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And God said, "I will give thee a pattern-seeking brain" (hexbear.net)
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And Man said, "Like, for identifying predators and foraging for berries and stuff?"

And God said, "...Totally."

And Man said, "Season 3 of The Boondocks was first announced in December of 2009 and began airing in May of 2010, which means it's very conceivable that it began production contemporary with the original broadcast of K-On! season 1 (April-June 2009); indeed, this episode, 'Lovely Ebony Brown' (S3E11), aired only three months after the last episode of the English dub of K-On! season 1."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s a pretty standard rock band formation shot from a high angle with a wide lens. Not exactly an unusual composition. I tried a quick image search to show some other examples but it was filled with fake AI slop so I gave up, but there’s a lot of promo photography and music videos that use the same kind of shot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Yes, it is a very good composition for a four-person rock band promo photo, so it's very dubious to think that the two pictures are actually connected in any way beyond coincidence.

However, consider the following:

I want to believe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everytime I hear the opening intro to Boondocks I think Samurai Shampoo's Battlecry. RIP Nujabes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was the inspiration, wasn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assume so, but I've never heard that from an official source. tbh, it felt more like appropriation or an outright ripoff, at the time. This was before anime was normalized in the US, Avatar the Last Airbender had only premiered earlier that year, so very few people had even an inkling that The Boondocks was drawing so much from it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's difficult to wrap my head around how people could look at the Boondocks and not understand how much it draws from anime, but I'm of a very spoiled generation when it comes to anime access...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

lol. Broadband had only become available in my area (central florida suburbs) about 4-5 years before Boondocks premiered. And one of the first things I downloaded en masse (using kazaa, scour, and maybe limewire) were the DragonBall Z episodes beyond what was available on Cartoon Network's Toonami. (At the time they had stopped at Freiza, or vegeta. I forget.) Like, before that it was all VHS tapes. Mostly of fan dubs and subs. DVD was barely even a thing yet. Everything happened very fast for anime when broadband hit the scene. We went from having barely anything to torrents of new episodes with subs within hours of their release. All this with the backdrop of the War on "Terror" and evangelicals stirring shit up everywhere. It was a wild time, but not all much different. lol. chomsky-yes-honey

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've seen episodes from season one of the boondocks and enjoyed it, never actually sat down and watched it in it's entirety.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've contemplated showing it on Blorptube once I'm done watching it with my mom.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I'll have to swing by and watch a couple episodes then

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Boondocks is so good

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

it's good but there's a lot of gen x "pull your pants up" kinda shit in it that's getting more discourse lately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Honestly, shame on me for taking until November of 2023 to finally start watching it. It'll probably take another year or so for me to finish it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That was a great episode of The Boondocks

Very meta

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

"I don't know how many episodes I have left"

Exactly 14, as it turns out...