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Sunday, March 3, 2024

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

The Battle of the River Plate or The Pursuit of the Graf Spee, is a film about the first naval battle of WW2. I found this British war film to be surprisingly very respectful of both sides in the battle and didn't go the usual route of dehumanizing the enemy. Also has a melancholic ending, helped by my ignorance of the fate of the Graf Spee. If you don't know the fate of the Pocket-battleship the Graf Spee, I urge you to go and watch this film without clicking any of the links or looking her up. Don't worry about the screenshots, I purposefully didn't upload what became of her.

I only wish that this film could be remade with authentic CG ship models.

Heavy cruiser USS Salem, playing the rule of Graf Spee.

And now the dumping of screenshots:

Foreshadowing...

Further topics of interest and the links I used in this post:

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Yuukoku no Moriarty (2020)

Moriarty the Patriot.

I always liked the character of Professor Moriarty, seeing a whole show with him being the main character made me very happy! In addition, I love the Victorian setting of London; buildings, people and the technology of that era and this anime delivers, in both the first and second season.

These might be considered spoilers but, they really crammed everything about the UK in this show. From Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Jack the Ripper, to the creation of the MI6.

Anyways, here are my screenshots:

Miss Hudson..

Bond...

Overall Rating: 9.5/10.

Cuteness Rating: 2/10.

Materials I found looking up various stuff about the world of Sherlock Holmes:

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Kingdom (2012)

Well well well. I started watching this anime out of curiosity, what I found was a surprisingly fun and engaging anime! with a twist involving a lot of tears. So far I have watched only the first season and I'm not sure if I'm going to watch the second season anytime soon.

While I'm watching this anime I noticed that some subtitles didn't match what the characters were saying. It got me pretty confused, as I would hear a character call a name and the subtitle just wrote a whole different name!

This series be it anime, manga or novel is based on a historical story from China. Originally the people were Chinese and had Chinese names but, the ones telling the story are Japanese! While I never read the manga for this series, I understood quickly that the problem with my subtitles weren't due to negligence or malice from the people doing the fansubs. Rather, it was a pretty controversial problem amongst the Kingdom fans. As I understand, the whole work is made with Japanese names for Japanese consumers. Some fans of the series refuse to use the Japanese names; as the story is about historical Chinese characters with Chinese names, and that explained the difference in what the voice actors were saying and the subtitles.

I totally understand where these people are coming from but, personally I couldn't keep up with each character having two names and the name that I would read being something like "Piao" and hearing "Hyou" I simply couldn't handle it, so I opted for different subtitles that wrote the Japanese names, not because I disliked the original Chinese names but, because the audio and subtitle discrepancy as I mentioned earlier.

There are a lot of reading material for this particular topic, away from the plot of the story. So I would say it's ok to check them out without fear of spoilers: