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Topic Started: Aug 19 2012, 08:10 PM (22,281 Views)
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So I just found a subtitled trailer for Miyazaki's new movie, "The Wind Rises", and I have to say that it does look quite interesting... Even more interesting to note is that this is said to be his most unique film to date, and that it apparently angered a lot of his fans and conservatists or some shit like that...

 
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Aug 15 2013, 12:37 AM
it apparently angered a lot of his fans and conservatists or some shit like that...
AFAIK that movie is anti-war and conservatives get all flustered about that coz apparently it's a new thing that Miyazaki is anti-violence. Not to mention it's about a plane that served during WWII and that topic is kind of a landmine among this kind of people.
These people are just a bunch of nationalists who get all angry when we say that Japan indeed did some bad things during WWII or any kind of criticism towards their country, really. Added to this anti-war movie, Miyazaki also made a statement in response to the criticism, which wasn't exactly the most appealing statement for nationalists (e.g. he asks that the Japanese government makes an official apology for Korean comfort women during WWII - for the record, a conservative politico denied Korean comfort women ever existed not so long ago).

Can't say a majority of his fans like the movie, since I don't have any source, but critics acclaimed it and it's been very successful so far.

Angry assholes are just the loudest people and assholes are everywhere, in Japan too. So I wouldn't make a generalization from them.
Edited by Tiennou, Aug 15 2013, 05:16 AM.
 
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I'm bored, throw some random anime at me that I should watch. I don't care if I've seen it before, I haven't watched through any in ages so.

Preferably something that ISN'T 100+ episodes, also Giant Robots is a +
Edited by aiunit92, Aug 15 2013, 05:47 AM.
 
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Full Metal Panic ? I heard it was pretty good and I think it's got giant robots.
 
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Been meaning to watch that one at some point, I have heard good things about it. Sounds good to me.

edit: Sweet I can watch it all on funimations website for free.
Edited by aiunit92, Aug 15 2013, 06:26 AM.
 
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Aug 15 2013, 12:37 AM
Wait, was she crying blood at the end...? Probs just paint, but looked reallly strange
 
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So, reading some random news has led me to something interesting... But it might also turn out to be rather bad...

So, there's this dude called Shizen no Teki-P (or Jin, for short), who is a "well known" writer and composer of Vocaloid songs. Now, he has a series of songs related to eachother called the "Kagerou Project" (or the "Heat-Haze Project"). This later apparently got its own novel and manga adaptions, with the characters from the music videos and somehow relating to the story (didn't really read up too much about this, tbh).

So, I found out that they're doing an anime adaption of this, called "Mekaku City Actors". The release date is still to be revealed, but the director of this will be Akiyuki Shinbo (Madoka, Bakemonogatari), and the studio working on it will be Shaft (Monogatari series, Madoka).
So yea... Sort of excited because I like vocaloids, I like the director, and I definitely like Shaft, but then again it all comes down to how gripping or interesting of a story you can make out of this, or if it'll mostly be a huge vocaloid music video...

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Code Geass has giant robots.

And only 50 episodes.
 
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Sword Art Online - 9/10
 
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Aug 15 2013, 05:47 AM
I'm bored, throw some random anime at me that I should watch. I don't care if I've seen it before, I haven't watched through any in ages so.

Preferably something that ISN'T 100+ episodes, also Giant Robots is a +
Late response, but Shangri La, Shakugan no Shana, or Hell Girl.
 
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Aug 17 2013, 02:35 PM
Late response, but Shangri La, Shakugan no Shana, or Hell Girl.
How would you say "Hell Girl" is, actually?

I've never actually heard anything about it from anyone, really...
 
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Aug 17 2013, 12:51 PM
Sword Art Online - 9/10
Characters 8 out of ten.


That's a little to high.
 
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May be, but what I said and my overall score stands. In any case, I did really like the characters.
 
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Sword Art Online is meh. I tried my best to stay interested, but the only aspect of shows in general that keep me going are the depth of the characters, and how they progress as individuals throughout the series. I find that the good guys should always present lower expectations from viewers than the bad guys. The reason for this being that the conflict itself typically originates from any antagonist, and a petty justification for that conflict really turns me away from watching a show. This doesn't mean I want the protagonists to be your ordinary white knights who saves the day, because I hate that. I'm only presenting a point.

Bad guys with intentional, perceived goals, and conflicts of their own combined with similar protagonists tend to make for shows I'll want to stick around watching for quite awhile. Sword Art Online didn't do that for me.
 
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Aug 17 2013, 03:59 PM
Sword Art Online is meh. I tried my best to stay interested, but the only aspect of shows in general that keep me going are the depth of the characters, and how they progress as individuals throughout the series. I find that the good guys should always present lower expectations from viewers than the bad guys. The reason for this being that the conflict itself typically originates from any antagonist, and a petty justification for that conflict really turns me away from watching a show. This doesn't mean I want the protagonists to be your ordinary white knights who saves the day, because I hate that. I'm only presenting a point.

Bad guys with intentional, perceived goals, and conflicts of their own combined with similar protagonists tend to make for shows I'll want to stick around watching for quite awhile. Sword Art Online didn't do that for me.
Accel World had SO much character development. In all honesty, the only reason I didn't like it that much was due to the fat kid as the main character, but he changes so much through out the series. There's no real antagonist until near the end of the series, but I think you should at least check it out.
 
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