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My Neighbours the Yamadas
Surprisingly good. I rather enjoyed the simplistic art style - rather easy going on the eye and a somewhat refreshing change on the normal Ghibli style. While many people say that certain characters in different films looking identical to each other, you cannot say that of Yamadas. Also, I thought it was funny - one of the funniest anime films I've seen so far. Admittedly, I did find my mind wonder of at times though.
Score: 9 / 10
Surprisingly good. I rather enjoyed the simplistic art style - rather easy going on the eye and a somewhat refreshing change on the normal Ghibli style. While many people say that certain characters in different films looking identical to each other, you cannot say that of Yamadas. Also, I thought it was funny - one of the funniest anime films I've seen so far. Admittedly, I did find my mind wonder of at times though.
Score: 9 / 10
Animefreak17
Godhand
blue gender
amazing simply amazing
blue gender is a perfect series its got-
Survival
drama
mechs
adventurer
sci-fi
action
it truly is a great series.
i love the opening to it to.
its about a man named yuji who wakes up from a deep sleep and finds earth has been taken over by giant insects called the blue. he is escorted to earth 2 for he has something that might have help humans to fight the blue.
animation - its classic 10/10
story and plot - fantastic over 11/10
characters - memorable 9.5/10
music - beautiful 9.5/10
this anime need more credit its a real beauty.
10/10
amazing simply amazing
blue gender is a perfect series its got-
Survival
drama
mechs
adventurer
sci-fi
action
it truly is a great series.
i love the opening to it to.
its about a man named yuji who wakes up from a deep sleep and finds earth has been taken over by giant insects called the blue. he is escorted to earth 2 for he has something that might have help humans to fight the blue.
animation - its classic 10/10
story and plot - fantastic over 11/10
characters - memorable 9.5/10
music - beautiful 9.5/10
this anime need more credit its a real beauty.
10/10
Animefreak17
Godhand
blue gender the movie
its basicaly a retell of the series but it not as good as the series its nothing to review its just a retell of the series using the same scenes
6/10
its basicaly a retell of the series but it not as good as the series its nothing to review its just a retell of the series using the same scenes
6/10
Boogiepop Phantom
The main theme of this series is dark and supernatural, with some disturbing scenes (suicides, body explosions, eating bugs, a lot of vomit... I suppose this anime has the record for the most vomit scenes). It's quite difficult to get ahold of the story during the first episodes, because they are fragmented in time and each one deals with a different main character (maybe Satoshi Kon was influenced by this series when he wrote Paranoia Agent?). The various pieces of the puzzle are spread carefully to let the viewer understand the story little by little, and to build up a good sense of tension. The music and the sound effects contribute a lot to this tension, of the anime I've seen until now I think this is the one with the best fitting sounds.
So far so good until the last couple of episodes, where the authors seemed (at least to my eyes) to not know how to write an ending that could be coherent to the tone of the first 8 episodes (for sure it was not an easy task to achieve, so I can't blame them for not succeeding). So the ending left me half meh: on one side it was too light and "easy" in comparison to the first episodes, so I felt it was not an apt way to end the main story; on the other hand it was good and coherent enough if seen as part of the metaphor of the whole anime (a critic on how modern society is changing humanity and how people alienate and avoid their true feelings).
With a perfect ending this would be a 9 or over, but having this ending I think I put it in the group of the 8s.
Score: 8 / 10
Teo
The main theme of this series is dark and supernatural, with some disturbing scenes (suicides, body explosions, eating bugs, a lot of vomit... I suppose this anime has the record for the most vomit scenes). It's quite difficult to get ahold of the story during the first episodes, because they are fragmented in time and each one deals with a different main character (maybe Satoshi Kon was influenced by this series when he wrote Paranoia Agent?). The various pieces of the puzzle are spread carefully to let the viewer understand the story little by little, and to build up a good sense of tension. The music and the sound effects contribute a lot to this tension, of the anime I've seen until now I think this is the one with the best fitting sounds.
So far so good until the last couple of episodes, where the authors seemed (at least to my eyes) to not know how to write an ending that could be coherent to the tone of the first 8 episodes (for sure it was not an easy task to achieve, so I can't blame them for not succeeding). So the ending left me half meh: on one side it was too light and "easy" in comparison to the first episodes, so I felt it was not an apt way to end the main story; on the other hand it was good and coherent enough if seen as part of the metaphor of the whole anime (a critic on how modern society is changing humanity and how people alienate and avoid their true feelings).
With a perfect ending this would be a 9 or over, but having this ending I think I put it in the group of the 8s.
Score: 8 / 10
Teo
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fabio de lunatico
Claymore
Girls Bravo S2 - 4/10
Why on earth do shows like Girls Bravo take a stab at pathos when the characters are thinner than a supermodel? It makes no sense. Surely everyone watching the show is in it for the boobs, not the sentimentality. And it's frustrating because scattered throughout both seasons of Girls Bravo are moments of pure comedy gold (mostly courtesy of the most shamelessly perverted character in anime). If it had gone balls out with the raunchiness (and in fairness it goes further than most) rather than getting bogged down with mind-numbing harem antics and trying to make the characters likeable, it could have been almost great.
Alas...
/toilet flush
Why on earth do shows like Girls Bravo take a stab at pathos when the characters are thinner than a supermodel? It makes no sense. Surely everyone watching the show is in it for the boobs, not the sentimentality. And it's frustrating because scattered throughout both seasons of Girls Bravo are moments of pure comedy gold (mostly courtesy of the most shamelessly perverted character in anime). If it had gone balls out with the raunchiness (and in fairness it goes further than most) rather than getting bogged down with mind-numbing harem antics and trying to make the characters likeable, it could have been almost great.
Alas...
/toilet flush
Animefreak17
Godhand
ghost hound so far so good its creepy and thrilling
Ponyo
Watched it on Film4 - and I enjoyed it. Heart-warming and moving story, very emotional. My view on the subtitling is mixed. I can understand why they did not subtitle every mention of the names, but I think they missed some bits (if I remember they did not a subtitle a bit when Ponyo is transforming the boat).
Score: 9 / 10
Watched it on Film4 - and I enjoyed it. Heart-warming and moving story, very emotional. My view on the subtitling is mixed. I can understand why they did not subtitle every mention of the names, but I think they missed some bits (if I remember they did not a subtitle a bit when Ponyo is transforming the boat).
Score: 9 / 10
Animefreak17
Godhand
ponyos like the little mermaidIan Wolf said:
Ian Wolf said:
I love Whisper of the heart - one of my fave Ghibli films. However I can understand why people may struggle with it (I think I like it on one level as I am a writer) - The story is not necessarily unique and generally I am not a fan of the 'high school drama' stories, but something in whisper has always got me.
On the other hand The Cat Returns is the complete opposite. Not much drama, but lots of fun. Also it is quite 'lightweight' - I have always considered the plot to be much like Spirited Away, only simpler. I still like it - it is certainly the more 'fun' film, but it doesn't have the uniqueness for me that whisper does.
So each to their own, I can understand why people would prefer either.
Iria: Zeiram the Animation
This is an OVA from 1994, the Italian DVD version was really cheap so I decided to buy it blindly. It's the standard anime from the '90s: sci-fi setting (in some cases even post apocalyptic), a good amount of violence and gore, some humor here and there. Nothing new (there are touches of Alien, Predator, Dragonball Z Cell saga...) and nothing pretentious, just a good show to entertain for almost 3 hours without thinking and without hoping to be in front of the show of a lifetime.
Side notes:
- I recognized that the voice of the main character was the same of Juuni Kokuki, I'm proud of myself, hahahhaha;
- together with the anime there was also the live action movie, I tried to watch the first minutes and had to stop, it was one of the trashest things I ever saw.
Score: 7 / 10
Teo
This is an OVA from 1994, the Italian DVD version was really cheap so I decided to buy it blindly. It's the standard anime from the '90s: sci-fi setting (in some cases even post apocalyptic), a good amount of violence and gore, some humor here and there. Nothing new (there are touches of Alien, Predator, Dragonball Z Cell saga...) and nothing pretentious, just a good show to entertain for almost 3 hours without thinking and without hoping to be in front of the show of a lifetime.
Side notes:
- I recognized that the voice of the main character was the same of Juuni Kokuki, I'm proud of myself, hahahhaha;
- together with the anime there was also the live action movie, I tried to watch the first minutes and had to stop, it was one of the trashest things I ever saw.
Score: 7 / 10
Teo
Animefreak17
Godhand
ghost hound
this is one of those series that hasn't got no action or adventure or anything funny in it but it has a mystery and has a few creepy scenes, at first i thought it was a ghost story series but it gets a lil weird but it was good to watch.
its about a boy who got got kidnapped along with his sister when he was 3, but his sister dies when the police got to there hidden location to late and after 11 years he and 3 friends try to solve what happened 11 years ago. he also sees his sister in his dreams.
and as the name suggests it dose have ghosts lol.
8.5/10
this is one of those series that hasn't got no action or adventure or anything funny in it but it has a mystery and has a few creepy scenes, at first i thought it was a ghost story series but it gets a lil weird but it was good to watch.
its about a boy who got got kidnapped along with his sister when he was 3, but his sister dies when the police got to there hidden location to late and after 11 years he and 3 friends try to solve what happened 11 years ago. he also sees his sister in his dreams.
and as the name suggests it dose have ghosts lol.
8.5/10
Starship Operators
This series is a space opera with some good ideas mixed in. Tons of spoilers from now on.
The overall plot is quite intriguing: a spaceship is bought by some cadets with the help of a huge interplanetary TV network, and tries to revolt, all alone, against the invasion of a kingdom. Albeit nothing really original (a piece of Truman Show, a piece of Star Trek Voyager, and so on), the sum of the parts could have given a great show. But it didn't, unfortunately.
The main problem is about the characters. Most of them are mono dimensional. The protagonist is the tactics officer, and this could have been a good solution if she didn't overshadow the captain. It's ok to base the show on the life of someone different from the captain, but it's not ok to depict the captain as an inapt officer who always lets the others make the crucial decisions. If you are the top cadet of the group, then you are supposed to be so because you have the biggest balls. Besides this, the other characters are almost flat, it's too bad because the story allowed to a lot of potential about character development.
Another problem is how the tension was built up and then let go in a bubble. There are a lot of "minor" deus ex machina: "OMG we are in deep ****!", then after 2 seconds "ok we did it" with a superficial and unrealistic explanation. Or the tension between characters. First example coming to mind: the cadet captain and the blond girl keep talking about a mysterious puppet-master who planned everything, then we come to know he is the AI officer and stop, this sub-plot is cut there.
And now about the worst side of the series: the tactics and technobabbles. It's a show supposed to be realistic and serious, but totally fails on this. Even a 5 year old child would say that most of the battles have been written poorly. The last one is simply embarassing. An enemy crew pays more attention to the TV show than to what the radar says... yeah, sure. Then the Amaterasu is able to destroy the other ships because they find a way to spin in few seconds, while the others have superior firing power and just keep watching instead of firing. Another WTF? moment is when the 2 girls try to escape from the neutral planet (can't remember the names now) through the orbital lift: orbital lifts are cool and fascinating, so kudos to you for using them in your show, but damn it, do you expect the viewers can think it's realistic to climb the stairs from the planet surface to the orbit in one shot and few time? Maybe while wearing a shirt with written "suck on this, Reinhold Messner"?
I must say I appreciated some minor details for the pedants like me:
- the end of the first episode when the TV producer says "it was a nice first episode", nice example of meta-anime;
- the 47 in an episode;
- one of the enemy captains was named Truman, at least they admitted their inspirations;
- the captain of the Earth Alliance force was a badass version of Jean Luc Picard.
In few words: a story with great potential and a really good ending, ruined by poor writing skills about everything else.
Score: 6 / 10
Teo
This series is a space opera with some good ideas mixed in. Tons of spoilers from now on.
The overall plot is quite intriguing: a spaceship is bought by some cadets with the help of a huge interplanetary TV network, and tries to revolt, all alone, against the invasion of a kingdom. Albeit nothing really original (a piece of Truman Show, a piece of Star Trek Voyager, and so on), the sum of the parts could have given a great show. But it didn't, unfortunately.
The main problem is about the characters. Most of them are mono dimensional. The protagonist is the tactics officer, and this could have been a good solution if she didn't overshadow the captain. It's ok to base the show on the life of someone different from the captain, but it's not ok to depict the captain as an inapt officer who always lets the others make the crucial decisions. If you are the top cadet of the group, then you are supposed to be so because you have the biggest balls. Besides this, the other characters are almost flat, it's too bad because the story allowed to a lot of potential about character development.
Another problem is how the tension was built up and then let go in a bubble. There are a lot of "minor" deus ex machina: "OMG we are in deep ****!", then after 2 seconds "ok we did it" with a superficial and unrealistic explanation. Or the tension between characters. First example coming to mind: the cadet captain and the blond girl keep talking about a mysterious puppet-master who planned everything, then we come to know he is the AI officer and stop, this sub-plot is cut there.
And now about the worst side of the series: the tactics and technobabbles. It's a show supposed to be realistic and serious, but totally fails on this. Even a 5 year old child would say that most of the battles have been written poorly. The last one is simply embarassing. An enemy crew pays more attention to the TV show than to what the radar says... yeah, sure. Then the Amaterasu is able to destroy the other ships because they find a way to spin in few seconds, while the others have superior firing power and just keep watching instead of firing. Another WTF? moment is when the 2 girls try to escape from the neutral planet (can't remember the names now) through the orbital lift: orbital lifts are cool and fascinating, so kudos to you for using them in your show, but damn it, do you expect the viewers can think it's realistic to climb the stairs from the planet surface to the orbit in one shot and few time? Maybe while wearing a shirt with written "suck on this, Reinhold Messner"?
I must say I appreciated some minor details for the pedants like me:
- the end of the first episode when the TV producer says "it was a nice first episode", nice example of meta-anime;
- the 47 in an episode;
- one of the enemy captains was named Truman, at least they admitted their inspirations;
- the captain of the Earth Alliance force was a badass version of Jean Luc Picard.
In few words: a story with great potential and a really good ending, ruined by poor writing skills about everything else.
Score: 6 / 10
Teo
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The Castle of Cagliostro
Very enjoyable film. This is the second Lupin III film I've seen (the other being Secret of Mamo). Good characters, amusing sequences. I did however notice some laziness. For example in one sequence when a line of baddies are chasing Lupin in a vast network of wheel cogs, the exact same character seems the drawing of the same baddie was used over and over again in the short sequence. The only other problem is that in some ways it has not aged well, mainly due to the fact so many of the currencies mentioned in it are now no longer in use.
Score: 7 / 10
Very enjoyable film. This is the second Lupin III film I've seen (the other being Secret of Mamo). Good characters, amusing sequences. I did however notice some laziness. For example in one sequence when a line of baddies are chasing Lupin in a vast network of wheel cogs, the exact same character seems the drawing of the same baddie was used over and over again in the short sequence. The only other problem is that in some ways it has not aged well, mainly due to the fact so many of the currencies mentioned in it are now no longer in use.
Score: 7 / 10
Animefreak17
Godhand
good eye on the currenciesIan Wolf said:
ayase
State Alchemist
If it had been made in 1979 and set in 2010, I could perhaps see your point (though the fact that we don't have hoverboards doesn't diminish Back to the Future II in any way). But it was set in 1979 so the currencies are accurate for the period. Surely just being set in the past doesn't make something dated?Ian Wolf said:
ayase said:
But the film wasn't set in the past. It was set in what was then the present. If it was set in the past it would have been a period piece, thus making it more "timeless" because it would be said in that particular period of history. The film however gives no mention of when it is set so one is meant to assume it is in the present. If so, then the currencies are wrong.
mangaman74
Akatsuki
Ian Wolf said:
If it was set in the then present that would mean it was set in 1979 so the currencies would be correct. Also as no time is specified why does that make it set now?
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