Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Jigoku Shoujo 3?

I just heard a rumor that there will be a third season, I practically wet myself out of happiness. Also am on the lookout for any other creepy series. Have no more hangover. Am happy.

Sunday, 27 January 2008

Lupin III: Kiri no Elusive

Overall rating:7
The story is weak. Really, really weak, but the animation and the feeling of the movie as a whole is so nostalgic. This is the first time I noticed that they returned to the drawing style of the first series, which I will forever hold as the original. It was also somehow similar to Castle of Caligostro, right down to the original little Beetle and a cameo by Clarissa (granted, she was merely a sign on a truck that drove by, but it's the thought that matters). The expressions, the way they grinned at one another and a silly moment by Goemon were all so similar to those I saw in the first series and in Miyazaki's work. Not to mention the opening and ending sequence and the song, which they took from the first series.
The humor was also something out of the 70's, especially the moment in the boat where the small boy asks Lupin, Jigen and Goemon their names, while referring to them as 'old men' at which Lupin and Jigen do a comical moment announcing themselves in funny voices as "Old Man number one - Lupin!" and "Old Man number two - Jigen!" unconsciously pushing Goemon to keep up with the act and him saying "Old Man number three-"before remembering himself and just saying "Ishikawa Goemon" in an unnecessarily low tone.
It was nice, something for a person, who misses the sweet charm of Castle of Caligostro, but doesn't have too high expectations. This is something light with animation that quite good.

Sunday, 20 January 2008

Naruto Shippuden ep 42

I seem to enjoy the anime less and less, were it not for the seductive seme'ness of Kabuto I would stop. That and the recent background music are holding me on a leash. It just seemes so slow and they keep using more and more CG. I would prefer bad hand animation to mid core CG.
Feeling sad, after all I used to have such a connection to this anime.

Sunday, 25 November 2007

Paprika



Director:
Satoshi Kon
Overall Rating: 9

Impression: Just got back from watching, maybe it was the big screen, which makes all emotions seem larger but the movie still makes my knees wobble. As I stood on the bus stop I was afraid to breath, fearing that something important will disappear. Some bits (very few, might I add!) were slow but the procession, the tension, the animation and the story more than made up for it. As with any movie, i also got teary at one point))
It was so scary, so beautiful, so touching and both the protagonists and the antagonists were right to some extent. It made you doubt what is really real, what is really right. Made me jealous that I will never be able to create something like that, after all - it has already been made by Kon.

Wednesday, 21 November 2007

PÖFF

Yay! PÖFF is starting, am at the same time happy and miserable: I want to see all Chinese, Japanese and Korean movies but there are so many of them and an Iranian movie sounds interesting but I doubt that I will ever squeeze enough money out of both mother and polli. P.K. said that he might work there for a while so he could sneak me in, but it would be damn embarrassing if I kept popping up every day, he could get fired an all. Hmm... life is full of difficult choices.

Saturday, 17 November 2007

Zero no Tsukaima

Overall: 3
Average Boy-meets-Girl story. The art doesn't help on account of there being very little. Story is kinda weak as well.
The style is exactly the kind I dislike: all round and shiny.
The actual story: Girl lives in magical world, which has all to many HP references. Can't do anything, how original, then summons Boy into her reality and they happily fall in love for no actual reason apart from hating the sight of each other.

Ayakashi

Overall score: 7
Bad side: since the arcs were all done by different people then the animation style and the animation itself weren't always what you'd hope them to be.
Good side:
  • the stories had nothing to do with each other so every time you had the nice feeling of anticipation because you had no idea what's going to happen.
  • They different styles were rather refreshing
  • The opening song is bloody addictive and the opening was redrawn for each arc so that all-an-all it would be the same but the elements in it would be ones that had something to do with the current arc.
Advice: Skip the Goddess in the Dark Tower and just go for the other two. Also get yourself the opening song and go insane happily. Although the Bake Neko arc does lose to the actual Mononoke it is still nice, even though you can feel that they hadn't really gotten to grips with the style.