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ー水江建太 キャストサイズ 夏の特別号2019　part 2

Mizue Kenta Cast Size Summer Special Edition 2019

2019/08/05

Cast Size Special Summer edition 2019

with Daigo Kotarou

[Scans] Cast Size Summer Special Edition 2018 - Sakiyama Tsubasa x Kitazono Ryo

So, I decided to scan my copy of the summer edition of Cast Size that features Sakiayama Tsubasa and Kitazono Ryo! :D They were in it to promote the drama “Di Kita Malimot ~The Young Men of Ousen~”, whilst being their playful selves in yukata’s xD Again, the watermark is included in the actual scan and not in any corners to stop them from being reproduced >.< 

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST THE SCANS! スキャンスを再投稿しないでください！

Sato Ryuji in Cast Size Summer Special 2017

You can find a translation of this interview here.

Thanks to @nikelyzed for cleaning these scans!

Finally i’ve been waiting more than a month for this one.... It’s already on its way to me !

The magazine is out since the 05/12/18. 

It costs 1700 Yen and is purchasable on all your usual sites :

amazon, CD Japan....

The 2 Covers are Aramaki Yoshihiko and Sakiyama tsubasa. 

plus is has those propo pics that are out too and someone else not on there :

For a more complete listing : 

ARISAWA SHOTARO

TAMURA SHIN

Kensuke Takahashi

OHIRA SHUNYA

KITAGAWA NAOYA

NAGATA SEIICHIRO

YOSHIMURA SHUNSAKU

UTSUMI AKIYOSHI

KOBAYAKAWA SHUNSUKE

YAMAZAKI SHOUGO

AKASAWA TOMORU

Kosuke Kuwano

MIKATA RYOSUKE

HARASHIMA MOTOHISA

SOMEYA TOSHIYUKI

NAKAMURA YUUICHI

AKAZAWA RYOTARO

What’s interesting in this situation that part of the whole reason for She-ra being made the way it was in the 80s was the idea of it being different than other girls shows at the time. It was an adventure story and yes there were tropes, but this show seemed to want to cover all sorts of bases and in doing so I think they shot themselves in the foot. 

Let me point out that Entrapta was and has always been a villain, so I can’t say that they just decided to make her such. However I can say that I think they, like Voltron, kind of took on more than they could chew. With Voltron it was the fact that they were putting a massive story that needed like 26 episodes a season to cover everything into basically six seasons with 13 eps a piece so a lot of things got cut off from that. 

In She-ra’s case I feel like they are putting too many of the Princesses in at the get go and not leaving any room for development for them. They are their tropes, for the most part, and that I think is an issue. The fact that their personalities and such can be paired down into key words bugs me because it feels like there’s not much there to begin with, or at least if they have things there there are too many characters to focus and give enough development too. 

Like take Perfuma, for example, how much do we know about her from her time on screen? Yes I know it’s the first season, but if she’s a main than she should be identifiable by more than her traits. 

Right now my main issue is some of the animation, and I’m giving that a bit of a pass because the artist are new to the job, and the writing, which I’m giving less too because they have two producers (and at least one that has had a longer experience in the field then the other) that should be working on the plotting and the creation, and it feels like they dumped everything into the first season and didn’t think about the others. Regarding rep, not sure how to take it honestly. For example, we’re told “Hey Bow has two dads.” Cool are we going to see them this season? No? Is he going to talk about them (Unless I missed something which I may have and correct me, politely, if I’m wrong)? Are we going to see them at all? No? Good on you for mentioning it, but unless it’s going to play a role in the story some how, I don’t see the point? This is not to say it’s not important, but rather, if it’s just stuff adding to his character that’s not going to be in the arc for him, then you could have waited a while to mention it. 

Stereotyping isn’t bad, persay, if you use it as a sort of guide or skeletal structure. And when I mean stereotype I mean the ones that make sense not the crap like “X character’s like watermelons because they are X race” if you get my drift on this old crappy bit of representation that was used way back in the 30s. Things that are like “Tall girls have a hard time walking in heels” or “Single parent can have trouble with child because of money” or things like that. These are types that can be used to build on and create a complex character. The problem is that the size of the cast already limits that. You could have kept a hand full of Princesses, (Mermista, Nettossa, Spinerella, and Perfuma) and held off on Sea Hawk and Frosta, and focused on this small group allowing Entrapta to grow a bit and for us to see different sides of her. 

This is always the issue with large casts and small seasons. They do not work. You either have to have a series where the characters are developed outside of the main show, IE Avengers or Big Hero 6 or JLA, where people already know who they are and you can run at the start with a large group because of it. Or you have to pair it way down to a hand full of people and focus only on them. I have yet to see a 13 episode series with a large cast do well developing all the characters properly because of time. 

The other aspect of this is the question of, how much research did the team do in regard to various things. Now I read that various characters were given the treatment that they were because of the fact that a lot of their backstory is built around personal experience, which is fine, as they saying goes write what you know. But that brings up a point of just because something affected you one way doesn’t mean it affected someone else the same way, and, again I point to dragon prince on this, it’s better to get people that work with people who have either the illness that you’re trying to showcase, or the relationship that you’re going for, to help create a greater view point and a wider net for the audience to get a stronger understanding of the issues with your character. TDP went and got people who work with and understand sign language to help them with Amaya and get her to behave the way that they need her too to make her a convincing character. I have to wonder if the same was considered at all for Entrapta if they are going for her being autistic. 

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