quettatonia 👁️‍🗨️⚗️

@quettatonia

homunculus alchemist vtuber

they/them
www.twitch.tv/quettatonia

i'm a self-made self-taught homunculus alchemist looking for blue crystal. it's never too late to make a new you.
adults only please and thank you! nsfw and nsfw adjacent stuff may appear here.

i like fighting games, rpgs, and card games

art BY me: #quetta art
art OF me: #alquemicalresearch or #quettatonia

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quettatonia 👁️‍🗨️⚗️@quettatonia8/17/2023, 4:15 PM

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Devious Bec @Salubrious8/17/2023, 8:25 AM

Why you should watch Planetes: It's got character(s)!

You could enjoy its diverse cast of characters including but not limited to those listed below!

Ai Tanabe (my wife)

Hachirota Hoshino (Mister Problems)

Fee Carmichael (the main character of a different type of show)

Yuri Mikhalkov (is also here)

Arvind Ravi (... dude, seriously?)

Phillippe Myers (scientists are still trying to figure what out his job is)

Edelgard Rivera (has the correct attitude for every situation)

Claire Rondo (is very busy, okay?)

Cheng-Shin (your more successful friend)

Lucie Ascham (you go girl)

Gigalt Gangaragash (the sons of his opponents wish that he was their dad)

Hakim Ashmead (has 100% serious bones in his body)

... and many more!

#planetes #Anime #posts for me #I just wanna talk about this ding dong anime and its ding dong idiots

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luke k @lno98/17/2023, 1:38 PM

The one-two punch of "A Sky of Stardust" and "Boundary Line" was a deliberate psychic attack on my life. Also the soundtrack is permanently in my brain since that shit was hype as fuck.

luke k @lno98/17/2023, 1:52 PM

Sorry, still thinking about Boundary Line (and the frame that broke my heart). It was such a good setup for Hakim and Claire's later character growth.

Devious Bec @Salubrious8/17/2023, 2:42 PM

It's such a well placed gut punch. The cuts to what's going on on the surface at the end of that episode are fucking crushing. Great episode for setting up a really strong new theme for later in the show.

luke k @lno98/17/2023, 2:08 PM

You know the hypest shit is about to go down when United Nations starts playing

Devious Bec @Salubrious8/17/2023, 2:35 PM

I've never listened to much of the soundtrack on its own (other than occasionally putting on Terrible Workplace for a bit of a chuckle) but god damn does it get used to great effect in the series, it really gets so many chances to just carry a scene.

Parker Posey's Mouth @AllisonIsLivid8/17/2023, 4:02 PM

People told me to watch this, and i still haven't.

NeckSpike @neckspike8/17/2023, 4:14 PM

If you like hard sf you owe it to yourself, it's a phenomenal series.

Parker Posey's Mouth @AllisonIsLivid8/17/2023, 4:32 PM

I kinda do. I don't generally like anime, I've been trying to give it a fair chance, so I asked around for a space anime that was more space and less anime, and this was the answer. I just need to sit down and do it.

NeckSpike @neckspike8/17/2023, 4:52 PM

Ok yeah this is definitely your jam then. This is very much a space story that happens to be an anime vs an anime set in space.

philosophy major (derogatory (reclamative))@nullpat8/17/2023, 5:41 PM

I like the one where Fee does the thing because she wants to smoke a cigarette

Mightfo @Mightfo8/17/2023, 5:45 PM

Fee is the best!

Brody @BrodyBr8/17/2023, 5:59 PM

Earnest Post: I'm a huge fan of the manga and reread it every few years. I also own the DVD box set for anime series, yet I've never been able to finish it.

The original is very tightly focused on the crew of the DS-12, their day-to-day lives, motivations, and reactions to how to plot evolves around them. The tone isn't dead serious, but it does stay anchored in the anxieties and dangers of working in orbit and the messiness that comes with regular access to space.

The thing I think I chafe at in the anime is how it broadens out to an ensemble cast of comic relief characters and ratchets up on the goofy hijinks, and it feels in conflict with the original work's tone.

Am I being too harsh? Am I not giving this adaptation a fair shake?

Devious Bec @Salubrious8/17/2023, 11:27 PM

I'm definitely biased towards the anime since I watched it before reading the manga but I see where you're coming from. Its an argument that I always hate to make but the anime does come together after a certain point and overall I prefer its structure to telling its story. The first half is spent setting up establishing the various themes (except the ninja episode, whatever theme it was supposed to have had got buried by fucking ninjas) and then the second half knuckles down and has a real close look at those themes. It definitely broadens up to cover a lot.more themes.than the manga which was pretty tightly focused, but I think it does all of them right and women of the things it covers I haven't seen brought up in any other media, so that's gotta be a plus.

I wouldn't call it an ensemble cast of comic relief characters really, but every character does have their comedy ratcheted up some amount so there might nlt be much of a distinction there
Other than Phil every recurring named character is used to strengthen one of the themes and gets at least one big moment to emphasise that (Even if Ravi's is recycled from Fee's arc later in the manga).

I don't think you're being too harsh, everyone only likes what they like and adaptations can be a jarring thing when they differ a lot from the original like this does. But if it's been a while since you've tried watching it, who knows maybe it'll click with you this time?

Brody @BrodyBr8/18/2023, 2:40 AM

Thanks for the thoughtful response! I’ll give it another go. I think it was always the Ninja Episode that knocked me off the horse, so I’ll get to the second half!

Devious Bec @Salubrious8/18/2023, 4:27 AM

It's uhhhh definitely the black sheep episode. Rest easy knowing that after it all of the ninjas appearances are so minor that you could blink and miss them. Hope you enjoy it!

signal eleven @widr8/18/2023, 12:23 AM

this story does space so well it almost ruins every sci fi you'll see that takes place in or around space ever after. few things even come close

Devious Bec @Salubrious8/18/2023, 1:13 AM

Lmao the first time I tried to watch a gundam (I forget which ) was right off the cusp of having just watched this and I had to shut it off because it opened with a big space station getting exploded in orbit over a planet and it was giving me space debris anxiety

signal eleven @widr8/18/2023, 3:02 AM

right!! and even the depictions of what it would be like just hanging out in an orbital station or a rocket or a translunar craft or a moon base are impeccable. no notes, no cheating, planetes already did it better

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