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In Reply to: Re: Princess Mononoke?? posted by Pam on September 01, 2002 at 16:50:10:
David Spear, who's an inmate and lives in Japan, recommended this series to me. I only have the first disc with four (out of 13) episodes, but they're pretty cerebral and certainly qualify as dark.I also have Ghost In A Shell, which along with Akira, is pretty action packed.
Haven't gotten around to watching my copies of Jin-Roh, Armitage: Dual Matrix, Metropolis, Blood: The Last Vampire, Princess Mononoke, or Ninja Scroll. Doing the Sopranos 3rd, lately.
Chris
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Yeah, Lain is pretty strange. I rather like the unusual starkness of some of the art. The opening song "Duvet" is pretty good too. BOA had a CD called "Tall Snakes EP" (don't know if it is still available, I wound up importing it from Japan). It has 3 versions of Duvet on it... the regular opening version, a Cyberia mix (really nice dance version of it) and an acoustic mix (sounds fabulous on my maggies)Ninja Scroll, has a few cool parts but I wasn't that impressed by it. The Rurouni Kenshin OAVs are better. Also, if you like samurai stuff mixed with some legend and a touch of magic, try The Hakkenden... the artwork varies from janitorial staff (must have been short on cash at a few points) to beautiful to sort of a realistic manga style (reminds me of Blade of the Immortal). Based on an 18th-19th century novel that took 28 years to write and came out in 106 volumes. Friend of mine has a brother-in-law who has a professorship in the novel. I'd love to read it, but it has never been translated into English, though I've heard that it has recently been translated to modern Japanese (was written in the classical style). Here's a site about it http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~opaku/shogun/index.html Naturally, the anime version can't do justice to it and gets a bit confusing in places but this site should help http://members.tripod.com/~muromachi1333/main.html
I remember the recommendation for that one on the board. I did start with Seven Samurai and have been moving forward since with some movies. I have not been able to find Lain and I'm not willing to buy movies and start a collection. I have only a limited budget and I'd rather only rent what I can find.BTW, I did not like Ghost in the Shell. I started watching Metropolis last night and only got through the first hour. Not sure it is my cup of tea but I'll watch the rest since it is a 1 week rental. Akira will be next up when the person who rented it from Blockbuster returns it.
GiTS is noted for it's CGI and its philosophical questions, rather than its entertainment value. Doesn't really do justice to the manga either (that has a whole section on the components to build an artifical consciousness)... a lot of cybernetics and sci-fi blue-skying that really doesn't translate well into video. Mostly ideas about our concept of humanity, what forms this thing we call "identity" and what will happen when medical technology gets to the point that most of our bodies can be replaced (already have artifical hearts) and we become cyborgs, and if cybernetics gets to the point where machines can become self-aware, what would distinguish us from them, etc.
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