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Has there ever been a series where it didn't initially interest you and dropped it early, but been meaning to get back into later after you hear good word of mouth about it?

to be honest, i'm way more likely to watch the first couple of episodes of a show and then abandon it than i am to pick something back up i didn't like the first time through
oh wait, i know! i didn't actually start watching wixoss until friends of mine started raving about the second season, does that count

Have you read Mockingjay? How was it? I heard its a bad end for the series overall and felt pretty hollow.

i never got around to reading mockingjay! i did read the hunger games, which i enjoyed but didn't love. it has some good scenes and pushed the boundaries for commercially successful YA titles but that was about it for me

What do you think of Buchi's intense puppet action theater hour?

it's the most fun i've had with anything written by urobuchi since...kamen rider gaim? some fans in the sphere love to paint the guy as a profound writer who deals with big themes and ideas, and to be honest he does have his preoccupations. but thunderbolt fantasy is urobuchi at his most nerdy and at the end of the day, this might be the urobuchi i prefer
(it's enough to make me want to try some proper wuxia. so it's done its job!)

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Any thoughts on the compression vs decompression debate comics were having a couple of years ago? Well to an extent it's still going on today, but it's dial back some.

we're talking modern superhero comics, right? i think comics in general have a lot to gain from emulating cinema, and delivering story in a more naturalistic fashion rather than cramming lots and lots of words into a short format. at the same time, there's a reason why shounen jump manga can get really repetitive--read the stuff long enough and you begin to see when the artist is stalling for time, when the escalation of the story becomes rote...
either way, structure is very important but sometimes giving things room to breathe is just as important. it depends on what your goals are. and really the big problem with superhero comics is less compression or decompression and more writers and artists forbidden from making any lasting changes to a paradigm that continues to reward its most committed fans rather than draw new ones into the fold. plus forcing them to compromise their work in order to better fit company initiatives and crossovers, pushing single issues over trade paperbacks most readers enjoy, etc.

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Biggest strengths of the visual novel medium?

three things come to mind:
1. a really, really good structure for playing w/ reader expectations, unreliable narrators etc. there's a reason the scene is so incestuous (though less so, now)
2. delving deeply into the psychology of the protagonist. many of the best visual novels are really about what makes their heroes tick
3. using the flow of text as a medium (and music, and graphics, and transitions, etc.) to better affect the reader. this could mean anything from the right musical cue, to seizing control of text flow like in the higurashi games, to doing batshit stuff like in that one chapter of house in fata morgana (go play it)
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Any stories that hit you on a personal level? Like when a story shares enough of your values, fears, life-experiences that the story feels personal to you?

i can think of a couple of examples of this. to make a deep cut, i had some weird issues w/ one-sided love as a kid, so i related REALLY strongly to onani master kurosawa. blazed through most of it in a day, then suffered through a cross country meet needing to know how it ended. similarly the ending of the webcomic "minus" moved me to tears?
also the soundtrack to flcl's the playlist to my adolescence but you probably know that already

Creators you're not necessarily a fan of but whose work you find fascinating?

this is gonna sound weird, but hiroshi nagahama is probably the best anime director i know whose work i don't have a strong emotional connection to. his stuff is often technically perfect, has great sound design, takes huge risks, but i often find it opaque? like looking into a very deep pool of water and not being able to see your reflection in it. i am EXTREMELY psyched for his stan lee superhero show, though
otherwise, a lot of kyoto animation's output p. much fits "this is sterling work in a genre i don't have a lot of interest in" for me. tho i liked what i've seen of k-on and hyouka (and enjoyed euphonium)

How much does Stephen King hold up for you? Would you recommend reading his stuff, any particular titles if so?

stephen king is complicated! at his best, his best work includes some of the most memorable popular novels in american fiction, and his worst work can be so appalling it's a miracle it was published at all. the trick with king is that any book he's written can contain both qualities in varying degrees, especially when the book itself is very long.
if you're going to read any one of his books, you might as well read The Stand, which has a fairly good ratio of good to bad: some of the most memorable characters and scenes in SF/horror let down only with too much padding and a disappointing ending. you might also want to check out the shining (which is great but quite different from kubrick's movie), it (landmark work, but uneven) and pet sematary (really, really nasty). some folks love the dark tower, but i've always heard it's long and indulgent even by king's standards?
his most recent book, 11/22/63, is actually pretty consistent all the way through, so that's not a bad choice. would also recommend the work of his son joe hill, who's stolen some of his dad's thunder while being a tighter and more coherent storyteller to boot--his locke and key comics are very strong. and of course for the worst of king, dreamcatcher is a bad book and a legendarily bad film

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Would like to hear your thoughts... http://www.destructoid.com/the-chinese-room-calls-out-cd-projekt-red-for-sexist-games-358277.phtml

cd project red has a pretty sketchy reputation when it comes to gender representation in their work! the first witcher had collectable cards for every woman your character had sex with, after all
the studio's at least been taking strides to correct this--people who finished the witcher 3 said that it was a big improvement on earlier games in that department (though still not perfect.) but it's a constant struggle, and most of the AAA industry is far behind the curve w/ this stuff to begin with

Is RahXephon's central message different from Eva's, in your opinion?

i haven't seen rahxephon in a while, but....evangelion's more of a tragedy about how everyone suffers because nobody is able to connect with one another. rahxephon is more about coming to terms w/ who you are and how you feel about yourself. it's a kinder show all in all, but also less raw (and maybe less memorable? idk)

why do you think Rie is a genius?

she's only 30 years old and has already directed a) a cult classic series, b) bones's most commercially successful show in years and c)a ton of good precure stuff. not many female directors in the industry as it is!
i actually don't like kyousogiga as much as some, but matsumoto has a strong creative voice and i'm excited to see what she does in the future
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Do you live, or have ever lived in, a crazy noisy bizarre town?

i lived in manila for eight years, which is certainly one of the most crazy noisy bizarre towns of all

Why is anitwitter so into lesbian relationships but mostly ignore BL?

i think it depends which "anitwitter" you're talking about, tbh. there are many cliques, BL is a huge quotient of at least some of them
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What's your guess for why Araki seemingly hates dogs and loves murdering them in his manga?

i have no idea! maybe something to ask araki sometime, unless you value your life ;_;

Some say My Hero Academia fails because Deku does get a quirk instead of becoming a hero without one. Do you think it weakens the narrative? Why or why not?

i don't think this is fair--deku receives a quirk from all might, but only after he proves his own mettle (jumping in to save a friend when he has no powers at all!) and then works extremely hard to be worthy of it. without spoiling anything, the nature of the quirk he receives is something that would kill an ordinary person without grueling training, so it's hard to say that he doesn't put in the effort.
besides, the premise of my hero academia is already utopian--the school actually seems to prize self-sacrifice and grit above test scores or family privilege, for one. millions of children without "quirks" struggle to make it in the real world, the handful able to break through only do so through incredible effort and a stroke of luck (both of which deku has)

I know that localization and dubbing has to make a foreign property palatable for other regions. But some like older dubs and the recent Precure try to hide/write over the property's original culture. Is that necessary?

i think it depends! japanese is a very different language than english, with its own set of cultural assumptions. so i think conveying the same spirit is more important than exact translations that don't get the same message across to an english audience? (especially if it's a show for kids)
on the other hand, there's something to be said for changing tone and content entirely in a way that makes the show weaker. people raised a stink about some of the changes in glitter force, but honestly even 4kids's changes to yugioh raised my hackles--it's not like the show was great to begin with, but its english version did a lot to erase whatever modulation there was in the source. in a post-adventure time, gravity falls, steven universe world, i think US kids tv can do better than that!

thoughts on sekien no inganock?

i like it a lot! i'm a big fan of hikaru sakurai's work--of all the vn writers whose work has been put out in english, hers is easily the most atypical. i'm also a big fan of both ikuhara's work and weird fiction so i can't NOT love her stuff
as for why inganock in particular, i'd say it's that the fantasy setting lends itself very well to sakurai's episodic parables, while giving the proceedings enough grit and heft to seem real. the side cast are memorable, and ati is great. all in all, i'd say it held together for me better than shikkoku no sharnoth (although what i've played of gakthun compares admirably so far!)

Is there an anime you really like even though you feel you really shouldn't?

i remember really enjoying ben-to when i saw it, even though one particular character in that show was a terrible, terrible idea

What makes for a better view? Mountains or Beaches?

it's a situational thing! beaches can be really nice, but nothing beats the view from a high mountain. assuming it's a clear day--clouds can kill that view immediately tbh
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With the studio now defunct, what was your fav anime to come out of Manglobe?

this sounds kinda terrible, but the only manglobe show i've watched to completion is...samurai flamenco? so probably that one
(heard good things about michiko to hatchin, house of five leaves and samurai champloo, though!)

ROADTRIP! Where are you going and who are you taking with you?

taking the crew of sbd to go see doukyuusei! sadly this will never happen as they live across the country :(

read any of dowman sayman's stuff? seems like you might enjoy it

i've read voynich hotel and loooovvveeedd it. real punk rock manga
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