that whole thing with a mask suddenly helping our lead, complete ass pull, cmon now!
"God's code, so they transform humans into some kind of God...like a, special code?"
the commander whose controlling all these people through the masks, the most hilarious on the nose lines ever, like my god, also I think every episode there's at least one snarky line that kinda points out how obvious the statements the characters are making
the comments Kuon makes about how Yuri is "a face of constant swinging emotions" and even calls out how a moment she was scared but is not the badass action girl ready to take charge, just cause you point it out doesn't mean we're gonna forgive it, lol.
Anything Die Hard esque im all over, so obviously I hard to start this as soon as I could, and I'm in! The writing is kind of camp with how it feels the need to explain some obvious aspects of this world/story and Yuri quickly adapts into the basic badass girl at the very end of the episode, but I still love it, basic hot Japanese school girl, lol. And the whole idea behind these masked killers makes them easily more sinister, man I love this
Out of all the jokes I found myself laughing when Rick was like "get the wine Morty, goddamn", cause I too have let out many annoyed and frustrated "goddamns" at simple tasks in life. Mr Nimbus I can tell will very many rule 34 about him, especially when gets even more beefed up near the very end of the episode, and the whole cock-up cascade with Morty and jumping dimensions to age the wine, friggin' comedy gold
god someone just make me a super cut of all of Leone's scenes, also woah Akame swimsuit scene!
Leona crush face
also sword slashing violence with fanservice and a very quirky sense of humor, interesting mish mash
don't you hate when you have a nice date only for your girl to turn into a ghoul and wreck your whole life and give you a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde complex
being in the navy i couldnt helo but giggle whenever she felt the need to salute, even when the lieutenant was vising her in the hospital, she is one hell of a soldier
all she wants to know is what love is
I was prepping myself for how sad it would be, and yeah that whole first 28 minutes, with the relationship starting, and living in the city, trying to raise 2 rambunctious children, gosh it's so sad/adorable/and relatable at the same time. Hell this movie even has an Up montage!"
And when we get to the countryside and them living that life now, its kind of like a quick sigh of relief from all the crying you did as you know watch some slice of life incidents with these kids getting older, mainly going to school and figuring out their own paths in life. And at the heart of it all is the mother "Hana", god she's so kind and hard-working but also goes through A LOT, to raise and protect these two kids, and when we get to the part involving a storm and the final emotional moments, it all wraps up in one glorious film. Can't wait to check out Mamoru Hosoda's other work.
Personally i'd rather re-watch The Cat Retruns, but this was interesting enough too.
Imagine if Jim Carrey's "The Mask" was more of a fantasy romance tale about a neurotic who wanted to fall in love with a specific someone, with a little taste of The Cat Returns in terms of trying to escape the villain fantasy aspect of this cat world (Japan sure loves their cats); you'd get this film.
Now while I can appreciate the story and how adorable it is at times, some work needs to be done, for one the pacing needs a lot of work. I checked the runtime for what I thought was the 3rd act start and turns out there was still an hour left, that's when I realized the first and second act was rushed like hell. And that rushed paced doesn't help the "complicated" characterization of our lead, is she a stalker whose in way over her head and can't take a hint? or is she a sad girl with a lot of emotional baggage thanks to family problems and putting on a different kind of mask herself (wink wink), honestly I'm not smart enough to say at first; I can understand both ends of the pond, and I will say if the first 2 acts were stretched out more and that hour and 45-minute runtime was trimmed a bit, we coulda had some better writing.
However with the story we got, I will say it subverted my expectations with how it would progress, there's a bit where I thought it was gonna be like The Cat Returns where its a "journey rescue mission" to get back to the person who introduced the whole cat mask aspect in the first place, but the movie actually let time pass and we "see what happens" before we're taken into a said rescue mission. I can't go into anymore detail without spoiling it so I will say I was impressed with that aspect though.
well some things finally happened that I wanted to happen, and man we got some good mystery to go out on!
god the tension is too good!
"goodbye dwarf rabbit life, what a worthless 18 years"
Me: damn Beastarts, you didn't have to tug my heartstrings that hard!
also hey we got our first English song in the series!
we got 2 big bombshells dropped this episode and they are golden!, and that particular ending theme during the credits, it's my favorite
When the word "psychosomatic" was said in this episode, I immediately thought of that Avalanches song "Frontier Psychiatrist"
Man I love his friend Jack, being that he's a golden retriever is too appropriate, and he seems kinda secretly feminine too
Damn Legoshi you got more feral and shyness problems than I did in school XD
for being an episode mainly based on a device ripped off from another movie, makes sense with all the movie references in it, and yes I would watch Paddington 2 over every Fast & Furious movie, and there's an ending montage referencing a certain pixar movie that got me good, XD
First look and I am impressed by the mix of cgi and anime expressions, looks a lot better than Earwig and the Witch. And I love the different stylistic choices this film makes, from the split screens to the images super-imposed over one another, to the fantasy esque images, all very amazing. And that ending is definitely something, now I'm curious how "urges" work in this world.
Thank you Tubi:
A smart boy and the rest of his town suddenly see penguins popping up all over the place, and soon the older woman who works as a dentist with who he has a crush/strong friendship with, and it turns out she most likely has something to do with all of this!
For a debut film by Hiroyasu Ishida, who previously worked as a director and in the animation department on a few shorts and even the film MFKZ, this is amazing; in fact he does something throughout this film that I'm surprised I haven't seen anywhere else, even Makoto Shinkai, and that's having these really amazing i-depth shots that feel very cinematic, more-so than usual. He has this truck to where the shots almost feel like moving paintings, its a combination of the aspect ratio, the depth of field in the shot, the little extra 3d shading they add in bits, I hope you'll be able to see it as I did, some shots just really stand out as something extraordinary.
And this story is a very intriguing one and I wanted to find out what was going on, and the characters are great, the boy is a genius but is also kind of stoic, he never gets mad or has outbursts and keeps his voice at an almost dull kind of explanatory droll (lol), and the lady whom he gets involved with his lovely and also very hot; like damn they really did give her a nice rack! and yes it is something the boy obsesses over too, there's even a scene where he and his friend are eating these cakes that are shaped like breasts and he has a quick rant about it. And exploring on that point a bit more the movie does have its instances of "oh damn I wasn't expecting that!", the kind of humor you'd see in a college frat film from the 2000s; like there's a running gag where the boy gets out of situations by grabbing people firmly by the nuts and making them scream, and there's a scene where the bully of the film tears up the kid's map...then pisses on it (showing the stream) and I was like "damn, hardcore movie!".
What you think starts as a simple mystery turns into a big science fiction tale that talks about the universe and possibly outer beings, but I'm not gonna spoil anything, I'll just say the progression of the stakes is great and it played out in a way I wasn't expecting. All wrapping up in an ending that made me feel all warm and snuggly inside, check this out on Tubi.
Man Knuckles is a bastard
"My name's Tails and I'm Sonic's very best buddy!, right Sonic?"
"correct"
daaaw, how adorable
man the dialogue has too many empty awkward pauses and the translation work could really need some work, something that sounds less "alien-like", though an intriguing setup none the less
I didn't know cell could be such trash talkers. I love how Basophil just talks in big philosophical speeches, and man that worm is some sinister s***!
some of the jokes are kind of lame and there is a bit too much of our lead red blood cell just standing and being freaked out, endlessly thinking about how much shes gonna die; but overall still a great introduction to the show; did I mention I'm a huge fan of Osmosis Jones?
I'm 23 years old and have yet to have my actual first drink, I think I'll keep it that way
On the second watch is when I started bawling my eyes out of all the anime films I've seen so far, this one hits me the hardest in the feels, yup more so than "Spirited Away", no dis-respect to that film at all, but this one the drama and the supernatural mystery that weaves into it is just so damn good.
Especially after a certain silo scene where everything seems like it hits the "darkest hour" trope, only for a little light to be shined in, and then when the whole backstory was truly revealed, honestly I went along with it, true there is a bait and switch thing that everybody is gonna think about when they watch this film. But it's oh so tragic yet so understandable and the character drama is so rich and brilliantly written with such heartfelt emotion; gosh I just can't believe how good it is.
