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xuebaochai's Anime

Low-carb eye candy Rating Comment
Amazing Nuts! (OAV) Excellent
Ame to Shoujo to Watashi no Tegami (ONA) Decent Clumsy storytelling, very interesting artwork. Here's hoping that "digital Doujinshi" really take off big time
Appleseed (movie) Not really good Motion capture is such a wrong, wrong idea, be it for SF or christmas tales. Let the technology mature another decade before you give us headaches again, pleeease.
Beyond (OAV) Decent Unforgivable. The Animatrix made us believe Reloaded and Re-fried might actually be any good. We should sue for false advertisement.
Connected (OAV) Decent
(The) Diary of Tortov Roddle (ONA) Very good
Extra (OAV) Very good A.k.a. "The Ghost in the Drum Box". You have to worry a little bit about the mental stability of people able to so casually toss out imagery like this. Just a little bit, though.
Four Day Weekend (OAV) Decent
(The) Garden of Sinners (movie series) Good
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (movie) Good This is what you get when you upload a Bartlett's into your Cyberbrain, and then take a big hit form your cyberbong. Sorry, it just ain't the same without Motoko.
Kakurenbo - Hide & Seek (movie) Decent Ah, this is more like it: understand your limitations before you advance, said master Sun. This short shows the way to avoid the pitfalls of motion capture: mask your characters to avoid the Eyes From Hell problem, and keep the story dark (illumination-wise as well as narrative-tone-wise). The plot is gossamer-thin and not exactly original, but the story does its job of providing a barebones scaffold for the pretty images and absinthe-dream characters.
Metropolis (movie) Weak Impeccable pedigree, and sure it's purty and Langy to look at. Shame it's as dull as an "Antiques Roadshow" special on Art Deco lampshades.
On Your Mark (movie) Very good The ultimate AMV.
Paprika (movie) Excellent
(The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie) Decent Visually gorgeous, but Shinkai needs to start asking someone to help him with his scripts. A must for military gearheads.
(The) Sensualist (OAV)
Sky Blue (Korean movie) Good Visually striking, if overbusy. Pity the storytelling was so cliched and clumsy.
Steamboy (movie) Very good Otomo is baaack. Visually, this is every bit the treat you’d expect – this is one you *have* to watch on the big screen. The art is breathtaking, especially the crisp Victorian backgrounds and the gearhead-paradise mechanical design, and the animation is fluid and exciting. Now again, Otomo is baaack, stuffing his restless adventure with whizz-bang action sequences without bothering to give it much of a dramatic core. Unfortunately, too, the plot makes you expect Will Smith to drop by at any moment. Eek!
Survival 2.7D (OAV)
Tales of the Street Corner (movie) Good
Tobira o Akete (OAV 1995) Good A slight but ever-so-pretty CGI fable, with the usual fantastic 4C background art. The style and color palette respectfully tips its hat to George Dunning.