Daigohji wrote:
I love that show. It's a shameless, over the top Saturday morning cartoon. Scrub thoughts of the UC Gundam continuity from your mind and revel in the awe and majesty that is... MASTER ASIA. http://youtu.be/8AwV3o0nAYk
The manga is great, but I found the TV series dull. The TV series focuses on office tedium that wasn't a factor in the manga, and recasts a less interesting character as the lead. The manga has effective human drama, while the TV series feels more like a soap opera. They're both slow paced and low key, which is a plus or minus depending on what you're looking for.
yeah I really do like the 3 episodes of G Gundam I've seen so far, it's got a real over the top action/Super Robot feel to it
Raytrace wrote:has anyone watched Planetes (or Planites if one is to actually read the Greek) ?
It's awesome, and actually has a really good dub that's worth using.
cool though I did notice it seems to have different fx/ost too - in the very first scene, the first sound on dub is a kinda brown noise rumble, whereas on the Jap it's kinda dreamy strings...
Planetes is awesome. I don't know if this genre even has any particular English name, but I have seen and read American books and films that belong there, such as The Egg and I. The Eastern Bloc-specific term is something like "production film/novel".
The settings remind me of short haul SF works like Policenauts and The Moon of My Life rather than typical anime take on those things (Gundams can go screw themselves apart for all I care).
The only issue I really have with Planetes TV would be that deus ex machina is way too rampant here, as if scriptwriters badly wanted the characters to have "adventures" at all cost. I can deal with it, though.
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on episode 14 of RahXephon - I am starting to enjoy it, but seriously the amount of Evangelion influence is beyond ridiculous, and there's WAY too many for anyone to say, 'oh it's just that theyre both influenced by the same things' or some such shit.
enemy creating some kinda shadowy entity that things fall into and then enter another dimension type thing followed by massive introspective trippy bit where eventually pilot freaks out and breaks out from within the dimension/angel/enemy? - check
enemy hanging around in orbit and long range mystical power/weapon being used to shoot it down?- check
twin type enemy? - check
lots of panning shots of decrepid buildings sticking out of water? - check
it even has the 'why am I piloting this?' and then the 'because I can, because I'm me' etc. section which is pretty much exactly the same as Evangelion.
Having said that, I am enjoying it at this stage, so maybe I don't really care about the constant similarities
In some ways RahXephon is such a flagrant act of plagiarism, I'm surprised Gainax didn't sue. Yet, despite the many similarities, the two shows have a key thematic difference. Evangelion is a painfully convincing dissection of what might really happen if the fate of the world was left to a bunch of mentally unstable adolescents. Shinji's personality and experiences turn him into a broken fuck-up, and the influence he has over the world ultimately reflects this. RahXephon has more conventional story-telling aims. Kamina struggles with questions of identity and motivation, but these eventually resolve into a clear sense of who he is and what he wants, and the state of the world at the end of the series reflects this.
Daigohji wrote:In some ways RahXephon is such a flagrant act of plagiarism, I'm surprised Gainax didn't sue. Yet, despite the many similarities, the two shows have a key thematic difference. Evangelion is a painfully convincing dissection of what might really happen if the fate of the world was left to a bunch of mentally unstable adolescents. Shinji's personality and experiences turn him into a broken fuck-up, and the influence he has over the world ultimately reflects this. RahXephon has more conventional story-telling aims. Kamina struggles with questions of identity and motivation, but these eventually resolve into a clear sense of who he is and what he wants, and the state of the world at the end of the series reflects this.
yeah I have to say - episode 15 was brilliant - and tbh the plagiarism is especially jarring because I don't think it necessarily needs it, it has enough cool stuff in and of itself that it could use :s
Raytrace wrote:on episode 14 of RahXephon - I am starting to enjoy it, but seriously the amount of Evangelion influence is beyond ridiculous, and there's WAY too many for anyone to say, 'oh it's just that theyre both influenced by the same things' or some such shit.
I thought it was a joke of sorts. The drawings look too much like decorative art (Art Nouveau style) made for a vintage fashion magazine to take it all seriously for goodness' sake.
I do appreciate the show as a puppy love story like no other (certainly unlike the story getting obsessively retold by Miyazaki in his latest three - or was it four already? - feature films), but at the end of the day Izubuchi seems to be more of a visual artist than storyteller to me.
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The way out is cut off
I checked out No6 (Bones) which was a lot better then I was expecting it to be, although I wasn't particularly fond of the Yaoi (?) stuff, it didn't bother me of course - just could have done without it.
Started Moribito now, the action scenes are
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Obiwanshinobi wrote:
I thought it was a joke of sorts. The drawings look too much like decorative art (Art Nouveau style) made for a vintage fashion magazine to take it all seriously for goodness' sake.
I do appreciate the show as a puppy love story like no other (certainly unlike the story getting obsessively retold by Miyazaki in his latest three - or was it four already? - feature films), but at the end of the day Izubuchi seems to be more of a visual artist than storyteller to me.
I do like the Vermillion mecha that thing's alright.
watching Neo Tokyo - not liking the first story much, then again I don't really like clowns o_O
ok The Running Man bit was amazing artistically, still wish it had given some explanation for the psychic powers/able to lift things with his mind stuff - still undeniably incredible drawing wise...
Raytrace wrote:watching Neo Tokyo - not liking the first story much, then again I don't really like clowns o_O
ok The Running Man bit was amazing artistically, still wish it had given some explanation for the psychic powers/able to lift things with his mind stuff - still undeniably incredible drawing wise...
Kawajiri Yoshiaki strikes again. I remember this short was featured on Liquid TV back in 1992 - and I was definitely h00ked on anime from there. Coincidentally, I had just finished watching Akira when this came on, so I got a full dose of the best stuff
xbl0x180 wrote:
Kawajiri Yoshiaki strikes again. I remember this short was featured on Liquid TV back in 1992 - and I was definitely h00ked on anime from there. Coincidentally, I had just finished watching Akira when this came on, so I got a full dose of the best stuff
The last story about the robots gone mad on the construction site was brilliant - the art, both framerate wise and detail per frame was incredible - also had that extremely rare entity - a Japanese looking person in an anime!
Yeah so I really liked 2/3 of the stories, but I really didn't like the first one at all I hate circusy type stuff
xbl0x180 wrote:
Kawajiri Yoshiaki strikes again. I remember this short was featured on Liquid TV back in 1992 - and I was definitely h00ked on anime from there. Coincidentally, I had just finished watching Akira when this came on, so I got a full dose of the best stuff
The last story about the robots gone mad on the construction site was brilliant - the art, both framerate wise and detail per frame was incredible - also had that extremely rare entity - a Japanese looking person in an anime!
Yeah so I really liked 2/3 of the stories, but I really didn't like the first one at all I hate circusy type stuff
That was directed by Taro Rin... the same guy who directs the animated versions of Matsumoto Leiji's works
xbl0x180 wrote:
That was directed by Taro Rin... the same guy who directs the animated versions of Matsumoto Leiji's works
I see - I love Yamato, Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 from what I've seen of it. It seemed very francophile or something, was Neo Tokyo commisioned/half funded by French people - I noticed also dials in The Running Man section were in French, and I know the French love their anime, and also I think helped with Ran which IMO is one of the best films ever made. Ever.
xbl0x180 wrote:
That was directed by Taro Rin... the same guy who directs the animated versions of Matsumoto Leiji's works
I see - I love Yamato, Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 from what I've seen of it. It seemed very francophile or something, was Neo Tokyo commisioned/half funded by French people - I noticed also dials in The Running Man section were in French, and I know the French love their anime, and also I think helped with Ran which IMO is one of the best films ever made. Ever.
I don't know. It didn't dawn on me this could be a French co-production. The track in The Running Man was called Le Cirque, so maybe they just stuck to a French theme. The Jean Jalopin animated series are the most famous co-productions in the world: Heathcliff, Inspector Gadget, Ulysses 31, Dennis The Menace, and a few others. It was hit after hit during those times
xbl0x180 wrote:
I don't know. It didn't dawn on me this could be a French co-production. The track in The Running Man was called Le Cirque, so maybe they just stuck to a French theme. The Jean Jalopin animated series are the most famous co-productions in the world: Heathcliff, Inspector Gadget, Ulysses 31, Dennis The Menace, and a few others. It was hit after hit during those times
Ulysses 31 was huge over here on TV - the other one which I'm presuming was a French/Jap collab was one where it was kinda Fantastic Voyage (i.e. inside the human body) and there were all these guys with big blobby noses in it - I fuckin loved when that came on TV.
Anyway back to finishing off RahXephon :/ , while I am starting to enjoy it, it will still seem like some comedown after the BEAUTIFUL art in that Neo Tokyo construction one...
Raytrace wrote:the other one which I'm presuming was a French/Jap collab was one where it was kinda Fantastic Voyage (i.e. inside the human body) and there were all these guys with big blobby noses in it - I fuckin loved when that came on TV.
- the other one which I'm presuming was a French/Jap collab was one where it was kinda Fantastic Voyage (i.e. inside the human body) and there were all these guys with big blobby noses in it - I fuckin loved when that came on TV.
