Streaming dark knight returns both parts

Live stream.com/radioactivelunch

Well it ain't Japanese so fuck if I know which board this thread should go on...

//youtube.com/watch?v=XjNUotZPhSk

Monkey King: Hero is Back (don't laugh) has broken box office records in China since its release on 10 July, grossing 730 million yuan ($117.6m) and handily beating Kung Fu Panda 2 as China's highest-ever earning animated feature: http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/monkey-king-hero-is-back-sets-chinese-animation-record/

I've been following this picture for a while (since charting the explosive growth of China's box office has been a stupidly nerdy hobby of mine) but it's exploded on my tumblr feed over the last couple of days as more people have just heard about it. There's fanart and all sorts creeping across the web. Now, I think this movie looks like the bee's knees and I'm crossing my fingers some enterprising distributor picks it up for release over here in the Anglosphere, but what do the rest of you peeps reckon?

>237707
Only thing I'm worried about is how much artistic freedom the writers have to express their messages and how much the government sticks their noses into things. Granted all countries have that problem but the West has seen its share of successful works with explicit anti-government themes.

>237718
The authorities are pretty hands-off when it comes to censorship, it's more about terrifying filmmakers into making changes themselves than fiddling around directly. One of the quirks of the Chinese film market is that there is no rating system - no age restrictions, no parental guidance, no nothing. The state film board ("SARFT") either clears a movie for everybody or clears it for nobody, there is no in-between. SARFT's guidelines for what is allowed and what isn't are arbitrary and known only to them, so filmmakers are left to second-guess what SARFT will greenlight and what they won't. For example, it's a-okay for wee tykes to see Japanese soldiers bayonetting babies out of pregnant stomachs, but it's probably best to leave on that one frame of two ladies in a Shanghai nightclub kissing on the mouth on the cutting room floor, that sort of thing. For a long time Chinese studios shied away from time travel because SARFT criticised how it indulged in nostalgia for despotic feudal pasts, and there was a general fatwa against ghosts because of official edicts against belief in the supernatural. Nevertheless, you will still see the occasional movie, TV show or novel that gleefully delights in ghosts and time travel...because there is no official restriction that can resist the power of bribery. 70% of the current box office smash Monster Hunt was reshot because the main star (Kai Ko) was arrested on drug charges and SARFT rules state that movies should not star actors indicted of offences. But two movies that starred Kai Ko were released after his arrest just fine with no official backlash. Why? Search me. Whether SARFT allows or bans a movie seems largely dependent on whether the censor had a cooked breakfast that morning.

One thing you may notice about all of these projects is the heavy emphasis on traditional Chinese fantasies and fairy tales and kung fu hijinks. Very little modern day concepts, very little sci fi, very little based on anything outside China's borders. You may remember some years back that the Chinese media establishment had a bit of a collective nervous breakdown over the break-out success of Kung Fu Panda (especially the sequel). Even before that, Chinese filmmakers and opinion-formers have had a bee in their bonnet about Disney's and Dreamworks' ability to package a flanderised chop suey version of their culture and somehow sell it to Chinese audiences better than Chinese companies themselves could. It prompted a lot of soul-searching, a lot of incompetent attempts at aping the Dreamworks style in a passive-aggressive way, and most importantly a concerted attempt to study what the secret to Kung Fu Panda's was and see if they could tap into something uniquely Chinese that offered the same appeal. I'm sure, once Chinese studios have found their feet and created their own homegrown success stories, they'll start to branch out into fresh areas and experiment with concepts that can strike a chord with the international market.

>237721
I wonder what the underground yaoi market there is like. I know from personal experience how enormous the audience is, and I doubt the recent crackdown would put a damper on that.

So it's look like the Swat Kats are coming back.......

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820796125/swat-kats-revolution

I think part of the nineties aesthetics have to take in the kind of gravitation to geometric design and clean gray shades that came from the architecture and interior decoration considered professional. The kind of stuff they saw as cutting edge technology back then. There was a lot of office aesthetics that were considered earmarks for technology, as a sort of counter to the RADICAL social design.

It's a sort of growth from designs started in the eighties, but slimmed down and brightened for the nineties.

Also laser tag.

>237664
The diversification of media and sub-cultures in the '90s does make it hard to pin down a distinctly '90s "style", but if we're sticking with kids' stuff I do agree there was a tangible shift towards "XTREEEME!" concepts and trappings. More specifically, the co-opting of rebellious imagery by corporations and the establishment to either sell brands or push conformist messages (y'know, "radical dudes don't do drugs", that sort of thing). Kids my age didn't buy it because the stuff being pumped out was always a bit too sleek and colourful (before the grime filter came down in the noughties). It was like a game we all played with the brands being shoved on us, where we took pride in being smarter than the media we consumed and yet still consumed it, which is where the "irony" part comes in.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO WIN AN AWARD FOR THIS

//youtube.com/watch?v=x6dUEZ0JnV4

>237404
What the ever loving fuck

>237404
I WISH all nighters were that fun.

Neo Steven Universe

OFFENSE/DEFENSE COUPLES ARE BEST

https://mega.nz/#!AJAx3QyJ!emCfcUZjww5cm48-13pKfE3DBYOTboOMP0jNWVqrNUE

One of the things I really like about this show is every now and then they produce a contextualizing episode. At first I wasn't overly fond of Historical Friction, but then I realized it was meant more to shine a light on Pearl than stand on its own.

They're basically directly addressing the issues fans had been complaining about with this sort of demonstration that Pearl had flaws and it was starting to bother them. Which, honestly, is fairly clever story telling in its own right, but still, it made me develop a further appreciation for what they're doing.

http://as-warm-as-choco.tumblr.com/post/118313399178/steven-universe-animation-staff-book
These are way cute.

Post whatever fits, whenever you want.

Cookie form Hareport.

Weeeeellll, guess Sphinx has a sister, Callista! "She is like me, just without the awesome ink" (meaning she has no tatoos)

She can also breathe fire... and doesn't bother asking riddles first. :)

She's cute...

Disney Princess Academy lets talk about what could have been

Reminds me of an old /co/ thingy.

The ONE and ONLY cartoon animals thread!

Been thinking about this for weeks. Here's how this works:
–Saturday = cats
–Sunday = rabbits
–Monday = canines
–Tuesday = reptiles of all kinds
–Thursday = birds
–Wednesday & Friday = everyone else

This should please most people. One thread means no flooding of the entire board with this content, as well as no shortage of said content in the thread. If mods have any problem with this idea, feel free to delete. Otherwise, let it be.

No lewd. Lewd goes on /pco/, as it always should.

>236647
Nobody is going to post traces or porn here.

Also, why isn't this thread deleted like was previously proposed?

>236649
Because you are the OP. and I'm too lazy to log in and delete it.

>236651

Well, I did not put in a password. Which means I cannot do jack shit. Please log in and delete.

New Teaser Trailer for the Dofus movie
//youtube.com/watch?v=6rztQ0GKQ4c

SEASON 3 COMFIRMED!!!

It'll be 13 episodes long, 26 minutes each.

HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE

There is already a thread for this.
http://boards.plus4chan.org/co/t227776.html#p227776

Steven Universe: Thread 4

Old thread>232832

DGDFJKHFKDGKSDGKJH DAT NEW OPENING <33333

What would you say to the Gems?

>239610
>Pearl
Free your people from bondage. End the cycle of oppression. Bring the destruction of the society that held you back. Hear your poeple cry, and respond.

stop the g:KND //youtube.com/watch?v=hqmZ1vPnLFg

Same rules as before:

Su – rabbits
Mo – canines
Tu – reptiles, frogs, and turtlz
Th – buuurds
Sa – catz
We & Fr – everyone else

As always, post your pr0n elsewhere.

YOINK!

>236103
I think this gal looks the best... Maaan. :)
What's this show? Dem lucky latin-americans.

>235972

It's a cartoon animal thread, and well... that's kinda what started the furry fandom. Don't be surprised if it overlaps a lot. :)

/mlp/ - Sugarcube Corner Edition

(Well, someone had to do it.)

Actual screencap from #100 sent out with a press release about the episode.

>Lyra isn't sitting like a person

EPISODE RUINED.

Late to the party, but... I find it utterly bizarre that M.A. Larson participated in the "bronies react to season 5 premiere" video. Especially since he wrote it.

//youtube.com/watch?v=q_hteizwDIg

He points out some differences between his final draft and what made it into the episodes, which is interesting.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/06/official-dj-pon-3-magazine-comic.html#more

Clarissa returns to comics!

Bump and when and why don't you deliver?

MARVEL THREAD #2: UNBEATABLE

…and once again I have to say that I just cannot deal with the art style of this comic (and it’s not even out yet).

Yes, thats the status que I want for Spidy!
Gleeeeee~

Guys I think he theads dead.

>235859
Nah, the post number is just past the bump limit.