Watched Part-Timer but I kinda don't wanna keep going with it after S2... mb I will binge it when it's all done.
Movies (whenever they get on wherever I can watch them, so probably not the summer...):
That gutpunch of a flashback to first episode events at the end...
the performance looked great. it looked a bit more,.. 2dish (or at least more fluid) than the love live performances i'm more used to (but with all the spinning and zooming in and out and diff perspective angles there's gotta be use of 3d modeling in there). i guess maybe it's in the shading? also all the liveliness in the animation of the various bits and frills of clothing and hair and bounciness of the movements in general which probably couldn't be done in a show with more idol performances than this show has. anyways, i particularly liked all the neon streaks and sparkles.
I liked Pine Jam's last three anime in Kageki Shoujo, Do It Yourself (which I really liked), and Kubo-San so I guess I'm in for this one too.
Schwarzette’s bits are pretty cool. Funnels/bits are always cool though.
“I don’t want Mom… to become some evil magician!” Thanks for pointing out the Tempest parallels, Suletta.
I guess it wouldn’t be Gundam without a big freaking laser. Now with organ soundtrack (reminds me of Yamato 2202’s OST). And it’s always fun when Gundam does evil Haros.
Whenever I see Quod Erat Demonstrandum, I always think of Candide,… namely the Bernstein operetta adaptation. I’ve studied math in the past so I dunno why Candide pops into my head first, I guess squares are more common than the actual letters. QED kinda feels a little on-the-nose to be at the concluding steps of ideologically-based (well, ideology and revenge-based) plot but eh.
I like the modern/future-ish kinda fantasy setting. I guess that tends to be a relatively common JRPG setting,... also Shadowrun (except Shadowrun is more cyberpunk). Was kinda half-hoping the fantasy setting meant we'd get acoustic instrumental backing tracks, but this works too. I wonder if Yoko Hikasa being Laelaps means Laelaps gets to sing too [Sunshine S2]
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also, guess that dog name got ported over from the original series
Schwarzette's bits are pretty cool. Funnels/bits are always cool though.
"I don't want Mom... to become some evil magician!" Thanks for pointing out the Tempest parallels, Suletta.
I guess it wouldn't be Gundam without a big freaking laser. Now with organ soundtrack (reminds me of Yamato 2202's OST). And it's always fun when Gundam does evil Haros.
Whenever I see Quod Erat Demonstrandum, I always think of Candide,.. namely the Bernstein operetta adaptation. I've studied math in the past so I dunno why Candide pops into my head first, I guess squares are more common than the actual letters. QED kinda feels a little on-the-nose to be at the concluding steps of ideologically-based (well, ideology and revenge-based) plot but eh.
def one of my favs of the season.
mentioned last week how i liked tsubaki's confession scene and i like its continuation here. kvin from sakugablog has a twitter thread about this anime and mentions the weird way this show uses the traditional shoujo anime "sparkles" that float around the screen and act as transitions, using the beer from the beginning of the series of as an example. i liked how the tears were this episode's usage of the shoujo sparkles and in particular, there was that one tear that floated in front of the flashbacks.
how runa was animated throughout the dinner was really fun. my favorite bit was when akane was holding runa up and had her hand over her mouth to keep her quiet and runa is just hanging there.
doesn't feel like a show i should hold my breath for a s2 and things feel nicely tied up and full circle here, but it'd be a pleasant surprise. in any case, it'd be fun to see inori minase in more roles that use this voice (although i do like her usual asmr-y or lively genki voice roles).
Def looking forward to the new Shinigami Bocchan season and the new Love Live fantasy series Genjitsu no Yohane (it's probably not going to happen but it'd be fun if the instrumental backing for the songs went acoustic). There's also the Hiromu Arakawa autobio(-ish?) Hyakushou Kizoku that I'll def watch. Will probably end up watching the new Horimiya and the new Bungou Stray Dogs season. I watched Hataraku Maou-Sama!! and I enjoyed the ! one but !! not quite so much so I'm not so eager to continue on with that...
Intrigued by Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu but the promo artwork doesn't look so promising and BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! but also maybe I should get through the other BanG Dream stuff first (only watched S1).
There's a lot of movies coming out I def wanna watch like the new HIbike Euphonium movie, the Ooyukiumi no Kaina movie, and the new Mari Okada movie Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou but who knows when/if they'll hit streaming in the US.
from threads of the other site, the take folks have about Lauda is that he isn't exposed to a lot of the inner machinations we get to see as the audience and Miorine, being the bride being fought over and later being the very public figure in the president of the Benerit group and presiding over their Gund-Arm tech, can be seen as quite central (and perhaps to the uninformed eye, the cause behind) much of what's being going wrong in the series and consequently Lauda's life.
A note about this, it looks like Hugging Face is partnering with AMD to improve this situation but it looks like they're starting with enterprise first: https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-and-amd . No specific platforms listed on that page but https://huggingface.co/amd mentions Linux. But yeah, looks like the situation as of right now is mostly about NVIDIA and I've heard about CUDA going through classes at school.
(copying my comment from the anime sub on ml since it seems this thread is a bit empty...)
quiet zero looks like something out of homeworld, except less colorful i guess.
a swordfight in a gundam series and a character is wearing all red and another all white, don’t think i’ve ever seen that before… never ever… (suppose it also kinda does double duty and makes the utena ties more explicit).
i guess the turn on the series’s phrase “even if there’s nothing to gain, i have to move forward” makes suletta’s character growth blatantly obvious if somehow anybody missed it (there’s also suletta thanking belmeria for letting her do things out of her volition).
hey, the lagrange naming of large habitations are back from other gundam series. the orchestral dropin when suletta began her attack with caliburn kinda reminded me of those sawano moments in unicorn.
spread of information thermological entropy confirmed? sounds like it's time for claude shannon to save the day.
i suppose the finale is alright end to a pretty strong rest of the season but it kinda feels like a lot was jammed in at the end (not helped with dumping all these new terms on us) that could be explored in more detail over a longer of period of time (which i guess is still possible, although the show made the point of putting "this is where the story concludes" at the end..). seeing the space assembly league use previous events as a power play and excuse to completely hunt down the benerit group and associates would've been intriguing to see play out much further. the data storm thing kinda ended up being pretty newtypey that might be explorable more (or at least explained more, especially with things dissolving and the whole entropy thing... but that also may be treading on previously explored territory, just with a different name). also there's a lot of potential for themes to explore, like the whole data storm thing and connecting things together (DSoT, data storm of things?) and there's that whole thing about gund-arm tech being used for weaponry vs medical uses that kinda does play a plot point (petra got new legs!) but also kinda feels unexplored, at least in terms of the process behind-the-scenes and actually getting to that point.