[ SECRET POST #4024 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4024 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Star Trek; Khan from "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan"]


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03.
[Criminal Minds]


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04.
[New Danganronpa V3]


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05.
[Houseki no Kuni]


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06.
[Discovering Bigfoot]


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07.
[Ashley Olsen]


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08.
[Twin Peaks]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 28 secrets from Secret Submission Post #576.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

05. https://i.imgur.com/c9HrcCM.png
[Houseki no Kuni]

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious, has anybody here watched this and can give a rec/disrec? If it's truly conceptually interesting I'd like to try it out, but I'm a bit tired of anime lately.
But I do like SU, so if there are similarities, that's a plus for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Really the only similarity to SU is that the characters are personified gems. Houseki no Kuni is post-apocalyptic, there are no humans left, and the gem-people race now dominates the Earth but is hunted by another humanoid race that comes from the Moon. It seems to be about the mystery of the connection between the moon-people and gem-people, and what exactly the moon-people want with them. I like its atmosphere and characters, but as an anime it's an obvious adaptation of a manga that's nowhere near complete, so most of the big questions don't get answered. I liked it enough that I'm going to read the manga if I can manage to find it in any of my bookstores though.

[erinptah]

I've watched it, and I loved it.

It's about genderless alien rocks, so the SU comparisons are inevitable. These Gems exist (evolved?) on a post-humanity Earth, and interact with a couple of other mysterious post-humanity civilizations. They're not created, they form by a natural process, and while duplicates are possible (there are two Amethysts) they're not common.

They have whole solid bodies rather than SU's light-projections, and the physical properties of their materials are plot-relevant. One spends most of the year as a liquid, only solidifying at winter temperatures. Another is highly toxic and can't live with the main group.

Memories are stored evenly throughout their bodies; the main character is clumsy and brittle and keeps losing pieces of themself, so their personality changes accordingly. That's pretty much the overaching plot of the first season. (The manga is much farther ahead in the storyline, but I haven't read it yet.)

The art is CG made to look like hand-drawn animation, so the motion has an artificial, too-smooth aesthetic that really works for the setup. Plus it lets them do lovely glittery gemstone effects.

[(Anonymous)]

"Memories are stored evenly throughout their bodies; the main character is clumsy and brittle and keeps losing pieces of themself, so their personality changes accordingly"

This heartbreaking twist sold me.

[(Anonymous)]

My Best Beloved and I really like this anime; the art is unique and quite lovely, the story is wonderfully strange.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you all! I'll go give it a try, then :)