#the music and animation and fight choreography are just (MWAH)

[eggbagelz]

now give us the kung fu panda rant

You guys really like enabling me huh

ANYWAY

There is so fucking much i can say about the brilliance of the kung fu panda series [the first two movies anyway. The third movie sucked and i stand by that] like...

Theres SO MANY buddhist philosophical principles scattered throughout the films, as well as HUGE attention paid to chinese culture [lord shen, for example, is a white peacock. In east asian cultures white is the colour of death, and ofc hes definitely not got clean hands. Wings. Whatever]. Someone pointed out that when po's learning to master inner peace in kfp 2 hes always doing so in dark, watery and naturally lit environments is brilliant bc those elements are associated with Yin in the concept of yin-yang

The fucking. THE FUCKING. EACH CHARACTER IS ASSIGNED A FORM OF KUNG FU BASED OFF THEIR SPECIES [tai lung uses leopard style, for example, and po himself uses bear style]. Also its a fucking TREAT to watch the fight scenes bc the choreography is fucking GLORIOUS and the exaggeration used does so well at heightening the action and making the fight scenes SO engaging without going overboard

The manner in which the characters are anthropomorphized is BRILLIANT too, particularly w characters like tigress and viper, or shen. Its just,,,,, augh its GOOD bc theyre Human Ish tm but you never forget that theyre animals. AND THATS WITHOUT MENTIONING THE SHEER DETAIL AND PERSONALITY THAT EACH DESIGN HAS

The growth of the characters never feels forced, either, and it's a fucking treat to watch dynamics change and shift and grow over the span of the first two films. Po learning to take pride in himself??? That fucking scene in the second movie where while hes moving that water droplet around the score is SWEEPING and we see flashes of his memories?? DELICIOUS. Dont even get me started on shifu's growth as a character i love how he learns to loosen up and enjoy kung fu again bc of po, and that he accepts and learns that his pain was the thing that held him back in the second??? Mwah. MWAH. Po's relationship w the five is so sweet btw i like how quickly they grow to like him bc of his Po-ness. Also i like whatever po and tigress have going on.

THE ART. THE ART????? THE COLOUR THEORY AND SYMBOLISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT DESIGNS AND THE WAY THAT THE WORLD FEELS SO LUSH AND LIVED IN??? OUGHGHGHGG. THE MUSIC??? THE FUCKING MUSIC?? NO WORDS. NO FUCKING WORDS MAN THE SCORE MAKES ME WANT TO BACKFLIP.

Also again on lord shen and tai lung,,,, theyre so good as villains bc even they have moments where you feel genuine sympathy for them,,,,, theyre so similar and yet so different and the writers did a brilliant job at making them genuinely horrifying as villains too. Like shen is GENUINELY scary and hes a fucking peacock.

Its just. Theyre GOOD MOVIES OK i love these stupid movies so much. I love the meaning behind them i love the effort put into symbolism and understanding chinese culture i love the music and the art i love that the second movie isnt afraid to be dark and by god i love that the funky panda and tiger are homies.

#aAUAUAUAUAU #ask me abt the colour symbolism some time colour symbolism is my SHIT #[comm noise]

[toydrill]

DID I SEE MENTION OF LASTMAN? 👀

YES HEHE I LOVE LASTMAN!!!!!! i really want to draw some cool fanart of rizel and howard because their relationship and past is soooo interesting to me but i just have been so busy i havent gotten around to it yet

#the music and animation and fight choreography are just (MWAH) #and the english dub is sooo good too like between the french and english i feel like they're both equally amazing experiences #i'd love to buy the collectors edition of the DVD but its like over 100 euros GJFDGFD

[haleigh-g-art]

what is bsd about?

I am so glad you asked

Bungo Stray Dogs features a detective agency full of members with supernatural powers. Their main enemy is the port mafia of Yokohama, many of whom also have abilities. They fight over shit.

Almost every character is named after a famous author, and their abilities are based on that author's books. That part isn't as obvious until the North American organization comes in later, where there are characters like Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Lucy Maud Montgomery.

The characters are super fun and I love the art style and animation. It's done by Studio Bones, who also did Noragami and Snow White with the Red Hair, two of my other absolute favorite anime. I love the character design, they've all got such great outfits, with trench coats and ties and button downs and vests...

The music is also very good! It features it's own awesome soundtrack as well as using a ton of Tchaikovsky's works (which my brother, the big music nerd he is, noticed)

There are a lot of really cool fight scenes, and that's coming from someone who gets really bored with action shounen anime. The choreography is really good, and Studio Bones always has just an amazing use of color that really makes fight scenes, and, well, every other scene pop.

Each of the abilities also has their own effect that goes along with it, and they all look just mwah, so cool.

Bones is also just *so good* with emotions. They make silly moments extremely goofy and over the top, but they know how to reel it back and capture more nuanced feelings.

The dubbing is also just, so good. Each and every character sounds amazing, they're all top notch, and my brothers found it really funny that almost the entirety of Persona 5's main cast is in BSD at one point or another. Max Mittelman and Kaiji Tang, as Atsushi and Dazai, respectively, are particularly great.

I'll admit, they play very loosely with blood, how much people lose, and how many gunshots it takes to hit/kill someone, haha, but anime always does that.

There are a few things I dislike, like Bones' overuse of fisheye lens effects as well as two characters in particular who are a bit uhhh creepy, I'll say, but the things I adore far outweigh the things I don't like!

I highly recommend Bungo Stray Dogs, it's probably my favorite anime.

Also I just really love Dazai.

#bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #anime #anime recommendation #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #yall are lucky theres a ten image limit or there would be... far more gifs ahaha