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The animation was pretty great but otherwise I can hardly remember anything about the movie. EDIT: now that I think about it, the scene with the creepy dolls was pretty good. I wonder if Akira inspired the First Pokemon movie, which has a similar premise where you have this shady research...

The first half of Howl's Moving Castle is overall good, up until they escape from Suliman. But after the escape, I think it's starts losing steam and it starts becoming a little too incoherent (with the time travel and falling star people and stuff), and sorta ends anti-climatically. What...

I quite the liked the rustic setting of Princess Mononoke. Felt comfy. Joe Hisaishi's music was also good. I believe Princess Mononoke was the first instance of 3D CGI being used in a Ghibli film. You don't notice it when watching and only find out if you do more digging. The black worms on...

I was mainly thinking about the Shishio arc, where you have a warlord and his army who are taking over Japan. The government is apparently failing to stop this rogue army, and their politicians are being assassinated left and right. The government approaches Kenshin and asks him to deal with...

I think the Ghibli movies are visually great. Very high production values. But as you said, the nonsensical pacifistic messaging is aggravating. Given Ghibli's influence, I think it might have had an effect rest of Japanese entertainment, since you see a lot of stuff with utterly nonsensical...

I thought that the static drawings were used quite well IMO, though I suppose maybe that's because I've seen a lot of other's old anime that did the same thing stylistically (such as Rose of Versailles). Sadly we will probably never get a Berserk anime that looked as good as the 1997 one. The...

The first half of Trigun was the strongest part. Once it starts turning serious, my moment to moment enjoyment of the show dropped. The ending was underdeveloped and unsatisfying. I liked the ideas but the pacing and execution wasn't very good. The music also played at incredibly inappropriate...

Ajin is another series that tried that idea: every now and then an immortal demihuman pops up who can summon and control some sort of ghostly shadow, and they're ostracized by society and the government shows up to kidnap the Ajin and then perform live experimentation on them and such (and since...

Redline's pacing was a little off. Things were happening so fast, the politics behind the race flew over my head. I think during the early parts of the movie, there might have been some setup that the race was actually part of some sort of op by one nation (or the UN?) to expose the treachery of...

Gunbuster! Time to drop this awesome AMV! I would recommend watching Gundam, particularly the UC saga by Tomino (watch order is MSG > Zeta Gundam > ZZ Gundam > Char's Counterattack > Hathaway's Flash), and maybe a few of the OVAs (War in the Pocket, 08th MS Team). Tomino's UC saga has...

Giant mecha are cool. That's all that matters. You can add giant mecha to any setting and it will instantly make that series more awesome. Giant mecha do not become less cool with age. True. Giant mecha would only really be able to run super fast if the mecha was really, really tall, so it had...

The only show written by Gen Urobuchi with characters that I liked was Thunderbolt Fantasy. And I guess, maybe to a certain extent, Fate/Zero (mainly Waver, Rider, and the serial killer duo. Everyone else ranged from "okay" to "meh"). I think Gen's writing relies too much on shock value plot...

Fun fact: The art and animation of Voices of a Distant Star was done by just Makoto Shinkai. He and his wife did the voices. Pretty impressive that he managed to do all of the art by himself, and this came out in 2002 so this was before digital painting was really refined with tablets and such...

I thought Escaflowne was a heavily flawed gem. The art of the show is gorgeous. Very immersive setting and aesthetics. Loved the mecha swordfights to the sound of tense violin music, and the airship battles. Allen is awesome. Dillandau and Folken were great villains. Got some FF4 and FF9 vibes...

Yeah the lying thing also ticked me off. Hm. I think it depends on what you consider to be "family". If it's blood ties, then I suppose that cousin you see once every 2 years (but who you don't really know anything about) counts as "family", which sadly seems to be the case for many "families"...

This panel pretty much sums up one of the biggest problems with AoT's ending. I don't know. Meh, I guess? I began losing interest after chapter 100 when the series became very nihilistic. I had overall liked the series up until that point. But everything after... As for the show, I thought...

I never really got that defense of NGE. Shinji never came across as normal. He is a special case in terms of his relationship and how he grew up and how that shaped his demeanor. Your average teenage boy isn't as wimpy as Shinji is. Then again, maybe the attitude of your average teenage boy is...

A kind of unsatisfying harem anime, though. He never really gets close to any of the girls except Rei... but then she gets roasted near the end. So by the end of the show, he isn't romantically close to anybody. Misato views Shinji as a comforter for pleasure to escape from her depression but...

I thought Gankutsuou was pretty good. Held my attention captive. Also the OP song was really melancholic. There was also a pretty powerful moment when Yeah the 3D CGI was pretty abysmal but the storytelling in that particular episode was really powerful. I think having Albert be the...

I thought Cowboy Bebop was really boring. The art and animation was great but the actual show was boring. I can only remember a small handful of episodes (the Red Dragons arc, the parody of the Alien movie with the Fridge, and the one where they went to earth and delved into a flooded skyscraper...