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All of that 80s cyberpunk stuff influenced the Wach's, tbf (compare, say, Akira's powers with Neo's, and possible similarities between Tetsuo and Agent Smith), just that some of it shows up more obviously in the visual design of The Matrix (or, in Megazone 23 Part 1's case, in the whole idea behind it).
 
ilmaestro said:
All of that 80s cyberpunk stuff influenced the Wach's, tbf (compare, say, Akira's powers with Neo's, and possible similarities between Tetsuo and Agent Smith), just that some of it shows up more obviously in the visual design of The Matrix (or, in Megazone 23 Part 1's case, in the whole idea behind it).
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Perhaps, but I GITS is defintely a more direct influence. I mean you can look at it and go "oh the matrix took that from here" with Akira there are similarities in design as you say, but nothing where you can say "oh this was influenced by this specific aspect"
 
I'm not sure what it was but I felt Bacanno couldn't live up to its OP. I think they ruined the series by giving it one of the best and most catchy OPs ever =P Sets expectations too high. That said I still liked it, and the OVAs were great too with Graham Spector (spectre?). I just love anything with Keiji Fujwara playing an ***hole though =P
 
I thought the show completely lived up to the OP. I really really liked it, but I wasn't as enthralled as you seem to be with it though. I might have been if I wasn't loving DRRR's first one at the same time.
 
Jayme said:
I thought the show completely lived up to the OP. I really really liked it, but I wasn't as enthralled as you seem to be with it though. I might have been if I wasn't loving DRRR's first one at the same time.
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I wouldn't say enthralled, I just thought the music was great and the style was very slickly done.
 
Sparrowsabre7 said:
I wouldn't say enthralled, I just thought the music was great and the style was very slickly done.
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DRRR's two openings are done in the same way. Different songs, but same "style" or whatever. Go watch.

(I can't find you on MAL, so no idea if you have seen it already. :p)
 
Really, I should never have said "the next video shouldn't take so long", I just cursed it for myself...

Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society

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A review so good that youtube have blocked it in the US and Canada. :roll:
 
Jayme said:
Sparrowsabre7 said:
I wouldn't say enthralled, I just thought the music was great and the style was very slickly done.
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DRRR's two openings are done in the same way. Different songs, but same "style" or whatever. Go watch.

(I can't find you on MAL, so no idea if you have seen it already. :p)
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Very good, but I still prefer bacanno's if only because it's all so 30s (20s? whatever) and I dig the jazzyness, though DRRR's is also cool and no I haven't, I've taken to renting anime where possible rather than online watches. I assume at least SOME rental money goes to the creator and if not, I prefer to go legal unless absolutely necessary heh.

And since DRRR's not long to be out I intend to rent it then. =3 And that's odd you couldn't find me, I have the same username on there as well as on deviantart, livejournal, XBL, youtube (ex, got banned for Star Wars amvs), etc etc =P
 
Sparrowsabre7 said:
Very good, but I still prefer bacanno's if only because it's all so 30s (20s? whatever) and I dig the jazzyness, though DRRR's is also cool and no I haven't, I've taken to renting anime where possible rather than online watches. I assume at least SOME rental money goes to the creator and if not, I prefer to go legal unless absolutely necessary heh
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Ah, I must have been typing your name into MAL wrong, I found you now. Legality-wise, its on CR, so its legal - if you approve of that site. It's probably better to kick back and watch a DVD though, unless your able to hook your laptop up to a TV and stuff. ;p
 
Jayme said:
Sparrowsabre7 said:
Very good, but I still prefer bacanno's if only because it's all so 30s (20s? whatever) and I dig the jazzyness, though DRRR's is also cool and no I haven't, I've taken to renting anime where possible rather than online watches. I assume at least SOME rental money goes to the creator and if not, I prefer to go legal unless absolutely necessary heh
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Ah, I must have been typing your name into MAL wrong, I found you now. Legality-wise, its on CR, so its legal - if you approve of that site. It's probably better to kick back and watch a DVD though, unless your able to hook your laptop up to a TV and stuff. ;p
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Yeah I watched Gundam on crunchy but my god the ads were so jerky and slow and it was a hassle so it's Funi youtube or DVD now. =P
 
School Days - wtflol/10

Anime romance is sometimes criticized for not portraying the relationships of teenagers in a particularly realistic light; they tend to be oddly chaste. Not so in School Days whose lead character, Makoto, develops an attitude towards girls that makes him easier for many people to relate to than Tenchi and his gazillion girl-phobic harem lead clones. Yet for his transgressions during the course of School Days he has become one of the most loathed characters in anime.

It starts off innocently enough, with Makoto quietly transfixed by the elegant beauty of Kotonoha, a girl with whom he rides the train to school. When a girl in his class, Sekai, offers to act as a go-between, it's not long before the two are dating. But turns out to be not quite what Makoto was expecting: Kotonoha is shy, quiet, and uncomfortable with intimacy, something Makoto discovers as he impatiently tries to push their relationship to a physical level.

Makoto confides in Sekai, who has been offering advice and bitchslapping him over his horny ways. But it's clear that she isn't helping him merely out of altruism, and when she suggests that he "practice" the art of becoming intimate with a woman on her, the warning klaxon began to sound rather loudly. From that point on it's a relentlessly uncomfortable descent into betrayal, infidelity, mental disintegration, and eyebrow-raising melodrama. It gets very messy, in more ways than one. And I couldn't take my eyes off it.

(real score - 6/10)
 
Professor Irony said:
Really, I should never have said "the next video shouldn't take so long", I just cursed it for myself...

Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wRnHZO6wpiM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wRnHZO6wpiM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

A review so good that youtube have blocked it in the US and Canada. :roll:
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Hmm, I thought the amount of material and the content was about right for a feature length movie. It felt like a sort of coinutation of SAC. Also, I thought the characters were adequately fleshed out in SAC, and SSS was clearly made for those that watched SAC, so I think the lack of such a thing can be forgiven.

Then again, I just came to this for the eye candy and awesome.
 
You will not find a bigger fan of GITS: SAC than me.

However, I found SSS a little bit limp in places. I think there was a little too much in it, if you get what I mean.

That said, there are some brilliant moments in it. *That* bit with Togusa and his daughter had me all tensed up as I watched it.

I wish to God we'd get another series of GITS: SAC. But I fear that trail has gone cold. :?
 
White Album (s1) - 7/10

Cut from the same cloth as School Days in the sense that both lead characters take douchebaggery to an entirely new level. Seriously, this time last week I was a much more innocent, naive anime fan than I am today.

White Album's douchebag is named Touya. His girlfriend, Yuki, has recently become an idol. Because of the demands of her job, the two of them are seeing less and less of each other. And because the show is set in 1986, a time before the internet and when mobile phones were expensive and the size of paving slabs, communication between them is also difficult.

Not only that, but Yuki's manager, Yayoi, hot in body but ice cold in personality, is determined to keep them apart for the benefit of Yuki's career--going above and beyond what could be reasonably expected. Despite the efforts of Yuki's friend and fellow idol Rina, the two drift further and further apart.

Other important cast members include Rina's brother Eiji, owner of the agency that manages Rina and Yuki and general oddball; Touya's father, with whom Touya has some serious issues; and a bunch of women who for some reason find themselves attracted to Touya.

The show is more maturely written than School Days--at least that's what it's going for--and offers some insight into the topsy-turvy world of the Japanese idol as well as the tempestuous hearts and minds of its characters. Character designs are elegant and the show's tone is subdued, like the repressed emotions of the cast.

But it's often difficult to fully understand what's going on, as characters behave strangely and speak cryptically, things happen without much explanation, and time seems to pass without much indication that time has actually passed. At times the viewer needs to fill in some gaps themselves. It's also difficult to watch characters struggle with loneliness and self-destruct the way Touya does throughout the series.

It is with trepidation, then, that I move onto the second series...
 
Stuart-says-yes said:
I watched code geass, yesterday, I came

It was amazing, I liked how lelouch wasn't a massive twat like light and felt bad about dem deaths

I though it as great how the show conflicts the viewer as much as the characters, you want lelouch to destroy britannia but at the same time you don't want any of the good guys like suzaku to be killed by lelouch.

This is probably the best anime I have watched after DtB and Cowboy Bebop.

anyway stuff happened, I enjoyed it, 10/10.
Damn cliffhangers though.
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I have to agree there. Lelouch is a bastard in his own way but it's clear that a lot of the time it's just a mask he puts on to conceal his true feelings, whereas Light's all "I AM GOD EVERYONE DIE!"

ilmaestro said:
You don't like the ads on CR but will watch Funi's youtube? o_O
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Heh I see where you're coming from, but my problem is not with ads being there, but the fact on Crunchy they are PAINFULLY slow and jerky, moving about half a second every 30. It's just not worth it. Plus most of crunchy's stuff that I want to see is on DVD anyways.
 
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