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阿修羅城の瞳 中島かずき K. Nakashima Selection Vol. 2 論創社 装幀=鳥井和昌
#阿修羅城の瞳#kazuki nakashima#中島かずき#K. Nakashima Selection#kazumasa torii#鳥井和昌#anamon#古本屋あなもん#あなもん#book cover
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New Kill la Kill illustration to celebrate the series' 10th anniversary!!!!!
An anniversary pop up shop will be held in Tower Records from March 15th - March 24th!!!!
Lineup of merch at the pop-up shop included badges, acrylic stands, desk mats, T-shirt, etc!!!
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Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League Trailer
It's raining men!
Truthfully, I have no idea what is happening in this trailer for the sequel to 2018's Batman Ninja. Just hold on, 'cause this looks to be a wild ride.
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League is directed by Jumpei Mizusaki and Shinji Takagi from a screenplay by Kazuki Nakashima. The character design is by Takashi Okazaki and music is by Yugo Kanno. Kamikaze Douga is the animation producer.
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League will release in 2025 on digital and Blu-ray.
#batman ninja#batman ninja vs yakuza league#batman#jumpei mizusaki#shinji takagi#kazuki nakashima#takashi okazaki#yugo kanno#kamikaze douga#warner bros japan#TGCLiz#Youtube
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Kill la Kill, vols. 1 to 3, along with one interior page, illustrated by Ryō Akizuki.
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Wait, the guy who made Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill and BNA also made Fourze?
Why didn't anyone told me about this?
(makes perfect sense though)
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i’m sure i’ve said something to this effect before (if not this verbatim lmao) and tbh it’s probably gonna sound even more unhinged than usual but like. something i really love about ttgl is the way it’s structured? like. obviously it’s got 4 main arcs, as signified by the characters who get the title cards for each (kamina, nia, rossiu, and simon). and a hugely defining factor of each is simon’s relationship with (and love for, since love is a huge theme in the show) whoever the “focus” character is. and i also like to think of it as it representing 4 different types of love? like kamina obviously being brotherly/familial love, and nia being romantic love, and rossiu being platonic love, and simon being self-love, as well as his general love for the people around him and humanity as a whole - also served in part by the 3 characters from the previous arcs being largely absent in his. but what REALLY gets me is that. platonic love is the penultimate arc; it’s right before self-love!! his relationship with rossiu is the one that challenges simon before he’s capable of achieving his final form; it’s essential to who he is and it’s necessary for their victory and it’s just. so damn important. and i don’t think it was intentionally made this way or whatever, it’s just something that makes it easy for me to connect with the show personally. so i think it’s neat!!
#HUGE asterisk ofc that rossiu’s arc is the one that gets the most shafted for time in the movies#and also there are some things in there in the show that i side eye nonetheless#but again i don’t think this was like intentional or anything; i’m just fond of the way it plays out in the show!!#a: ttgl#ch: simon jiha#ch: rossiu adai#ch: kamina jiha#ch: nia teppelin#t.ttgl#does kazuki nakashima know what kind of state he has me in with his characters. DOES HE
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“Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League” 1st teaser trailer (with English captions)
Poster
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Koichi Yamadera as Batman
Staff
Director: Jumpei Mizusaki, Shinji Takagi
Screenplay: Kazuki Nakashima
Character Design: Takashi Okazaki
Music: Yugo Kanno
Animation Production: Kamikaze Douga
#Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League#Batman Ninja#Batman#Justice League#DC Comics#Kamikaze Douga#film#anime#anime film
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"Gurren Lagann! Spin! Who the hell do you think I am?" Gurren Lagann Ep. 01 - "Bust Through the Heavens with Your Drill!" Key Animator: Yoh Yoshinari (吉成 曜) Storyboards: Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石 洋之) Episode Director: Masahiko Otsuka (大塚 雅彦) Screenplay: Kazuki Nakashima (中島 かずき)
#Gainax Classic Goodness#You have no idea how many times I've rewatched this show#Gurren Lagann#ttgl#Simon the Digger#mechagraphics#my gif#gif remake
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BLCD Review: Ikigami & Donor
Title: Ikigami to Donor (イキガミとドナー)
Author/Artist: Yamanaka Hiko
Shop: CD + Manga
Release Date: 2021/12/03
Cast:
Nakajima Yoshiki x Saitou Souma
Yamashita Seiichirou + Kawanishi Kengo
Kobayashi Chiaki
Yashiro Taku
Komada Wataru
Hayashi Miho
Shiozaki Tomohiro
Higa Ryosuke
Abe Ryouma
Torashima Takaaki
Oota Kensuke
Nakashima Takuya
Fujita Mami
Miyama Mari
Souya Kazuki
Synopsis:
"Your blood and flesh, all of it is mine." An ikigami and a healer, together their souls support each other, blooming into love...
In the distant future, ordinary teacher Yoshino learns that he is a "donor" for the strongest species, the "ikigami." These warriors are tasked with protecting the country. "The unique ability of a donor is to use their bodily fluids to heal ikigami." Yoshino learns this fact and is shocked. Thus, Yoshino is forced to live with Kidou... At first, he is like a beast, demanding Yoshino's bodily fluids, but slowly, the underlying loneliness begins to show...
"Someday, if I met a donor, could they come to love me? That thought is the only reason I survived..."
Review Proper
I can’t believe Yamanaka Hiko’s been terrorizing me for over twelve years now. OH MY GOD I’M SO OLD. And true to the Yamanaka Hiko brand, this turned out to be another fantasy masterpiece (read His 500 Years of Suffering Romance). This was definitely the type of thing that would do great even without the BL aspect of it. Now, I did have an issue with Kidou being an asshole (he's almost killed Yoshino more than once), so I’m not excusing it. But I do get how and why he turned out to be like that and I'm aware that it's important for his character development. The world-building was great, don't get me wrong, but it's definitely dubcon 2015. I would strongly advise you not to get into it if that's a deal breaker for you.
Anyway, onto the voice work.
Souma used a tone so close to Gucci's that I kept imagining Gucci being Yoshino. Yes, I didn't read the manga while listening to the BLCD. It was like after graduating Karasuno, Gucci went on to become a teacher, then a donor lmao. His Yoshino panics more like Honda-san, however, so my final verdict is that his Yoshino is half-Gucci, half-Honda-san.
This isn't Nakajiki and Souma's first rodeo, but I'm glad to say that their performance/dynamic here is different from Mikeneko and XL Size. I expected Kidou to be a mix of Amano and Anaconbayashi-kun 'cause the former was cocky and the latter was stoic, but Kidou was only 50% of that mix and 50% brooding, suffering, I'll-protect-you top. Am I even making any sense? Again, I listened to the BLCD first, but the sound direction they gave Nakajiki was very different from what I thought he'd sound like after I read the manga. It’s almost like what happened with OnoD’s expressive Hasebe-kun in the Kotonoha BLCD vs the more stoic Hasebe-kun in the manga.
The voice work of our two leads was 👌. This might just be my fave out of their pairings 'cause the sex isn't over-the-top like XL Size and Mikeneko. I will say that I wasn't completely sold on Yamashita Seiichirou as Shibata-san 'cause I feel like he speaks too slowly, but I'm sure it'll grow on me by the time I listen to their spin-off. KawaKen was fine. My heart broke for him every time Shibata-san rejected him, so it's safe to say he's got Taki-kun down already.
Oh. I did have a slight issue with the sfx too. Why was it so watery??? Lmao. Even r18 otome cds aren't that wet. But it's not so glaring that it'll turn you off.
The BLCD was almost perfectly accurate to the manga. I highly recommend this to those learning mid to higher levels of Japanese. Futekiya has licensed volumes 1 & 2, so please try to support the official release if you can. I'd be lying if I said that I agree with how they translated it so... literally?, but I think it's also important to see how things are translated that way if you're aiming to dip your toes into translation aside from studying the language. For example, they used "Living God" throughout the manga instead of "Ikigami." It's correctly translated, but I personally prefer retaining the original title. You know, like how Viz uses "Kaiju no. 8" instead of "Monster no. 8?"
God knows if I'll ever survive the spinoff that I wanted to work on. I avoided talking about it for a reason lmao. Anyway, if y'all liked this, then please give 500 Years (Ono Yuuki x Suzuki Tatsuhisa) and Shortcake no Ichigo Sawaranaide (Nojima Hirofumi x Takeuchi Ken). These two are android bls and Ikigami to Donor is more guide bl, but they both share a futuristic vibe.
#blcd reviews#blcd 2021 reviews#ikigami to donor#ginger records#yamanaka hiko#nakajima yoshiki#saitou souma#kobayashi chiaki#yashiro taku#komada wataru
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whats i am afraid i was made to be able to fall apart? it reminds me of senketsu,, my son
[WIP Game!]
Ooh, it does have Senketsu vibes!
It's actually a planned HeiShin (Heiji and Shinichi from Detective Conan) AMV, though 😅
Wow I used to be so organized... actually noting how many clips I'd use and pasting them in my planning document before going to the video editor... though I think now I would try to be more match-cutty than this... and probably wouldn't use that many clips...
But y'know, if I can be a little brain-rotty for a sec, I've actually been thinking lately about how the relationships between Heiji and Shinichi and Ryuko and Senketsu are, to me, one of the biggest draws of their respective series.
And I'm a sap, so it probably makes sense that they're similar in some ways. Both pairs are composed of "battle" partners who trust and respect each other, who get each other in ways that few others can, who can communicate wordlessly. The protagonists in both are emotionally closed off—Ryuko covering up most of her feelings with anger and Shinichi acting cool and aloof—but they both let their "masks" fall in the presence of the other person.
(They both also have "fanservice" beach spreads at least kinda about them that make me silly emotional. ("Conan’s Dream Vacation" and "Senketsu’s Date with Ryuko"))
But narratively speaking, the two are so massively different. Ryuko and Senketsu are the heart of Kill la Kill. The pair hugging makes up the final volume cover art, as if to say that's what you should take away from the series, above all else. Scriptwriter Kazuki Nakashima even describes the story as "a lonely young woman meeting and losing an irreplaceable partner."
Heiji and Shinichi? Not so much. I'd argue Shinichi and Ran to be the most central relationship in the series (and I love them, too, don't get me wrong!) While I'll always argue for Heiji's significance, he's also only in maybe 10% of the story.
But I feel like his relationship with Shinichi gets so much more attention from fans? If their partnership was the heart of Detective Conan, I don't think anyone would forget it. But I do think it's forgotten a lot with Kill la Kill and Ryuko and Senketsu. (Or maybe the series is just unclear with what it wants to do. Yeah, I have an essay about that, too.)
I don't really know where I was going with this, except maybe I should have planned a Ryuketsu vid to this song because Senketsu gets far too neglected in discussions of Kill la Kill.
#replies#naomi klk#long post#ramblings#shut up goop#spoilers#klk spoilers#?#ahh i hope the brainrot is okay it's just been on my mind...#thank you for the ask!
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Trying to decide if this is one of the worst episodes of Metallic Rouge or the best.
Here's the thing, okay? On the one hand; it still sucks that this show has a beautiful silver-haired butch who's a revolutionary and they made her both straight and the bad guy. (Said butch, Jill / Silvia, would probably be my favorite character if she had more screentime. I wish she was developed beyond being Metallic Rouge's version of Magneto.) It sucks that The Joker, Baybey has continued to be an important character and that they're now having him nominally switch sides because he's such a little heehoo rascal.
In general this show's writing is just really bad, and it seems like what we're building up to is a Nakashima Kazuki-style endgame twist where the last episode or so turns into the various rival factions uniting against an outside threat, which seems to be the Usurpers in this case. Now, most of the shows Nakashima has written scripts for can get away with this because they're so heavily vibes-based. No one but the extremely deluded think of Kill la Kill or Promare as sophisticated theses on important issues. For Metallic Rouge...I don't know. To draw a comparison to yet another Nakashima show I feel like I'm reacting to this a way not wholly dissimilar to how people reacted to Brand New Animal in terms of its writing just absolutely not working in the slightest.
On the other hand; this episode was gay as shit and I really loved the fight scenes. I don't want to just wave every criticism I just wrote off with "so who can say if it's bad or not?" but Metallic Rouge really does work better when it's focusing on character writing as opposed to trying to make all these la-di-da sociopolitical statements where it clearly has no fucking idea where it's talking about. So yeah, the bit where Naomi quite literally rips her own heart out to give it to the dying Rouge to keep her alive did work on me, I'm gonna give them that, it was a pretty great scene. Do that and the several other scenes I liked, most notably Silvia's confrontation with Rouge, make up for the show's broader writing deficiencies? I wouldn't go that far, but I think if this does end Nakashima style with everyone setting aside their differences to fight the ooh scary aliens (IDEALLY WITH THE NEANS BEING LIBERATED AS A SIDE EFFECT? JUST A THOUGHT) that wouldn't be the worst thing, it might be the *best* possible way for the show to end at this point.
I guess we'll find out next week, given that that the final confrontation is right on the horizon.
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Obscure Animation Subject #54: Gurren Lagann
Originally posted on Twitter on April 14, 2023.
Produced by Gainax, written by Kazuki Nakashima and directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, it takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome, who forces mankind to live in isolated subterranean villages.
It focuses on two teenagers, Simon and Kamina, who live in a subterranean village and wish to go to the surface. Using a mecha Lagann, Simon and Kamina reach the surface and start fighting alongside other humans against Lordgenome's forces, before fighting their true enemy.
It ran for 27 episodes on TV Tokyo between April and September 2007, with films released in 2008 and 2009. It received acclaim from critics, sitting at at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 17 reviews. The critic consensus calls it, "a humorous spectacle appreciate by anime fans."
It’s not as well-known now as it was then, but it was a pop culture staple. It led to the foundation of Studio Trigger, with Gurren Lagann's visual humor and style inserted into their work. Shigeto Koyama, who designed worked this show, designed worked on Big Hero 6.
It definitely defined anime in the late 2000s, and while it only last one season, its legacy still made a lot of importance. Definitely an important piece of mecha anime and Gainax history. It is one of several science fiction anime to receive a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Comic News Insider Episode 1555 - NYCC: Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League/Batman Azteca/Teen Titans Go!
Comic News Insider: Episode 1555 is now available for free download! Click on the link or follow on Spotify/subscribe on iTunes!
Jimmy did the press rooms for a few of the DC/Warner Bros. animated films/shows. He chatted with BATMAN AZTECA director Juan Meza-León and producer José C. García de Letona on how the idea came to fruition, mixing history with fiction and Batman's Aztec style weaponry. He also talked with BATMAN NINJA VS YAKUZA JUSTICE LEAGUE directors Jumpei Mizusaki & Shinji Takagi and writer Kazuki Nakashima about why they used the same characters from the first film, who got added to the cast, and favorite Batman family characters. Many thanks to the hardworking translator on the latter.
On the final day of NYCC, Jimmy also attended the TEEN TITANS GO! press room. The talent was paired up and we each got 3 minutes to talk. Tara Strong (Raven) and Greg Cipes (Beast Boy) started things off. Followed by Hynden Walch (Starfire) and Scott Menville (Robin). And finally Jimmy talked old school hip-hop with Khary Payton (Cyborg) and Pete Michail (EP). A crazy fun time full of all sorts of character voices!
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Kamen Rider Fourze The Movie: It's Space Time, Everybody! (2012) by Kazuki Nakashima
4/5, Tokusatsu, Adventure, Science Fiction
It was nice to see the kids again after so long (was my first show so been awhile) and of course it made me cry.
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Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League ganha trailer
Continuação do longa de Jumpei Mizusaki segue sem data para ser lançadoMATHEUS FIORE Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League O filme animado Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League ganhou seu primeiro trailer oficial. Confira abaixo. O longa original foi dirigido por Jumpei Mizusaki, com Kazuki Nakashima assinando o roteiro. A trama segue Batman depois que ele é enviado para o Japão feudal após um desentendimento…
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headsup warning to you guys. i think ep18 of back arrow made me insane
#me when i am emotionally affected by the writing of kazuki nakashima: 😲#GAAAAASAAAAAAAAAH I LOVE WATCHING THIS SHOW ITS SO. it soooooooooooo.#idk man the character designs are whack and i don’t think it’s particularly groundbreaking but every single episode has me on tbe edge of#my seat i’m GRIPPED by the plot and characters and i LOVE muga’s desgn and. AGH.#a: back arrow#t.txt#after watching ep10 i DLd the whole thing for potential future gif purposes bc i had a hunch and so far i’ve been proven CORRECT
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