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Post by rabidtictac » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:59 pm

Let's talk about an animu I do like. Casshern Sins. It's a pretty fucking depressing anime. Casshern wanders around and meets people and robots, all of whom die. Robots are all dying because of a degeneration which they believe Casshern caused. Humans are dying because they're soft and squishy and also very rare. It's a relentlessly dark show for something with a henshin background. My favorite episode is IIRC episode 2 or 3, when Casshern first meets a human. The guy follows Casshern around a while and then dies at the end of some kind of wasting illness. That's a typical Casshern Sins episode to me. It reminds me a bit of Texhnolyze except that show is MORE depressing. :D

Of course, Casshern also has big robot fights because it's a henshin animu. Some of that shit reminds me of mega mans. Casshern Sins also has a pretty good ending song:



This song is so peaceful, but most of these characters in the song are fucking dead. :D It will get to you after you watch the show. This was "ending 3" so it's intentional.
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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Mon Mar 27, 2017 5:43 pm

Intriguing. Might check that one out if I feel too happy.

And maybe I'll shill about for the late Satoshi Kon.

Funny guy, really. Made a lot of stuff where reality and imagination get put into a blender, and he's like an anime director for people who don't like anime:
- You hate moe blobs? Well, he only really did one moe-ish character, and she also happened to be autistic or something. Everyone else either looks fairly realistic or like a more or less extreme carricature.
- Tired of lazy hacks who reuse the same 4-5 faces? Satoshi Kon never used a face more than once. Outside of cameos.
- Also pretty much everything he did could easily be turned into live-action. Though I guess the budget would need to be upped a bit.

Three of his works (Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent and Paprika) feature a soundtrack made by Susumu Hirasawa, best known for his contribution to the Berserk OST. I'm usually not into... whatever genre he does, but his stuff is pretty dope IMO. Nothing quite makes you sit through the whole credits like some Hirasawa stuff.


And now a little rundown of his Kon movies and such:

Perfect Blue aka animu Black Swan. Neat psycho-thriller with some disturbing songs and two of the ugliest anime characters you'll ever see. Not a lot of action, but the stuff that's in there can require a strong stomach. Rapeculture should love this.

Millenium Actress is probably one of the coolest ideas to make a biography film (even if this one right here is purely fictional): The actress on question talk about her life and starts blend her own past with stuff that happened in her movies, and the guys doing the biography are "filming" these unreliable flashbacks like they're on a holodeck or something. I'd really like to see this concept with a real actor.

Tokyo Godfathers is probably the oddest of his works, as it doesn't feature mindscrews and his merely about three hobos finding a baby in the trash on christmas. Pretty fun, though.
(Trigger warning: One of the hobos is a washed-up transvestite. Or transgender. It's not 100% clear.)

Paranoia Agent is a 13-episode anime that starts with a simple premise (young boy on skates attacks people with a baseball bat), but then things start getting crazy.
I've said on 3.0 that the ending is a bit weaksauce and well, yeah. Though the anime is pretty episodic anyways, though it's no biggie. Heck, two of my favorite episodes are actually filler, one being about housewives trying to outdo each other with urban legends and rumors surrounding Shounen Bat (aka the skater boy), and the other one is about three fellows meeting each other for a group suicide (which is oddly the funniest episode of the whole show).
Many episodes are also close in style to one of his other movies, so this could be a neat entry point for n00bs.

Paprika aka animu Inception. The ending is also a bit weird, but if you like acid trip animation while the characters say complete nonsense and Hirasawa delivers some of his coolest tunes, you're welcome.
EDIT: Trigger Warning: one of the characters is a Boogie-tier landwhale, except with autistic genius instead of manipulation shenanigans.

(He also did the first part of the anthology movie Memories, which was like a sci-fi ghost story.)
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Post by Vulcan » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:13 am

Great post on Satoshi Kon, I only started watching his stuff after he passed away from cancer.

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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:16 pm

And I discovered his stuff a few months before. I have great timing.
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Post by rabidtictac » Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:40 pm

Millennium Actress is the Satoshi Kon movie I'll always remember. I always wanted to watch Paranoia Agent, but last I checked, it never got any kind of reprint and was crazy expensive.
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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:19 pm

I hate it when stuff like that happens. Any chance to watch it on crunchyroll or whatever?

EDIT: Forgot another trigger warning for Paprika.
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Post by Ya Amber Heard Me?! » Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:06 am

Damn this thread is stomach turning. The only good thing to come out of Japan is porn, and that's only if you mute it.

Anyway, Ghost In The Shell is a good movie. It's not great, it's not groundbreaking, but it's not bad. ScarJo is fucking hot, with an ass you can use as a trampoline, and it's got decent music and pretty good effects. If you're unsure wait for DVD. It takes itself ultra serious and really needed tits and more action.

And the Major is shown as a Japanese woman placed in a generic Euro body, just like others of her kind. How people find it racist I dunno.

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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Fri Mar 31, 2017 4:31 pm

It's extra racist because it's LITERAL WHITEWASHING!! Raaaaage~!

The manga and probably also the anime made note how her body was made to look like a generic model so people wouldn't instantly try to steal it, though I don't think the manga did a particular good job of showing the actual generic models. Maybe it did, but having several character be drawn the same way with a different haircut is pretty standard in Glorious Nippon, so I didn't really notice it.
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Post by Liar Revealed » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:03 pm

Have you guys ever seen Megazone 23? People like Brad Jones say that The Matrix stole from Ghost in the Shell, and maybe they did a little, but my jaw dropped when I first watched Megazone around 10 years ago. All the things I liked about the Matrix (I'm not a huge fan) were taken directly from this anime.
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Post by Ya Amber Heard Me?! » Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:43 pm

I can see it. They stole like hell from Dark City and to this day those Wachowski trannies are still hailed as filmmaking geniuses. I've still got the Entertainment Weekly issue where the writer proclaims that every movie with a hero wielding two guns, or wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, or doing martial arts, is stolen from The Matrix.

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