Article from a few days ago, but apparently this is a thing in the Japanese movie industry. People just buy tickets just to get bonuses rather than watching the movies, giving headaches to their employees.
Of course the movie companies entice fans with bonuses because :leafeonmoney:
Alright it is time to dive in to my year end Otaku stuff. Best Anime, best manga and best light novels.
Anime will be stuff that started airing between Winter 2023 and Fall 2023.
Top 10 Anime of 2023
10 - The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
9 - Too Cute Crisis
8 - Reborn as a Vending Machine
7 - ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister!
6 - The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
5 - Tenpuru
4 - Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack
3 - My Clueless First Friend
2 - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
1 - The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
The story is set in a world where people are anthropomorphic animals. The main character, Odokawa, is a taxi driver, and through driving people around, he gets involved in a case of a missing school girl, and then he gets tangled up with the police and the yakuza. It's only 13 episodes, and the story is very tightly told and the dialogue is solid (there's lots of taxi + passenger conversations). You will get hooked by ep 1. It gets to some dark places sometimes, can be a little heavy, so a bit of warning if you're looking for a lighthearted watch, this is not it. But if you're in the mood though, it's such a gem.
Also, Hanae Natsuki did great as Odokawa (the rest too, but Hanae, especially, imo).
Can you please recommend AMV from old and new series?
I loved very much Information High from Macross Plus by Maboroshi Studio. Also Rammstein's Engel for Neon Genesis Evangelion and I found Björk's Bachelorette for Utena Movie superb.
Please, if you have any, share your recommendatuions for #AMV
If you can give me boost for visibility that would be lovely! cheers!
Went into the Undead Murder Farce #anime blind and was expecting more Japanese yokai, oni, akuma after the first episode... but very happy with the direction it took! Unlike other mystery anime (ex: Ron Kamonohashi), each case gets the proper time to shine. There's enough buildup to get attached to the new characters, which makes the payoff so much more satisfying.
I'm 30 seconds into #ouranhighschoolhostclub and I'm like 90% sure that it can be described as a #utena#fanfic. So many roses. So many framings. Even an arrow pointing at things.
So I've found my list of "12 books for 2023", which I made when I had already decided to not use a reading list this year (is that a reverse New Years Resolution then?) and compared it to my paper record of books read since about 2020 to now.
I find it fun, especially when my partner swears I read Lord of the Rings AGAIN just last year, but I know it was the other one, Lord of the FLIES, here's proof hehe.
I find I'm very good at making lists, then making another, but feeling like I need to go back and complete all the lists I made, so it's no dirties for a No List year I've made 2 and mashed them together. Anyway, I got 12 books read of I split up all the Michael Moorcock books into their separate actual books, but normally I'll count a whole series as one, self they are so thin and blisteringly fast (Sword and Sorcery is great fun).
The speed and theme of my lists are never considered, so we'll have the very officious Pros Edda, and then Dorian Hawkmoon 5, 6 and 7 (and I had to postpone 7 because it actually resolves about 4 while character arcs at once!), then Dracula, which is big and slow and exciting and grand and drab and wild and very atmospheric.
If I had a theme this year it was "huge personalities of individuals" because I'm planning to write a new rough draft in a new format next year, and I needed BIG. Presence, force of personality, audacity, all that.
So that end I picked 3 in particular: Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency (for Dirk himself, a wildly intelligent character who doesn't even enter the story proper until half way through the book! [More of Adams' genius]), Now Wait For Last Year by Philip K Dick for Molinari (if you want the best way to get out of a work meeting every, read this) and lastly not a book but an #anime Porco Rosso.
Upon rewatch/reread not all characters shined as amazingly as my first time, Dirk certainly did but Porco seemed outdated and sexist, and Molinari I had forgotten a lot of things about... 1/2
Before the day ticks over, today's #anime#DecRecs is Gankutsuou.
It's basically the Count of Monte Cristo in SPACE, told from Albert's perspective, and homoeroticism dialed up to eleven[1]. A tale of revenge, with an interesting style of animation. The opening and ending songs are great, the adaptation to the scifi space setting is seamless and interesting. If you enjoy the book, watch this. If you've never read the book, also watch this~
Can anyone recommend me an anime? I recently watched "My Love Story!!" and it was so good. Yes, it was cheesy and overdramatic, but that was part of the charm. I loved how sweet and wholesome it was, and I really loved the characters. I also found it really funny.
It doesn't have to be a romance anime, though I am totally up for that as I have gotten into some romances this year (I also liked Yamada's First Time, which normally ecchi stuff isn't my thing, but it wasn't terribly gratuitous, it was sex-positive, and I got pretty hooked into the story and found it hilarious, too).
Just looking for something similarly touching, wholesome, funny, and fun to watch with likable characters, like "My Love Story!!"
Merry Crisis! Zom 100's 10th episode is dropping as a gift to anime fans all over the world!
This show has had a stranglehold on my mind due to the ongoing pandemic and some of the themes it presents, especially during the ongoing pandemic. Whether you're already an anime fan or just Covid conscious, I think this show has a lot to offer. So maybe check out my first video essay ever on it?
Saw #SailorMoonCosmos yesterday! :blobmiou: As a long-time #PrettySoldierSailorMoon fan, I'm honestly super happy with this adaptation of my favorite arc. I think the #manga is a tiny bit more... I dunno, eerie and melancholic, but hey, maybe it's just me. The movies are still great.
The #anime follows the #manga very closely, but as far as I can tell (I watched the movies unsubbed), the script makes it somewhat more clear that Sailor Cosmos IS Usagi. I'm pretty sure there's a scene where she openly calls Usagi 昔の私 ('the me from the past'), which sounds even less ambiguous than the #manga to me. Perhaps 昔の私 can be used to mean reincarnation, but... yeah.
I mentioned to my boss that I write #fanfic for #anime fandoms because I'm a fucking temp what the hell I only work here for four days.
He then told me he reads #DoctorWho fanfic! That's... That's crazy. Well. Not really. Shouldn't be crazy lots of older people read fanfic. But it's nice to know I'm not alone.
(I'm the 20yr old warding off cars from parking where they shouldn't, he owns the liquor store).
Toshokan Sensou
Description: This story has an interesting premise. In this world, the Media Betterment Act allows the seizure and censorship of media to "protect the public." Fighting against the people enforcing this act is the Library Defense Force, whose job is to protect these material and bring them to the library. Kasahara Iku is the newest recruit to the LDF, and she was motivated to join the LDF because one of the books was interested in when she was younger was almost seized by the censorship police, and someone from IDF saved the book. This series is mostly about her growth and integration into IDF, and also the people she meets there (including her mysterious savior).
This is based on a series of novels, but I have not read them so I don't know how well-adapted the story is. I enjoy the characters, character dynamics and the premise, but probably don't look too deeply in the world-building. Still a fun series though! I'd say this is a light, not too stressful watch. Also, rare Suzuki Tatsuhisa voice type!
Today's #anime#DecRec is about family~ This is a popular movie so you probably have seen this. If not, then here is me going, "it's good! watch it!"
Summer Wars
Koiso Kenji was invited to join Shinohara Natsuki (a schoolmate)'s grandmother's 90th birthday festivities as her fake fiance. While he was there, he received a strange coded message on his phone. By cracking it, he accidentally aided an attack on Oz, a virtual reality connected to the internet that is ubiquitous to that world (imagine Second Life, I guess, but also lots of societal functions rely on it). And now the world faces destruction....
What I love about this movie is all the family feels. How the family interacts with each other, how they resolve things with each other, all has a familiar warm feeling to it. Since it's winter solstice, and Christmas is coming up, I thought it'd be a good movie to rec.
edit: forgot to mention, hanafuda! it was fun to watch hanafuda fights
I've been mulling doing this and since I've kept track of every anime I've watched this year and rated them on AniList, I'm going to do a Top 10 #Anime of 2023. No particular order and I've only chosen shows which premiered in 2023, no new seasons of continuing series and no shows that premiered in 2022. I'll add a new title every day
This one snuck up on me. I was expecting a standard sports anime but the addition of an outsider to the world of the sport is definitely unique to this show.
A photographer who can't take pictures of people anymore meets a young racing prodigy and together, push each other forwards toward their dreams.
What started out as an intriguing romantic drama in the vein of Cinderella transformed into one of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen. It's a sincerely slow burn, though, but patience is definitely rewarded.
I don't want to spoil too much. Just know that there is a rewarding romance lurking just beneath.
Its first episode is a movie-length drama about parasocial relationships, particularly about entertainers and their fans and what they owe each other, if anything. The rest of the series dives even deeper into the hidden darkness of Japan's entertainment industry.
I was so enamored that I immediately tracked down the manga so I could see what happened next.