good art is good but i wish more anime were better. well that’s my hot take, seeya
but also, fiction doesn’t matter in 2017 because we’re already living in a relentlessly updating and bizarre, paralysingly frightening dreadzone
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I don’t know. I feel like it’s impossible to get anyone to engage with anything now. Everyone is so deep down their own backlogs thanks to piracy or Netflix or whatever. I know that if someone were to recommend me a movie right now I would add it to a three hundred plus long list.
Maybe I suck at selling people on media? I don’t think I’ve ever recommended something to someone and they liked it as much as I did if they ever even got around to it?
penguindrum was 2011. maybe the weakest ikuhara show but still of value.
I thought it was bad for ikuhara and kind of redundant next to the rest of his stuff
The only thing good about penguindrum is the opening songs etsuko yakushimura did for it
well they are definitely the best part,
like i said i do think it’s his weakest show but not redundant. even if just for how it can reframe some of his other work.
cracks knuckles
actually -
i haven’t watched most of the stuff on this list, oops.
I’ve seen too much of the stuff on this list
Some of it is just down right offensive in quality
New list :
-Akira
-Legend of the Galactic Heroes
-some other stuff that’s also pretty good
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the cowboy bebop myth probably comes from the fact that it’s associated with outlaw star in the us and uk, and outlaw star really is forgotten and obscure in japan
outlaw star only has a memorable ending theme.
Outlaw Star did nothing for me when I caught it on Cartoon Network. But I was getting sick of DBZ by then so I probably wasn’t the target audience.
I really liked the first one or two episodes of Outlaw Star, but I thought it turned to shit after that and quick. It always surprises me that people love that show. Makes me ask myself what I am missing with the show.
I guess Card Captor is good but I can’t do magical girl anime. So I will just take your guys word for it and continue to never watch it.
Some people just can’t appreciate the subtleties of spaceships with axes I guess.
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I can’t even remember the ship having an ax.
To be fair to the show I did watch it during a period of my life where I was at my most cynical outlook on just about everything and especially anime. I wonder if I would dig it now if I re-watched it.
you can probably watch tweeny witches
yes despite that title (I don’t know why they decided to give it that title in the US)
1-3) castle in the sky / akira / mononoke
4) dragon ball
5) bebop
6-100) shut up
No Speed Racer?
No Speed Racer.
No Speed Racer! Noooooo!
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Outlaw Star was the first piece of media that made me think about weird worldbuilding. Maybe I missed the explanations in the show, but it appeared that several aspects of the universe were understood by the characters without concern for explaining it to the audience, which I found more compelling. It felt like there was a lot more going on than I would get to see. Stuff like how the caster shells were given numbers instead of explanatory names (I know there was a banned bath house episode that explained it, I never saw it), and the weird juxtaposition of space travel and taoist magic. Funnily enough, the next anime I’d watch that gave me that same feeling was Dennou Coil!
Also it’s fucking hilarious that the space ships had arms that wielded guns and axes instead of just making the weapons a part of the goddamn ship.
the best thing outlaw star ever tried to explain was grappler ships and it actually makes perfect sense.
see, a lot of sci-fi glosses over that space combat wouldn’t strictly emulate naval ship-to-ship on ocean surface combat. the presence of a z axis in space means that a bunch of ships with only forward facing and portside guns could be rendered useless. outlaw star explains grappler ships as taking away that problem because arms can aim in any direction and it’s the smartest + dumbest thing ever and I love it.
also it means all of the outlaw star ships have cute designs.
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