GolGotha said:
@Agent-347: I understand that for a new anime fan, older animation isn't as visually pleasing as modern releases, but especially in cases like Perfect Blue, which is not porn, most modern releases just don't come close story wise.
Perfect Blue is one of those films that you need to watch at least twice to fully understand everything. You'll obviously understand it on you're first watch, but the second time, you'll notice little things in the background and things will click. You don't tend to get that these days, everything is also so predictable...
Aha! Interesting. It wouldn't be the first time I watch something twice in a row to understand something better.
Eg.: there is a certain episode of Tower of Druaga I HAD to watch twice as I was left confused the first time around.
GolGotha said:
I also recommend checking out other work by Satoshi Kon, especially Paprika and Paranoia Agent. Tokyo Godfathers and Millennium Actress are great as well, but for me they aren't as good, but I prefer physiological things.
I wonder whether All The Anime is interested in picking up both Tokyo Godfathers and Millennium Actress? Especially the former is one I want to watch.
I already own Paprika on Blu-Ray, I want to watch it with my friends though as it is one of the rare releases that has Dutch subtitles included.
So I want to abuse that opportunity to watch an anime with my buddies/pals. Still have to schedule a date for that.
Paranoia Agent, that's another title I have serious doubts about actually. Main reason I turned the DOTW down was the lack of BD release in the UK.
I'll see what happens when an UK BD release occurs. Maybe I'll get it, but it's another one of those "should I really watch it?"-cases.
GolGotha said:
Sadly I sold my old copy of it when Anime Limited announced their release last year, otherwise I would of posted it to you, so you could sample it for yourself (before then buying it on blu-ray).
The thought counts and is appreciated.
But as for the Excel-file: I'll keep Perfect Blue on the list, I guess, but the rest I mentioned remains off.
Wings of Honneamise will be added to the list when a release date surfaces (assuming I won't change my mind).
GolGotha said:
Also, if you keep telling yourself that you won't enjoy older animation, then you won't.
I don't tell myself beforehand I won't like it, there's an amount of factors in the "game" really.
If I told myself that I won't like older animation I wouldn't have returned from my original idea to only watch anime made after 2000.
There just are shows and movies that visually creep me out (or to use another word: ugly). And as said there are recent examples of it as well. (Flowers of Evil)
So that's one reason why I came back from that decision, as well as seeing how good Cowboy Bebop was.
And, given English dubs and dubs in general weren't the same back in the old days that could also make me say "no" to an anime.
Background noise
can be a big no, as it can be distracting. It're hard decisions, sometimes even with newer anime...
So I think trailers and such are even more important for straight out old/classic anime than it is for current anime.
Btw, I have been interested in picking up Iria from MVM, the only reason I have not to is because that is literally
one of the worst spines I have ever seen.
Ironically, it is one of those rare releases without disc count on the spine, because there's only one disc though. But the BBFC logo should've been at the bottom together with the MVM logo.
bakum4tsu said:
@Agent-347: Stop every anime that you are watching, go get Perfect Blue and watch it. Unless you are really young
I am really young, I'm 19 years young, turning 20 in late august.
However, my PayPal only holds €13 at the moment due to my payment for Fate/Zero P1 LE by MVM via Zavvi. So I can't afford it at the time of speaking.
I have sent some more money to my PayPal just in case there is a good sale online, and even if I got it... I have exams from 5 to 18 June.
I'll be learning for Analytics, Statistics, Geometry, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and French during that period so I can move on from high school.
And if nothing goes wrong I'll be graduating on 27 June 2014. =3 Maybe if I get some money for my graduation I can pay up for Perfect Blue. Maybe.
My point is I simply won't have time to watch any anime from 1 to 18 June either.
Joshawott said:
I got odd looks from the girl next to me when I "wooed" at Kokoro Connect's announcement, so when Bunny Drop was announced I did a silent fist pump.
You care about what others think about your taste in anime? Unless it is somebody you personally know I wouldn't really refrain from cheering.
I would do a Jon Stewart-boom-bomb-storm if I heard Anime Ltd picked up the rights to TsukuYomi Moon Phase for instance.
What the hell would I care what the one next to me thinks. I LOVE THAT ANIME. It deserves a decent NTSC UK release.
Arbalest said:
Agent-347 said:
→ NEWER MOVIE → Psychic School Wars (2012)
Well, it was one of the
three movies I showed great interest for to Andrew Partridge in a private message to him.
And I am greatly surprised to see Psychic School Wars announced before Aura. Either way I am pleased to hear this is getting released on dvd, blu-ray with a dub aboard.
BUT... what also surprised me is the flood of hate for the movie that caved in on me on Twitter. Yet, some constructive reviewers make it seem really awesome.
Even Reevothemusefan who gave it a 4 on this site actually made the movie sound good... Not sure how he did that whilst hating it.
And some theory of mine is that this is one of those movies that gets better after watching it a few times.
Either way, I haven't seen it yet and am interested in buying it. But I reckon there's no way Anime Ltd will get away with their regular collector's edition if the hate is true. We'll see.
Pre-order: Tough one... Tough one... I want to say yes, but it'll definitely depend on other releases within the same month of release a bit and on the price.
So, Nerawareta Gakuen as i'll call it was pretty god awful as i said on twitter, and i stand by that impression entirely. The film looked pretty, but used way to many special effects(see cherry blossoms in the wind every other scene) when they weren't necessary. What it failed to do was actually tell the story it should have in a way that made sense and felt meaningful. It didn't start bad at all, but then it become disjointed, hard to follow and a complete shambles. I was meant to care for characters but i have no idea why, things where thrown in at what felt like random to flesh out histories, and there was no reason for it. Perhaps if they restructured the events things would've helped, but honestly it was a complete mess.
This i believe was the first full blown project the director had worked on, so his inexperience shows. Maybe if they gave it to someone else it wouldn't have been so bad. Especially coming from Sunrise, you would have expected better.
I was told this before so i'll pass it on. If you want to check out Nerawareta in any format, check out other iterations of the works if you can find them, or read the novel. I don't know if the novel got a translation or not, but i think you would be doing yourself a service to read that instead of watching this.
Anyways, i'll leave it at that. I gave it a 3 and that was being generous
I'll have a good think over it. If I Google reviews for this I get plenty of positive reviews actually... xD
Either way, there're plenty of other releases that have priority over this now.
(Kill La Kill, Chu2Koi, Zero no Tsukaima,...)
By the way, for your information: I like cherry blossoms, in the Questionnaire of Proust I've to do for French I mention "The flowers of the Cherry Blossom Tree". =P
And I really have no clue how far your taste and my taste actually match in conjunction with how your way of thinking works. (No offence!)
And it doesn't hurt to watch something "bad" every once in a while, it makes you appreciate the good stuff more. ^_~
The main reason why the #13th anime I watched is Honoo no Labyrinth. The first time I sought a title I knew I wouldn't like that much. xD
