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crustaceanwitch · 6 years

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Here’s a little sample of a comic script me and my friend have been working on

Scene: [Ponk and Rynn standing at a bus stop, tall buildings stand in the distance. Next to them is a bus stop sign but it has the image of a steep hill on it for no good reason other than I think it would be funny. Everything is clean like they are in a nice neighborhood. Ponk is in a very nice outfit of a navy-blue jacket with ruffles, sporting a cool hat with a type of chibi animal (Frog) on it to protect against the cold of the morning. Rynn is bare foot and in an oversized rain coat that’s rubbery so she won’t burn it.] [them as kids btw] for hair and other details check out the kid drawings.

“Are you cold?” Ponk asks.

“A little.” Rynn answers.

Ponk puts her arm around Rynn at an attempt to help. *touching moment*

“Can’t you heat yourself up, freak?” A girl with a side ponytail asks.

[into the frame walks a boy and girl the same age as the MC’s, the boy and girl look like twins. Boys hair is spiked in a different direction than the girls ponytail. The boy looks very shy compared to his sister.]

*Rynn looks down and away from them while ponk looks worried. Neither of them do anything.*

“Figures. You must have melted your mouth shut didn’t you?” the girl laughs. “Rynn are you sure you want to stand that close to your only friend? Might burn her up like you did your mother.”

“Why don’t you leave us alone?” Ponk ask quietly, barely making eye contact.

“Hey I wasn’t talking to you pink hair.”

“My mom dyed it for a play. It’s not my fault it won’t wash out.” Ponk says as she shoves her froggy hat down. *cute*

“Don’t talk to Ponk that way! Don’t you have anywhere else to be other than hanging around us like a shadow?” Rynn retorts taking a step towards her like in standing up to her. *Ponk has to take a step away from Rynn with the heat rising from her*

*girl is taken back by this but not very much* “Don’t forget who actually has control over her power” *eyes shine like laser beams are going to come out of her eyes *threateningly*

[Bus drives up and all the kids get on. Rynn takes a seat in the back of the bus, her chair is charred and her butt fits perfect in the hole, a little sizzle comes from her set. Ponk sits next to her. Beside them other kids with unmanageable powers sits next to them. List could include: pufferfish girl, slime kid, someone who freezes their seat, a kid who sometimes shocks the kid next to them. All the seats in the back are broke or damaged in a way.]

*Ponk strokes her two hair loops in a way almost to straighten them but they go right back into curls, a nerves habit. Rynn notices.*

“I think your hair looks nice pink.” Rynn says.

*Ponk stops stroking*

“I don’t think you hurt your Mom.” Ponk says.

“Well then that just leaves the option that she left me on her own free will, I’d rather have a story that I burned myself out of her belly and made my dad run away scared than think she just left me on some door step.”

“What about the one where your Dad is the devil and he seduced your mom so you would technically be the spawn of satan!” Ponk laughs.

“Or the one where I was thrown into a volcano as a baby and the earth didn’t want me so it spit me out?” Rynn says with a half smile.

“No, no, the best one has to be that when you were in your moms belly she ate so much flaming hot chili that you became literal fire!”

*the panels slowly zoom out with them laughing, zooming all the way out of the bus and then zooming out to show the world, then it zooms in to show a school.*

Inside the school it shows a class room full of kids, but the desks are in pairs of two with the fronts touching each other so the students would be facing each other but in between them they share a computer screen that’s projected for them. The room is dim and one teacher sits in a corner on their phone. Ponk and Rynn stand out and the panel zooms in on Ponk THIS IS IMPORTANT she writes on her tablet with her LEFT HAND.

“How’s it coming Rynn?” Ponk asks bored with her work.

“I think I’m getting the hang of it.” She says frustrated with her computer screen going red and an emoji makes an Oop’s face. *Rynn who has a regular pencil and paper because of her fire hazard burns the pencil and all the work she had done. She notices this and immediately pats it out then looks defeated as her paper smolders.*

“Ponk can I spend the night at your place tonight? My foster parents left town for a few days and forgot to leave me a key to get in, I had to jimmy a window open last night and then I couldn’t close it so now the place is freezing.”

“Sure, we can practice our math test for tomorrow. Did your parents go on a trip?”

“I don’t know, they didn’t really tell me. Are you sure your parents are all right with it?”

“Oh yeah they love having you over, just today they asked how you were and when you’d be back over to take the blanket we all made for you.”

“You know I’m just going to burn it, why do you guys keep making more for me?”

“Well we have plenty of fabric from the shop, and this stuff is woven with fire resistant material so it’d be a great test to see if we got our money’s worth.” *Ponks screen turns green with a happy frog emoji smiling.*

“Thanks.” Rynn sighs *Rynn looks defeated and slumps her head down on her hand making her cheek do the cute bulge thing as her computer screen flashes red and the frowny emoji is now super pissed angry emoji.**the frame fully captures her face as she whispers to herself with her eyes closed “For letting me be your burden.”

Scene:

*The school bell rings and now all the children go out to play in the playground. I picture this sense with snow so maybe it could be winter time? Small piles of snow here and there with children in cute snow gear. Rynn of course is still in her rain coat, at this point in the day I think she has burned off any clothes she may have had on underneath if she had any. So she sits by the door, not being allowed back in until the teachers say so. In the distant frame you see the teachers silhouettes smoking. Ponk stands close to Rynn and they watch all the other kids play. The playground in this world is really a place for kids to show off their talents or powers. Some kids will do cool tricks and get a big laugh. Ponk pulls out a stuffed frog from her coat, it looks like the one on the ribbit gum. Her fondness for the doll is apparent, Rynn won’t touch it because she knows it is Ponks favorite. *in the background you see feet show up. Ponks doll gets pulled from her hands from the same side ponytail girl from before!*

“Your not supposed to have toys at school” she says, not in a mean way, just a fact way.

“I didn’t bring it, I found it in my pocket.” Ponk says as she gets up and try’s to get it back. Rynn stands up too.

“That’s what you said yesterday when I caught you with it. I think I’ll have to tell the teacher.”

“No!!! She’ll eat him!” Ponk says extremely distressed.

*shows the teacher who is smoking, her lizard tongue zips her bud into her mouth* *shows Ponk again, pale and wide eyed* “I’ll never leave it in my pocket again. Please.”

The girl turns her head to Rynn.

“What about you? Are you going to beg?” *Rynn is her obvious target for picking on*

“Please... don’t.” Rynn grunts.

*the teacher turns around to return, the pressure is rising*

“Please give him back! Before the teacher see’s!” Rynn says louder for the girl to hear. *the snow melts around her*

*ponk tries to snatch the doll aggressively again, missing each time*

“Ha, what are you going to do? You don’t even have powers!” She taunts.

“Yeah well I have my arms, I can punch you in the face!” Ponk threatens with her fist up.

“Fine.” She throws the doll back. “Don’t bring it back.”

*Ponk stuffs the frog in her pocket before the teacher gets back*

“Ready to go inside girls?” The teacher asks none the wiser.

“Yes ma’am.” They say.

Kids start lining into the building in the background, But Ponk and Rynn stay put.

*Ponk looks down in anger*

“Are you okay?” Rynn asks.

“I’ll get even with her one day.” Ponk huffs as she joins the kids lining in.

*school bell rings indicating the end of school*

Scene [Rynn and Ponk leaving school with other children around them]

“Your coming over after studying right?” Ponk asks Rynn.

“Yeah, I’ll be by the usual time. Gotta make up my grade somehow!” Rynn calls cheerfully to Ponk as she walks in the direction of home.

*Rynn frowns as Ponk walks away, Ponk turns and waves one last time and it surprises her out of her frown. Leaving a faint smile as Rynn realizes she is not alone in the world.*

Scene[Ponk walking alone looking happy on the street.]

*suddenly she stops. Her innocent smile goes away. She turns around and heads in a different direction. It shows a street sign to her side that reads “Sugarbutterfly Ln” the neighbor hood has changed to dirty and older houses line the street. she stops in front of a house. The window is slanted open but everything else seems fine with it. Rynns words ring in her head “My foster parents left town for a few days and forgot to leave me a key to get in, I had to jimmy a window open” Ponk, with her same serious look jumps through the window. Inside shows a decent house, old appliances and dishes filling the sink but overall okay. She heads with a purpose to a closed door, she opens it to show a desk with locked drawers, a chair, a lock box, and a digital scale on the desk. She pulls her frog out of her pocket and unzips it to show a secret compartment holding a lock pick and a lock pick wrench. (Her eyes will be unshown most of the time, indicating her unknown intent. The only facial signs we’ll see is her scowling.) she walks right to the lock box and try’s to pick it. She makes slow movements at first but then she just wiggles them aggressively, that’s how I pick most pad locks 😂. It pops open to reveal drugs in there.

“I knew it!” Ponk growls through gritted teeth.

She picks up the box in a rage and scatters it’s content in the living room right in front of the open window. She pulls out a flip phone from her pocket and dials 911.

“This is 911, what is your emergency?” The phone buzzes.

“Hello, I was walking my dog down my neighborhood when I came across a house with an open window, with it being cold out and all I wanted to make sure everything was okay when.. when I saw the most horrible thing!”

“What did you see ma’am?”

Ponk pretends to be taken aback and frightened as she talks.

“Well I’m no expert but it looks to be drugs scattered on the floor, I see bottles and needles, and I think there are bags of white stuff but I’m not sure, I had to leave so quick because I was frightened.”

“Calm down ma’am, where did you see this?”

“The third house on Sugarbutterfly Lane, it’s painted red with a brown roof, the front window is open. You can’t miss it.” Ponks body is rigid and unmoving, you see her eyes as she lies, they’re cold.

“Please stay on the line with me, an officer will be there shortly. What is your name ma’am?”

“Click” Ponk shuts the phone and hangs up. She says nothing else and just leaves.the next frame you see her sitting behind a bush looking at her frog doll.

[a police car drives past, it stops in front of the house she was in.] Ponk watches from behind the bush with wide eyes. [the cop gets out and walks to the door. He looks through the window, he gasps at the sight of so much evidence and then bangs on the door telling them to open up.] Ponk smiles a devilish smile and walks away with her hands in her pockets.*

Scene [Ponk walking down the side walk looking at her frog.]

“Don’t look at me that way. I had to do it to them. Their bad parents! Once they come back and get arrested Rynn will stay with us permanently! Mom and Dad already filled out paper work for this exact scenario! I just had to get the ball rolling.” She argues with the stuffed toy. She sighs.

“Rynn will be with us, she’ll be happy eventually.” She agrees with herself.

Scene[it is now later, shadows have grown and it is darkish as Ponk walks up the stairs of her home. It is a modest home with a flower box on the window. A shop with a cute name is under it kinda like in bobs burgers. The name of the shop could be “Bob’s crafts�� just cause. Maybe let’s rip off the look of bobs house too just to see if anyone notices?]

*ponk walks inside, you see a kitchen on the left a stairway in the middle and a living room on the right. Everything has long shadows and you can make out only outlines of furniture and other things*

“Mom, Dad, I’m home.” She calls confused with the lights being off, she leaves the door open for the light. she still has her toy in her hands.

*she walks right, into the living room and shadows.*

“Mom? Where are you guys?” She calls looking around.

*on the floor she sees two silhouettes of bodies on the ground. A pool of blood surrounds them and cut marks can be seen all over their bodies.*

“Mom... Dad?” She asks frozen.

*behind her a flash can be seen, the glare of a knife catching the only bit of light in the room along with a body attached to it. Ponk turns around at a sound and a the knife swishes down on her in a quick cut. Ponk is shown putting her left arm up in defense with her frog toy still in it. Ponk is hit with such force she is face first on the floor. A pool of blood forms around her while the silhouette of a person stands above her. (I’m thinking this scene will be shown with Ponk in the bottom left corner and the door and person is in the top right.)

[scene closes with all three bodies on the ground, making it look like the perfect pair of dead bodies in this multiple killing.]

Scene[ Rynn wakes up in a cold sweat panicked. She is an adult now. She takes deep breathes as the panels show she was sleeping in an alleyway.]

End chapter 1 or vol 1, what ever it is.

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 7 years

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Kekkai Sensen seems to be off limits, even when I try to comprehend the relevant JavaScript after dodging region lock. Grr…I spent and hour and 30 mins just trying to figure out that code!!! Oh well (dejected tone), at least I have Classicaloid…

Reflection 12 (FINAL)

Oh please, X-On. Fighting fire with fire is the worst thing you can do. Haven’t you learnt that over the course of this show?

Gahhhh! Finally, the magical girls have arrived! Thank you, Stan Lee!

Wowee, that was some concentrated sound, so to speak.

Well, that’s just original, y‘know? Pyramid. In the desert. Whoop-de-doo.

Rule number 14138008 of crime-fighting: Always make sure you have a backup in case someone uses yorur kryptonite against you. Or in this case, a superpower-stripping technique.

I don’t think X-On’s become one with the Darkness yet. He has some flippin’ plot armour on his side, after all. Why haven’t any of these guys succumbed to the ageing process yet?

Well, I got my answer to my previous question, but how did vision!Eleanor appear, anyway?

Wait…wait. I knew he had plot armour! Argh! X-On! What the heck did you do to deserve plot armour???

Oh, the magical girls are part sentai and part actual magical girl. Notice they have kanji across their chests for their associated element.

“Why won’t you accept Darkness’s darkness?” – Okay, “Darkness’s darkness” is a bit too redundant, y’hear?

Wait…wait. Ninth Wonder only had 4 members??? Wat. Then Ian goes and undoes all their hard naming work by calling them by their real group name, dangit. You ruined a perfectly good magical girl show, Ian.

They didn’t even put in the crack on X-On’s helmet…head…thingy.

Okay, I am so confused…Guh. Thank goodness it’s over.

Netjuu no Susume 1

I like the rare stories where a girl transforms into a boy for non-hentai reasons. This is the closest anime I’ve gotten so far to that concept, so…yay, me?

“Recommendation of the Wonderful Virtual Life” and “Recovery of an MMO Junkie” mean two very different things on the same topic. What was happening in the localiser’s mind when they created this title for the English-speaking audience???

That scene where Moriko collapses on her bed…for some reason, someone was watching a show with the Moonlight Sonata in the background, so now I think MMO Junkie is sad. (Which is probably wrong.)

Oh, by the way. The –juu in Netjuu gives the word a special kind of connotation. A riajuu is what’s known as a normie, or a non-otaku, non-gamer sort of person. A netjuu must therefore be a net addict. Kiznaiver taught me that.

“I chose the NEET life.” - I know that feel, Moriko.

Oh, they even gave Moriko’s character Saiyan hair for a moment, LOL.

Okay, here’s a pun. Mori (forest) is 3x ki (tree) and hayashi (grove) is 2x ki. That’s using the kanji, though.

The guy with the glasses looks like a dude from Occultic;Nine. I have bad memories of that show because of Ryouka…er, big knockers girl.

Owee. I once joined an RPG because of some IRL friends but I forgot to ask them what group they were in, and so I was a solo quester…so I know that feel, Moriko.

This is based on a Comico manga, so the designs are simple to draw and they were originally in colour, so they just needed to be reworked for animation. See? Backing Comico in my Superstar wa Nemurenai days wasn’t such a bad idea, now, huh?

Himeralda? For a guy character? Well, that broke the gender barrier.

Christmas is a holiday for lovers in Japan, so I suspect it’s something to do with that.

Lawson -> Cowson, LOL.

Despite all the obviously still motion shots, I’m really enjoying this. Why does it have to be 10 eps??? (By the way, why didn’t I get Kekkai Sensen??? Dangit, Funi!!!)

Oh, this is so adorable! Lily even dressed up and Moriko got her chicken! It’s such a heartwarming Christmas for these guys.

These transitions, while not original, I find are really cool. Not Disney-level, but still inventive. Also, that green dot is definitely Hayashi and the pink one Lily.

LOL, Lawson was a sponsor this ep, it seems. Had I paused a little later, I would’ve missed its credit!

This is a keeper for sure. I’m just disappointed about the short ep count (due to the nature of Comico)…and Kekkai Sensen, uwu…

Mahoutsukai no Yome 1

Le hype. That’s all. I’ve been watching 1 – 2 eps per day (for these first eps of the fall season) and since the weekend is so full of good shows, I don’t know how people can watch entire seasons like this…As for my take on this show, it’s pretty and well-received after the OVA and advance screening, so hopefully this will deliver. I’m not an AMB manga fan by the way.

It’s normally a bad sign to start with an OP, but it shows off the animation, so I’m not complaining.

The English title shows how interconnected the world is these days…it’s kinda scary, actually.

Chise looks lke a bride here, or she’s on her deathbed. Both symbolic meanings are applicable.

I never thought Japanese people would be able to capture Western elegance so well.

The chibi-ish style doesn’t suit such a serious show. Are these chibi-ish sections also part of the manga?

I thought the woman with the bonnet was called Silky? Not Silver? The promo materials all say “Silky”, and the OVA did too IIRC.

I think the biggest descriptor of this show is “whimsical”.

Historically, fairies lure people into Fairyland like the stereotypical portrayal of sirens, and they’re not as benign as my portrayal of them in One Wish They Never Wanted.

The irony of a dog-face skull calling you his puppy. It really brings an odd sense of humour to this show.

Welp, that’s another safe keeper. I’ve being quite definite about my choices, as you might have noticed, since the weekend is positively overloaded with shows (as I mentioned earlier).

Code:Realise 1

It’s an otome game adaption. They don’t always go down well, but it’s worth a shot.

Isn’t it “London Bridge is falling down”?

CR seems to have forgotten to title this ep “London Steam” on their site.

Well, they’re guards. Y’think lowering their guard would’ve been a funny pun, at least if this were dubbed in English (which this will be…eventually).

Ooh, so this plain bishie is Arsene Lupin? Me likey.

Like, seriously, Where are this tiny spark-star-thingies coming from?

Impey…who? Update: Google (plus previous spoilers) tell me that Impey is Impey Barbicane, accomplice to Lupin.

LOL, I’ve watched me too many Kaito Kid heists. Me likey, once again. However, the thing I don’t get is the voiceover. Couldn’t Lupin have actually said these lines instead of putting them on voiceover???

Gahhhhhhh! This eyecatch’s bishie has such horrible eyes that they burn mine! Get me out of here!

How does Impey know Cardia’s name??? Update: You’ll get the answer later…

It’s a few generations too early for a man to go to the moon, LOL. Poor Impey.

Victor…well, I never. Anime really does cover everything. Plus, Frankenstein ain’t his monster in this one, which would make Mary Shelley proud.

Hey, Kaitou (Phantom Thief) Lupin is one thing but using your real name as your kaitou identity is taking it a bit far. Sure, there was Kaito Kuroba, but at least he was Kaito Kid as well.

Sheesh, the Horologium sounded like nuclear power before Lupin explained it was Cardia’s heart…that would’ve been tonnes scarier, had Cardia been a nuclear monster.

LOL, Lupin’s so tsundere! Hahaha…

Oh please. Don’t let the vampires steal away Cardia (LOL)!

Victor being pegged as a terrorist has something to do with Isaac, right?

Lupin’s so effin’ short. No wonder he stands in high places when he lords over the British Army, haha.

Smol corgi with cyborg leg is probably my new dog aesthetic, haha. Plus top hat. I like top hats.

Shouldn’t the corgi have died when Cardia grabbed it though, or was that because of its leg?

The rainbow transition was a bit much, but okay. I can live with it.

So smol corgi is called Sisi? What a weird name.

It’s…not bad, I could probably watch until the end. However, the colour scheme seems to be “bright” with these recent female games (see Sengoku Night Blood for another example of what I mean). Well, since I said that, it’s a keeper. (I think the random James Bond-esque scene involving shooting guns then being in front of an explosion in the ED sealed the deal though, LOL.)

Kino’s Journey 1

I’m a noob to the world of Kino, so please don’t spoil me on anything you’ve seen in the previous adaptations! All I really know is the shtick: Kino is neither a guy nor a girl. They stick around in a country for 3 days then leave. They have a talking motorbike named Hermes…that’s pretty much it.

Lerche? On Kino? Y’think someone else could’ve done it better? I feel like a washed-out, subdued feeling would suit this show best. However, these words are coming from a Kino’s Journey noob, as I just said, so disregard me if you want.

Mori no naka de…b? What’s the “b” for?

A few times when they say “country”, I imagine a sea. That makes sense, considering it’s the sea that separates a lot of us.

How does Hermes talk???

Hermes is CGI. Trust my eyes, they’ve seen a lot of CGI for their time.

The gun is called Cannon? Wuh? The other gun is called the Woodsman? Wuh wuh???

A motorrad appears to be a motorbike, but…okay. It’s a BMW make of motorbike. Like a Ford Gran Torino.

*Kino points the gun* Whoa! What a fakeout!

Kino is CGI sometimes, too, it seems.

Those cows seem to be angry at Kino for some reason…

Why does no one question the talking motorbike???

Oh, I see. That was what I suspected from the moment the rifle was shown in the store. Public order is good here because people simply turn a blind eye.

I think Kino hopping behind Hermes should’ve been 2D. It’s not fluid enough in 3D…not quite yet to convey a proper sense of action, but enough to create a sense of disquiet. (Which is what I believe the show wants, so I’ll take my words back for the moment.)

“Ow!” is an understatement, considering it (the arrow) must’ve severed a muscle or two.

Ah, loophole. I didn’t see that coming.

Whoa. What dramatic irony.

I swear they recycle parts of this footage over and over again. I’m getting dejavu.

Hahaha, that crepe ending was funny. It wasn’t an ideal way to finish such an unsettling episode, but it was a good punchline.

Well, I think this is going to be really repetitive, so I’ll put it on hold and roll the next show up.

Dynamic Chord 1

More Ume. As an Ume fan, I’m spoilt for choice this season.

Cherry blossom opening is probably a bad omen. It’s probably the most cliched opening you could go for.

Holy eye colours, Batman! “That yellow should not exist as an eye colour,” is all I’m saying.

Honestly, this is the least gripping band/idol anime I’ve tackled all season. If they’re just going to be angsty in the rain, they should’ve been one season earlier because I would’ve taken this over The Reflection or In Another World With my Smartphone, laser eye boy be damned.

Wait, is pinkhead in the car or out of it? Update: He’s in a convertible. So it’s a yes and a no.

That metronome transition was pretty bad. Really hamfisted.

That transition away from the metronome, I couldn’t even tell that was a transition!

Aw gawsh, spare me. This looks like one of those ads you see play between shows on TV channels without company sponsorship. Or an only-half-decent MV.

I think they’re trying to be Dark and Edgy (TM) in comparison to, say, TsukiPro, but that was better than this.

Extended Pans for No Reason Whatsoever (TM)! Also, Bumblebee car. I’m having fun ripping this show apart, man. Now I see the real quality of Hatewatches (with a capital H), but it’s only been 5 minutes...

Dual eye colour boy (Reon), oi. You really didn’t do anything. Don’t give yourself unnecessary credit.

Bumblebee boy has way too long eyelashes, by the by. Did I ever mention that?

At least they justified the previous shots. That one there, at about the 6 minute mark, was not justified.

Based on Dai Murase (Ume’s role in TsukiPro), I thought the Kyohso doppleganger was gonna be Ume, but he thankfully got someone more attractive (Kuro of apple polisher). I still don’t like the name apple polisher though, how the heck did that name “get popular overseas”???

The camera shakes sometimes for no reason at all.

Reon seems constantly grumpy for some reason…

C’mon…this production is visually quite junky. Admit it.

Please don’t make this another ad fakeout. Only play your cards once for a certain trick…

Pink and blue eyed boy looks like a villian, but he’s probably a “hero” in this story.

This is probably a music video, but if I wanted a music video, I’d go to YouTube. Not an anime, unless it were an anime musiv video (a proper one, not an amateur effort YouTube Poop).

Wait, they spent 5 minutes just showing us a music video? It was pretty bad, so of course I noticed it in a bad way.

What is up with black and blue guy’s hair? I thought bumblebee guy was bad enough.

Sometimes removing the volume is all you need to figure out if an anime is good, since if they cared about their visuals and plot enough, then they wouldn’t be relying on shots of dudes rocking backwards and forward so much.

I get not all band people are singers, but still…bumblebee boy, if you’re so willing, why not you take Reon’s place?

Wait, so pink-haired convertible boy is the famed Yorito??? Dorito, more like it!

If the animators for this show were any good, they’d animate the fingers when the guitarists play. I’ve seen people play the guitar before. I used to take music classes. Geez, Pierrot. Stop skimping.

Another Skimping Technique (TM) – Speedlines in Replacement of Actual Motion (sic).

Too bad Dorito’s skipping practice, eh, Reon?

C’mon, Dorito. First it’s an angsty rain scene, now it’s an angsty shower scene? You don’t even look half hot here. Or half wet, for that matter.

I know anime is meant to look flat, but these sections I’ve been calling “music videos” are…superflat, to give them a name. They look like paper overlaid on the anime background, with little to no real animation being done, and that’s why I’m giving this show such a bad rap.

All that angst…for this? It seems a little anticlimatic, is all I’m saying.

Well, I made it through one episode. It’s probably not as bad as I made it out to be, but I do hatewatch picks for my own pleasure and this just became one of them. Onto the drop pile it goes…

Houseki no Kuni 1

This is the last debut of the fall season, at least until someone hands me Kekkai Sensen. Okay, here’s the story about why I’m here: I heard good things about Steven Universe in my home country, so I went on a trip and tried some Cartoon Network there. Thing is, Steven Universe didn’t resonate with me as much as I thought it would. Therefore, to take the concept and turn it into a real anime – would that do it for me? Let’s find out.

Hmph, I had the sound on this time and I had the feeling all the gems were voiced by women. Like Steven Universe.

When they said “sunspots”, they…uh, kinda meant it.

I feel like Master Kongo’s VA is a bit too soft. Otherwise, this show is pretty good.

Whoa. Seeing Phos shattered like this and still conscious must be freaky. Makes for some good body horror, eh?

Well, this show has some excellent worldbuilding. That’s something I haven’t said in a few seasons…in this simulcast commentary, that is. Made in Abyss has good worldbuilding too. The only problem with this is…where did Phos’s gloves come from?

The eyecatch seems to be in English. Like Princess Principal last season.

The echo, I think, had a worse effect this time than when Kongo destroyed Phos.

“Don’t use that hand!” - LOL.

So Cinnabar’s poison creates amnesia and (an indirect need for) amputation, eh? What a duo of afflictions.

Well, it’s…actually pretty good. Let’s press on.

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I actually wanted to pass on this, but after seeing Karandi pass judgement on its second episode and seeing a Haruhi reference, I decided I would pass a judgement on it too. Well, it’s an anime about anime. What do you expect, really?

Hahaha…Oarai is known for being popularised by Girls und Panzer, so Galtan is short for Girls with Tanks.

Haritaro = Hamtaro, Dezumon = Digimon, PreFae = PreCure. Haha, it’s an anime watcher’s paradise of parody anime!

“Double riding is illegal.” - I think that’s a reference to the first episode of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and the tandem bike.

Fish??? Wuh???

Aw. That fakeout, I was hoping for it to be A Certain Magical Index or something.

Geez, typical School Council Pres with optional Ethereal Glow. Now available in Blonde too, it seems.

Sebastian Michaelis right there.

The teacher just did the flippin’ Ringo (from UtaPri) intro! Holy gender-barriers, Roppongi is a man??? Why I don’t react like that to Ringo, I’ll never know.

The “I should go by myself” bit is also from UtaPri, IIRC. The bit where one of the boys reveals he’s actually the star Haruka likes.

Obvious Chuunibyou with extra Fake Magic. Geesh, if it weren’t for the anime references…I really wouldn’t be covering this…

That’s my face when people talk about anime, LOL. Hero School = Boku no Hero Academia while R:Zero is Re:Zero.

Shika = deer, hence the weird deer. I don’t know what the references around the Shikabari one are, though, including the fence jump.

You picked a fight with the wrong anime lover, Anime-Gataris (I specialise in recent anime, for obvious reasons)! Tamukeda = Tanakeda (Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge) and Toramiko = Kumamiko. Clearly someone doesn’t remember that Kumamiko was a controversial flop, anime-wise.

Bakusou = Bakuon. Therefore, Shikabari is probably…Kiznaiver? No, it’s Kabaneri. That’s the best match, considering we’re talking about spring 2016. Time Travel Shonen = Time Travel Shoujo. Still don’t get the fence jump though.

Kyou Kara Sessha Wa!! = Kyou Kara Ore Wa!!, where “sessha” is an pronoun for…I think it’s older males. Angel Story = Angel Legend (Angel Densetsu).

The OVA references went over my head again…

Gachiemon = Doraemon, naturally. Nobue = Nobita and Karashi = Takeshi (Gouda). Well, while looking for the Gachiemon movie, I found Reddit spoiling it all for me. Refer to it if you don’t want me doing it for you, because I’m going to...ignore it! Haha, you thought I was going to use it as a crutch now, didn’t you? I like this challenge.

The dog one is A Dog of Flanders, Everstrike is Evangelion. I thought the Cinnamon Roll one would be the not-often-mentioned Powerpuff Girls anime but Reddit says it’s Dragon Ball??? Autumn Wars = Summer Wars.

Light music club = K-On, classical literature club = Hyouka, NJ club = GJ Club.

The cover of this magazine appears to be Newtype or Animage, which I think both started around the 70s or 80s. That’s definitely Urusei Yatsura on the front, though.

The Girl who Slept Through Time = The Girl who Leapt Through Time and Replica…Paprika, perhaps? (Think I was recalling Reddit there.)

Is that…a Boueibu reference?! Or is that just a cliché…? (If it’s a cliché, I’d feel sad, man.)

I feel like the video quality seems to warp a little at infrequent moments. It’s quite disappointing for a 2017 anime to be suffering from strange visual problems like that.

There’s a KonoSuba poster…sort of.

Maria Clara doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen although it does kind of look like Hatsune Miku or Elsword.

Dang that fakeout, I thought she meant the beret.

I feel like this is best binged to get at all the references, so onto the on hold pile it goes. I think its plot will be cliché but its references are the best thing about it.

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Time to thin out the herd! This’ll be tough, since all the contenders I’ve kept have the potential to be great.

The pun here is that 315 (saikou) can mean “the highest”, or in this case, “the best”.

The eyeless producer (and Saito, by the by) was probably a bad idea.

Hey, it’s a 315 business card!

The cardboard boxes say “Bear Mark Moving Company” (Kuma no Ma-ku no Hikkoshi Kaisha).

Ooh! I like ponytail boy. I have a thing for bishies with ponytails.

“Handwriting” is probably the wrong word for a typed contract, CR subbers.

An odd juxtaposition between lawyer (or any other job) and an idol. That’s what piqued my interest about this idol anime specifically – because there is clearly going to be some dirty stuff that comes to light once characters have debuted as idols, and the more disconnect between the past and the present, the more the paps are gonna eat it up. At least, that’s my thoughts, having written Half-Paid Heroes. (I’m currently not sure if I should continue on HPH though, since I had a fight with fellow Honeyfeed writer Aura…).

Nice shirt, Teru (LOL).

When Kaoru broke the cheery atmosphere, Teru’s shirt suddenly said roiya (“lawyer” in katakana, transposed to hiragana).

Dandou literally translates to “male way”. It’s actually hilarious since it sounds really macho…in a bishie show intended to capture a female audience.

“I want us to work together…”

Does this producer have a name? I get the feeling he doesn’t. Maybe, instead of that woman producer they were hinting at at the end of Side Jupiter (was that a woman?), it was this guy.

Sakuraba’s being kind of awkward on the side with his fistpump. I like him.

“Then from now on, the three of you…”

If you know me from Boueibu, you’ll know the line Saito says should actually be “Boys be ambitious”.

The board up the back of the Dramatic Stars’ party says “Celebrate! Dramatic Stars’ Formation”…or something like that, anyway…(Happoro beer, LOL.)

Oh, it’s Hokuto, Shouta and Touma from Jupiter.

It’s this shot from last episode. Oh, okay. It’s kinda like Death Parade in that there are two backstories leading to the same ending shown in ep 1.

What’s with those 17 badges, guys???

This frog mascot looks kinda funny in a (LOL) sort of way. I think Ume’s character will be in a unit with the shota that likes this frog mascot, so…good on me.

At least “Drive a live” doesn’t sound as bad as “Burny!!” or “Crazy Baby Show”, namewise. It does, however, sound like a slogan for a drink-driving government prevention scheme.

I think Ume’s character is the guy behind the counter, although I’m a bit sketchy on that. We’ll see in a few eps.

I think I’ve probably been missing out on something by not listening to the trio with the music. Even though I threw the others out based on visuals and plot, an idol/band show is nothing without its music, so I’ll put Idolmaster on hold so that I don’t become too attached to any of the trio and maybe someday I can evaluate TsukiPro vs Idolmaster better.

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