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psiga
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 Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:46 am |
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You'd watch Honey & Clover rather than Haibane Renmei?
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psiga
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:15 am |
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| Ging wrote: |
| I watched Haibane Renmei more recently, so I'm not turning there yet. |
Sou.
Anyway, yeah, off you go. H&C is in my top 5.
(Oh, and Kiki's is probably my favorite Miyazaki film, so that's a nice choice as well. Though I never thought of it as an emotional movie.)
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psiga
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:44 am |
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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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psiga
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:05 am |
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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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psiga
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:27 am |
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I am so listening to the ending theme from Paprika after this Sarah McLachlan remix ends.
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psiga
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:11 am |
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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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psiga
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:26 pm |
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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.
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psiga
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:03 pm |
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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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psiga
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:04 am |
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| SplashBeats wrote: |
| gungrave is a fantastic, amazingly mature story that spawned out of the most unlikely source material. |
I was gonna say, I'd never known Gungrave to be actually serious. That's interesting to know. Does it take long to get the ball rolling? How many episodes before I'd know if it's worth jumping into?
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psiga
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:21 am |
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The most I'd known about it up to now was that it's an anime based on a game (KICK THEIR ASS!!) based on character designs by Yasuhiro Nightow.
| rf wrote: |
| I couldn't watch RahXephon after that. I hadn't really been understanding the plot or characters up until then--not only was I confused, but I wasn't sure if the characters were confused as well, which was far more alienating. |
There's a movie of RahXephon, which is basically a remix of the series to make more sense. Remove unnecessary scenes, add necessary scenes, change some lines to bring balance to the plot. It still feels rushed, but it just makes a hell of a lot more sense to me. If you're willing to give it a shot, the movie is nice.
Something that I was told about RahXeph: Around half way through the series they were notified that they were not going to be granted the second season that they wanted, and thus had to cram the remaining season and a half into only half a season.
Oops.
So yeah, I wanted to be moved by that scene, but it felt overcompressed and too tenuously established. And I understand that some people can look past that! That's great. I just wasn't able to suspend the disbelief.
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psiga
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:18 am |
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| glitch wrote: |
| psiga wrote: |
| I am so listening to the ending theme from Paprika after this Sarah McLachlan remix ends. |
Byakkoya no musume? gawd i love that song. ^_^
i bet you've been here already, if you didn't get them elsewhere, but, yeah... |
Just want to say thank you for that link -- I hadn't looked into Hirasawa's work aside from his Paprika stuff, and some of those tracks are extremely cool. Ear candy ++.
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psiga
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:35 pm |
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<3
Digging in now...
Speed Tube is awesome so far. Dig the keyboardist with his crazy vertical arrangements.
OH SHIT. This is the guy who did FORCES. That makes so much sense, in retrospect.
Ashura Clock, I like a lot.
賢者のプロペラ, very neat. I can hear the proto-style that led to his Paprika work.
The solo kinked-up live version of Forces is slick as heck.
The live 'love song' with a hundred disembodied heads of himself floating around... That is art.
The NHK show OP has one really great idea that gets played to death and surrounded by junk. :(
Neat. Bipedal robot with his face on it. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7CAbpkpbg
This guy is more interesting than I thought.
Thank you for the links!
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psiga
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:24 pm |
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With a name like 'When They Cry', I'm going to have to see what the deal is.
(Back on Hirasawa topic: There is a discography torrent conveniently about the size of a whole DVDR. Will have to dip into that when my burner's working again.)
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psiga
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:45 am |
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| Talbain wrote: |
Apparently When They Cry is the American name of the anime for the Japanese h-game Higurashi no naku koro ni.
So, yeah, I'm downloading Higurashi now. I hope the rest of the episodes are as good as the first five. |
OH. Higurashi. When the Cicadas Cry, or whatever the translation is.
Man that show has guts being torn out. I don't see the girlish aspect of psychotic moe girls. (Though I do see how the show shakes things up with its cyclical nature.)
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psiga
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:29 am |
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My laptop's burner is out of commission, and I've only got about 4.6GB left on the hard drive at the moment. Will definitely get the whole torrent on disc when that little issue's resolved. There's something about some of his tracks that I'll just get randomly infatuated with for a while, and listen to on loop long enough to forget how long I'd been listening to the same thing. When I finally stop listening, it's just because I'm done listening to music, not so much because I'm tired of the track.
Can't say that about a lot of musicians.
...It's more trance-like than most of Trance music itself. Wild.
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