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Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by hwbunny »

nanna wrote: post #4

I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth. What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convin…

Watch Redline, Demon City Shinjuku, Ergo Proxy, Psycho Pass, GITS series (not the netflix animated crap), Berserk, Ninja Scroll, Jormungandr, Black Lagoon.

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by rapnie »

cjk2 wrote: post #6
nanna wrote: post #4

I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth. What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convin…

There is good stuff out there. I watched Pantheon and Scavengers Reign recently, both excellent, but not old stable anime. Scavengers Reign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQH8cMpWTU Pantheon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_HJ3TSlo5c

Dammit, they are in other livestream imperiums than where I dwell :(

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by ekianjo »

spacechild1 wrote: post #59
mauvia wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried any of Satoshi Kon's movies? Tokyo Godfathers is an amazing and deeply human christmas comedy about homeless people in the Tokyo streets, filled with magical moments of cinematography. Paprika is a less lighthearted story about inner lives, dreams and ambitions set across a sci fi backdrop where people are learning to enter each other's dreams and link them together. It has gorgeous dreamscapes and an…

I was just about to recommend Satoshi Kon! Unfortunately, he only directed four movies before he died of cancer at the age of 47. What a tragic loss! I also enjoyed "Your Name".

Your Name makes no sense at all in hindsight after the first watch but it was amusing.

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by card_zero »

YurgenJurgensen wrote: post #46
nanna wrote: post #4

I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth. What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convin…

All these people giving recs are doing it wrong. You can determine if an anime is worth your time by merely looking at the title and what the source material is and the following simple system: Candidates start with 5 points. If they have a positive score after applying the system, they're at least worth checking out (although they will not necessarily be good). If not, you are likely wasting your time. 1) Every word…

So basically you're steering us away from all the series based on mangas based in turn on "light novels" based on fans writing on the website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, "Let's Become a Novelist":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dsetsuka_ni_Nar%C5%8D

Which invariably feature the reincarnation of ordinary people in an RPG fantasy world, that is, the genre "isekai":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai

Fair enough, I guess, they're silly and unabashedly cliched and are not Miyazaki. But I watched a few and kind of liked them: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, I'm in Love with the Villainess, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Parallel World Pharmacy. (That's four different titles, to be clear.)

I could comfortably watch another right now, I'm tempted by Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon. But I would not like to watch GITS, which exists in my mind as a vague painful memory of a self-important plot about cyborgs and a lot of characters jumping around on rooftops and shooting at each other. It's a "neo-noir cyberpunk action thriller", as Wikipedia puts it, or in my terms "not any fun". But I guess it was seminal and genuinely important at the time.

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by Arisaka1 »

tiniuclx wrote: post #23
gbuk2013 wrote: post #9

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This is heavily biased by my preferred genre of anime but here are some my favourite more recent anime series off the top of my head: Full metal Alchemist: Brotherhood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brother... Attack on Titan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan Mushishi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushishi Frieren: Beyond Journey's End https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieren

Frieren is a modern classic, with some of the best animation I've ever seen & deals with the themes of companionship and regret in a surprisingly mature way. It would be my recommendation for sure!

Frieren is amazing. I went in without knowing anything about it, and I ended up loving it enough to recommend it to my parents (they also loved it).

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by bostik »

Madmallard wrote: post #41
nanna wrote: post #4

I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth. What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convin…

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Your Name Violet Evergarden Perfect Blue Paprika Metropolis There's a bunch of great animated movies. If you're referring to series then among the best Seinen classics are shows like: Berzerk (1997) Monster (2004) [My personal favorite] Cowboy Bebop Steins:Gate Vinland Saga (newer) Frieren (newer) There's a lot of Shounen classics as well, my favorite probably being Full Metal Alchemist: Broth…

Paprika is good, but I wouldn't elevate it to greatness. Whereas, for me, Perfect Blue makes the cut. The odd thing is, they both essentially explore aspects of the same theme: subjective reality and what happens when those of different individuals' collide. But they do that in very different ways...

And thank you for bringing up Metropolis, that film tends to be underrated.

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by internet101010 »

card_zero wrote: post #84
YurgenJurgensen wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All these people giving recs are doing it wrong. You can determine if an anime is worth your time by merely looking at the title and what the source material is and the following simple system: Candidates start with 5 points. If they have a positive score after applying the system, they're at least worth checking out (although they will not necessarily be good). If not, you are likely wasting your time. 1) Every word…

So basically you're steering us away from all the series based on mangas based in turn on "light novels" based on fans writing on the website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, "Let's Become a Novelist": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dsetsuka_ni_Nar%C5%8D Which invariably feature the reincarnation of ordinary people in an RPG fantasy world, that is, the genre "isekai": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai Fair enough, I gues…

The vending machine show is actually decent once you get to like episode 3.

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by spacechild1 »

ekianjo wrote: post #83
spacechild1 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just about to recommend Satoshi Kon! Unfortunately, he only directed four movies before he died of cancer at the age of 47. What a tragic loss! I also enjoyed "Your Name".

Your Name makes no sense at all in hindsight after the first watch but it was amusing.

I guess I need to rewatch it :-D

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by autarch »

nanna wrote: post #4

I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth. What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convin…

I highly recommend "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!" It's an anime that's a love letter to anime about making anime where the anime-making becomes part of the anime. It's quite a trip, and it's got great energy and love for the medium.

Re: Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Post by cess11 »

YurgenJurgensen wrote: post #46
nanna wrote: post #4

I feel like I haven't seen an anime in years that's been in the same league as Akira or the great Miyazakis (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Totoro). Yes i'd be brutal and include Miyazakis following works in that list, from Howls Moving Castle to The Boy and the Heron. Ive seen lots of incredible animation, sure, but nothing like the cinematic depth. What am I missing? What should an old fart who's becoming convin…

All these people giving recs are doing it wrong. You can determine if an anime is worth your time by merely looking at the title and what the source material is and the following simple system: Candidates start with 5 points. If they have a positive score after applying the system, they're at least worth checking out (although they will not necessarily be good). If not, you are likely wasting your time. 1) Every word…

OK, so what would Chainsaw Man get?
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