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That first group of 3 photos closely resembles the Galaxy Express 999 from the manga and anime!
Edit: According to a wiki page, the 999 locomotive design was based on the JNR C62 steam engine
Or combine all of them with Mars to make something approaching Earth’s volume.
MAGAts to start smashing windows and beer bottles before the 5G glass can give them COVID-19
What are these paper things with pictures and words? Why can’t I get on Facebook and Insta?
I first read that as “…confirmed to run for 2 straight hours. Starting on October 3, every Thursday.”
Astigmatism…
This was really good!
@glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone described the character dynamics perfectly.
I would only add that Kuroma’s name means Black Demon or Dark Demon.
The Kuma (bear) kaijin minions only being able to say “bear” resembles the vocabulary of a Pokemon.
I thought that Chizuko was going to get a sexy villainess costume, but I guess this show isn’t going there.
I wasn’t impressed by this.
The art is great and faithful to the manga, and keeping it in black and white preserved the look of the manga, some good framerates in the animation, but…
It felt static and lacking in filmmaking artistry, like they decided to animate manga panels, without zooming and panning and all the other stuff that films do, instead of taking advantage of the animation/filmmaking medium.
Also no soundtrack. Some atmospheric music could have made this a lot more effective, instead of presenting manga panels in almost-silence.
The narrative structure of flashbacks felt distracting: “Oh yeah, my father was obsessed like this…” I’m not sure if this is how the manga story is written.
Cultural note: The wooden tub…
spoiler
that they find the father curled up in a spiral inside resembles a traditional Japanese coffin/burial tub.
There was a show (that I can’t remember the name) where there was a serial kidnapper who kept their victims inside wood soy sauce fermenting vats that resemble larger versions of Japanese coffins.
