Thursday DE: Canon share!

[bjornwilde]

The week is almost done! \o/

For today, let's share canons! Got a canon you think others should be watching/reading/listening to? Looking for a genre or type of canon? Well, look no farther!

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[4th5]

Are you one of these people who are doing this "running" thing? Do you like consuming canon while you exercise? Are you looking for a total-immersion one person LARP experience? Need extra motivation to run away from humans?

Zombies, Run! is a mobile app that combines radio clips with your music and the GPS tracker on your phone to be both running app and podcast. You set your own mission time or distance, and the story plays in your headphones in the form of radio transmissions while you, Runner 5, run away from Zombies. You can even add random sprint sessions in the form of surprise! Zombie chases.

The story is told by a full cast, talking to you as you run, between your own music, and there's no physical limitations, you can walk it or even just sit and listen if you want, but if you're not out of breath and sweating the story just doesn't feel right to me.

There's a Couch to 5k app as well, if you're just starting but there's no pacer on the main app so you can take it at your own pace.

Warning: I have both flinched away from zombies I thought were coming out of a bush AND cried in public with this app, so maybe not foor the easily embarrassed.

[weird_cop]

The Shadow Police novels buy Paul Cornell start with London Falling and last for three novels before... being cruelly dropped by the publisher so BE WARNED there is not closure for many of the plot threads.

These books are about a unit of Met Police that are forcibly embued with the "Sight" - the ability to see all the magical dark stuff sloshing around London. If yo're a fan of Cornell's Knight and Squire miniseries you might like how obnoxiously London everything is - in the three books the unit cover Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, West Ham football club, London gangsters, Brutus of Troy.

If you like Ben Aaronovich's Rivers of London series but think "oh this could be darker. Needs more serial killers and a bunch more infanticide," you might like this.

The Audiobooks are narrated by Damian Lynch and are bloody brilliant.

[bjornwilde]

Seconding this canon. I am seven chapters into the first book and hooked in a big way.

[princeinexile]

Look, you're all doing an Avatar rewatch RIGHT NOW so I don't need to tell you to do it.

I do think you should watch Lupin III. Fifty years of canon means a lot of varying quality, starting with the animated series in '69 and coming down to Lupin III: The First, the very first CGi Lupin film. A friend of mine literally made a spreadsheet for the Lupin continuity of movies and TV specials here.

As for the series, Part 1, 2, and 3 are all loosely episodic, with no real narrative between them and quality varies wildly. Toward the end of Part 2 you see Hayao Mizaki just beginning to put himself out there as a creator, leading to The Castle of Cagliostro, which is a GREAT film, even if it, oddly enough, isn't great Lupin film. (See it with the mind that Mizaki meant for this to be an older Lupin at the end of his career, as opposed to young, cocky, super horny Lupin.)

There's also a live action series from 2017 about Inspector Zenigata; two season mini series, four episode seasons and a 1 1/2 hr pilot. If you find the poor inspector endearing, this will make you love him EVEN MORE. It aired on Hulu Japan.

Currently, all 5 series are available on Crunchyroll for free (w/ads) and Castle of Cagliostro is on Netflix currently. I can help you find any of the other films.

HOWEVER, do NOT, DO NOT! Start with The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. That's a deconstruction of Lupin as a whole, focusing on Fujiko. It is the only piece of canon for Lupin that has a woman director, and it's incredibly feminist in nature and also deals with queer themes as well. It's also gonna deal with a lot of triggery stuff, so best to go in with a warning.

(This is not me fishing for canon mates, not at aaaalllll....)

[princeinexile]

oh my god I was so tired when I wrote this I repeatedly misspelled Miyazaki. fasdf;kjnagd

[bjornwilde]

Latest finds I am enjoying:

The Critical Role: Vox Machina comic is a lot of fun. I know Critical Role is big and has a huge fanbase, but the podcast is such a juggernaut to me, I haven't listened yet. I just don't have an hour to offer them. This comic seems to capture the story they play and it's a fun ride with great art.

The anime Dorohedoro is a weird and fun mix of Kafka, Clive Barker, and China Mieville, all through a post-Akira styled lens. Lots of fun but bloody. It's on Netflix in the US and is also a complete manga.

As to canon I am looking for, with the end of the first season of Motherland: Fort Salem, I find I am missing a wlw witch character to partake of. Anyone have any suggestions?

[magnus_archivist]

I mean, I think everyone should get into 'The Magnus Archives' and 'Welcome to Night Vale', but I'm biased. >.>

[undead_radish_seller]

Hello everybody! 'The Untamed' is a Chinese fantasy series in 50 episodes that I am currently enjoying (and apping this undead dork from). I came for the pretty young men in love, and stayed for the Qi Gong as battle magic. It's on Netflix, and I warmly recommend it!