Alright I give. Can someone point me in the direction of an Agnes Tachyon-Jungle Pocket edit to Two Birds on a Wire by Regina Spektor?
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ssend me jamd/poketaki/agnes tachyon in generl pplease im. not doing great n need to cope
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Soul Mates! S?E1: Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era Spotlight - Flapping In The Wind
So, due to a complex series of circumstances involving a horse, a Halloween costume, a snowball fight, and a tiger, Soul Mates! is proud to present to you… a bonus episode? Our schedule, I know, is sort of known to only us, but nevertheless, normally this would be a Mahjong Soul episode, and instead we’re gonna talk about Umamusume for a bit.
So! Taking the opportunity to gather so-called “clout”, this episode focuses on the characters from the new movie Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era. We’re gonna cover Jungle Pocket, Agnes Tachyon, Manhattan Cafe, Dantsu Flame, T.M. Opera O, and Fuji Kiseki. If you like those guys… check it out!
It’s a butch-heavy episode, we decide who’s getting cut from the LGBT community, and we figure out once and for all if there’s good art in Umamusume. POKKE-!
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Just finished watching Beginning of a New Era. It was… okay. I expected a lot more, honestly. Spoilers below, naturally.
[[MORE]]Without going too in-depth because I’m tired and don’t know how to word things, I felt like there was a lot of character development without any other story to really show what said development means. Pokke gets increasingly obsessed with outrunning this idealized “unbeatable” Tachyon, and we see that in pretty much every race, but… well, pretty much the whole thing was races. We’re not really shown too much about how it affects the rest of her life other than “she feels the need to train harder than she should,” which frankly every character seems to feel the need to do. We don’t see very much about how it messes with her school life or social life other than brief glimpses, which as I’m typing this I realize might be metaphorical in its own right, as a way to show how she’s made racing her whole life… I dunno. Spitballing a bit there.
There was definitely parallels drawn between Pokke and Tachyon chasing towards an unreachable ideal. Café too, though she was significantly less important than those two. Pokke chasing her idealized Tachyon, Tachyon chasing the physical limit of umamusume, and Café chasing her… I’ll go with calling it a ghost. That’s kind of what’s implied from her career in the game, but it’s not really important to the movie. But yeah, all of them chasing something that’s theoretically impossible for them to reach and/or surpass.
I get the characters, I mostly understood the theme of how chasing ideals can end up shackling you to a fate of your own self-doubt, all that. It’s just… I dunno, something felt off about it. The first third or so of the runtime ends up skipping ahead so, so many times that we got from the start of Pokke’s career to the height of it within the span of maybe 10 minutes. Other than her self-doubt, I still feel like I don’t really know much about Pokke. I know her drive, but that’s about it. This may just be the limitations of being a film instead of an episodic series, of course.
I don’t want to talk too much about Tachyon since I feel like I’m a bit biased there. I already know who she is as a character since I’ve played her career many times already in the game itself, so I feel like I’d have a hard time commenting on how the movie itself details who she is through just the film. If that makes sense.
And then there’s Dantsu Flame who, if I didn’t know this was already an established group of four characters, could honestly have been replaced with a ton of other characters with little change to the actual story. I leave knowing literally nothing about her.
Again, it was okay. Visually it was wonderful, all the characters were extremely expressive and all the racing scenes did a wonderful job at selling the adrenaline that all the racers are feeling, and I could even feel my own heart racing from it. It just didn’t feel as emotionally connected as I thought I would.
I have some other parts about it that did strike me weird, like the repeated focus on Pokke’s necklace being overused to the point that I have no clue which thing it was trying to represent but I’m tired and I’m already worried that I might be talking out of my ass. So I’ll stop here. It was an okay movie.
