plunderer 2nd season
Bonus points for the Attract Mode and end credits cinematics being produced by an actual Japanese animator. Forgotton Anne is a Danish adventure game whose
style and themes are clearly inspired by Studio Ghibli films. Metal Warriors: The first cutscene's style and some of the Mech Suits are inspired by old mecha anime such as Mobile Suit Gundam. Since the game's conception was inspired by
that of Assault Suits Valken (a Japanese game with similar Mecha designs and motifs), this makes sense. Need for Speed Unbound is the first installment to features Japanese-style aesthetics combined with Cel Shading effects, making those characters look like they came out fresh of an anime. Switchblade, being released in 1989 for the Atari ST by the British creator of
Rick Dangerous, is one of the earliest examples of this trope. Its sequel Switchblade II for Amiga is even more clearly inspired by manga and anime, especially notable in the portrait of protagonist Hiro on the cover. While initially leaning towards more inspiration from Western Animation, Frebbventure begins to slide hard towards this trope towards the end. Visual Novels Katawa Shoujo is a Western attempt at making a Japanese-style Visual Novel, complete with anime-style artwork. The art style is because the original art that inspired the game was Japanese. Some people saw a Japanese artist's drawings for a visual novel he'd like to see one day and decided to make it an actual visual novel.
Meanwhile Suk meets an attractive woman, who looks like Anna Liebert, in a bar. Later, Head Detective Patera
tells Suk that Zeman was investigating former StB members in the Prague police force. Suk finds Zeman's notes in a locker indicating that Patera and Janacek were in the StB, and notifies the Commissioner Hamrlik who is later revealed to be protecting the former StB members. While Suk meets the woman again, Hamrlik Patera and Janacek die after eating candy give to Patera by the same woman. 44"The Two Darkness"
Transliteration: "Futatsu no Yami" (Japanese: 二つの闇)Atsushi TakahashiYūki SaitōMarch 2, 2005 (2005-03-02)March 15, 2010 The murder of Commissioner Hamrlik and the two corrupt
officers stirs up a media frenzy. Suk questions the boys from Petrov's orphanage who say a woman was Petrov's killer.
Our teacher may be there for only one one-hundredth of our lives, yet it only takes
that one person to question us on the things we haven’t yet stopped to think about. For even if we don't appreciate wisdom at the time, once that seed has been planted, do we not continue to grow it unknowingly until the season is right for it to fruit?
Visually, while peppered with small parts of almost misplaced silly humour, sousou no Frieren captures the story’s deep sentiments with detailed subtleties: slight shifts in wrinkled expressions, dirt flicking up from a wagon’s wobbly wheel, the agefulness in the differences of characters' hands, or the objects that become absent from Himmel’s cabinet between scenes. The unobtrusiveness of the character banter is paired with genuinely “normal” character flaws that serve only to make the characters more real, as they struggle with their own vices, internal demons. and regrets. The music and sounds can almost go unnoticed: the crackling of lanterns in the otherwise deafening silence of night, the rushing water as they cross a stream, or the dampening fog of the wood. Combined, the story, visuals and sounds sustain a gently forlorn yet serious undertone that ensures you always know where this story’s journey is taking you.
The studios behind this
series are well-known for quality and care, and thankfully they were given the time to pore over these details for us: for example, the cut scenes in episode four, of Frieren’s “master” and the finding of her magical tome, are short but powerfully emotive. As always, it's refreshing and reassuring to have series such as these – series that know they can hold their own against the usual roll out of typical tropes, formulaic story recycling, and the essential must-have fanservice; a series that takes the time to tell its story, to unpack its themes, that takes you on a journey and rewards you for your emotional investment.
Sousou no Frieren is a series that has the power to change how you choose to live your life: to reflect now on what you may live to someday regret and choose how you will take action to cherish it in the moment while you still live it.
