GeekNights Wednesday - Your Name

[Mr.Period]

Tonight on GeekNights, we review the fantastic, must-see Your Name (君の名は。), Makoto Shinkai's greatest work to date and one of the biggest anime movies ever made. In the news, Kemono Friends is shockingly popular, selling out its popup store, and Toho is having a fantastic year in no small part due to Your Name.

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[Rym]

[panfriedmarmot]

I saw this with my wife last weekend and cried like a child for a good bit if the last act. Damn good movie, animation, voice acting, everything.

[Kate_Monster]

Kemono Friends is on my assignment list. Hooray! A moe show with a dash of anthropomorphism where the characters are children (?) of an undefined age (they look like they are 8-year-olds with breasts) and which seems to be targeted at children and adult men. These are all things that a feminist who is hyper-vigilant about the sexualization of children would be super comfortable with, right? Right? O.o

[Nukerjsr]

Why does this movie have an opening theme? I haven't seen any anime movies that choose to make this decision. Didn't like it at all because it was telling me themes and cues to look out for in the movie. It was an unavoidable trailer to a movie I already decided to watch.

That being said, the movie is pretty incredible.

[Rym]

Oh, obviously, we only saw the subbed version. We can't speak to the English dub.

[Churba]

We can't speak to the English dub.

I haven't seen it myself yet, but apparently it's pretty quality. Even two of my mates who are real sub-only snobs admitted that it was well done, and praised the effort they put into it.

[Apreche]

Well, I mean, If you're going to do a good job dubbing an anime, this is the one, right? Hire some real voice actors and not the usual anime crew.

[Rym]

The actors usually aren't the problem: it's the direction and producers.

[Tripwire]

To wit, many of the VAs for Friendship is Magic have also done terrible anime dubs.