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A Look At The Original Pitch For ‘The Simpsons’ Arc ‘Who Shot Mr. Burns?’ Shows What Could’ve Been
https://uproxx.com/tv/the-simpsons-who-shot-mr-burns-original-script-maggie/
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As long as the two parter story still had Tito Puente, any ending would've worked, haha.



Con el coraz?n de perro
Se?or Burns!
?El diablo con dinero!

It may not surprise you
But all of us despise you
Please die and fry
In Hell, you rotten
Rich, old wretch!

?Adi?s, viejo! wavey:
 
‘Ballmastrz: 9009’ Is Adult Swim’s Unholy Union of ‘Mutant League’ and ‘Mad Max’
http://collider.com/ballmastrz-review-adult-swim/#images

If you want a balls-to-the-wall, frenetic, animated action series that centers on a post-apocalyptic game of sports-ball played to the death, then Adult Swim’s Ballmastrz: 9009 is for you. Go ahead and skip the rest of this review and set your screens for Christy Karacas‘ debut arriving on Sunday April 8th in a two-episode premiere; the Adult Swim series will then continue airing back-to-back episodes each week. Oh, and if you’re a fan of Karacas’ super-insane co-creation Superjail!, you’ll also want to check out Ballmastrz for more examples of the artist’s unhinged imagination.
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I am, and I do!
 
I'll post this here rather than in a few of the other threads it might fit in.

As a few of you that have clicked on a few of my posts in the threads on this board might have gathered I have picked up a bit of an expertise in both comic books and Japanese anime over my years of collecting. I have been asked by another board I am a member to put together a series of reviews and opinions of anime and comic book stories I have enjoyed that most might have missed or glossed over a somewhat "hidden gems" series.

As I put these together over the next year or so I would not mind sharing these among my friends here provided there would be interest.

Would it be something that any of you would be interested in?

Joe - JWR
 
1st review up, I removed spoilers (the other board I'm writing these for has the ability to hide spoilers) so as not to give away the story in case any wish to watch it.



Steins Gate was originally broadcast in 2011
The story is taken from a visual novel game of the same name produced by Nitroplus in 2009
This anime has 24 episodes and is available in both sub titled and an English dub.

It has spawned a “side story” series Steins Gate 0 currently being simulcast on crunchyroll and other streaming sites. Steins Gate 0 takes place between episode 23 and 24 of the original series and to give info would be a spoiler to the 1st series.

Story:
In 2010 a group of college friends Rintaro Okabe (self proclaimed Mad Scientist) and college friend Itaru “Daru” Hashida a computer wiz and Rintaro's childhood friend Mayuri Shiina work on inventions in Rintaro's Future Gadget Laboratory located in his upstairs apartment over a TV repair shop.

Rintaro attends a conference on time travel and meets a female neuroscience researcher Kurisu Makise later after the conference he finds her murdered in a pool of blood. Leaving the building he send a text message to Daru detailing what has happened. When he hit's send he experiences a weird vision and upon returning to the lab finds out that there are no news reports on the murder and that the conference he attended never happened due to what looks like a satellite had crashed into the building. Rintaro then discovers that his text message had arrived before he ever sent it. Rintaro seems to the be the only person who is aware of the differnces. Later that day while walking to check out the damaged building he runs into Kurisu Makise who is alive and well.


This series explores Time Travel , alternate timelines and the Butterfly effect and is very well written by Jukki Hanada and animated by studio White fox and directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Sato using character designs by Kyuuta Sakai
 
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It might be considered blasphemy, but I've never watched the original Steins Gate. I definitely need to fit it in my schedule. It is hard to find the time; the last few seasons of anime in general have been really strong, so I'm watching way more anime than I ever thought I would. (March comes like a Lion, Darling in the Franxx, My Hero Academia, Golden Kamuy, and Megalo Box just for starters).
 
I saw "Isle of Dogs" last night. Not sure if there's a Wes Anderson thread, but anyway...


I enjoyed the heck outta this movie.

I'm a Wes Anderson fan anyway, so his style is right up my alley. And this movie comes through. I mean, really, most of his movies are live-action cartoons anyway.

The story is akin to a "Moonrise Kingdom" type kid quest, and the voice acting is top notch from his usual troupe. And I liked the fact that there were a bunch of places where the dialogue was all Japanese, but you kind of got the idea of what was going on.

The animation style is also really interesting and there are actually several styles - the main action stop-motion, flashbacks via stylized stills, drawings in what was on TV monitors, and cartoons on the TV. I even sat through the credits to see the myriad of posters that had been sprinkled through the movie.
 
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