#Shunsaku Ban

[blackjacksmemeclinic]

[tumatawart]

misc drawings of my favorite characters

[planefood]

It’s really distracting making posts here when my boy toy is staring at me from the side lines

[dweamofsweep]

Page of Metropolis (2001) storyboard studies! This is your reminder to study and learn from the art you love~

[snaileo]

@cookietastic asked me to turn the atb cast into muppets

[burakku-jakku]

Osamu Tezuka world entertainment square Astro Boy Christmas postcard (2003)

[thegabberwocky]

Some Star System actors furrifications I did back in January. I still really like these! Since it’s not very clear Hamegg is a fox/weasel hybrid thing.

[ham-edge]

Eh it's a -ber month so it's already the holidays

[astroboyart]

Team Phoenix Volumes 4 and 5 confirmed to have official English releases

Sources: Amazon, ThriftBooks

Listings for Team Phoenix manga Volumes 4 and 5, the final two volumes of Team Phoenix, have been posted on online stores that carry manga! Udon Entertainment is releasing Team Phoenix officially in English.

Volume 4 of Team Phoenix will release on May 7, 2024, while Volume 5 will release on July 16, 2024.

[tezuka-brainrot]

Sorry ATB fans, your series is really cute and wholesome. And I like the way it uses more obscure lore/characters like Hoshie or even what I'm sure is a Yamanoue expy. That's cool!

...But I'm not digging those redesigns. Ochanomizu and Higeoyagi should be fat. Tenma should always be running off cheep beer and two hours of sleep and staring at me with murderous intent.

[ryans-anime-blog]

Character descriptions from the japanese 2003 Astro Boy DVD

[blackjacksmemeclinic]

[yuuichis]

I don't remember where I found this but I think it's important to share this here

[maritimoid]

S1 E29 - Uran and the Famous Detective

[abuddyforeveryseason]

Don't look, Marion! It's the Buddy for April 12th! It's a gif! It's beautiful...

Today's Buddy was based on that famous scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, the bane of VCR rewind buttons everywhere, where the bad guy's face melts off.

That must've been a fun special effect to pull off. And I know I say a lot of movies are the best movie of all times, but, seriously, Raiders is the best movie of all times, right?

Spielberg and Lucas wanted to make a James Bond movie, but they were chased off into the sunset, so they decided to make their own version - a much cooler adventurer, not tied to those british spy novels and silly penguin suits.

A lot of people say a movie like the Indiana Jones series couldn't be made today. I mean, not another Indiana Jones movie, there's probably another sequel on the way. But giving a guy the equivalent of 1981's 20 million bucks to make an original movie, not based on IP, just an idea the dude had.

I don't know about that - after all, Rebel Moon just came out, and that movie shares a similar background to Raiders - famous director wanting to make a movie that's part of a famous franchise, gets rejected, makes his own edgier and pulpier version.

Sure, it sucked, but, still, it got done.

I don't really agree with a lot of the public discourse about modern movies. Probably because I'm very optimistic about popular movies. People complain about franchises and IP, but, I don't think it's a bad thing. Or at least, not necessarily a bad thing.

A good example is the best movie of all times, Eternals. It's a Marvel movie, yeah. But it's about obscure characters, and it allowed a auteur director to make an actual big-budget movie for a chance, something she'd never have a chance to do without Marvel's help. And it's an interesting story - the original comics were an interesting story too, despite their clumsy flaws.

Yet, everybody hated it. Especially people who never heard about those nobodies before - they were the ones complaining about the lack of new ideas in Hollywood. So that was the beginning of the end for Marvel.

I still think a lot of the criticism wasn't about the movie itself, but about Zhao choosing to "sell out" and make a sci fi movie, and a Marvel one at that.

Thankfully, it'll never happen again.

But, I don't know if we'll get a movie as good as Raiders again. It's a different world. And, I don't know, in a way, we don't need it. Kids can just watch Raiders instead of some director having to reinvent the wheel for a new generation. I don't get why every era needs to have its Star Wars, anyway. I mean, I do get it, it's because there's money in making new movies, even if they're just rehashes.

I read something online about the dangers of nostalgia, of people being obsessed with their youth. It ends up making their bitter towards the present day, it turns toxic. And it's easy to exploit - just keep shoveling out remakes, reboots, adaptations of the crap they loved when they were kids, and they'll keep buying. Suckers.

There are people like that (and a lot of them), yeah, but there are different issues to consider, too. One idea that a lot of people agree with is, a person's never too old to enjoy kids' stuff. We keep getting angry about adults enjoying cartoons, but, what's the harm, really? And yet, that can turn toxic too - a lot of douchebag complaining about "wokeness" in cartoons is the dark reflection of a refusal to grow up. As is the creepy obsession with sexualizing kids' cartoons.

Sometimes, it's better to accept that you're too old to enjoy something that wasn't made for you. It's better than to force it into that slot. Let the kids have their thing.

Despite all that, though, I still like some kiddy stuff, although I appreciate it in different levels. And I did like Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Old Indiana Jones was fun, it felt almost like a movie version of Mr. Mustachio from Osamu Tezuka stories.

[snaileo]

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