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-title = "Patlabor"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2024-04-26T19:11:00+02:00
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-abstract = "The Patlabor series"
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-Patlabor logo
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-Patlabor is one of forgotten great anime series of the past.
-Created by Headgear (Masami Yūki,  Mamoru Oshii,  Kazunori Itō,  Yutaka Izubuchi, and  Akemi Takada).
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-In the not-to distant future humanity develops Labors, humanoid mechs, used in heavy construction.
-With their introduction a new type of crime starts showing up.
-To combat that, a dedicated police force called Patlabor is created.
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-We've two separate timelimes: following the movies and following the TV series.
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-Patlabor
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-title = "Attack on Titan (2013-2023)"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2024-06-09T17:10:00+02:00
-categories = ["brainrot"]
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-abstract = "My review of the anime"
-rating = 3.5
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-_Attack on Titan_ may very well be the defining anime of this decade.
-It started as a huge hit, then it faded into obscurity, just to return with a huge bang and end with huge disappointment.
-
-The premise is quite interesting:
-pre-industrial age; humanity is close to extension, locked behind gigantic walls.
-Outside lives the biggest threat man has ever faced - Titans.
-Race of gigantic, humanoid beasts whose only purpose in life is to attack and devour humans.
-We meet our main heroes - Eren, Mikasa, and Armin, just before the Titans breach one of the walls.
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-The following 4 seasons differ in quality.
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-The first one is interesting, but suffers from terrible narration where we are constantly interrupted by internal monologues.
-We either learn what we already know, or random ideas are thrown at us.
-The second one has no idea what it wants to be, and this is where viewership dropped sharply.
-Then came the third one.
-It seems to  continue to downward trend from s2, but halfway through everything changes.
-Without spoiling anything, _AoT_ stops being dumb fun and seems to become an intelligent commentary on human condition.
-Before that, I was watching the series because I had nothing better to do.
-After _this_ scene I instantly became invested and shocked.
-Then the fourth came out, developing on what made the third great.
-I was close to calling this a great series, but unfortunately it's all thrown out the window with the 2.5 hours long finale, which is almost entirerly one, long fight.
-So much potential, such great buildup.
-All wasted in the name of a boring action scene.
-I don't remember when was the last time I felt so betrayed.
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-The great part of _AoT_ takes a lot from history and great fiction like Dune.
-We're seeing great idea one after another.
-The story is full of interesting twists.
-By the end, it's all meaningless.
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-Story-wise, the only two redeeming qualities of this series are personal journeys of Eren and Gabi (introduced in S4).
-Only their stories interest me.
-Not that there is anything bad about the rest of the characters, they are ok[^fn:1].
-Run-of-the-mill anime characters.
-
-Yes, the series looks and sound pretty.
-It's full of nicely animated action scenes.
-But I can't stop comparing it to _Evangelion_.
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-Both series start cool, but are not memorable.
-Then they develop into marvels, pure greatest.
-But _NGE_ never stopped being great.
-After it gained actual meat, it developed it culminating in the greatest movie I've ever experienced.
-Full of story, drama, meaning, and emotions.
-
-_AoT_ ends in _Iron Man 3_ - a prolonged, boring fight scene.
-
-And while the scenes shown during end credits return the series on its track, it changes nothing.
-They nicely connect and develop the great ideas behind the _golden era of AoT_, but they should not be the one good part!
-The ending should be it, as the way it happened is I wasted 2.5 hours filled with boredom.
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-_AoT_ could have been great, but it is not.
-It's an ok action series with huge unresolved ambitions.
-If it was just a dumb action show, then ok - I would have some fun, then forget it.
-It would fail in comparison of other shows we see now, like Jujtsu Kaisen, but it would be very much ok.
-Unfortunately with added ambition, it ends in a huge disappointment.
-
-It was very close, everything was going great.
-And then it hits a wall.
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-[^fn:1]: Except of Armin who single handely ruins the first few seasons.
-    He is the character who is able to calculate probability to 4 decimal places.
-    I see this kind of characters all around modern anime, and every time I have to roll my eyes.
-    Remember how _Big Bang Theory_ was often describes at how "dumb people think smart people are"?
-    Yeah, that's Armin.
-    The same kind of bullshit ruined shows like Kaji or Code Geass for me.
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-title = "Nine Princes in Amber (Roger Zelazny, 1970)"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2024-07-22T23:21:00+02:00
-categories = ["brainrot"]
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-abstract = "The fastest fantasy book in the wild west"
-rating = 4
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-That's one confusing novel.
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-Corwin wakes up in a hospital in New York with amnesia.
-But the cover of the book has castles and swords![^fn:1]
-Well, as it turns out Corwin is one of nine princes of Amber, the greatest city that has ever been.
-It is medieval-Europe, but it is said to be the greatest, so who am I to argue?
-He will need to get back there and fight for the crown with his siblings.
-
-That's the basic premise.
-What threw me off the guard (except of starting in modern-day NY) is the pace.
-I'm no fantasy know-it-all, but it appears that this genre likes to take it's sweet time.
-Authors describe every tree by every road[^fn:2].
-They love to build their worlds, lore, characters.
-Zelazny doesn't care about any of that.
-A huge battle where 20 000 people die? A paragraph seems like a proper length.
-Magic system? Yeah, let's throw a few sentences here and there.
-The main character background, looks and goals? Let's not bother.
-This is a short book (my version had just over 200 pages), but with standard wordiness, it could be a thousand pages long leather-bound brick, that would serve as a nice weapon.
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-This also means that _Nine Princes in Amber_ is extremely shallow.
-There is nothing underneath - just a few awful characters, a few OK, and our Corwin.
-If there is any subtext, I must have missed it.
-And yet, I loved it.
-It's pulp, but it goes _so fast_ that I never got tired of it.
-It went _so fast_ that I had no time to get bored or lost[^fn:2].
-Guess that's why _The Chronicles of Amber_ is one of the most popular Fantasy sagas out there.
-It is inoffensive, not challenging in any way, but it's cool.
-It knows it, and doesn't pretend it.
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-I enjoyed it for what it is.
-It's the greatest mindless fun I've had in ages.
-It's not _hardcore_ fantasy, and this may be why I liked it so much as I did.
-If anything, it's _Magnum P.I._ of the genre.
-
-[^fn:1]: or whatever your edition has
-[^fn:2]: hello Tolkien
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-title = "Sign of the Unicorn (Roger Zelazny, 1975)"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2024-09-07T22:14:00+02:00
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-We are halfway through the Corwin's saga, and Zelazny decides to step up the game.
-Sign of the Unicorn is much slower than the previous ones, which is a welcome change.
-But it also marks the point when Roger finally convinced me that he understands the word he creates.
-
-After the battle with his brother, Corwin is faced with a murder of a yet _another_ brother.
-This does not lead to a run through the Shadows to buy nukes as I would have expected.
-In fact, most of this volume is spent talking.
-We have a mystery, the family secrets are coming out.
-It's a wholly different experience than what we've had before.
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-We've got intrigue, we've got drama, we've got betrayal.
-We even learn who stands behind Corwin's accident, which happened before the start of _Nine Princess_.
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-This may the best book of _Chronicles of Amber_ yet because Zelazny seems to address most of the downsides the earlier books had.
-Characters became actual persons now, with motivation and aspirations.
-In fact, the world building is sidestepping for character building, and I, for one, am fully for this.
-
-As a result, the stakes are also different.
-We assumed that all of the _Black Road_ problems resulted from Corwin's curse, but now we learn that there are multiple layers below that.
-In fact, a lot of what we thought we knew turns out to be wrong.
-
-The only downside I see, at leat at this point, is that everyone important is either Corwin's  relative or acquaintance.
-I get that if you got your position of power purely from the family, the same family will be the centre of your life, but _come on!_.
-I want to get to know someone else!
-
-So, volume three of _Chronicles of Amber_ looks more of a correction from the author, than a direct continuation.