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Wherein I rant about Spiderman.

Impressions:

Well, on one hand, there’s a lot more new here than I expected. I’m fairly sure that a lot of that comes just from this being the second or third round of touch-ups. Things don’t look as washed out, the colors are more vibrant, people’s heads aren’t as… blobby, and while I can’t say a whole lot about the rest of the episode without going back and actually looking, the actual persona summoning scene and fight against the legion of tongueballs was completely different this time around with Yuu nuking the entire area instead of just stabbing a few. They also formed up into a kind of horrifying CGI tongueball mass for reasons I couldn’t explain. 

On the other hand, it’s nowhere near enough to make me want to watch the entire show again. That’s the problem when you do a copy paste adaptation and then decide to remake by copy and pasting again. There have been at least 4 different Spiderman things over the last decade, and the focuses, strengths, weakness, differences that make them not the bloody same thing, are easy to define because the premise is the broad canvas on which the story is told, not the single one plot which has no variation and only exists in a single form that nothing ever ever ever ever must be changed or it will no longer be Spiderman. And that doesn’t even count the version where they ‘killed’ him to replace him with Doctor Octopus. 

It does also kind of feed into my “Good god, Japan, must you pad the hell out of everything?” agend when their remake’s first episode covers the same ground as the original season’s first episode but manages to cut out about six minutes… in order to make room for sitting on a bus with talking heads before standing in the wind, still talking talking heads. You’re cutting the fat to stuff in gristle, guys.

Next Episode:

   

Naked.