[FairyKing]

Aaaand I got swept along and before I knew it I was caught up on the whole series. Yeah, this is good stuff! A bit unpolished, sure, but the story and action are both solid and you can really tell it's a labor of love

[DreamSword]

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Aaaand I got swept along and before I knew it I was caught up on the whole series. Yeah, this is good stuff! A bit unpolished, sure, but the story and action are both solid and you can really tell it's a labor of love

For sure! It's been a nice ride so far. And I must admit, that plot twist at the end of the latest episode has me intrigued.

[FairyKing]

Yeah, I was starting to suspect it in episode 5 but having it confirmed still feels like a shock. It also makes me wonder what, exactly, his armor is...

[Sunred]

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For those unaware, Avalon is back! Just saw the latest episode and am still having alot of fun with this indie toku. I feel like the team has definitely stepped up a bit in terms of technicals. Rather liked those exhaust effects they did for the new enemy that debuted during this one.

And if you don't know what Avalon is, it's an indie toku that airs on YouTube. And by indie I mean like, "dude and his friends got together to film a toku" levels of indie. And if you're open to watching that sort of thing, I definitely recommend checking the show out.

Nice, and kudos to the non-Japanese cast members especially. Speaking a foreign language is one thing, acting with it is another.

[GuardianAngel87]

I am finally back to watching Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and I am already up to episode 39.

[GuardianAngel87]

Watched some more of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon today and I am now down to the show's final three episodes.

[Mesnick]

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Watched some more of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon today and I am now down to the show's final three episodes.

Well, then you might be interested in watching the actresses' reunion in honor of the show's 20th anniversary. The subtitles are thoughtfully done in the characters' colors, so it will be quite easy to recognize who is who.

[GuardianAngel87]

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Well, then you might be interested in watching the actresses' reunion in honor of the show's 20th anniversary. The subtitles are thoughtfully done in the characters' colors, so it will be quite easy to recognize who is who.

Thanks. I might check this out later. I just finished watching Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. Now this just leaves the specials and its post-series movie. I think the series itself just might also be among my favorites.

[GuardianAngel87]

Last night, I managed to finish everything related to Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and I am honestly glad I decided to watch this series all things considered. Like I said, this might actually be one of my favorites.

[GoldenXtreme]

I went to a used bookstore a while back and did the natural thing: got a bunch of cheap DVDs for tokusatsu-adjacent monster movies.

King Kong (2005): This one surprised me because I feel like I should have been the exact right age when this film came out to be keenly aware of its existence, but had no idea it was a thing until I saw like 10 or so copies on the shelf. It was a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the originals in a lot of ways and I enjoyed it overall, but the whole thing was over three hours for some godforsaken reason. Action setpiece after action setpiece, all drawn out as long as possible. Everything has to be as melodramatic as possible! It was fun, but needed editing so badly. It also decided that it needed to be very faithful to the original, even when it came to really dated racist elements, which was really questionable.

I also got the first three Monsterverse films. Each one got progressively stupider and worse, which also made each subsequent one more entertaining. Godzilla (2014) was a semi-serious film, pretty much a traditional Godzilla story if it was stripped of any coherent social commentary. It is unfortunately also one of those Hollywood movies that has a bunch of overly dark scenes where I can barely see. Kong: Skull Island pretty much just operated on rule of cool weeb logic. Then finally, Godzilla: King of the Monsters went full-on idiot-mode with a monster battle royale, silly dialoge, nuclear bombs being *great* actually (don't worry about that shockwave everyone was caught in), a plot I can only assume is supposed to be some sort of wish fulfillment fantasy for divorced dads, and an ending where it turns out Godzilla will just fix all of humanity's issues if they let him. I wouldn't call any of these good, but they seemed to get better at being action slop each time.