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serpantino said:
It's funny how memories work. The animation (on this 3 part ova anyway) is pretty bad but it's never really bothered me & is typical of hand drawn anime.
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I think I just have a soft spot for the old-style animation. Even in Mobile Suit: Gundam Wing, it's not the best, but I just love the overall "look" of it! Nostalgia I guess!
 
serpantino said:
Absolutely. I'm the same, I much prefer the old hand drawn stuff over the modern computer drawn anime, even if it is less animated & reuses frames more.
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It's the stuff I grew up on! Oh I still appreciate more modern styles as well, don't get me wrong; I think it's just finding a balance and not relying too much on CGI. I think CGI is great for enhancing the hand-drawn stuff, especially if it's done right. Sometimes the rendering can come off a bit cheap looking, but in sci-fi/futuristic genres, for instance, it can look really cool and can play to the aesthetics of those particular genres (if that makes sense...) ^^
 
Neil.T said:
Indeed you must, Aya! I think I harped on about this already, but everything by director Satoshi Kon is well worth checking out. :)
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Haha, you have indeed ;) I do intend to. I watched Millenium Actress years ago and fell in love wit hthe animation, as well as the story. really beautifully done!
 
HWR said:
Paranoia Agent is a must as his only anime series.
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I've read about that one and it does sound intriguing. I get the impression that Kon is the master of writing stories that blur the lines of fiction and reality.
 
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D1tchd1gger said:
Tis free on Viewster if you want to stream (you know you want to, come on and get down wit da kids :p) and don't mind the occasional ad.
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Haha, I have been living under a rock I think XD Ads don't really bother me really; so long as it's legitimate, that's all I'm bothered about.
 
~AyaMachi~ said:
Dude, you got Rayearth! I remember seeing it years (and years) ago! Loved the animation ^^
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serpantino said:
I didn't have a lot of money this month so I figured I'd spend £15 on some cheesy old crap anime I don't yet own. Where better to look than the manga collection? :p (£5 of the cost was sengoku basara s2, thanks for not releasing it on Bluray in the UK manga :()
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Do you happen to know French? I have a good deal of French "cheesy old crap anime" stuff to blow out. =P
 
Luna said:
Do you happen to know French? I have a good deal of French "cheesy old crap anime" stuff to blow out. =P
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Oh my French is abismal to be fair XD What titles are you looking to blow out? Purely out of curiosity :D

I think I'm just drawn to cheesy things :S
 
Just mentioning that I was able to watch both paprika and perfect blue. Paprika seems to do something the producer has done before, but it looks like for a younger audience, something for those getting into the early 00's anime, it takes a bit of a creepy premise and makes it nonsensicle and fun for much of its run, very imaginative if I can avoid something of a pun on the film.
Perfect blue I've learnt is the first time the producer does something of its nature, and the first time he falls in love with the idea of duality. What I can see in perfect blue is the darker s8de of image, obsession and explotation. It all mixes into something where it frightens you with the blurred line between someone's inner thoughts and their reality. My questions do start with leaving one character unexplained though
That said I enjoyed perfect blue more
 
Captaaainuniverse said:
Just mentioning that I was able to watch both paprika and perfect blue. Paprika seems to do something the producer has done before, but it looks like for a younger audience, something for those getting into the early 00's anime, it takes a bit of a creepy premise and makes it nonsensicle and fun for much of its run, very imaginative if I can avoid something of a pun on the film.
Perfect blue I've learnt is the first time the producer does something of its nature, and the first time he falls in love with the idea of duality. What I can see in perfect blue is the darker s8de of image, obsession and explotation. It all mixes into something where it frightens you with the blurred line between someone's inner thoughts and their reality. My questions do start with leaving one character unexplained though
That said I enjoyed perfect blue more
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Sounds really intriguing. I have seen a clip of Paprika (the parade) - trippy but just, amazing at the same time. Just, I dunno - I guess I really like imaginitive/dreamlike stuff, even if it doesn't make perfect sense. I've never been one to analyze the deeper meaning of things that I watch, but then I really didn't have a great understanding of many things when I was younger. I think being older and wiser I do often find myself looking into possible symbolic and metaphorical meanings in animation, even if just for fun (not to the point of giving myself a headache). More often than not though, I just appreciate these things for the aesthetics!
 
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~AyaMachi~ said:
Sounds really intriguing. I have seen a clip of Paprika (the parade) - trippy but just, amazing at the same time. Just, I dunno - I guess I really like imaginitive/dreamlike stuff, even if it doesn't make perfect sense. I've never been one to analyze the deeper meaning of things that I watch, but then I really didn't have a great understanding of many things when I was younger. I think being older anad wiser I do often find myself looking into possible symbolic and metaphorical meanings in animation, even if just for fun (not to the point of giving myself a headache). More often than not though, I just appreciate these things for the aesthetics!
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Paprika is all about dreams and a little about reality. You can analyse a few things, particularly one characters dreams, it's things like the parade where any ability to understand it sensibly is left at the door And paprika herself fits perfectly into the nonsense
 
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Yuri!!! on ICE has arrived from Deep Discount. No damage, no customs. This also marks my 300th anime home video purchase for my collection.

Regions are A|B|1|2|4 as stated before (I checked all four discs just to double check).

Some samples of the photos that I've taken for my blog:
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