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  1. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Fancy Lala - episode 2 Remember, girls, don't go with the first person on the street who offers you a "screen test", go with the second. Considering how positively the show portrays Miho being talked into a swimsuit photo-shoot, I dread to think what the other creep had in mind for her. Again...
  2. Dai

    Overseas The Discotek Media Thread (plus AnimEigo)

    New Animeigo licences. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-02-10/animeigo-announces-black-jack-ovas-romeo-blue-skies-vampire-princess-miyu-hd-sasuke/.221080
  3. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Fancy Lala - episode 1 I've only seen half of this series so far, so I don't know if the opening dream sequence is prophetic, a past life memory, both, or neither. I'm suspicious that the two self-proclaimed "something like fairies" have dinosaur-like features similar to the two kaiju in the...
  4. Dai

    The News Thread (for news that does not need a thread)

    The Roboco movie is putting together an all-star cast for its alternate universe Robocos. I hope Crunchyroll pick this up. Based on how few people watched the series it seems unlikely to ever get a physical release in English...
  5. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Including the R movie in the watchlist was perhaps a misstep on my part. On the one hand it was the easiest way to see a self-contained story with all of the core Sailor Moon cast and formula in place, but based on people's reaction it seems that the story hits harder if the viewer is already...
  6. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Cardcaptor Sakura - episode 1 Gonna catch you catch you, catch me catch me, catch 'em catch 'em, gotta catch em all, Clow Cards. This show ticks a lot of standard magical girl boxes with its monster-of-the-week formula, cuddly mascot (though I've always found Kero's design and personality a...
  7. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Stock transformation and attack animation sequences are used heavily in Sailor Moon, with only season 4 being the exception. It was a common tactic for smoothing out production schedules back when studios were doing 40-50 episode seasons of anime. You don't always get all the transformations...
  8. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    There's a trope in shonen battle manga and tokusatsu where the enemy needs to be softened up and rendered immobile so the heroes can use a finishing move that leaves them vulnerable while it's charging up. In Sailor Moon, the other guardians soften up the enemy and Usagi is the stationary cannon...
  9. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    You're not wrong, but the show gets a lot more mileage from the formula than you would think, especially once the team starts to fill out. I'd say the show really takes off around episode 10 when Rei is introduced, since she's another strong personality (and sometimes lovestruck idiot) for Usagi...
  10. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Sailor Moon - episode 2 Ye shall know a delinquent by the bread he eats in front of his teacher. Umino gets a not-too-flattering turn in the spotlight this time. Meanwhile Usagi proves what we already knew; the ladies can't resist a guy who's good at videogames. In typical Usagi fashion she...
  11. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    I haven't read all of the manga, but that's my understanding of it. The art in the Sailor Moon manga is beautiful, and has that poised and elegant feel of classical shojo. The Sailor Moon Crystal anime remake was apparently much more faithful to the manga, and the resulting drier tone is part of...
  12. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Sailor Moon - episode 1 "You can't solve anything by crying, Sailor Moon." [proceeds to cry so hard that she incapacitates the villain and a room full of hypnotised zombies] It's all too easy to be dismissive of Sailor Moon because, at a glance, it looks like magical girl shows in general...
  13. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    I think that element originated in Akko-chan's Secret in the 60s, sadly another show that we can't get our hands on legally in the west.
  14. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Thunder in Paradise (with Hulk Hogan), though there may have been another black speedboat show before that.
  15. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    It's a shame that's not straightforward to watch without a VPN, but fortunately we will be picking up one of Studio Pierrot's later magical idol shows when we get to Fancy Lala next week. Minky Momo - episode 3 It's probably not a coincidence that an episode where Momo barely appears until the...
  16. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Out of curiosity I had a look on Mandarake to see what kind of merchandise there was for this show. So much. So much merch. Everything from sketchbooks and pendants to jewelry boxes and toy hairdryers. This was also the moment I discovered that Hideaki Anno drew a doujin called Godzilla vs...
  17. Dai

    What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

    DECULTURE! Do you remember the time... we had to wait 30 years for a new release of Macross: Do You Remember Love in English? The good news is it's a solid translation. If anything it clarified a couple of important lines of dialogue that were poorly worded in Kiseki's VHS release. Visually the...
  18. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Back when "black vehicle" was a genre. Knight Rider! Airwolf! Street Hawk! The one with the boat! Minky Momo - episode 2 This kind of pacing continues in episode 2 as we somehow go through Momo training a dog, tricking a fairly sus photographer, visiting Africa, and becoming a celebrity model...
  19. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    Minky Momo - episode 1 The general lack of accessible western releases for early anime meant we had to take a long leap from Princess Knight, so with Minky Momo we see most of the recognisable magical girl iconography in place. Toyetic magical device? Check. Naked transformation sequence...
  20. Dai

    Magical girl retrospective - simulwatch starts 1st Feb 2025

    They could turn them into horsegirls who give people piggyback rides. That wouldn't even be the weirdest thing in this show.
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