That actually sounds familiar. I think I might’ve even caught it live for a bit back then - it was a fun one.
Not sure what the blacklist is about (I don’t really follow the stuff happening outside the streams) but I’m guessing it had something to do with cliques and similar drama? Is so, these are always a bummer.
I finally had some free time over the weekend and decided to spend some of it browsing through manga aggregator sites in search of something that could catch my interest. I’m happy to report I did manage to do just that. Here’s what I found so far:
Sui and Neri of the Twilight Planet - cute and short (15 chapters) slice-of-life series about a girl, Sui, and a sloth (Neri) running a small inn on a dying Earth. It has plenty of sweet moments, talking animals and just exudes the feeling of comfy - I highly recommend this one. Also, art style reminds me of Tsukumizu’s work (author even drew a story for Girls’ Last Tour Official Anthology Comic).
Hotel - Since 2079 - story about an AI managing a “vault” with human DNA after our extinction due to climate change. It’s… not bad but also isn’t particularly amazing though it has its moments (ending worked for me more than expected honestly). It’s a oneshot so you won’t waste too much time if you dislike it. Author took another stab at this story few years after the initial release but I haven’t read that version yet so can’t comment on the differences.
Genocidal Organ - sci-fi series about an American special forces assassination unit. Kinda edgy, kinda interesting, only 11 out of 28 chapters are translated to English (with the last update 6 years ago). Not the best thing ever based on what I’ve read but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t hook me in the slightest. Oh well…
I’m cheating a little bit because my memories of Vasuki don’t really come with any clip worthy moments or anything like that. She wasn’t a huge storyteller or a natural born comedians like some of the biggest names active today.
My favorite thing about her streams was just hanging out with a small number of other viewers and chatting about games and such. I’m not a huge fan of crowds, whether virtual or real ones, so I tend to just hang around in the background whenever big number of people show up in chat. This wasn’t a problem with Vasuki.
I know this might sound kind of shitty (“hell yeah, streamer I watch isn’t blowing up so I can keep chatting!”) but small channels are the only places I feel comfortable in - there’s enough people to actually interact with but not enough to change the whole thing into a bunch of monkeys looking for attention (yes this is an overreaction, not a serious feeling).
I kind of stopped looking for new small streamers after that. I have a hard time entering existing groups so joining the chat can be a challenge. There was one other streamer since then but YouTube decided to block my account until I gave them more data and since I’m not doing that I can no longer chat so once again I’m stuck watching from the shadows.
Just so we’re clear, I completely agree with everything you wrote here. At the same time, I’ve seen people seriously holding the opinion you started with and those are the ones I was talking about. These are just my random musings though, they weren’t meant as a serious discussion about fandom or how this project will be received. All I know is I’ll be there for more GitS.
Totally, I’m just curious because from what I’ve heard manga is a bit more humorous than the movies/shows so it might be a bit of a shock (especially for those who don’t even know about the source material). I also have some… interesting experience watching various fandoms being confidently wrong about a lot of official stuff so that might be why I’m thinking about it.
Anyway, I’m on board with a manga adaptation - still haven’t read the thing myself and that could be a good push to finally do it.
I wonder how people will react to that considering the difference in mood and atmosphere between manga and anime. I’d certainly like to give it a shot.
I’ve got as much details as you unfortunately. Official site doesn’t provide any info beyond what’s in the trailer description.
This movie contains a heavy amount of CGI so they most likely rerendered the whole thing from scratch, assuming they still have the source files for that stuff.
Edit: I looked around a little bit and while I didn’t find anything official I saw some suggestions this might just be an anniversary screening of the Japanese release from few years ago. Let’s hope we’ll get some more info on that.