Realist Hero had really weird pacing:
Episodes 1 to 8 - book 1
Episodes 9 to the middle of 12 - book 2
The remaining one and a half episodes - one third of book 3
A full second season of presumably 13 episodes - the remainder of book 3 and book 4
Can
somebody explain me why? It ended literally in the middle of nowhere
like that, not even a cliffhanger, just one bland "wait, that's it?"
right after introducing a new character. And book 2 is mostly
descriptions of fighting, so 5 episodes would have been mostly enough
for it. But with just 3.5 episodes it's rushed as fuck.
I mean, I'm
not complaining. I expected them to get all four books in 13 episodes,
making everything way more rushed, so even 3.5 episodes is beyond my
expectations. I just fail to see any logic in adapting the first book
properly, then for some reason upping the pacing significantly. Let's
say they will spend some time fleshing out the rushed bits of book 3 in
S2, after all they have nearly 8 episodes per book for each of book 3
and 4. But why book 2 specifically getting the scissors?
Or, like, do
they intend to adapt more than books 1-4? The author himself says that
books 1-4 were the original arc that he intended to write, so everything
afterwards is just bonus material. It makes no sense to include
anything more than them.
I'm genuinely baffled by this decision.
That
being said, Mao voicing the tanuki is pure pleasure, and getting to
hear the blue trash sing the actual song Give a Reason absolutely made
the anime for me.
[2:14 PM] It's me: using studios to describe things will never not get annoying. Preferred if people or cultural terms are used to and referred to describe things
[2:15 PM] erejnion: sometimes it's the only correct way however
[2:15 PM] It's me: Nah. There's probably a term established by the culture for that
[2:16 PM] erejnion: nope
[2:17 PM] It's me: If you take into account Disney then probably so
[2:18 PM] erejnion: 2000's Shaft is a combination of a peculiar superflat artstyle that came around as a combination from Shinbo and Oonuma and several of the other creatives there, a characteristic use of severe cost-cutting methods in the most creative way possible, and a tendency to overload the screen - with references in the background, or 4th wall breaking stuff in the foreground, and so on.
[2:19 PM] It's me: Yeah that's rather unique
[2:19 PM] erejnion: it's a deliberate style produced by several of the staff in Shaft back in these years, specifically for the sake of Shaft
[2:19 PM] erejnion: then the last decade we saw a lot of shows by other companies that were more Shaft-like than the actual Shaft shows, lol
[2:21 PM] It's me: Why aren't you making a treatise about it?
[2:21 PM] erejnion: I find it so obvious that the above is practically all I can say about it
[2:21 PM] erejnion: it's not like I've researched any of the inner workings of the studio, lol
[2:23 PM] It's me: You gonna take this idea with you to the grave huh.
[2:23 PM] erejnion: eh, the Shaft fandom knows it
[2:23 PM] erejnion: like the dude I linked you
[2:23 PM] It's me: I guess describing art is as difficult as describing psychosexuality
[2:24 PM] erejnion: https://fufufu.moe/a/res/32085.html#32394 this guy definitely gets it
[2:26 PM] It's me: Yeah but there's not much to go on unless one has the context.
[2:28 PM] erejnion: true
[2:28 PM] erejnion: you know what will happen now that you've convinced me this should exist somewhere on the internet?
[2:29 PM] erejnion: I'll just copy paste this chat in my blog
[8:08 PM] erejnion: I want Sugita to pep talk me
[8:09 PM] hellraiser: I already had a whole year of Sugita gracing me with his beautiful voice
[8:09 PM] erejnion: you can do one more year, I'm sure
[8:10 PM] hellraiser: https://youtu.be/BQKIwAZWXhc?t=26
[8:10 PM] hellraiser: it won't be the same
[8:11 PM] erejnion: it's quite similar
[8:11 PM] erejnion: Sugita is now too lazy to do other voices, it seems
[8:11 PM] hellraiser: why try when you've reached the top?
[8:12 PM] erejnion: yeah
[3:47 PM] hellraiser: https://youtu.be/O6v0Y4_UNOs
[3:48 PM] hellraiser: so it's supposed to be in the same world as Akudama Drive?
[3:48 PM] hellraiser: no wonder they needed super police there
[3:48 PM] hellraiser: even baseball can kill you
[3:49 PM] erejnion: not enough moon tits
[3:49 PM] erejnion: dropped
[3:50 PM] erejnion: I literally read the title as "Drive Night"
[3:50 PM] erejnion: close enough
[3:50 PM] erejnion: I've done worse with katakana
[3:52 PM] hellraiser: yup
[3:52 PM] erejnion: I'd watch the shit out of Drive Night
[3:52 PM] erejnion: it sounds like some 80s aesthetics shit
[3:53 PM] erejnion: Dirty Pair ending style
[3:53 PM] hellraiser: it sounds like that VN where two terminally ill patients steal a car and go on a drive through Japan
[3:53 PM] hellraiser: and their goal is to go to the sea early before dawn
[3:53 PM] erejnion: now I know what the author of Super Cub copied
[3:54 PM] hellraiser: sounds logical
[3:54 PM] hellraiser: both have that ''always put yourself first and have fun'' attitude
[9:36 PM] erejnion: I will either start liking "ikitterutte kanji" by the end of this anime or I will kill myself
[9:37 PM] hellraiser: you have 35 episodes more to start liking it
[9:37 PM] hellraiser: kirayaba was only less bad because of the random translations
[9:38 PM] erejnion: nah, that was fine
[9:38 PM] erejnion: the random translations made it fun
[9:38 PM] hellraiser: astro nuts
[9:38 PM] erejnion: bucchake arienai was godlike
[9:38 PM] hellraiser: Precure will never top Nagisa
[9:39 PM] hellraiser: even the one voiced by Koshimizu wasn't as good
[9:40 PM] erejnion: few characters ever top Nagisa, after all
[9:40 PM] hellraiser: some day there'll be a proper Mahou Shoujo crossover game
[9:41 PM] hellraiser: and Nagisa will meet Hibiki
[9:41 PM] hellraiser: and they'll add the Precure Hibiki too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHh0ui5mi_E
First die:
Second die:
There might be more elegant solutions but I think the above is fairly easy to remember overall. You need to remember only the combinations with 6 as first die.
[2:02 PM] hellraiser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpF4MoeeBVI
[2:02 PM] hellraiser: this style is really cool
[2:03 PM] erejnion: dekorite sa srsbsns
[2:04 PM] hellraiser: ideq si nqmam kak se e rodil toq stil
[2:04 PM] hellraiser: i to to4no v na4aloto na kinoto
[2:04 PM] hellraiser: desetina godini pone sa go polzvali
[2:04 PM] erejnion: predpolagam kopirat pone neshto ot teatura
[2:04 PM] hellraiser: sigurno
[2:04 PM] erejnion: ama ne e kato da znam osobeno za teatura back then
[2:06
PM] hellraiser: The German Expressionist movement was initially
confined to Germany due to the isolation the country experienced during
World War I. In 1916, the government had banned foreign films. The
demand from theaters to generate films led to an increase in domestic
film production from 24 films in 1914 to 130 films in 1918. With
inflation also on the rise, Germans were attending films more freely
because they knew that their money's value was constantly diminishing.
[2:06 PM] erejnion: that's a weird consequence
[2:06 PM] hellraiser: i ne pishe nishto za samiq stil
[2:07 PM] hellraiser: ok, pishe
[2:07 PM] hellraiser: 4e poneje ne sa imali pari
[2:07 PM] hellraiser: sa kompensirali kato sa pravili vsi4ko da izglejda nerealisti4no
[2:08 PM] hellraiser: i sa si risuvali daje senkite po poda i stenite
[2:08 PM] erejnion: damn
[2:08 PM] hellraiser: eto, pesteneto ot projektori vodi do ART
[2:08 PM] erejnion: this is the Shaft thing
[2:08 PM] erejnion: pestish ot pari, investirash v narkotici
[2:08 PM] hellraiser: Japan expressionist anime
[2:09 PM] hellraiser: that also explains 90s Shinbo doing Obari levels of shadows everywhere
[2:09 PM] erejnion: PPD pone ne pesteshe ot prozhektori
[2:09 PM] hellraiser: in my mind it's the most animated Shaft show
[2:09 PM] erejnion: yeah
[2:09 PM] erejnion: it is
