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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 17:44:28 GMT
On Instant Netflix I watched a documentary on Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki called The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness (2013) mostly featuring on his making of his last film The Wind Rises and how his retirement was going to affect the studio. It was fascinating but sad at the same time. He could see the writing on the wall that the studio would wind down from making animation classics after he was gone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 4:11:13 GMT
I watched three episodes of Mushi-shi: The Next Passage. So nice to hang out with Ginko again. Crunchyroll is terrible about the commercials though, and they cut off the end music credits, which really stinks. I'm just going to buy it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 12:19:22 GMT
I finished up all 20 episodes of Mushi-Shi and the 1 hour OVA special so now I am all caught up. SO nice to watch something beautiful, quiet, and thought-provoking. When I see the 99% of junky looking cheap anime on the rest of Crunchyroll it makes me all the more thrilled to be able to find the gold nugget in the midst of all the garbage on there.
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Post by metrofan on May 1, 2015 20:11:47 GMT
I enjoy Fruits Basket very much. But there is a significant difference between the anime and the Manga. The latter is much longer and the plot covers a far more extensive time period. Still, one does get a sense of fulfilment from the anime. There's something to be said for both versions.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2015 21:00:14 GMT
I enjoyed both the manga and the anime for that series. I think it's really designed for teenage girls, maybe that's why you and I, while liking it, weren't jumping up and down about the story. You should watch Kino's Journey sometime Richard. That one would be right up your alley.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2015 14:36:38 GMT
On Crunchyroll I watched an anime series from 2012 called Say "I Love You", only 13 episodes but they were well drawn and had nice music. A nice high school romance between an extremely shy girl who barely talks to anyone and the school's main jock who takes a fancy to her after she accidentally makes him fall down. There are the usual side characters who support the main couple and who also try to block their growing relationship. Nothing really fancy but still I liked the main girl Mei who comes out of her shell after many years of keeping to herself. Apparently the show was drawn in 2008 and they kept the look of the manga when they did the anime four years later, so they all had flip cell phones. Too funny. You can always date when a show was originally created by the style of the cell phones they use, whether it be anime or K-drama.
The opening sequence was so pretty. I'd like to get a nice high quality audio for it, not from this very compressed YouTube video, where the uploader squished it down too much and cut off the borders of the opening to escape the Copyright Gestapo.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 12:29:52 GMT
I watched a spooky experimental short anime film called Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek (2005) that is only twenty five minutes long but makes a memorable impression. The artwork style was very detailed, especially for ten years ago. It's about a group of eight children who play hide and seek on a city street with no homes and very little light but it's obvious some demonic invisible force is watching them closely. One of the boys loses his sister and wants to use the other kids to help find her. It's not something I would watch again but of its type it was well done. It's kind of interesting that they chose the game of hide and seek as something potentially sinister, although the Japanese are not alone in thinking of it. In Korea, in the film The Ghost, with Kim Ha Neul (2004), the two lead girls meet as children playing hide and seek on the playground and the scene is executed with a rather haunting style, foreshadowing tragedy to come. I've heard the song the two girls sing before in other films and dramas so it must be a traditional Korean thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 7:29:44 GMT
Instant Netflix added Mushi-Shi season 2, and I re-watched 3 episodes tonight. It's so beautiful. I first watched it on Crunchyroll a year ago but was saddled with commercials every ten minutes, which was annoying as heck. Plus Netflix's resolution is Blu-ray quality not DVD, so it looked far more magnificent on Netflix than the other site.
I think the saddest ever episode of any of the Mushi-Shi stories happens in season 2, an episode called Lightning Ends, where a woman who wanted to marry another was forced to marry a farmer she did not love. When she got pregnant and gave birth to her husband's son she finds it impossible to love him.
The boy grows up knowing his mother does not love him, and he is frightened of her -- whenever a thunderstorm occurs she ties him to a tall tree and he screams in terror of the lightning, for it seems to favor hitting this tree more than any others in the area.
However the boy does not die after many strikes of lightning, and Ginko arrives and realizes he has a mushi (Japanese word for worm) in his belly that feeds off lightning's energy, so the mushi takes the brunt of the lightning bolt onto itself. It's just awful to hear this poor boy screaming in fear "Okassa! Okassa!" and she stays in the house covering her ears! It eventually comes to the point that the boy wants to die and goes to stand under the tree without having to be tied there.
Ginko tries to push the mother to tell her son she loves him so he won't want to die but even there the mother can't deal with it. Finally she goes to hold her son during a thunderstorm and says "Let's both die together." Ginko intervenes and saves both their lives.
They skip ahead to a time when the boy is sent to relatives to live. Ginko says at the end this decision is best for this household.
The voice actors in this segment are incredibly good. I cried at the end. It was so sad -- a mother who just does not have it in her to love her son.
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Post by reader17 on Oct 9, 2016 19:09:32 GMT
Watched one of my favorite anime movies last weekend Whisper of the Heart. Every time I watch this Country Road goes through my head all day long. Plus the other versions she sings Concrete Road
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Post by montana on Feb 20, 2018 19:51:06 GMT
I don't watch anime, however this caught my eye
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Post by montana on Feb 20, 2018 20:02:17 GMT
1st I have no idea what white washing is, 2nd no idea what "Ghost in the Shell" is watched the movie, thought the movie was great ( some people need to get a life - to many Don Quixote's)
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Post by montana on Feb 20, 2018 20:20:36 GMT
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Post by reader17 on Mar 4, 2021 2:31:47 GMT
I am not sure if I should start a new thread or just add it here I started the anime Torado, there is also a manga for this series. I watched the first two episodes and was very impressed with it. This is about two classmates a guy that looks like a delinquent and everyone is afraid of him and a girl that is very short and has a very bad temper. The two accidentally find out who the other one likes and they start trying to help each other with romantic advice to win over the people they like.
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Post by reader17 on Apr 1, 2021 1:01:49 GMT
Still watching Torado and enjoying it. I am up to episode 11. It's really cute. Also I found out Season 3 of Fruits basket will be starting in April. So I will probably do the 14 day free trial and then pay for a month to watch the end of Season 2 and all of Season 3
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