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I have a small amount of free time, so I will try and live tweet one (1) episode of High Guardian Spice. I'll save this thread for when I have more time starting late next week or somethingPermalink On twitter.com
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I don't want to say I'm trying to be "unbiased". I have biases that I make everyone aware of, and proudly. Instead I wanna be honest. I wanna judge it like I would any anime I write about on here or on my blog, and then compare to how "weebs" reacted and see what went onPermalink On twitter.com
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If there's not uncensored sapphic sex scenes under a blood and entrail waterfall this content warning will have lied to mePermalink On twitter.com
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"we'll explore crevices," she saysPermalink On twitter.com
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sometimes, the voice acting and the lip syncing are out of sync. I thought it was CR's player but some performances are in sync so it's an actual audio-visual thingPermalink On twitter.com
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This is a minor thing all things considered, as most anime do not actually attempt nearly as many mouth shapes as this show does (the standard in anime is closed, open, mid), and get away with even more out of sync performances/audio to save moneyPermalink On twitter.com
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there is at least 1 Black character so I am on board for now (this is not a joke, when it comes to animation that's how I operate)Permalink On twitter.com
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there's actually multiple Black characters. it's really easy and yetPermalink On twitter.com
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It's a little slow-moving in these first few minutes I would say. But not, unbearably slow? But like you're on a slow and low-stress amusement park ridePermalink On twitter.com
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I screencapped an in-between which is why her eyes look like that on the leftPermalink On twitter.com
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oh no I like themPermalink On twitter.com
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they're okay for protagonists. nothing special, but the show spent the first few minutes showing us what their relationship is like, so it is functional and cutePermalink On twitter.com
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Uh oh tragic backstory timePermalink On twitter.com
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So Rosemary's mom was a big hero, but she died and left her only pink child with the weight of her responsibilities. At least as far as I can tell from the dream sequence. Went to the Steven Universe school of maternal relationships, I seePermalink On twitter.com
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she might not be dead, just missingPermalink On twitter.com
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I don't care how gay you are you cannot feed this many carbs to childrenPermalink On twitter.com
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My mom is also a very "nobody touches my kitchen" mom. So that's sweet an all, but I'm starting to crave a little conflict here. And we haven't gotten any so farPermalink On twitter.com
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Like I like all the characters, so now they need to start doing thingsPermalink On twitter.com
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"Don't get killed" she says, unpromptedPermalink On twitter.com
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Naive country folk getting stolen from in the big city is an annoying trope, but I guess that's what we're doing for the second act.Permalink On twitter.com
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"You have a locket with a picture of cheesecake inside it..?"Permalink On twitter.com
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I'm pretty sure I have this exact brush in CSP, so I have no reason not to learn how to paint like thisPermalink On twitter.com
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b o o pPermalink On twitter.com
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it is illegal to meet-cute the same girl twicePermalink On twitter.com
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Okay so that's over. I gotta get back to work but I'll write up some strengths and weaknesses based on this one episodePermalink On twitter.com
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✅ major major major props to the background artists and director. It is stunning the entire way through and easily one of the best parts of the show.Permalink On twitter.com
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I said earlier HGS is paced slowly, and one part of that I think is the team knowing the backgrounds are a strong suit, and knowing to move slow enough to really show them offPermalink On twitter.com
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✅ Rosemary and Sage are very well characterized. They're both cute girls who have roughly the same goal and came from the same place, so there's a tendency for those characters to kinda blur together in writing. But not herePermalink On twitter.com
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✅ It's sweet and I have an appetite for sweet if you can believe it with all my "I can't wait for Shield Hero"Permalink On twitter.com
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❌ The artstyle, outside of the backgrounds, isn't bad? It looks fine but the issue is I can tell which era of anime the team grew up on and wants to draw from with this style, and the thing is anime hasn't looked like that in 10 years. I understand this is a weird critiqueOn twitter.com
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❌ The animation is weak, unfortunately. I'm not comparing it to other shows, but it's not strong enough to support a lot of the world building or the emotion that the voice actors are putting into their rolesPermalink On twitter.com
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❌ There's a lack of contract. I said I like sweet, but this episode was sweet all of the time. Everyone is cute and in love and all the guardians are supportive and there's no conflict to balance thatPermalink On twitter.com
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It's a bit like this breakfast. I like pancakes but I couldn't eat thisPermalink On twitter.com
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Would I keep watching if I wasn't probably planning on writing about this and the response to it? Yes, actually. For Rosemary and Sage mainly (and to take notes on the killer background art)Permalink On twitter.com
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contrastPermalink On twitter.com