This weightless talk reminds me of an excellent panel I saw on sakuga. Someone uploaded them all to youtube...somewhere...but there’s a lot of interesting stuff in that series. It was cool to see how the medium has changed over the years.

But yeah, I don’t think the reason anime style Ghibli drew people in was purely…

I’m not saying it looks bad, it’s just a different style. The landscapes look great, and some of that composition is charming, but (in my opinion) the humans look a bit bland. They move pretty fluid though. It’s a hit and miss for me. I’d have to see the whole thing to make an opinion on it. It seems like an animation…

Iga said his team (who worked on SOTN) were drawing inspiration from Zelda. They were trying to turn elements of the old school top down Zelda open world style into a sidescroller in an attempt to cater to a wider audience and extend the game length a bit. It’s also said that because older Castlevania games were often…

Rental culture man. Japan never moved away from it. There are a lot of reasons for it, but I think one of the main ones is that living space in Japan is at a premium so people would rather rent a thing that own it because it takes up less living space. The Anime News Network did had an article about it that’s worth…

Maybe, but there are still modern anime that can look pretty amazing.

I think this is more of a style thing. The industry’s methods have evolved and I doubt that a modern studio would give his team the kind of space and time he’d need to make what he wants.

I don’t think he’s slighting the animators themselves but…

And eats the turtle, thus gaining his freedom from the island prison he grew up on.

This guy gets it.

This is subjective as hell, but The Red Turtle looks arguably worse from an animation quality standpoint than a typical Ghibli movie.

It’s mostly down to preference of style, but this film definitely has a simple aesthetic to it that might turn away potential viewers used to the classic Ghibli style.

Honestly, judging…

Yeah...alternate costumes that break character animations...It’s kinda funny, but still an oversight.

This

My friends and I started saving up for our trip to Japan. Going to take a few years to get money together and get everything organized but we’ve at least got the advantage of knowing people who’ve been there before. One of my friends learned some Japanese in college too. He’s not perfectly fluid, but he’s pretty…

Statues can be pretty cool. I have a friend who collects pvc figurines. He bought the collector’s edition of Doom 4 for the Revenant statue. He expected the game to be shit so in his mind he was paying for the statue and got a free game as a bonus. XD

As for me, I love it when I get the soundtrack and/or art books to…

You say doms, but all I can think of is this:

I played Oblivion on Xbox, then played Skyrim on pc. I’ve never looked back. It wasn’t just the mods, these games could get buggy and the console commands sometimes let you work around it.

I’m still convinced that these games are better on pc, but enabling mod support on console is a brilliant idea that would have…

This.

I grew up on consoles in the NES days. I love consoles, but building a computer isn’t that expensive. It’s only bad if you want to buy the newest tech, but that stuff goes down in price pretty quickly so if you’re patient you can just wait a year or two and have that high grade computer you wanted and it’ll…

Yeah, I can’t find any PS4 games out that I want that aren’t also on PC. So the only PS4 games I’m looking to buy at the moment are remakes of PS3 games from NIS that I didn’t buy (because I didn’t have a PS3).

So I actually thought this series was more straightforward than that and now your chart has left me feeling intimidated. Which is the opposite reaction you’d hoped for, I’m sure.

I’ll probably still give the series a go when my jrpg craving rears it’s head but for now I’m just going to back away slowly and get a drink.

Monogatari is one of those anime where particular moments stand out more than episodes or arcs as a whole. I could make a list but in the context of favorite arcs, I gotta say that despite me loving Senjougahara and Kanbaru arcs, Onimonogatari and Nekomonogatari (White) are currently my favorite arcs.

Don’t want to…

This is actually an incredibly valid point. To motion sensitive people, switching to first person perspective is basically saying you can’t play this without feeling ill. FoV options can sometimes help but everybody affected has their own sensitivity levels and for some adjusting FoV isn’t enough of a fix.

I had a coworker randomly ask a girl out while they were in the store. I honestly couldn’t believe it at the time. I had never seen anyone actually be that brazen before.

I know there are people like that but still. It weirded me out a bit. Guy was sort of an ass though so I probably shouldn’t have been surprised.