Thread by @eeveeEnthusiast, I’m watching Promare with the #PromareWatchParty and I *do* still want to [...]

I’m watching Promare with the #PromareWatchParty and I *do* still want to make a crossover AU with Wolf 359, thanks for asking.

I can’t even go INTO how perfect Burnish!Lovelace would be without major spoilers for both works, lol

Also: good excuse to put Minkowski in a mecha. Because some characters just need to pilot a mecha, you know?

Concept: Minkowski doesn’t *want* to be an anime character, she *wants* to be simply practical and effective at her fire rescue job... but rile her up and she absolutely will start making speeches about having a FIREFIGHTER’S BURNING SOUL

The frozen lake is a *really* cool environment. Deceptively simple, *incredibly* stylized, and also that shot of Galo and Aina skating from below the ice? It’s so... novel and interesting, all the lines and intersecting cracks. I love it

Galo Thymos is a good boy. The best boy. For his character archetype it’d’ve been really easy to make him just a loud dummy, but he’s not *stupid*, just *simple.* and also: I love him.

He’s simple: straightforward, and unflinchingly principled. He has a crystal clear idea of what’s right and what’s wrong and he refuses to let the world make things more complicated than that when they just don’t need to be!

Sometime there’s a time and a place to go cool your head before you make a rash decision... and sometimes the best solution to a problem is just to barrel straight thru it! Best solution to your idol being accused of overseeing horrific human experimentation? Just go ask him!

Another thing I love about this film: the geometric motifs in the art direction! I picture animators playing with rendering particle physics in the early days and looking at it making simple little cubes and triangles and going “...hey, I have an idea, we can work with this!”

“Weren’t you... in jail?”
“Worry about that later! We gotta stop that fire!”

Anyway the soundtrack is incredible too. Vocal tracks and score. Lost that the first time around because my brain was too busy trying to gush over every frame of individual frame of animation while watching at full frame rate.

Don’t wanna double-check in the middle of the film, but I swear to god: that’s Dr. Eggman’s current VA as the voice of Dr. Deus Ex Machina, right?

Promare is just so “full steam ahead” in everything it does and it comes out most in the exposition. It’s like “here’s what’s happening now - get used to it, because we are NOT stopping this crazy train! ENGAGE LUDICROUS SPEED! *BRAKES ARE FOR COWARDS!*”

I forgot there *are* Circle Motifs til Dr. Not-Robotnik pops up. Now I’m noticing how consistent this is and how you can trace tech to its creators by what object is what shape.

//SPOILERS//

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After this FLAGRANT infodump and the bold declaration of the Mecha’s name I started cackling and clapping in the theater. It is incredible how this production simultaneously gives maximum effort and absolutely *zero* fucks.

Yes it’s such a great moment I’m putting spoilers on it because I want someone to go into that fresh just like I got to, it was amazing.

“The villains have fire powers. Their fire can make solid structures. Like bridges. And armor. And motorbikes. And mecha. And wormholes. And spaceship warp drives. Yes, there’s a spaceship in this movie, WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?”

Also: I may have been out of the Anime Voice Actor game for a long while but I still called there being something Up with Kray just because Crispin Freeman was his dub voice.

It’s a mecha anime. You got Absolute Motherfucking Loyalty on deck. Enough said.

(I’m PRETTY sure that’s how the old Code Geass meme goes, idk, it’s been years and I only made it like 3 episodes into the 2nd season.)

Dear God, how many years has he been hamming it the fuck up in anime dubs? Mr Freeman what are your vocal chords even MADE of??

I love how Vulcan has the same ability as Gamagori in that he can be whatever proportion of “big” relative to the other characters that he damn well pleases.

And also DONTVTHINK I DIDNT SEE THE DRILL CORE FROM GURREN’S GUI STUDIO TRIGGER, I KNOW WHAT YOU PEOPLE DO WITH DRILLS AND I SEE WHAT YOU FUCKING DID THERE

DONT THINK I THINK THE GREEN COLOR PALETTE IS A COINCIDENCE EITHER

Fire! But also: it moves like water! AND IT MAKES AN EVEN LARGER GIANT ROBOT! Why? BECAUSE THE MEDIUM OF ANIMATION CAN FUCKING DO THAT, IS WHY!

WHO THE HELL

DO YOU TINK WE ARE??

My increasing use of caps lock thru this thread should tell you all you need to know about why I love this movie and Studio Trigger’s work in general, actually.

IT IS ALMKST 10 PM AND I WANT TO RUN A FUCKING MARATHON AND SCREAM AT THE SUN, THAT IS HOW FIRED UP I AM!!

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