Anime for metalheads

bartosso wrote: Polymorphia wrote: bartosso wrote: Polymorphia wrote: Watched the movie Colorful a couple days ago. I liked it quite a bit. Never heard of it, what's the gist? Like, what kind of anime is it? An unnamed soul who has passed on is given a "second chance" at life in the body of a 14 year old boy who has recently committed suicide. It's kind of a drama but, obviously with some supernatural elements. While the subtext is dark, the tone is surprisingly light, or, rather, bittersweet. Based on a Japanese novel of the same name. Sounds cool. Have you watched Paprika?

No, but I plan to sometime. I need to watch more of Satoshi Kon's work in general.

^Have you seen the first Mushishi series?

Valdis wrote: Polymorphia wrote: ^Have you seen the first Mushishi series? Nope. It's its prequel, isn't it? I'll take a look..

Indeed. I would definitely recommend it. I'm watching Zoku Shou as well.

bartosso wrote: Pretty cool psychological horror + the ridiculous auto-tune metalcore opening, still better than most.

I read the manga long time ago. It was awesome.

So, I've finished the show and I must say I'm not completely sold on it. On one hand it has a good premise and classy plot, on the other hand, it's tad too moralizing (a trait many anime hold). Still I liked the unexpected outcomes of some of the protagonist's dilemmas and the more seinen than shounen approach to storytelling. Generally a very good show with some problems. 

Amazing OST, amazing show, jesus I love Yoko Kanno. 

Don't know if Watamote was brought up. Hilarious anime, featuring what appears to be japan's version of ADTR playing the theme song. 

Edited by aglasshouse - 10 Jul 2015 at 5:57pm

Watching Bakemonogatari. Don't know how I feel about it, yet.

It started off rocky, but now I'm getting into it. The art is obviously amazing. But it was distracting at first and didn't seem to be trying to create any sort of mood or unified aesthetic. The dialogue seemed contrived at first, too. But once the pacing started to slow down, everything fell into place. It should have started with a better exposition of the characters. But I think the creators didn't want you to grow tired of them. Still, it's taken some time for me to grow any sort of attachment to them, because they didn't develop them that well in the first two arcs. Really, it seems like the entire show tries very hard not to be boring, maybe in order to compensate for the long dialogue sequences.

I'd agree, but, at least from my experience, Murakami actually provides a ton of character exposition before progressing too far into the plot. That said, he does write in novel form. It's interesting to see that kind of form adapted to anime. I can't say I wasn't intrigued from the beginning, either. Just mostly from an intellectual standpoint and not from an aesthetic one, at first.

Edited by Polymorphia - 28 Dec 2015 at 12:03am