Naír

On good news, I managed to know that Duende is Sprite in English; amazing guy with Thena was Gilgamesh (also I liked his chara but I’m a bit >-> about the Gilgamesh legend given it seems Enkidu was substituted for one of the Deviants? But that’s nothing to do with the quality of his arc and more me being a myth nerd), and also techno-family guy was Phastos? I somehow hear him named as Faustus in Spanish xD

Going on with the true commentary-review lol: Elaborating on Sersi who is not Cersei, but Sersi written like so in Spanish sounds like sexy mangled by an Andalusian, so I will keep writing Cersei with the understanding this is a different chara with none of the fault of the og!Cersei. Ok? Ok. So Cersei caught my interest at the start? Her powers reminded me of Fullmetal Alchemist and they’re pretty amazing, but she personally lost me. I think I got what they were trying to do with her chara; a woman leader overshadowed by her old lover who had to learn to choose for herseld and lead others, a new turn around of the reluctant hero… But she came across very muted and distant and. Well. Too passive for my tastes. I liked her well enough but I was much more entertained by, like, evryone else. Including her antagonistic ex with complex but also clear motivations who is still, btwen murdering their boss and menacing everyone including her, unable to kill or stop her when it counts and ends up helping her goals anyway. I find pretty terrible that despite calling bullshit to the screen anytime he was being his dumbass self I still came out with more of a sense on Ikaris as a person than Cersei. That’s… not great for your fem protagonist. Although all things considered like I said, she was a solid concept. And her pacifism was very refreshing, her being asian over all of the above very cool, but i just didn’t vibe with her chara.

Moving on to others…. Uhm. Druig and his cult(?)(it was totally a cult wasn’t it? ot a commune-cult i guess?) in the middle of the amazon was somewhat unexpect but understable, too? He was super done with violence and went, “so I’m absconding with these humans I’ve taken a like to and we’re gonna live in peace and the rest of you can go to shit I can’t anymore.” I mean, I expected him to be kind of in the moving trying to meedle on conflicts or something, but I guess by then he had already realised it was an impossible task and centered himself on doing what he could for his little pocket of the world. Which is why the aftermath of the attack of the Deviants moving so rappidly for them… I got stuck on those poor people, and how will they ever manage to transition into a normal life without him. Not that it’s bad a mind controlling demigod isn’t monitoring their every movement or thought, but is a super big change (giants monster et all) that blew over super quickly and then we don’t see him worry or reflect on that anymore…. Yes this is a film with tons of characters, so I understand why, but it got stuck in my head…. I feel Druig was stuck in a super awkwards middle land of feeling very much superior to humans bc of his powers and also feeling very protective of them bc of the same, so it lead to. Well, the film situation.

But also his and Makkari lil moments and dynamic was golden! I loved it. You really get a sense of these two as being both aloof and appreciative in different ways of humans and also more chillax about the whole mission…. Although Makkari waiting by herself on the ship for the others to everyone go together home ;_; What a woman!!! (Also, it’s very funny to me that apparently she went outside with regularity to like, get herself books, and art, and all other kind of trinkets, as shes wont to do, and managed to avoid everything electronic, lol.) But yeah. And when she went all furious to hit on shitty Ikaris, my friend and I were all, “YAS, teach him to not touch other people loved ones!!!”Also it seems like Makkari’s actress is 43? She’s looks so young and she’s so pretty!!!

Re: Phastos. Umm. His moment in Hiroshima was. As tasteful as it can be coming from someone heavily coded as one of those american scientists so ashamed of having collaborated on Proyect Manhattan, although I don’t think for a second he was there, I think he was clearly talking about him regretting guiding humanity technologic evolution in general. The whole sequence still felt a bit “eh” coming from an USA studio. Although it was very nice seeing them state clearly what a human horror and mistake it was. Didn’t get a feeling of disrespect or anything, just you know, sensible subject. Leaving that aside, very happy he was apparently married to another man and with a kid? Yay, representation?! (also a lot of poc rec in general in this one, i liked to see that too) One of these days it’d be between two mains charas who also don’t need to be super married and with a kid but hey, progress! And Phastos storyline was guided by a love for humanity in general so he was a nice parallel to Cersei, the protag, and also him beating and immobilising Ikaris with his science power (which was super pretty to see) was great, although I still remain a bit unconvinced about the whole setting down happily with humans in general for the Eternals. They’re 7000+ aliens/robots, but that’s my inner scapist fantasy lover talking lmfao. Better to love and live than be alone and just survive.

Also on Sprite, again: very happy nothing weird happened with her and Ikaris, most of all for the actress, and also, it was completely unnecessary… Her powers and role as the, we’ll say, potentiator of humanity’s imagination and creativity was not lost on me, and her maestry with illusions was nicely nicely done. As a writer loved all those implications. Still think hers was a shitty ending, and the traition bit left me cold, too, although I got it. But I loved Sprite first appearence in screen (when I thought she was a boy, and really the gnc look was pretty great overall, although a bit “eh” that it was conflated with her not growing up instead of, you know, because she likes the androginy. using she/her bc those were her pronouns and her arc is very much tied to it? in some uncomfortable ways? but i totally support other headcanons) and sadly by the end I was very meh on her. Although the swinging back and forth between ancient and childish was nice! What a terrible dicotonomy.I get why she wanted an adult body I still don’t get why she needed to be human and mortal for it when even Phastos with a human hushband and child he will eventually outlive doesn’t show an iota of wanting to be human.

Also everybody battle clothes were very pretty and they each had special symbolism? I couldn’t get everyone’s on the cinema but I’ll have to search a bit more on it. Still, pretty clothes = my grand worth nothing approval.

The meta commentary/self-awareness was excessive as always with Marvel, although a bit more tasteful than in other of their movies, (that superman comment lol, although it’s true dc was very present in my head when i saw ikaris flying and buring things with his eyes lol) and i loved how it took its time with everyone both in the past and the present! There’s a lot of stories there lost to the time, that I would love to see portrayed on fic. They could virtually be anywhere on Earth at any given time in history except for the few hard canon time-locations, it’s doing great things to my imagination. (A bit how I feel after watching The Old Guard, Good Omens or Hetalia, but even more fantasy-science fiction lol) (also how some relationships are left ambiguous, too!!!)

So I think I’ve said everyhting I wanted until now? If I want to say more later I’ll reblog again.

Good movie, very refreshing compared to the shit marvel has been doing lately, I still don’t trust nor will trust them or Disney but this is a good direction to be going in. For an action superhero movie the characterization was really nice!

PD: So Eros was Harry Styles? Who would have know, not me, I thought for a few moments he was Thomas Brodie-Sangster without the super young face, but well I was never a 1D fan nor do I like his music so eh. I don’t care. Good on him if that’s what he wants? To all those annoyed people bc Harry isn’t a true actor and Disney is being shitty. Dear anons of the net: when has Disney not been specially shitty this past decade?

So I’m out.

About Vanitas no Carte and anime-only viewers complaints of a slow show with no plot… What have you been watching? (no offense;)

I think the story gives out clearly at the start what is going to do? It’s a character-driven mystery about vampires so of course you’re going to learn the plot and world bit by bit as you learn about the characters; I can understand how it may be slow or difficult to follow for some people but as someone who thrives in more long stories that take their time to unravel…. (and who demand certain intellectual engagement, bc if not then I can get bored quickly with whatever is happening in it) I love the way it VnC makes you think and analyze the dialogue and foreshadowing.

The first season is like prologue + start of the first act of the story so you have to exercise trust on the author to see how it goes, and it may be slow? Compared to one season fillers, the manga of this anime is on the way to have 100 chapters or even more compared to the progress of the story and Pandora Hearts, Jun Mochizuki previus’ manga. So of course it takes its time, although the anime went way faster than it should by some parts; a first season of 13-15 episodes would have done the story more justice, but I think the anime nonetheless manages to capture the mood and the principal stuff quite well and compellingly.

Ah, so much better!!

I don’t like how they didn’t show Noé’s realising Vanitas self-destructive contradicting behaviour but I’ll give them the opportunity of tying it with next episode and the shit fest that is the Moreau!flashbacks.

But the pace compared to last episode is really good, I was super engaged watching it, and although the fight scene with Roland at the start was a bit meh with the outfocus, the rest was great.

PEOPLE. PEOPLE FELLOW MANGA FANS OF VANITAS NO CARTE.

Ok, I’ve got your attention. What if the anime adapts up until the last arc shown in the manga, that is, the one ending right now???? Could it be done or would Gevaudane plus interludes take the second cour completely? I wouldn’t want the current arc to be shoppily adapted ;_; And I don’t think is possible to do it?

Maybe the anime will end foreshadowing it, SPOILER YOU ANIME FANS with the noé-vanitas exchange after vanitas panicking about falling for jeanne, and dominique’s dissapearence making itself known? To leave things strong for anime fans to go to the manga and a future continuation to the anime??

I’m midly baffled by all the people that said Vanitas has become unwatchable after episode 3. (I come from the manga) And it’s your right!! Nothing wrong, it just confuses me bc, like.

The story and charas are so interesting, and just bc someone acts in a way you don’t like you stop watching? (I know for some poeple it’s more complicated, and like, noncon kissing being a hard no is understable) But what does that have to do with your like of the story? I mean, I understand stopping when you watch/read something bc the charas-plot is stupid and not engaging, but when it’s all the contrary… Does everything wrong need to be blatanly signaled and condened by the charas and narrative for your pace of mind? (not accusative, just curious. there’s levels and shadows of gray to this stuff of course)

Of course there’s stuff you may not agree with or like, (or be repulsed by and then you exercise your right to nope out) but when it’s interesting I just keep reading bc who knows what’s in the future and I can separate my feels on “i love reading this” vs “that would be fucked up in reality, let’s analise why it appears here” really easily as long as i’m absorved by the story.