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the other half of this is when there are fanarts that outline isami’s hair w green

fanarts that imply bravern’s horns are yellow bc smith is blonde is the cutest shit in the world

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semi related tho is that i’m genuinely SO surprised that another ssss project wasn’t announced at the griduni show? like????? wtf else is trigger working on after pantystocking then LMAO

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last reblog so true but why are ppl comparing it to d* nmeshi in the notes 😩 i know they both got the trigger stamp on them but those are FULLY different productions LMFAO

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Do you think Kill la Kill could've benefited from being less horny and over the top, or would it just be more boring?

I mean, the excessive juvenile horniness of the show is definitely a valid reason to dislike it, and not to want to engage with it, but if you get rid of it you basically get rid of its reason to exist.

KLK is about sexuality, shame, body acceptance, coming of age, puberty, and how especially teenagers' bodies are structurally commodified and abused by systems of social control. You kinda can't cut the horny, fucked-up sexual weirdness out of that without fundamentally altering what the thing is.

There's a serious critical discussion to have about building a church with the devil's tools - whether or not the visual language of horny-ass ecchi anime can meaningfully be deployed to tell KLKs story without fatally undercutting it. KLK wants to comment on the commodification and hypersexualization of teenage girls' bodies, but it also very gleefully indulges in those tropes as spectacle, and positions appropriation of them as a form of empowerment, and while I think that on balance it ultimately does work as a story, and I find it compelling, that's also a valid place of criticism, and a valid reason to reject the story or find it distasteful or beyond the pale.

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"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way

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NOT THE TTGL MOVIE DUBS BEING $136????????????

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fanarts that imply bravern’s horns are yellow bc smith is blonde is the cutest shit in the world

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watching braeburn with the pals. one of them is like “i think i saw some spoiler fanart. certain characters were aligned with others” cue me going oh god oh fuck oh no until they’re like “yeah it was isami w chibi bravern and smith w chibi superbia so i think smith pilots superbia” LMFAO

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worth it.

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Innocence

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assorted gundam doodles; some requests, some not. second part to come soon!

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anyways WHEN are they gonna make the bravern body pillow

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スミイサルルは……いいぞ…………

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I've been thinking so much about Obari's decision to also be sound director on Bravern and how it meant he got to do things like pull Bravern's voice actor Suzumura Kenichi aside after episode 1 (in front of everyone else!) to tell him that Bravern was Smith and also forbidding him to tell any of the other actors, so that he could play Bravern as someone who is himself Playing a Role and that role is I'm Definitely Not Lewis Smith-

but also so that Smith's voice actor Azakami Youhei would authentically be playing him as a guy who had *absolutely no clue* that he was going to become Bravern. He says in the Animage interview that when he found out from the episode 9 script, his initial reaction was "oh no, should I rerecord all my lines??" but eventually realized that it was better this way

(but I also just really enjoy imagining suzuken sitting there like :$ while everybody else was excitedly speculating on what Bravern's deal could possibly be)

but at the same time it meant he was also free to be inspired by the voice actors - I'd already heard about the "What is that song that keeps playing?!" line being an adlib, and in the Animage interview Obari talks about how he said to himself that if he can't include adlibs from the actors then what's the point of being sound director.

and my favorite detail related to that: he decided that the actor's immediate reactions were a good hint to how their characters would react, so while he'd originally planned to have Bravern play his theme song during every fight, after the "What's that song?!" adlib, Obari decided that Bravern wouldn't do it anymore bc Isami didn't like it. And everything about that is adorable to me.

(It also makes me really happy that Suzuken considered going for* the Smith role as well, but decided that as a robot lover he couldn't pass up the chance to be a robot, thus proving that he is, in fact, Smith)

*initial version of this post said "auditioned" but looking at the interview again I'm not sure that's strictly accurate so I've made my statement more vague