^^ Omori has a history of backing some very interesting material. While the director's role in Japanese animation is generally a lot more limited than in the West, his presence tends to be a good sign. It also might turn out to be a bit less straightforward than the premise indicates given the slated showrunner.
Also, the art team for Mononoke and Trapeze is behind Kyousogiga. This bodes well for the visuals, at the very least. I have heard that the brevity of the pilot made it a bit of a messy disappointment, but as a full series, this should be worth my while.
And speaking of madness...
I think that I have realised what Anthy is doing in Utena, and if I am correct, her plan is remarkably clever. But given who her brother is, this should not be a surprise...
So, Hourou Musuko/Wandering Son finally ended recently. It could have ended better, I feel, but what we got was good enough. For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's a coming of age story about two trans* children that spans from elementary school to high school graduation. It's heartwarming, funny, sad, and a whole lot of other things besides, and if I keep talking about it I'll just start rambling about it because I adore it. But anyway. There's no time like the present, especially if you've considered reading it before.
^ I have heard very, very good things about both the manga and its animated adaptation, with some qualms about the dialogue being more mature than would be natural and the ends of both takes being kind of weak but otherwise nothing but praise. And my gods, does it look pretty... It's on my list.
On a completely different note, I am looking up the colours of the Sephiroth seen in the thirteenth episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena and matching them up with each virtue and the duellists' hair/rose colours and... wow, all that cryptic stuff is beginning to make a lot more sense. If you take each virtue as what the associated duellist either strives for, embodies or needs, their motivations become a lot clearer.
I especially like Donger Rampage since, as far as I know, I came up with it.
On another note, that recent Ghibli film The Wind Is Rising (which I still have not seen) used one of my favorite songs ever in its soundtrack apparently.
Space Dandy (stylized as Space☆Dandy) is an upcoming Japanese anime series directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by Bones.[1] The series will follow Dandy, an alien hunter who is the "dandiest man in space", in search for aliens with his robot assistant QT and a cat alien named Meow. The series will begin airing in January 2014[1]
Just watched the first episode of The Eccentric Family, which is adapted from a novel by the same author as The Tatami Galaxy. While not directed or scripted by my main man Yuasa, it is still really quite wonderful; some, well, eccentricity may be sacrificed in not giving it the full-on surrealist treatment, but that suits the subject matter, which is less farcical/existential—more of an urban fantasy. The great character writing and interesting plotting are the same, however, and the opening credits hold a very similar aesthetic to their predecessor's.
Since it's been mentioned a few times recently, I'm going to take a moment to recommend Steins;Gate again to anybody who hasn't seen it.
Spoiling as little as I can, the basic gist is that it's a sci-fi drama/thriller focusing on college student and self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou HOUOUIN KYOUMA and his group of friends/acquaintances. After a series of events, Okabe discovers that his microwave can now be used to send text messages to the past, and it goes from there. Whilst obviously time travel is an important theme, it plays second fiddle to the characters themselves, and their development. It is rather slow paced at the start, but it picks up well. also i am terrible at recommending things. even my favourite things. especially my favourite things.
the early episodes have an odd feel to them, since they are relatively lighthearted and the characters appear flat and stereotypical, but the general aesthetic of the show, the music and the lighting and such, feels quite dark, so there's an odd tension there.
once the plot proper kicks off the story becomes quite dramatic and at times very bleak, but many of the characters begin to show considerable depth (much as i loved Daru he is mostly a flat character; by the end i preferred Rintarou)
and yeah, it's fun and often surprising and i second the recommendation
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I think that I have realised what Anthy is doing in Utena, and if I am correct, her plan is remarkably clever. But given who her brother is, this should not be a surprise...
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
On another note, that recent Ghibli film The Wind Is Rising (which I still have not seen) used one of my favorite songs ever in its soundtrack apparently.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
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also Steins;Gate is fun so far, thanks for recommending it Fossillouisa
but i watched a few more episodes and it turned out to be really awesome ^_^
i just wondered
my favourite character is Daru
Spoiling as little as I can, the basic gist is that it's a sci-fi drama/thriller focusing on college student and self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou HOUOUIN KYOUMA and his group of friends/acquaintances. After a series of events, Okabe discovers that his microwave can now be used to send text messages to the past, and it goes from there. Whilst obviously time travel is an important theme, it plays second fiddle to the characters themselves, and their development. It is rather slow paced at the start, but it picks up well.
also i am terrible at recommending things. even my favourite things. especially my favourite things.
i enjoyed it very much
the early episodes have an odd feel to them, since they are relatively lighthearted and the characters appear flat and stereotypical, but the general aesthetic of the show, the music and the lighting and such, feels quite dark, so there's an odd tension there.
once the plot proper kicks off the story becomes quite dramatic and at times very bleak, but many of the characters begin to show considerable depth (much as i loved Daru he is mostly a flat character; by the end i preferred Rintarou)
and yeah, it's fun and often surprising and i second the recommendation