#yankī

[readtilyoudie]

LOVE'S IN SIGHT! VOLUME 2

[toxicyaoilover]

little minor rant here but

man. anime only watchers are missing out on so much. so many of kuboyasu's shitty yankī references that i love just. either arent properly explained in the anime or just flat out arent there

[katsona-the-katsequel]

Persona Timeline Pt. 2: 1996-1998

This part covers SMT: if... and Persona 1. I went with the Reiko route for If..., since that felt like the one with the most lore sharing and resolution. More loyal to Tamaki's character. Yumi's route will remain canon only to Nobu.

1996

January 19

- Kanji Tatsumi was born (Game: Persona 4).

Between February and March

- Reiji transferred to St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

? ??

- Stephen uploaded the Demon Summoning Program into Karukozaka's computers in hopes of finding the messiah (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if... / Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if... Hazama's Chapter).

- The students of Karukozaka ignored the Demon Summoning Program, thinking it was a prank (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if... Hazama's Chapter).

- Knowing Maki had a crush on him, Chisato began to date Naito, only to actually fall in love with him (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

April ??

- Tamaki and Reiko began attending Karukozaka High School (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).

- Tadashi began attending St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Elly transferred to St. Hermelin High School (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

Between April and August

- Yukki was reformed from her yankī ways by Saeko (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Hazama created the first COMP to better use the Demon Summoning Program (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if... Hazama's Chapter).

- Using the COMP, Hazama tried to summon a demon to school, accidentally ending up in the Expanse (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if... Hazama's Chapter).

- Hazama took over the Expanse as the Demon Emperor, refusing to hear what Stephen had to say (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if... Hazama's Chapter).

- The Demon Emperor transported Karukozaka to the Expanse (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).

- Tamaki teamed up with Reiko and, using the Demon Summoning Program and a COMP, defeated the Demon Emperor (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).

- Reiko stayed with Hazama in the Expanse, while the rest of the school was transported back to the physical world (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).

- Tamaki met Stephen, who had a private chat with her (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).

- There was a small sensation by the students who disappeared in the Expanse, but was quickly forgotten by the public (Game: Shin Megami Tensei: if...).

- The old gymnasium at St. Hermelin was demolished (Manga: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

Between April and May

- Maki was hospitalized again (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

May ??

- Tamaki transferred to St. Hermelin High School and met Tadashi (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

Between August and September

- Kandori built the Dimension Variable Accelerator System / DVA System in a bid of godhood while influenced by Nyarlathotep, but it accidentally linked with Maki's mind (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Naito and Chisato were transported to the DVA System (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

October 20

- Yoshida was voted out of his position (Game: Persona 5).

- Owada won his fourth term as a legislator.

October 28

- Kandori kidnapped Maki from the hospital to control her ideal world (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Naoya, Mark, Nate, Elly, Brown, Yukki, and Yuka awoke to their Personas and met Philemon (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- The DVA System transported half of Mikage-cho to Maki's world (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Maki's subconscious was divided into Ideal Maki, Mai, and Aki. Aki decided to follow Kandori, seeing him as the father she never had (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Philemon granted a Persona to Reiji (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Class 4 met Ideal Maki, believing her to be the real one, magically out of the hospital (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Class 4 rescued Naito and Chisato (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Saeko put on the Snow Queen Mask, and became a victim of Tomomi's spirit. Class 4 defeated all the victims of the Snow Queen Curse and rescued Saeko (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Naoya confronted his Shadow Self, who had taken the appearance of a grown Kazuya (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Class 4 defeated Kandori and Nyarlathotep (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Aki was eaten by Pandora, an empty version of Maki, who Class 4 had to defeat to unite all of Maki's psyche (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Maki woke up and Mikage-cho was restored (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

? ??

- Tamami Uesugi was born (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).

BETWEEN 1996 AND 1998

April ??

- Shimazaki began to attend Seven Sisters High School (Novel: Innocent Sin).

BETWEEN 1996 AND 1999

? ??

- Saeko transferred from Mikage-cho to Sumaru City, teaching instead at Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

1997

January 2

- Kanami Mashita was born (Game: Persona 4: Dancing All Night).

March ??

- Yukki graduated from St. Hermelin High School and moved to Sumaru City (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

April ??

- Tatsuya, Anna, and Jun began to attend Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

? ??

- Yukki became a photographer at Kismet Publishing.

- Anna became a star track athlete (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Zephyrman began airing (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

- Konoe's father revealed he'd killed his mother for money, so Konoe killed his father and made it look like a robbery gone wrong (Game: Persona 5 Strikers).

BETWEEN 1997 AND 1999

? ??

- Jun got expelled due to injuring his bullies with his Persona. He was enrolled in Kasugayama High School instead (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠

- For reasons unknown, Jun transferred to Kasugayama High School (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment). ⚪️

BETWEEN 1997 AND 2006

? ??

- Chie met Yukiko while the latter was running away with a dog her parents didn't let her keep. The two became friends and Chie kept the dog, naming him "Muku" (Game: Persona 4).

1998

March ??

- Yumi, Charlie, Miyamoto, Hazama, Akiko, and Ryuichi graduated from Karukozaka High School.

- Maki, Mark, Reiji, Elly, Nate, Naoya, Brown, Yuka, Chisato, and Naito graduated from St. Hermelin High School.

April ??

- Lisa, Sheba, Mee-ho, and Kozy began to attend Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Michel and Sugimoto began to attend Kasugayama High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

April 23

- Makoto Niijima was born (Game: Persona 5).

June 2

- Goro Akechi was born (Game: Persona 5).

June 24

- Ken Amada was born (Game: Persona 3).

December 5

- Haru Okumura was born (Game: Persona 5).

? ??

- Maki won a major art exhibit, was cured from her illness, and became a psychiatrist's assistant at Hiiragi Therapy in Sumaru City (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona / Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Mark left for New York to study art (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Reiji became a door-to-door salesman in Sumaru City (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Elly became a model (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Nate took an incognito salesman job in his future company and learned how the 99% lived (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Brown became a TV host and comedian (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Yuka became a secretary (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- Michel became the "Death Boss" of "Cuss High" (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Shu Nakajima and Nozomi Nakahara were born (Game: Persona 4).

BETWEEN 1998 AND 1999

April ??

- Noriko began to attend Seven Sisters High School (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

? ??

- Reiji got his live-in girlfriend pregnant (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).

- Yuka married a salaryman she met at work (Game: Megami Ibunroku Persona).

- A Sevens student named Yoko developed a rivalry with Lisa, with the former claiming Lisa "stole away" Tatsuya after being rejected (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin). 🟠

- Michel created the band Gas Chamber (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

BEFORE 1999

? ??

- Nate left to study in England (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Anna was injured in a hit and run accident by Daisuke Kaneda, ending her dreams of athletic stardom (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Anna became friends with Shimazaki (Novel: Innocent Sin).

- Daisuke Todoroki was possessed by Kuzunoha and became a Devil Summoner (Game: Persona 2: Innocent Sin).

- Maya awoke to her Persona, believing it to be her guardian angel (Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment).

[chinchillasinunison]

And for the creator ask, B and E for whoever is living rent free in your brain rn

Yay I get talk meta 😀 And I'm just gonna talk about it in general.

What inspired you to create them?

I was watching YuYu Hakusho and Sailor Moon on Hulu in the same time frame, and the idea of a genre mashup of yankī and magical girl anime would not leave my head. It just felt like such a golden premise, a stereotypical male delinquent gang that become magical girls, I had to do something with it. For a very split second, it was an Ishimondo AU with Mondo as the protag and Kiyotaka as the magical companion (which is still reflected in Akio and Primrose's dynamic), but I realized that since there's literally only one other Crazy Diamond that has a personality that most of the main cast would be OCs anyway, so I decided fuck it and made everyone OCs. The whole wedding and flower theming was just kinda stumbled into.

Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?

I feel like I would get along with at least Akio and Daichi as individuals, but when everyone is together as The Strikin' Vipers, they would probably intimidate me despite what I know. I don't think they would hold any strong opinions for me, but they'd be as amicable as they could. So I guess that's a tentative yes.

[myrecommendationlist]

55

Wind Breaker (on going)✨

Written by

Satoru Nii

Published by

Kodansha

English publisher

NA

Kodansha USA

Genre

Adventure[1]

Martial arts[1]

Yankī[2]

[Disclaimer: picture and story not mine and they belong to their rightful owners]

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This is the legend of how delinquent Sakura rises to become a hero!

Fuurin High is known for having the lowest test scores, and the strongest fighters. This spring, Sakura Haruka decides to aim for the top of Fuurin, and learns of the alias Fuurin High holds, namely ‘Boufuurin’

, acting as a protective shield for the town and its inhabitants. Sakura joins this group as a member, and his battle to protect the town begins!

[poke-muns]

apparently I’m putting fakemon here as well

My 4th Elemental Monkey

First bit, basis. The original trio are based on the Three Wise Monkeys: see no evil (-pours), hear no evil (-sears), speak no evil (-sages). The most common addition is do no evil, since it’s part of a Confucius quote that includes the others:

“Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety”

I could also do “choose no evil”, “smell no evil”, or “touch no evil”, other additions from a Xunzi quote or honestly no clue for the origin of the other 2, maybe people went for senses?

“[…] makes his eyes not want to see what is not right, makes his ears not want to hear what is not right, makes his mouth not want to speak what is not right, and makes his heart not want to deliberate over what is not right”

((I could be convinced to make another monkey trio based off of choose, smell, and touch with another triangle but I’m already belaying another idea with the elemental monkeys doing this because guess who can’t stop their brain))

Now the Pokémon stuff. Since the canon monkeys are a type triangle, I gotta expand it into a square. Luckily that’s pretty easy with the Ice type. Fire is 2x to Ice, Ice is 2x to Grass, Grass is 2x to Water, Water is 2x to Fire. Added thing of Ice being 1/2x to Water while Water is 1x to Ice. This also works nicely with “freezing” being inaction, which the Wise Monkeys are meant to be against with the whole quote being used for those who choose to do nothing or ignore evil when faced with it.

Design. One thing that annoys me with the Elemental Monkeys, specifically the Simi-s, is that Simisear has no subcultural basis. Simisage is 50s American greaser inspired, which also inspired Japanese the subcultures bōsōzoku & yankee/yankī. Simipour is based around 60s & 70s hippy/beatnik subculture. Simisear? For the sake of this, I’ll say Simisear is representative of the 80s’ New Romantic subculture. This leaves me with 40s or 90s. 40s is going to be difficult because WWII, with some subcultures taking a backseat during wartime and properly getting doing at the turn of the decade — no Teddy monkey for me — with an exception being Neds, who emerged from poverty in 1930s Scotland. Poverty doesn’t exactly go away in wars. The way I see it my options are:

30s & 40s Neds

90s rave (possibly Gabber specifically, a subculture popular in the Netherlands).

90s Grunge

90s Punk

90s Britpop

Though punk would suit the typical stance of this line's basis, I think rave would work well for the top/trousers pattern this line would help complete: Pansage has green trousers and Simisage has green trousers, separate from the main body around the torso; Pansear's division is roughly in the middle but Simisear clearly has fully integrated red trousers with separate fur at the opposite side via shoulders; Panpour has a blue crop top thing and Simipour has a long blue top separate from main body around the torso. The -sages & -sears have furry tails as a result of their trousers, while the -pours have nakey tails until the tip. Since we can't do baggy, grunge is out; it was one of the main parts of grunge fashion to obscure silhouettes. The Pan- of this line would have a roughly middle division like Pansear, while the Simi- has integrated top pattern like a tracksuit and some distinct fur around the ankles like trainers. All the Pan- ones have upright hair-fur but Simipour's hair goes down. This Simi- would be the same.

Naming. Now with the trio being a quartet, I get to fix something that’s bugged me with these guys for so long: the -pours differing from the others by having their second half begin with “p” instead of “s”. If I have the Ice Types’ second half begin with “p” I can be happy, especially since it gives it an alternating order! The issue: not many ice words begin with p. Polar, permafrost but shortening that to “perm” to fit the 4 letter thing feels weird. “Pack” could work. 1 syllable, 4 letters, refers to a bunch of ice floating as one continuous mass in the ocean, works with cooking theme because “pack with flavour”, maybe a nod to pack mentality if I want to bullshit more meaning into it. That has it, Panpack and Simipack!

Also the new brother would be Calam from calamint, a type of mint with high amounts of menthol native to the UK. Mints are supposedly cold, and calamint is used in cooking. Wouldn’t join his brothers in their gym, maybe he’d just be a cook or a previous champion or E4 something. Can you tell I don’t care about him as much as my new monkey friend? I’m sure that’ll change as I try doodle designs.

I’m gonna try draw some ideas. The one issue I have so far is I think the colour fur for this line is going to have to be white and each of the monkeys are said to release elemental stuff from their head and my brain is making relevant but inappropriate links.

[jhdanes]

So there's an idea floating in my head, I made up a list of original comics I want to make, currently my problem is while doing research, I cant find any books about Tsuppari and yankī culture of japan in the 1970-1990, like there are articles and all that but I wanna learn more about the culture then the articles can tell me, I wanna know all of it from the honor code to the culture, but nope just one book comes up and it doesnt seem to expand on the things I want, so internet, help these poor European girl, do you know of any books that might help me ( •̯́ ^ •̯̀)( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀)

[redsnerdden]

Tokyo Revengers Volume One: Back To Where It All Began

Tokyo Revengers Volume One Review: Back To Where It All Began. #tokyorevengers #東卍FA #東卍 #manga #Kodansha #shonen

It is an interesting era of Shonen Manga, where the biggest hits have been either Dark Fantasy titles such as Shueisha’s Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen, and Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man (which has an upcoming Anime Adaption.) Now another shonen title joins the ranks, from Kodansha, the Yanki Science Fiction title Tokyo Revengers. The Series is…

[omaketheater]

To the best of my knowledge, this comics is 100% accurate.

Friday 4Koma 第360話 - Damn Yankī

[lullabiesinaglasswilderness]

[toxicyaoilover]

i should draw kuboyasu in some classic yankī clothes. i should draw teruhashi in lolita fashion. i should draw rifuta or yumehara in decora kei. i should draw aiura. they all deserve to be in punk fashion i feel

[chinchillasinunison]

2, 39, and 40 for a BBBB character of your choice! :D

Hello pal, thank you so much 💖. I will talk about Akio because, y'know, he's the main character and I should think about him, too.

How easy is it for your character to laugh?

He's an easy-going guy surrounded by a lot of absurdity who also fights evil, so I can imagine him chuckling often (either genuinely or in that "this is a fight scene and the battle has turned in my favor" way, you know what I'm talking about), but I don't think he'd laugh with his whole chest very often. He's groomed himself into that big brother banchō image, which requires aloofness in that degree. I think it would have to be saved for something special, like a scene with all The Strikin' Vipers after they had a big battle as their Flora selves that Akio was scared they all would die in. It's one of those big laughing fits of relief.

How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people?

I feel like it's complicated. With strangers, he is definitely harsh. He's a gang leader after all; confrontation is the name of the game. When he thinks something's fucked, he'll say so. But with The Strikin' Vipers? He's a bit more lenient. He addresses it, surely, but isn't really confrontational about it unless it interferes with gang or magical girl affairs.

How sensitive are they to their own flaws?

He likes to pretend he isn't, but he is. Or, well, he doesn't care about the superficial flaws that come with territory of delinquency (the general rudeness towards authority and all that), but there's one thing that gets to him. It's the issue that's he's a bit... stuck on the past. And I don't mean the whole 70's yankī aesthetic, I mean that the bullied little kid inside him still calls a lot of the shots. And sure, that leads to him protecting others from harm (both in the sense of keeping the other gangs under control and the monster of the week shit), but that also leads to the above-mentioned shielding himself behind a persona so he doesn't get hurt.

[gurikajis]

[canmom]

Toku Tuesday 34: "Isn’t That An Anime?”

Hello friends, it’s one of these. Arguably for numerology reasons #34 should be some kind of niche porn fanwork, but no, tonight the theme is another of the sets that @mogsk​ selected for me. And hey we’re back to Japan, in territory that can reasonably be called tokusatsu even.

Tonight, the concept is well, live action adaptations of stories that have also received well-regarded anime adaptations. Many such cases, etc. etc. Can these stories work without the clarity of drawings? The answer is mostly... hmm. Let’s take a look.

First up, Mogs has found us a live adaptation of Charge!! Cromartie High School, which is such a mogs pick given that it’s a parody of yankī delinquent manga (c.f. Toku Tuesday 4, Toku Tuesday Mogs Edition) of the 70s and 80s, following on from the tail end of the gekiga period. This particular work originates as a manga by Eiji Nonaka (野中 英次), which in keeping with its influences, adopts the textured lines and rougher hatching of a gekiga manga, but is a surreal comedy framed through a normal boy attending a school for yankīs.

This series seems to have been easily the most popular of Nonaka’s works, and was soon adapted to anime by Production I.G. in 2003, contemporary with their Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Animation Night 39).

This adaptation was directed by Hiroaki Sakurai (桜井 弘明), who prior to his career at I.G., was known for allegedly driving the studio Film Magic into bankruptcy with overly elaborate direction that didn’t respect the limits of TV animation in terms of drawing count during outsourcing work on Akazukin Chacha (1994-5). (Though there’s some dispute, with some of the key animators instead claiming it was their fault; alas the original source is in Japanese so I can’t get the details.)

Perhaps this experience chastened him somewhat, or he just learned better practices after directing various series like an adaptation of PaRappa the Rapper (!???); the I.G. adaptation of Cromartie is certainly low budget, but a friend has praised it for its unusual and creative application of limited animation techniques to make the most of what they had...

Sakurai scored this series with prog rock band Bi Kyo Ran in which he plays as a bassist; it all sounds pretty interesting and maybe we’ll get the chance to show it on Animation Night before long.

Anyway, Cromartie High School would later receive a film adaptation directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi in 2005, which is what we have tonight...

This one also has some fascinating details about its production:

Director Yamaguchi has said that the author of the original manga, Eiji Nonaka told him to "Do whatever you want" when he learned that a film was to be made of the manga. Yamaguchi took him at his word and did not read the manga or look at the anime version before directing his film. Because of the episodic nature of the original manga, the screenplay took a year and a half to write.[1]

In Yamaguchi’s hands, the film becomes essentially a series of parody skits crossing a range of genres. Critics mostly seemed to praise it at the time, although they found the sheer breadth left it seeming a bit aimless. Whether it works now? We’ll soon find out, I suppose! At least this will probably explain why gorillas are such a theme in comedy manga?

Next up we have... JoJo!

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a sprawling manga drawn since 1987 by Hirohiko Araki; one of the real core long running mangas in first Weekly Shōnen Jump and then the seinen magazine Ultra Jump, accumulating over 120 million sales in the meantime.

To try and deliver full context for it would be a fairly overwhelming task at this point, and will have to wait for a future animation night. But it might be best understood in terms of wrestling: a series of massive muscular guys with over the top characterisations strike dramatic poses based on fashion magazines, taking turns to invoke complicated, exaggerated powers to one-up each other.  If it sounds extremely gay, yes, it’s absolutely suffused with homeroticism, though rarely (ever?) actually drawing it out explicitly. (The girls of JoJo tend to get a pretty poor showing in earlier arcs, though I am led to understand that matters improve a lot later, and they get to have all the massive muscles and fashionable design and swagger and elaborately complicated powers that the guys do.)

It’s also marked by a fascination with the West; while only the first few chapters take place in England as far as I understand, allusions to Western culture (music, fashion etc.) crop up constantly, seen through the defamiliarising lens of a very impulsive westaboo.

The series jumps through a long series of time periods (so far nine of them), in each instance following a man from the Joestar family named something beginning with the syllable ‘Jo-’: Joseph, Jotaro, etc., and their long battle with an immortal villain Dio Brando. A huge part of the appeal is surely the artwork, with Araki’s talent for exaggeration and design often displayed in large, lavish splash panels, along with extensive use of stylised onomatopoeia (common in manga, but very developed in JoJo).

JoJo has received adaptation twice; first an OVA series in 1993-4 and 2000-2002, which adapted one of the more popular story arcs; then a long series of TV anime series by David Production which began in 2012 tackling the entire work from the beginning. I don’t know the ins and outs of this, but there’s a fantastic article on Sakugabooru tracking the evolution in direction style and the different staff who worked on this mammoth project.

David Production’s approach is unusual, heavily emphasising the manga origin through its graphical elements - the onscreen onomatopoeia, screentone effects, and highly stylised saturated colours giving it a completely unique look among TV anime. Even if you don’t have much interest in the story of Jojo, David Production’s CGI OPs are worth a look just for the sheer cinematographical wizardry on display. It is a perfect fit for the content and, naturally, has become a massive hit for the small studio, which continues to lavish all attention on it.

However, that’s not the subject for tonight! Instead we’re going to look at that time Takashi Miike took on the series in live action. Miike you may remember from Toku Tuesday 7 (Zebraman), Toku Tuesday 11 (Yakuza Apocalypse) and Toku Tuesday 14 (Happiness of the Katakuris) - but we have barely scratched his enormous filmography. He may well be a good fit for JoJo given that it’s, well, quite a gory and chaotic series... but we shall see! Here’s the trailer

Finally, we have the adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist. FMA is another one of those ‘household name’ manga, Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘)’s story of state power and genocide as ultimately resisted by superpowered alchemists more or less complicit in its workings. Following two alchemy-prodigy brothers who failed to resurrect their mother at catastrophic cost, and then found themselves recruited by the pseudo-germanic fascist state that is secretly a massive project to sacrifice the entire population of a country in a huge alchemical ritual, it strikes a compelling blend of character drama, humour and action, and satisfyingly ties together its alchemical themes in the finale, even if what it has to say about militarism and fascism feels kind of underdeveloped.

This received two adaptations, both by Bones. The 2003 adaptation ran out of material while the manga was still running and wrote its own ending, which is generally regarded as unsatisfying; it goes fascinatingly off the rails though with a movie sequel where the characters somehow find themselves transported into real life Germany. The second adaptation in 2009, subtitled Brotherhood in the international release (but simply called 鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST at home), followed the story of the manga much more faithfully, and generally completely overshadowed the first by virtue of some truly masterful animation by legends such as Yoshimichi Kameda; the scene in which Roy Mustang burns the homunculus Lust with his terrible-secret fire powers is definitely one of my ‘sakuga awakenings’ for the sheer intensity and horror that Kameda is able to convey...

...anyway, Fumihiko Sori came along and decided to make a similarly faithful live adaptation; the project was conceived in 2013, but production was delayed until 2016 due to the vast amount of CGI shots necessary (since one of the main characters, Alphonse, would be entirely CGI). I have trouble working out exactly where the funding came from; the film was distributed in Japan by Warner Bros and internationally by Netflix, but the production company is listed as Square Enix, with a house called Oxybot providing the VFX. Regardless; it finally landed in 2017, to broadly mixed reviews.

Given that it has to compete with an exceptional anime by Bones at the top of their game, it’s hard to imagine this film can really live up to its predecessor - but I think it might be interesting to see a different take on the story in a more compressed format, and especially, as an illustration of how ‘more realistic’ or more elaborate CG animation often does not mean artistically better; the trailer is full of slow-mo shots which, despite being so much more expensive and stacking so many more layers of debris and similar, frequently lack the impact of the cel animation. Have a look:

Still, we’ve acquired this one, and I’m curious to see it, even if it turns out only to be an object lesson in the ways filmmaking has gone terribly wrong in the last decade.

That’s all I have for you right now in terms of production details; we’ll roll the movies very shortly so please tune your sets to twitch.tv/canmom!

[driftroddy]

I'm drawin humanformers deadlock cuz I just watched opm for the third time and metal bat gave me,,ideas,,