i love the way the new mp100 intro is so animation-centric. it’s got a number of fun little meta nods to the medium, which is pretty in keeping for a show that’s apparently added sand animation to its repertoire
it opens with a faux 3D zoetrope, and then a kinegram (the stripes moving horizontally over smeared colors). you could also argue that while the breakdown of mob into his core elements is thematic, it’s also done in a very animation-focused way—separating him into hair, line art, shading, base skin color, etc., it’s like they’re isolating photoshop layers.
Y’all like unapologetic villain sentences saying how they don’t care about being villains but it will never be more iconic than Flint’s “Everybody is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.” as he is sentenced to death.
just thinking about that time i made a popular post about thanos’s motivation in infinity war, and every condescending dick on this website (and apparently other websites) crawled out of the ground, like the world’s most pompous cicadas, to scream irrelevant trivia about thermodynamics and thomas robert malthus
season 2 of mp100 starts airing next week, so you guys still have part of a weekend to watch the first season. it’s 12 half hour episodes and it’s just a really fantastic show/manga.
very, very funny
great emotional moments
great characters
not too heavy if you need something light but the later parts of the manga might still make you cry
there’s a dub if you can’t do subtitles
spectacular animation. it’s not a traditional anime style and it often leans into an “uglier” aesthetic, but it’s expertly crafted and once you adjust to the look it’s an excellent fit/not weird at all.
GREAT coming-of-age story
really unique but very much needed themes about adolescence and parent-child relationships
i just love that steinberg approaches epic storytelling with the mindset of someone who has never, ever been put to the sort of choices his characters are put to, and is very aware of that. like, he knows this shit is ugly and that pretty much any glory in it is something manufactured by the participants as a coping mechanism.
At the end it’s a story about domesticity, and to what extent can that be sacrificed for something else, something that isn’t homecoming? Even for something like changing the entire world, would you trade your wife for it, would you trade your kids for it? I don’t know, people do. And I think that nobody knows until they’re in that moment.
—Jon Steinberg on Black SailsPosted on January 5, 2019 at
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