Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Pam (A) on September 03, 2002 at 04:41:42

In Reply to: Have you tried Lain: Serial Experiments.........? posted by Chris Garrett on September 02, 2002 at 20:36:29:

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