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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 17, 2026, 04:20:18 pm »

Continuing from:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/suicide/msg32366/#msg32366

The movie begins at 11:22 (everything before this is from the middle of the movie, so avoid it to avoid spoilers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfo7E7BhHus

This is my personal favourite 90s action movie. Especially relatable to me is the train conversation about how some parents use the police to frighten their own offspring. (I myself once threatened to call the police on my former neighbours after hearing through the wall their offspring being terrorized by them, only to have them misrepresent to the child that I was calling the police to arrest the child!) Receiving sympathy on this issue from such an excellent heroine (played by Jade Leung who also never reproduced in real-life) meant a lot to me.

From a nostalgic perspective, I also enjoy the older mainland China scenery, which is especially refreshing when contrasted with the abomination that is present-day "New China".

The English sub is horrible, however, hence I have been trying to find (without success so far) an unsubbed version so I can resub it myself. For example, one the best lines ever delivered to a survivalist by a militarist: "If I die, I am a martyr. If you die, you are a failure." was utterly botched in the official translation.

What do you think?
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: August 09, 2025, 12:13:28 am »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ymp2z6VWM
Posted by: Zhang Caizhi
« on: March 30, 2024, 01:34:38 am »

Not surprised for following the original book and add post-9/11 things as you said.
https://missdream.org/raw-sailor-moon-downloads/manga/sailor-moon-nakayoshi-magazine/sailor-moon-nakayoshi-magazine-march-1994/

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 28, 2024, 01:56:37 am »

Continuing from:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/msg25685/#msg25685

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I’ve been watching Sailor Moon for the first time, and I really like Usagi’s characterization. She’s lazy, but has a strong sense of justice that compels her to action despite her laziness. I feel like that’s the perfect combination for a hero, because that type of person is much less likely to abuse the power bestowed upon them

Which episode are you on at present?

You are exactly correct about Usagi. She is lazy because if the world was as it should be, then nothing should need to be done, and she is merely behaving as if she were already living in such a world. The problem is fundamentally with the (post-Silver Millennium) world for not being this way in reality, not with her for being lazy. And it takes a personality like hers to restore the Silver Millennium. In Season 3, they make fun of the fact that even after she became Neo-Queen Serenity in the future, she still hasn't learned to write a single kanji:



(Present-day letter for comparison:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPewiV1WoAEyRZc.png )

Of course in Crystal, the idiot writers were oblivious to this point and thus included kanji (plus paragraphing, indentation and polite wording too!) in her letters:



This is why Crystal is utter trash. (Also note Crystal's far more ornate letter paper - yuck!)
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 20, 2024, 10:51:23 pm »

Exactly. This is the problem. You should refer to all comics using the standard word for comics in the local language.
Posted by: Zhang Caizhi
« on: January 20, 2024, 10:43:06 pm »

No. Thai translator companies popularized word "manga" for Japanese comics and "manhwa" for Korean comics.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 20, 2024, 08:42:04 pm »

But would you call this a "manga"?

https://www.148apps.com/app/564999990/

And if not, why not?
Posted by: Zhang Caizhi
« on: January 20, 2024, 08:30:50 pm »

Sorry about this. I am Thai and word "manga" is widely used amongst Thai people. In Thailand, woke is still considered to be anti-social behavior.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 04, 2024, 04:09:06 pm »

"I read that 2014 Sailor Moon Crystal has story closely followed the original manga by Takeuchi Naoko compared to 90s Sailor Moon."

This is correct. As I already said:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/the-archetype-of-the-warrior-how-films-help-empower-us-all/msg24643/#msg24643

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I am firmly in the camp that appreciates the original series precisely for not sticking to the comic book source material (unlike Crystal).

"I would like you to see if you like the original manga."

Mostly not. Character exposition is extremely lacking, and the characters themselves are far less likeable than they are in the original series. The second movie was based on:

https://missdream.org/sailor-moon-scanlations/sailor-moon-manga-scanlations/the-lover-of-princess-kaguya/

and (while still much better than Crystal) is not as good as the first movie which was an original story.

By the way, using the term:

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manga

is implicitly othering and thus unwoke. We do not (when speaking/writing in English) call Japanese movies "eiga". There is similarly no reason for (when speaking/writing in English) calling Japanese comics "manga". It is only weeaboos who do this:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Weeaboo

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Many weeaboos talk in butchered Japanese with the 8 or so words they know (i.e. kawaii, desu, ni chan). While weeaboos claim to love and support Japanese culture, counter intuitively, they tend to stereotype Japanese culture
...
They are known to use Japanese words in the middle of English sentences, and they are hated by society.
...
Weeaboos are very offensive to the Japanese because they put a very unhealthy stereotype on the Japanese. That is why every weeaboo in the world must be exterminated.

Posted by: Zhang Caizhi
« on: January 04, 2024, 07:42:15 am »

I read that 2014 Sailor Moon Crystal has story closely followed the original manga by Takeuchi Naoko compared to 90s Sailor Moon. So, I would like you to see if you like the original manga.

https://missdream.org/sailor-moon-scanlations/sailor-moon-manga-scanlations/
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 01, 2024, 11:52:31 pm »

Similarly, I could not do Sailor Moon Month in the music topic:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/msg24632/#msg24632

without saying something about the mythos as a whole. The best thing about it is that the story was already completed by 1997, so the problems with endless continuation (see previous post) fortunately do not apply here. Instead, the main thing to worry about is remakes. I cannot emphasize this enough: avoid Crystal at all costs. Crystal not only got rid of everything that made the original series great, but added every possible ugliness from the current era. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABh7pOiNAwM

On the other hand, the live-action PGSM is a highly respectable alternate take on the plot of Season 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZMc1PQO5KE

I would have infinitely preferred additional seasons of PGSM instead of the artistic abomination that was Crystal.

Still, the original series (200 episodes + 3 movies + 5 shorts) should definitely be taken as the canonical series:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyaono (SPOILER WARNING)

The full content is easy to find online, so I will not bother to post links. While it is true that the movies and shorts are not essential to understanding the main series, I find that the first movie in particular adds perspective to the characters (e.g. showing that Usagi and Mamoru met for the first time during their current life not in the Episode 1 random encounter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB7qZL_vuU8

but actually shortly after the car accident ten years earlier in a much more meaningful encounter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk3NriEOV98

that seems to be a more fitting continuation to their pre-reincarnation relationship (though neither of them recognized the other by the time of their Episode 1 meeting)). I can go into a lot more detail if required on this and other points. Overall, I am firmly in the camp that appreciates the original series precisely for not sticking to the comic book source material (unlike Crystal).
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 01, 2023, 02:45:27 am »

I could hardly do Lupin III Month in the music topic:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/msg23301/#msg23301

without over here paying tribute to the mythos itself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eSMLKDhm8M

To me, Lupin III belongs strictly in the Counterculture era. Forcing the franchise to continue into the 21st century, and moreover not setting the new material back in the Counterculture era*, but instead actually mostly setting the new material in the ongoing present-day (which requires suspending the characters' aging), has led to its inevitable degradation in quality and meaning. For this reason, I myself ignore the TV series after Part 3. With the TV specials, movies and OVAs it is even more complicated due to overlapping retconning issues (e.g. First Contact), but basically I take less seriously anything beyond the early/mid-2000s at the latest.

(* The exception is Lupin Zero, which is a separate discussion, with even worse retconning issues. )

Other than the above reservations, there are further retconning issues with some Part 1 episodes but not others. So, in my mind, the canonical Lupin III mythos consists of only those Part 1 episodes which are strict causal prerequisites for subsequent stories, followed by Castle of Cagliostro as well as the complete Part 2 and Part 3, and then subsequent movies, TV specials and OVAs, with Part 2 prevailing over anything else in the event of contradiction. I should add that I would not have minded at all if the mythos had wrapped up after Farewell to Nostradamus** (trailer above), which was by far the most intuitive timing (voice actor death) for conclusion. The Lupin gang were inherently mysterious, almost aeonic characters who were meant to one day just vanish into thin air and never be seen again. Had this happened in the 90s, it would have been perfect. Now after decades of delay, they have become so overexposed that it is too late for a final disappearance to work well even if it did happen, but even worse that it continues to not happen.....

(** Note that although produced in 1995, the story occurs in 1999, thus still allowing inclusion of the late 1990s TV Specials, most importantly In Memory of the Walther P-38 which I definitely consider to be essential to the mythos.)_

Part 2 full episodes here:

https://9animetv.to/watch/lupin-iii-part-ii-823?ep=14264
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 26, 2023, 08:53:57 pm »

Continued over here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/volunteer/new-website-thegrail-quest/msg21156/#msg21156
Posted by: SirGalahad
« on: July 26, 2023, 07:21:09 pm »

I think I could do it. I’m fine with whatever approach, depending on which approach you think would be best for us to take. I’m willing to try a short clip first
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 26, 2023, 06:59:21 pm »

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/srt-file

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An SRT file (otherwise known as a SubRip Subtitle file) is a plain-text file that contains critical information regarding subtitles, including the start and end timecodes of your text to ensure your subtitles match your audio, and the sequential number of subtitles.
...


The timestamp is formatted like so with the milliseconds rounded to three decimal points:

Hours:Minutes:Seconds,Milliseconds

The timeframe is formatted like so with an arrow denoting range:

[First Timestamp] --> [Second Timestamp]

The arrow must consist of two hyphens and a right-pointing angle bracket (also known as the greater-than sign or carrot).

Either I can give you untimed subtitle text for you to timestamp, or you can give me blank timestamps to fill the subtitle text into. Do you have a preference?

Which drama would you like to work on? If you want, we can try a short clip first.