What anime are you watching?
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I think I just said this somewhere here the other day, but Tokyo Godfather's is honestly a favorite all-time film of mine.
Paranoia Agent is like if David Lynch made an anime version of Twin Peaks.
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You did mention it a few posts ago. I had Millenium Actress and Paranoia Agent on my animu get list already but hadn't heard of Tokyo Godfathers until I saw your post.
From the short description about the flick on the eBay item page it seems like something I'll enjoy. All I've seen from Satoshi Kon are Perfect Blue and Paprika but I doubt he could've gone wrong in his other work.
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He left this world with an unfinished film as well:
His manga are all worth a read, with his final one "Opus" fittingly being his best.
His manga are all worth a read, with his final one "Opus" fittingly being his best.
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Decided to watch Solo Leveling after my friends kept negging me about it. I thought it was going to suck, but I actually enjoyed it. Season 3 won't come out for a few years, so I don't know if I will be interested in this by then.
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I don't even know what this is, but it popped up in my feed and it's fucking awesome.
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Just finished up a watching of Record of Lodoss War that had, for whatever reason, taken me weeks to get through.
It really still holds up very well. You can tell it was produced on a budget, given how many of the episodes have minimal animation and rely on the stellar artwork to get through some of the more static scenes. Especially episode 5 (the ballroom episode where the big dude tries to kill King Kashue) and any time you see the dragons on screen. The artwork, colors and scene composition are all divine in their attention to detail. It's like watching a story told with paintings. But being animation, it's fair to criticize it for being too righd at times.
Nevertheless, it had been a number of years since I watched it last and, like many things that you revisit after a long time, you see it with an entire new set of eyes. It's tabletop roots show but that's a good thing, considering it was originally author Ryo Mizuno's D&D campaign. A fascinating lineage from table to screen. It's more complex and subtle at points than I had ever perceived, especially when Parn has both Fahn's and Beld's swords in the final moments and there is a context there I had never seen before. Still pretty damn great. I need to dig up my art books for it at some point.
It really still holds up very well. You can tell it was produced on a budget, given how many of the episodes have minimal animation and rely on the stellar artwork to get through some of the more static scenes. Especially episode 5 (the ballroom episode where the big dude tries to kill King Kashue) and any time you see the dragons on screen. The artwork, colors and scene composition are all divine in their attention to detail. It's like watching a story told with paintings. But being animation, it's fair to criticize it for being too righd at times.
Nevertheless, it had been a number of years since I watched it last and, like many things that you revisit after a long time, you see it with an entire new set of eyes. It's tabletop roots show but that's a good thing, considering it was originally author Ryo Mizuno's D&D campaign. A fascinating lineage from table to screen. It's more complex and subtle at points than I had ever perceived, especially when Parn has both Fahn's and Beld's swords in the final moments and there is a context there I had never seen before. Still pretty damn great. I need to dig up my art books for it at some point.
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Picked up the Urusei Yatsura OVA collection and have been making my way through it slowly. It’s kind of a mixed bag, some are excellent and some are basically filler. It’s also kind of confusing without the context of the serie. But when they’re good they’re really good. And man do they capture that peak classic 80’s anime feel.
I don’t care how fucking weeb this is, it will never not be awesome.
I don’t care how fucking weeb this is, it will never not be awesome.
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Any adult that hates the things you like with enough fervor to unironically call you out on it in a dying forum is a faggot.
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Metal Skin Panic Madox- Fun little OVA from the late 80’s. Pretty lightweight stuff, basically just an excuse for some mech action. It has some really impressive animation sequences but in turn cuts a lot of corners and just as often looks pretty cheap. It’s also pretty short at under 40 minutes. Overall though it‘s fine for what it is.
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Watched The Animatrix last night because of you guys talking about The Matrix in the movie thread. I enjoyed this quite a bit as a teenager and am glad it still holds up for the most part (I have always skipped Flight of the Osiris, though). The Yoshiaki Kawajiri entry confuses me - how does the girl not know the black samurai is just a program and not a real person? False memories? So despite the classic Kawajiri style that one falls flat for me.
The telling of how the machines came to rule Earth never gets old. I hate myself that I draw parallels between the machines and China (started as slaves, became their own country, got rich becoming the industrial powerhouse of the world, yadda yadda became the new overlords of mankind).
The story of the runner is my favorite and the animation in it is the best.
Overall a haunting anthology and it remains the best Matrix-related thing outside of the first movie.
The telling of how the machines came to rule Earth never gets old. I hate myself that I draw parallels between the machines and China (started as slaves, became their own country, got rich becoming the industrial powerhouse of the world, yadda yadda became the new overlords of mankind).
The story of the runner is my favorite and the animation in it is the best.
Overall a haunting anthology and it remains the best Matrix-related thing outside of the first movie.
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Ocean Waves- One of Ghibli’s lesser known movies, probably best recognized from various City Pop video edits. This was done by the junior team as a made for TV movie. While not up to the incredibly high standards of the Miyazaki helmed work it’s perfectly fine for what it is.
A slice of life piece about a naive high school senior who falls for the new girl that just moved to his small town from Tokyo. The movie gets a lot of criticism for being boring but It’s actually incredibly realistic. It’s essentially a portrait of a toxic relationship between two immature and selfish people at a very pivotal time in their lives.
The animation is excellent though not as impressive as Ghibli’s larger projects. But it’s not trying to be. It does a great job of capturing the beautifully mundane atmosphere of early 90’s Japan in day to day life.
Anyways it’s worth a watch but don’t go in expecting Miyazaki style fantastical stuff. If you like all the little details of daily life that anime of the late 80’s and early 90’s did such a good job of capturing this has it in spades.
A slice of life piece about a naive high school senior who falls for the new girl that just moved to his small town from Tokyo. The movie gets a lot of criticism for being boring but It’s actually incredibly realistic. It’s essentially a portrait of a toxic relationship between two immature and selfish people at a very pivotal time in their lives.
The animation is excellent though not as impressive as Ghibli’s larger projects. But it’s not trying to be. It does a great job of capturing the beautifully mundane atmosphere of early 90’s Japan in day to day life.
Anyways it’s worth a watch but don’t go in expecting Miyazaki style fantastical stuff. If you like all the little details of daily life that anime of the late 80’s and early 90’s did such a good job of capturing this has it in spades.
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I'm still waiting on for that release for bluray
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Had no idea this was even a thing. RIP Gainax, but sounds like it needed to happen.
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Anime Studio Gainax Formally Dissolved After Bankruptcy Concludes
Co-Founder Hideaki Anno: Rights to studio's works have been transferred to "rightful owners"
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Shieeeeeet, I'm always out of the loop but I didn't know Anno left Gainax...in 2007.Had no idea this was even a thing. RIP Gainax, but sounds like it needed to happen.
Anime Studio Gainax Formally Dissolved After Bankruptcy Concludes
Co-Founder Hideaki Anno: Rights to studio's works have been transferred to "rightful owners"
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Yeah. Reading the story, it appears that they were poorly run for a number of years.
Gainax was always a fan endeavor that got really big really fast. Probably too big too fast for a bunch of anime nerds to understand what they were getting into.
Still, knowing that they're gone makes me wistful for the days when I didn't know anything about the business side of things and just watched my 'japanimation' and enjoyed it through the blissful eyes of a teenager.
Gainax was always a fan endeavor that got really big really fast. Probably too big too fast for a bunch of anime nerds to understand what they were getting into.
Still, knowing that they're gone makes me wistful for the days when I didn't know anything about the business side of things and just watched my 'japanimation' and enjoyed it through the blissful eyes of a teenager.
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Yeah i heard about that earlier in the year sounds like allot of miss managing has lead to there demise finally. That explains why gunbuster on bluray is going out of print so i just snag a copy to for that reason alone.Had no idea this was even a thing. RIP Gainax, but sounds like it needed to happen.
Anime Studio Gainax Formally Dissolved After Bankruptcy Concludes
Co-Founder Hideaki Anno: Rights to studio's works have been transferred to "rightful owners"
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Yeah the now former president had gotten into gambling debt, started licensing stuff to get out of the hole he got the studio in but that didn’t work. Anno out of loyalty and to get the Eva rights offered a loan that said President opted not to pay at any time frame so Anna took that man to court, won and said shut all this down mercy killing style.Had no idea this was even a thing. RIP Gainax, but sounds like it needed to happen.
Anime Studio Gainax Formally Dissolved After Bankruptcy Concludes
Co-Founder Hideaki Anno: Rights to studio's works have been transferred to "rightful owners"
It is really a sad ending for Gainax but the heart of what was Gainax is basically Anno’s studio and Trigger.