I've developed this weird feeling of not really wanting to post much about the things I really REALLY love because sharing that love opens up the possibility of replies sucking all my joy away.
Dave Bautista has been cast in ‘COOLER’ with Drew Pearce set to direct.
The action thriller follows a bouncer on the brink of redemption who must retrieve a stolen drug-filled safe before the police retrieve it.
(Source: Deadline)
The outpouring of love the
#FFXIV
community is showing Akira Toriyama right now is beautiful to see. Across multiple worlds, people are gathering in Ul'dah, home of the Pugilist guild, to pay tribute. So many
#DragonBall
cosplays, Slime hats and bards playing songs from the anime
The only 4:3 Blu-ray version of this is famously broken and stuck at 12fps. Kineko releasing their personal scan now allows people to experience this movie in wonderful quality with its intended full frame rate for the very first time. What a lovely gift.
Now that Super's all wrapped up, I thought I'd put together a grid of most of the animation supervisors' styles for this final arc. Took forever to collate, but it's cool seeing it all laid out. Be sure to view the full size image!
Thanks for tuning in! Nice to finally talk about the series to an extent, clarify some information, and put to bed a bunch of half-assed rumours. Excited to see Daima in full!
Man, remember when Dragon Ball's sound designer, Hidenori Arai, revealed he based the Super Saiyan aura sound on the noise of baby's heartbeats in the womb. That fucked me up real good.
As a part of the TotallyNotMark team, I wanna give a personal thank you to everyone for their overwhelming support in this unfortunate situation. To see people both in and out of this community stand together in solidarity is hugely appreciated, even if it may amount to nothing.
Is it lame to want Vegeta to end up with purple hair? Goku got that Whis vibe going on, and Toppo got all purpley with his GoD powers.
Have I become one of those fans wishing for more Power Ranger Saiyans? O lawd.
Unfortunately the Japanese Blu-ray for DBS Super Hero suffers from Toei's infamous incorrect colour space conversion issue, resulting in a green tint across the image throughout the entire film.
Hopefully the 4K version is okay, but my copy of that won't be here until Monday.
Teruyuki Omine didn't even work on today's episode and these stupid fucks are back to harassing him.
I have never in my life encountered a fandom as toxic and braindead as Titan fans. How on earth are they consistently this awful? Not even Dragon Ball fans are this shitty.
If you weren't aware, the people at
@seedofmight
recently dropped a fully colour-corrected version of the original Dragon Ball series.
I'm sure many of you are wondering how it is and how its first half compares to the recent AB Blu-ray that many have fallen in love with.
When the animator this spawned from explicitly said in his tweets that joining MAPPA was a mistake and he's leaving because of the shitty work conditions... then yes, they are quitting, not just moving on. Maybe don't twist things so you can feel better about a show you like?
Holy fucking shit. One Piece may have just had its absolute best animated sequence in the whole franchise, and at the very least, one of the most impressive things I've seen all year. That was ludicrous. A longrunning weekly anime just pulled that off?! Wild.
Boruto fans are so used to people attacking their show, they think someone finding a dinosaur amusing is somehow an insult to their franchise. Incredible, really.
Naruto has always been full of animals drawn from eastern mythology, a dinosaur is just a funny deviation from that.
demon slayer fandom = this is the greatest show ever made in the history of all anime (btw only seen 1 anime before)
MHA fandom = fucking bones how dare they make characters have BOOBS wtf is this garbage (btw todoroki is so fkin hot can u draw him shirtless and hella ripped ty)
Some more of Chikashi Kubota's character designs from DBS Super Hero. This time the scan comes from the movie pamphlets sold during the theatrical run in Japan.
Oh man, that's heartbreaking. Joseph Joestar, Mr Satan after Mr Gori passed, and of course Professor Oak. He voiced so many legendary characters. He'll be sorely missed.
Here’s a translation of the Toriyama interview included in the DBS: SH movie pamphlet (thanks to
@DBSuperFrance
for sharing!). Some of this Q&A already appeared on the film’s Twitter account, but it’s mostly new. Learn the unbelievably stupid reason behind the film’s title! (1/3)
I scanned the settei that were in the booklet that came with the DBS Super Hero Blu-ray. Here are Chikashi Kubota's character designs (Images 1 to 3) and Akira Toriyama's two illustrations (Image 4).
High res look at Naohiro Shintani's designs thanks to the lovely
@ErrenVanDuine
. Seriously impressed. Any fears I had about Vegeta's face are gone. Very happy.
"Fans" seriously harassed the director of the latest Titan ep to the point of him locking his account?! All because they didn't like a music choice. That's a new low.
You all have a right to an opinion but don't @ the guy.
Shoutouts to those sending him well wishes currently.
One of the nicest things about the Toriko x One Piece x Dragon Ball Z crossover making its way to US TV is that we can finally see Naotoshi Shida's artwork free of the ghosting Fuji TV added to appease broadcast motion regulations in Japan.
Just finished booruing Return of the Joker. That movie is a nutty sakugafest. Batman's TV eps were always so strong whenever they outsourced to TMS Entertainment in Japan. Hiroyuki Aoyama and Yoshinobu Michihata are amazing, and this movie is also animated entirely by TMS.
>The Killing Joke is literally one of the most popular comics of all time
>Being a failed clown/comic is a huge part of that
>Azzarello's Joker is hugely popular and Batman's barely a factor
>It's almost like it's an origin story set in the... PAST?!
Who is this person?
Is it lame to want Vegeta to end up with purple hair? Goku got that Whis vibe going on, and Toppo got all purpley with his GoD powers.
Have I become one of those fans wishing for more Power Ranger Saiyans? O lawd.
Dragon Ball: gets the best animated film the series has ever seen, is praised by fans and industry veterans around the world
Critics: actually this is bad
I'm not exaggerating when I say tonight's One Piece is just straight up one of the best animated action episodes of anime I've seen from a TV production. What the actual fuck. I'm speechless.
I'm posting no more than these shots. Go watch that once it hits streaming. Holy shit.
The end of the new One Piece special had a trailer for DBS Broly. Almost nothing was new except for an extended look at the CG fight.
[visions of Res F CG intensify]
Dubbing anime is hard enough when it's just basic open/closed mouth flaps, but Naruto has a lot of episodes with very specific lip-synced animation to the JP lines. The dub does a great job of rewriting the translation to match the mouth shapes while retaining the same meaning.
What are the worst aspects of your favourite series?
One Piece - Oda's terrible modern panelling and weak action
Naruto - Wildly inconsistent narrative quality and over-reliance on backstory dumps
Dragon Ball - Lack of emotional depth, and stagnant callbacks in modern material