb 21, 2019 14:36 |
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Yeah, it's pretty fun, and I hope we come back to the delinquent sister before too long. Anyone know what kanji was flashing on the blue wall there?
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# ? Feb 21, 2019 15:29 |
Agronox posted:Yeah, it's pretty fun, and I hope we come back to the delinquent sister before too long. 警. In this case it means Warning, like in security alert.
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# ? Feb 21, 2019 15:57 |
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Thanks!
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# ? Feb 21, 2019 16:12 |
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We know that every color of Kemurikusa basically has the same or similar abilities. Red seems to be some sort of infection affecting the robots and apparently now a tree. Blue is clearly all sorts of walls/barriers. Green counteracts the effects of Red and also heals and repairs (which might be why it affects Red). Orange seems to be of some sort of utilitarian purpose. We've really only seen two at work. Pink is what all of the sisters have at their core and is what gives them life.
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# ? Feb 22, 2019 00:35 |
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Remember Nissin x Kemono Friends? It’s back, in leaf form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHySQSN9xIA
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# ? Feb 27, 2019 16:32 |
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The Rinas were extra adorable in this episode, and the legged Roomba even more. Things have been getting weird and I theorize a grey matter event happened, or whatever the scenario was called where a blob of self-replicating absorbing nanomachines would grow and take over the world. Nature evolved and what few survivors managed, evolved along with it too. Mad lot of genetic modification. This could be deep sci-fi only taking place on Earth. I love this show even though it feels like it's sometimes crunching content and skipping events, happenings, explanations. Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Feb 27, 2019 |
# ? Feb 27, 2019 19:57 |
I have to rewatch an episode because I don't know what the deal with the Rina with permanently closed eyes is. I like them merging into one and just popping out the back as if they were standing behind each other just right. They also seem to be based on (sensory) organs instead of just senses?
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# ? Feb 27, 2019 20:15 |
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The walking animation on the roombas is adorable.
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# ? Feb 27, 2019 20:36 |
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The poor little robots. At least they died doing what they loved, chilling out on a boat until someone told them to hack up some tree roots. Bit of a turning point for Wakaba and Rin too. Good ep.
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 04:34 |
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Ghosts n Gopniks posted:The Rinas were extra adorable in this episode, and the legged Roomba even more. I think, what can be assumed is that this "world" is extremely post-humanity and everyone but Wakaba is some sort of artificial life form powered by Kemurikusa. It may also be some sort of artificial world which would explain the Islands and robots literally fading away with Wakaba being the first human to basically access the virtual world in aeons.
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 05:31 |
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So is there a visual way to actually tell the Rinas apart that I've just been missing?
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# ? Mar 5, 2019 07:16 |
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Well one of them seems to always be sleeping (the one with the core leaf, I think?)
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# ? Mar 5, 2019 08:45 |
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Tatsuki fuckin loves those udon. e: man i need to scroll up Zeruel fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Mar 6, 2019 |
# ? Mar 5, 2019 09:43 |
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Episode 9 blew my mind start to finish and Tatsuki is an old experienced professional writer of many awards, right? Because this is just that great, compared to everything else. It's got mysteries in it, the unexplained and the inexplainable! Some people are allergic to not getting everything explained and it would suck to be one of those, unable to enjoy the values of this. Show is definitely cutting things out in order to speed things up and fit everything into 12 episodes, but I forgive it because of the quality of everything but the visuals, they are more tolerable than nine out of ten CG shows as it is anyway, then the framerates often being 3-4 times higher, it's insane. Tatsuki and Tsutomu Nihei could make some mad sci-fi together.
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Ryoku instantly becomes the best character
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