The Planet

Bee wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:49 pm

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:47 pm

skysailor wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:45 pm

Cal Cal Cal Cal I just heard about this anime and I think you need it in your life. The Case Study of Vanitas (a Mochizuki Jun manga! aka the Pandora Hearts mangaka!) is getting an anime adaptation with Yuki Kajiura music and Studio Bones animating and uh seiyuu you probably know that I don't, and also it's vampire bishounen!!! I think the US/subtitle release is on Hulu.

BEE AND I ARE EXTREMELY FANS OF THIS MANGA AND I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE ANIME IT'S SO GOOD SO FAR I'VE ONLY SEEN THE FIRST TWO EPISODES BUT IT'S BASICALLY PERFECT

it IS and I'm also laughing at the reactions of people who don't get it lmfao

people like on hulu or your anime club? or both I guess lol

uuuugh it's so perfect tho i desperately hope they don't ruin it and also get through the whole manga

also can I take a moment to remark that i'm pretty sure they basically just straight up take MochiJun's beautiful scenery spreads and paint over them for the overlook shots in the anime and it's the best choice they could possibly make

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:52 pm

Bee wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:49 pm

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:47 pm

BEE AND I ARE EXTREMELY FANS OF THIS MANGA AND I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE ANIME IT'S SO GOOD SO FAR I'VE ONLY SEEN THE FIRST TWO EPISODES BUT IT'S BASICALLY PERFECT

it IS and I'm also laughing at the reactions of people who don't get it lmfao

people like on hulu or your anime club? or both I guess lol

uuuugh it's so perfect tho i desperately hope they don't ruin it and also get through the whole manga

also can I take a moment to remark that i'm pretty sure they basically just straight up take MochiJun's beautiful scenery spreads and paint over them for the overlook shots in the anime and it's the best choice they could possibly make

everywhere! including crunchyroll and kitsu

it's such a specific niche it bothers people on all sides and I can't stop laughing

Bee wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:54 pm

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:52 pm

Bee wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:49 pm

it IS and I'm also laughing at the reactions of people who don't get it lmfao

people like on hulu or your anime club? or both I guess lol

uuuugh it's so perfect tho i desperately hope they don't ruin it and also get through the whole manga

also can I take a moment to remark that i'm pretty sure they basically just straight up take MochiJun's beautiful scenery spreads and paint over them for the overlook shots in the anime and it's the best choice they could possibly make

everywhere! including crunchyroll and kitsu

it's such a specific niche it bothers people on all sides and I can't stop laughing

I had no idea it was that niche, I feel like all my anime fan friends like said niche so it just parses as "a normal thing to like"

that's kinda hilarious but also makes me worried they won't get more than the twelve episodes due to being too niche aaaaa nooooooooooooo

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Wed 21 Jul, 2021, 6:57 pm

I had no idea it was that niche, I feel like all my anime fan friends like said niche so it just parses as "a normal thing to like"

that's kinda hilarious but also makes me worried they won't get more than the twelve episodes due to being too niche aaaaa nooooooooooooo

I heard it's going to be a 2-cour with the second part coming next year? We shall see

but yeah, apparently people find it really unsettling because it doesn't fit shoujo or shonen genres lol, but that's Gangan for you~

Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune is really good

Bee wrote: ↑

Mon 02 Aug, 2021, 1:38 am

Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune is really good

oh I think I was pondering that before!

I loved ELATSOE by Darcie Little Badger. A really great YA contemporary fantasy with a Lipan Apache protagonist who can raise animal ghosts and is trying to solve her cousin's murder. Super family-focused, asexual protag, no romance, and the magic feels very natural in a modern world. Creepy vibes in a really good way. And of course: ghost dog! Everyone loves ghost dog!

I often find contemp fantasy annoying but Elatsoe really drew me in.

Got to listen to THE EMPRESS OF SALT AND FORTUNE in one sitting and you guys I did not expect to cry at the end

It was FANTASTIC, I’m going to read the other book in the setting next

Going to repeat some books I mentioned the other day on Ping:

Chris Fox, The Dark Lord Bert. Inside a sort of LitRPGish setting an NPC goblin ends up accidentally coming into possession of a Trope (artifacts in the setting which grant power at the cost of having to play to the trope, the other viewpoint character at one point laments being forced to equip the Know It All Trope, which grants a bonus to IQ and knowledge checks but also subtracts from charisma, and thinks on the most Player Character to have the Know It All Trope, Hermione Stranger). All Bert wants is to collect enough coins to buy a warg and become a Warg Rider but gets pulled into events surrounding a team of PCs. There's a sequel, The Dark Lord Bert 2 which deals with the continuing interparty strife when the villains from book 1 come back into the game world with new characters.

Chris has another series I've started, partly because I was bemused by a rantish negative review of No Such Thing As Werewolves that suggested the werewolves in the book were all basically hippie tree huggers (Reading Comprehension, do you have it? Not that reviewer). And while the ancient characters are shocked by a lot of the modern world and frown at the population densities of the modern nations it's not out of being tree huggers who worship nature but because they're looking around going, "Good grief, these poor ignorant fools have no idea they're pouring gasoline over themselves while playing with matches!" Adventure fiction with a science fantasy twist, but it's clear that the author didn't Do The Research on some things (you don't need to be a gun nut to realize some of the firearms details given are, shall we say, not even close to accurate -- this is his first book and he acknowledges his failure to do the research elsewhere while advising to not repeat that mistake). Early work and it shows, on the other hand you can get the first four books as a bundle for $3.99.

Alyssa B Cole, First Year Problems & Shedding Werewolves and Other Miseries. Two short works (9 and 7k respectively) about teachers at a magic school. The first involves a non-magical teacher hired to teach math who has been growing to doubt whether she'll ever fit in at the school. The second involves Sarah and Ben, Ben used to be a non-magical before being bitten by a werewolf. Now he's Runesmith Academy's science teacher and interested in Sarah. Sarah doesn't hate him but she is unfortunately allergic to him.

Not a story, but story analysis: L.M. Lilly, Buffy And The Art of Storytelling. Which walks through the first season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, analyzing the plotting, characterization, etc. The book is based on a series of blog posts and podcasts that Lilly made after discovering that a podcast she'd loved that had done much the same had gone offline. You can listen to the podcasts for free (either downloading them to your favorite podcast app or by pulling them up on youtube).

Bee wrote: ↑

Tue 03 Aug, 2021, 10:01 pm

Got to listen to THE EMPRESS OF SALT AND FORTUNE in one sitting and you guys I did not expect to cry at the end

It was FANTASTIC, I’m going to read the other book in the setting next

I just finished THE EMPRESS OF SALT AND FORTUNE after your recommendation and it was really beautiful. I'll definitely be getting the next!

Also for any ebook readers, it was about £2.50 eg regular ebook price, which is rare from Tor these days even for a novella. So it was extremely good value as well!