oh yes Beautiful Dreamer is on my list!
tbh I kinda expect Bubblegum Crisis to not be excellent but I also love cyberpunk enough that I will watch derivative mediocre shit if it's cool looking enough (e.g. Johnny Mnemonic, which I love)
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
ahhhh cool, yeah, you should def watch it then!
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
I saw the spinoff Bubblegum Crash many years ago it wasn't that interesting but the poor slave robot was memorable. Looking up this series, I had no idea AD Police was set in the same universe but that makes a lot of sense, but it had a lot more sex, violence and perhaps immature seriousness.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
I finished FLCL, it's a lot of fun but the music is the highlight by a wide margin. I'm still curious about the two new seasons, though.
I'm watching Kill La Kill now (fanservice caveats of course), it starts off great (fanservice aside) but I may have hit an anime saturation point because the wacky anime face faults are losing their shine.
― Garbo Pond (Leee), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
my sister told me to watch fairy tail wow what garbage i told her to watch evangelion and she had about the same reaction lol
― Mordy, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
yayy Stevie I'm so glad you liked Polar Bear Cafe, it really is such a cute show
if you liked that you should seek out Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San, it's a slice-of-life anime based around the staff of a bookstore and essential if you've ever worked in customer service with awful people
― clouds, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
awful news, 13+ dead at Kyoto Animation studio after arson attackhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49027178
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 18 July 2019 08:07 (four years ago) link
yeah this is fucked
― ciderpress, Thursday, 18 July 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
33 dead, 36 injured
what a nightmare
― ciderpress, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
There’s never any sense to attacks like this, but firebombing an animation studio seems even more fucked up.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 18 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
clouds, Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san is so up my alley and my dude + I have had a v fun time watching it
I just finished Revolutionary Girl Utena and WOW, it was wild, perhaps a little too convoluted for its own good, it felt like there were a lot of superfluous twists and turns and it got hard to follow at times. I still v much loved it
Does anyone have recommendations for legitimately creepy/horror-y anime that's effective and not corny?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
I think next on my list is The Big O, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Mononoke (the ghost one, not the Studio Ghibli one)
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
i haven't seen mononoke but it's the thing i most often see recommended for your above question so it seems like you're on the right track
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
I’m sure I didn’t see Yuri On Ice mentioned here? Anyway this thread reminded me to look at where that film is, answer still ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ should’ve done a second series
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
the answer to this should have been the recent TV series "Junji Ito Collection" but unfortunately the adaption was garbage, stay away :(
"Ghost Hound" has a creepy vibe and amazing sound design iirc. The writing in the latter half loses steam, but it's still worth watching. There was a superstar team behind it including the creator of Ghost in the Shell and some of the Lain & Texhnolyze staff, both of which also had a similarly creepy vibe now I think of it, so also watch those as well if you haven't already (although Texhnolyze is also depressing as fuuuuuuuck)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
lol funny, this was inspired by my boyf sending me a link to the Junji Ito Collection this morning like "omg did you know about this?!?!?!" and then me reading up on it and seeing that it got very middling reviews
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
I LOOOOVE Ghost in the Shell and Lain but have never seen Texhnolyze, I will add it to my list along w Ghost Hound
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Re: horror, Petit Cossette is supposed to be very good but as with most stuff I cant get along with the drawing style.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 August 2019 11:28 (four years ago) link
yay stevie i'm glad you liked honda-san!
you've seen pop team epic right?
― clouds, Sunday, 25 August 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
what's the most impressive anime in the past decade would you say from just a purely technical perspective?
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
probably mob psycho for tv anime? but the actual answer will be a movie which i havent seen much of from this decade
― ciderpress, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Yeh some movie as they have more time & budget to animate with (Redline maybe?)In terms of TV Kyoani have probably been the most consistent studio over the last 10 years, but there are individual scenes from the likes of Mob, Space Dandy, 1st season of One Punch etc that stand out in the memory. Also probably PA Works but outside of Eccentric Family I can't stand their stuff >.<
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 25 August 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
I have NOT seen pop team epic!
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
wait yes I have, I watched an episode or 2, it was cute but it felt a bit like it was trying too hard to be weird for the sake of being weird
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
i didn't notice they made an anime of it, i just know it via people reposting the comics all the time
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 August 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
it's only 12 episodes, I should just watch it probably
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
I went on a rampage this weekend and downloaded the following:
Blue Submarine No. 6Chi's Sweet HomeGenius PartyGiant RoboMemoriesNeo TokyoPanda KopandaRiding BeanRobot CarnivalTatami GalaxyTexhnolyze
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
Neo Tokyo has the amazing “Running Man” short which I haven’t seen surpassed in terms of pure visual satisfaction, and I wonder if the death of cel-based animation is to blame. From a cost perspective, we should be able to have CG counterparts that are much more beautiful and fluid (a lot of shots in Running Man are static and cyclicly twitchy which lend it a very effectively unsettling atmosphere, but at the same time is obviously a cost/time-saving move) but I’ve yet to see anything like that outside of the Pixar paradigm. For something as highly packed with digital signs and readouts as “Running Man”, it’s doubly ironic that no one seems to be able to make something as good or better using a digital workflow.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
i don't hate anime? but i just don't have a lot of time for it
so i just watch anime named after records i like
so far i have seen "angel's egg" and "pale cocoon" and they are both great
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
fuuuck i completely forgot about blue submarine no. 6, i remember loving it
angel's egg is a masterpiece
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
"running man" was nice but it could use more james taylor
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
xp most anime is still hand drawn though, not CG
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
My understanding is that it’s all done on tablets now (and I’m assuming at least the tweening is handled by computers rather than jr. level interns)
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
i'm pretty sure most studios still use a big pool of poorly paid contractors for the tweening
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
everything's composited digitally now and you'll see CG being used for stuff like action shots of vehicles or mechas but by and large the characters are still traditionally animated afaik
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
following up on the horror thing, an adaption of Junji Ito's Uzumaki aka Spiral is coming next yeardirected by Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushishi), who I trust will get the creepiness down
short teaserhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDEQyK5ZH-E
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 31 August 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
A bunch of anime nerds just discovered Colin Stetson.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 31 August 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
don't think anime nerds are the ito fans really, hence this being a cartoon network thing
― ciderpress, Saturday, 31 August 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
I'm 10 episodes into Paranoia Agent and I'm kind of wondering now if we'll ever return from this orthogonal detour.
― Doctor Hu (Leee), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
Just finished Watanabe's new Netflix series, Carol and Tuesday. It was enjoyable, but I lost a good deal of interest when it settled into being about a Martian talent show. The closing credits are fantastic though!
― Duane Barry, Monday, 14 October 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
Pretty much my sentiments. The music has been pretty good too, and I was kind of ranking the songs in my head -- "The Loneliest Girl" is tops, but the songs from the fake FKA Twigs are up there for me. (Angela is overrated.)
Pow-pow!
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Monday, 14 October 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
I always knew that fan communities could be intense and there's obviously nasty bullying but I didn't realize that fan art that was deemed problematic could lead to immense harassment from large parts of the community and two Jojo fan artists have ended up in hospital over it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
People have been bullied out of jobs and more than one person has been bullied to suicide. A Japanese fanartist had someone put needles in cookies they’d baked for her.
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
That's horrible. I also heard about it happening among Steven Universe fans on tumblr.
Was that latter artist bullied by people inside and/or outside japan? I remember Falcoon (fan artist who turned pro, worked for SNK) got bullied about his weight but that was maybe too early for culture war stuff (and I don't know how much japan goes for that).
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 April 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
my partner and i have been burning through anime like it's our job during quarantine. here's my anime logg with ratings:
completed* Arslan Senki - 6* Death Note - 8* Elfen Lied - 6* Kill la Kill - 10* Little Witch Academia - 8* Ghost in the Shell: SAC - 8* Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - 9* Steins;Gate - 9* Gurren Lagann - 9
watching* Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ - i like the goofiness but they made the argama crew seem completely inept. also where tf is quattro??* Legend of the Galactic Heroes - watched the first 30 episodes a few years back and it was a solid 10* Ghost in the Shell: SAC2 - more cyberpunk awesomeness, minus the creepy hotel scene
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
looking for some good 80s/90s deep cuts, any recommendations?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
you can also probably tell that i'm a Trigger fanboy -- i've never seen more joyful, maximalist animation. their stuff is like a love letter to everything anime good, band, and in-between
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
revolutionary girl utena
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
I recently watched NANA and loved it and tbh I have no idea if it's super well known or a deep cut and it's also from the 2000s but basically my point is if you haven't watched NANA you gotta
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
i watched the first saga of utena a few years back and really liked it! no better time to go back and finish
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 1 June 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link