Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Sharpandpointies]

And then there's the Comedian-dude whose comedian powers are so potentspoilers:

that he'd be a match for Gojo Satoru.

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The series strikes a nice balance between enagingly intense, heart-renderingly dramatic and just plain silly.

I like it. It's tempting me to watch the anime, which is something I don't do a lot of these days.

[Nik Hasta]

Oh, no connection, other than 'the fights in Kaisen are great because they make sense'. I talk a lot about 'fights needing to make sense and be comprehensible'; just commenting on why.

Back in the day, when Appleseed was still coming out, it got a lot of praise from a lot of people. With some good reason - art was good, characters were interesting, there was depth. Etc. But boy, some of Shirow's fight sequences were downright incomprehensible (to the point where in the later volumes, when there WAS a sequence that was actually extremely well-done, myself and my friends actually marveled over it). And that was one of my first exposures to manga.

So these days, thirty-five years later, when I see a fight sequence that I can follow panel by panel, easily, without wondering 'how did the characters get from X to Y?' I make note of it. The whole Shirow business is just 'why'.

Edit: I can see why it was somewhat confusing, that mention. Apologies.

No need to apologise, I just read it as if you were implying Shirow had worked on JJK or something.

Thought you might know something I didn't haha ¬_¬

[Nik Hasta]

I like it. It's tempting me to watch the anime, which is something I don't do a lot of these days.

FWIW, the anime is a very good adaptation. Lovely animation, really solid soundtrack and voice work, I would highly recommend it.

EIDT: Just a little sequence from the first episode ^_^:

[Nik Hasta]

On an unrelated note, I reread pretty much all of the current Zhao Campaign storyline from Kingdom recently.

The Shukai Plains especially, definitely went down in a longer form viewing, Houken felt less obnoxious and the resolution of that fight felt a bit more telegraphed.

Unsurprisingly, it's still a very solid series, does big broad emotional strokes really well, fight scenes are fun if largely quite simple affairs and it manages a pretty big cast really rather well.

[Sharpandpointies]

No need to apologise, I just read it as if you were implying Shirow had worked on JJK or something.

Thought you might know something I didn't haha ¬_¬

Cool, cool.

FWIW, the anime is a very good adaptation. Lovely animation, really solid soundtrack and voice work, I would highly recommend it.

EIDT: Just a little sequence from the first episode ^_^:

That's quite good. And, like the manga, even though there's crazy stuff happening, it's easy to follow and 'realistic' in cause and effect (not 'realistic' as in 'real world', but in 'assuming this sort of thing is possible, this is how it could proceed').

Must check and see if Canadian Netflix has this.

[Sharpandpointies]

On an unrelated note, I reread pretty much all of the current Zhao Campaign storyline from Kingdom recently.

The Shukai Plains especially, definitely went down in a longer form viewing, Houken felt less obnoxious and the resolution of that fight felt a bit more telegraphed.

Unsurprisingly, it's still a very solid series, does big broad emotional strokes really well, fight scenes are fun if largely quite simple affairs and it manages a pretty big cast really rather well.

I'm still reading it; that I hang in this long with a series that I need to wait for future installments says something.

It doesn't have the same draw for me as it used to, but I'm still somewhat invested.

[Nik Hasta]

Christ, it's quite the day in Parliament once again.

I really hate our Prime Minister. >__<

[Tami]

Christ, it's quite the day in Parliament once again.

I really hate our Prime Minister. >__<

It seems that 2022 is starting off on shaky footing nearly everywhere.

[Sharpandpointies]

Christ, it's quite the day in Parliament once again.

I really hate our Prime Minister. >__<

Is it the Partygate report? Or something different?

...dare I ask? Anything to get my mind off my own Parliament, currently under siege.

[Sharpandpointies]

So, Justin Trudeau just tested positive for COVID. I can't bring myself to say 'just desserts', because thus far Trudeau...ugh, I have to say this, Trudeau has done a better job than many of the premiers with regards to COVID. Our premiers have been so bad that I'm complimenting Mr. Performative.

In other news, Ottawa police are now saying that 'ticketing and towing' the protesters might incite them, and they don't want to do that.

[Ottawa Police] *facing BLM protesters* Drive trucks through their lines! Break out the riot gear!

[Ottawa Police] *facing truckers who tolerate swastikas in their ranks, and who harass business employees and vandalize* B-but doing our basic job might make them angwy... Shy.jpg

[Beadle]

Is it the Partygate report? Or something different?

...dare I ask? Anything to get my mind off my own Parliament, currently under siege.

The preliminary, heavily redacted Partygate report which talks about failures of leadership and decision-making in Downing Street, and then Boris starts defending himself with a bizarre, tasteless rant about long-deceased serial paedophile Jimmy Saville and about the opposition front bench taking drugs.

I mean when we all think this twat is scraping the bottom of the barrel he just starts digging through the bottom of that barrel into the sewer beneath.

[Sharpandpointies]

The preliminary, heavily redacted Partygate report which talks about failures of leadership and decision-making in Downing Street, and then Boris starts defending himself with a bizarre, tasteless rant about long-deceased serial paedophile Jimmy Saville and about the opposition front bench taking drugs.

I mean when we all think this twat is scraping the bottom of the barrel he just starts digging through the bottom of that barrel into the sewer beneath.

He really is stupid. And desperate. And clearly not listening to any advisors he has who have brains (if those ones haven't all deserted him).

He just keeps shooting himself in the foot.

[Guy1]

[The Dog]

So they saw Halloween (2018) and decided "Let's do that with Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

[Dark Soul # 7]

This show was too glorious.