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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Netflix canned Bebop after one season.

It's not that bad, but when you see Ed, you recognize it's for the best.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

RWBY rewatch started.

Oh God that Volume 1 theme rocks so hard.


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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Black Rock Shooter sure has some weird ass Madoka vibes (and the good and bad that comes with them), but this is miles better than Boogiepop was.

For one, I got through an episode without getting up felling bored and wandering around...funny how that helps.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

I understand why they killed off Penny at the end of Volume 8. But, given the rigamarole of giving her the Winter Maiden powers, THEN the bullshit of giving her a human body, just to kill her off and give Winter the powers anyway...that is some roundabout storytelling. I suppose they didn't want the utter shock of Pyrrha all over again, but it's some weird backwards logic.

In the end, it made Winter uber badass as the tradeoff, so I suppose I'll live.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

I gave up on Boogiepop. Pretty boring to be honest. Though I should have guessed that when I started taking 2-3 days off between episodes. Got tipped off to something called Black Rock Shooter. I know of it due to the Hatsune Miku tie-in, but never saw the show itself.

Gives me a short show to watch before diving back into RWBY from the beginning.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Alice, you are the best.

"Die for me!"
"JUST DIE ALREADY!"
"Just die"

pokes everything.

Her stat base is hilarious too.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

9

The banter between the characters was great for an RPG from that era. Maxim/Selan were a great twosome, and had some cool bits of character driven drama. The Sinistrals themselves are Thanos-level threats, and do NOT fuck around.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Fire Breath
Bufula
Mazionga
Wind Breath
Mahama
Mudoon
Restore (light MP recovery on Weakness)

Yeah. This setup is gonna get me far.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

I mean, I can buy Serge being a lanky ass 135 lbs, but he seems at least a solid 15-25 lbs heavier, since he has a muscular set of arms and legs.

I mean, how the fuck else can he go Flash style running with that heavy ass dual sword?

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

It took a few rough episodes, but Boogiepop finally started approaching good. I think I can finish it and watch the remake soon...but it was tough for those middle episodes.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Made some decent progress. Level 32, fought some hard bosses around a "Container Yard" and Mitebashi (spelling).

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Both games are different, so it is fine to play both.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

HD Riddel...gimme. My first gaming crush.

Everything else except the music, take it or leave it.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

SMTV is life. Depressing, dangerous life.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

I know IMDB says Regi Davis portrays Goko, but that is such a "Keith David" sound to his voice, you'd forgive me for being confused the whole fucking time.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Oof. That Tokyo Diet building boss wasn't fun.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

PS4 launcher for HIDIVE when? I cancelled my subscription because of that.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Made progress to the Tokyo Diet Building. I "released" the four gods, and uh...bad idea. A giant fuck off tiger one shit me going down a hill.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

I forget which one of these I watched. I think it was Lain, but MAL says I watched this and gave it a 6. I don't remember either....

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

The original. First episode.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Boogiepop Phantom...ok then. That was different. Might stick with this one.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

The Good

Episodes 5 & 8: They retold the Jet losing his arm/dirty cop thing and Pierrot Le Fou about as well as you could in live action. The guy playing Le Fou just chewed the scenery, and got the laugh down perfectly. When the show wants to, it gets some really heavy, down and dirty things right.

Spike/Jet: Spike and Jet's actors are amazing. They inhabit the characters the way you'd hope they would. Jet has some weird Barret from FF7 vibes with a "family man" sort of schtick, but given the subtext about trust issues and ex-wives and shit, I can buy it. He still comes off as a hardass, and Spike just has the cool factor intact. They really hold everything together.

The look and feel: Everything looks and feels like a seedy, old school dirty ass crime drama/comedy. The cinematography choices and such are...not great (will get to), but from the music, to the look, to the effects they present, this is as close to Bebop you can get while trying to get a more dirty, grounded crime thriller across.

The Bad

Faye/Vicious/Julia: I think reinterpretations of characters are fine. But there's also a bit of suspsension of disbelief that is a bridge too far. Faye is too jovial, Vicious is too much of a simp/daddy issues kind of guy, and Julia until the ending where she shoots Spike and takes over is portrayed very meekly and subserviant. Sure, that is what the story was calling for, but I dunno. That said, there is still room for them to adhere to Bebop episodes while bringing in some new ideas for Season 2. I don't completely hate the new directions. The issue is the gulf between what Vicious and Julia WERE, versus how these characters are supposed to BE. The actors are really good, but they aren't the "characters" you'd think they would be. Something amiss. I know some have mentioned the "no Spike Faye tension." I'm not really bothered, because the anime rarely if ever alluded to romance between them. Add in the hyperfocus on Julia and Spike, I am ok they chose not to bother.

Weird camera angles/zoom ins/close ups: This really feels like some low grade TV junk from a camera shooting perspective. For all the adherence to the visual and music flair, they really went for some odd ass "OOOH LOOK AT THE WEIRDNESS" camera angles on occasion. It works for stuff like Episode 6, but part of why Vicious comes off a bit of a try hard douche rather than an a hardened assassin is the camera zooming on him laughing or some off kilter shots to come off as "wacky"

Tone of the Show: They went for a 65/35 comedy/drama split here. The anime was solidly 70/30 drama/comedy. As cool as some of the banter was, it really kills the stakes at play when they are in a mission and cracking jokes. There's still some serious moments though. It just doesn't stick the landing when the anime was full of dry humor that wasn't trying to be funny or be a comedy. So it's a mental disconnect. In subplots or funny asides, the banter works and can lighten the mood. Jet and Spike definitely have chemistry.

The Ugly

Ed: I mean...what can you even do? She's a comic relief character in the anime, and there's no way you can even do her in live action properly. But...even in the worst nightmares could you have conjured THAT up. She is exactly as she should be, and that's the frighttening thing. You know she's going to be in way more...oh god.

Still, I enjoyed what they were going for. I didn't completely hate the show (and give them some credit for at least trying not to strictly adhere to the anime). But doing so causes some problems, and I can already tell a lot of people are less fond of it than I was.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

That ending was...something all right. If I didn't have to go to work, I'd get all my thoughts down now, but uh...

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I saw Ed...and she sucks...and she looks like the devil, and I never want to see it again.

Show's still good...sort of.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Faye feels way too playful/joyful/comedic. The show in general goes for a more laissez-faire attitude. And that's fine. The comedy they do have works (and it's not like the serious parts aren't serious). I just feel the tone is 65/35 comedy/drama where the anime was 70/30 drama/comedy. That might be where the disconnect is. The show FEELS like Bebop, but the tone isn't what we're used to. The anime was more dry humor. This is definitely going in the witty banter route. Even Vicious gets weird funny lines, and comes off less imposing as a result. Faye comes off less intense and more jovial hunter ish too...just different.

I'm noticing the cinematography and camera angles also don't feel very sharp. Like they are intentionally trying to look low rent or B-movie-ish. Makes it look very low rent or cheap. Probably a design choice...but off putting at times.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

They got Paul Eiding (Colonel Campbell) to play Lucifer? Dude...no wonder he was so imposing.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass

Well...fuck me. Episode 8 was certainly a thing. Beats out Episode 5 for sure. And...hoo boy. That's a lot of blood.

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"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass