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[IronyOwl]

Little Witch Academia 2 this October.

About fucking time this released.

I'd like to repeat the sentiment. They've been taking their sweet sweet time with an IP that's clearly made of gold.

I dunno, I could see it being hard to make more of without just sort of transforming it into generic Magical Girls Do Magical Things. Things that work really well in short bursts often don't translate to longer pulses or even further bursts very well, and vice versa.

[Reelya]

Death Note the musical would go a long way to mainstreaming anime, just by the fact that musicals are by their nature a pretty middle class mainstream thing and seen as a respectable art. Just being able to say you like some franchise which was recently adapted to a broadway musical adds instant cred.

[Arx]

It seems super easily adaptable. I mean, it's called Death Note.

I know nothing about this (except that it's not actually the musical note) but wanted to make that joke anyway.

[Lord Shonus]

Spoiler: general issues with Robotech (click to show/hide)

For example. The "Protoculture" is the ancestral race of humans in Macross. But the guys who rewrote it as Robotech decided it would be "cooler" if "Protoculture" meant sci-fi superfuel that powers giant robots, and which aliens have come to Earth to find, because they ran out. But they didn't actually change the dialogue much, so half the conversations in Robotech are completely WTF until you watch Macross and then all the wacky stuff suddenly makes sense. For example, in Robotech alien clone races think kissing means you invented robot fuel ("protoculture") rather than what it means in the original Japanese series: that you are a sexually reproducing species.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So "protoculture" really means  "prototype culture"? That makes so much more sense, and is far closer to what both me and a friend initially thought when we watched Robotech for the first time about ten years ago. I thought it meant the social engineering that made the Zentradi a pure warrior race (who I thought had lost contact with the non-warrior castes), while he thought it meant sex.

On the Death Note thing:
If they used the already-condensed movie version (which is superb) as a base, I could already see Death Note being transformed into an opera, so a musical version isn't so outlandish.

[Frumple]

... huh. There's a robotech/macross shout-out in Tyrian 2000. SDF Main Gun is available as a special weapon type thing. I... didn't know that. Now I do. Neat.

[Reelya]

Spoiler: Lord Shonus (click to show/hide)

So "protoculture" really means  "prototype culture"? That makes so much more sense, and is far closer to what both me and a friend initially thought when we watched Robotech for the first time about ten years ago. I thought it meant the social engineering that made the Zentradi a pure warrior race (who I thought had lost contact with the non-warrior castes), while he thought it meant sex.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yeah that's what I thought when I watched it too, and was confused by how it played out in Robotech.

Actually, It's more specific than just "prototype culture", but I didn't want to get too specific in case people hadn't seen the series. The protoculture is literally a single galactic civilization that was at it's peak about 500000 years ago in the Macross universe, but they're shrouded in mystery since they had a massive collapse (mainly due to their clone soldiers rebelling). Think "Progenitors" or "Ancients". You remember that part in Robotech where the aliens are talking about the ancients? In Macross they're explaining about the Protoculture, whereas in Robotech they repurposed "Protoculture" to mean robot fuel, so that big reveal scene isn't so coherent anymore in explaining the main themes of the show.

[Furtuka]

Watched New Getter Robo. It was good fanservice, but kinda trailed off in the end since they didn't have the time to explore the themes of the Saga that they tried to incorporate. Also it became really clear they were running out of budget at that point. Nice to see the humanoid form of the Getter Saint Dragon though.

[anailater]

Holy shit, the Japanese voice actors for RWBY were just announced, fucking look at this
This is so cool.
They got Ryuko, THEY GOT RYUKO, this couldn't be better.

[Spehss _]

Holy shit, the Japanese voice actors for RWBY were just announced, fucking look at this
This is so cool.
They got Ryuko, THEY GOT RYUKO, this couldn't be better.

They also got that bitch Annie from Attack on Titan. Neato.

[Flying Dice]

Just a little bit longer and we can have RWBY with English subs over the Japanese dub. The circle will be complete.

[Spehss _]

Just a little bit longer and we can have RWBY with English subs over the Japanese dub. The circle will be complete.

But will RWBY be anime then? Or will we need to wait for the english dubs over the japanes dubs? :p

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Just a little bit longer and we can have RWBY with English subs over the Japanese dub. The circle will be complete.

The funny thing is, I was wondering...
Does subs not dubs actually apply here?

[MagmaMcFry]

Watching Death Note right now, the dubs are awesome actually. In this case, at least.

Fun fact, for many years (well, up until last week actually) I thought Death Note was a romantic drama or something, because in all the times I read or heard about it, the only things ever mentioned or shown were that there was a magical diary (of doom, but hey, still a magical flipping diary) and a protagonist that looks exactly like every senpai ever.

[IronyOwl]

As somebody who really doesn't get RWBY, this is pretty bizarre. As far as I can tell it's amateurish as all hell, so getting professional VAs for a big formal import is just kind of baffling.

I would like to see the subs of the dubs, however. That sounds like a beautiful cycle.

[Hawkfrost]

I'm rather surprised people care enough about RWBY to bother, honestly.
I found it dipping past south of mediocre when I tried watching it.