June 25, 2022
Hills of Silver Ruins (3/31)
We first meet Yuushou in chapter 12 (book 2).
Labels: 12 kingdoms, black moon, fantasy, japanese, translations
June 18, 2022
Hills of Silver Ruins (3/30)
Risai confirms that Gyousou left the column in Shikyuu and a platoon of soldiers subsequently went missing in chapter 33 of book 1.
Spirit money or joss paper (紙銭), often resembling money or clothing, is included in ancestral offerings so deceased family members can tend to their needs in the afterlife.
Knapping is the shaping of rocks to manufacture stone tools.
A youjuu (妖獣) is a youma (妖魔) that can be domesticated. Under normal conditions, only a kirin can control youma, though Rousan has a few tricks up her sleeve. This is why Gyousou is so concerned that Ukou and his men appear to be using hinman, youma that can enhance a person's fighting abilities.
Spirit money or joss paper (紙銭), often resembling money or clothing, is included in ancestral offerings so deceased family members can tend to their needs in the afterlife.
Knapping is the shaping of rocks to manufacture stone tools.
A youjuu (妖獣) is a youma (妖魔) that can be domesticated. Under normal conditions, only a kirin can control youma, though Rousan has a few tricks up her sleeve. This is why Gyousou is so concerned that Ukou and his men appear to be using hinman, youma that can enhance a person's fighting abilities.
Labels: 12 kingdoms, black moon, fantasy, japanese, translations
June 11, 2022
Hills of Silver Ruins (3/29)
I've posted chapter 29 (book 3) of Hills of Silver Ruins, a Pitch Black Moon.
Labels: 12 kingdoms, black moon, fantasy, japanese, translations
June 04, 2022
Tubi (update 3)
GKIDS is probably best known in the anime community for taking over the licensing and distribution of Ghibli productions from Disney. HBO Max paid a king's ransom for exclusive access to the Ghibli catalog, so that content is unlikely to be part of the arrangement.
But GKIDS still has a good deal of high quality content not locked down by exclusives. Tubi has been working with GKIDS for a while and has The Case of Hana & Alice, Genius Party, Genius Party Beyond, Napping Princess, and Summer Days With Coo, along with a half dozen non-anime titles.
Belle just ended its theatrical release so I don't expect it to show up anytime soon, but I'll cross my fingers and hope for good news about Weathering with You, A Letter to Momo, Promare, and Fortune Favors Lady Nikudo. Along with several Masaaki Yuasa films and Goro Miyazaki's Ronja series.
For now, Children of the Sea, Fireworks, Modest Heroes, Lu Over the Wall, and Okko's Inn are on Netflix, but I don't know if those are exclusives.
Alas, the anime licensing gods giveth and they taketh away. A bunch of great Eleven Arts movies left Tubi, including Liz and the Blue Bird, Maquia, Penguin Highway, Sound Euphonium, and The Wonderland.
The silver lining in this latest game of IP musical chairs is that Tubi added to its lineup Shirobako, the 2020 movie sequel to the 2014 series, and a true anime classic, seven seasons of Rumiko Takahashi's gender-bending martial arts comedy, Ranma 1/2.
Labels: anime, gkids, japanese tv, streaming, tubi
June 01, 2022
Tubi (update 2)
Like adding some rudimentary filters to its existing genre categories. The best that I can tell, titles in the anime category are displayed according to most viewed status overall. That means everything in the list is constantly floating around without any way to predict what got added when or where.
The list can't be sorted alphabetically, by release or acquisition date, sub-genre or language. There's no language filter for the Foreign Language TV category either. You can search on "Japanese," except the language and genre tags aren't applied consistently enough to make that a reliable tool.
So Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (live action) initially ended up in Anime, and Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl (anime) ended up in Foreign Language TV.
Tubu has New Release and Recently Added categories, but unlike Netflix, which trickles out new titles at a reasonable rate on a weekly basis and knows my preferences pretty well, Tubi just backs a dump truck up to the loading dock.
The better resource here is Reelgood, which lets you alphabetize, sort by release year, and country. But Reelgood is not always up to date, so searches will also display titles no longer on the service while missing recent additions.
Labels: anime, japanese culture, japanese tv, netflix, streaming, tubi