[Gin]

I am re-downloading Honey and Clover, probably gonna keep it permanently too.


I am going to watch a chick-anime because I want to cry like a girl.


Somebody watch this at the same time as me please.


Does anybody else here like to sometimes indulge and watch girl-films and anime and such.


I do.





Sometimes.

[rf]

Yes.
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[Gin]

really though, what I want to do is get recharged.

something to make me feel emotional

[psiga]

You'd watch Honey & Clover rather than Haibane Renmei?
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[internisus]

I can't believe this but I can understand Ging completely here. No; Haibene Renmei is a very specific sort of recharge, about redemption, and Honey and Clover is much more general and energetic.

However, and I confess this now, my most common self-reflection re-energizing funny girlish anime is Azumanga Daioh. I doubt most of you can understand how much that show means to me. Anyway, Ging, I know where you're coming from here. Honey and Clover is really wonderful. It can revitalize you if you're in that proper mindset, so don't worry about what it "says" about you. Go for it.

[internisus]

Drink a bottle of wine first.

:cries:


:listens to sad Naruto music:






:makes fun of self:




lol

[Gin]

Yep. I watched Haibane Renmei more recently, so I'm not turning there yet. It's more of a winter time show as well, and it only really ever gets me at the end.


It'll probably seem weirder to me now if I watch it though, after reading Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World.


Eventually I'll even get back to rewatching a lot of things prob, like Future Boy Conan.


With all this time I mean, I gotta have something to watch, if I don't like tv no more.

[internisus]

OMG I am so drunk and all I want to do is support you Ging

listen girly animes are often the very best kind

I love the way the japanese reflect upon human character and also you know like life and stuff

so year watch this with pure feeling it will be very good for you

honey and clover is worthwhile do it

[Gin]

I will probably also watch Kiki's Delivery service.


Well maybe I should hold off on that one, it was still kinda recent.




I want to go back and rewatch Paranoia Agent.

[psiga]

[internisus]

Huh. I've never seen Kiki's.

Oddly. I've been wanting to rewatch Paranoia Agent for months and months, but I know exactly what happens so I've been restraining myself.

There so much else that I feel could do more for me. Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Genshiken, Azumanga, some Bleach episodes, Last Exile before it turned messy, Kino's Journey, oh, I don't know. Often times, the idea of anime is more powerful than anime itself. It's really a wonderful format. I'm so disappointed that even after its American popularity we still have no true analogue.

[PianoMap]

Guys I am also totally right there with you on this. I actually make it a kind of tradition to watch Haibane Renmei all the way through every year on my winter break.

All the stuff mentioned is great stuff though I guess I've just never thought about it being very "girly" or whatever. I mean sure Honey & Clover is based off a shoujo I think but that kind of material really is perfect for exercising all the 'drama' emotions no matter where you're coming from.
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[internisus]

Gah. The more I think about it, the better H+C really seems. I still have the soundtrack on my computer.

[psiga]

H&C, HaiRen, and Kiki's are all just-shy of gender neutral. Slightly edging toward the girly. Female protagonists who are not in any way objectified, in worlds where things happen by acts of sentimentality rather than aggression.

Bottom line, they are all extremely well-told stories.
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[PianoMap]

[psiga]

Bloody hell, I'd never heard of Whisper of the Heart. That's going to the top of my short list, then.
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[guest253]

Ging i too like to sometimes indulge and watch girl-films and anime and such!
uhm...

and i'm watching H&C currently.
8 episodes in, still doesn't do much for me.... :|

i guess i like my emo-anime a bit more excessive?
like... Strawberry Panic... Fruits Basket...

also guys Paprika is AMAZING, with a capital zing. and with really really lovely music by Susumu Hirasawa, who also did Paranoia Agent. not that i know what i'm talking about as i've never seen Paranoia Agent, but the soundtrack is nice yeah.

[psiga]

I am so listening to the ending theme from Paprika after this Sarah McLachlan remix ends.
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[guest253]

[psiga]

As soon as the movie finished, I went careening off in search of the OST, yeah. I think my most favorite track overall is Lounge. Still plays on that glitchy ~ououa~ piece, but slower with more ambiance.

All three of them, though -- Nigeru Mono, Lounge, and Byakkoya no Musume -- are ridiculously cool and fun to listen to. My simple mind cannot imagine a more fitting musical theme to go with that movie.
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[Hot Stott Bot]

I am not feeling the testosterone in this thread guys.

[GalaxyHead]

Considering the vast majority of the people I know who have cried over Honey and Clover are men, perhaps you will cry like a man.
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[Hot Stott Bot]

Oh burn.

[Hot Stott Bot]

:high five:

[DonMarco]

[Intentionally Wrong]

Manly tears cure heartburn, FYI.

[professor_scissors]

[Endless]

I cried towards the end of Azumanga. I don't remember what part.
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[BotageL]

[Gin]

Future Boy Conan will make you cry and remember your childhood. Especially the RPGs, and that one girl you really liked. Really, the entire SNES era of RPGs would probably be way different without the influence of that show.




Future Boy Conan also takes like two weeks to download, and is about as classic a 70s anime as there can be.

Also Miyazaki made it.



Hum. I'm going to compile a list of all the things that need to be watched and played this summer to give me juice that'll never end.




1. Honey and Clover (Because I'm actually going to art school in the fall!)

2. Future Boy Conan (This show is really long and dense. It takes a bit of patience to last the 8 episodes or so that will make it latch onto your heart and never let go)

3. Paranoia Agent (This show is amazing)

4. Mind Game (Duh. Probably watch this last.)

5. FLCL (yes.)

6. One Piece (This show makes me cry and cheer. The first bunch of seasons don't dwell on bullshit so long either. I wanna go back and watch the old ones. It's been years.)

7. Cowboy Bebop

8. Patlabor TV

9. Planetes (Actually reading the manga which I like more)


You know this list is getting long

Also my memory is really hazy and I can't remember which ones I need to watch!

[Faithless]

My brothers, I will cry with you for Honey and Clover. I know I am a girl, but I don't cry over girl things often. So: Valid.

I have not seen more than 4 episodes of Haibane, because I've seen those 4 episodes TOO MANY TIMES. I should sit down and really clear that show.
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[psiga]

Oh man, the first four episodes don't even get into the meat of it. Push a couple more episodes in, at least. Ep 6 was the hookshot for me.

[Mr. Apol]

[Mr. Apol]

guys the only anime that has ever made me cry was gungrave
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[psiga]

I am a grim bastard; lover of cruel irony; I smile at roadkill. Few things make me cry -- not even the twitching and whimpering death of my dog (no relation to the previous roadkill comment). Anything that can get tears out of me, though, is something that I'll respect.

If teh animew doesn't move you that way, Apol, then that's okay. You've got plenty of company on your side. Those of us that are moved, though? It's not that we cry easy; it's that something about those stories strikes a chord. We end up treasuring those things.
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[GalaxyHead]

[Mr. Apol]

[trickless]

I remember going emo over a scene in RahXephon:

[spoiler!]ayato killing asahina ;_;[/]

Then i ate some rocks to restore my manliness.

[GalaxyHead]

[SplashBeats]

gungrave is a fantastic, amazingly mature story that spawned out of the most unlikely source material.