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Quick Fandom/Media Recap
Aug. 20th, 2018 05:38 pm* Banana Fish anime: I've just started watching this and it's a really good adaptation! I really recommend it to all BF fans. The style and story are very like the manga. It's modernized, which I think was a mistake, but if you ignore the smart phones, it doesn't show much. It also moves really fast, but it kind of has to. Overall, nice production values, very true to the source.
* Fifth Mirage play: I can only squee in vain about this until it's out on DVD, probably in six months or so, but it's been fun to read the spoilers. It sounds mostly good. A great gift to any Mirage of Blaze fan.
* Legend of the Galactic Heroes: the most interesting boring story ever. I've been reading in this a bit after watching the anime a bit. I owe it a whole post, but lacking time will say I am impressed with its audacity in daring to read like a history textbook. And it evidently made this work because it's a huge, perennial hit in Japan. Reminds me of War and Peace minus the intense introspection and women.
* Love, a sci-fi movie about a guy stuck alone on the International Space Station. This is well worth seeing. A very impressive low budget, indie project. It deserves a separate write-up too. It's also an amazing study in white male privilege, and by saying this I do not mean in any way to take away from its being a good movie. It's just... even more white male than 2001: A Space Odyssey, to which it pays relentless homage.
* Fifth Mirage play: I can only squee in vain about this until it's out on DVD, probably in six months or so, but it's been fun to read the spoilers. It sounds mostly good. A great gift to any Mirage of Blaze fan.
* Legend of the Galactic Heroes: the most interesting boring story ever. I've been reading in this a bit after watching the anime a bit. I owe it a whole post, but lacking time will say I am impressed with its audacity in daring to read like a history textbook. And it evidently made this work because it's a huge, perennial hit in Japan. Reminds me of War and Peace minus the intense introspection and women.
* Love, a sci-fi movie about a guy stuck alone on the International Space Station. This is well worth seeing. A very impressive low budget, indie project. It deserves a separate write-up too. It's also an amazing study in white male privilege, and by saying this I do not mean in any way to take away from its being a good movie. It's just... even more white male than 2001: A Space Odyssey, to which it pays relentless homage.
