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[aeskairo]

I love how in this panel he's just walking through this couples bedroom, stepping all over their tatami mats with his shoes on.

He's clearly uncomfortable and stroking his hair. Trying to not make eye contact and keep his eyes forward. It's okay because Hijikata did it too... he tells himself.....out loud.

He's not even hurrying. Just taking this time, walking through.

Adorable

[aeskairo]

Hello!

I’ve recently gotten into Golden Kamuy (literally days ago) and I love your analysis on the manga! I haven’t gotten very far into the series but I love it so far!

I was curious to know what your opinions are on the live action, anime and the manga overall if you are okay with sharing!

Thank you!!

Manga: Great.

Anime: I've not seen it

Live Action Movie: If you've not read the series, it's unwatchable.

If you HAVE read the series.... it's still unwatchable.

Live Action Series: I've not seen it.....dissappointed by movie

Live Action Movie Unwatchable Reasons:

Actor choice

Asirpa and Sugimoto look the same age.

Sugimoto is way younger than he needs to be and Asirpa is way older.

The result is that these two main characters are both in their early twenties. And so entire tone of the movie takes on a pocahontas-like story with a young Japanese man meeting a young indigenous women and her showing him her world.

Nowhere is it made clear that they are supposed to be vastly different in age.

In the scene where Sugimoto visits Asirpa's village for the first time, Kuci asks Sugimoto to marry her and it looks natural and reasonable because she looks like the age where she needs to be married.

This is terrible. And the kicker is, that in a flashback with Asirpa and Retar, they actually have a young child after who is about 12 years old acting as Asirpa. So why couldn't they keep that actress instead? She is clearly a young child where's the regular actress is clearly a woman.

All of this sets up a clear Sugimoto x Asirpa angle that is.....not what was originally intended.

The camera work is up terrible.

It's really not on par with what you'd expect from even TV series, or even tiktok videos. Most parts of this movie look like amateurish home video or a cosplay skit shot by fans

The movie is dominated by tons of fight scenes that were either extremely lengthened or not even in the original.

The fighting is pointless, feels tedious and also badly shot.

For example, in this scene where sugimoto escapes on the sled, he fights Tsukishima for around 5 minutes on the back of the moving sled in a martial arts style fight, and then Tsukishima falls off and Nikado hops on and Sugimoto fights Nikaido for another 10 minutes on the sled.

So you're just sitting there for 15 minutes of a badly shot fight that does nothing for the story. There are fights like these all over the movie and this time could have been used to introduce or develop characters.

Characters are just randomly introduced with no context.

Hijikata shows up on a horse. His name flashes on screen.

Who the fuck is he? We don't know.

Ushiyama shows up. It's never mentioned or even hinted at that he's good at Judo. The pacing is really fast and disjointed. None of the characters backgrounds are gone into or even introduced.

The acting is terrible.

Tsurumi isn't menacing or creepy, he's goofy....

What makes his character so interesting is that he is brilliant, strategist but also has these bizarre unhinged moments that puts the normal person off. So the out of left field behaviors unsettle the viewer.

But in the movie the serious moments are not very serious so he comes across as goofy and incompetent. Reminiscent of Dr Robotnik in Sonic the hedgehog. Like a campy villain rather than a brilliant one.

I watched this movie with my family.

I thought it might have been a good oppurtunity to get them into GK, as we are military history enthusiasts, and have a pre-existing interest in the Russo-Japanese war and this period of history in general.

ALAS.......

The movie was terrible and after watching the fam was convinced that:

1. Shiraishi is the main antagonist.

2. Asirpa and Sugimoto will become a couple.

3. Looking for the gold is the directive of the entire Japanese military and government, beccause the separation of Tsurumi from the Imperial army itself was not clear. So this was a rage against the machine kind of story.

4. Sugimoto's motivations were unclear. Toraji was so briefly introduced that we don't really know what the relationship between Sugi, Toraji and Umeko even are and how they feel about each other.

[aeskairo]

So these panels were redrawn for the book release. Here's both of them together.

I'm disappointed that the original panels were changed in this case, because originally they had a much greater range of emotion.

Look how excited and anticipatory he is in the first panel and the immediate downer in the second panel.

We were robbed of THIS expression and it's such a shame.

https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/97690374

The author literally decided his original kill-boner was too much and decided to dial it back a bit.

[aeskairo]

This is incredible

(speedpaint)

[aeskairo]

The redrawn version of the scene almost looks like it's part of the same scene, only seconds apart.

[aeskairo]

I love the way you draw him. His little beard especially.

I also love how the main picture is him looking stressed and uncomfortable at his birthday being celebrated,....because of course he would.

He has no idea what to do with all this...love, so he just stress grooms.

This guy....😭❤

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OGATA ♥

[aeskairo]

fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

[aeskairo]

The VIZ translations that everybody keeps posting on these Every-characterX picture blogs are terrible.

I am a beginning Japanese learner and even I can tell that they are terrible. It feels like they outsourced the translations to contractors outside the US that maybe don't speak English as their native language?

AI does a better job than this.

[aeskairo]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[aeskairo]

Koito's Father is Proud of Him

Usami blushingly strokes his tattoos in the mirror

Tanigaki's button has popped off and hit Ariko in the face.

Ogata that one child in the corner of the room being happy playing by himself.

Look at him being all pleased...in the corner over there.... in his own little world not interacting with anyone else.

[aeskairo]

I love subtle hilarity of this panel because he writes "尾形逃げた" Ogata escaped/ran along the edge of his drawing.

But he writes it in Katakana for Vasiliys benefit. "オガタニゲタ"

Katakana is used to express foreign words, and the Vasily is foreign so we gotta to do this so he'll understand it.

But Katakana is still japanese. It's sort of like writing English in an Asian looking font. It's still english and not understandable to someone who doesn't speak that language.

To Vasily, these symbols on the edge of the paper might as well be decorative patterns or something.

Vasily does not actually find out Ogata's name until way later in Sapporo .

[aeskairo]

I keep wondering how things would have turned out if Ogata didn't do anything and simply allowed nature to take its course.

Let's be real, if Ogata had not shot him, Yuusaku would have been killed probably within the next 10 minutes anyway.

[aeskairo]

"Little brother day match"

March 6th is apparently a day in Japan that celebrates little brothers.

I just like this so much. I have ALWAYS wanted to see a picture like this. Yuusaku with Ogata's hairstyle. Them walking around as Ogata and MUCHLARGER!Ogata.

[aeskairo]

So.... Ogata refers to Yuusaku as Yuusaku-dono. Dono is the suffex for Master. So Ogata is positioning himself as a subordinate by using this title.....

Okay....but isn't it REALLY WEIRD that he refers to Yuusaku by his first name? Isnt that already inappropriately familiar?

Yuusaku's last name is Hanazawa.

Ogata calling him Yuusaku would be like if he referred to Sugimoto as Saichi or Koito as Otonoshin.

Like..... Shiraishi constantly refer to everyone as -chan and even he is not going as far as to refer anybody by their first name.

Why is this? Has anyone actually thought about this?

[aeskairo]

I saw the Ogata variation of this Meme and I have to share it

[aeskairo]

It is hilarious that this group decided to participate in these cage matches at all, because THEY ARE THE RANGE TEAM!!

This group consists entirely of long range fighters, and the other groups at this point consistent entirely of close combat fighters.

Kiro fights primarily using explosives. Ogata is deadly ONLY IF he's over 300 meters away. He has a zero win track record in close combat. He's never even been able to punch someone out. Even Asirpa primarily uses archery.

#TeamDistanceIsDeadly #ClosenessNotSoMuch #CripplingOverspecialization #PunchesLike4LittleGirls

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