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Apr. 29th, 2022 09:02 amI've been watching Thermae Romae Novae on Netflix. I'd heard of the manga long ago and didn't know the name at the time, so I was glad to see 'the anime about the Roman bath engineer who gets transported to modern Japan and does his best to copy their bath technologies and design when he goes back to ancient Rome' come up without me having to search for a title.
Fascinating stuff to see, very educational, one of the better handlings I've seen of 'guy from X time frame and location thrust into Y time frame and location without warning', cool subject, thank you for remembering that Romans came in multiple colors and appearances because they were an empire covering huge amounts of territory and multiple different peoples, thank you for realistically drawing the non-Italian Romans, a good bit of the script is fish-out-of-water-funny, the scenery is amazing...
and there are so
many
butts
( Butt discussion ahead )
The last several minutes of every episode are live-action and feature the mangaka traveling around Japan to visit various hot springs, bath houses, etc. and learn about the local practices and history. I think I'd like to get my hands on the actual manga when I run out of episodes; what I've seen of this woman's work has been fascinating and she clearly researched her subject exhaustively. I hope there's more of the anime, too, although given Netflix's track record lately I doubt that'll happen.
I like it. It's funny, it's fascinating.
I am keeping this anime in mind for people who are into men's butts, and I am also keeping it in mind for making people who are into pantyshot extreme cleavage Gainaxing fanservice intensely uncomfortable.
Fascinating stuff to see, very educational, one of the better handlings I've seen of 'guy from X time frame and location thrust into Y time frame and location without warning', cool subject, thank you for remembering that Romans came in multiple colors and appearances because they were an empire covering huge amounts of territory and multiple different peoples, thank you for realistically drawing the non-Italian Romans, a good bit of the script is fish-out-of-water-funny, the scenery is amazing...
and there are so
many
butts
( Butt discussion ahead )
The last several minutes of every episode are live-action and feature the mangaka traveling around Japan to visit various hot springs, bath houses, etc. and learn about the local practices and history. I think I'd like to get my hands on the actual manga when I run out of episodes; what I've seen of this woman's work has been fascinating and she clearly researched her subject exhaustively. I hope there's more of the anime, too, although given Netflix's track record lately I doubt that'll happen.
I like it. It's funny, it's fascinating.
I am keeping this anime in mind for people who are into men's butts, and I am also keeping it in mind for making people who are into pantyshot extreme cleavage Gainaxing fanservice intensely uncomfortable.
