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Shippou-Chan said:
i don't like picking favourites but i eva has to be one of my favorites
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I bought the platinum box set but can't bare to watch it again because shinji is suck a anus.

I might wait for all the new films to end and have a crack at them in all one go. I wasn't massively impressed with the first film though. The new girl seems to be quite popular in Japan though. New blood.
 
i like shinji being really rather messed up makes for a better charactor then a load of mech pilots

i also wasn't that impressed with the first film

it's fine.... it's just not really diffrent fromthe tv show except with cg... and i don't really like the cg all that much the original animation felt more in place

but yeah the new girl looks cute.... couldn't bring myself to for out on a dakimakura of her though

i mean i quite liked mana from the game but she's not rei or asuka
 
Very few likeable young men in mecha because their arc is always one of manning up after a long period of whining. Done right though the payoff is the one of the things that makes anime great.. Shinji, Renton, Simon. They all turn out cool in the end!
 
I'm not that in to anime - (although have quite extensively studied Japanese cinema in the past), but have loads of the ghibli stuff - mainly for showing my students at Christmas/end of term... does anyone have any recommendations for anime films (other than Spirited Away/Kiki etc etc etc) that are U or PG rated?
 
debaser said:
Very few likeable young men in mecha because their arc is always one of manning up after a long period of whining. Done right though the payoff is the one of the things that makes anime great.. Shinji, Renton, Simon. They all turn out cool in the end!
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i'm not sure about that... well it's true with simon but i found renton to be..... a little not there as a character.... a good way to see this is compare the similar scenes of freak out between him and shinji when they realise they are hurting human beings.... ii just feel that that whole section didn't really work with renton also how dumb would he have to be to fight numerous mechs and only a loooooooooong way down the line realise he is killing people? and finally shinji? cool??

i quite like the charactors in gundam wing but they don't develop quite in the same way
 
gaijingirl said:
I'm not that in to anime - (although have quite extensively studied Japanese cinema in the past), but have loads of the ghibli stuff - mainly for showing my students at Christmas/end of term... does anyone have any recommendations for anime films (other than Spirited Away/Kiki etc etc etc) that are U or PG rated?
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Blood - The Last Vampire is pretty good. How old are these children?
 
Shippou-Chan said:
i'm not sure about that... well it's true with simon but i found renton to be..... a little not there as a character.... a good way to see this is compare the similar scenes of freak out between him and shinji when they realise they are hurting human beings.... ii just feel that that whole section didn't really work with renton also how dumb would he have to be to fight numerous mechs and only a loooooooooong way down the line realise he is killing people? and finally shinji? cool??

i quite like the charactors in gundam wing but they don't develop quite in the same way
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What are these other mech films you are talking about?
 
Shippou-Chan said:
.... couldn't bring myself to for out on a dakimakura of her though

i mean i quite liked mana from the game but she's not rei or asuka
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You've lost me.

I wish these things were not always about school kids though. Well maybe just Eva, which did so many other things right.
 
gaijingirl said:
I'm not that in to anime - (although have quite extensively studied Japanese cinema in the past), but have loads of the ghibli stuff - mainly for showing my students at Christmas/end of term... does anyone have any recommendations for anime films (other than Spirited Away/Kiki etc etc etc) that are U or PG rated?
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I personally like Urusei Yatsura, its an 80s manga, TV series and set of films. It's probably actually quite shit but I love it. If you are thinking about your pupils it is packed full of cultural references and japanese traditions.

The manga is better though.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
The cartoon (I have not seen the live action one) is shite*.

*Disclaimer - I had to watch a press copy.
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it really is kinda shit

i gave up on it when i realise it really wasn't going to get any better... and that was like 30 episodes in

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sorry the tv anime of blood is shit... the OVA is... ok for animation but the plot is.... kinda non existant
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
You've lost me.

I wish these things were not always about school kids though. Well maybe just Eva, which did so many other things right.
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from what i've seen Mari (the new one) is a well designed charactor but i'm not sure of her yet so whene they realeased dakimakura of the three female pilots i didn't get her one just rei and asuka

i view here a bit like i view mana a charactor from the girlfreind of steel game
http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/girlfriendofsteel.jpg

intresting but not really part of the core story... but i still havn't watched the second movie even though i have a copy
 
Shippou-Chan said:
it really is kinda shit

i gave up on it when i realise it really wasn't going to get any better... and that was like 30 episodes in

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sorry the tv anime of blood is shit... the OVA is... ok for animation but the plot is.... kinda non existant
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this is the one i was refering to:

 
whether japs or japanese movies and OVAs are diffrent things

movies get a theatrical release and are movie lengh say 90min or whatever

OVA (Original Video Animation) are single episodes usually 30 to 45 min in length and are straight to dvd/video/laserdisk

they can be single episodes of popular shows... often the beach or onsen episode or short stand alone series of 2 to 6 episode

now sometimes OVA series are stuck together to form a movie (urotsukidouji is an example of this) but in genral the movie and an ova will be diffrent things
 
Shippou-Chan said:
either japs or japanese the movies and OVAs are diffrent things

movies get a theatrical release and are movie lengh say 90min or whatever

OVA (Original Video Animation) are single episodes usually 30 to 45 min in length and are straight to dvd/video/laserdisk

they can be single episodes of popular shows... often the beach or onsen episode or short stand alone series of 2 to 6 episode

now sometimes OVA series are stuck together to form a movie (urotsukidouji is an example of this) but in genral the movie and an ova will be diffrent things
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Fascinating but it's Japanese, not Japs.
 
it's flashy

it has decent animation and for a lot of people it has a certain nostalgia value that things like GITS and akira have as they were some of the early break out anime and it was possibly the first time anime one ever saw swords and sei fuku .... but after many years of watching various girls in various uniforms fight various monsters you kinda build up an immunity to the wow factor

it's not like the blood OVA is horrible but it lacks substance it is style over content

i know it works better when you consider the extended medium as there is also blood games and manga which expand on the story and the charactior (what is her name again sanya sayo? summin like that) but with out those what is the plot? mysterious girl who is not human cuts up vampire monsters ... and... and... well that's about it
 
it's intresting

in a lot of ways i prefer the two end episodes of the tv version to the ending as portrayed portrayed in end of eva... which although spectacular did lack a real insite into shinji in the way the tv episodes did
 
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