February 21, 2008
Anime Night: It's not called "No Ear".
Last week's Anime Night was canceled, as The Librarian was attending a convention (those librarian conventions seem to be quite the wild times... who knew all the things you could do with whipped cream?). THIS week's Anime Night was nearly D.O.A. due to ickness (on both of our parts, actually), but we soldiered forth and jumped into disc 2 of NOIR.
And then The Librarian fell asleep. Her cold really knocked her for a loop, and in her defense, it was warm in The Pond, and the Official Afghan made her feel snug, and the Official Wingchair is really comfy... and she dozed off. Restraining my first impulse (Sharpie Marker Eyebrows FTW!), I instead paused the show and cleaned up the dinner dishes.
When she woke up a few minutes later ("What time is it?"), I couldn't let Impulse #2 go by ("930pm..." Please note, it was 715pm).
"But what about the anime," I hear you yelling...
Kill it! Kill it with fire!!!
Have you ever noticed that it seems difficult for anime to accurately represent cats? This one looks like a BEM, for heaven's sake. So what does Kirika think of this creature?
Awwww... kitty!
Don't enjoy this picture for too long... I think it's the only time in the series that the youthful assassin actually smiles. Come to think of it, the first episode of this week's viewing is the only one of the night where she's not suffering from multiple bullet wounds.
Not that mere gutshots can slow down our superhuman schoolgirl... heck, it just gives her a reason to pull out that most deadliest of weapons:
ID Cards don't kill people...
Yup, she actually removes that kneeling guy's trachea with her high-school ID card. Neat trick, actually. Mirelle calls Kirika's methods of death-dealing "vulgar", but the fact of the matter is that she's just jealous.
Not everybody can cause serious bodily harm with an ice-cream cone, after all.
"She's going to make some guy very happy in the future..."
"Should we be seeing this?"
Still, our two teammates are great together, right?
"Why is it always whipped-cream?"
It's not what it looks like. Really and truly, cross my heart and hope to die!
What, did CLAMP have something to do with this show?
The truth of the matter is that The Librarian and I are enjoying this show quite a bit; we're both dealing with illness, however, so this week wasn't quite as zippy with the one-liners. The best of them ("What are those nuns ON?") doesn't make any sense unless you hear the audio that spawned it (and I can't find it online)... that's just the sort of night it was.
It wouldn't be a showing of NOIR, however, without The Great Plant Conspiracy rearing it's ugly head. This was the last shot of the last episode on DVD #2, which is the ONLY time the girls are in their Paris garret:
"Turn the plant... turn the plant..."
You didn't believe us when we said that the plant was the driving force behind the show...
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And then The Librarian fell asleep. Her cold really knocked her for a loop, and in her defense, it was warm in The Pond, and the Official Afghan made her feel snug, and the Official Wingchair is really comfy... and she dozed off. Restraining my first impulse (Sharpie Marker Eyebrows FTW!), I instead paused the show and cleaned up the dinner dishes.
When she woke up a few minutes later ("What time is it?"), I couldn't let Impulse #2 go by ("930pm..." Please note, it was 715pm).
"But what about the anime," I hear you yelling...
Kill it! Kill it with fire!!!
Have you ever noticed that it seems difficult for anime to accurately represent cats? This one looks like a BEM, for heaven's sake. So what does Kirika think of this creature?
Awwww... kitty!
Don't enjoy this picture for too long... I think it's the only time in the series that the youthful assassin actually smiles. Come to think of it, the first episode of this week's viewing is the only one of the night where she's not suffering from multiple bullet wounds.
Not that mere gutshots can slow down our superhuman schoolgirl... heck, it just gives her a reason to pull out that most deadliest of weapons:
ID Cards don't kill people...
Yup, she actually removes that kneeling guy's trachea with her high-school ID card. Neat trick, actually. Mirelle calls Kirika's methods of death-dealing "vulgar", but the fact of the matter is that she's just jealous.
Not everybody can cause serious bodily harm with an ice-cream cone, after all.
"She's going to make some guy very happy in the future..."
"Should we be seeing this?"
Still, our two teammates are great together, right?
"Why is it always whipped-cream?"
It's not what it looks like. Really and truly, cross my heart and hope to die!
What, did CLAMP have something to do with this show?
The truth of the matter is that The Librarian and I are enjoying this show quite a bit; we're both dealing with illness, however, so this week wasn't quite as zippy with the one-liners. The best of them ("What are those nuns ON?") doesn't make any sense unless you hear the audio that spawned it (and I can't find it online)... that's just the sort of night it was.
It wouldn't be a showing of NOIR, however, without The Great Plant Conspiracy rearing it's ugly head. This was the last shot of the last episode on DVD #2, which is the ONLY time the girls are in their Paris garret:
"Turn the plant... turn the plant..."
You didn't believe us when we said that the plant was the driving force behind the show...
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Anime cats don't look like right, don't act right, don't sound right.
It's not just cats, either--it's almost as if anime artists have never been around any furry animal, but have only seen them in books.
I'd love to see a show where the animators spent some time observing actual cats or dogs, and made them act right and look right.
Not even human-animal mixes work right. For instance, Inuyasha doesn't act like a dog very much or very often, only a minor tic now and then. They missed a huge payoff by not having Kagome discover that she could get him to roll over by rubbing his tummy, then make his leg thump by scratching his ribs.
In the otherwise well-drawn Spice and Wolf, when Horo pets her tail, she strokes it tip to base; that is, against the natural lay of the fur. This does not ruffle the fur at all. I've never seen any furry critter do that, except to expose a specific spot of skin, which is then closely inspected for fleas and ferociously nibbled at. It'd be great to see Horo do that.
There's a show about a cat-girl cop (title mercifully forgotten, she had four ears, two human and two cat) whose most significant cat behavior was to go chasing after the bouncing shells in a firefight. That was amusing once or twice, but they never did anything else with it, and it got old.
Oh gods, I'm seeing an adorable little cat-girl loli curled up in a big cardboard box, chin exposed for scritching, or with her tail curled over her eyes....
Hollywood movies don't get cat behavior or sounds right,either. Disturbed cats never, in my experience, make that MGRROUW! squalling you always hear--they just disappear as quickly and quietly as they can. You have to actually step on them to get the noise. I believe that there must be a standard cat screech that the Foley guys splice in whenever a cat appears, like the Wilhelm scream.
I've never seen a movie-cat jump three feet straight up when startled, either. That'd be a great cat-girl effect. I'd also love to see a recently transformed cat-girl try to dive under a cabinet she's now too big to fit under, or jump up a table that can no longer hold her....
No movie or anime I know of has ever shown a cat defending its household by stalking and disemboweling the dangerous paper towel monster. I'm thinking of that cat-girl cop again, only grappling with a real bad-guy....
I'd also like to see a cat being petted by someone who knows that cat well enough to scritch it in the right spots, which can make cats do all sorts of amusing things--make weird faces and strange noises, nibble on another hand held in front of them, or do that rapid-fire scratching thing with the back leg.
The gods only know what an accurately animated duck would be like.
It's not just cats, either--it's almost as if anime artists have never been around any furry animal, but have only seen them in books.
I'd love to see a show where the animators spent some time observing actual cats or dogs, and made them act right and look right.
Not even human-animal mixes work right. For instance, Inuyasha doesn't act like a dog very much or very often, only a minor tic now and then. They missed a huge payoff by not having Kagome discover that she could get him to roll over by rubbing his tummy, then make his leg thump by scratching his ribs.
In the otherwise well-drawn Spice and Wolf, when Horo pets her tail, she strokes it tip to base; that is, against the natural lay of the fur. This does not ruffle the fur at all. I've never seen any furry critter do that, except to expose a specific spot of skin, which is then closely inspected for fleas and ferociously nibbled at. It'd be great to see Horo do that.
There's a show about a cat-girl cop (title mercifully forgotten, she had four ears, two human and two cat) whose most significant cat behavior was to go chasing after the bouncing shells in a firefight. That was amusing once or twice, but they never did anything else with it, and it got old.
Oh gods, I'm seeing an adorable little cat-girl loli curled up in a big cardboard box, chin exposed for scritching, or with her tail curled over her eyes....
Hollywood movies don't get cat behavior or sounds right,either. Disturbed cats never, in my experience, make that MGRROUW! squalling you always hear--they just disappear as quickly and quietly as they can. You have to actually step on them to get the noise. I believe that there must be a standard cat screech that the Foley guys splice in whenever a cat appears, like the Wilhelm scream.
I've never seen a movie-cat jump three feet straight up when startled, either. That'd be a great cat-girl effect. I'd also love to see a recently transformed cat-girl try to dive under a cabinet she's now too big to fit under, or jump up a table that can no longer hold her....
No movie or anime I know of has ever shown a cat defending its household by stalking and disemboweling the dangerous paper towel monster. I'm thinking of that cat-girl cop again, only grappling with a real bad-guy....
I'd also like to see a cat being petted by someone who knows that cat well enough to scritch it in the right spots, which can make cats do all sorts of amusing things--make weird faces and strange noises, nibble on another hand held in front of them, or do that rapid-fire scratching thing with the back leg.
The gods only know what an accurately animated duck would be like.
Posted by: refugee at February 23, 2008 09:58 PM (8hipT)
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Refugee, while she's not a catgirl, Makoto (the fox-girl) in the remake of Kanon does jump when startled (and winds up clinging to the door of a fridge).
As far as a correctly-animated duck goes, it'd be awesome.
Posted by: Wonderduck at February 23, 2008 11:38 PM (UdB9M)
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