steamboy being on there is funny. nothing terribly "artsy" about it besides that it's otomo and he's gonna be super technically good. maybe it counts as obscure because it lost money, heh. memories is on there and also otomo and more weird.
doomed megalopois is funny because it's an adaptation of teito monogatari, which is one of those things that's influenced a lot of animes and games but hardly anybody in the US has read/watched. there was an ad for it on Full Metal Panic DVDs for some reason.
origin ~ spirits of the past sucks. it's interesting in that it gets worse and worse the longer you watch. the opening credits are god damned incredible (youtube quality tho), and then it start up this stupid fucking technology versus nature plot as the characters are progressively flattened by the weight of message
iblard jikan i haven't seen but my understanding is that it's thirty minutes of panning over ghibli scenery with no dialogue or plot or anything, which, admittedly, does not sound bad.
trava is subtitled "Fist Planet".
i've seen some other ones bla bla. some are music videos, like noisy birth. i remember peeps got excited about cencoroll when it came out because it was made by like three people
I remember Doomed Megapolis being bad in a standard 80s anime way
It looked technically impressive, which, this being a Rintaro production, is unsurprising. But most talk about it seems to indicate that it's best to stick with the source material in spite of that fact.
Setting all that aside, even the bad stuff that you mentioned is worthy of study on the level of animation and aesthetics, which I think is what the "artsy" label is going for. And some of those titles definitely live up to the "obscure" tag, both in terms of popularity and content. Like, if you meet somebody who says their favourite series are Kemonozume, Karas and The SoulTaker, they are probably a huge freak and you should totally ask to hang out sometime.
I have been meaning to watch The SoulTaker forever because it was Akiyuki Shinbo's first real foray into what people know him for now (outside of some really weird porn, as I mentioned previously), and it looks and sounds utterly delirious, like if you gave an edgy teen fanfic writer magic mushrooms and made him watch David Lynch movies on loop.
Shinbo is also the man behind Madoka Magica, And Yet the Town Moves, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Pani Poni Dash, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko, La Portrait de Petite Cosette, and plenty of other odd stuff, mostly for Studio SHAFT. He's kind of become a parody of himself lately, outside of his -monogatari work, but his best work is incredibly striking.
It's the purest essence of Shinbo imaginable despite being, I am told, very faithful to the source material. It's hard to make fun of because it is making the jokes and is the punchline and knows what you're going to say about it before you say it.
Maybe he'll finally get back to Zombie Powder, that manga he made in the 90s that no one knows anything about except that it's the thing Tite Kubo did before Bleach.
Y'know, about Tite Kubo: I actually love his artwork, but Bleach just seems like such a mind-numbing slog that I really just want to see him move onto something else post-haste. Maybe something that's less mired in continuity and more about those crazy angular designs.
I feel similarly, if not as intensely. After talking about Bleach a bit with @Tachyon I realized that the music also isn't too outside of my tastes, and the initial plot lines are really quite up my alley. But I'm pretty sure it just all goes down hill and turns to tedium around... I forget when, but a very specific point.
The Arrancar are particularly fun design-wise, and Harribel and Rangiku and Rukia kinda, are all cute too. I'm also fond of Grimmjow, Urahara, Gin, this girl, and Aizen a little.
I really wish I could confidently rate the Ghost Stories gag dub a solid 9, like I had hoped and expected, instead of a 6-7 (probably 7 since when it works it really works for me).
Like...up to then, Psycho-Pass was dark but it never had to be unrealistically so. All of the murderers had believable motives that made sense for the setting.
Crazed fanboy? I can buy that. Harassed factory worker with some hacking talent? Sure. I can even believe the pretentious Shakespeare hacker edgelord. But an EVIL DAUGHTER OF MACABRE ARTIST? Jesus Christ.
And the idea that there are not one but two murderous psychopathic lesbian schoolgirls running around just completely breaks suspension of disbelief and makes no sense, even with the fictional scenario presented therein. Everything else is either similar to reality or makes logical sense given the setting's societal pressures.
Definitely retrospectively upgrading my hot take for Mayoiga after The Outcast. Note to Future!Crystal, don't say you won't drop such-and-such show if it's bad, you sometimes hold onto silly things like that. There are better forms of passive masochism guilty pleasures.
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steamboy being on there is funny. nothing terribly "artsy" about it besides that it's otomo and he's gonna be super technically good. maybe it counts as obscure because it lost money, heh. memories is on there and also otomo and more weird.
doomed megalopois is funny because it's an adaptation of teito monogatari, which is one of those things that's influenced a lot of animes and games but hardly anybody in the US has read/watched. there was an ad for it on Full Metal Panic DVDs for some reason.
origin ~ spirits of the past sucks. it's interesting in that it gets worse and worse the longer you watch. the opening credits are god damned incredible (youtube quality tho), and then it start up this stupid fucking technology versus nature plot as the characters are progressively flattened by the weight of message
iblard jikan i haven't seen but my understanding is that it's thirty minutes of panning over ghibli scenery with no dialogue or plot or anything, which, admittedly, does not sound bad.
trava is subtitled "Fist Planet".
i've seen some other ones bla bla. some are music videos, like noisy birth. i remember peeps got excited about cencoroll when it came out because it was made by like three people
Setting all that aside, even the bad stuff that you mentioned is worthy of study on the level of animation and aesthetics, which I think is what the "artsy" label is going for. And some of those titles definitely live up to the "obscure" tag, both in terms of popularity and content. Like, if you meet somebody who says their favourite series are Kemonozume, Karas and The SoulTaker, they are probably a huge freak and you should totally ask to hang out sometime.
I have been meaning to watch The SoulTaker forever because it was Akiyuki Shinbo's first real foray into what people know him for now (outside of some really weird porn, as I mentioned previously), and it looks and sounds utterly delirious, like if you gave an edgy teen fanfic writer magic mushrooms and made him watch David Lynch movies on loop.
Well the princess introduces us to yet another spelling of "Alicia".
Anyway this seems quite nice and I like Alisha's strong demeanor.
either that or a massive gold coin weighing several metric tons
birdy the mighty is good
Here's an idea: She, the Ultimate Weapon.
saikano is listed as seinen (which makes sense, it was in big comic spirits). i mean, not a huge deal