Death Note (Japanese Anime)

evilkat

evilkat

Senior Audioholic
What Texhnolyze, Haibane Renme and Paranoia Agent about? I've seen the others but I haven't even heard of these...
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
Texnolyze and Hibane are from the same guys who made Lain. Both are just as odd.

Hibane is the most unusual, as they said they essentially did the whole thing with no script, so while it has a lot of interesting bits, the story takes a long time to develop and in the end doesn't make a ton of sense, though I still liked it. The main characters are sort of "Angels" and they live in a city that they can't leave. They are on a sort of "quest" to find out what each of their purposes is.

Texhnolyze is the story of a character who has cybernetic limbs attached and goes a little crazy. He has to discover why this happened to him and he remembers little by little as the story progresses. He joins the Yakuza and fights against a street gang who are fighting for control of the city they are in. Great at the begining but gets really weird at the end kind of like Lain. This one was a bit disappointing at the end to me as I felt it left too much unresolved.

Paranoia Agent is just flat out weird. Hard to explain; basically "evil" people are attacked by their fears, aka paranoia (as an "agent", a kid on roller blades with a bat). I haven't seen all of them, but what I have seen was good. One of the strangest I've seen so far.

I own the complete sets for most of those series.

Another very cool movie that recently came out is Tekkonkinkreet. It was made by the guys who did a few of the sequences in Animatrix. The story is quite good and the animation looks weird and overly simple at first, but I found the unique style to be a plus in the movie's favor.
 
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yettitheman

yettitheman

Audioholic General
Paranoia Agent, is... weird but cool. FLCL is good too, but you actually start understanding it :D

I can't belive nobody mentioned Akira yet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film)

One of the reasons for the movie's success was the highly advanced quality of its animation. At the time, most anime was notorious for cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with meticulously detailed scenes, exactingly lip-synched dialogue – a first for an anime production (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite) – and super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels. It is regarded by critics as one of the greatest animated films ever made.

Video Mixing:
Laboratory
Tokyo Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Film negative format (mm/video inches)
35 mm

Cinematographic process
Spherical

Printed film format
70 mm (blow-up)
35 mm

Aspect ratio
1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) / DTS (re-release) / Dolby (35 mm prints)


Amazing for it's time :eek:
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
I didn't want to go that far back...:D I have the SE tin case edition and the figure with the bike (got it as x-mas present). Akira pretty much set the stage...

The next one would be Ghost in the Shell, which I think also hasn't been mentioned.
 
darien87

darien87

Audioholic Spartan
I actually liked the Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex better than the movie. I remember sitting in the theater and feeling CONFUSED AS HELL during both Akira and Ghost. I still don't really get the ending of Akira. Did Tetsuo become a solar system or something? :confused:

I REALLY liked the Appleseed CG movie that came out a couple of years ago. The sequel is supposed to be coming to BD soon. Can't wait!!!
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
I had to watch Akira a few times to get a hold of it too. I believe you are to guess that Tetsuo "transcended" to the next level, meaning he became without form.

I really liked Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence too, but this guy really does think and write on a whole different level. I liked some of Stand Alone Complex, but not all of it.

Appleseed is good. I saw that in the theater and I have the SE tin case edition with the soundtrack for that one. I'm excited about the second one coming to BD too.

Steamboy was also by the same guy who did Akira and while good, it wasn't as strong as I had hoped.
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
ROD wasn't a movie technically, it was sort of a mini-series since it was technially 3 episodes that make up the movie, and then there is the TV series as well. I liked that one too, though I haven't seen the TV series, I have the "movie".
 
yettitheman

yettitheman

Audioholic General
ROD wasn't a movie technically, it was sort of a mini-series since it was technially 3 episodes that make up the movie, and then there is the TV series as well. I liked that one too, though I haven't seen the TV series, I have the "movie".
I know what you mean ;) For some reason, I haven't seen too much of the TV series, but I seemed to not like it as much as the "movie."
 

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