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Can't believe the cat YouTuber is evil Can't believe Soyo and Anon are dating Fangz fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jan 3, 2025 |
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Oh, two other things I liked. 1. I guess MyGO got put through the wringer enough in their own show, so now it's all sunshine and rainbows for them. Outside of flashbacks the AM scenes are all black, maroon, or dull... meanwhile everything is bright and shiny over at Ring. Sakiko is on the verge of breakdown at any given moment, while Tomori is currently working on... shapes. 2. It's nice to see Soyo and Anon hang out, but it gave me a chuckle that Soyo was blatantly not Anon's first choice (and might not have even been her second choice if Taki was interested).
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Jan 3, 2025 02:00
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Agronox posted:2. It's nice to see Soyo and Anon hang out, but it gave me a chuckle that Soyo was blatantly not Anon's first choice (and might not have even been her second choice if Taki was interested). I saw that as Anon strategically ensuring she didn't appear too keen...
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Jan 3, 2025 02:06
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I can't decide if no subtitles on text messages or no subtitles on lyrics is worse. Big downgrade that unnecessarily marred my enjoyment of what was an absolute banger of a first episode. Endorph posted:sakiko and her father basically have the exact same damage. they assume their problems and burdens are so unique and terrible that letting anyone in would only ruin their lives or make things worse for them, too. see sakiko's dad going 'im just making your life worse....' sakiko tries to overcompensate for those feelings via being an overachiever, her father just drinks them away, but they both end up in the same place of pushing away the people around them. sakiko's dad pushes her away and then sakiko immediately goes 'ALL I HAVE IS AVEMUJICA" directly to the one person whos always there for her no matter what, basically instantly replicating the behavior. Endorph, this is really perceptive and well explained.
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Jan 3, 2025 02:28
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Sakiko's story being an exact mirror image of Soyo's is interesting and I hope the show deals with it at some point. Also all hail our new trash gremlin Nyamu you are evil and you are amazing for it
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Jan 3, 2025 14:21
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So are the subtitles bad in a "the underpaid translator didn't care" way or a "we didn't care so we MTL'd" kind of way?
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Jan 3, 2025 15:48
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A "hasty first draft we weren't given time or resources to polish up at all" kind of way
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Jan 3, 2025 16:31
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Plus (unless I had a setting wrong somewhere) they didn’t translate the text messages.
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Jan 3, 2025 16:35
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Agronox posted:Plus (unless I had a setting wrong somewhere) they didn’t translate the text messages. They didn't translate text messages or any other on-screen text like posters or signs. Not all on-screen text needs subtitles, of course, but there's plenty where it's nice for context and some (like the aforementioned text messages) where it's pretty critical to understanding the show. They also didn't subtitle the lyrics, presumably for licensing reasons, but this also hurts comprehension imo.
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Jan 3, 2025 18:39
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Arc Hammer posted:So are the subtitles bad in a "the underpaid translator didn't care" way or a "we didn't care so we MTL'd" kind of way? I’m really curious how these crappy licensor side subtitles actually get made. Like who are they hiring? Translators who don’t work in fiction? English teachers? Production assistants who are relatively good with English???
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Jan 3, 2025 20:10
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I suspect it's mainly a matter of not having the organisational workflow something like CR has set up and therefore using freelancers with not enough time for quality control.
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Jan 3, 2025 20:59
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OnimaruXLR posted:I’m really curious how these crappy licensor side subtitles actually get made. Like who are they hiring? Translators who don’t work in fiction? English teachers? Production assistants who are relatively good with English??? these subs read to me like first draft from someone who's ESL. the general thrust is fine but it needs proofreading and refining, and theres not that good an ear for how english flows.
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Jan 3, 2025 22:01
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As a Bandori fan it’s super funny that the most important thing Morfonica has done in universe is inspire the creation of Crychic
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Jan 4, 2025 00:08
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SatoshiMiwa posted:As a Bandori fan it’s super funny that the most important thing Morfonica has done in universe is inspire the creation of Crychic Well, out of universe, to me it seems like Morfonica only came into existence for Kidani and Bushi and Hibiki to introduce Amanesu to their stable of 2.5D seiyuu (and some people took it real badly going off of the harassment she got online; her singing with rather rough to start off with). Oh, and to introduce a new rich girls school in universe to place characters in outside of the already established ones of Hanasakigawa and Haneoka. Maybe also to give Oyu some performance experience before D4DJ as well, and give Mika some acknowledgment as Meguchi’s (and Hasshi’s?) drums teacher. Getting Ayasa involved was pretty cool though, I had been following her violin covers for a while before that. Morf always did seem like the least popular live Bandori band to me, even taking into account their relative newness, before MyGo!!!!! took off in China for whatever reason. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Jan 5, 2025 |
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Jan 4, 2025 23:40
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E: quote is not edit
GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jan 4, 2025 |
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Jan 4, 2025 23:40
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I looked at the first post and was like, what is this, and then read the thread and was like what is this, and then read the wiki and was like what is this. Idk what this is still. Girl group anime? Can someone give me a quick summary?
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Jan 5, 2025 02:19
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DamnGlitch posted:I looked at the first post and was like, what is this, and then read the thread and was like what is this, and then read the wiki and was like what is this. generally: girls who are musicians navigate the drama of their personal lives and being in bands together. recent entries have had really solid writing and direction. it's part of a larger multimedia franchise, but you can start with mygo and get the vast majority of it.
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Jan 5, 2025 02:27
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Thanks, that’s what I needed 👍
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Jan 5, 2025 02:34
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Yeah, just watch like the first three eps of MyGo, if it works for you keep going and we'll see you in a while. https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G0XHWM1NV/bang-dream-its-mygo
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Jan 5, 2025 02:35
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GhostStalker posted:Morf always did seem like the least popular live Bandori band to me, even taking into account their relative newness, before MyGo!!!!! took off in China for whatever reason. Out of the main universe live bands (so not including Mugendai Mewtype here), they definitely are. There was some additional stink around them being added to Garupa (the mobile game) first before RAISE A SUILEN who'd existed IRL for two years already which I don't think helped their likeability at first. And debuting in 2020 with everything that year brought in terms of restrictions and cancellations of live concerts didn't help either. I think in Japan popularity-wise, only Mashiro is really loved from the group, all the other characters just kind of exist.
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Jan 5, 2025 14:56
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KariOhki posted:Out of the main universe live bands (so not including Mugendai Mewtype here), they definitely are. There was some additional stink around them being added to Garupa (the mobile game) first before RAISE A SUILEN who'd existed IRL for two years already which I don't think helped their likeability at first. And debuting in 2020 with everything that year brought in terms of restrictions and cancellations of live concerts didn't help either. I would’ve thought Rui would be somewhat popular with how known Ayasa is in Japan, but I guess that’s not guaranteed that seiyuu popularity transfers into character popularity. I guess Oyu would be more popular as Rinku from Happy Around than Nanami (had to look up her character’s name on Wikipedia) and Suguta Hina is better known for Marin from Bisque Doll (My Dress Up Darling) than Toko. I had fallen off of Bandori as a whole prior to Covid (losing my account because of iPad shenanigans as I was heading to a Roselia DV and then being unable to get it back really didn’t help), but I did hear a bunch of the dislike of them being added to Garupa prior to RAS from friends who still played and from chatter at DVs. Then again, we never did get a Morf DV before Covid happened. I think the only Morf media I’ve seen is one of the Bandori movies that was screened at AnimeNYC a number of years back. I got into MyGo late because of the aforementioned falling off, despite knowing and hanging out with a bunch of people who are still involved with it (besides yourself and people like the owner of the pretty much now dead Bandori fan Discord server), but watching it more or less got me back into Bandori. I still have no idea what the vtuber band of this franchise is though. I know Amanesu’s singing was crazy rough when she debuted, but she’s def gotten better since then as her later songs and D4DJ work prove. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Jan 6, 2025 |
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Jan 5, 2025 22:12
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The problem with Rui is that her character is clearly going for some kind of "becoming less of an rear end in a top hat" arc but she hasn't had it yet and it doesn't seem like they've figured out how to make it happen. So she's just kind of unlikable. I wonder if the plan is to have the morfs intersect with Ave/MyGO in some interesting way, but the band is more or less in limbo at present.
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Jan 5, 2025 22:21
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Morfonica and Poppin Party are in a weird holding pattern that they aren’t changing as much as other bands right now (like the current English Afterglow story has me invested cause of how the band graduating may change things). Just Poppin Party has years of being the lead band going for it where Morfonica doesn’t
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Jan 6, 2025 04:12
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GBC's character designer's art is great from their twitter
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Jan 6, 2025 07:21
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https://x.com/maigosusume/status/1876177013733753240 also sakiko and mutsumi might be related? probably cousins
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Jan 7, 2025 05:37
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My favorite deranged fan theory (which apparently got some play particularly among the Chinese fans as MyGO was ending) is that Mutsumi and Sakiko are secret sisters. I guess I will eat crow if I’m wrong but I don’t think they’re related. But I do like that people are analyzing every scene like it’s from LOST or Severance or whatever.
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Jan 7, 2025 14:48
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Lots of dejected Mustu in this episode. And we see Soyo hasn't grown enough to treat her with a bit more compassion. Think this was about CRYCHIC, or something more?
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Jan 9, 2025 18:11
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Nyamu is just the worst
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Jan 9, 2025 19:14
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Wow, another good episode. I want to watch it again but some first impressions:
Also, bonus angry Soyo: 
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Jan 9, 2025 19:34
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Taki has a bad habit of projecting her own feelings onto Tomori. This is mostly played for laughs early in S1 with the Anon stuff but its a pretty consistent pattern of behavior for her. So when she's all 'Sakiko ditched us, right Tomori' she's revealing a bit more of herself than she intends to.
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Jan 9, 2025 20:33
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It's amusing that you've got MyGO where we're proactively trying to protect each other's feelings and then in Ave people don't notice Mutsumi's having a nervous breakdown RIGHT THERE IN THE ROOM. edit: Project management is easy 
Fangz fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jan 9, 2025 |
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Jan 9, 2025 20:43
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good ep - the sense of impending dread with mutsumi was palpable. there was this shot where you see sakiko is about to come unglued when nyamu is talking about mutsumi after the tv interview that really struck me, the cracks in her facade are starting to become more obvious. MASK METAPHORAgronox posted:i'm curious what people think about Nyamu. she has an almost single-minded focus on her personal brand, to the extent that i am wondering when the other shoe will drop.
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Jan 9, 2025 22:33
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Nyamu is horrible I love her Mutsumi’s breakdown was so good as we knew it was coming but nobody else did for a variety of reasons. The hand dropping like a doll with cut strings was as subtle as an explosion and great cause of it Wonder what Mana is gonna think about Uika now living with Sakiko
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Jan 10, 2025 06:03
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incredible horrifying episode. ave mujica (and my go) is really really good at isolating characters while they're suffering to create dread, and this was like 22 straight minutes of us being trapped in mutsumi's headspace.   i think my favorite part of the show so far is: in my go the performances were often freeing, cathartic moments. in ave mujica whenever the avenged sevenfold riffs kick in you know someone in this band is about to be dragged down into something even worse. 
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Jan 11, 2025 00:04
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this has to be pound for pound the most awful scene in bang dream history. the transition from 'there's no escape anymore' -> slow pan of lifeless mutsumi clutching her guitar -> 'i can't wait to see mutsumi!!!' is incredible https://i.imgur.com/4tJrlJc.mp4
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Jan 11, 2025 00:10
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the scene where mutsumi is completely emotionless and dead-eyed while the photographer is showering her with praise is almost as bad. reminds me a lot of perfect blue (i guess a lot of this episode does)
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Jan 11, 2025 00:14
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Agronox posted:
she's so good as an anti-raana. the mischievous cat who does whatever she wants but instead of driving her friends forward she's focused entirely on self promotion.
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Jan 11, 2025 00:21
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after eating 37 olives straight out of jar while standing in front of refrigerator at 1:34am
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Jan 11, 2025 00:36
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its also funny that there's that one scene in mygo where mutsumi is like 'im not your carrier pigeon' at taki which is funny but mutsumi actually had the confidence to set that boundary and taki actually listened, and in this episode taki recognizes one of mutsumis issues (though not the extent of it) without even being there or having a conversation with her. meanwhile sakiko and nyamu just kind of lay into her. kinda makes it clear that taki and mutsumi actually did understand each other to an extent during crychic, which makes mutsumi ditching so sakiko wasnt alone even sadder
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Big Leg posted:she's so good as an anti-raana. the mischievous cat who does whatever she wants but instead of driving her friends forward she's focused entirely on self promotion. there's also a very funny subtle contrast in a throwaway scene in mygo where raana barely even uses her phone and her phone is old and beat up and has a ton of scratches, and ghosts half her texts. meanwhile nyamu is checking her phone 24/7
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