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eyeresist
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Good, useful review - thanks! |
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Aylinn
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Bakeneko arc is the true star here. |
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Mister V
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Aha, she's definitely one of the better seiyuu around. The way she can also switch to a more adult role and still be great... well, not many others can do that. ikillchicken: you shouldn't even be watching anything except the last three episodes  Well, to be fair, the second arc isn't bad, but I felt it was a bit too drawn out, and... well, it's definitely not something I'd bother watching again. The last one, as was mentioned, and the anime series that follows it, is one of the masterpieces of the genre.
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Kimiko_0
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YMMV on that. I found all three stories in Ayakashi interesting, but didn't like the wacky art in the last one.
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Kimiko_0
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Watched today:
Ichigeki Sacchu! HoiHoi-san - Aww, so cuute  It's kinda like Mini-Goddess with guns. This anime is way too short unfortunately.
Ani-Kuri 15 - One minute is hardly long enough to cram a story in. Some pieces try anyway and end up so hectic that you can hardly make out individual images. Others just set a mood and don't have much personality. Most are in between those and just show a few scenes from a longer story with only a little speed-up to fit them into one minute. A few well-known directors have very recognizable styles. Just started: Bokurano - Fifteen main characters? That has to be just way too many. The plot setup is so flimsy that even 13-year olds should be questioning it. And yet in some ways they act older than they are. Well, we'll see where this goes. The OP theme is awesome in any case. |
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The King of Harts
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Ladies and Gentlemen and whatever Blood- is, I have just accomplished an anime first: I have dropped an anime movie before it's completion. I typically finish movies since they're only about 90 minutes, but I got ~45 minutes in and couldn't imagine going through anymore. The movie I'm talking about is -to the dismay of some- Paprika.
What a boring ass movie from the first second it started. I did, however, see this coming, so I'm not shocked. I've never been a big fan of movies with "meanings" and that's also part of the reason why I hate the Academy Awards since it's a crock a shit that only movies with "meanings" can be the "Best Movie", but I digress. But yeah, I didn't know what the hell was happening half the time and when I did know what was happening I was falling asleep from boredom. I mean, it looked pretty and the acting is superb, but that's not important. It's not funny, it's not dramatic, it's not action packed, there's no romance, there's no substance. It's just a schizo women running through people's LSD dreams. In my humble and absolute opinion, this movie is the epitome of boring and is going straight to the trading block even though I haven't finished it. For comparison's sake, I'm at least going to finish Tenjho Tenge before I trade it off. Yea. |
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Blood-
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A demi-god, mayhap? 
I watched Paprika years ago and fell asleep during it. I have a vague memory of it being one long dream sequence. I hate dream sequences. Mind you, this was all before I became an Anime Addict, so I was thinking of trying it again at some point to see if my opinion would change. I recently watched Blood: The Last Vampire which I had also seen a number of years ago and found dull. I enjoyed it a lot more this time - the animation is freakin' fantastic. |
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ikillchicken
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You're welcome. I'm glad you found it useful. |
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zawa113
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@KoH
Can't blame you for dropping Paprika, I mean, I love Satoshi Kon and I eagerly await The Dream Machine, but Paprika is easily my least favorite of his works. I still love the soundtrack though, like the movie or not, you owe it to yourself to listen to part of the soundtrack, it's easily the highlight of the movie. Also, I officially dropped Hell Girl, I heard I was close to the good part, but I just don't care, the first three discs were pure pain for me, I don't regret dropping it for a moment. I was bored out of my skull each and every episode, I felt like every time it almost got interesting and took a step off its crutches, it suddenly ran back and grabbed them, frightened and confused. I honestly do not understand how this was allowed two more seasons. I find it hard to believe the same guy directed Baccano!, it seems almost impossible for me to comprehend it's the same director. |
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Kimiko_0
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Personally I like Hell Girl, but I understand not everyone's tastes match mine. If you didn't like the first half or so of the first season, it's best to give up on it because most of the series is like that.
As for Paprika, yes, it is like a dream on drugs, isn't it? A large part of Ghost In The Shell: Innocence is like that as well as I recall. It's nice animation, but a good movie also needs a story, not just vague dialogue that sounds deep but isn't really. |
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Blood-
Bargain Hunter Posts: 25599 |
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Another Hell Girl fan checking in, but I too understand how the highly repetitive nature of the first half of the series could drive somebody crazy. But Ai's serene "Perhaps it is time to die" remains one of my all-time favourite anime catchphrases. I'd love to have that as the ring-tone for my cell.
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jmfsilenthill
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Recently splurged and bought all of Cardcaptor Sakura. I think I'm up to episode 8. I like it fairly well, but I hope this "monster of the week" thing doesn't go on for too long. Also, I don't know how much of Sakura's extreme cuteness I can take
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eyeresist
Posts: 995 Location: a 320x240 resolution igloo (Sydney) |
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@KoH, I'm not a big Kon fan myself. Tokyo Godfathers shows he can make a good, straight (?) movie, but too often he puffs up a very simple story with gimmicky confused narration and symbolism. IIRC, he said the producers actually insisted on this for Millenium Actress, so I guess it's the style he's become stuck with for commercial reasons. I'm not quite sure why you say Paprika isn't "action-packed", as I recall a fair bit of action and scenes with spectacular animation. Overall, I think it could've worked as a movie, if I'd found the characters at all believable and sympathetic.
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ikillchicken
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Personally, the problem I had with Paprika isn't that it lacks action. It's just that the action doesn't really mean anything. Especially as the movie goes on and it all becomes one extended dream sequence. In the first part of the movie the dream sequences were just interludes to people's actions in real life where they were in danger of hurting themselves. As the movie went along though the exact connection to reality was lost. There is some mention of dreams and reality merging but how or why that is happening is never really explained. Things don't quite operate on normal logic though so nothing that's happening really has much particular impact.
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Zin5ki
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I shall admit to ceasing my viewing of Paprika after only the opening credits. One simply found the visual abnormalities to take prominence in the story far too abruptly, as if to force the viewer to appreciate this quasi-dreamland from the outset.
Kon did not do such a thing when writing the script for Magnetic Rose, and in such a film the paranormal happenings became quite captivating to the previously unsuspecting audience. |
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