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Blaziken386 posted:
Also if you watch gunbuster and enjoy it, I'd definitely recommend checking out Diebuster afterwards.
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rest his guts posted:Really liked Texhnolyze; couldn't stand the cat ears or the awkward references to literature in Ergo Proxy. What should I watch? Doesn't necessarily need to be about the end of the world. If you're okay with reading recommendations, Kengan Ashura is very much Baki-inspired and quite good.
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Captain Invictus posted:Rahxephon is pretty good too. People compare it to eva a lot, and it certainly has similarities, but you could say it's its own...beast Compare, nothing. It pretty loving blatantly rips off Eva wholesale in a lot of places. I'm watching it right now and it's a legitimately good show in its own right, but hoo-boy is it not subtle about stealing from Evangelion.
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Jun 25, 2019 02:48
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Blaziken386 posted:inspired by NGE becoming popular again, I sat down and watched it, it was fun, but now I'm out and need a new fix. Not super popular but From the New World is full of themes and symbolism and I'm probably going to rewatch it soon
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Compare, nothing. It pretty loving blatantly rips off Eva wholesale in a lot of places. I'm watching it right now and it's a legitimately good show in its own right, but hoo-boy is it not subtle about stealing from Evangelion.
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Blaziken386 posted:sidenote: the adtr wiki linked in the OP is, uh, up for sale And what a steal! 
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Not super popular but From the New World is full of themes and symbolism and I'm probably going to rewatch it soon It's so good. Another recommendation for this.
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Blaziken386 posted:inspired by NGE becoming popular again, I sat down and watched it, it was fun, but now I'm out and need a new fix. Revolutionary Girl Utena and/or Mawaru Penguindrum beating people over the head with themes/symbolism is kind of Ikuhara's main gimmick
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Jun 25, 2019 06:04
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Blaziken386 posted:inspired by NGE becoming popular again, I sat down and watched it, it was fun, but now I'm out and need a new fix.
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Endorph posted:Hunter x Hunter, if you're okay with something that goes 150 episodes Something like 60 episodes is my upper limit, quite frankly. AnoHito posted:Revolutionary Girl Utena and/or Mawaru Penguindrum
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Blaziken386 posted:ahahahahaha no Monster. It's a classic, though it pushes a little over your episode limit: 74.
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Jun 25, 2019 12:58
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AlternateNu posted:Monster. It's a classic, though it pushes a little over your episode limit: 74. Minor addendum; It's a legit 74-episode run to cover the entire manga series. It's not just stalling for time with side arcs.
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AnoHito posted:Revolutionary Girl Utena and/or Mawaru Penguindrum I finally got around to watching Revue Starlight and it steals a lot of ideas wholesale from Utena, but with a cool new coat of paint. Also, no pesky male characters to get in the way of all the yuri! YMMV if you've never been in any sort of performance/show. Was there any discussion about the show last year or did HIDIVE picking it up push it off everyone's radar?
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Jun 25, 2019 18:35
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MMania posted:I finally got around to watching Revue Starlight and it steals a lot of ideas wholesale from Utena, but with a cool new coat of paint. Also, no pesky male characters to get in the way of all the yuri! YMMV if you've never been in any sort of performance/show. I remember there being a bunch of discussion about it. I watched the first episode, and have still been meaning to watch the rest, but it gave me the initial impression that it was kind of ripping off Utena a bit too much.
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i can't believe the show worked on by a person who worked with ikuhara in the past was influenced by a popular ikuhara show
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There's a sort of scale between "has influences from this show" and "completely steals its central premise and half of its themes" though. Of course, once again, only saw the first ep so far and may very well be talking completely out of my own rear end with where the rest of the series goes 
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Jun 25, 2019 19:10
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MMania posted:Also, no pesky male characters to get in the way of all the yuri! I don't think the male characters in Utena where getting in the way of the yuri as much as just the show never gave as much content as one would like on that front. AnoHito posted:There's a sort of scale between "has influences from this show" and "completely steals its central premise and half of its themes" though. I don't think the show is the later but even if it was there isn't really a problem with that if its trying to do its own thing.
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You can't talk about the similarities between Revue Starlight and Utina and not talk about Takarazuka Revue, which is a huge influence on Utina and Revue Starlight is straight up based on a stage musical by former Takarazuka Revue members. Theft is the wrong word here lol
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an actual dog posted:You can't talk about the similarities between Revue Starlight and Utina and not talk about Takarazuka Revue, which is a huge influence on Utina and Revue Starlight is straight up based on a stage musical by former Takarazuka Revue members. Theft is the wrong word here lol but i have only seen one episode so i think i am an expert
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Utena did not invent most of the aesthetics it has in common with Revue, and Revue is way more directly about one of its main influences (Takarezuka) than Utena is. It's also does put much more focus on lesbian relationships than Utena though I wasn't as into most of them outside of the Mahiru accepting her gf has a gf and she'll be both their moms episode. I think I dropped it right before the conclusion of the one arc all my friends really like about it so I might be missing out.
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The director of Revue is an acquaintance of Ikuhara's and has worked with him before so I doubt he was unaware of the similarities, but also they were working from the same inspiration and go in very different directions with it. Revue is directly tied to stage performances, storytelling, and acting, and is concerned primarily with those things. Utena is using the Takarazuka aesthetic as a visual thing to tell a story about masculinity/femininity and only really uses the 'acting' thing as shorthand for 'performing' one's gender and sexual orientation, rather than actually being concerned with the real world job of actor/actress. Like, there's similarities, sure, but they aren't the same show or anything so I really don't know how you'd arrive at 'theft' unless you think the Takarazuka Revue is something Ikuhara made up himself. Something like Star Driver is honestly way closer to Utena to the point of even borrowing some plot beats, but nobody ever called that a theft.
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Endorph posted:so I really don't know how you'd arrive at 'theft' unless you think the Takarazuka Revue is something Ikuhara made up himself. well..............,
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If anything considering Revue is a multimedia project it was probably more a case of them approaching Ikuhara with the concept, since he did make the most famous Takrazuka-inspired anime, and him turning them down but then pointing him to a friend of his. That's total speculation but it'd make sense.
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DisDisDis posted:well..............,
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DisDisDis posted:Utena did not invent most of the aesthetics it has in common with Revue, and Revue is way more directly about one of its main influences (Takarezuka) than Utena is. Yeah like I enjoy each of the characters as individuals but outside of Mahiru's stuff and the Motorcycle/rich girl couple the actual relationships just never really felt like they had much meat in disappointing ways. e: tho like it still was one my favorites from last year don't get me wrong Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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i liked the episode of karen/hikari talking on the phone a lot and then those two basically didnt say five words to each other until the finale it just felt very constrained by the whole 'here's this pair, now here's this pair, now here's this pair' setup. i still like it a fair bit but yeah
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Endorph posted:cant believe ikuhara invented homosexuality, the takarazuka revue, penguins, bears, kappa, and the tokyo subway sarin attack I never finished penguindrum how deep does it go into the attacks because having read up on the cult years later I have to solemnly give thanks to god that a smalltime bully that roped a lot of hopeless people into his bullshit failed to refine a dirty bomb, something they almost had access to.
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Sharkopath posted:I never finished penguindrum how deep does it go into the attacks because having read up on the cult years later I have to solemnly give thanks to god that a smalltime bully that roped a lot of hopeless people into his bullshit failed to refine a dirty bomb, something they almost had access to. Quite far, though Penguindrum's cult is...quite different from the real thing. I'm pretty sure the terrorist attacks were only really supposed to be inspired by the real life ones, and not literally be the same ones.
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In general Revue just seems like a constrained show, with like how it hints at its larger world with the stuff Hikari went through and how it handles Banana's resolution, but in those two cases I think it works way better. I just wish there was a little bit more of like stuff we had with Maya and Futaba, and like Claudine and Kaoruko.
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MMania posted:I finally got around to watching Revue Starlight and it steals a lot of ideas wholesale from Utena, but with a cool new coat of paint. Also, no pesky male characters to get in the way of all the yuri! YMMV if you've never been in any sort of performance/show. There was a thread and everything! Also the official subs were garbage so there was some delay time as people waited for fansubs.
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Endorph posted:cant believe ikuhara invented homosexuality, the takarazuka revue, penguins, bears, kappa, and the tokyo subway sarin attack What a visionary
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AlternateNu posted:Monster. It's a classic, though it pushes a little over your episode limit: 74. Yeah this show is really, really good. Endorph posted:Hajime no Ippo are my Baki recs Settled on this and it owns. It's like a less self-aware Baki. Thanks!
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what are some good anime movies that would appeal to someone looking for more movies like ghibli's stuff? your name is already a known movie
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ninjewtsu posted:what are some good anime movies that would appeal to someone looking for more movies like ghibli's stuff? your name is already a known movie
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Nate RFB posted:Anything by Mamoru Hosoda from 2006 to now, starting with his The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. For a long time his works have felt more Ghibli-like to me than the actual studio during that span. The Boy and the Beast or Wolf Children are probably the most Ghibli-esque if you want somewhere to start, but his entire filmography is all well worth watching. edit: Also watch the series Mushishi if you have not already. Neddy Seagoon fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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ninjewtsu posted:what are some good anime movies that would appeal to someone looking for more movies like ghibli's stuff? your name is already a known movie Napping Princess is my fav.
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QuarkJets posted:I finished the DB Super episodes up through the multiverse tournament arc, it was super duper and I heard that they continued the series after that (even though that arc was such a good stopping point)? Is that any good? I am fully 100% unashamed to say that the final arc from Super, the Tournament of Power after the multiverse(I think you mean the universe 6 vs 7 one?) is very legitimately some of the most fun Dragon Ball that has been made in a long long time.
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ninjewtsu posted:what are some good anime movies that would appeal to someone looking for more movies like ghibli's stuff? your name is already a known movie Giovanni's Island, Hotarubi no Mori e, Princess Arete, A Letter to Momo and Lu Over the Wall
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I'm really into stories where the protagonist(s) are not that good at what they do and screw up a lot, and have to learn from their mistakes to mature and figure out ways to outsmart their obstacles instead of getting a cheapo power up or whatever. Re:Zero season 1 was a perfect scratch for that itch really, but that whole genre seems to be just chock full of straight up power fantasies otherwise so I'm open for suggestions from any genre.
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UnfurledSails posted:I'm really into stories where the protagonist(s) are not that good at what they do and screw up a lot, and have to learn from their mistakes to mature and figure out ways to outsmart their obstacles instead of getting a cheapo power up or whatever. Re:Zero season 1 was a perfect scratch for that itch really, but that whole genre seems to be just chock full of straight up power fantasies otherwise so I'm open for suggestions from any genre.
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