Yeah I get that people worship this women for whatever reason but her voice acting for this role just didn’t fit and could have easily been replaced. Wanting to just use her name as publicity for the movies is what i imagine was the biggest reason but geez. I was not a fan of her in this film or any film for that matter. You can sing? Great. Can you not annoy me when you speak though?

The Best of /r/anime: 2021 nominations and voting starts tomorrow. It is that time of year where everyone looks back to highlight and celebrate the best content from the last year. Following is some of the best content posted to r/anime in 2021. We hope that this can help you to make some nominations for the best contributors and content of 2021 or just spot great content you might have missed.

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Log Horizon Seasons 1-2 Recap/Primer by /u/aniMayor

Seating order in Japanese culture: Explaining a really awkwardly framed scene in Shirobako by /u/thixotrofic

The Eggcellent Cinematography of Wonder Egg Priority's Premiere by /u/Vaynonym

Actual race references from Uma Musume S2 OP by /u/woonie

A review of Nodame Cantabile by /u/paukshop

Cracking Wonder Egg names in Wonder Egg Priority by /u/kekekmacan

r/anime's Favourite Characters: Analysis of Previous Best Girl/Guy/Character Brackets. by /u/Rare-Examination1142

Americanization of Anime throughout the 20th Century. by /u/KikiFlowers

r/anime's Top 100 Characters: Updated Method and added Best Guy 7 and r/anime's Top 100 Characters chart by /u/Rare-Examination1142

Top 100 most acclaimed anime series of all time (compiled from more than 30 lists from many different websites) by /u/mjf314

Definitive Steins;Gate Extended Universe Guide (SciADV) + FAQ by /u/ArcticFox19

Americanization of Anime in English Dubbing Part 2. by /u/KikiFlowers

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When I was younger, like, around 10 years old, I assumed that Kopa was Simba and Nala's adoptive son, and that his real parents were Chumvi and Kula: What you are about to read is what was going on in my mind when I came up with that theory:

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After Nala left to overthrow Scar, Chumvi and Kula became more and more protective of each other, and eventually fell in love. Near the final days of Scar's reign, Chumvi and Kula had a son, whom they named Kopa. However, during the final battle, Kopa's parents disappeared and were left for dead. Simba, taking pity on both his childhood friends and their cub, took the cub under his wing and showed him the ropes about being a prince.

After the events of the 6 adventures that Simba, Kopa, and their friends encounter in the Pride Lands, Chumvi and Kula return (I guess from the Tree of Life) and re-unite with their son. Simba gives Kopa back to his birth parents and they all leave, to which Simba is content with as he is paranoid about the looming threat of Zira and the Outsiders.

Simba suffers no trauma from his son's death, so thus the lack of mentioning about his child is completely justified. Zira's complaints in the film about being wrongly persecuted make sense as she has not successfully killed a son of Simba. Kiara is the rightful heiress to the throne because Kopa isn't a biological member of the royal family and is in a new place, thus Kion is the leader of the Lion Guard.

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I still do not know what the fuck I was smoking that made me think of such a bizarre theory. What scares me is that some parts actually make sense. It's creepy and cool at the same time. Though the holes I see in this are why Kopa looks nothing like Kula or Chumvi, and why Simba, Chumvi, Kula, and Nala couldn't just raise Kopa together to serve as extra protection, but again, it's a silly little au that 10 year old me came up with because I have no fuckin' clue.

I'm in the unpopular opinion section when I say I don't think Kiara and Kovu got married right away, or would rule and have cubs right away.

See, their relationship was basically a classic 3-day teen romance story, and that was heavily jeopardized when Simba separated them, not to mention the next day, they put each other in danger to stop the war.

Even though things ended up peachy, those ups and downs in their relationship would take a LOOONG while to move past.

Secondly, Kovu and Kiara are lot younger than Simba and Nala were when they got together. And the thing about the first film is that they HAD to get together in order to rule since there was no other option. Simba's father and mentor died, his uncle was a violent dictator, and Kovu held no rightful line of succession due to that previous fact. And Simba and Nala were old enough to have a kid.

Kovu and Kiara are implied to be in or near the end of their teen years, (Darrell Rooney even called the former a teenage killer). Sure, they got together before the war and stopped it and united their two prides, but that doesn't automatically prove them as worthy enough to run a Kingdom.

I can see Kiara becoming a Queen in the future since TLG shows her having lessons with Simba, but again, she needs more time, maturity, and experience. Kovu? Well, TLG says he'll become King so the Prince Consort headcanons are down the drain now, but would he be that good of a King?

He was with Kiara for 3 days before their get-together in the movie's finale. Before that, he was trained to be an assassin. Before that, he was being mentored by a dictator who himself had no idea how to govern a Kingdom.

It's also for that reason why I don't see them having cubs. They simply just aren't ready. And I think Kovu would fucking rip his own hair out at the idea of having children. We don't know who his dad is or even was, all we know was that whoever that dude was, he was nowhere in Kovu's life, meanwhile the only parental figure Kovu ever knew was Zira, who we've established, poisoned Kovu with the wrong mindset for years, a mindset that would be very hard to overcome and would make it very hard for him to co-rule a Kingdom. On Kiara's case, we don't know how she'd be with kids, but definitely not at the age she is at the end of the movie (of course I headcanon her to be asexual and she adopts an orphaned cub when she is ready to be a parent).

So, what's my version of how I see Kovu and Kiara's relationship?: They're eng

Not sure if this belongs in movies, but I think once you read this you might see why I am posting this here.

In the absence of new releases I've decided to make my way through the top 100 movies on IMDb. I'm watching things that I've not had the inclination to watch but are critically acclaimed. Today I watched the Godfather. But I also saw Dune Part 1 last week. So both are fresh in my mind.

Dune was the most recent movie I have been waiting for and as an Australian I've seen a lot of criticism of it prior to any release and prior to it's Australian release. First off I liked the new Dune movie, I'm glad it was spread out over two movies and all the "why didn't they film it back to back, it would've been cheaper and easier" talk is blah. Yeah Peter Jackson shot 3 LOTR movies back to back. But that wasn't in Wadi Rum. It was in NZ which is practically paradise. Also if two other adaptations of LOTR had been attempted and left sour tastes in mouths maybe Harvey Weinstein wouldn't have gone for that.

Prior to Dune's release, in r/boxoffice and r/movies there was heavy criticism of the runtime. It's a shared belief that for movies to be successful they have to not be too long. For me personally (huge bladder) a movie can be long in duration if there is enough information being conveyed. So like I mentioned I just watched the Godfather. It's 20mins longer than Dune. It felt like 40mins longer, I kept checking my watch. If Dune was to be the same length we'd get a fleshed out Piter defries, an explanation of mentats, a Dr Yueh story, some Duncan Arrakis time, maybe a few strums of a balliset, Sardukars dropping from space or something. The actors they used for Piter and Yueh are not unknowns, surely it would've been cheaper to hire someone else to read the 3 lines of dialogue they got. Now in all the reviews of the Godfather I saw there were no complaints of runtime. Yet before Dune was out you could hear the eyerolls. Maybe it's a sci-fi thing.

Some people have said that it feels like the Atreides are only on Arrakis for a day before they are attacked. Granted it is quick and maybe a dinner scene and an elaborate garden walk would have fleshed it out a bit, but one thing stuck out when I watched the Godfather. In the Godfather, a character kills some people and then goes to Sicily to hideout he's told it will need to be a year/ish. We don't know how long he's gone but in that time he lived in a town, then moved, then got married which ended abruptly and th

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

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Episode Description

>Kion, the second-born cub of Simba and Nala, discovers that he has the ability to channel the roars of the Great Lions of the Past, giving him fierce power just like his great uncle Scar who had the same power before him, but who tragically misused it for evil and lost it forever. At the instructions of Simba and Rafiki, Kion forms a team called the Lion Guard. As Kion goes against tradition and chooses his non-lion friends Bunga the honey badger, Ono the egret, Beshte the hippopotamus and Fuli the cheetah to populate it, Simba scolds him for not taking his new responsibilities seriously. When they save Kion's sister Kiara from a herd of stampeding gazelle and defeat a hyena clan led by Janja and Mzingo the vulture, Simba realizes that Kion has protected the Pride Lands and is indeed ready to lead his new Lion Guard.
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>Songs: "A Beautiful Day (Ni Siku Nzuri)" sung by The Lion Guard chorus, "Zuka Zama" sung by Bunga, "Tonight We Strike" sung by Janja, Mzingo, and the Hyenas, and "Kion's Lament" sung by Kion

First discussion thread! Also, for those who don't know... this is a pilot, and a film. It is not apart of Season 1, hence the S0E0. Let's hear it! What do we think about the pilot of the series?

NEW EPISODE DISCUSSION THREADS FOR THE LION GUARD EVERY SUNDAY @ 5:00PM EST

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

I like the reprise, I really do, but I just don't see it fitting into the story.

Let's start with the 1992 version, the one everyone knows about: Scar attempts to force Nala as his queen, Nala rejects and does NOT have any cubs with him (*ahem ahem*) and is booted out and as she is kicked out, Scar introduces the hyenas into the Pride Lands as his executive staff.

What people don't realize is that this creates a lot of plot-holes for the film. Because this is years after Scar has taken the throne. Earlier in that scene, Zazu says "Hyenas have been prancing around like they own the place," whilst mentioning how horrible the Pride Lands have gone.

..But if Scar is just now introducing the hyenas into the Pride Lands, how did everything go to shit in the first place? How can Scar be held accountable as a bad king if the hyenas' introduction into the Pride Lands is THIS late in his reign and the narrative. How did the hyenas not see the lack of introduction as a breaking of his promise on his end?

In that same script, Scar brought home an unconscious Zazu and told the pride of the news, which lead to Sarabi having an emotional breakdown. The hyenas never appeared. I'm not sure what they were trying to convey, but this scene makes the story weaker because of the lack of context it gives.

Overall, the reprise, whilst sounding good, isn't as effective as many people think because it fundamentally goes against what we know about the characters: Having Scar introduce the hyenas at the beginning of his reign is a better choice because it follows through on Scar and the hyenas' plot, it establishes him as a threat that needs to be neutralized by Simba, and it explains the later events in the film. The reprise has the same issues with the alternate ending, in that it's misplaced in the story.

The 1993 version of the movie's script showed the reprise taking place during Scar's eulogy, and I think it is much better fitted here. It's a direct parallel to the original song and better sets up the Pride Lands' destruction.

I am content with that version's deletion though: According to the filmmakers, the reprise didn't make it into the movie because they felt like a lively musical number directly after Mufasa's death would cause tonal whiplash in the film. That's why I also think the reprise was shortened when it was used in the musical.

But anyways, I think the Madness of King Scar was better off removed, if not in need of a serious rewrite because there were m

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Here it is: the original is a bit too tonally and stylistically inconsistent at times

It feels like almost every dramatic or majestic scene is immediately followed up with a wacky, cartoony, slapsticky scene. It gives off the feeling sometimes like 2 movies with the same characters have been edited in together.

I mean OCCASIONALLY it works-I Just Can't Wait to be King and Hakuna Matata can get away with being stylistically and tonally different because their not only musical numbers but it's implied a lot of what's happening is just in the character's heads not something that's literally happening at that moment in time (Unless you think Simba literally grew up and spent all of his teen years by bopping his head while crossing a bridge).

Other times, though, we have stuff like Banzai falling off a cliff into a thorn bush and not only surviving but jumping up in the air like he's a Looney Tunes character who stubbed his toe. That feels out of place in the same movie where a major plot point is someone falling off a cliff and dying. It doesn't help that happens literally after that happens.

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