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daeva_neesan) wrote2009-10-10 11:55 pm
daeva_neesan) wrote2009-10-10 11:55 pm
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Romics 2009 - Day 2 Report
[this post is backdated for my convenience-- sorry for late]
So, I must confess that today has been far less productive than yesterday, mostly because I was with friends -male friends- who were focused on getting porn doujinshi more than exploring the anime media.
And since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pigreco had to go before the end of some events that I wanted to attend, I just had to give up on my pretty schedule and follow them around.
It's been useful though, because I managed to visit the stands properly and buy some more things that intrigued me.
The only event I managed to attend despite my friends has been the screening of the second part of Gurren-Lagann movie, that I proceed to review you.
This second part of the Gurren saga starts with a bothering "summary" of the fight against Lord Genome and switches forward to Kamina City's building together with our heroes growing up: the deal is written as a "letter" to Kamina by a grown-up Nia.
The actual movie starts when Simon asks Nia to marry him and the whole Anti-Spiral stuff starts.
It's all relatively faithful to the series, BUT for Rossiu. Rossiu had tragically little screentime in the first movie and here it's even worse!
Did you remember that epic "CLENCH YOUR TEETH!" scene, with Simon punching his boy to reason, as Kamina did to him?
Well, FORGET IT. Here you have Simon getting in Rossiu's OFFICE where the guy is trying to kill himself for his failures, he tells him to stop, Rossiu gunpoints at Simon, then Kinon arrives and she slapped Rossiu, making him *thump* against the window and crying some shit about her feelings.
IT SUCKED and Rossiu looked truly pathetic. I mean, he looked pathetic also when Simon punched him in the series, but there was a completely different feeling from it: can you compare a manly punch from your boss to a slap from the girl who likes you?
After this we went to the fight against the anti-Spirals and get some serious WTF moments.
We were already used to the "gattai" and multi-spiraled overboarding, where drills have DRILLS coming out of !!DRILLS!! and the fighters ending up throwing planets and galaxies to each other.
You wouldn't believe it, but here it GOES OVER: every character got their "Gurren-Lagann" mecha version of each others, even Nia and Yoko with boobs-launching, there's further gattai, further mecha gigantism, and in the end you have a pure battle of wills, starting with a Lilith-like Kamina and ending up with mere Simon and Anti-Spiral Boss punching at each other on the verge of Nothing.
It was a little TOO MUCH. But I probably got this impression because of the bothering and fidgetting Zagor fans in the pavillion, waiting for the movie to be over so that they can fanboying over their hero, definitely not the best surrounding to enjoy such a bosterous anime-- Anyway it really felt like it was going on for TOO LONG-- As when your partner insists on smexing you when you just had your own orgasm already, you know?
Other differences with the series is that Boota doesn't turn into a cute shota furry, nor EVERYONE dies: just Kittan after he's been kissed by poor Yoko (the producers said that Kamina died virgin; I wonder if also Yoko did)... And Lord Genome gets more screentime, fighting around and hacking the Anti-Spirals base via polygons....
After the EPIC fight, the general ending that we already know, with Nia evaporating after kissing her groom and Simon leaving the Civilization to drill holes in the desert.
If you'd like to read some further considerations on it, I suggest you this article I found on Otaku2-- I expecially appreciated its analysis of the female casts and the considerations over escapism despite the absolute glorification of Will.
Ah, in case you're curious, I just found that the animation from the prologue of Guren-hen comes from an OVA released in 2008 (*sighs*)-- I found the video on Youtube, and I'm now sharing Lord Genome's awesomeness!
And as usual I close this post with my buyings.
I DIDN'T WANT TO, but in the end I decided to buy Akame by Sanpei Shirato and I gave a chance to the epic The Phoenix by Tezuka.
Akame is the only work of Shirato actually published in Italy, so I HAD TO BUY it, also if I didn't agree to a page of it because of its extreme ruthless towards authority and criticism towards religious movements... I love Shirato and his dark views on human society, but when he gets so politicized and blatant he just bothers me.
On the other hand Tezuka's work is plain AWESOME. I bought this out of curiosity but now I'm totally hooked: good that the books are "autoconclusive", so I can buy just those I'm intrigued with, since buying all of them is actually impossible since the outrageous prices...
And that's all for this year :D
See you on 2010, Nuova Fiera di Roma.
So, I must confess that today has been far less productive than yesterday, mostly because I was with friends -male friends- who were focused on getting porn doujinshi more than exploring the anime media.And since
pigreco had to go before the end of some events that I wanted to attend, I just had to give up on my pretty schedule and follow them around.It's been useful though, because I managed to visit the stands properly and buy some more things that intrigued me.
The only event I managed to attend despite my friends has been the screening of the second part of Gurren-Lagann movie, that I proceed to review you.
This second part of the Gurren saga starts with a bothering "summary" of the fight against Lord Genome and switches forward to Kamina City's building together with our heroes growing up: the deal is written as a "letter" to Kamina by a grown-up Nia.
The actual movie starts when Simon asks Nia to marry him and the whole Anti-Spiral stuff starts.
It's all relatively faithful to the series, BUT for Rossiu. Rossiu had tragically little screentime in the first movie and here it's even worse!
Did you remember that epic "CLENCH YOUR TEETH!" scene, with Simon punching his boy to reason, as Kamina did to him?
Well, FORGET IT. Here you have Simon getting in Rossiu's OFFICE where the guy is trying to kill himself for his failures, he tells him to stop, Rossiu gunpoints at Simon, then Kinon arrives and she slapped Rossiu, making him *thump* against the window and crying some shit about her feelings.
IT SUCKED and Rossiu looked truly pathetic. I mean, he looked pathetic also when Simon punched him in the series, but there was a completely different feeling from it: can you compare a manly punch from your boss to a slap from the girl who likes you?
After this we went to the fight against the anti-Spirals and get some serious WTF moments.
We were already used to the "gattai" and multi-spiraled overboarding, where drills have DRILLS coming out of !!DRILLS!! and the fighters ending up throwing planets and galaxies to each other.
You wouldn't believe it, but here it GOES OVER: every character got their "Gurren-Lagann" mecha version of each others, even Nia and Yoko with boobs-launching, there's further gattai, further mecha gigantism, and in the end you have a pure battle of wills, starting with a Lilith-like Kamina and ending up with mere Simon and Anti-Spiral Boss punching at each other on the verge of Nothing.
It was a little TOO MUCH. But I probably got this impression because of the bothering and fidgetting Zagor fans in the pavillion, waiting for the movie to be over so that they can fanboying over their hero, definitely not the best surrounding to enjoy such a bosterous anime-- Anyway it really felt like it was going on for TOO LONG-- As when your partner insists on smexing you when you just had your own orgasm already, you know?
Other differences with the series is that Boota doesn't turn into a cute shota furry, nor EVERYONE dies: just Kittan after he's been kissed by poor Yoko (the producers said that Kamina died virgin; I wonder if also Yoko did)... And Lord Genome gets more screentime, fighting around and hacking the Anti-Spirals base via polygons....
After the EPIC fight, the general ending that we already know, with Nia evaporating after kissing her groom and Simon leaving the Civilization to drill holes in the desert.
If you'd like to read some further considerations on it, I suggest you this article I found on Otaku2-- I expecially appreciated its analysis of the female casts and the considerations over escapism despite the absolute glorification of Will.
Ah, in case you're curious, I just found that the animation from the prologue of Guren-hen comes from an OVA released in 2008 (*sighs*)-- I found the video on Youtube, and I'm now sharing Lord Genome's awesomeness!
And as usual I close this post with my buyings.
I DIDN'T WANT TO, but in the end I decided to buy Akame by Sanpei Shirato and I gave a chance to the epic The Phoenix by Tezuka.
Akame is the only work of Shirato actually published in Italy, so I HAD TO BUY it, also if I didn't agree to a page of it because of its extreme ruthless towards authority and criticism towards religious movements... I love Shirato and his dark views on human society, but when he gets so politicized and blatant he just bothers me.
On the other hand Tezuka's work is plain AWESOME. I bought this out of curiosity but now I'm totally hooked: good that the books are "autoconclusive", so I can buy just those I'm intrigued with, since buying all of them is actually impossible since the outrageous prices...
And that's all for this year :D
See you on 2010, Nuova Fiera di Roma.