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Just a couple weeks until Adventure: is back, so next week will be the last of this round of leadups...
After Lucky Star last week, decided to grab someone for a guest slot!
This time the guest is Elaine, who does a lot of video and audio work for Discotek. She's decided to pick a movie that has some extra relevance due to a recent game release...
Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children Complete!
General warnings for violence.
The movie isn't freely available, or on any standard streaming services, but it is available to buy or rent on a number of digital services, so here are a couple:
Vudu- Japanese
Amazon- Japanese, English
There is the original version, and a longer director's cut style release (Complete), the suggestion and the writeup from Elaine is to watch Complete, but if you got it in any form, watch it.
Elaine's thoughts on the film as follows:
There are a number of Digimon connections both on the Japanese and English sides (a few quite funny to think about who they play in one compared to the other), so just a handful from each:
Japanese
Takahiro Sakurai plays Cloud in Advent Children. For Digimon he's played a number of characters, but is probably best known as Tentomon and his evolutions in Adventure. A few other larger roles he's had in the franchise was the adult Koushiro at the end of 02, Dorurumon and Dondokomon in Xros Wars, and Psychemon and his evolution Astamon in Hunters.
Toshiyuki Morikawa plays Sephiroth in Advent Children. In Digimon he played a number of characters in 02 including BelialVamdemon, Devimon, Mummymon, Sora's dad, and Oikawa.
Kenichi Suzumura plays Zack in Advent Children. In Digimon he was Kouichi and his Digimon forms in Frontier.
English
Bob Bucholz directed the English version of Advent Children. For Digimon he directed and did script adaption for Adventure, 02, and the movie alongside Jeff Nimoy, along with doing a number of smaller roles (most notably joke cameos in the movie, one of the truck drivers, Uncle Al, etc.)
Crispin Freeman plays Rude in Advent Children. In Digimon he was Koichi and his Digimon forms in Frontier, along with Thomas in Data Squad.
Beau Billingslea was Barret in Advent Children. In Digimon he played a number of roles, but is probably best known as Ogremon in Adventure.
Steve Blum is Vincent in Advent Children. Along with handing ADR scripts for 02, Tamers, and Frontier, he's voiced many Digimon, including Guilmon, Growlmon, WarGrowlmon, Megidramon, Gallantmon, Gigimon, BlackWargreymon, Flamedramon, Raidramon, Magnamon, Beetlemon, MetalKabuterimon, Falcomon, Peckmon, Crowmon, and Ravemon.
I've embedded a trailer as a preview:
Feel free to post as you wish in this thread. You can post as you are watching, episode by episode, when you finish. Whatever you want. Try and give it a couple days for later spoilers so people have time to try and view stuff without spoilers, while still interacting in the thread (especially if you decide to keep watching past the episode listed as the last one for the leadup.) If you watch one episode and it isn't for you, pop in to explain why. Have fun with it!
A new show/movie will go up each Sunday night (or early on Monday), but feel free to keep talking about older shows in their threads, or even watching past the listed episode.
If you want to chat in the Discord you can.
Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to make any suggestions or ask an questions regarding the threads or the shows also.
Week 1- NG Knight Lamune & 40
Week 2- Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie
Week 3- City Hunter
Week 4- Little Nemo
Week 5- Project A-ko
Week 6- Space Pirate Captain Harlock & City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes
Week 7- Lucky Star
Prior Leadups
Second Leadup, To Kizuna (and Adventure:)
First Leadup, To tri.
After Lucky Star last week, decided to grab someone for a guest slot!
This time the guest is Elaine, who does a lot of video and audio work for Discotek. She's decided to pick a movie that has some extra relevance due to a recent game release...
Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children Complete!

General warnings for violence.
The movie isn't freely available, or on any standard streaming services, but it is available to buy or rent on a number of digital services, so here are a couple:
Vudu- Japanese
Amazon- Japanese, English
There is the original version, and a longer director's cut style release (Complete), the suggestion and the writeup from Elaine is to watch Complete, but if you got it in any form, watch it.
Elaine's thoughts on the film as follows:
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete is a 2009 "Directors Cut" version of the 2005 film of the same name, and a sequel to the video game, "Final Fantasy VII". It's focus is on the main character, Cloud Strife, as he grapples with the grief of the loss of two friends.
This is important, because the video game, while concerned with the events of those losses, never gives the main character much time to process them. It never really shows him grieving, because it's preoccupied with the existential threat of Sephiroth. But two years have passed, now. And the only enemy that Cloud is facing is one that he can't beat with a sword-- Geostigma.
Of course, he eventually beats it with a sword, but that's beside the point. The film is a mood piece. It grapples with the dangling threads of Final Fantasy VII's themes-- identity, loss, and life. It does so in a narrower focus than the games, because it has more time constraints. It's a better sequel than most give it credit for, as most people understand it to be pure fanservice with all of the fight sequences and such. But there's more substance here. Some of that is buried in a stilted-but-earnest dub script, but it's there. It's part of why I always had faith in the direction of the recently released Remake-- Those behind the game never lost understanding of what truly made it great. Advent Children is worth another look.
There are a number of Digimon connections both on the Japanese and English sides (a few quite funny to think about who they play in one compared to the other), so just a handful from each:
Japanese
Takahiro Sakurai plays Cloud in Advent Children. For Digimon he's played a number of characters, but is probably best known as Tentomon and his evolutions in Adventure. A few other larger roles he's had in the franchise was the adult Koushiro at the end of 02, Dorurumon and Dondokomon in Xros Wars, and Psychemon and his evolution Astamon in Hunters.
Toshiyuki Morikawa plays Sephiroth in Advent Children. In Digimon he played a number of characters in 02 including BelialVamdemon, Devimon, Mummymon, Sora's dad, and Oikawa.
Kenichi Suzumura plays Zack in Advent Children. In Digimon he was Kouichi and his Digimon forms in Frontier.
English
Bob Bucholz directed the English version of Advent Children. For Digimon he directed and did script adaption for Adventure, 02, and the movie alongside Jeff Nimoy, along with doing a number of smaller roles (most notably joke cameos in the movie, one of the truck drivers, Uncle Al, etc.)
Crispin Freeman plays Rude in Advent Children. In Digimon he was Koichi and his Digimon forms in Frontier, along with Thomas in Data Squad.
Beau Billingslea was Barret in Advent Children. In Digimon he played a number of roles, but is probably best known as Ogremon in Adventure.
Steve Blum is Vincent in Advent Children. Along with handing ADR scripts for 02, Tamers, and Frontier, he's voiced many Digimon, including Guilmon, Growlmon, WarGrowlmon, Megidramon, Gallantmon, Gigimon, BlackWargreymon, Flamedramon, Raidramon, Magnamon, Beetlemon, MetalKabuterimon, Falcomon, Peckmon, Crowmon, and Ravemon.
I've embedded a trailer as a preview:
Feel free to post as you wish in this thread. You can post as you are watching, episode by episode, when you finish. Whatever you want. Try and give it a couple days for later spoilers so people have time to try and view stuff without spoilers, while still interacting in the thread (especially if you decide to keep watching past the episode listed as the last one for the leadup.) If you watch one episode and it isn't for you, pop in to explain why. Have fun with it!
A new show/movie will go up each Sunday night (or early on Monday), but feel free to keep talking about older shows in their threads, or even watching past the listed episode.
If you want to chat in the Discord you can.
Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to make any suggestions or ask an questions regarding the threads or the shows also.
Week 1- NG Knight Lamune & 40
Week 2- Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie
Week 3- City Hunter
Week 4- Little Nemo
Week 5- Project A-ko
Week 6- Space Pirate Captain Harlock & City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes
Week 7- Lucky Star
Prior Leadups
Second Leadup, To Kizuna (and Adventure:)
Week 1- Gundam Build Fighters
Week 2- Kimagure Orange Road
Week 3 (and 4)- Lupin the 3rd Part 4
Week 4 Movie- Redline
Week 5- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Week 6- Voltron
Week 7 (Devkyu Guest Slot!)- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Week 8- Laid-Back Camp
Week 9- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Week 10- Yowamushi Pedal
Week 11- Demon King Daimao
Week 12 (onkei Guest Slot!)- Aggretsuko
Week 13- Kill la Kill
Week 14- Super Gals
Week 15 (and 16)- Yu Yu Hakusho
Week 16 Short Series- Please Tell Me! Galko-chan
Week 17 (Classic Leadup)- Tenchi Muyo
Week 18 (Devkyu Guest Slot 2!)- Dragon Pilot: Hisone & Masotan
Week 19- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Week 20 (Logan Guest Slot)- The Legend of Black Heaven
Week 21 (Classic Leadup)- Haganai
Week 22- Ultraman
Week 23- SSSS.Gridman
Week 24- Haruka Nogizaka's Secret
Week 25 (Classic Leadup)- Tenchi Universe
Week 26- Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors
Week 27- Gundam NT
Week 28- Interviews with Monster Girls
Week 29- Dragon Quest: Your Story & Ni no Kuni
Week 30 (Classic Leadup)- Soul Eater
Week 31- Kamen no Maid Guy
Week 32- Gundam Thunderbolt
Week 33- Heroman
Week 34 (Classic Leadup)- Toradora
Week 35 (Final)- Konosuba
First Leadup, To tri.
Week 1- Haganai
Weeks 2 and 3- A Certain Magical Index
Weekend Movie- Lupin The Third: Green Vs Red
Week 3(ish)- High School DxD
Week 4- Buso Renkin
Week 5- Tenchi Muyo!
Week 6- Ben-To
Week 7- Maken-Ki!
Week 8- Full Metal Panic!
Week 9- Engaged to the Unidentified
Week 10- Hellsing Ultimate
Week 11- Date A Live
Week 12- Ranma 1/2
Week 13- Please Teacher
Week 14- Please Twins
Week 15- Waiting in the Summer
Week 16- Infinite Stratos
Week 17- Dragon Ball
Week 18- D-Frag!
Week 19- Baka and Test
Week 20- Soul Eater
Week 21- Yuru Yuri
Week 22- Go-Lion
Week 23- Ah! My Goddess
Week 24- Afro Samurai
Week 25- Shin Chan
Week 26- Trigun
Week 27- Tenchi Universe
Week 28- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Week 29- Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
Week 30- Nyan Koi!
Week 31- The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan
Week 32- Ai Yori Aoshi
Week 33- Tokyo Ravens
Week 34- Reboot
Week 35- Star Driver
Week 36- FLCL
Week 37- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Week 38- Serial Experiments Lain
Week 39- Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki
Week 40- Food Wars!
Week 41- Himouto! Umaru-chan
Week 42- Gundam Reconguista in G
Week 43- Naruto
Week 44- Tenchi in Tokyo
Week 45- Toradora
Week 46- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
Week 47- Fullmetal Alchemist
Week 48- A-Channel
Week 49 (Final)- Gundam Unicorn
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