look up michiru oshima
they did some great music for "blast of tempest" (a series with themes and characters based on tempest and hamlet) they did an orchestral arrangement of the third movement of Beethovens sonata no.17 I wish they had done the entire thing though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avmpoDwCiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzSw_ChYAFQ
and a couple more tracks
they also did the music for a series called "snow white with the red hair" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAY03Ly46A&list=PL7bwIieUCQQSwr-dozH2RvRhip_IWOCb3&index=1
and little witch academia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Y_nE1IIzY&list=PL74egpP-HXJ0y1Ks_UxBHAZmtZriUMu78
also look up yoshihisa hirano he started off doing music for beyblade (quality of those recordings are garbo but its really hard to find the music he did for it cause if you search for "beyblade ost" its all the pop stuff) he also did hunter X hunter, ouran highschool host club, break blade and various others
and in the west if you listen to BBC radio 3... oh god all the modern composers they showcase are all fucking Benjamin Brittain school of plinky plonky shite by "insert diverse female composer here"
honestly they keep banging on about these contemporary classical composers that sound like shit and i'm sat here going japan and china have some of the best out there (seriously yu peng chen and the rest of hoyo mix have done some absolute bangers for genshin impact I know its Chinese but good artistry is good artistry) and if you want specifically female composers (because muh diversity) i know 100% that japan has more than enough
edit: fuck it I'm back with more
SOUND FUCKING EUPHONIUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkKCY_pCPi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIvgvvyKiA the soundtrack is a mixture of original pieces and arrangements of pre-existing work
spice and wolf, the majority of the soundtrack makes use of medieval instruments (crumbhorn etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68rGwmvn_8A&list=PLoMYI-vy6AgzjTh_9-oUPf8S1jeUyjhQA&index=3
the amount of isekai manga with some batshit insane overly muscly man with a perpetual five-o-clock shadow who "identifies as being female" (or similar) and acts "girly" is quite high
I'm fairly certain such characters are the authors poking fun at the trans lot
was looking how to get from the north of England to london
was cheaper by almost £100 to go via plane that has a 14 hour stop over in dublin
makes me wonder if i'm allowed to leave the airport fuck about in dublin and then get the flight to london
kotaku is obviously based on the japanese word "otaku" (rough translation being nerd so western anime fans started to use it but it tends to have very negative connotations in japan)
姜思琪 is Chinese not Japanese
also 思琪 from what i can tell appears to be romanized in pinyin (wade-giles is not used enough for me to find an easy lookup) as siqi and is pronounced more like "soochi"
I thought canadians had air conditioning? we don't really do air con in England only offices really have it
just up the road from where I was staying for uni they were building some new houses and there's no sign of aircon units for those either
CG itself isn't bad its how its used
its a tool that can be used to enhance an existing scene and practical effects
problem is hack film-makers use it as a universal fix-all, why bother making actual sets and using actual practical effects it can be all done with the magic of CG
the only "live action CG" film I let pass is James Camerons avatar as they created a lot of the techniques and technology they needed to make the film while the story isn't brilliant (IMO the extended cuts fix some of the issues with it - and then the deleted scenes would fix more if they were finished and in the fucking film but would also add another hour) it was still a great showcase of technology and technique
more recent CG heavy live action films just fail at a fundamental level you got the marvel films with all the heroes reacting to jack shit on a soundstage with next to no props and no extras, at least avatar had props and extras on the soundstage with the extras doing things off camera so the actors had something to reACT to
they used to have a bot for the Donald https://www.reddit.com/user/The_Donald-SS?sort=top&t=all
there is also one for kotaku inaction https://www.reddit.com/user/KotakuInAction_SS can't find one for KIA2 though
gundam thunderbolt - theres two ovas of 4 20-25 minute episodes each or there's two films - there's no real good guys in this one both sides of the conflict have some right bastards but theres also some tragic figures where you're like "damn life screwed you hard"
planetes - one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fi series out there its slice of life so its not all pulse-pounding action weightless scenes are done at a higher than normal (for anime) framerate to increase the smoothness and JAXA gave advice during production
.hack//sign - warning: very slow it takes place in a video game called "the world" and your main character is trapped in it kinda like sword art online but this was before SOA (actually technically the SOA books came before with the first book being 2001 and this being a 2002 series) but despite that theres very little action and it's more about the mystery of the world
the third one did indeed have some commentary on 1920s racism
it also had the "downtrodden underdogs" get the upper hand and then turn into a perhaps even worse version of their former overlords (basically the oppressed became the oppressors - does that sound familiar?)
i wish the studio executives had just let Guillermo del Torro just make his two films
you can tell from some of the behind the scenes stuff that peter jackson did not want to make 3 films but apparently he was somewhat forced into doing so