Momogari's Anime
Titles that have really strong visuals or music, or some other artistic feature.
| Artistic▲▼ | Rating▲▼ | Comment▲▼ |
| Children of the Whales (TV) | Excellent | Great story with lots of moving drama. Very creative world. An excellent title. Focuses on personal emotions, emotional dramatic action. Also explores social dynamics. |
| Children Who Chase Lost Voices (movie) | Excellent | Good and imaginative story with a powerful message. Very good characters and character development, and beautiful as you'd expect from any Shinkai movie. |
| DEVILMAN crybaby (ONA) | Good | A dark and tragic series with weird and unique artistry in its visuals, music, and cinematography. Certainly something to watch for those who enjoy unique art, but it's definitely not a happy story, and definitely NSFW. Downright weird at times. The story is gut-wrenching sometimes. Very affecting. Questions and explores human nature, both good and bad. Overall a good series, but not a light watch. |
| Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan (TV) | Masterpiece | This is a show of strange contrasts, uniquely pleasant surprises, and self-indulgent art. I once auditioned for a play with a willful and awesome firey old bat of a director. I auditioned for the American strait laced villian role, totally bombed it, then my drama teacher gave another script, threw me on stage without any time and told me to read the comical boisterous role in a cockney accent. Afterwards I learned the director had already made up her mind who was getting this role but when she saw me do it she immediately changed her mind. I was completely different in looks and character than the other person, so it was unexpected for everyone including myself. Some projects you do, too, just seem to work beautifully. Everyone gets along, everyone has the best time of their life, and the end result is this really unique and special thing that no one could ever really reproduce. Hisone and Masotan feels like a bunch of people who really like anime and manga and stories and art--albeit in separate genres--got together, got along well, didn't give a rats ass about the formula...maybe...and made something they really liked. |
| Made in Abyss (TV) | Excellent | Wonderfully creative, absolutely beautiful art, gripping story with unexpectedly intense drama. Very cute character designs. All-around excellent series. |
| Origin ~Spirits of the Past~ (movie) | Excellent | Good movie. Artistic, creative, interesting story. Good characters and character development. |
| Violet Evergarden (TV) | Excellent | Both a creative and emotional story that focuses on one unique girl's life experience and personal growth. Is episodic in that each episode tends to tell a different story, but serial in terms of character growth. Lots of heavy emotional drama. Absolutely stunning animation and music. Definitely a must-see. Possibly best of its season. |