There’s not enough text for it to be the former

I watched the first episode… honestly was kinda unimpressed. It all felt very boilerplate, the parts in the future all felt like the Christian Bale T4.

I dunno, doesn’t feel like Production I.G.'s best work, so the show doesn’t look that good either (by contrast, Heavenly Delusion and Kaiju No. 8 both at least looked neat). A lot of it feels like standard Netflix outsourced Korean studio work, but at least with Castlevania/Blood of Zeus there was more to work with.

Be the American the Japanese think you are

haven’t played the game (it was basically impossible to find translated versions until now) but from what I heard it has the same general plot but the details are different, and it had a darker tone than the show

Kyon-kun, Denwa!

The meta is so that the people pick up the light novel just because of clickbait title, and based on 1st volume sales alone one can get an anime adaptation, then make money off selling waifu merchs.

To add on a bit, the clickbaity titles are literal clickbait because what happens is that a lot of these stories start out by being published online for free on what are essentially fan-fiction boards in the hopes that publishers will pick up the most popular ones and they get book deals. That’s the reason for the overly long titles summarizing the plot, also why most of these aren’t well written (usually the first time an editor sees the script, it’ll be when the story is picked up for publishing and usually there are very few rewrites etc).

Damn that is a better name… or maybe Dungeons and Dishes

the title Delicious in Dungeon makes no sense, it should be Delicious in THE Dungeon.

It’s trying to be a pun on DnD but the english title doesn’t translate well.

Yes! Reminded me so much of Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition which is one of my favourite books on speculative zoology, although in comparison Scavenger’s Reign has a stronger focus on environmentalism and is a bit more of a character piece than anything.

There’s a short made by the creators of Scavenger’s Reign on youtube that’s free that feels like a prototype of what the show eventually becomes, it’s great and you should def check it out

Edit: Also I think we mostly post about tv shows in the movie board lol

The reason you can’t go “Xenomorphs are a 1-to-1 allegory for the Viet Cong” is the same reason you can’t just say that the movie is reactionary and pro-genocide: the Alien is too big and all encompassing a metaphor for how uncaring and hostile nature is in the face of human endeavour. It’s not just a simple Other, it’s the face of annihilation; it’s a WMD found in the wild the same way Uranium or Anthrax is.

Ripley’s argument that the Xenomorphs need to all be destroyed is the same argument for the destruction of all samples of deadly diseases that can be used as biological weapons: it is too inimical to human life to be allowed to exist, especially because the MIC keeps trying to weaponize it in order to profit off of it.

I’m showing my age here but here but I thought the two most common readings of the film were:

1. Vietnam War movie in space:

The military at the behest of the MIC get sent into a situation that they have little to no understanding of which results in many good men and women dying, all because the powers that be think that they can turn a profit. Only by banding together can the working class (human or android) survive this situation

(And when viewed it this light, Avatar can be seen as more a refinement of James Cameron’s anti-war views than a 180.)

2. Girl Power

Ripley, the lone survivor of the Sexual Assault Monster is forced/blackmailed by the Patriarchy(Burke) into confronting said monster because the Patriarchy wants to profit off of it, and then the Patriarchy is face when they find out that they can’t control the Sexual Assault Monster and gets sexually assaulted. Only by building a coalition of feminist allies and confronting her trauma head on (with a power loader) can Ripley prevent the same trauma that was inflicted on her from being inflicted on the next generation.

Winter Soldier activation code words, but for Hexbears

Sifu adaptation but it’s a comedy overdub like Kung Pao and the entire runtime is just the main character eating shit

The title I’ll be keeping an eye on is Sifu, because I thought while playing that game that despite it’s incredible visual style the story would work a lot better as an animated movie.

Also Armored Core getting any kind of non-anime adaptation lmao.

Interesting that you basically have WotC, Games Workshop and Playstation(I guess in this case God of War) as the big ticket items, and then a whole string of B and C listers whose franchises were either relatively obscure or on life-support propping up the whole thing.

Modern Netrunner’s art isn’t as good as the FFG days but it’s 200% more based

From FFG’s Android Netrunner

All the pro-Automaton pro-Socialism propaganda is funny as fuck

The wildest part is that despite all the swerves everything still fits in a narrative/thematic sense

We’re kinda at the point where no matter how much is foreshadowed I have absolutely no idea what Fujimoto is going to do next