Forum - View topicDead Leaves (OAV)
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Namia_the_Theif_18
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Ok, so I lost my first one and now I'm making another one.Ok so like I was watching Ani-Monday on Sci Fi on monday and me and my big sis were watching the two movies for ani- Monday the first movie BLOOD:The Last Vampire which totally sucked it sucked so bad that people should use it for torture to other people......IMO LOL Anyway, when the second movie came on it was called Dead Leaves. The point that I'm trying to make here is it was really good better than the first movie and I was wondering was there anybody out there that watched it on monday on Sci Fi?
[No need to italicize the entire post.~Zalis] |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 8016 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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I've seen both but not on Ani-Monday because I'd seen them already on The Encore Action Channel. Blood: The Last Vampire is pretty good but pales in comparison to the series Blood+ in nearly every way. Dead Leaves I found pretty mediocre story-wise, and the art style was annoying and distracting dragging it down too. It wasn't really my thing.
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bonbonsrus
 Posts: 1537 Location: Michigan, USA |
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I had seen both before Ani-Monday, yet sat in front of them again while wrapping presents and it didn't change my opinion. I liked Blood: The Last Vampire and think that when using anime to torture people Dead Leaves would be hte more suitable of the two...
not that I recomend torturing people and certainly not with anime. For the record, this thread title made me think there was going to be a sequal OAV to Dead Leaves... I am glad that isn't the case. |
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DuelLadyS
 Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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My sister bought Dead Leaves cheap from somewhere-or-other awhile ago, I watched it with her. It was OK- a bit overly "edgy" for my tastes (note to shelf: they key to breaking out of a mental facility is spoiler[having sex with a TV-headed maniac.]) I liked the screwy comic-ish art though... and I'd certainly like to know what happens after that ending.
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Amethyst Alchemist
Former ANN Editor
 Posts: 313 Location: where it's always a good morning |
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Frankly, I hated Dead Leaves. I too saw it for the first--and preferably last--time on Ani-Monday. It was just honestly stupid. I found the animation style unwatchable. The story was just another blah, blah whatever story rehashed into a different scenario from other plots. Boring, banal.
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Emerje
 Posts: 7548 Location: Maine |
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Bought Blood:TLV on DVD when it first came out and thought it was OK, but had a lot more appreciation for it this time around after seeing a good chunk of Blood+ on Adult Swim. It's really hard to make sense of Blood if you don't already understand the story. Blood is notable for having my favorite audio track in any anime. Sure, the acting isn't always convincing, but it's nice hearing Japanese when characters are speaking Japanese and hearing English when the character is speaking English. For this reason I'll probably never watch Beck in English.
Dead Leaves... eh, didn't really care for it. A lot of people said it was the next FLCL, but I didn't really see it that way. It just seemed like a lot of nonsense with a loosely connected story. Gurren-Lagann is a better successor to FLCL IMO. Emerje |
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ikillchicken
 Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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Well I haven't seen Dead Leaves but I must disagree about Blood. Undoubtedly it is completely inconclusive and meant as only the first part of a story. However if you look at it that way I think it is one of the best action/horror anime movies out there.
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Kruszer
Posts: 8016 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Well, to be honest it's one of those cross promotional anime that's supposed to work in conjunction with the novels and few other sources. On it's own it's kinda falls a little flat though. |
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ManOfRust
 Posts: 1935 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Dead Leaves struck me as one of those shows where they decided to make it "edgy and random" because they thought that would make it cool. Unfortunately, style over substance rarely results in a very good outcome. It kind of reminded me of Afro Samurai in that regard. It tried to be uber cool but in the end lacked in story and execution and was only able to achieve mediocrity (if that much) as a result.
I found my attention wandering quite a bit while watching Dead Leaves and am glad I got to see it on TV. I have seen the DVD for sale cheap a number of times and have almost taken a chance on it and just bought it blind. I would have been very disappointed had I done so. I do wonder what the OP liked so much about it. I just don't see it, and would be curious to know what it is about this show that made it so appealing to him/her. |
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DivinePlague
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I like Dead Leaves. i saw it when it first came out over in the states (2004 i believe). liked the exploding and rapid growth and all that jazz. using the restroom in moon prison is... umm... different. lol.
When i first saw the Blood movie, i had mixed feelings. it didn't really make sense and i didn't know thier was more to it (like novels and stuff). it had so many holes and loose ends, that it didn't make sense, but all the blood saved it from me totally hating the movie. Plus the Mad-Capsule Market Mini-DVD didn't hurt either. hehe. |
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Jih2
 Posts: 403 Location: East coast |
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Bought Dead Leaves at least a year ago and watched it. I liked the animation and the feel of it but when the creators say that they hope you're drinking when you watch it the film can never be good. Btw, that's correct Dead Leaves is a FILM, not an OVA.
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TheVok
Posts: 613 Location: North York, Ontario, Canada |
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I enjoyed the frenetic energy of 'Dead Leaves.' Rented it twice, I think, over the course of a few years. No particular need to see it again.
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The Human Spider
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I liked DEAD LEAVES a lot. The art style and subject matter looked like something that could have appeared in HEAVY METAL in the late 70s or early 80s--I was a huge fan of that comic-magazine at the time, my grandma used to buy it for me(I was only around 7 to 10 years old at the time!) I think DL might have had some kind of proxy nostalgia effect on me(same with BIRTH which I also thought looked like something from 70s/early 80s HEAVY METAL.)
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Namia_the_Theif_18
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The only reason I really liked Dead Leaves is because it was done by Prduction I. G. and I'm still on a hype of FLCL or Fooly Cooly. I loved that show and when I saw that Dead Leaves was by the same company that did FOOLY COOLY I just lost it (In a good way). So to me that was just awesome. And besides the guy's name was Retro that is oober cool and I like alot of retro things like pictures, fashion, and of course accessories. LOL That should tell you what kind of girl I am LOL. I mean it was stupid but wasn't Fooly Cooly alittle stupid? Hello? Same company they do the same things. Not that the plots were the same but they shows and they wer short and sweet. Because if I'm not mistaken Fooly Cooly is only six episodes long right? And this movie was only what? 30 mintues long? They kind of go hand in hand on that whole short thing. And yes you are right Anime should never be used as a torture only if someone doesn't like it and the anime is Magical Lyrical Nanoha.
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