You get to be alive. Unlike us, you haven’t died yet, so you can recover and fix things as many times as you want. You can redo anything and start over!”
TIME of the SEASON Winter 2024 Edition: The SEQUEL Seasons
The sequel seasons are.... well, they're here. At least the ones I give a shit about.
Ladies and gentlemen, as usual, we always have some sequel seasons or 2nd cours if you want to get into that.
However, unlike the previous seasons, there are some I’m not going back to. For example, High Card has season 2 that’s out. Yeah, I wasn’t into the first season that much so that’s out.
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki S2…. Yeah, I’m cutting that shit out, too. I didn’t even like that show…
Emocionantes novedades para los Fans de Hanako-kun: ¡Confirmada la segunda temporada del anime!
Recientemente, la cuenta en X (antes Twitter) de Hanako-kun, el querido fantasma del lavabo, anunció que se ha dado luz verde para una segunda temporada de la serie animada de Hanako-kun. Aunque por el momento no se han revelado más detalles sobre esta nueva entrega, los seguidores están ansiosos por descubrir qué les depara. Además, […]
Kanata no Astra Review Episodes 4 - Singing Soothes the Poisoned Teens
Singing Soothes The Poisoned Teens
Astra Lost in Space Episode 4
Astra Lost in Space continues to be pretty solid
entertainment. I am going to level a criticism at the attempted humour early in
the episode when they first eat the candy flowers and the reaction shots of the
characters. While it was nice to see some levity after episode three’s near
crash sequence we’d kind of already covered…
▶️ E CONCLUDIAMO LA GIORNATA CON IL TRAILER DI WORLD DAI STAR!
La nuova serie originale di casa LERCHE (Idoly Pride, GIven) andrà in onda dal 9 aprile.
La regia è affidata a Yu Kinome (Idoly Pride), mentre la sceneggiatura è a cura di Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) e si basa su un soggetto concepito da Takahiro (Demon Slave).
All Of Shuu’s TG Calender Appearances! (In Chronological Order!)
*this was initially just gonna be a twitter thread but I’m posting it here first bc is easier to draft and arrange. :) Wrote the little information cards that are under the pics and will try to image ID them for the text late one.
Under a cut bc there are twenty-four of them! Enjoy! <3
(I believe the image below is from an anime calender? Or something? I’m not sure.)
January 12th - Skiiing Day
On January 12, 1911, Major Lerch of the Austrian Army first taught a young officer in the Niigata Prefecture how to ski. Be careful when doing tricks!
February 6th - Blog Day
Based on bu (2) rogu (6).
A blog post from Shuu, it reads:
“February 6
Have you heard of a flower called the ‘Hardenbergia’?
It is also called a ‘Komachifuji’ and as its name suggests, it blooms with lovely purple petals.
And here is the usual Tsukiyama Shuu’s Flower Language Corner.
In flower language, a Hardenbergia refers to:
“A fateful encounter.��
“Happiness will unexpectedly drop in.”
…and the like.
There’s also “a miraculous miracle”…
—But this is what I think.
Encounters are always fateful,
and reunions are always miraculous.
Fate, miracles, our world is filled with such.
This moment is also a miracle.”
The comments feature Touka being quite rude, Kaneki adding little of importance, and Yomo not understanding technology.
February 13th - Bank Robbery Day
On February 13th, 1866, the first ever successful bank robbery took place in America by Jesse James.
February 25th - Hori Chie’s Birthday
Hori was Tsukiyama Shuu’s classmate in Seinan High School. Hori treats Tsukiyama as her photographic subject and despite Tsukiyama being a ghoul, she doesn’t fear him.
Tsukiyama in return finds her intriguing and treats her as a pet.
Their relationship continues on until now making them long-time acquaintances.
Whether they have a good relationship or not, it’s difficult to say for sure.
March 3rd - Tsukiyama Shuu’s Birthday. (Obviously.)
Happy Birthday, Tsukiyama Shu.
March 26th - Untitled.
No text.
March 31st - Untitled.
The inauguration (to celebrate the completion of the structure) of the Eiffel Tower in Paris was held today. I wonder if Tsukiyama has ever been to France before.
April 28th - Nice Bath Day no. 3
No text.
May 1st - Untitled. Shu’s second blog post.
This blog reads as follows:
‘Hey, everyone. We have now entered May, yes?
Speaking of May 1, it is a custom in France to send muguet (Lily of the Valley) as a present to the person you love on this day.
And the recipient is said to be visited by great fortune.”
Now then, upon hearing the words ‘the person you love’, whose face do you picture in your mind?
How about giving flowers as gifts to him?…Or her?
…With that said, that beloved person you just thought of may already be a happy person at this point.
Shu.’
May 11th - Salvador Dali’s Birthday
The Persistence of Memory.
“I saw three soft Shuus. One of them had a deplorable figure that hanged down from the branch of the olive tree.”
May 27th - Hyakunin Isshu Day
No. 86 Saigo Hoshi
“Should I blame the moon, for bringing forth this sadness, as if it pictured grief?
Lifting up my troubled face, I regard it through my tears.”
Grief? Is that what you’re trying to say, moon? I don’t think so.
Did I only just want to blame the moon for this sadness?
May 28th - Fireworks Day.
On this day in 1733, fireworks were launched for the first time for a festival in Ryogoku. The festival was first held by the 8th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Yoshimune, in order to calm the spirits of the dead who fell to the great famine and cholera in the previous years. Now, it is held annually as water god festivies to ward off evil spirits.
(Note: turn up the brightness or stare very hard for a long time. He is there, I promise.)
June 9th - 6th Ward Day
A huge amount of members were sacrificed during the annihilation of ‘Aogiri’s Hideout’ in the 11th Ward. Afterwards, Kaneki left ‘Anteiku’ in order to follow Rize’s footsteps and entered a new world, the ‘6th Ward’, alongside Tsukiyama and Banjou.
June 25th - Spaceyama.
No text.
Shuu gets a cow and a Strange Thing and his father is proud.
July 20th - The Day of the Moon Landing
On 1969, the human race landed for the first time on the moon in the spacecraft, Apollo 11.
At that time, Commander Armstrong sent a message to Earth saying, “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.
August 6th - Handsome Day
Based on ha (8) nsa mu (6).
August 27th -Miyazawa Kenji’s Birthday
A poet and writer of fairy tales who was based in his hometown of Iwate. The paradise of his work was given the name ‘Ihatov’.
In his masterpiece “The Restaurant of Many Orders”, two young men went hunting in the forest, got lost, and strayed into a restaurant called ‘Wildcat House’. The irony of it all is when the two instead became the food.
September 21st - Fashion Show Day
On this day in 1927, the first fashion show in Japan took place in kimono shop called Mitsukoshi in Ginza. At that time, kimonos were mainstream.
September 8th - TG’s 5th Year Anniversary
Serialization strted on Weekly Young Jump No. 41 which was sold on this day in 2011. Thank you very much for reading.
September 9th - Rollcake Day
Based on how the cross section of a rollcake forms a ‘9’. June 6th is also called ‘Rollcake Day’ for a similar reason.
September 16th - Match Day
On this day in 1948, freely selling previously rationed matches was accepted.
October 14th - Glasses No.2
No text.
October 25th - World Pasta Day
On this day in 1995, the World Pasta Congress was held in Italy.
October 26th - Kishimen Day
Kishimen is a slick type of noodle that’s thin and wide in width. Based on tsu (2) ru (6) which means ‘slick’ or ‘slippery’. It is also considered the ‘autumn of appetite’.
December 23rd - Palindrome Day 3
‘Intimidating, Tsukiyama…
Will you get burned?’
December 29th - Chanson Day
On this day in 1990, a long-established Chanson cafe in Gonzales called ‘Ginpan’ went out of business.
The place was known as a gateway to success for Chanson singers.
Ok I think that’s all :)
Tell me if I have missed one, I will edit. Sorry, am tired from exam prep, hopefully this is okay. I love you so much. I feel like Shuu is always home for me in stressful times.
I’m planning to do one of these for Kanae and Rize too. I can do other characters I guess afterwards.
I own this calender. I think I might like a second one to cut out and make postcards with to go on my Shuu shrine.
I had a feeling, a rather strong feeling after a hint left in the PV for After-School Hanako-Kun, and I'm very happy that it turned out correct. There's not a mountain of stuff to cover, but I think it's important (and very interesting!) things that have the chance to be of importance to the Hanako-Kun remake!
So, let's talk details. How about starting with the PV? Lerche was a little sneaky, listing Studio Hibari in parentheses, but I caught it pretty quickly as I was chatting about the PV with a friend. You might think, "Oh, but Hibari is Lerche's parent company, it could have meant anything", and in a way you would have been right. Except, this is the first time Hibari was credited on a Lerche anime- period.
So, everybody already knew about the changes with lead director Masaomi Andou, and character designer Itou Mayuka not returning. What we didn't know is how good the character designs and direction would be. Well, turns out its good, very good.
Lots of little pieces of expression and character acting, as well as some solid direction, culminating in scenes like Nene digging Hanako out of the pile of Mokke.
Depth is actually something that lead director as well as episode director/storyboarder Kitamura Masaki plays at consistently throughout the episode, and it works really well. It puts in perspective how "flat" the first season of Hanako-Kun is, and how much it relied on color design to really bring the best out in it.
Conversely, expressions can struggle here and there compared to the first season. An inevitable fate that the anime would suffer due to Andou's departure considering how they literally use manga panels for their storyboards.
However, the slight differences in facial expressions is something I'll gladly eat if it means that the animation can get a much needed upgrade. Sure, it's not sakuga worthy every other second, but there's plenty of fun and well done cuts like these two Mokke sequences.
And we can owe that to the massive effort Hibari has put into cleaning up this series. Yeah, they essentially dedicated an entire staff dispatch for this first episode. All the first key animators are Hibari, as well as all but 3 for the second key animators. In betweens and other smaller roles for the episode have also been parted out a great deal to Hibari's Vietnam studio, creating a nearly full force effort from the parent to support its child. And it does wonders for the series.
I was intensely curious to see how this spinoff anime would go over with Lerche before this first episode, but now I'm incredibly excited to see how they decided to upgrade the manga they're adapting, and how this might reflect on the quality of the Hanako-Kun remake slated to release this year.
Banger first day of the Winter 2024 season. Every premiere except You Zitsu s3 was great. As usual, Lerche butchered that one 🤦🏽♂️ but Mahoako/Gushing Magical Girls and Tomozaki S2 were the clear faves. Ishura could be a dark horse of the season. Really interesting world, post apocalyptic.. we’re eating good.
I’ll as usual be doing write ups on here for seasonals, but given a lot of my posts don’t really get any love, I won’t be doing EVERY seasonal like I have for the last two seasons. For those you can check out my myanimelist and Reddit posts for. I’ll probably stick to the biggest and most popular shows on here since that’s what people like and reblog. Not worth 20 minutes looking for screenshots of an ep for 1 like lol.
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