i'd watched spirited away and castle in the sky and nausicaa, so my initial reaction to mononoke was hm hm more ghibli, oh wait fuck that dude's arms are gone
Knowing that Urotsukidouji existed was probably what really shattered any illusions of that sort for me, but that was later. In terms of actual maturity of emotional and intellectual content, however... I dunno. I never *didn't* take animation seriously as a potential medium for deeper stories.
I think the first time I hit on "what I like in anime" was with the hallucination sequences in Welcome to the NHK!, but I don't think I got a clear portrait of what that meant and what I needed until, I think, the series Mononoke. Which was exactly my cup of tea.
It's actually really funny in a warped way, but it's also poignant and has some serious "oh, oh fuck" moments.
I still need to see the last arc. I stopped about eight or nine episodes from the end and have yet to get back to it for whatever reason. For what it's worth, the voice acting in both versions is awesome, although English!Satou and Japanese!Misaki are better than their respective counterparts.
There is a scene a little after the middle of the show where it clicks just what exactly Misaki's deal is and it is heartbreaking. This doesn't change the fact that the show can still be hilarious in a sick way, but it's done in such a way that you're really taken aback. This happens a couple of times, actually.
By the by, while the animation is wildly inconsistent, some of the really low-budget scenes are strangely artful and almost look like abstract paintings, which I think was at least partially intentional.
^ The manga goes in a totally different direction and is very, very different overall.
i'd watched spirited away and castle in the sky and nausicaa, so my initial reaction to mononoke was hm hm more ghibli, oh wait fuck that dude's arms are gone
That scene traumatized me as a child. I was not good with dealing with blood and gore until I was 16, at least in animated form. Still have trouble with it in live-action movies.
Gore in cartoon form rarely bothers me, and in movies I can generally deal if it's not too gross or realistic, with the exception of very specific sorts of injuries. But I'm taking it day by day with my own phobia of bloody injury.
i'd already seen far worse things by the time i saw it (i was already a rotten.com dude), i just didn't see it coming from a studio i'd pegged as not doing that kind of thing
Gore in cartoon form rarely bothers me, and in movies I can generally deal if it's not too gross or realistic, with the exception of very specific sorts of injuries. But I'm taking it day by day with my own phobia of bloody injury.
i'd already seen far worse things by the time i saw it (i was already a rotten.com dude), i just didn't see it coming from a studio i'd pegged as not doing that kind of thing
It probably wouldn't have been such a big deal to me if my mom hadn't accidentally left the Shogun mini-series running on TV when I was 3, which she forgot showed someone getting beheaded. I had a phobia of blood for a long time because of that.
Nowadays, gore in cartoon form rarely bothers me, as evidenced by my love of episode 9 of Baccano, as long as it's not too realistic.
That scene was honestly scary to me as a child, though I also loved how it served as an abrupt if not unsurprising change of pace for where Spirited Away later goes.
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Also, that really does say it all.
I think the first time I hit on "what I like in anime" was with the hallucination sequences in Welcome to the NHK!, but I don't think I got a clear portrait of what that meant and what I needed until, I think, the series Mononoke. Which was exactly my cup of tea.
I still need to see the last arc. I stopped about eight or nine episodes from the end and have yet to get back to it for whatever reason. For what it's worth, the voice acting in both versions is awesome, although English!Satou and Japanese!Misaki are better than their respective counterparts.
don't bother with it
i'd rather read the novel but, you know
By the by, while the animation is wildly inconsistent, some of the really low-budget scenes are strangely artful and almost look like abstract paintings, which I think was at least partially intentional.
^ The manga goes in a totally different direction and is very, very different overall.
Nowadays, gore in cartoon form rarely bothers me, as evidenced by my love of episode 9 of Baccano, as long as it's not too realistic.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)