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No but for real, don't settle for anything less. <3 <3 <3

#beauty and the beast #belle #beast

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Fellow Disnerds, please help me! Does anyone know where one could hypothetically download the live musical specials made for ABC about The Little Mermaid in 2019 and (much more importantly) Beauty and the Beast in 2022? Asking for a friend, of course. A friend who's been searching and searching for a long time without finding anything.

#beauty and the beast #the little mermaid #The wonderful world of Disney: The Little Mermaid live! #Beauty and the Beast: A 30th celebration #does this count as ebegging?

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I may not be crazy about this scene on its own but I've always appreciated the great job that the silly Objects VS Villagers fight does at contrasting with the seriousness and desperation of the Gaston VS Beast fight (with Belle and Maurice's escape working as something of a middle ground), not to mention how all this cartoony violence makes it even more powerful and unexpected when you see the very realistic violence that then happens during the rooftop battle. This scene being so crazy and over the top creates a perfectly gutwrenching mood whiplash that I've only seen executed well in one more film so far, although not taking to cartoony craziness so far of course - which is to say that yes, I love the final battle in Return of the Jedi and I can't understand why more people don't. This sort of contrast works so well at enhancing a spectator's emotions that it's crazy how little used it is.

There are so many reasons why old Disney movies are much more memorable and funnier than the newer stuff producers today serve us, and this scene of the castle raid from the 1991 version of Beauty and the Beast is one of them.

Scene breakdown beneath the break. Spoilers in effect.

LeFou grabs Lumière as a light source (candelabra) after the mob crashes the door in with a battering ram

Lumière signals to the other inhabitants to spring their ambush

Furniture begins attacking villagers

Coatrack lays down a rolling jab combo on Blonde Nail-Club-Wielding Guy

Older Sideburns Guy gets tackled by a mop

Bad-Toothed Redhead Guy gets double-teamed by two wardrobes whilst trying to swing at them with an axe, suffering bad dental damage

Balding Pitchfork Guy takes a cooking pot to the head, obscuring his vision while a spoon, tenderizer, and frying pan bang against the pot, potentially causing concussive damage and hearing problems from excessive ringing

Bald Red-Bearded Axe Guy gets knocked over by a chair and rolled up by a carpet which rolls straight into a storage chest… which burps. Shadows in the background show a guy holding a spikeless mace that fights back by knocking against his head

Gaston looks on flabbergasted to see one axe-wielding guy has his eyes covered by a pot only to have a wooden bucket fall on top of his face, whilst a Shovel-Wielding Cook gets struck repeatedly by a rolling pin until he falls over

Meanwhile, Chip uses Maurice’s steam-powered wood-chopping machine to cut through the cellar doors where Gaston kept Maurice and Belle locked away to keep them from alerting the Beast

Back to the castle violence, a Wilhelm scream happens as windows shatter, people go flying, a shadow of a guillotine dropping its blade can be seen, and Shovel-Wielding Cook from before gets pelted by tomatoes thrown by beer steins, where he then gets doused in hot tea by Mrs Potts and six other teacups

Panning out to general chaos, Madam Armoire jumps from the second floor while singing a high note and lands on Redhead Bearded Farmer who was busy chasing a coffee table

Cutaway briefly to Gaston hunting for Beast in the castle’s upper floors

Madam Armoire knocks out Bucktoothed Hammer Guy then Club-Wielding Short Guy in two swift motions while Redhead Bearded Farmer remains unconscious next to them

Older Pitchfork Tricorne Guy tries to ambush Madam Armoire while her back is turned, only to get parried with help from a brush and comb. He then gets pulled straight into the armoire, then thrown out wearing a completely different outfit, where he screams in fright as he realizes what he’s wearing

LeFou tries to burn Lumière with a torch, but Cogsworth- wearing a blue bicorne hat similar to the one Napoleon wore- brandishes a pair of scissors and a pistol before ditching said pistol to slide down the banister and painfully lance LeFou in the bum with his scissors

Cutaway to Stout Tricorne Guy yanking feathers out of Featherduster, where Lumière then burns his bum with candle fire and catches Featherduster mid-fall

LeFou, now flanked by Saber-Wielding Tricorne Guy and Big Bearded Axe-Wielding Guy, begin chasing Sultan through the foyer into the kitchen

Once in the unlit kitchen, Chef Bouche- a large stove- and a large collection of knives chase the three of them out of the castle with the rest of the still-conscious mob, leaving any unconscious casualties behind

The casualties? Several people left behind unconscious, but potentially many more unconscious offscreen if you saw the manpower of the mob as they marched to the castle. At least one thoroughly humiliated.

during the castle front flyover with the Wilhelm scream, the shadow showing a dropping guillotine could also suggest at least one death, although this is left uncertain for obvious reasons (though the use of shadows in older works has been used to considerably effective- and sometimes chilling- effect in other older works like the final fight scene in Tarzan). beyond this, the only known death in this part of the movie is Gaston, who falls off the roof and into the awaiting canyon where gravity does him in

TLDR? animated movies today- Disney or not- can’t recreate the silly cartoonish violence from these fight scenes back then, no matter how much CGI they use. and that doesn’t even mention the growing list of things producers are discouraged from adding to today’s movies that were commonplace in scenes and movies like these

#don't mind my rambling please

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i have no idea if people are still following me, but i worked damn hard on this book so I'm showing it off EVERYWHERE.

I did the lineart for Mirrorverse Belle, a graphic novel backstory of Belle from Disney's Mirrorverse game.

It's out April 23!!! Cover and storyboards were donw by Jan Apple, tones done by Umi Miyao.

#uuuh so pretty #beauty and the beast #I feel like we BATB fans are being spoiled between this and the Gaston novel coming out next summer #whom am I kidding please keep going

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Beauty and the Beast & Balto - Parallels

#beauty and the beast #balto #yes ok I'll reblog all the posts I can find about BatB parallels

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#beauty and the beast #sailor moon #this is one of the super rare times you'll ever catch me reblogging something about the old SM anime #because I may loathe that version but this post still speaks to my soul since it mentions both of my OTPs at the same time #Belle x her Prince and Usaghi x Mamoru (rigorously manga only!!) are the greatest love stories I've ever read or watched #now we just need to make a canon version of the UsaMamo half... #the “daring swordfights” part could be represented by *that* sequence in Acts 12&13. you know which one... #unrelated but I am proud to say I can recite by heart all the lines in these scenes from the Italian script - #I must have watched the 2002 Special Edition Videotape at least a hundred times and I religiously rewatch it every month #being able to play out the entirety of my favourite film in my mother language is my most useless skill that I can never show off #“but you've read it twice” sir you don't understand I re-read and re-watch and re-listen and re-play stuff I like with devouted obsession #I may have discovered SM many years later than BatB but I've still managed to read it dozens of time #someone please stop my rambling

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Ciriciao.

#AT #rip

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Anyone who's observed liberal misogyny & homophobia for the last few years will be disgusted but not surprised in the slightest.

#yes this is about the leaked files

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#I just want to say I really miss this kind of atmosphere on Tumblr #this is the sort of stuff that used to be all the rage when I created this account #can't believe it's already been more than a decade since then ;( #yu-gi-oh! #yugi muto #yami yugi #puzzleshipping

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W-wait, what?

@genderistdeku where are you?? 😭

#just when I had found you again #...is this yuri too?

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how are you into devilman

Fine, thanks, how about you? Kidding, kidding. I know what you're asking (and I know I'm late answering...): I don't seem like the type of person that would post about something like Devilman, right? Well, the reason behind my getting into it is actually the simplest you can think of: as the most cursory glance at my blog can show, I am an animanga nerd (and for many other things too, but that's a story for another day). I've also been a literary nerd since my dad taught me to read, and now I'm a Literarure student, to boot. My burning passion for literary creation and, crucially, for acquiring knowledge about it (through reading it first-hand, of course) thus plays an enormous part in the way I read and/or watch non-literary texts, which I never choose to engage with any less seriously than I'd do with anything else. And, well, you know how there are some books that you can't not read if you want to understand the literary history of a particular country and/or language? When the medium we're concerning ourselves with is manga, then we can't not read Devilman the same way we can't not read Astro Boy, Attack no. 1, The roses of Versailles or dozens other milestones in the history of Japanese comic that I can't list here and now. I've known that Devilman was among these required readings for a long time, because its immense importance was always referenced in all the books and magazines about the history of manga that I devoured as a Gymnasium student. And my curiosity only grew with the years, because the comic book shop I was a regular at couldn't obviously sell me a series with such a high age rating before I turned 18. You can add to that the fact that I thought I was already well-acquainted with Gō Nagai, when in fact I was only familiar with family-friendly animated adaptations of his most famous works. This is because since around the age of 7 I had watched and rewatched the Robotic Trilogy anime (which consists of Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger and UFO Robot Grendizer), as well as the unrelated Jeeg Robot, be it via some of the very frequent TV reruns or via videotapes that my mum had recorded at the end of the last century. Grendizer, in particular, is very dear to my mum because she grew up on it during the late 70's, so to put is shortly she made it so it could become a part of my childhood too. (Off-topic side note: she was very excited when news of the upcoming Grendizer U reboot aired on TV, but I fear she'll be disappointed due to it being written by the same Ichirō Ōkōchi who's brought us Devilman Crybaby...) Putting it simply: I knew I liked these anime series so I thought I liked Gō Nagai, which fostered my desire to read this all-important but forbidden Gō Nagai manga that I kept on reading about. How things have changed... It may be repeated too much, but it's just because it's true: no one respects Gō Nagai more than those who only known him cursorily through Tōē Dōga's classic adaptations of his giant robot stories, but no one hates Gō Nagai more than those who have actually endured reading his manga.

This was just the needlessly long story behind why, as you can see, I had the moral duty to read Devilman. Flash forward to early 2017, I turn 18, I go to the comic book shop, I buy Devilman, I return home, I read Devilman, I am traumatised, I begrudgingly recognise its genius, I am still disgusted, I develop a (probably unhealthy) love-hate relationship with this manga. Not with Gō Nagai though, that one is a pure hate relationship. BTW, you can imagine how shocked I was when I discovered that my childhood fave Tōkyō Mew Mew was secretly a Devilman retelling; I am just glad I hadn't yet watched stuff like, say, Neon genesis Evangelion before reading Devilman, but this just proved how right I was about there being some manga that should be required reading before passing on to... well, everything else.

I unfortunately suffer from a terminal form of completism syndrome, which is how I ended up searching Japanese blogs for info about those silly pachinko cutscenes that have sparked your question. But in fact, Devilman may very well be what is slowly curing me, since I was so horrified from some of the later official material I've read, not even mitigated by the redeeming virtues of the original manga, that more and more I'm starting to reconsider my stance about having to read and watch *everything* about any particular franchise I get into. I wish I didn't have to learn this the hard way, though... and that I had some brain bleach handy, sigh. Yes, I hate Gō Nagai. Yes, I hate almost all the non-70's Devilman stuff that I've read or watched so far (to the point that I don't know whether to go on or not). Yes, sometimes I wish I could warn my younger self. But historical knowledge is one of the things I value most and, if I hadn't read this foundational title, what sort of pseudo manga fan would I be today? And I love Ryō Asuka to death - don't we all? - along with many future characters and stories by different authors that he paved the way for. These are the two things that I reckon make it worth it to be into something as infuriating and terrifying as Devilman.

#ask #personal

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My favourite piece of useless Devilman knowledge is that, in one of the pachinko videogames, there's a super low chance that the ancient demon mask Akira tries on is randomly swapped off with... a silly mouse mask?

Man, the world of anime-licenced CR pachinko is so fascinating, I wish there were more gameplay & cutscene videos floating online!

As a side note, to me it looks like Akira is already sporting his post-merging eyebrows - maybe the developers didn't want to, or couldn't, build more than one 3D model for him? lol The way the hair is styled is also more reminiscent of how Komatsubara redesigned his look for the second OAV, as opposed to the pretty different hairdo he sports in both Nagai's manga and the original OAV. But maybe I'm just reaching...?

#devilman #akira fudo #pachinko #I just want to end this year on a silly note

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Woe, MS paint diagram of the retroactive Komaedification of N be upon ye

#N Pokémon #nagito komaeda #and some other among the 100+ characters inspired by ryo asuka #it's super interesting what Pokémon Masters is doing to poor little N... #OP is the kindest soul ever btw

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It's hard to believe that Devilman, one of the most important and influential manga ever created, after more than half a century hasn't yet received a single animated adaptation that met all three of these basic criteria:

being faithful to the source material;

being a legitimately good show regardless of loyalty;

actually managing to reach its freaking conclusion.

Beacuse, well... Observe:

(Yeah, I know that technically the original anime wasn't and couldn't be an adaptation, in fact I don't count it against it, bear with me.)

I just hope I'll be alive when the real, actual, genuine Devilman anime inevitably comes out. But somehow I doubt it.

#devilman #go nagai #oh no the “anime” in “Devilman anime” shouldn't have been in cursive #but alas it's too late to change it now #since I've already spent more than an hour to come up with something so dumb and ugly on Excel and screenshot it properly on Paint #I suck with technology

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Nothing to start the day like finding a pornographic, misogynistic, demeaning poster right at the corner of the university entrance. 🤮 And yes, I do rip them off, but they never fail to respawn in 2-3 days at best. I hate this so much.

#radical feminism #sigh #but also #bleah

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Well. Now Pokémon is officially over in Italy, too. Knowing full well it was about to happen is nowhere near as devastating as actually watching it happen. Needless to say, I'm very much not fine. Now I can only hope that Ash & co are going to be given a full-length film in Summer 2024 to give them the proper finale that they deserve after so much time.

ugly sobbing-

#pokémon #ash ketchum #pikachu

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We can add Hideaki An'no to the list (as seen in https://qmisato.tumblr.com/post/614603255701471232 and the sources mentioned at the end of the post in question), with the dubious honour of him somehow managing to order the physical assault of a performer while working on an animated medium. The absurdity of the situation really drives home the sadism inherent in this all too frequent habit of directors. Of course, that does not absolutely justify Megumi Ōgata for going through with his directional input; any person with the flimsiesttrace of human empathy would've said no, but instead she went ahead and used violence on her colleague... So there are definitely two awful people responsible for putting Yūko Miyamura through this terrible ordeal. Knowing that not only she pressed no charges, but would later return to work with both of them even after saying that she didn't want anything to do with Eva anymore fills me with so much sadness.

Actresses being tortured on the set by male directors is a massive historical and present day scourge of the film and TV industries and it's really SO common when you look into it. like from Kubrick terrorizing Shelley Duvall (and only her) on the set of the shining to Tarantino strangling Diane Kruger until she passed out to Hitchcock replacing fake birds with real birds after Tippi Hedren rejected his advances (in order to scare and physically injure her as a punishment for not fucking him) to James Cameron almost literally drowning Kate Winslet to an actress on GOT being waterboarded ten hrs straight to get like a minute of footage to Brando improvising an unscripted rape scene on the last tango in Paris set with the directors permission that ended up traumatizing Maria Schneider (in fact quite a lot of the gratuitous, graphic rape scenes in film were included for the sadistic pleasure of the male directors at the expense of the actresses).

The list goes on and on and I could seriously talk for ages about how revolting it is that these men still have active careers bc the industry just tolerates it. No piece of art is worth inflicting this disgusting and unnecessary abuse on actresses (and it's ALWAYS the actresses isn't it, never the actors. Hmmm wonder why). We call these men auteurs and geniuses but they're really just pathetic abusive sacks of shit. I want to impale every male director who behaves like this and I want their rotting corpses displayed as a part of the universal studios tour.

#hideaki anno #neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #yuko miyamura #megumi ogata