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News New Godzilla anime "Singular Point" coming to Netflix 2021

Christopher said:
Oh, I haven't gotten around to watching PR:TB yet. I think the reviews were mixed. I'm also on the fence about whether to watch it in Japanese or English. Usually I'd default to Japanese when watching anime, but PR:TB is written by American writers and features characters who would logically be Anglophone, so maybe I should go with the English version.
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I quite liked it. It's much more somber in tone than the first Pacific Rim, but it's way better than Uprising which might be the angriest I've ever been at a movie. It's set in Australia (although only a few characters speak with Aussie accents) and it's written by Americans so I'd say the English version is the one to go with. But then I almost always go with English on anime. I stick with subbed on live-action though.
 
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captainkirk said:
But then I almost always go with English on anime. I stick with subbed on live-action though.
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I usually default to subbed Japanese, though I'll go with English if the characters are supposed to be English speakers, like in Steamboy.

I've watched so much Japanese-language TV these past few years that I've actually picked up a fair amount of the vocabulary and can sometimes get the gist of what's really being said when the subtitles are inaccurate or approximate. Sometimes I think I should haul out my old Japanese texts from college and remind myself of the grammar and stuff that I've forgotten. But that would be too much like studying.
 
Orthogonal Diagonalizer! Orthogonal Diagonalizer? Orthogonal Diagonalizer!!! Orthogonal Diagonalizer!?!? Orthogonal Diagonalizer!!!!
Ok, we get it (well, not really). Could you kindly show us the monsters please?
 
Skipper said:
Orthogonal Diagonalizer! Orthogonal Diagonalizer? Orthogonal Diagonalizer!!! Orthogonal Diagonalizer!?!? Orthogonal Diagonalizer!!!!
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I just realized "Orthogonal Diagonalizer" has the same initials as "Oxygen Destroyer." Although "Orthogonal Diagonalizer" actually makes a degree of sense, in terms of higher-dimensional topology. I love it when I know just enough about the science to recognize that the writers understand it better than I do -- as opposed to the usual thing where anyone with a passing grasp of grade-school science can easily recognize it as complete gibberish ("Oxygen Destroyer" being one of the worst examples).


Skipper said:
Ok, we get it (well, not really). Could you kindly show us the monsters please?
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I realized overnight that I'm enjoying this as a mindbending science fiction anime in the vein of Serial Experiments Lain, and that the kaiju almost feel like an intrusion on that. Although the kaiju action is extremely well-done.
 
Watched the first two episodes this morning. I very much do not like this animation style that much (I preferred the Netflix trilogy to this, though I honestly don't care for any anime style animation much anyway).

Having said that, though, the characters are really surprisingly fun. Moreso than almost any Godzilla project I've seen, really. And the story is certainly interesting so far, too, so I'm definitely on board for the rest regardless of the visual style.

I know most people didn't like the slowness or ideas/characters of the movie trilogy, but I really did love how out of the box it was and willing to be totally weird and strange. This one looks to have the same quality again but in a totally different story direction, so overall I'm very happy with Netflix's Godzilla stuff in general at this point.
 
captainkirk said:
Apparently one of the writers of the show is an actual physicist which explains the heavy focus on hard sci-fi.
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I love their solution to how to send information into the past without violating causality.
Encode it as something nobody recognizes as information until the timeline catches up.
 
Christopher said:
I love their solution to how to send information into the past without violating causality.
Encode it as something nobody recognizes as information until the timeline catches up.
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I actually didn't pick up on that being the reason for it until you said that. I don't think I've ever seen that approach taken before in sci-fi. A lot of the ideas feel like a more scientifically accurate version of Doctor Who but with kaiju. And now that I say that, I want that to exist.
 
I'm still finding myself more interested in the parts without the kaiju. The stuff with Godzilla feels like a sidebar tacked onto a story about something entirely different.
 
Okay, just finished. It was certainly enjoyable, if kind of confusing. It wasn't perfect --
for one thing, it seemed that Yun and Mei ultimately ended up being spectators in a story about the Pelops/Jet Jaguar AI bootstrapping itself into the one that saved the world singlehandedly. Well, that's unfair; it couldn't have done it without their brilliance and problem-solving, but they did become spectators in the climax.

For that matter, even Godzilla felt kind of like a symptom of the bigger problem with the Red Dust and the Catastrophe.

It was a good series, but it felt like the writer was trying to tell his own big, cosmic, mindbending story and had to tack Godzilla and other kaiju onto it somewhere, rather than really wanting to tell a story about Godzilla.
 
Okay, finally finished it. And I liked it a lot, actually kind of enjoyed the science talk, and while Big G didn't get that much screen time relatively speaking, his appearance was nicely build towards, and he had a nice apocalyptic presence. And the kaiju action we got in the earlier part of the season was cool, they really used the advantages of animation there. Plus, fun characters. Looking forward to season 2.
 
You know, I was thinking recently about how Netflix has this, the Pacific Rim anime, the Ultraman anime, and the announced Kong anime. All they're missing really is a Gamera anime. How come that's not a thing yet?
 
From MST3K:

Gamera! Gamera!
Gamera is really neat!
Gamera is filled with meat!
We've been eating Gamera!

:whistle:
 
It's sad that Gamera is better known in the West from the truly terrible Showa-era movies that MST3K lampooned than for the brilliant '90s trilogy which is quite possibly the finest set of kaiju movies ever made, or for Ryuta Tasaki's 2006 Gamera the Brave, which is brilliant in a totally different way, like a live-action Miyazaki film. A Netflix Gamera anime could be great if it could pave the way to bringing renewed attention to those movies, and if it did something in a similarly intelligent vein itself.
 
Did the Heisei movies ever get a wide TV broadcast in the west? If not then I imagine that's part of the reason. Similar to how Godzilla vs. Megalon was one of the most widely available Godzilla movies in America for a long time until the 1998 film led to people wanting to check out the Heisei series.
 
captainkirk said:
Did the Heisei movies ever get a wide TV broadcast in the west? If not then I imagine that's part of the reason.
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Well, yes, that's exactly the point -- that I regret their lack of exposure. I'm not saying I don't know the reason, I'm saying it sucks that it happened that way.
 
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