#summertime render

[animepopheart]

★ 【TID】 「 shin 」 ✔ reprinting permitted (5.8.25) ☆ follow btt’s fanart twitch stream!

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[von-leg]

Color wheel meme I never posted here !! The theme was underated mangas that I need everyone to read rn.

[aloleeart]

Read summertime rendering 👀

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

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[marril96]

Summer Time Rendering 1.25

[thefigureresource]

Hizuru Minakata [Summer Time Rendering] non scale from Union Creative coming October 2024.

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Ushio kofune – Summertime Render

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[necroangelz]

my idea of heaven that i see is a slice of you staring up at me !!

day 2 of @gluttonykinedits’ event

“ a character that reminds you of the sin of gluttony. ”

HIMIKO TOGA & HAINE GRAPHICS! my friend gave me two ideas for this event and i wanted to do both!

rambling + still photos under the cut. like/rb and creds appreciated!

NOW PLAYING: You Always Eat The One You Love by Scary Bitches !!

"angel! this event is ending in 2 days! and u still have 5 prompts left to do! why are you still deciding to do the prompts even though you don't have much time and motivation and you have so much shit to do!"

i am very stubborn and not very wise. ok?

so yeah idrk much about toga since i never watched MHA but she looks so cool i love the concept of her character. also the "am i cute?" panel haunted my twitter tl for weeks back when it went trending

as for Haine she's from this anime called summertime render which i watched a few years ago, i don't remember much about the story anymore because it had some freaky time traveling stuff going on but i deeply enjoyed the series

okay here's the stills for the toga graphic

honestly i was planning to make more but i didn't. i might make those some other time but not now

[thornheartcat]

The worst thing about Disney being the ones who got Summer Time Rendering is that they refused to simulcast it in North America, killing the hype the series would naturally have garnered if they had, and then unceremoniously dumped it onto Hulu without so much as a tweet to announce it, so no one knew it was there even when it finally WAS available.

The second worst thing is the knowledge that they will never ever ever in a million years give that shit a physical release because that is how little they fucking care about the anime they license, which breaks my heart because I love this series so much I would pay out the ass for a limited edition Blu-Ray set with like a soundtrack and an artbook and shit.

The third worst thing is that because they killed any and all knowledge of the series' existence and thus any chance at success it may have had, they also killed any chance that we'll see an official release of the visual novel, Summer Time Rendering: Another Horizon. Tie-in games for shows like KonoSuba and Re:Zero and DATE A LIVE and even Quintessential fucking Quintuplets get English releases these days because their anime are successful and prove there is a market for them, but since Summer Time Rendering wasn't the big hit it would've been if Disney hadn't fucked it, there's no proof there's a market for Another Horizon, so it'll never get officially translated, and the fanbase is so small even a fan translation seems unlikely, so I'll never get to play it, even though I'm sure it's good!

The fourth worst thing is that I now have no one to talk to about how good it is because no one else fucking watched it.

The fifth worst thing is I had to pirate it even though my family has Hulu because Disney adamantly refuses to actually subtitle most of their anime, going for closed captions instead, which I cannot fucking watch because I find [waves crashing] and [gasping] to be really fucking distracting. Like, I'm super glad closed captioning is an option for the people who need it, but I want a plain subtitle option that just translates the dialogue, goddammit! Why is every fucking series Disney has picked up (other than Undead Unluck for some reason???) like this??? JUST GIVE ME A FUCKING REGULAR SUBTITLE OPTION, DISNEY, I WANT TO SUPPORT THE OFFICIAL RELEASE BUT YOU ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE

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[okayto]

Mini-Review: Summer Time Rendering

To attend the funeral of his best friend and part of the family that took him in after his parents died, Shinpei returns to his small island home for the first time in two years. Hearing whispers that her body showed bruises around her neck inconsistent with the story of a tragic drowning while rescuing a child in the ocean, Shinpei becomes suspicious. There may be something brewing under the surface of this warm summer...

This is the perfect show as the northern hemisphere heads into summer: atmospheric, intriguing, balancing action and mystery.

STR first piqued my interested when I saw it referred to repeatedly as a show that didn't get the attention it deserved (a reviewer for Anime News Network referred to it as "among the best anime of 2022") due to being locked in "the Disney+ jail."

And having watched it, I agree: if this had been on a bigger anime-watching platform and released (in the US, at least) close to when it came out in Japan, it absolutely would've made a bigger splash. For some inscrutable reason, Disney got the rights but didn't release this in the US until months after it finished its run in Japan, without fanfare as a Hulu exclusive.

The upside to this is that you can more easily go in blind, and this is a show that benefits from knowing as little as possible ahead of time. Watching it weekly would've been an experience, but it lends itself to bingeing, as each episode advances the story--and mystery--even more, leaving the viewer hooked and hungry for answers.

That does, of course, make it difficult to talk about specific things I liked! The mystery is suspenseful, but it keeps up a good pace, balancing revealing more of what's going on with introducing even more questions. There wasn't a single episode where I got frustrated because it felt like the show was just playing up the tension; you're right there with Shinpei piecing things together, even if the thing is just "I can affect this even if I don't know what the outcome is."

Shinpei is a good main character, intelligent but not overbearing, and balanced with a cast that can variously match or surpass him in strength, intelligence, and relevant skills; if it weren't for the Plot Reason he's the protagonist, this would have just as well worked as an equal-ensemble show. Even Ushio, whose death was the catalyst for Shinpei's return, plays an active role in the story, helping prevent this from just being about a boy doing stuff in sad service to the memory of a dead girl.

As Shinpei uncovers more information about what happened, and through judicious use of flashbacks, Ushio's character develops, and she is a great character. In a show where scenes are sometimes sorting through the equivalent of two simultaneous chess games, it's nice to have at least one character who, while not stupid, uses her scenes to be refreshingly straightforward.

Verdict

English dub? Yes!

Visuals: Very nice! The story takes place equally during the day and after dark, as well as in a variety of locations, and it does a good job setting the stage, as well as balancing darkness and the need for the viewers to actually see things.

Worth watching? Absolutely. It's 25 episodes and uses all of them, neither feeling like it's dragging things out nor moving too fast. And despite its length, you don't have to wait until the final episodes to get any answers--Shinpei starts working things out quickly, and so the viewer does too. It's a solid suspenseful action show, and it was quickly obvious to me why I'd seen so many people say Disney did it dirty with its bizarre release.

Where to watch (USA, May 2024): Hulu (sub and dub)

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Anime : Too many loosing heroines

[my-anime-goods]

Summertime Render (Summer Time Rendering) - 1/7 Ushio Kofune Figure by Good Smile Arts Shanghai. Release: January 2025