This was really good!
@[email protected] described the character dynamics perfectly.
I would only add that Kuroma's name means Black Demon or Dark Demon.
The Kuma (bear) kaijin minions only being able to say "bear" resembles the vocabulary of a Pokemon.
I thought that Chizuko was going to get a sexy villainess costume, but I guess this show isn't going there.
I wasn't impressed by this.
The art is great and faithful to the manga, and keeping it in black and white preserved the look of the manga, some good framerates in the animation, but...
It felt static and lacking in filmmaking artistry, like they decided to animate manga panels, without zooming and panning and all the other stuff that films do, instead of taking advantage of the animation/filmmaking medium.
Also no soundtrack. Some atmospheric music could have made this a lot more effective, instead of presenting manga panels in almost-silence.
The narrative structure of flashbacks felt distracting: "Oh yeah, my father was obsessed like this..." I'm not sure if this is how the manga story is written.
Cultural note: The wooden tub...
spoiler
that they find the father curled up in a spiral inside resembles a traditional Japanese coffin/burial tub.
There was a show (that I can't remember the name) where there was a serial kidnapper who kept their victims inside wood soy sauce fermenting vats that resemble larger versions of Japanese coffins.
Yes, there's a little black rectangle on the floor of the shuttle, likely a phone or a or maybe a ticket, saying "PASS"
It's not like the S&P500 committee is going to make wild and crazy decisions based on a hunch. It's still very much based on replacing older shrinking companies with newer more vigorous representatives in the same industry.
The Helsinki Commission is an interesting US congressional organization, consisting of members from the Senate, House and the Executive branch.
Even more interesting, is it's currently chaired by a Republican, Joe Wilson, aka the "You lie!" guy whom you would expect to be MAGA partisan.
This is why you shouldn't put your money into human-managed mutual funds.
Humans make idiotic decisions like helping Musk buy Twitter.
When they get their orders and talking points directly from Russia's FSB, they don't have to hire legislative staff to work for their constituents, do research on issues, and solve problems.
They can use the money for political campaigning instead. No wonder they're successful!
Good thinking! /s
p.s. The Workshop Battle will be in one week on October 6th! Another cours? https://x.com/Crunchyroll/status/1832789063708860708?t=ZJDYO5Lsl0oqrtwrDs7p3w
It is said that this sequence of the manhwa is very long at 100 chapters, so maybe 1 or 2 cours of this...
For reference, the anime just finished adapting chapter 135 of the manhwa.
We've all been there Khun...
So the setup for the Workshop Battle begins...
There's an odd thing where the team leaves on a ship, leaving Khun and Dan behind, then Wangnan wakes up, and they load on the ship for real to go to the test.
I'm flipping through the manhwa to try and figure out what went on there...
edit: Apparently it just happens like that in the manhwa. After Khun wakes up with the notification that they're invited to the Workshop Battle, we just see his team on the shuttle home exhausted or asleep, having passed the test offscreen.
I'm not sure how well Superintendent Matt Wayne's plan for keeping 15% of teachers out of the classroom will work...
I first read that as "...confirmed to run for 2 straight hours. Starting on October 3, every Thursday."
Astigmatism...