Brief thoughts on A:TLA Book One: Water

[starlady]

# One of the little things I love is all the fauna and how they're remixed rather than copied straight from our world. Turtle-seals FTW!

# Star Trek actors doing voices so far: George Takei, Rene Auberjonois (twice!). Did I miss anyone?

# I don't think it's possible to get any more Daoist than the Ocean and Moon spirits giving up their immortality to become fish. Zhuangzi would be pleased.

# Can we all take a minute to appreciate the flying Cat Bus homage of awesomeness that is Appa? Also, in the last episode of this season, the Mononoke-hime shoutout that is Aang in his "Avenging the Moon spirit" form? I have to say, I enjoy these Ghibli homages, they show that the A:TLA showrunners have done their homework (obviously).

# On the other hand, apparently whoever directed the voice actors was incapable of teaching them the proper way to pronounce characters' names. Case in point: everyone's favorite villain, Zhao. Even his own voice actor can't say his name correctly! Yes, this is me in my corner being pedantic, I am getting hung up on a tree, but it niggles.

# However, I am not missing the forest of awesome that is this show for that tree. This show is the best! ♥ ♥ ♥

Comments

[glass_icarus]

YAY A:TLA!! *\o/* &hearts

Also, YES re: Ghibli homages, ahahaha! I didn't think Appa looked that much like the Cat Bus, but it has been a while since I've watched Totoro...

[(Anonymous)]

I think that was explicitly the intention of the creators of the show, just like the moon spirit.

They also instructed their animators to go for FLCL animation style.

[starlady]

Interesting. I haven't noticed any huge FLCL similarities yet, but on the other hand it's been years since I've watched FLCL, and that anime has about a dozen different styles in it.