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𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲

𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 — M A S T E R L I S T

𝐼𝑘𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑘𝑢

»» Tigers || Masamune Date x Reader

»» Ready as I’ll Ever Be || Ikemen Sengoku x Reader (Song Fiction)

𝐼𝑘𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛

»» London Bridge is Falling Down || Edgar Bright x Reader (Song Fiction)

𝐼𝑘𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑉𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒

»» Melodies Behind the Blinds || Comte St. Germain, Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare x Reader

»» Lady Shut In || Arthur Conan Doyle, Isaac Newton, Napoleon Bonaparte x Reader

𝐼𝑘𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒

»» Unlocked : Her Inner Beast || Leon Dompteur x Reader

»» Moon of Benitoite || Silvio Ricci x Reader

»» Queen of Roses || Chevalier Michel x Reader

»» Catch a Cold || Chevalier Michel x Reader

»» I Got Jade, You Got Rose || Keith Howell x Reader

»» Aphrodite’s Kiss, Meditrina’s Gentle Whispers || Chevalier Michel x Reader

»» Jewel Under the Veil || Licht Klein x Aisha Layla (My OC) (ft. M. Adam Kain [Devon’s OC])

»» Raven, Fox, and Comfort in a Silence || Nokto Klein & M. Adam (Devon’s OC)

»» One Promised Dance || Nokto Klein & M. Adam (Devon’s OC) & Millie Candraningsih (Ando’s OC)

𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠

»» Protect Me, Themis (Cendrillon) || Vyn Richter x Reader

»» Epiphyllum and A Mother’s Wishes || Marius von Hagen x Reader

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝�� 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛

»» Demi Vampire Concept || Ikemen Vampire �� Napoleon Bonaparte Concept

»» Matured by Status and Circumstances || Ikemen Vampire – Leonardo da Vinci Concept

»» Fighting Over the Throne || Ikemen Prince – Chevalier Michel and Clavis Lelouch Concept

𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑦 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟

»» Mitsuhide’s Woman of Choice || Ikemen Sengoku – Mitsuhide Akechi History Talk

— Castle of the Floating Isle’s Lady, Xandra

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deltaengineering · 6 years ago

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Winter Anime 2019 Part 3: High on Concept

If you wait long enough, you’ll find something good to say.

Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue / My Roommate is a Cat

What: Misanthropic mystery author picks up tough stray cat, both get healed.

✅ The cat acts like a cat, the misanthrope acts like a misanthrope.

✅ The approach of telling the same simple story from the perspective of two characters that can’t really communicate effectively is interesting.

✅ This is very basic, but it works. I like both characters, and it's generally inoffensive. Pretty much Barakamon with less of a focus on telling you exactly what to feel. Might watch more of this.

❌ I see we’re now at the point where shows get localized titles that sound like lazy translations of bland Japanese names even when the Japanese title is not that bland to begin with. Lovely.

Dimension High School

What: A bunch of kids press XXX and YYY and are sucked. Wooow.

✅✅ The wraparound segments look extremely realistic. If there was more lensflares and shots of feet I’d almost say someone has finally beaten KyoAni in making anime look like a cheap, egregiously overacted J-Drama.

❌❌ Sadly, the puzzle dimension they end up in just looks like homemade MMD animation, because it is. I mean, at least it’s mocapped, but apparently with a Kinect.

❌❌ E.g., they make jokes about clipping and they kinda have to because everything clips into everything else all the time.

❌❌ Did I mention that all they actually do is solve lame puzzles and fail to be funny about it? It’s really getting to the levels of the dreaded “barely animated voice actor improv podcast” at these points.

♎ Suwabe’s in it, and that’s never an outright bad thing. He’s voicing the quizmaster, in the process proving he’d do anything for a paycheck. I wonder if he has a fiverr acocunt.

Domestic na Kanojo

What: Highschooler loses virginity to one night stand, finds out that it was the sister of the teacher he has a crush on. Incidentally, the mother of both also just married his father. Zany!

✅ This is presented like a low-key, slow drama, and it’s not even bad at that. Some good directing going on here, at least in the beginning.

❌❌ Really just too bad that it’s impossible to take seriously with a setup as contrived as this, not to mention taking it as seriously as it apparently wants to be taken. It’s also not exactly original.

❌ I’m not gonna say that sketchy relationships can’t work (it worked fine for KoiAme, for example), but embedding your suddenly also incestuous pupil-teacher affair in the setting of a harem comedy, complete with other sister walking in on attempted drunk blackout kiss, is not giving me confidence that this has the chops to pull it off.

❌❌ The show this reminds me the most of is Love and Lies, and that’s a real bad calling card to have.

Girly Air Force

What: Girl-shaped fighter jets fall in love with a dude.

❌❌ It’s just another military-hardware-is-cute-girls-actually show in the vein of Strike Witches, the kind where they think that having a few plane CG models is already thrilling content.

❌❌ But then it doesn’t even turn out to be that in practice, because most of the episode is taken up by lame “worldbuilding” (i.e., coming up with excuses for why your fanservice show has to be the way it is) and trying to make your bland harem lead interesting, which is a futile endeavour.

❌ The most interesting part is still the CG dogfighting, such as it is. It’s not great either. Also, girly planes are pink.

♎ Honestly got a laugh out of them randomly picking a Gripen as heroine unit in addition to actual JSADF hardware, because that’s a sleek-looking plane. The biggest prank the JSADF ever pulled on the otaku industry is buying the chubby F-35, which is nowhere to be seen here.

Go-toubun no Hanayome / The Quintessential Quintuplets

What: Empoverished highschooler is hired as a tutor for some rich quintuplets with large breasts.

❌ This is a blatant harem setup that would make a 2003 bishoujo VN blush.

✅ However, in practice it’s much better than it sounds. It knows it’s a wacky romcom with a dumb premise and it does not pretend otherwise.

✅ So it’s lighthearted, but it’s also surprisingly classy. In fact, it’s classier than Domestic no Kanojo, which is a show that’s actually trying to look respectable and failing.

✅ The relationships are also very feisty, with an energy that a comedy needs. There’s a lot of sass to go around here. Probably the best of these I’ve seen in a while, so I’ll give it three eps.

Kemurikusa

What: After getting pulled off the sequel, the Kemono Friends crew made their own version. Presumably there are blackjack and hookers in this show’s future.

❌ If you are a fan of KF’s “charms”, fear not, you would not be able to tell these people made another anime before. It's still total amateur hour.

❌❌ It’s not even the “looks”, though those certainly are not a highlight. The design is okay and the animation is bad, but I’m not incapable of enjoying shows with bad animation. What really kills it is the editing. I usually don’t comment on editing because that’s almost always competent and only very rarely great, but Kemurikusa has uniquely lazy and badly timed editing. Every shot being seconds longer than it needs to be is already an annoyance in low-key dialog scenes, but the alleged action is laughable and allows you a long, unblinking stare at every frame of bad animation. I really do wonder why they even bother with it when it’s so terrible.

✅ The setting seems alright, even though it’s just a reskinned Kemono Friends. At least it’s not gijinka nonsense this time (which makes one wonder where the gimmick characters are supposed to come from, but I digress), and it’s more upfront about what it actually is too. I’d call it mildly intriguing.

❌ I don’t mind mystery and certainly prefer it to exposition bombs, but instead of that this episode quickly establishes the most basic facts... and then repeats them over and over and over some more. Combined with non-editing, this makes for horrible pacing.

♎ I had no opinion on KF’s longer-term qualities, because the first episode was so boring I never got any further. I won’t have an opinion on this show’s long-term qualities for the same reason.

Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka

What: Magical girls are tragic, shoot gun’s.

❌❌ Yo bro, what if magical girls but dark? Surely such a thing has never been attempted.

❌ The particular source of grim here is that these girls are war vets and fight with semi-realistic weaponry, so there’s a fair bit of the ol’ milwank in this one as well.

❌ The best part of the entire show is that the enemies they originally fought looked like cute teddy bears. Of course, this is dropped in favor of just slicing and dicing some random terrorists in the main narrative. I guess “dark magical girl” is still too outlandish a concept, gotta go with ripping off The Punisher again.

❌ The characters so far are nothing special, you got your PTSD Rambo and the generically cute tomodachis she swears to protect. Such contrast!

❌❌ If you must make these 80s action movies with some otaku gimmick pasted on top, would you mind making the action look good at least? Because I don’t care how many gallons of blood you paint in your dramatic but conspicuously non-moving pans.

Meiji Tokyo Renka

What: Spiritually sensitive lonelygirl gets kitsuned to the Meiji era, which is full of delicious beef and some handsome men too I guess.

✅ This isn’t an outright comedy, but it goes all in on everyone’s fabulosity level to a degree that it’s really already three quarters to Dame x Prince.

✅ Similarly, the lead is not quite as unimpressed with these hams as Ani was, but she certainly has a lot more interest in roast beef than in these guys always trying to pull her into sparkly chin-holding poses &c.

✅ Meiji Tokyo Renka doesn’t seem to be anything special, but it gets the tone right and is expressive enough to not become boring.

♎ While certainly watchable right now, with these there’s always the chance that it decides to launch into real drama in the long run, which in turn almost always goes wrong.

Yakusoku no Neverland / The Promised Neverland

What: An orphanage’s happy daily life gets upended by the realisation that they’re just pizza rolls for some demonic entities.

✅ I watched this right after Kemurikusa and let me tell you, it sure helps if you’ve got professionals on the team. This is a highly competent show as far as cinematography and editing is concerned. While there isn’t any reason to go all out on the action sakuga, this show looks real good.

❌ I’m not feeling the character design, to be specific I think everyone’s chin is too big. This sounds like a real assholy nitpick, but be aware that this will impact around 90% of the time you watch this.

✅ The premise is workable for a shounen manga, even if hardly original (remember Owari no Seraph?) At least it’s not kids with superpowers spamming beams at each other while discussing the nature of heroism, and seems to be going for a more mindgames-based approach in the vein of Death Note. The characters are just barely good enough so far. In the end it’s not so much the premise, but how well the production values are able to sell it. And that’s what Neverland is good at.

❌ It’s specifically a Weekly Shounen Jump manga, and that is huge red flag. Sure enough, while the visuals and mood deliver, the dialog writing justifiably assumes the reader is a moron. Almost every line in this is either straight universe exposition or someone reading someone else’s character sheet back to them. It’s insane and not even necessary because their actions establish all of this just fine, but hey, WSJ readers amirite?

❌ Also, since it’s a successful WSJ property, don’t expect an ending or be prepared to watch this show for years. Most likely both.

♎ This seems like it could be entertaining once the exposition is out of the way and the real meat of the narrative starts. Then again, at that point pacing would come into play, which is yet another achilles heel of WSJ-style shounen manga. Against my better judgement, I’ll probably have a look how this develops, but I don’t expect much.

#anime #winter2019 #impressions #meiji tokyo renka #yakusoku no neverland #the promised neverland #Doukyonin wa Hiza Tokidoki Atama no Ue #My Roommate is a Cat #dimension high school #domestic na kanojo #girly air force #go-toubun no hanayome #the quintessential quintuplets #Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka

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nightkarmaqueen · 3 years ago

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𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞

𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 — R U L E S

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 :

𝟷. 𝙵𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝟸. 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚜 (𝟹 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝, 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙼𝙻𝚀𝙲 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝙾𝚃 ) 𝟹. 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝟺. 𝙰𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚄𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎 (𝙰𝚄) 𝟻. 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 (𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜).

𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 :

𝟷. 𝙸𝚔𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 : 𝚊. 𝙸𝚔𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚘𝚔𝚞 𝚋. 𝙸𝚔𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚌. 𝙸𝚔𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚍. 𝙸𝚔𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚎. 𝙸𝚔𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗 (𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚘𝚡 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚗) 𝟸. 𝚃𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚜 𝟹. 𝙼𝚛. 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 : 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗’𝚜 𝙲𝚑𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝟺. 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚒 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚍 : 𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚃𝚈 𝟻. 𝙾𝚋𝚎𝚢 𝙼𝚎! – 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚁𝚞𝚕𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝟼. 𝙼𝚎𝚒𝚓𝚒 𝚃𝚘𝚔𝚢𝚘 𝚁𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚊 𝟽. 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝙸𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚝 (𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢).

𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 :

𝟷. 𝙿𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝. 𝙸 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚞𝚗. 𝙸 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎.

𝟸. 𝙸 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙽𝚂𝙵𝚆, 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚢 (𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚁𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚖), 𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜.

𝟹. 𝙸 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚡 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛, 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚡 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛.

𝟺. 𝙿𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝.

𝟻. 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛-𝚗𝚎𝚞𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕.

𝟼. 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚑�� 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝙸'𝚖 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚝.

𝟽. 𝙻𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚢, 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚎 𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚏𝚞𝚕.

— Castle of the Floating Isle’s Lady, Xandra

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