It does seem like a weird decision to make it more into a mystical martial arts movie. I haven't seen the animated movie for forever but is the dragon character the only really supernatural element in it? Though that person in that video says that the original story doesn't even have the dragon, but was that poorly received in China even back then? Or is it that this new movie just went over the top with the magic?
Posts made by Sakonosolo
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RE: Movies that don't deserve their own thread
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RE: Movies that don't deserve their own thread
I wonder how the streaming money will compare to what they might have gotten if it had actually opened in theatres in the US. I imagine a lot of people don't want to pay $30 to watch the movie at home since while you do pay a lot to go to the movies you get the big screen there and just the act of going out itself. Though I wonder why it's bombing in China.
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RE: General Video Game Discussion
I bought Sands of Time because it was getting rave reviews but didn't enjoy it all that much. I bought KOTOR at the same time and enjoyed it much more.
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RE: Movies that don't deserve their own thread
Dune's a pretty well known thing. Hard to believe there are people that haven't heard of it even if they haven't read it/watched any of the adaptations. Especially if they're into sci-fi.
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RE: Another one bites the dust. RIP JaiminisBox
If you go on Mangadex you can see some series with their official releases posted on there as "Ex-licenses". I don't think that's public domain (because of how bullshit copyright laws are) but it has something to do with manga series assumed to be abandoned or that the company went out of business or something and nobody has picked that series up again. Lupin for instance.
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RE: Another one bites the dust. RIP JaiminisBox
I explicitly said
" there is absolutely no need for the bootleg sites anymore unless they cover older more obscure material that never gets translated".Almost all of those sites focus mostly on stealing from the immediate Jump catalog because those are the things that got the views. No one is going out of their way to translate 3x3 Eyes or Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden Rai or the final volume of Drakuun that Dark Horse never bothered with or Nodame Cantabile which Del Rey gave up halfway through, that's all fine and fair game.
Anyone going after the stuff that's already being translated on time worldwide though is just grifting.
If a bootleg site covers stuff that doesn't get translated any other way and its a passion project, that's fine. But when they're just scumming profits of the official stuff that's already covered? As Jaminsbox did for years? They get no sympathy from me when they close down.
Illegal bootleg scanlations need to be a passion project. If you're doing for money, you're doing it for the wrong reason. Go out and become an official translator if you want to make it an actual career.
Official publishers printing actual physical copies that cost actual money to make? Yeah, they need to pay people so of course they don't keep with stuff that doesn't sell.
I don't agree with you calling things that don't get official translations obscure though. I get what you're saying, but saying anything that isn't getting official translations obscure is I think generally wrong. And I also agree about making money off of scanlations. That's always been frowned upon, with fansubs as well. But Patreon being a thing has created a loophole, or at least an area where the crackdowns generally don't target. I've also seen fansub groups selling merch, usually of like a logo they came up with. I imagine that's fine but it's still kind of weird.
The last part of my post with the service issue thing is because official translations generally jump the gun really hard and take forever to catch up to where the scanlations were at the time of their announcement. A lot of groups/people will also stop translating a licensed manga with the announcement of its license even if it'll take a year or more for the first localized volume to even come out. Mangaplus is a solution to this issue and there are some other series that do get chapter by chapter releases but do you agree with completely shutting down scanlations and making people caught up wait years to continue reading where they left off at? There's also been times where a localizer will drop a series. And if the scanlation was killed because of the licensing then you're generally shit out of luck because there might not be anyone willing to pick it back up. The idea of license = dead scanlation to me is an idealistic scenario that never pans out well. You have to think about if the localization will even make any money too if people completely forget about a manga in the time between the license announcement and the release of the first volume because the scanlator ran away as soon as the announcement went out.
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RE: Another one bites the dust. RIP JaiminisBox
By buying the localization obviously :devil:.
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RE: Movies that don't deserve their own thread
You're going to get that with companies buddying up with China so much because of the money while they're a country that goes against a lot of what the US is at least on the surface against. There have been several similar issues I've seen before.
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RE: Another one bites the dust. RIP JaiminisBox
Good.
We have official, free, day of release on the official websites, worldwide!, there is absolutely no need for the bootleg sites anymore unless they cover older more obscure material that never gets translated. We don't need crooks getting ad revenue off the new weeklies days before the actual release.
It was a different matter when official releases were months or even years behind the Japanese, but that hasn't been the case for a while.
While I do think JB mostly scanned things that this applies to, this applies to a very small amount of series so saying that scanlations shouldn't exist anymore because you can get every WSJ series like this just shows an ignorance of just how many manga exist. IMO even scanlations miss a lot of stuff that I would like to read, and the American manga localization scene also refuses to localize a lot of stuff, probably because they know that they won't make as much money as the big sellers. Even among series that get localizations though, for most series you can't follow them as they come out officially. If you've heard of that "it's a service issue" thing that's basically what it is.
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RE: Movies that don't deserve their own thread
Was that really so unexpected? It has a pretty low score on IMDB too so it's not just you.
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RE: What Anime Are You Watching?
! @Nobodyman:
! > Alternatively, she could have wished for some other method to deal with the heat death. Something that didn't involve the sacrifice of innocents (oh, but then I guess we'd all still be living in caves without Kyubei's intervention for…some reason).
! I mean I don't know what it could have been. The way Kyuubei deals with things works outside of the sacrificing magical girls. So the curses just changed forms and Kyuubei still collects energy similarly through the wraiths.
! > Yeah, but the whole point of the witches is that the only exist because Kyubei's race interfered. Introducing some other mystical threat at the end just seems really arbitrary. Like, why didn't wraiths exist in the original universe? It was made clear that only magical girls turn into witches, so what about the negative emotions of all other humans in the world?
! I think the witches weren't handled very well honestly. It's hard to believe that all the witches they fight over the course of the show were former magical girls. The point is though that Madoka can't get rid of negative human emotions. And the wraiths exist because those negative emotions still exist even without witches and they need to go somewhere. Presumably the negative emotions of normal people feed witches but like I said above I don't think that was very well thought out.
! > Again, the show made it clear that only teenage girls are selected to be magical girls. I hate to say it, but most advancements over human history have been made by men, so how does the magical girl system factor so much into human development?
! I was thinking this when I made my post. But I guess we're supposed to believe that Madoka's universe is somewhat different from ours. You can already see differences in the environment, like how Madoka's school is set up and such. Again, another poorly thought out thing in order to make the magical girl setup make some sort of sense.
! > Because cows, pigs, etc. are not intelligent sentient life forms that we can communicate with. That's my reasoning anyway. I guess you could argue that sentience doesn't matter and a life is a life, but they could at least argue that point one of these days. Really, I'm just sick of hearing that same damn argument without them addressing it.
! Kyuubei uses that argument but also says that he does accommodate humanity for their sentience. So the analogy doesn't fit perfectly but it's an example he was giving to a middle school girl. And I'm pretty sure it's only brought up once (twice at the most) so I didn't feel like the show was hitting you over the head with it. -
RE: What Anime Are You Watching?
! I've heard people wonder about why she didn't just wish for the heat death to not happen but that's kind of just an inherent principle of the universe I'd imagine. Just like she probably couldn't create a new world where gravity didn't exist but keep it mostly the same otherwise that probably wasn't possible without significantly changing things. The wraiths are similar in the fact that human curses or whatever is never going to not exist and there's nothing she could do about that, she just changed the way in which it manifests to keep the issues with magical girls from being a thing. Wraiths are basically incarnations of human "curses"/hatred. Witches manifested from these emotions originally but now that wraiths exist they're basically personifications of those emotions that don't involve anyone turning into them, which was the issue with magical girls turning into witches. The logic for the incubators being responsible for human advancement is that great people (I don't know if it's only women or if they're just the only ones shown because we're talking about magical girls) were great because of the wishes they made. Or the wishes made their potential able to be manifested. How do you think the livestock metaphor doesn't work?
Rebellion's really divisive. I personally think it makes sense and works great but others argue otherwise. It's also imo one of Shaft's best visual works. At least that I've seen. -
RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
I don't understand what happened because I thought he was already arrested. How do you get arrested again after already being arrested. Unless he was out on bail or something?
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RE: Powerpuff Girls Live-Action TV Series in Development at The CW
Remember the live action Fairly Odd Parents?
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RE: Time Paradox Ghost Writer
Weekly is basically a requirement for popularity because it's the same as how anime and other TV series come out. It's seen as the default for serialization. And it's been this way with manga for forever, so if you want WSJ to change to biweekly or monthly it's going to alienate a lot of people that have gotten used to it even if it would result in better manga (which is hard to say since there's no real clear quality separation between the release schedules I'd say, and expectations vary wildly between magazines and even within magazines). But you can also point to good, successful manga that were or are reliably weekly so the schedule isn't the entire issue. These mangaka could go to either a Shueisha monthly magazine or another company's and probably be able to do a decent run but it comes at sacrificing the notoriety of WSJ and that even if you're extremely popular in a smaller, less frequent magazine it's really nothing compared to being in WSJ.
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RE: What manga are you reading and how do you like it? What do you plan to read?
Yeah I'm reading it because I loved SoreMachi. Definitely hasn't gone how I was expecting since it started considering the plot points introduced in the beginning. The most recent chapter was interesting as well and the current arc is still continuing, though I don't know to what end.
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RE: Witch Hat Atelier
That was quick.
! I thought Qifrey was going to kill him or something but I'm sure that the glyph on the hat was the same as the ones that magic police people were going to use on Coco, to erase memories. Qifrey already erased that old guy's memory though, so we already know he's willing to do this kind of thing. I'm betting something is going to happen at this festival that's coming up.
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RE: Ajin by Sakurai Gamon & Miura Tsuina
I don't generally use reddit either but you just have to type in "Ajin chapter ##" into Google and it's usually one of the top results with just a link you have to click to get to the chapter images.
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RE: What manga are you reading and how do you like it? What do you plan to read?
Gonna finish Senryuu Shoujo up to where it's scanlated (and hope that the last 5 chapters are scanlated at some point, or I may just try and read the raws) and then probably start reading Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Already watched the anime so it'll be interesting to see how much the manga differs. Plus I've heard a lot about the ending, but no specifics, so looking forward to that.
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RE: What manga are you reading and how do you like it? What do you plan to read?
Golgo 13 is in Big Comic, which apparently comes out twice per month. And even if that anime is good, it's still only 50 episodes while the manga is nearly 200 volumes so it's going to skip a lot of stuff. And I'm actually surprised at how new that series is for how old the manga is.
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RE: Ajin by Sakurai Gamon & Miura Tsuina
There's nobody scanning it. You have to find the rips of the official release (which does release chapter by chapter). Sometimes I can find it, other times the only place to read it is an imgur link from reddit (which is generally somewhat poor quality but good enough). Just go to the Ajin subreddit and they'll have links. The latest chapter released is 81.
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RE: Ajin by Sakurai Gamon & Miura Tsuina
I'm reading it. It's been dragging a bit recently though. Seems to be approaching an ending too.
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RE: Movies that don't deserve their own thread
Tom Hardy played Heathcliff in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, though that was before DKR. He's been in a few TV series since then though, which isn't something I'd think a film actor with a big head would do. JGL never seemed that way to me either. He played in Don Jon though which doesn't seem like the kind of movie a person you think that way about would do but maybe it is. He's also played in a TV series recently, though just as a voice apparently.
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RE: What manga are you reading and how do you like it? What do you plan to read?
Pretty sure it's episodic and only misc chapters have been translated. Viz released 13 volumes and according to MangaUpdates only a dozen or a couple dozen chapters chapters have been scanlated. Nyaa has the Viz releases and Mangadex has the ones that are scanlated.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
I'm really glad that Gingitsune came back from its long hiatus. I'm not glad though that nobody is translating it.
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RE: General Video Game Discussion
@Johnny:
I know people like Witcher 3 a whole lot, but were the other two games any good?
I haven't played W3 but Witcher 2 is kind of in the same vein from what I can tell except not open world. Similar hack and slash gameplay but in a more linear (though each area is fairly large still, you're not completely railroaded or anything). Witcher 1 is a completely different kind of game. It's a bit more open than 2 iirc. The gameplay is a weird rhythm based one. You can change the point of view to be anywhere from a sort of isometric view to similar to 2 and 3 but the combat is kind of more like what you'd see in an MMO, the kind of clicky combat. And your attacks are powered up if you click to a specific rhythm. Typing this out, a more specific comparison is the first Dragon Age game. Most of it plays similarly to that from what I remember with the addition of the rhythm combat.
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RE: Dai Dark
Seems like plot stuff is happening. Also I can never decide if Death's voice should be feminine while she's in her disguise.
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RE: Witch Hat Atelier
I'm fine with these little side chapters but it's a little annoying when the scanlations are so irregular and slow. Though judging by this chapter Orugio may get an apprentice at some point. You have to pass a specific test to be able to do that though and I'm not sure Orugio took it since the only thing it's good for is taking on apprentices and he didn't want any originally.
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RE: General Video Game Discussion
Seeing massive corporations trying to pretend they're different from other massive corporations and that you should trust and like them but not the other guy is always fun.
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RE: Oricon Manga sales
I added the sales up from the last list and it was a little over 70 million iirc. Wikipedia has its sales set to 80 million though.
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RE: Satoshi Mizukami series thread
Might want to rename the thread at least though. Maybe just name it the Mizukami thread or something since it was originally a Spirit Circle thread. I like the magic used in this series so far. Especially how it's also partially a magical girl series with how Solte's powers work. I "read" through the raws when it came out since it took a while for the translation and the last line when she mentions her parents I thought that might have applied to the magic bodyguards, like they might have been her parents or something and their deaths weren't real. But the actual line makes more sense.
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RE: What are you reading? (Literature)
Finished Moby Dick. I expected a lot of side stuff from what I heard of it but
! my copy had 410 pages and only the last 20 pages were about chasing Moby Dick. The rest of the book was all kinds of stuff about the anatomy of whales, hunting other whales (including a cool chapter where they come across a massive army of whales), and finding other ships and asking about Moby Dick. It was as much a book about sailing as it was about whaling. Also the point of view of the book was all over the place. At times I forgot Ishmael was even a character because the view shifted so often to either a normal third person view or to first person views of other characters. That added to the difficulty of reading it, and it's already kind of daunting by itself, but it got easier to read as I went along, probably more because my understanding improved.
Kind of burned out. Next fictional book I'm going to read is going to be Middlemarch by George Eliot though. I recently reread Silas Marner which I still enjoyed so I'm interested to see how Middlemarch is as a longer book by the same author.
Currently reading Pillars of the Earth, and also starting Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. It's really weird to read those two at the "same time". One is so hard to read that when I return to the other one, it feels like reading a book for kids, lol. Not saying that Pillars of the Earth is for children–- far from that, just feels odd af to read the two one after another.
Also, I'm reading the first book of Dune. I'm not really hooked tbh, if nothing changes in the next 100pages, I'll drop the reading
I tried reading Gravity's Rainbow in high school and gave up on it pretty early. I want to try reading it again at some point. I also have all of the Dune books written by the original author but haven't started them yet. I've seen people call it boring but there's plenty of other people that like it.
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RE: Oricon Manga sales
I wonder when Kimetsu no Yaiba will finally fall off the chart.
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RE: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Do the Dio Walk!
I'll have to reread this chapter a few times I think but I can't say I was a fan of it for my first impression. Not sure what the point of Araki using images of characters from the original universe is.
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RE: Dungeon Meshi
Oh yeah I remember their talking about her being hungry now. And the spider web is the winged lion trying to interfere with Thistle, which Thistle says in this chapter. He mentions all the things he needs to deal with and the image with the spider web is said to be the winged lion's doing.
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RE: Dungeon Meshi
Maybe I missed something but why are they wanting to feed Farlyn the curry? And Thistle seems like he suffers from a similar issue to Marsille where he was friends with humans and has a complex about them dying before him. It really does seem like we may be in the final stretch of the manga.
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RE: General Video Game Discussion
I enjoyed the original reboot (haven't played the Doom-clone one from the 90s) but I heard that its sequel went more in a Borderlands direction, which I didn't care much about so I didn't play it. The reboot felt kind of Serious Sam-like, though like a lot of more recent games it had a pointless upgrade system. The sword combat was cool too.
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RE: Serial Experiments Lain
It was something I had always known about when I was younger and I think I might have watched a couple of episodes in the early or mid 00s but it was only in the last few years I watched it all the way through. It has a nice aesthetic but it is a bit hard to follow if it even has deeper meaning to a lot of the stuff it throws at the watcher. There being multiple Lains is one of the better parts imo, and seeing how they act. Ultimately I didn't find it as great as its reputation suggests (I much preferred Haibane Renmei, which has the same character designer) but it's still pretty good.
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RE: What are you reading? (Literature)
More than halfway through Gulliver's Travels. I realize that reading it hundreds of years after it was written means I won't get a lot of the satire and references (though thankfully the edition I'm reading has lots of footnotes) but some of the satire seems like it would be hard to get even for people at the time. Mostly the allusions to real people. The part that's made me laugh the most was when
! Gulliver describes the political and legal system of England to the king of one of the places he visits and the king says English people sound like idiots, though in more descriptive terms.
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RE: Official Pretty Cure topic
Didn't know there was a Precure thread here (though I knew at some point because I posted in the thread). I've since watched Futari Wa and Heartcatch. Heartcatch never felt like it dragged like Futari Wa sometimes did but I liked Nagisa and Honoka as characters.
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RE: What are you reading? (Literature)
I might finish the Recognitions sometime this decade. I'm almost halfway through it. The problem is remembering (if I even knew it to begin with) what was or is happening. Also after reading the manga SoreMachi it made me want to read some mystery books. I just finished And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie which was cool. Probably going to read the Hound of the Baskervilles next.
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RE: Witch Hat Atelier
https://mangadex.org/chapter/932550/1
The scan group is picking up the pace a bit it seems thankfully.! And I was wrong about her going to the library. Interesting that Riche's brother is actually in the story. Also I forget what Qifrey and Orugio were talking about. Was it way back before even the whole river event when Orugio was confronting Qifrey about taking Coco in?
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RE: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Do the Dio Walk!
https://mangadex.org/chapter/930458/1
! We might actually get Joshu vs Tooru. He's trying to save Yasuho and has the fruit. And that rock insect is cool. It'll probably be a disappointment but it could be interesting to see it animated if done right. And we seem like we're come up on a confrontation with the user and a confrontation with the stand (since the doctor is in fact Tooru's stand as confirmed in this chapter) at the same time, which is cool. And it seemed last chapter that Tooru may not have been able to control the doctor while doing his own things but that seems to not be the case in this chapter. And it makes sense that it wouldn't be the case since the doctor is his stand and we've seen the user and stand operate separately in other parts.
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RE: Dungeon Meshi
Crazy chapter. So this seems to be leading to Marcille legitimately being an enemy in some capacity.
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RE: General Video Game Discussion
Gonna wait to see if there's any porting issues (considering what I see on PCgamingwiki it seems like it's not just an emulation) with this but I've been wanting to play a Persona game for a while now so that's cool. I think Persona 3 is the one I was looking at more though so I wonder if that'll ever get a PC release. The very first Persona game had a PC release but then none of the other ones.
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RE: What Anime Are You Watching?
Almost done with Heartcatch Precure. It's pretty good, better than Futari Wa. Has some really good fight scenes at points and manages to hype some of its moments up really well. Still not one of my favorite magical girl series though. I did like that it had a more slice of life feel than Futari Wa but it still encountered the same sort of repetition of the bad guys coming down and messing things up and having to be defeated. Though the bad guys did get some fleshing out at times, in general more than in Futari Wa, though there was one bad guy in FW that had his own character arc. Interested to see how it ends since it's already went in a direction I wasn't expecting.
Probably going to either watch season 2 of Nanoha or watch the SoreMachi anime adaptation next.
Edit: About the ending
! I think having the Infinite Precure punching Dune and then skipping to the aftermatch of everything was kind of an unnecessary thing to do. In general there wasn't really enough time spent showing how the Earth got rid of the desert, though towards the end in the flashback it shows the world starting to lighten in color after the punch. Other than that though, good ending. We get to see what the villains are up to after they were defeated and returned to their bodies (they all seemed to be in a coma in the same hospital but there's really no explanation for that given in the show, maybe it was part of Yuri's dad's activities after he joined with Dune) but only really a flash outside of Kumojacky, who joins Itsuki's family dojo. And Yuri's dad just dies, which feels kind of out of place considering the three minor villains all get their lives back and Dune even gets purified by the Infinite Precure even though ultimately he dies too. It ends with what seems like Tsubomi's sister finding the photo of the 4 of them together which could be some sort of sequel hook, though outside of the movie I don't think there's a sequel. The movie is interesting too and I'll probably watch it at some point but I noticed (because the copy I watched was the TV version, which had Precure movie trailers sometimes as the opening footage) that during a short flashback of Yuri's dad that the characters in the movie were there, so I guess the movie has them going to France and beating those guys. Whether they're even higher up than Dune or some other of his underlings.
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RE: General Video Game Discussion
Fallout started with 3 and TES started with Skyrim.