#the grimm variations

[mrawkweird]

To absolutely no one's surprise I sold my soul for the millionth time.

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who's Hotter?" Category: That Women is a Tree and God Made Me a Squirrel.

By the way, I did not come up with the title that was in the request

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[hoshinochikara]

[hedgehogoftime]

Just watched "The Grimm Variations" on Netflix and I can't tell if my favorite episode is the Little Red Riding Hood episode where the wolf is a cyberpunk bishounen serial killer or the Bremen Town Musician episode where the main characters are a lesbian sci-fi cowboy throuple who adopt a lonely gremlin child before committing vigilante justice.

[torawro]

i like ‘em a little insane, covered in blood and severely mentally unstable <3

[khyann]

THEY YASSIFIED THE GRIMM BROTHERS????

[animenekos]

Grimm Kumikyoku; The Grimm Variations - Episode 5

[faline-cat444]

This made me decide to do some minor research on the rough time setting we were supposed to view the episode on.As for the actual reality of the eightieth Akutagawa Award/Prize...

Meanwhile for Naoki:

The year would be 1978 for all of this

The Grimms also cameoed as journalists in the paparazzi

[mrawkweird]

The fact that they cast some of the people that they did for this Hansel & Gretel episode really said "Nah; you ain't imagining things. The Promised Neverland was my shit".

[beautifulsummersunsets]

Now that I have finished watching "Grimm Variations" on netflix, allow me to express my opinion of each chapter with these brief words:

1) Cinderella: Oh! So good! This is looking awesome! 😀

2) Little Red Riding Hood: OH MY GOD! NOO! STOP! OH MY GOD! 😨😱

3) Hansel & Gretel: Please don't smoke funny weed during working hours. Thank you. 😑

4) The Elves and the Shoemaker: Not bad, I like this adaptation. 🤔

5) The Town Musicians of Bremen: GO! GO! LESBIANS! 😁

6) Pied Piper of Hamelin: Please don't smoke funny weed or consume substances of questionable origin during working hours. Thank you very much x2. 😑🤦🏻‍♀️

[skinteresting-enough]

I watched all episodes of The Grimm Variations, which released on Netflix earlier today. Here's my ranking, starting from the bottom:

6: The Elves and the Shoemaker. Setting is modern day Japan, which I'm not particularly interested in, and there aren't that many fantastical elements. The characters are pretty boring too.

5: Hansel and Gretel. This one is more due to the fact that I feel it diverges too much from the source material, particularly the ending. It feels like it could stand on its own, away from this anthology, but someone decided to tack the names Hansel and Gretel onto it, just to make it fit. Does earn some points for its sci-fi setting though.

4: The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The animation is pretty, as expected from a director who used to work for Ghibli. I do feel it loses some of that Clamp edge, though. The piper himself is an interesting character, and Maria is probably the best protagonist of the bunch. On the other hand, that teacher is probably my most detested character out of the entire anthology. Creep. The setting is a medieval village where fun is basically outlawed, and with that I'm sure you can guess how the piper lures Maria away.

3: Cinderella. The setting is Japan from I'm guessing from when it had just opened its borders to the western world? Not modern-modern, but not ancient either. Kiyoko (Cinderella) herself is a very strong villainess. I also like the outfits that the stepsisters wear. This story is probably also the most effective at the "what if [main character] was evil?" You can see why most people believe that Kiyoko is not evil, but considering we mainly see things from the stepsisters' point of view, Kiyoko's evil does become pretty obvious.

2: The Town Musicians of Bremen. On the surface, this one probably diverges from its source material the most, what with making the main characters humans instead of animals. But beyond that, it sticks to the story pretty closely. I like the character designs from this one the most, and the setting is interesting, kind of a sci-fi wild west pastiche.

1: Little Red Riding Hood. I like the setting from this one the best, a far future where the lines between reality and the virtual are blurry. The wolf, Gray, is an interesting villain for very much favoring the real to the artificial, which is usually what you'd expect for the heroes of these settings. Though it seems Scarlet also prefers the real to the virtual, so it doesn't feel like it's making a moral judgment on those darn kids who can't live without their phones or whatever. (Also Scarlet can stuff my stomach full of gemstone-lookalikes anytime.)

And there you have it! Feel free to reblog this to add your own ranking of these episodes, or just talk about the series in general.

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