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– Governor-General Adolf Freiherr von Rhemen, 29 October, 1918
sup belgrade I'm in you
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the lesson of arknights is that france would have lost the battle of austerlitz if sauron had a say in it
#he certainly would've had better field commanders than the Austrians or Russians#'LA REPUBLIQUE NOUS APELLE! SACHONS VAINCRE OU SACHONS PERIR!' 'Then perish.'
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Same.
A three movie blip over three years sounds more like a coincidence than a real trend but that's definitely more space movies than the last three years. For the sake of analysis, I'd say there was another blip in 2018-2019 with Ad Astra, First Man, and the first season of For All Mankind.
The most obvious thing they share is how old the people who made them are. Cuarón, Nolan, Gray, and Moore were all born in the 60s or early 70s. Ridley Scott is of course older than that, but the producers of The Martian who optioned Weir's novel were of that generation. First Man was originally optioned in the early 2000s by silent gen producers, but the ones who moved the project forward again were in that bracket.
The reason this might be important is because that's probably the last generation who grew up riding the cultural shockwave of Apollo. Of the people I listed, every one of them except James Gray of Ad Astra mentioned a childhood fascination with space stemming from Apollo as one of the reasons they wanted to make movies about it (or TV in Moore's case). Nolan, Moore, and producer Isaac Klausner of First Man all go on to say that they feel the futurism of Apollo is fading from society and they'd like to help bring it back. Scott, though already in his 30s in 1969, shares this enthusiasm.
In some ways, this shouldn't be surprising. Of course people who make space movies are interested in space, and of course if they're that age they'd cite the Apollo program as the reason. However, I still take them at face value. Whether or not it was as widespread as old SF fans believe, there really is a kind of enthusiasm about space specific to that generation, and these guys have it. Actually, I think some people people my age and younger (context: I'm 32 help) just fundamentally don't understand the enthusiasm of that era.
-but they were the last wave of that generation, not the first. Why were there no blips in the 2000s? Was there anything happening at the start of the 2010s?
Well, no, nothing was happening. That was kind of the problem.
Hopefully, those years will be the nadir of human spaceflight for the rest of human history. Shuttle flew for the last time two years before Gravity came out and all the neat programs I grew up with like Venture Star and DC-X had fallen apart, Constellation and Orion were in serious trouble, NASA was an underresourced and poorly organized mess (still true), nobody really knew much about China's nascent program (still true), Russian aerospace was a husk (still very true), India still hadn't really arrived, and New Space hadn't started congealing. There were bright spots, but by pretty much any objective standard, things were in a bad way.
I still think the blip is pretty much a coincidence, but if any conditions could produce a slew of space movies, these are probably it.
I watched The Martian the other day and it made me think, why did we get so many movies about space around then?
Like Gravity came out in 2013, then Interstellar in 2014, and The Martian in 2015. One big space movie a year for 3 years in a row.
And like can we bring that trend back? Space is cool, I'd like more movies about space.
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FLCL (フリクリ) Animated Key-Frames by Yoh Yoshinari (吉成 曜) and Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石 洋之) for episodes: 4 and 3.
Some more by Tetsuya Nishio (西尾 鉄也) for episode 2:
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#ka: toshiyuki satou#mob psycho 100#couldn't use the booru this time!#and the gif ramping made me not recognize the timing
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Updated my impressions of SobsPlease because I'm a dipshit and didn't realize I hadn't grabbed the v1 when it came out. s/o to one of their typesetters witchmerry for asking me about it.
Quick primer on Girls Band Cry fansubs
Girls Band Cry is a wonderful currently airing cartoon about a girl who moves to Kawasaki to live alone away from her parents, and ends up starting a band with an ex-idol musician.
Unfortunately, it's unlicensed anywhere in the English-speaking world and the fansub situation is an absolute disaster of fractal bullshit.
Whoops.
There are currently five or six efforts under seven names that I'm aware of, all with different quality and release schedules – and the whole thing is beset by drama! I've seen several non-Japanese-speaking mutuals wondering what the hell to watch. Here's my best attempt to sort through them.
tl;dr: just watch [SobsPlease] for EP01 and then [yofukashi]/[Ideal Paradox] for the rest.
Note that if you speak at least some Japanese, you should be fine with just Japanese subtitles. It's not that hard to follow even with my shitty listening comprehension.
Anyway,
[le même] | Don't Bother
Originally video from Amazon muxed with subs from anilist user Nitori42069, who translated the French release using DeepL and polished the result. Nitori claims her translation is real, but unfortunately the DeepL output for the French script is pretty damming. Subsequently, several other people have published releases under this name which are definitely MTL from French. Not…the worst thing since the French TL is real and DeepL isn't so bad at French, but you have better options. Sub-par video quality due to using ADN instead of Amazon past EP01. Obviously comes out fast.
[RedditSubs] | Don't Bother
I haven't actually downloaded and watched these, nor am I totally sure where they come from, but given that they haven't released anything past EP01 it doesn't really matter.
[yofukashi] aka [Ideal Paradox] | Good
Effort organized on /a/. Hews loose, but really good! Great typesetting and actually useful translator's notes. Not bad for some anons who are apparently new to fansubbing. They seem to come out within about a day of the release. Unfortunately, they only started with EP02.
[SobsPlease] | Also good
These are veterans of the storied but recently disbanded group GJM. They're currently a week behind (as of 25 April), but it's a solid team with solid releases. I do generally think yofukashi/Ideal Paradox' has a better sense of naturalism and style and recommend them on those grounds, but you're fine with either. Certainly the current best choice for EP01.
[NotSobsPlease] | Don't Bother
This is Nitori. She kinda gave the game away on her first post before she edited it. Whether or not it's her, and whether or not you believe that this is a real translation (it does seem notable that she apparently knows how to use a seedbox – that's my steelman for her!), I still don't rate it that highly on its own merits. Perfectly watchable though. EP02 came out within a day, but nothing for EP03 yet.
[NakayubiSubs] | Meh
Another new contender starting from EP03! This is intended to be a speedsub release, dropping within a few hours of the episode. If you're in a hurry, and they stick around, these are fine. They seem to be using the French translation as a reference to get through it quickly, but it's legit and I haven't noticed any major problems skimming through. However, imo yofukashi/Ideal Paradox is just a more attentive translation with a more polished release. As speedsubbers, NakayubiSubs also run into the issue of having to use the worse ADN video instead of Amazon.
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Oh, this is what I'm watching this season
I'm not going to do a three episode impression post because
a) I've got too much else going on
b) Goddamn there's a lot going on this season
-but this will be a placeholder post for when I eventually (…maybe) come back to all this in a few months.
Watching
>Dungeon Meshi
>Hibike! Euphonium S3
>Yoru no kurage wa oyogenai
>Girls Band Cry
>Shuumatsu Train wa doko e iku?
>Spice & Wolf…2!
I watched three episodes of this but idk why
>Blue Archive
Oh god I wanted to check these too but look how much fucking anime I'm already watching
>Sentai Daishikkaku
>Kaijuu no.8
>That yatagarasu thing Kyougoku is doing this season instead of more YuruCamp
I wanted to watch this but I'm still not done with the other seasons+movie
>YuruCamp S3
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Fune wo Amu sketch by Hiroyuki Aoyama of animation studio ZEXCS
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