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Sorry was offline for a few days, for darling in the franxx it was mostly that I found it dull and the character drama unbelievable and weird, esp the one with ichigo MC and Pink hair. Felt like a story of cardboard non charas.

Yup deedlit is lightyears ahead of frieren in the looks department XD

Thanks for letting me know. Well, once a legitimate service starts up, it's understandable that people would be reluctant to openly mention underground sites by name.

Oh, that's surprising—I didn't expect that you're not watching the new Gundam. I hadn’t watched anything past SEED myself, but recently I finished watching 00. It was pretty entertaining, and considering how highly rated it is on MAL, I can see why. The new Gundam series actually connects back to the very first Gundam, so a lot of longtime fans of the early works are watching it.

As for BL works, I wouldn't say I like commercial ones—the kind sold in regular bookstores. Until recently, I actually avoided them entirely. I prefer stories with only light BL elements. I do like some fan-made (doujin) BL works, but not the commercial ones. Even with fan works, I only read them if I'm already into the original series, and I'm particular about the art and storytelling style, so I can be quite selective.

About AKIRA—I haven’t read it yet, so I can’t confidently say “it’s a masterpiece.” I do recognize that it’s a famous work, though. The reason I haven’t read it is because it’s a large-format manga with incredibly detailed backgrounds, and I don’t think it’s the kind of thing you casually pick up. It’s not something I’d read while soaking in the bath, snacking, or lounging under a kotatsu. It’s the kind of manga I’d like to read when I have both the time and the right mindset—when I’m at my best, mentally and emotionally.

Oh, and it seems I recently hit 1,000 titles read. That count includes light novels and regular novels too, so technically I may not have read 1,000 manga titles. But there are a lot of titles that aren’t listed on MAL. Especially BL series that finish in just one volume—they’re easy to rack up in numbers. Since I don’t read pirated content, reading manga does cost money too.

No matter how much I read, I can’t keep up with how fast new manga keeps coming out. My room is filling up with books. I even bought AKIRA, but I haven’t read it yet.

Are you watching the new Gundam?

Yes!

I try to follow in Char's footsteps instead.

That is very true. I think I know where to find the raws, I might try that :D

Um, I guess, but all the Hitler quotes in scripts ever boil down to are "He bad. Me good."

True, I don't follow current anime that much, but if there is one is only a very loose adaptation of just inspired by a classic tale. Should Fate count as an adaptation? LOL

I'm interested in this show, Sekai Meisaku Douwa, which are short 20-minute episodes retellings of famous tales from 1001 Nights, C. Perrault, Beaumont, J. & W. Grimm, H. C. Andersen, C. Collodi, English fairytale, H. Pyle, L. Carrol, J. Swift, A. Dumas, E. T. A Hoffman, L. F. Baum, and J. Spyri.

Unfortunately I was only able to find the first episode (Aladdin) subbed.

Me neither, for me it was just a cartoon, lol. Creative name for the title at least in Bulgaria, here they just called "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" (D'Artagnan e os três Mosqueteiros). Not a very inspired naming, lol.

I'm enjoying the rewatch. It's an ok show for us who like retro stuff, very non episodic for the budget and the time. It was made in collaboration with a media group in Spain, so I dunno if I would count it as a full anime adaptation though. Anime Sanjuushi seems to get more of the Japanese sensibilities into it.

Yes!! Also I'm weirdly attracted to anime adaptations of old classics, lol.

In the case of Wanwan Sanjuushi it aired here in my country when I was a kid, so I had to check it out (couldn't find it subbed though unfortunately), but then I remembered that Anime Sanjuushi existed and frankly, it looks way more "developed", lol. The art style is just amazing.

Have you watched any of them?

Most of the places look like Europe, so it would seem logical to point to Christianity. However, it's one of those anime that takes a generalized approach to religion, so it's not anything in particular. I think it's just a general critique of prophecy/eschatology/faith in this case. I was relating it to Christianity because these sentiments are common with that religion.

Wow, didn't know 3x3 Eyes was so long. Not much was adapted...

Hmm... well, I don't know. I might have to rewatch the series. But I won't do so until After I finish Texh again. And I might be watching Lain again before Kino. Maybe even Niea to see if I even like it... LOL, Tradition is rendered as tricksters!? By "first town," you mean the town in episode 1 that drank the milk? lmao, at the depiction of prophecy with two towers flipping back and forth on when the world will end. I've always been weirded out by Christianity: "We've gotta hasten the end times!" It gets to where the world ending is good. Diary of Tortov Roddle also kind of reminds me of Kino, just more laid back.

Okay, I watched a few minutes, starting at 16 mins in. I would have prefered they didn't make a "subtle" nod to past events from the real world. It seems unnecessary, as it's often hard to tell Kino isn't an alternate timeline from our own. It reminded me of the weird feeling of watching so much of Gundam from 1979, and then the bald old guy has to make a comparison of his son to Hitler. It doesn't really add much and feels obtrusive.

They associate drinking the formula that gives them telepathy with Sieg Heil, a salute during the Third Reich period of Germany. So it's not our timeline, I guess, since that's now illegal in Germany, and there was no chance to Sieg Heil and drink telepathic milk. But they're making a nod to a tight-knit nationalism like that period of Germany. This ethnic group becomes closer and more homogenous and strives to understand each other even more closely, even though there's the weird framing about war, which would make one think it would involve out-groups, but it's just fake-Germany drinking the telepathic milk, as far as I can tell. Maybe it's a reimagining of Europe where there isn't a war, but all of Europe drinks telepathic milk, lmao. It's not very clear and the flashback is fast paced.

Red herring explanation to reject: The way I would see it is that it's like a metaphor for the people becoming so close (or nationalistic, being another way of framing it) that it drives them apart, much like how Germany was defeated and now bans a lot of material, words, ideas, and even arm movements from the past. They have all the same modern aspects that alienate the nation and lower birth rates as anywhere else. And this is partly a result of technology, given that the drink is a product of technological advancement and so are the machines that allow societal breakdown. You also really couldn't have a true World War without advanced technology. Of course, there are things about that that don't make coherent sense based on writing cues, and it's stupid because it seems to imply that there is a disadvantage to having a tight-knit population like Iceland or wherever, which is happier and better off on most measures compared to more diverse locations.

But it's a bit similar to the dramatic comparison between Texhnolyze with the more human Lux and the inhuman surface as a before and after.

Another reason Sieg Heil should be tossed as a red herring is because you can take a look at any generic country and see the same results. It's something like a universal. The end result is purely about technology and its relationship to society. It does have some of those elements of striving versus lack of striving. You could lump war in on the side of striving and argue that to end war is a utopian aim. But I think war is also a red herring. It's about understanding each other and using technology to bring the masses closer but going against some fundamental aspect of human nature and ironically driving everyone apart. So basically my conclusion returned to what I had said before I watched that part of the episode, lmao.

Can you timestamp the part for me? I'm curious but don't remember that part.

Because he is a hot husbando and the hero, and it took her like 50 years to realize she was in love with him. XD

lol, well, I don't know how to respond to this other than to speculate about my memory and then babble (also this pertains to something I'm writing recently so I will throw in extra blah blah). You mean the original Kino series? I haven't watched it in quite a while. I recall the newer one had some kind of weird mixture of AnCap and ochlocracy (I guess...) and murder wasn't against the law (and probably nothing was, you just better be prepared to reap what you sow...).

I think in the original first episode it's a rather traditional-looking village or town with machines handling all the tasks and the people have a lot of leisure time. Which can be disastrous or potentially okay if the mindset leads to productive usage of leisure time. After all, when you think about it, many people who focused on learning had servants or slaves to allow them to be productive not necessarily toward making money but scientific advancement, art, etc. It's kind of like a more neutral or optimistic take on something similar to the surface in Texhnolyze (Have you seen it? I think you will find the contrast of the surface in the latter half of Texh versus that village in Kino interesting), though it still has its dark, alienating elements. There is a more unified aesthetic and mood that seems more organic in Kino. Whereas Texh is distinctly meant to be alienating. Either way, I would guess the Kino village is reclusive and the population growth will cease. But I think... don't they discover some technology that makes the unknown known and alienates them from human experience? Something meant to bring them closer and only succeeding in driving them further apart? Something like that. So not all "progress" is good. It's a matter of how it's used and accompanying philosophy to temper the changing times. And to question if the change is even worthwhile or not or how it should be administered.

That Kino story is fairly common in sci-fi, and it's a big part of the thinking behind Evangelion and the AT fields and unification. Of course, Shinji's will is to go against that, just as the villagers there suggest that this tech is something that damaged their social dynamic. Anyway, thanks for the reminder. It's a handy contrast with Texh, and I had forgotten about it. I was wondering if Konaka wrote this episode (who wrote Texh), as I know he wrote one of the short Kino movies. But it seems he didn't script any of the series. I'm not sure that it's "based on" anything so much as it's a speculative fiction idea that correlates a bit with technological advances and how they can be damaging to society without the proper philosophical framework to manage them. It's just like how cellphones are obviously useful devices but now everyone has one and they're stooped over, harming their posture, and are too glued to their phones to engage and are often socially anxious and have trouble focusing. Stuff like that. I mean, there's a common view that the Amish are anti-technology. But that's not quite true, at least not with all of them. A lot of them use technology for business. But they limit technological usage in other contexts where it may interfere with their lifestyle. So it's really a philosophical question about technological usage.

Also, lmao at noticing Chouun's "gary stu crush died without her getting to known him, so she goes on a journey to visit his soul in the trunk of some norse or german sounding tree." XD Yeah, that's definitely there, and I agree with what he said. But what he left out (probably because it's manga only so far) is it gets worse because there's a time travel part (time travel this late into a fantasy series is practically a sin, imo) later in the manga, where Frieren gets to meet Gary Stu again and express her feelings, but she kind of doesn't take advantage of the situation, yet it reinforces the unrealized romance. So I'm expecting a ridiculous wish fulfillment ending. Deedlit is a grandma slayer. XD