I need to watch more of Cygames' animes... their directing seems to be consistently great, which highly outweighs the plot of usually lower quality.
But that's just how games need their plot... thin, outstretched and as milkable as possible
Never in my life have I expected myself to come to enjoy a show about horsegirl idols running in circles both literally and narratively to such a great extent.
And for how sarcast I am I'm serious about this one... heh
It might not be a great show story wise, actually it might even be that close to really good, but the setup it does and the payoff you get from it, are peak.
This, is good entertainment.
fandy inside seeing this post.
Hi bored I'm dad.
I'm sure you can find a good pirated version of Clanned somewhere, maybe check thepiratebay or so.
But If you dont wanna pay anything yet I recommend Everlasting Summer, it's free on Steam and there's also a +18 version of it on nutaku or so.
You usually buy the entire game, and download iteither as a file from the net, steam or a medium (cd/usb stick).
How it's divided depends.
Usually a single classic VN is one complete, massive, story. WithinWithin itself seperated into chapters, like any other normal book is. Not rarely does it take over 50 hours to play one game.
But there are others, like the Grisaia Phantom Trigger series which is made up of 8 Volumes each taking roughly 10-15 hours to play. Similar to a Light Novel.
And yes, there are english Visual Novels... like Danganronpa.... just check steam, they have entire Visual Novel libraries.
A visual novel is similar to a digital light novel, except every character has a sprite and their expressions and pose change depending on situation and conversation.
Text is usually displayed in the bottom, but it's written fundamentally different from normal Novels or Books as you, the reader, are usually the main character and read/play through, meeting and talking to other characters in the story.
People roughly differentiate between linear and kinetic Visual Novels, a Linear VN has a Linear and straight story which doesnt deviate anywhere. A Kinrtic VN offers the players multiple choices throughout the game and thus creates multiple endings based on the choices made by the player.
A VN usually doesnt have actual gameplay other than reading the story but sometimes games use the VN style to tell a story, well known VN's that have actual gameplay are Arknights, a tower defense RPG, Fate/Grand Order, a turn based strategy RPG, The Banner Saga, a Tactical turn based RPG, list goes on.
Well known Classic Visual Novels include Fate/Stay Night, The Fruit of Grisaia, Danganronpa and Muv-Luv.
If you're looking to get into Visual Novels I recommend any game by MoeNovel, Adventure of a Lifetime for starters. Or if you dont want to pay just yet the Russian indie Everlasting Summer is an incredible work of art, if at times a little depressing.
When I was thinking about doing smth like this again after my last MT rant post I was initially thinking about taking apart Lena's argument with Henrietta, but nobody was going to read that anyway so here I decided to do a little bit more simple take apart of how brilliant the first episode was made.
86 has a relatively simple premise, but is executed quite complex, and while many many scenes especially those with a lot of talking just OOZE with 'LOOK AT ME I WAS A LIGHT NOVEL', I have to give huge props to the art and composition director for a lot of things, every episode overflows with fine and little details that are either barely perceivable or invisible, like reflections of cars in windows just to give a bland conversation an image that feels alive... brilliant.
So here I decided to take apart the first episode in context of the whole series, it's without a doubt the one overflowing with the most fine details that contribute to the larger picture.
It starts with a man ordering the '86' into combat, but he slowly but surely sounds evidently mad, this entire scene sets a cerrrtain mood for the entirety of the series without us actually understanding whats going on until we're actually introduced to the 'Black Sheep', which would obviously slowly but surely drive you mad if you're not going to commit suicide first.
Then we have the Spearhead Squadron:
Undertaker
Falke --> Falcon
Fafnir --> A Dragon from mythology, was slain by Siegfried
Helianthus --> Flowers?
Kirschblüte --> Cherry Blossoms
Wehrwolf --> Wehr = defense, resistance, with other words maybe guard, so as Werwolf: guardwolf, Guarding Werewolf or smth along those lines.
Griffin --> a mythological creature
Manticore --> a mythological creature
Laughing Fox --> learn reading.
And so on, all of their names, even those currently unmentioned, refer to a plant, a living if not mythological creature, person, god or demigod ect. Things that were once or should be alive.
Except for one: Undertaker, Shinei Nouzen, more well known name: Reaper Shinigami; God of Death/Death Spirit --> Not alive in the first place.
There's something poetically beautiful about this that I bsolutely love about this... and not just because it's edgy af.
And this multilayered meaning of 'Reaper', continues on throughout half th show:
"Well, if we're going to die anyway, we'd rather have our Reaper guide us." - Kujo
In this case "Reaper" is used in a more literal sense as the God of Death as he's the one that sends Kujo to the afterlife, or maybe one should say 'heaven' as there's a spray on one of their walls saying "Welcome to base, the closest place to heaven".
But Kujo does mean it literally, everytime one of em does die, Shin carves their name into one part of their Juggernaught, taking them with him to wherever he goes, like a god of death carrying the dead with him.
Also Shin's name, Shinei, starts with Shin... like the word Shinigami...
Anyway, we're sent to the main town, where we meet Vladilena Milize, who just as everyone else in their quite wealthy society seems to have White Hair. usually a sign of Despair, Suffering --> Marie Antoinette Syndrome. But white should be everyone's hair color, the only reason we do have hair colors in the first place is because of evolution, they protect us from a multitude of bad rays
but they're all from "district 1", and more like "Superior" humans, who dont need that.
A very subtle artistic way to symbolize their superiority complex.
All statues, of which we're shown no small number of, are made of pure, uncolored stone, 'grey' or maybe in a more artistic sense, they all have the same hair color, white (while a wall painting in the spearhead squadrons HQ which has bright blue hair).
In an art historically sense that can be interpreted in a lot of ways, with what else we do get from the 1st ep.... them all believing their drones are "unmanned", truthfully being manned, the soldiers in said drones seem to be more diverse, in hair colors as well, hiding the fact that actual hair colors exist and or existed in the past, or rather, how the world history tries to paint it, only humans with White Hair (the Alba), are 'real' humans, everything else is no more than creatures, or kettle, as they call them 'Pigs', a very versatile term in the shows first few episodes, the Alba get to call the 86 Pigs in form of Kettle, while the 86 display the Alba as (fat) 'Pigs' in fancy clothes and smug faces ty symbolize their decadence.
There's more I'd love to point out but I dont wanna go too far into spoilers and nobody's going to read that far anyway....
anime shop
that was, a joke, but ok.
Mhh, anything by Junji Ito?
>literally any anime that's not a VN or LN adaption
That moment you realize you have anime powers cuz you can breath.
Yuru Camp
climb on the rooftop and scream 'I AMETH A WEEB AND I SEARCHETH FOR FELLOW WEEBLETS" and someone might reply.
Um, no, no he's not. You're right that the story is to the very end going to resolve around him, but, we're not getting the story from his point of View anymore.
Following Chapter 91 of the Manga and EP1 of Season 4 not only do we get a tonal Shift, but we're having a complete shift of Exposition.
Eren is not the Center of our attention anymore, he's not the center of our emotional attachment to the Story anymore, he's not a representation of our position within the story any, more. He not only doesn't fit the definition of a 'Main Character', but he's literally not the focus of the experienced story anymore. AND he's literally become the very thing an Antagonist resembles. A character that opposes our Main Cast, a character that symbolizes our Main Cast's Ideologies and believes, a character that attempts to oppose and works towards destroying everything that our Main Cast stands to protect.
He hasn't even had 20% of the total screen time of the 2nd season.
We're not getting any of his Inner Monologue, we have no direct knowledge of his motivations and any reasons for his actions, because we're not following them anymore, in truth, we barely even know what exactly it is, that he's doing.
TLDR, he's not our Main Character any more, he's become the Antagonist of the overarching story.
That moment horimiya just ended
Hello I'm new here I'm a local residential shitlord.
Oh no-
Anyway...
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