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Thanks to anyone who recommended katanagatari. It was great, but I watched all twelve in a row and now I am super bummed out.
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Apr 28, 2015 07:00
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utamaru posted:Thanks to anyone who recommended katanagatari. It was great, but I watched all twelve in a row and now I am super bummed out. The ending kinda bummed me out, I didn't really understand why he ended up traveling with the princess
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Apr 28, 2015 12:41
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Razzled posted:The ending kinda bummed me out, I didn't really understand why he ended up traveling with the princess It's the other way around, Hitei is following him. Her motives are kinda inscrutable but it's probably to do with a sense of responsibility toward him as a descendant of Shikizaki. In turn he lets her tag along as a gesture of forgiveness, demonstrating that he's finally ready to accept Togame's dying wish for him.
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Apr 28, 2015 16:51
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Is there anything out there like Satoshi Kon's work? I just burned my way through Paranoia Agent and I've seen all of his movies.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:08
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Lord Lambeth posted:Is there anything out there like Satoshi Kon's work? I just burned my way through Paranoia Agent and I've seen all of his movies.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:27
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Is Ben-To as much dumb fun as it sounds?
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Apr 29, 2015 10:50
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Yes. Also comes with a killer soundtrack by way of Taku Iwasaki.
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Apr 29, 2015 10:59
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Is Ben-To as much dumb fun as it sounds? If Ben-To is anything it is extremely dumb and extremely fun. There may well be no other way to describe the show.
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Apr 29, 2015 11:08
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linall posted:If Ben-To is anything it is extremely dumb and extremely fun. There may well be no other way to describe the show. That's all I want from a show about fighting over discount noodles  .
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Apr 29, 2015 11:12
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I almost hate to admit it, but I watched the first season of High School DxD based solely on the fact it has pretty good ratings (I wonder why), and actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit. With that said, is there anything similar that anyone thinks I would enjoy?
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May 1, 2015 19:59
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Linx posted:I almost hate to admit it, but I watched the first season of High School DxD based solely on the fact it has pretty good ratings (I wonder why), and actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit. With that said, is there anything similar that anyone thinks I would enjoy?
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May 1, 2015 20:09
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Linx posted:I almost hate to admit it, but I watched the first season of High School DxD based solely on the fact it has pretty good ratings (I wonder why), and actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit. With that said, is there anything similar that anyone thinks I would enjoy?
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May 1, 2015 22:13
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Lord Lambeth posted:Is there anything out there like Satoshi Kon's work? I just burned my way through Paranoia Agent and I've seen all of his movies. Makoto Shinkai Linx posted:I almost hate to admit it, but I watched the first season of High School DxD based solely on the fact it has pretty good ratings (I wonder why), and actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit. With that said, is there anything similar that anyone thinks I would enjoy? Tokyo Majin for more supernatural highschool action, Desert Punk for more Shonen with titays.
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May 2, 2015 11:49
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Linx posted:I almost hate to admit it, but I watched the first season of High School DxD based solely on the fact it has pretty good ratings (I wonder why), and actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit. With that said, is there anything similar that anyone thinks I would enjoy? Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere. El Estrago Bonito posted:Makoto Shinkai Also Triage X. It's four episodes in on Funimation, I believe, and AnimeLab (if you're Australian).
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May 2, 2015 13:08
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Makoto Shinkai
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May 2, 2015 13:16
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Desert Punk for more Shonen with titays. Worth noting that Desert Punk is Gonzo, and as such is pretty good for 2/3rds and then the last disk is utter and irredeemable trash. Linx posted:I almost hate to admit it, but I watched the first season of High School DxD based solely on the fact it has pretty good ratings (I wonder why), and actually ended up enjoying it quite a bit. With that said, is there anything similar that anyone thinks I would enjoy? Trashy but fun? Try Seikirei. It's pokemon but what if the pokemon.... were chicks with huge cans?! The first season is particularly 'good', I enjoyed the second season as well but it is much much MUCH lewder. Maken-ki is also kinda fun in the same vein as DxD but more focus on said cans and the second season is completely irrelevant bullshit. Also the OVAs are pretty much just excuses to be softcore pornography. DamnGlitch fucked around with this message at 15:47 on May 2, 2015 |
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May 2, 2015 15:42
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Makoto Shinkai This is a dumb recommendation. Kon and Shinkai stuff are nothing alike.
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May 2, 2015 20:02
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Despite being really cliche shounen, Katekyo Hitman Reborn has something really charming about it. I think it's a combination of some really effective character designs/personalities and the humor.
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May 3, 2015 05:29
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Ytlaya posted:Despite being really cliche shounen, Katekyo Hitman Reborn has something really charming about it. I think it's a combination of some really effective character designs/personalities and the humor. Reborn was decent circa the Varia arc. The comedic stuff at the beginning was hit-or-miss, the Mukuro arc and the beginning of the Future arc were mediocre, and the after the notorious real six Funeral Wreaths reveal it's all crap. Some of the characters had potential, but character development is inexplicably reset at regular intervals (which is actually worse than the One Piece approach of characters not developing much at all). The manga is worse than the anime because the mangaka is bad at panel composition during fights (everyone using color-coded masses of flame in a black-and-white comic doesn't help). The power levels just stop making sense entirely post-Future arc. Also, despite being written by a woman, KHR is sexist even by the standards of its genre. The character designs are all right, though.
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May 3, 2015 07:11
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ViggyNash posted:This is a dumb recommendation. Kon and Shinkai stuff are nothing alike. They both do really emotional character study movies and are without a doubt two of the best anime filmmakers of the last fifteen years or so. Shinkai hasn't ever done anything in the same vein as Perfect Blue or Paranoia Agent, but if you like Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers and Millennium Actress I think you'd also really like Place Promised Us, Children Who Chase Voices and 5cm/s. I think their strength is that they both build visually impressive films and have characters with a ton of emotional depth and resonance. If you define your media only by genre content then, yeah, Kon did mostly movies about "real" settings (except for Paprika and his as of yet unseen final film) while Shinkai is solidly in the Science Fiction/Fantasy camp.
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May 3, 2015 10:16
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Shinkai is solidly in the hypermelodramatic camp. Kon's work is snappier and more much more absurd and comedic.
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May 3, 2015 11:54
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DamnGlitch posted:Worth noting that Desert Punk is Gonzo, and as such is pretty good for 2/3rds and then the last disk is utter and irredeemable trash. Trashy but fun is actually a really great way of putting it! Thanks for your suggestions and to everyone else that replied, I'll give them all a go.
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May 3, 2015 12:48
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El Estrago Bonito posted:They both do really emotional character study movies and are without a doubt two of the best anime filmmakers of the last fifteen years or so. Shinkai hasn't ever done anything in the same vein as Perfect Blue or Paranoia Agent, but if you like Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers and Millennium Actress I think you'd also really like Place Promised Us, Children Who Chase Voices and 5cm/s. I think their strength is that they both build visually impressive films and have characters with a ton of emotional depth and resonance. They both make good movies, and possibly aim for similar themes, but equating them like this is really weird. Kon's movies have a completely different feel, they're a whole lot more bombastic. Shinkai seems to be completely incapable of making something with the same level of energy. Or even getting in the same ballpark. All his stuff feels very meditative. Which is fine, but really quite different from what Kon did. Equating them quality-wise is a mistake to my mind as well. Shinkai makes good films, Kon made masterpieces. If you follow Paprika with Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Children is not going to come out favorably in the inevitable comparison.
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May 3, 2015 14:43
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I think Shinkai's real claim to fame is the cinematography and art direction and his movies. His stuff is some of the most beautiful things to ever be animated. Unfortunately, he's kind of a terrible and uninspired writer, and I didn't like any of his movies/miniseries besides Voices of a Distant Star - probably only for the novelty of it - and Children Who Chase Lost Voices a bit.
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May 3, 2015 15:53
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I'd go as far as to say that Children Who Chase Lost Voices is kind of a bad movie. It felt like a hollow imitation of a Ghibli adventure with no actual charm to make you want to be on said adventure in the first place. The rest of his filmography has more or less retreaded the same themes and beats as Voices of a Distant Star with only the animation really improving, to the point where Garden of Words is breathtaking to watch but completely stale and listless in all other aspects.
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May 3, 2015 16:17
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i'll fight all of you shinkai haters at once
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May 3, 2015 16:28
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I like his theme Except Children Who Chase Lost voices which was super boring and my feelings about it are pretty much exactly the same as Nate RFB's.
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May 3, 2015 16:30
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Nate RFB posted:I'd go as far as to say that Children Who Chase Lost Voices is kind of a bad movie. It felt like a hollow imitation of a Ghibli adventure with no actual charm to make you want to be on said adventure in the first place. The rest of his filmography has more or less retreaded the same themes and beats as Voices of a Distant Star with only the animation really improving, to the point where Garden of Words is breathtaking to watch but completely stale and listless in all other aspects. Eh, I thought of it as a half-decent non-Ghibli Ghibli movie. At least it was different from his other stuff.
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May 3, 2015 16:32
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if you want good non-ghibli ghibli movies (lol) you're better of watching a letter to momo or hosoda's movies which all do that shtick way better than shinkai's emotionally empty work
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May 3, 2015 16:35
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Davincie posted:if you want good non-ghibli ghibli movies (lol) you're better of watching a letter to momo or hosoda's movies which all do that shtick way better than shinkai's emotionally empty work Hey, I never said it was better than a Hosoda movie, just that it was half-decent for what it was.
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May 3, 2015 16:37
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Silver2195 posted:Reborn was decent circa the Varia arc. The comedic stuff at the beginning was hit-or-miss, the Mukuro arc and the beginning of the Future arc were mediocre, and the after the notorious real six Funeral Wreaths reveal it's all crap. I agree that pretty much all of the actual plot, power-ups, and most of the main character's fights (though some of the side characters have good ones) are pretty bad. All the stuff with the boxes and rings in the Future Arc was painfully dumb and completely out of nowhere; I'm guessing it had something to do with selling toys in Japan. I'm not actually sure what I enjoy about it beyond the art/characters* and the humor (I actually liked a lot of the comedic stuff at the beginning). It sounds like you haven't read the arc after the whole Future arc. It's really just more of the same, though there's a super bizarre reveal and Deus Ex Machina (not referring the the powers Tsuna gets) at the very end. *I like pretty much everyone in Tsuna's "family" except Tsuna himself. His refusal (in words only) to join the mob throughout literally the entire series gets really old really fast.
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May 3, 2015 17:45
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Shinkai is hit and miss for me. I thought Voices of a Distant Star was trite and inane, but 5 Centimeters Per Second is one of my favorite animated movies. Everything else I've seen by him is alright but hasn't really stuck with me.
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May 3, 2015 20:22
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Bad Seafood posted:Shinkai is hit and miss for me. I thought Voices of a Distant Star was trite and inane, but 5 Centimeters Per Second is one of my favorite animated movies. But 5cm/s is mostly the same as all his other stuff. Albeit it has a nice structure and is one of his best looking movies, but ultimately samey and disappointing.
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May 3, 2015 22:28
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If you liked Voices of a Distant Star, there's a manga adaptation of it which I liked better than the anime.
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May 3, 2015 22:36
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Voices of a Distant Star was done better when it was called Gunbuster.
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May 3, 2015 22:37
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ViggyNash posted:But 5cm/s is mostly the same as all his other stuff. Albeit it has a nice structure and is one of his best looking movies, but ultimately samey and disappointing.
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May 3, 2015 22:43
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Bad Seafood posted:I am okay with the insinuation that Shinkai just tells the same story over and over again with the understanding that he finally got the formula right in 5 Centimeters. Nope. The only time he got it right was the first time, imo. My problem with 5cm/s is that instead of a buildup to a climax, is felt bizarrely like an anti-buildup to a non-climax. The whole narrative just felt so pointless by the end, because absolutely nothing was accomplished. Unless or course I'm totally missing the point of the movie. If so, someone please explain it because it makes no sense to me.
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May 4, 2015 00:48
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The point is people drift apart, and that's okay. Dude's childhood friend is moving away, and he spends a significant portion of his youth pining for his lost love instead of pursuing new relationships. Meanwhile, another girl takes an interest in him, but their relationship goes nowhere because he's still thinking about "Her" while the new girl can't stop thinking about "Him" even though she knows it's one-sided. At the end of the film when he thinks he sees his lost love and turns around and the trains speed past, blocking his view, he stands there waiting for them instead of moving on (with his life). When the trains disappear, of course, there's no one there. He was waiting for nobody. He spent all that time waiting for nobody. Finally he smiles, for what seems like the first time since he and his childhood friend parted ways, and moves on. Watching 5 Centimeters as somebody who's been through that kind of thing - getting bogged down over a relationship that's already over at the expense of forging new ones - it became an incredibly important movie to me.
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Bad Seafood posted:The point is people drift apart, and that's okay. Dude's childhood friend is moving away, and he spends a significant portion of his youth pining for his lost love instead of pursuing new relationships. Meanwhile, another girl takes an interest in him, but their relationship goes nowhere because he's still thinking about "Her" while the new girl can't stop thinking about "Him" even though she knows it's one-sided. Thanks for explaining it. I definitely understood the general gist of it, but not nearly so thoroughly. But even so, I think it was a pretty bland story and it didn't resonate with me at all. I guess the idea and the central theme is fine, but the means by which they were conveyed were mechanical and lifeless.
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