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Post by lurker on Sept 17, 2019 20:45:35 GMT -5
Another Beastars trailer...
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Post by silentstorm on Sept 28, 2019 20:08:09 GMT -5
Shuumatsu No Valkyrie keeps going on, i find it odd how hard they are selling Jack The Ripper as one of the worst humans to ever live and one of the worst murderers when, honestly, many serial killers did worse things than him. Then again, the author is counting on the fact that he is the most famous serial killer in history and he has an aura of mystery that no other serial killer has, so it does make sense, but so far they are going with the actual number of murders he commited, also, Arthur Conan Doyle seems to be presented as basically Sherlock Holmes with him annoyed he never figured out who Jack was. Oh, and Jack The Ripper is such a bastard gentleman it's awesome, he literally runs away from a fight to prepare tea which he offers to his foe, and he has grappling hooks for some reason, but who cares when he has the balls to run away from a pissed off Hercules because he feels like drinking tea?  |
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Post by lurker on Oct 1, 2019 19:44:51 GMT -5
New trailer is out!
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Post by KGRAMR on Oct 7, 2019 22:38:04 GMT -5
Any good anime right now? I need some recomendations...
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Post by lurker on Oct 16, 2019 12:26:27 GMT -5
So the opening to Beastars recently dropped...
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Post by Snake on Oct 16, 2019 17:36:18 GMT -5
Any good anime right now? I need some recomendations... 2 recent series for me has been Haikyuu!! and Fruits Basket. Goblin Slayer and Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari for fantasy series. The Promised Neverland is pretty trippy. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure:Vento Aureo. Seishun Buta Yaro wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai, for a slice of life series. I'm more lukewarm about it. I finished the episodes released, but I lost most interest about halfway through. Dr. Stone, is pretty unique, like The Promised Neverland. It's a story about rebuilding civilization and recreating technology after about 5000 years, after much of the world's population has been turned to stone. |
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Post by lurker on Nov 22, 2019 11:00:48 GMT -5
In case you forgot a Lupin III movie was coming out... Here's the opening for it.
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Post by lurker on Jan 2, 2020 12:59:52 GMT -5
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Post by lurker on Jan 22, 2020 17:25:10 GMT -5
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Post by Snake on Jan 23, 2020 16:21:02 GMT -5
After many many years, I finally sat down and watched "Angel's Egg,"/Tenshi no Tamago. A collaboration with Final Fantasy character designer artist Yoshitaka Amano, and director Mamoru Ishii (Ghost in the Shell, Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor, etc), it feels very art house. It has a very slow, kind of meandering ambience to the pacing which carries over to Ghost in the Shell. Lots of silent moments, stills. Extremely, dark. As if all the backdrops were done on black. The whole film feels like something you would see in a fine art installation, projected on a screen, in a museum.
The plot and sense itself is very cryptic. I really struggled to make sense of what's presented, as there is almost no dialogue. In some sense, it reminded me of Steve McQueen's Le Mans. 95% of the film is just stills, panning shots, and imagery. Moody, dark beauty. But very mysterious. The 2 characters with some semblance of personality don't even have names. They don't even know who they are, or even seem to know what is going on. By the end, I'm just left scratching my head what the narrative or myth is suppose to be. Not the most exciting film, but I do find it thought-provoking. But it's not something I would insist my wife or friends would need to watch.
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Post by kaoru on Jan 23, 2020 21:16:01 GMT -5
Mamoru Oshii has said in interviews before that his priorities go visuals > story > characters. Which explains why a lot of his more auteur stuff is very cold and why he prefers dreamscapes to justify not everything having to make sense. He even said about Angel's Egg specifically that he himself doesn't quite know what everything in it is supposed to mean, it's in large parts the way it is to articulate and work through his crisis with his religious believes at the time. Of course him being a christian, the symbolism in Angel's Egg goes a lot deeper than the usual Japanese "I read parts of Paradise Lost when I was in university once" too.
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Oh yeah, and I watched Beastars a while ago, which is indeed pretty great. Vibes of Utena, but not here the growing pains of adolescence doesn't get symbolised by a kitschy fairy tale look, but by darker animal fables paralels.
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Post by Snake on Jan 31, 2020 14:46:10 GMT -5
Mamoru Oshii has said in interviews before that his priorities go visuals > story > characters. Which explains why a lot of his more auteur stuff is very cold and why he prefers dreamscapes to justify not everything having to make sense. He even said about Angel's Egg specifically that he himself doesn't quite know what everything in it is supposed to mean, it's in large parts the way it is to articulate and work through his crisis with his religious believes at the time. Of course him being a christian, the symbolism in Angel's Egg goes a lot deeper than the usual Japanese "I read parts of Paradise Lost when I was in university once" too. Interesting approach, and Oshii's style really reflects that. I like that since it is visually led, you just observe the scene and try to make sense of it, instead of being force fed dialogue. Almost like watching a National Geographic wildlife documentary, where the next moment could lead into anything as you're just observing. I didn't realize he was a Christian. I'm usually of the impression that a lot of Christian references take on their own life as an expanded mythology, when it gets adapted to stuff like Xenogears and Evangelion. |
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Post by Woody Alien on Feb 10, 2020 9:10:15 GMT -5
Speaking of Studio Trigger, a few days ago I went to see their first feature-length film Promare in the theater. It was exactly what I expected, so I went back home happy: shallow characters and plot, but a ton of great action sequences and camerawork, colorful and dynamic graphic style, some very stylish stuff (the character titles and a part with some cool pseudo3D-vaporwave-90s wireframe kinda effects) and a fantastic soundtrack. And of course random giant robots and a climax where the world has to be saved. Tons of clear influences from Gainax's Gurren Lagann and their own Kill La Kill (which I both liked) in style, plot beats and characters. Almost too fast-paced!
It wants to talk about some present issues too but the plot is the weakest part of it as I said before. However if you like cool animation and action sequences, this is for you.
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Post by Snake on Feb 14, 2020 11:11:42 GMT -5
I read the first few chapters of the Beastars manga, and it seems pretty interesting so far. I may just have to check out the anime.
Caught Dragon Quest: Your Story, last night. Overall, it is a pretty decent take on Dragon Quest V's storyline. I was a bit skeptical of the redone character designs for 3-D, and.... a rather important character is omitted!!?!?!? But considering the direction of the story towards the end, I guess there may be some valid excuses for such concessions. Especially considering the personality of the hero. Usually when you play Dragon Quest the hero never speaks, so I've always assumed/imagined that the hero is just a confident "yes-man." Here, they portray him as a reluctant guy who, as an every-man, has some self-doubt about his ability to carry on his father's will. Entertaining overall.
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Post by lurker on Mar 26, 2020 19:08:16 GMT -5
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