#delinquent chacha

[aranazo]

Delinquent Chacha by Ved Mehta with a Grant Grimbly cover.

[hilarychuff]

ok just for the heck of it some sansa/jonsa au casting ideas that are very much up for discussion bc i haven’t figured them out enough on my own to hoard privately to make into one of my au graphics or i just probably never will make it into an au graphic but think it’s a fun idea

just dumping A BUNCH of them under the break (like basically everyone except those i am hoarding for later/have more concrete ideas about that i might actually execute in some way) enjoy this peek into my google docs xoxoxox

13 going on 30 Jenna - sansa Matty - jon  Cat - margaery???? cersei???

Panic Heather - sansa (alayne) Lilly - robin Ray - jon Bishop - harry Natalie - myranda Dodge -

OR

Panic Heather - arya Ray - gendry? Bishop - gendry?   Natalie - sansa Dodge - jon Dodge’s sister - bran

Hocus pocus au max - jon Allison - sansa Dani - arya Thackery binx - aegon? (or brandon?) Emily binx - rhaenys? (or lyanna?) Winifred sanderson - cersei Mary sanderson - tyrion??? Lmao Sarah sanderson - jaime lmao

Big little lies Daenerys is Renata (or is Cersei Renata?? Would leave space for dany to be celeste) Margaery is Madeline Jeyne is Celeste?? Daenerys is Celeste?? Sansa is Jane?? Arya is bonnie??????

Timeless Sansa is the historian Jon is the military guy Ygritte is his dead ex Sam is the science guy Theon is the villain guy who later becomes the love interest

Dead to me Jen - arya (not cold but very firmly not warm, resting bitch face, might kill sansa but also might kill for sansa) Judy - sansa (bleeding heart, bad men, so much guilt, more than a little confessy when she’s wronged someone, potential to be kinda gay!) Ted - ???? Steve - harry hardyng? Littlefinger himself? Ramsay? Joffrey? Maybe joffrey works best? Ben - gendry (work if he’s joffrey’s “half-brother” or w/e)

Saved au Mary - sansa Cassandra - arya Roland - willas? Tyrion? Hilary Faye - Margaery? Cersei? Patrick - jon? Pastor skip - ned Mary-Louise Parker - catelyn Dean - loras? Theon? Mitch - renly? Robb? Tia - Veronica -

Don’t look under the bed Frances - sansa Darwin - bran after he falls/is pushed Albert - robb? Joann - jon with modifications so that he is a potential love interest at the end for sansa Larry - theon Zoe - margaery? Parents - ned and cat

Hunger games Katniss - jon tbh lmao Peeta - sansa Gale - ygritte? daenerys? Prim - arya? Or does it have to be bran/rickon since jon is a boy?? Maybe it’s not a boy/girl tribute thing maybe it’s just any two tributes Haymitch - tyrion? Dontos? Mance rayder? Wyman manderly? Thoughts to be thunk here with who would be in what district if we want to really get crazy Effie - varys lmfao???? Finnick - jaime lannister Johanna - daenerys? Ooooh but could be brienne if you leaned into it maybe President snow - mad king aerys? Beetee - tyrion? Rue - satin?

Grease Sandy - sansa Danny - jon Kenickie - tormund? Mance? Roger - sam Other greasers - pyp, grenn, etc Rizzo - ygritte Frenchy - gilly? Val? Idk ygritte for rizzo is really the only one that resonates i just love grease Fuck actually ygritte as the rizzo to sansa’s sandy is so good that this is worth giving some more thought The wall boys are such lil fucking nerds that they feel right for the delinquent greasers, too Although lbr jon is more of an alfalfa in the he-man woman haters’ club than he is a danny zucko Theon is more of a danny zucko but i don’t know if i want this for theonsa Anyway sansa’s whole family moved and robb is now doing athlete shit with whoever that athlete sandy briefly dates is (harry hardyng?) Is chacha val?????? Maybe arya falls in with the pink ladies first and then sansa gets sort of reluctantly dragged along Arya sings sandra dee at first and then when rizzo starts to join in she’s like wait only i get to make fun of sansa

Mama mia Meryl streep - sansa Pierce brosnan - jon Swedish guy - theon Colin firth - loras tyrell Christine baranski - margaery tyrell Other friend - jeyne poole LMFAO catelyn as cher i just cackled why is that so funny even though it doesn’t make sense

Harry Potter Sirius - jon James - Robb Lily - Jeyne westerling (except is she maybe more of a james figure politically) Petunia (but nice) - sansa Peter - theon Remus - samwell Tarly Vernon (but just dating) - Harry Hardyng Madame hooch - arya Weasleys - sam and gilly

New girl Jess - sansa Cece - margaery Nick - jon Schmidt - robb Winston - theon

10th kingdom Virginia - sansa The wolf - jon Jon larroquette - ned

Goodbye earl Maryanne - sansa Wanda - jeyne Earl - ramsay

Bring it on (for the gays) Torrance - sansa Torrance’s lil brother - arya Big red - margaery // cersei? The clovers - the sand snakes Missy - mya stone? // margaery? Cliff - gendry // willas/loras? Aaron - daenerys

Teenage bounty hunters Sterling - sansa Blair - arya Debbie - cat Dana - lysa Bowser - the hound?

Buffy the vampire slayer Buffy - arya Cordelia - sansa Willow - bran Xander - jon Angel - gendry Amy - jojen (or is jojen tara?) Dawn - rickon (robb is already away at college?)

[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!

[thesocialorgan]

Children's Day is well known across Bharat to lift awareness regarding the rights, education, and welfare of youngsters. it's celebrated on fourteen Gregorian calendar month per annum on the birthday of the primary Prime Minister of Bharat, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, United Nations agency was celebrated to possess been keen on kids. On this present day, several academic and psychological feature programs for youngsters square measure command everywhere Bharat. On fifth Gregorian calendar month 1948, the primary Children's Day was discovered as "Flower Day" by the forerunner of Indian Council of kid Welfare (ICCW) to gather funds for international organisation charm for youngsters (UNAC) through the sale of "flower tokens". On thirty July 1949, "Children's Day" was wide celebrated and publicized through radio, articles, cinema, etc.

In 1951, V. M. Kulkarni, a international organisation welfare Fellow, whereas finishing up a study on the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents within the Britain, accomplished that there was no system to appear when disadvantaged kids of Bharat. impressed by the Flag Day discovered in European country on the birthday of Queen Elizabeth to lift cash for “Save the kid Fund”, Kulkarni given a report recommending that Pandit Nehru’s birthday may be marked as Flag Day for collection funds for NGOs operating for kid welfare in Bharat. once Nehru’s consent was sought-after, he was initially embarrassed then again conceded reluctantly. While Nehru's birthday (14th November) had in public been celebrated everywhere Bharat since 1947,with public conferences being union to pay tribute to him and games for youngsters being command. it absolutely was solely in 1954 that the day was initial celebrated as "Children's Day".More than fifty,000 schoolchildren attended the celebrations in National structure in Delhi.

In 1957, ordinal Gregorian calendar month was formally declared Children’s Day in Bharat by a special government edict.[11] the govt. of India's Department of Posts and Telegraphs issued initial day covers and 3 observance stamps on the occasion of Bal Din ("Children's Day").

Jawaharlal Jawaharlal Nehru was dearly known as Chacha Nehru ("Uncle Nehru") by kids, and their religion in him was a continuing supply of happiness for him. because the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru needed to "create an environment within the country wherever the eye is continually centered on kids and their welfare".He had conjointly established Children's Film Society Bharat in 1955 so Indian kids might see themselves described.

Nehru's concern for youngsters and their welfare, M. O. Mathai wrote in his book My Days With Jawaharlal Nehru (1979), "Nehru saw in their innocent faces and sparkling eyes the long run of Bharat. He was convinced that no quantity of cash spent on kids and their mothers was an excessive amount of, which it absolutely was a sound investment for the long run." once asked by Ram Narayan Chaudhary in AN interview in 1958, if he was keen on kids as a result of the long run of the country relied on the youngsters, Jawaharlal Nehru had replied, "I have continuously felt that the youngsters of nowadays can create the Bharat of tomorrow, and, the means we have a tendency to bring them up can confirm the long run of the country."

This philosophy is expressed within the letters written by him to national leader, his female offspring, once she was a miss. The letters were conjointly revealed as books. Letters from a Father to His female offspring (1929) and Glimpses of World History (1934) have gained fame as children’s non-fiction as a result of, as Deepa Agarwal writes, "any kid will reply to their heat, tender tone and his lucid and spontaneous vogue. The wealth of data woven into them and his distinctive approach to historical facts is one more bonus... human activity humanist values".

Sir director Crocker, however, mentioned in Jawaharlal Nehru's life story Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate (1966) that Nehru failed to extremely have time for or enjoyed the corporate of youngsters. He wrote, "Nehru definitely did some performing on public occasions and before the TV cameras; however ne'er a lot of. The acting was ne'er worse than the create of Cha Cha (Uncle) Jawaharlal Nehru with the youngsters. This was at its worst on his birthday for many years once sycophants organized teams of youngsters, with flowers and copious photographing, to parade with him. it absolutely was out of character; his interest in kids was slender. however his acting was on the bound of his temperament. He failed to faux.

As a tribute to the current nice man and his love for the youngsters, his birthday is well known everywhere Bharat as 'CHILDREN'S DAY'. most colleges have cultural programmes for the day, with the scholars managing it all. everywhere the country, numerous cultural, social, and even company, establishments conduct competitions for youngsters. Children's Day could be a day for youngsters to interact in fun and frolic. colleges celebrate this present day by organizing cultural programmes. academics of the college perform songs and dances for his or her students. Therefore, Children's Day is special. it's daily put aside to recollect Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his love for youngsters.

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our kids can have a better tomorrow" -A.P.J Abdul Kalam