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 Ya Boy Kongming! (jp: Paripi Koumei) is an adaptation of the comedy manga by Yuuto Yotsuba and Ryou Ogawa. It's directed by Osamu Honma at PA Works. It's currently streaming on HIDIVE with new episodes releasing on Thursdays. quote:Fate and reincarnation deliver brilliant military strategist, Kongming, from warring, ancient China to Japan’s modern party hot spot in Shibuya City, Tokyo. After a lifetime of battles and military skirmishes, Kongming wished with his last breath to be reborn in a world of peace and prosperity. It’s nearly two millennia later and he’s finding his way in a very different world than that of his past life. When he meets Eiko, an amateur musician with big dreams, the unlikely duo strikes up an even unlikelier friendship. Eiko has street smarts to help Kongming navigate this strange new world, and Kongming will use his strategic mind to help Eiko achieve stardom! The show seems to be an underdog hit so far (partly thanks to its excellent OP sequence). It's funny, gets a lot of mileage out of its silly genre blend, and doesn't really require any Three Kingdoms knowledge as it gives you the relevant basics.
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drat that OP rules
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Apr 15, 2022 21:35
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We also need to mention that the opening song Chiki Chiki Ban Ban is a cover of this 2013 Hungarian song Ciki Ciki Bam Bam Tamba posted:After some more digging: It's a eurobeat remix of this song ...... which is a cover/remix of the 1969 Japanese version of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf1Ys4nVtM0
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Apr 15, 2022 21:36
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so far, the first really lacanian anime since 2019's sarazanmai note that zhuge liang's alleged innermost desire (apparently so heart-felt that it was granted supernaturally via the will of heaven) is to live in a land of peace and without battle. and yet, in keeping with lacan's concept of the objet petit a, he seems almost relieved when he awakens in what he believes to be hell. while one might expect that zhuge liang "coming to grips with" the modern world would be a central conflict of the show or at least a recurring theme, the show (wisely) realizes that this element is unimportant: learning about modernity is dispensed with in a single cutaway to a clock and an exasperated sigh from eiko. rather, the idea that kongming might have attained his desire is prima facie unbelievable, and is the real central conflict of the first episode. even with the assistance of the supernatural, we are forbidden from attaining our alleged object of desire (c.f. tarkovsky's stalker). zhuge liang himself is visibly relieved when, in episode 2, he is asked to once again resume the role of strategist, and finds a new "war" to fight, and places for battle to seep back in to the peaceful life that he (allegedly) craved. we get a glimpse of this "true" kongming, and the hollowness of his "wish," when he gleefully remarks on how he, in a different time, would have placed jet jacket's heads on display in ep3. these lacanian themes (especially that of the "mirror stage" and the development of the imaginary and symbolic orders) are present also in eiko's character. for instance, her own "self doubt" or ambivalence towards fame are perceived of as flaws to be rectified, ironically by supplementing her "authentic" self with the artificiality introduced by the other (in this case, kongming's strategems). it is telling that her stage name is merely the romaji of her own name, an alienation but not a distinctive setting out of another self (think here of how the linguistic sign is manipulated in the lacanian graph of desire).
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Apr 16, 2022 02:05
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the op is also pretty good imo
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Apr 16, 2022 02:06
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This show whips
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Apr 16, 2022 02:58
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When he makes this face you know someone's gonna get wrecked 
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Apr 16, 2022 07:52
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It's a fun, stylish, show and an equally good manga. If I have one complaint, it's that conflicts all get resolved a bit too neatly, but sometimes it's nice to have an ending where everyone ends up satisfied.
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Apr 16, 2022 14:03
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Nemo2342 posted:It's a fun, stylish, show and an equally good manga. If I have one complaint, it's that conflicts all get resolved a bit too neatly, but sometimes it's nice to have an ending where everyone ends up satisfied. I guess it's the same mechanism as in the original Sherlock Holmes stories where the protagonist always solves the conflicts neatly because those conflicts and even the entire context they happen in were designed exactly so that the protagonist would be able to do that. I guess the same is true for most Batman stories where the outcome would pretty much be impossible for anyone who didn't have the exact skill set and knowledge base as Batman. The '66 TV show parodied this beautifully: "Luckily I thought to pack the shark repellent in the Batcopter today!" It's pretty much necessary for an author to pull those tricks when they're writing a character who is a lot cleverer than they are. YBK is at least playful with the idea, like in the most recent episode where the nightclub owner asks "But what if your hunch wasn't right?" and Kongming replies "Oh that just means I didn't have to use that tactic!!  "
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Apr 16, 2022 14:47
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This show fucks.
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Apr 16, 2022 19:26
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I guess it's the same mechanism as in the original Sherlock Holmes stories where the protagonist always solves the conflicts neatly because those conflicts and even the entire context they happen in were designed exactly so that the protagonist would be able to do that. I desperately want to know what THAT tactic is.
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Apr 16, 2022 19:33
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It’s party time indeed
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Apr 16, 2022 19:42
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so we all agree that dude with the Glittering Crux idols in the op is Sima Yi right?
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Apr 16, 2022 19:58
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I guess it's the same mechanism as in the original Sherlock Holmes stories where the protagonist always solves the conflicts neatly because those conflicts and even the entire context they happen in were designed exactly so that the protagonist would be able to do that. one advantage that paripi has so far over other detective stories (broadly conceived; stories about a genius finding inductive solutions to problems), and perhaps this is less true as the story progresses in the manga and this particular well of ideas runs dry, is that kongming is, as a character, limited to solutions inspired by from either the 36 strategems or the romance of the three kingdoms directly. this allows it to more parsimoniously tick the boxes borges lays out in "the labyrinths of the detective story and chesterton", including a "priority of how over who", "an avaricious economy of means" and lastly "a solution that is both necessary and marvelous." especially in anime detectives stories there is a focus on meta cognition (e.g. "i know that he knows that i know that...") and also a refusal to lay out all the terms of the problem for the reader/viewer (lord el melloi would be an example of this: while it's very clearly set up as a detective story, the actual solutions are often quite muddled because the limits of what magic can or cannot do are never particularly clear in the fate universe even in the best of times, and all the more so when they are meant to be obfuscatory). here the solution space is constrained and the supernatural is (beyond the central premise) eschewed, so it is about purely matching how a strategem might map to a particular situation. so to me it's less like batman with a lucky canister of bat-shark-repellent and more (in keeping with the gadget theme) like a 70s style james bond movie: q hands bond all of his gadgets at the very beginning, and the viewer's inductive task is to see what situation bond will find himself in that requires using the watch with a sleep dart in it.
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Apr 16, 2022 22:36
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I guess it's the same mechanism as in the original Sherlock Holmes stories where the protagonist always solves the conflicts neatly because those conflicts and even the entire context they happen in were designed exactly so that the protagonist would be able to do that. This is very much true, and I will say that I'm totally down with YBK doing the Holmesian thing where everything works out just as he planned for. After all he is supposed to be a nearly-unrivaled strategist who could outwit even the smartest of his rivals (from time to time) so it feels in character. What I was (poorly) trying to express is that I do kind of dislike that there are almost no repercussions from his actions. Like he totally fucks over that indie band, but in the end they're still walking away thinking he's a cool dude. Tiny manga spoiler: This will happen with a couple other antagonists as well; Kongming will thwart them and no matter how lovely the antagonist was, everyone will still come out for the better with no real hard feelings.
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Apr 17, 2022 07:38
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Nemo2342 posted:What I was (poorly) trying to express is that I do kind of dislike that there are almost no repercussions from his actions. Like he totally fucks over that indie band, but in the end they're still walking away thinking he's a cool dude. Naw, Kongming was aware those repercussions were likely to happen and had prepared for it. When he wandered into that music store seemingly on a whim on the way to the festival he was actually gathering the final piece he needed for his stratagem to win them over which was buying the band t-shirt for them to sign, to show his mutual respect for their music. The weird sunglasses he also bought was a fakeout, he didn't end up using them at all. I also wouldn't be surprised the shaky truce with the indie band was laying the foundations for an alliance further down the road as part of his longterm schemes. The fact that he just happened to know the secret recipe to cure the singer's sore throat when even modern doctors hadn't been able to treat it was a bit of an rear end-pull, not quite a "Batman's shark repellent" moment but getting there. Ibblebibble posted:I desperately want to know what THAT tactic is. Maybe it was something to do with the weird sunglasses????  
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Apr 17, 2022 08:13
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This show (and it's music) slaps. Though, the biggest guffaw it's gotten out of me so far was ep 1 where the guy orders a fuzzy navel, but Koumei serves the drink without looking at the guy and smash cuts away before he even finishes the order. That poo poo had me rolling for some reason.
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Apr 17, 2022 22:13
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The weird sunglasses he also bought was a fakeout, he didn't end up using them at all. All the outfits that My Boy, Kongming, wears in the intro are canon. He will be slowly collecting them throughout the series, item by item.
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Apr 18, 2022 01:09
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He wore the sunglasses while handing out drinks though?
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Apr 18, 2022 05:16
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Sam Faust posted:He wore the sunglasses while handing out drinks though? Ah gently caress of course he did, I'm a dumbass
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Apr 18, 2022 07:32
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:This show whips paragon1 posted:This show fucks. This, and also it owns.
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Apr 19, 2022 04:21
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Kongming forming the Vibes Alliance is some good poo poo
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Apr 21, 2022 16:57
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AKA: The Mellow Chips Of The Ring.
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Apr 21, 2022 18:42
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I feel an underappreciated part of the show is how occasionally Eiko busts out a face right out of Sailor Moon, really adds to the sense of 90s nostalgia  
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Apr 21, 2022 21:27
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I like her cap that says "CAP" on it.
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Apr 22, 2022 00:05
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I like Eiko's style in this. She rocks that coat and shorts style with the caps. Very cool.
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Apr 22, 2022 15:41
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2 of the songs had the full version released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-bdKXQcGiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShQU4JHoPVs
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Apr 25, 2022 17:52
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDqXSgPihEk
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Apr 25, 2022 18:58
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I’d play this Destiny of an Emperor romhack.
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Apr 25, 2022 20:33
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i was gonna keep doing lacan stuff as a bit but ep4 literally ends with a long monologue about desire, personal pronouns, and ego-formation in context of absent mother/father figures so now i don't know what to think
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Apr 25, 2022 21:30
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Tree Goat posted:i was gonna keep doing lacan stuff as a bit but ep4 literally ends with a long monologue about desire, personal pronouns, and ego-formation in context of absent mother/father figures so now i don't know what to think lmao
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Apr 26, 2022 06:20
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Tree Goat posted:i was gonna keep doing lacan stuff as a bit but ep4 literally ends with a long monologue about desire, personal pronouns, and ego-formation in context of absent mother/father figures so now i don't know what to think Life's a wonderful mess, isn't it?
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Apr 26, 2022 13:35
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https://twitter.com/ksantillus/status/1519131853860577287 Even military geniuses can get parched. And the art style makes Eiko look like Betty from the Archie series.
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Apr 29, 2022 06:05
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I've been looking forward to next week's episode ever since they announced the adaptation. Manga spoiler (safe after you finish this week's episode): 
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Apr 29, 2022 06:56
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Ibblebibble posted:I desperately want to know what THAT tactic is. I've played a lot of Dynasty Warriors, and let me tell you: it's a fire attack. It's always a fire attack. He was going to set them on fire.
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Apr 30, 2022 08:27
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Just wanna say that I cannot wait until we get to that ominous trio of singers that the OP keeps threatening.
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Apr 30, 2022 20:15
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The ones with the dirigible? They're pretty obviously the protege's of the festival organizer so it will be interesting to watch them. Also, did anyone else notice the change in the OP? Before this episode, there was a scene with Eiko up on the stage singing. But this OP had her up on the stage with the rapper. Nice foreshadowing.
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Apr 30, 2022 21:53
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I Am Fowl posted:Just wanna say that I cannot wait until we get to that ominous trio of singers that the OP keeps threatening. They were actually mentioned briefly in episode two they're the enigmatic idol group, Azalea. I'm not sure when we'll actually meet them, but their deal will be explained once the rapper stuff is conclude (so probably next episode).
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Apr 30, 2022 23:43
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It involves Sima Yi. It has to involve Sima Yi.
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This OP slaps way harder than it has any right to. I deeply appreciate the Casino Royale reference in it as well. 
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