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Which anime directors would you describe as auteurs? That word of course gets thrown around a lot and I'd imagine it's often used unfairly when in reality most productions, if not all, are collaborative products and directors usually get most of the praise. So ok maybe let's just put that word...

This title is absolutely mental. Even by the standards of ridiculous anime titles. Were five reallys really necessary.

I've watched a couple more eps of Blue Eyes Samurai. I'm not so certain whether I'm liking it as much as I did after the first episode. I mean, it's not bad, it's entertaining enough. But it might be a bit uninspired at a core level. A bit generic as far as these things go. Will still happily...

Spoilerific review of The Sopranos

The more I think about it though, anime, in the western context at least, is a strange word in that it both seems to mean so much and so little. I was curious about whether non-mainstream and experimental Japanese anime creators embrace or try to avoid the label, although I don't suppose there's...

That's a pretty interesting answer to me, as I've never really thought of language of dub as having much bearing on this question. It makes sense in a way though, as I know voice acting in general is a much bigger deal in Japan than it is here. It's also kind of interesting that you loosely...

I've made a thread for us all to tie ourselves up in knots and get all metaphysical and Inception-esque (Indeed is Inception not partly anime?) over anime. Of course the simple answer is that anime is Japanese animation, but if we're honest that definition doesn't really capture what it means in...

Your post wasn't in bad taste or anything, I'll take almost any opportunity to write a reply most of the time. Just trying to make conversation that's all. I was even slightly hoping we might all end up in a mostly pointless but not entirely pointless discussion as to what constitutes anime...

Who are these people? Really I think we're long past the point of believing there is some objective scientific definition of what anime is, aren't we? Some people think that anime is all animation made in Japan, and some people think that animation made in Japan without the big anime eyes isn't...

Blue Eye Samurai ep 1! Wow, that was a pretty great first episode, really great in fact. When I saw the trailer a few weeks ago I was kind of sceptical, but this is shaping up to be a proper good samurai yarn. Could be the anime of 2023. Don't let the CG and American voices put you off!!

@Spark_Heal Definitely agree with most of what you wrote there. Aside from the more quiet segment that takes place in the town of survivors in the first half, and some nice touches to the ending, the final Rebuild film was incredibly disappointing for me in its descent into unintelligible...

Ha funny that the last post here was about Twin Peaks as I came here to write that I've just finished watching the whole thing back to back (series 1 and 2, FWWM, Missing Pieces, and just finished series 3). Just phenomenal. Here's some random musings of mine (perhaps don't read if you haven't...

Eva Rebuild films: I'll probably have to spend some more time pondering how I actually feel about these, as I've just come off a binge bender of them. As you can imagine, sensory overload is an understatement. My initial feelings after 3+1 are pretty mixed. There's stuff I really liked in...

Eva Rebulid 1: OK, this is fairly safe so far. Feels pretty much just like a recap of the first half of the series but with flashier visuals. Enjoyable enough but uncontroversial. Well apart from the pervy camera angels which weird me out when they're letching over 14 year olds... Eva Rebuild...

Revolutionary Girl Utena

I've watched the 22nd ep of Utena now. I think it's genuinely the weirdest anime I've ever seen. The person who green lit this must have been a mentalist, but thankfully so! It's surprisingly dark too, like I'm finding it a genuinely unsettling watch, far more so than even something like Eva.

Revolutionary Girl Utena eps 1-8 What a strange and fascinating show this is! I'm very much enjoying the experience so far! I'll save my thoughts for until I've watched more, but let me just say right now that ED is one of the all time best ever! The song might be favourite EVER anime closing...

This is a random post here just to give thanks to all the staff who keep AUKN going and all the fine members who make this community really great, both old and new. So glad this place is still around.

Thanks for the replies! I have to say, it sounds pretty good, worth being excited about at least! Just based on the couple of trailers I've seen I would echo Rui's sentiment about the bland looking characters (not you, Torgal!). I'm actually someone who really liked FF15 but the characters...

What do those that have played it make of the FF16 demo? I can't play it alas, as I don't have a PS5 but I'm intrigued as FF has always been one of my personal favourite game franchises. I read that the dev team were told to watch the Game of Thrones box set during development to really hammer...