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[kotaromita]

okay it IS illegal to hurt people but also akito's dad deserves it

so is it really THAT bad?

i mean i've never met the guy and i've only heard a little bit about him in passing

all i know is:

he doesn't get along very well with akito

he REALLY doesn't get along very will with ena

he's a famous painter

a robot burned his house down? and then someone threatened him at gun point right after he lost his house?

um and i think those last things are usually only things you do if someone is like a serial killer or a terrorist or something

maybe it's just because i get along with my dad so well that it's a little hard for me to take in but as long as akito and ena are okay and he and mrs shinonome survived i think that's most important?

[bestanimatedmovie]

Revenge of the Underrated

25. Ruben Brandt, Collector vs Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie

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Ruben Brandt Collector

Heist movie & psychological drama sporting some of the most original visuals I've seen in animation.

This film is so obscure that I work in animation and have never met someone else who's watched it in my life. While the style and subject matter might feel a bit hard to access, with extremely stylized borderline cubist characters and a plot about psychology and fine arts, it is not a high brow, snobby film, and you don't need to know anything about these topics to enjoy it!

Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie

It's a great introduction to the series and I'd understand not letting it qualify cause it's TECHNICALLY just a cut of the first three episodes stitched together for the premiere, home video release, and the remastered theatrical release, but I say it's fine as a standalone movie and story.

[stealthrockdamage]

(It's easier to do this in an ask)

Anime recs, feel free to ignore any you've already seen and/or have no interest in:

- Cowboy Bebop: I feel like this doesn't need an introduction, but regardless, it's a Jazz-inspired neo-noir mixed with a spaghetti Western set in space, following a ragtag team of eternally penniless bounty hunters as they coast from job to job

- Samurai Champloo: another outing from Bebop's Shinichiro Watanabe, Champloo is set in early Edo period Japan and follows the trio of ronin Jin, Kyushu swordsman Mugen, and teahouse serving girl Fuu as they search for a mysterious man from Fuu's past

- Space Dandy: yet another Watanabe project, this one follows a group of alien hunters who find themselves often in various zany and wacky misadventures as they explore the universe. Thought ostensibly a comedy, it has the most eclectic stories of the three with a wide range of genres, themes, and messages explored across the series, and is my personal favorite of the three

- Samurai 7: a project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, it's essentially a retelling of the movie set in a science-fantasy universe featuring superhuman samurai and giant mechanized war machines. It can be a bit dry but I very much recommend it.

- The Boy and the Beast: this one's a movie. It follows a young boy who finds himself in an idyllic world inhabited by humanoid animals that know no war or violence. He's apprenticed to a rowdy, unkempt bear-like swordsman and together help each other move past their respective shortcomings. Gorgeous animation and a very touching personal story about choosing family.

- Planetes: set in the near-future, this sci-fi office drama follows a team of astronauts responsible for removing debris from orbit. On the surface a simple romantic-comedy, the series is incredibly deep and manages to handle with great care and respect topics like environmentalism, man's place in the universe and whether we have a right to act upon it, political and economic oppression, whether acts of terror can ever be justified, the psychological and physiological cost of moving into space, and more. Absolutely a 10/10 in my humble opinion

- Megalo Box: a sports anime set in the near future (are you noticing a pattern), this is yet another modern take on a classic series, this time the boxing manga Ashita no Joe. Megalo BOX follows "Joe" (real name unknown), as he rises from a complete nobody in the slums outside the city to the upper echelons of the Megaloboxing league, a sport similar to boxing wherein fighters wear powered exoskeletons that augment their strength and speed. Tackles classic themes of sportsmanship, the price of fame, the pride of athletes, as well as themes of economic disparity and social inequality. Pretty much the only sports anime I've ever watched and so much more than that in so many ways.

I have a lot more if you're interested

HI SORRYU I DIDN'T ANSWER THIS FOR AGES... THANK U FOR THIS LIST... i have heard very great things abt cowboy bebop in particular i know i Gotta see that one for sure...

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Should You Watch The Anime? (An Intro Post)

Should You Trust My Thoughts on Anime?

I figure if I’m going to be publishing my thoughts on anime, you may as well get to know some of my likes and dislikes to see if you vibe with said thoughts.  Or, I guess if you don’t vibe with me, you can use my reviews to avoid the shows I do like. XD

I’m still working on a definitive Top 10 Anime list, but I’ll be honest… I may never have that list done as new shows are coming out all the time.  So instead I’ll list out a few of my favorite anime in different genres to give you an idea of what I like.

Heads up that I’m a bit on the older side, plus I got into anime when I was fairly young.  That means there will be shows here from a good span of decades!

Magical Girl: Sailor Moon

It’s a nostalgic pick as this was my first real anime, but it still holds up even today.

Sports: Free!

I tend to like my sports anime 80% character interaction, 20% sports.

Mecha: Neon Genesis Evangelion

A classic for a reason.  I get something new from it on every rewatch.

Sci-Fi: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Deep psychological stuff mixed with cool technology in an amazingly put together show.

Isekai: Re: Zero

It’s a good and actually unique isekai with more depth than I expect from the genre.

Shoujo: Fruits Basket (2001)

Yes, I like the original better.  It’s got a great mix of funny moments and tragic angst.

Shounen: Jujutsu Kaisen

This show takes the best parts of other shounen shows and puts it all together in one package.

BL: World’s Greatest First Love

Is it problematic? Yes. But I’m invested in the couples and how they will end up.

Horny: Interspecies Reviewers

Surprisingly deep world building and well animated kinky stuff?  Sign me up.

???: Samurai Flamenco

I love everything about this anime.  It defies genre.

Do I Hate Any Anime?

There is a redeeming feature or lesson learned from every anime I’ve watched, so you won’t see me list any hated shows here.  There are certainly some anime I’ve watched that make me think I really could have spent my time better doing anything else, though. >.<

If I get bored or don’t love a show, I will not be afraid to mention that.  I’m not being sponsored by anyone, so there’s no need to curb my own opinion.

My History With Anime

I’m putting this part last because you may not care about when/how I got into anime.  And that’s A-Ok with me.  But if you are curious, here you go.

As a very small child I was exposed to shows like Voltron, but I didn’t know it was anime at the time.  Then Sailor Moon started airing on broadcast television (I didn’t have cable TV growing up), and I got absolutely obsessed.

In a perfect storm, the internet started becoming easily accessible around the same time, so I hopped online to get more Sailor Moon in my life.  In doing this, I started seeing links to other recommended “anime” - which I pronounced as Anne-Nyme at the time.  

Between Blockbuster, Suncoast Video, and the local comic shop (which no longer exists, sadly), I dove into the world of anime. I sank my teeth into things like the Dirty Pair movies, Ranma 1/2, Record of Lodoss War, and even pre-ordered each VHS of Neon Genesis Evangelion as it was coming out. $25.01 for each tape with 2 episodes on it (dubbed, since it was cheaper and I only had my allowance to work with). I was dedicated to the hobby.

I never stopped liking anime from that point on. I ended up leading two anime clubs (high school and college), and I still host a group of friends every week to come over and watch anime.

I'll post a link to my MAL, but it's not complete. I've seen too many shows and have forgotten some along the way. I'm concentrating more on shows I've actually completed on the MAL and probably won't mess with trying to find all the stuff I watched decades ago.

And that about wraps things up for the intro. I've been watching 10-15 shows a season lately (plus whatever we watch in anime club), so I have a lot to talk about. Let me help you figure out if you should watch the anime!

[militarymiral]

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This led to the film’s hilarious American title: The Seven Brothers and Their One Sister Meet Dracula.

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A 61-year-old Peter Cushing returns to the series as heroic Van Helsing to give one more go of it, but because his brittle bones weren’t capable of much more than standing at that point, he’s also backed up by a family of kung-fu brothers with cheap tin-foil weaponry. Instead, the inane story is about Dracula traveling to rural China, where he takes control of a coven of seven Chinese vampires with desiccated, beef jerky faces. In fact, this is actually the final Hammer “Dracula” in their long series, and the only one to (thank god) not star Christopher Lee as the count. Jim VorelĬertainly one of the weirdest co-studio crossovers to come out of the ’70s, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is the product of veteran Hong Kong kung fu factory The Shaw Brothers teaming up with Hammer Studios, the makers of classic British ’50s and ’60s Frankenstein and Dracula films. All in all, though, Ninja Terminator is hilariously mangled viewing. At this point, you may be thinking “It will make more sense when I’m actually watching,” but you would be fatally wrong.

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Half of the movie revolves around American actor Richard Harrison seeking a cheap plastic statue that grants super ninja powers, while an unrelated plot features one of screendom’s great badass heroes, “Jaguar Wong,” vs. Perhaps the single most infamous film in the legendarily cheap career of Hong Kong z-film auteur Godfrey Ho, it displays most of his trademarks-primarily footage from multiple, unrelated movies spliced together to create a sort of “movie loaf” of unrelated fight scenes and nonsensical dubbing. And oh my, Ninja Terminator is certainly that. This is a list of the 100 greatest martial arts films of all time, but at the tail end, let us make a small space for those flicks that are enjoyable but unquestionably of extremely low quality. Here are the 100 best martial arts movies of all time: These films are action-packed fighting spectacles, but above all, they’re just plain fun. Although they’re all great films, we wanted this list to focus squarely on our conception of “martial arts cinema,” which has little in common with a great samurai drama by Akira Kurosawa. It’s all here.īut please note: Don’t look for Seven Samurai, Yojimbo or The Sword of Doom here. Men with prosthetic iron hands shooting poison darts. These films contain many wondrous sights: Monks training their bodies to repel bullets. Grave and absurd, all represented in equal measure. It’s an appreciation for the beauty of violence, a reminder of the exceptional abilities derived through training and a celebration of ancient, classical storytelling, in the vein of “Avenge me!” No genre reveres classic themes as this one does, because at their root they speak to us like cinematic comfort food, and they provide excuses for what people have really wanted to see all along: The action.Īnd so, let us celebrate the martial arts genre from its top to its bottom, old and new. Violence is the selling point of these films, but seeing as that violence is achieved through trickery, stunt work and movie magic, it’s not truly the audience’s bloodlust that drives the industry. The audience has never been bigger, because on some level, we love fighting, if only because it reminds us of our most primal roots that have long been shelved and put aside by civilization.Īnd nowhere is appreciation for the beauty of fighting more apparent than in the wide, storied genre of martial arts cinema. Look at the exponential growth in sophistication from the early days of mixed martial arts to how the sport has become in 2015, going from big guys winging punches at one another to a beautiful, scientific system of mixed grappling and striking styles. Others fight professionally, and have only continued to expand the complete picture of what a fighter is. Today, robotic drones are poised to do much of our fighting for us-whether we ultimately end up in a Robot Jox scenario where wars are decided by giant mech battles is a valid (and awesome) question.Īnd yet, despite all of our sophistication and technology, we still fight by hand as well. Technology rapidly came into play and has been seen out to its inevitable conclusion, which removes man from the equation almost entirely. At times, it has been a necessary tool of survival-kill or be killed-and that proved an extremely effective motivation and crucible for enhancing mankind’s fighting prowess. Fighting, whether sanctioned or no-holds-barred, is without a doubt the oldest form of competition that mankind has ever engaged in.