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Conventional Wisdom: Tiger & Bunny 5
🕑 Added 2015-11-10 06:04:35 +0000 UTC It's funny that I started off the Tiger & Bunny comics with the observation that it was different from western superhero stories, only to have my biggest complaint be EXACTLY my problem with most mainstream superhero stories: It kept getting too bogged down in the melodrama to, you know, actually do HERO stuff. All in all, I think my favorite part of the whole thing was the first movie. I know, I know, it was half stock footage, but that version of the first two episodes flowed a lot better than the TV versions, and devoting the whole final act to actual HEROICS was way more enjoyable than all the gloomy angst that kept threatening to overpower the show. I guess the argument would be that this is meant to subvert the simplistic superhero cliches and show what it'd REALLY be like... but like I said, it seems like EVERY superhero adaptation tries to inject heaping tons of angst. If you REALLY want to do something unexpected, just let the heroes be good guys and beat up the bad guys. NO ONE seems to do that anymore! (And yeah, I get that people standing in one spot staring pensively is easier to do on a TV production schedule than constant action, but that doesn't make it more entertaining)Oh, and totally leaving the a massive plot thread unresolved. There's that too.
Well, that's all for Tiger & Bunny! Hope you all enjoyed it! Next up is The Devil is a Part-Timer... though I'm not sure when it'll actually start. Depending on how long it takes me to draw up the AUSA comics, THAT might end up being all that goes up next week. I try not to start drawing comics until I've seen the whole show, or at least most of it (don't wanna complain about something that gets addressed latter, ya know?) and I probably won;t have time to do that until said AUSA comics are finished. I dunno, we'll see...
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Simon Ladd
Well, it's not as if I HATED the show. All in all, it was good. I just wish the parts I didn't like (iffy writting, uneven pacing) hadn't dragged down the parts I did (solid superhero action) Speaking of action, I REALLY need to watch One Punch Man. I've heard very little that isn't good.
BrakusJS
I've pretty much made Tiger & Bunny my favorite anime from early on in the decade. You've probably seen me around conventions in the past 4 years probably wearing a T&B tee shirt or wearing Kotetsu's nice hat or somesuch. The first T&B movie is now my preferred way to get people into watching the show instead of the first two episodes. I understand this wasn't your bag, but I love this show to death. I lament that we won't get a 2nd season due to the live-action Hollywood adaptation coming in a few years (announced at NYCC this year), but for the most part I loved this show to death. So what do you think of One-Punch Man? Have you read the manga or seen the anime?
Simon Ladd
Well, that's just the TV anime industry in general, right there...
I may be wrong but I think with as much as they had to rely on sponsorship from the companies featured in the series, they were more than likely pressured to get everything out as quickly as possible so when the movie rolled around they finally had the time to put those little details in that they had to pass by during the series. Except you know, Yuri and the whole Lunatic thing. Maybe in the Hollywood version~
Simon Ladd
And what's especially weird is how much BETTER the movie version of those events work. Somehow, despite having less running time, it sets up the heroes as an ensemble much more successfully than the show every did. Also, having Kotetsu flash back to his wife during that first meeting with Lloyds makes that scene play VERY differently, and better in my opinion (since it makes him come across as more noble and less pathetic)
Watching the first T&B movie after it's been months since you've seen the anime is just a mindfuck. For the first 20 minutes of watching it with a friend (who hadn't seen the anime in longer than I have) we were both just going "I don't remember this part happening in the anime.." "There's no way I would have forgotten a meeting between Yuri and Barnaby.... right?"
