#reveiw

Starting it off with my husband- I mean Stanley!✨️✨️ (My boi I ate Burritos today for youuuu!)

✨️ The gals ✨️🎀

Homu's 🌸 I feel like I haven't seen her in forever!

Ryusui eating Ramen 🧡✨️

Senku my science Dork!! 😭💚💚🧪

Look at himmmmmmm~ ✨️✨️

Poor Gen 😭 I feel so sorry for him!💜 ( I seriously love this scene, cuz we get to see both sides)

Joel ✨️ acquired✨️ (i love my shy boi) ( ´∀`)

~♪ JOELLLLLLLLLL!!! IN CLOTHES! ✨️♪ 👁👁

Yuzuriha being a cutie 🌼

A Wild Joel, doing what Joel's do✨️

Xeno and Fran-Fran 💛 I need to see them talk more!!

Hyoga munching ✨️❄️

Theses two Dumbass's being ADORABLE! 💜💛 eating meat 👁👁✨️

Chelsea! Because I can 🧡 (〃´ω`〃)

The boiz✨️🩵

Luna, (*sigh*) my dear sweet beloved 🩷🎀

THE GANGS!! ✨️✨️✨️ I LOOOOOVVVVEEEE ITTTT

And I'm (Sadly) ending it with judgemental Xeno🖤 cuz Tumblr won't let me add anymore pics 😭

This was definitely my favorite of this season! I LOVE IT! 💚💖

ok bye bye! Till next time 🪻

- Sincerely Okami~

SPOILERS!!

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it was about time i did this. my reveiw of the 2009 astroboy movie. pepole have some seriously mixed opinions opinions on this movie and so do i. lets get down to it!

(also spoilers for a 15 year old movie ig)

animation (quality and astetics)

so the animation quality itself reeks a lot of "non japanese asian cgi animation" because this movie is indeed a non japanese asian cgi animation. it has cerently aged in some points, sometimes the textures are kinda akward but the animation is overall fine, its no pixar but no video brinquedo, also i rly like how astro's oufits get torn and dirty. astetics wise the animation is WEAK and a bit werid, it doesnt try to emuate Tezuka's style at all and its a very weak and boring stlye, its astetics are "genericaly futuristic" and very safe, DARE I SAY pinocchio 3000's astetic is much cooler and astroboy like. i'll save other critics i have for the movie astetic wise when talkig about the character desgins.

soundtrack:

i did not care for the 2009 movie's sound track

it could be in any other movie and its bearly memorable

characters (character desgins and characterization)

lets start talking about the pre existing characters ad then the original ones:

astro looks pretty ok but i rly dislike his lack of eyelashes. i have mixed opinons ochanomizu/elfun, i feel like his design translated pretty well but at the same time he looks pretty uncany. tenma is just THE WORSE! like WHY HES SO UGLY! i find it interessing that they tried to make him look 'tired and done" but as we wil soon see it doesnt make much sense. hamegg looks fine thats it. now for the original characters; they are just not Tezuka at all. ik that the Tezuka characters have been mostly striped of his stlye there are stil TRACES OF IT! the movie og characters have very generic looks, someone said that the characters look like some models that imagi just had lying around their computres and not only i 100% agree but also think is the root of many of the problems that i have with the movie visualy.

now for the characterization: i beleve astro's characterization is pretty good, i dont have much to say. ochanomizu/elfun is well characterized in my opinion but his role is very small to the point where you can talk about the whole movie withount mentioning him once, hes just there and basecaly only serves as tenma's moral conpass bc the movie instead decided to foucus on the dumb kids instead of him. However i think the very few interactions he and Astro are very sweet.

now its time to talk about him: Tenma.I wil say that I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THEM MAKING TENMA A GOOD GUY! Its a hard thing to do rigth but it can be done, however im not a fan of how they went about it here.One could think at first that my problem with Tenma here is his rushed divelopment, and yes this one of my problems, the movie is very rushed as i shall talk more about later but stil, Tenma dosent even a moment to reflect in depth about his actions or how astro is stil his son dispite it all, he just goes "actuly you ARE my son" outta the blue. It feels shallow. but my BIG problem is that this tenma IS TOO SANE! he looks very tired and done and in this verson tobio'd death was much more traumatising but this verson of tenma isnt the maniac cientist we know that screams and manicaly laughs hes FAR TOO NORMAL and FAR TO SAUCELESS. you can argue thats because they wanted to make tenma a good guy but MAD CIENTISTS CAN BE GOOD GUYS TOO! i beleve this tenma is more sane nature greatly comes to his va's performace but we'll talk about this later.

i like that hamegg is in this movie but i beleve the twist vilan stuff didnt work out very well (most kids movies arent very good at this tbh) and...idk what else to say rlly besides that hes an asshole as always and that cps wil come for him cause i DANM KNOW those kids arent reciveing proper care

speaking of wich lets move on to the movie original characers!

i beleve that they wanted to put more starsystem members on the movie but Tezuka pro only gave imagi the rigths to a select few so they made fil ins

orin does his job as a robita fil in and hes pretty cute. nothing else to say

stone is clearly made as an duke red fil in and besides being scarly realistic he just isnt a very good vilan to me...hes pretty generic and while other polical Tezuka/astroboy vilants are very good stone is just...lacking...and the worse part is that i can quite put my finger on why...maybe bc i wish this movie was more focused on the robot rigths stuff and stone didnt have anything to do with such thing...maybe bc he isnt cool intimidating or hot...maybe bc him wanting to get astro's blue core just to distory it and do nothing with it bc he wants the red core...but probably a mix of those. if he wanted to turn astro into some sort of wepon with the red core the movie would be inproved even if just a bit.

The RRF are funny and have some nice jokes, but it kinda sucks they turned an inportant theme in the og work into a joke.

they alongside presdent stone as the vilan show that the movie is pretty policaly neutural.

now for cora: i dont give a heck about her, they give her simultaneously too much time and too little time, so her character divelopment feels very rushed. they say shes was ment as a foil to astro but i dont see that in any way besides the fact that she too hails from metro city. speaking of wich how tf did she got to the surfice? how did she survive the fall?

i dont give a damn about the other kids

zog is cool but dosent have much going on for him

the only orignal character that turely matters in trashcan

story

the astroboy manga was serilized for over an decade and it has 3 anime adaptations

during its run the series talked about all sorts of themes

robot prejuce, human prejuce, the efects of tecnology on humanty, war and general conflics, corupt politicians, envomentalism, greaf and other minor things

so for the movie you sould just pick one of those themes or two and handle such theme(s) in a good way

however this is not what this movie does

its very much a jack off all trades and master of none, it trys to talk about all sorts of stuff and it dosent have time to divelop any of them, so all the themes feel shalow and just trown in there.

this movie has one of the greatest existential crisis i've ever seen a movie having, it truely dosent know what it wants to be

it seams like each half of the movie was made by a defernt person.

the frist half is actuly pretty good, it does a good job at establishg the work's basic premesse and some cool themes

the scene where astro finds out about this power besides ONE SPECIFIC JOKE is very fun

the moment when astro finds out hes a robot in my opinion is the best part of the movie and its good at portaring the franchise's good ol tasty drama

but when astro falls down to the surfice the movie quality derirorates and it sorta becomes a generic kids movie with little to no astroboy stuff other than hamegg and the robo arena stuff

the trid half is actuly pretty cool too but not as good as the frist one, the big problem is the clifhanger ending, but hey not the movie's fault they expected a sequel (trough i think they could have done a better one)

its a movie that trys but unfortinly falls flat, clearly a result of its hellish divelopment with constant drector and studio changes

voice acing

freddie highmore with a forced american acent just sounds silly but he can stil do a good enough job with the more dramatic scenes

nicolas cage as tenma sounds like he wants to kil himself

i like nathan lane as hamegg, he does a good job

the rest is mediocer to fine

the brazlian dub is hilarious bc rodrigo faro

conclusion:

astroboy (2009) is a movie that has heart but said heart is in the wrong place

there where pepole who understod the franchise but due to its conplicated production history and general corporete meddling it ended up quite generic and without the same charm and atompunk sleakness of the original work

it sets a good ground for the character's origins and shurely its sequels that never came to be would be better

the movie could have been much better but also much worse, i think we are due for a new movie (Rintaro pls pls pls)

overall is a fun and harmless little movie for those rainy days when you're bored and carving poppcorn

do i recomend it? only for curiosity nostalgia or general bordroom

So uh...all of that to say....I love your fanfiction and am so excited to see where it goes!!!!!!!! I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS FANDOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(newest chapter had me CRYING. the relationship between kiyoi, zuko, and iroh just makes me so comforted, it truly is a strong bond they share and their family dynamic makes me sob. Just seeing them all together and the growth the've went through since the beginning is beautiful)

(don't let sapphrie lee get you, anyway that's my whole essay!)

OMG! Thank you SO much for this incredible message! Sorry it took so long to reply, I wanted to say so much and I've been very busy lately.

Honestly, receiving feedback like this is the best part of writing, and your 'essay' has absolutely made my week! Don't worry, it all made perfect sense!

If I could put a little stamp on the 'cover' of The Element of Change with this Ask as a review, I would! Seriously, it's so nice.

I'm incredibly flattered that you call this blog a 'fandom'. It's more accurately described as, me, a weird one-woman band on a street corner with a few lovely regular readers gathered 'round being entertained by my nonsense. But I'm genuinely thrilled that you have somewhere to come and be more involved in the story after you finish each chapter. It is a fair bit of effort for me, but I love doing it, and I absolutely love knowing that you, and others, like it and enjoy the memes, polls, AU's, and shorts.

You hit on exactly what I found the most challenging, and most important, part of this whole thing: that Kiyoi feels like a character in the ATLA world and that her story adds to it, without it revolving too much around her to the point where it doesn't feel like ATLA anymore. Thank you for the compliment on Kiyoi's character and story, and on the writing of the dynamics with canon characters! I have so much respect for the show's canon (less respect for the comics... but eh, the bones are good) and felt the story of ATLA is so strong that it is better to expand on it by adding a new character with a new perspective that can reinterpret the original work rather than straight up re-write it. Deciding which scenes to add to in a meaningful way, and how to make a character like Kiyoi and her story feel like it should be canon, and that the readers get invested in her story and her relationship with Zuko was the biggest challenge. Knowing that it feels 'so real and so canon' and that the character dynamics feel right to you means I've achieved what I set out to do, so thank you for that validation!

I'm so pleased to hear the latest chapter moved you to tears. It also moved me to tears writing it, and spoiler alert writing the next chapter with Tarz's will is causing a tissue box shortage at my house. But to have this whole story about how Kiyoi and Zuko, who are alone in different ways, find a togetherness, only to then lose that and have to learn to grow independently to be together again in a new post-war world, in my head and be able to share that—is amazing. But being able to write it out and have people read it, enjoy it and be moved by it, root for Kiyoi's mission, root for Zuko to be with her, and even root for Kiyoi to let go of the way society raised her to see herself, and be invested in the individual character dynamics and the growth they've gone through; it's just a joy to write.

Howdy y'all, I'm your local root beer reviewer; but please, call me RB. I guess to start off the first review I guess I'll be explaining my grading system. I'm using what I like to call the "balanced grading system" or BGS. 0-20 is an F, 21-40 is a D, 41-60 is a C, 61-80 is a B, and 81-100 is going to be an A.

Now than, for our first reviews, we'll start common. Barq's was one of the early root beers, now currently owned by the coca cola company. It's a pretty standard root beer, taste and such being fairly standard taste and texture. As such, Barq's gets a 45, or a C grade on the BGS. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy this brand, but if I have a root beer craving and nothing else is around, I will drink it just as happy.