I was a first season watcher who just never came back. It was...fine at best. The kind of show you could just throw on and mostly ignore if you wanted some background noise. I was surprised it even got a second season, much less a third, so at least it got a chance.

I’m only just noticing that Crono is a left-handed sword user, and wears his saya on the “wrong side.” Interesting stylistic choice from Toriyama, I guess!

Could there have been a Faustian bargain made? Like in order to get S1 made, he gave ownership of the IP to them. Or did Netflix just back a dump truck of money up to his house? 

It’s a shame they’re still rolling with that Family Guy-derived style. I thought all the hip new Rick & Morty inspired shows were borrowing the noodle arm style.

Turns out there are only so many VFX studios in the world, and short of buying them and forcing them to stop doing work for other clients, you reach a point where you’re not gonna make your movie’s release date AND have all your VFX in place. There are actually scenes in the movie with missing VFX or that got cut down…

Honestly, the way I hear it, they were taking suggestions from just about anyone on the crew who would toss them an idea. Stunt guys, PAs, production designer, etc. So...maybe.

There was an idea for this particular fight where the two Stranges would magically turn into giant insects (and maybe a dragon?) and duke it out, and something about going into a music box, and...it would have been very, very expensive to do, especially considering this came up during reshoots.

Oh, my partner helped design that fight scene, and knows the story of how it came about. I don’t think any of them would have even heard of this game, but there was a storyboard artist throwing around even wilder ideas who might have drawn inspiration from the outside. 

Aren’t “private” Discord servers still hosted on Discord’s...servers? Obviously means there’s easily accessible digital footprints, but also makes me wonder about Discord’s policies around what can be shared on their servers, and how they enforce that. Like there could be communities doing all kinds of illegal shit on…

Yeah, it’s unfortunate, but comics are getting to the point where it’s hard to get anything original made, so throwing a celebrity who doesn’t actually do much besides help market it is one way to go about it.

Was Seconds well-received? I have it, and read it once, but...I honest to goodness don’t remember much of anything about it, and recall being underwhelmed. 

There’s too good to be true, and then there’s “too terrible to be fake.” I’d definitely put CC’s latest attempts at animation in the latter category.

Ahem. MAPPA is an animation studio. They didn’t make the Jujutsu Kaisen manga, or even create the series. You should credit the actual author (Gege Akutami), or like...Shonen Jump, not the studio that happens to animate it.

Just yesterday, before this particular announcement, Disney ALSO announced that they’re appointing someone to lead up their take on the “Metaverse.” So one way or another, they’re gonna trap you in some kind of dystopian altered reality.

I’m a little surprised you didn’t outright criticize them doing yet another muscle-bound idiot. For reasons that aren’t really worth mentioning, I once happened to be in a weird (like I had little reason to be there) meeting with the CR guys back when they were trying to get the animation off the ground with Legendary…

He was 27 in the anime, and the actor is 50, so...yeah, there’s been plenty of comments about him being too old, and they’re not wrong. The Kotaku post about Japanese response pointed out a major flaw as well, which is that the fights lacked the speed and energy of the anime. Maybe a younger actor could have pulled it…

Vicious and his manscaping habits were a problem, but I’d say one of the biggest issues was that the writers thought that we needed an extensive backstory for Spike, Vicious and Julia in the first season.

I say good riddance, if only for the conversation about what Vicious does with his pubic hair. They really laser focused in on the big, glaring thing the anime was “missing” and made up some fanfic-tier shit to fill the gap. 

I think I would describe the first half of the season as “comfy.” Like not bad, not amazing, but sometimes fun, and easy enough to watch. It had the same “late night sci-fi show” vibes I expect from Bebop. The second half...man, where did the music go? Not to mention the energy. 

Also an Anri fan! “Shyness Boy” is a much better song than it has any right to be: