[ SECRET POST #3986 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3986 ⌋

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Comments

LastMan

[(Anonymous)]

Hello have you welcomed our lord and saviour Richard Aldana into your life?

It's an adult cartoon, a weird but oh so good mix of spaghetti western/boxing/urban fantasy/action, packed with humour, emotion, action, violence; it also has a bit of porn, uncensored male frontal nudity, mind control rape, electric torture and the like.
It's got interseting characters, between the knight-in-sour-armor anti-hero, the plucky girl he picks up and all but adopts, that great big nerd who knows way too much about the enemies to be entirely honest, the sweet comic relief, the epic bromantic partner, the kickass love interest...
The whole series in 26 episodes long, 13 minutes each so it's quick and easy to watch;
an English dub is available on Mondo/VRV (but region locked, you can't get it in Europe, booh)
the original French version is available on Studio+ and the DVD/BluRay come out just next week ohmygods the collector set is so full of goodness I WANT IT NOW
you can also find English subs floating around on cartoon streaming sites.

It's actually a prequel to a comics series so people clamouring for a second season totally missed the point.
The comics... doesn't start that good, what with looking like an average shounen manga series with a guy coming from our world to a fantasy realm for some martial arts tournaments and fucks bitches on the side; but it gets better, so much better.
The original French series is already 10 volumes long, the first 6 have been translated to English
a good thing, it's the end of a cycle so the cliffhanger until #7 gets translated and released might be necessary.
It's still ongoing, planning a total of 12 volumes. #11 should be released some time in late 2018?
Meanwhile a spin-off series is starting, one shot about secondary characters; first one scheduled in January. An artbook is on the works too?

And, bestest best part, the fandom is alive kicking and spreading!

Re: LastMan

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds interesting. Does it feel satisfying if you just watch the show without reading the comic too? Or does it feel unfinished?

Re: LastMan

[(Anonymous)]

It may be a bit frustrating because it was set to explain how the main character became what he is ten years later: even more jaded. You don't need to read the comics at all to understand the cartoon, but only you, once you've finished watching the cartoon, can decide whether or not you want more and read the comics, or give up.

Re: LastMan

[(Anonymous)]

I live in France, so yeah - lotsa hype, very interesting to see non-kiddie animation get made *well* - though the crowdfunding didn't carry them quite as far as hoped, iirc.
I appreciate it, but am a bit conflicted, because one of the main creators is a self-indulgent, over-hyped, puerile misogynistic troll.
Drawing gigonormous boobies all the time, and dubcon erotica... eh, stuff can still pass as artistic self-expression. Added to the body of his work, which besides being generally misanthropic constantly has female characters as incomprehensible and fickle (played for romance in a few of his early works, where the teenage male POV - literally done in one case - could kinda justify the feelings of confusion faced with mysterious Girl behavior, but... it adds up a bit much), and his overt anti-feminist trolling online - yeah I am soured.

(also Lastman got a lot of raving articles and reviews claiming it was the first French manga - and while, yeah, sure, they played up the shounen tourney tropes and published in a similar format, um, no, there's been several all-but-shoujo series already, but girly stuff don't count ne?)