Serial Experiments Lain.

I was rewatching a couple of episodes and I had forgotten how eerie and creepy this one was.

The Persona 4 English dub is funny (good) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIERguCzJD0

I have been craving for a Sky Crawlers video essay and I’m happy to see STEVEM deliver.

This is one of his better videos in my opinion, and he did his research well and covered perhaps everything there is to talk about the movie although some sections felt cut a bit too short. Particularly on Jean Baudrillard who I think has been highly influential in many of Oshii’s films.

I hope STEVEM (or anyone else) would make a video on Oshii’s live action films too. I think that side of Oshii is often overlooked by his anime fans.

Oh wow that’s Senjougahara Hitagi’s birthday

“Irish Wristwatch” is really hard ngl

You can actually reset the cards the arcana stages give you by completely abandoning your current IT progress. It’s still possible to get the same cards for both stages again because that’s how random works… but usually at least one of them will be different than on your previous attempt.

I only learned about this last night after I claimed the card 😭

MY WIFE

Your Name is always a good choice.

It’s a movie so newcomers don’t need to invest a lot of time to finish it. It’s visually stunning, the soundtrack sticks with you, the narrative starts simple but becomes increasingly complex and memorable. It fits into most age brackets and its not marketed toward one gender only.

I think it’s still widely available for streaming too so it should still be pretty accessible.

Here’s mine. I kind of cheated with the last three though.

I didn’t particularly enjoy The Sky Crawlers as much compared to other films that I did not include in the list but I often use these type of threads to suggest works that aren’t commonly suggested anyway. Sky Crawlers doesn’t have the same meditative feeling you get from watching other Oshii Mamoru films but Oshii always had a very complex understanding of war and its relation to media and global politics (see Patlabor and the Kerberos Saga) which are often absent in many war-themed films.

The next one, Genius Party, is a collection of short films. I don’t think short films get enough discourse within the anime community but if you’re looking for originality in anime this is often the place to go. There’s one short there with a yapping salaryman and sitting through it makes me want to jump off the roof for fun but in the end I realized that’s kind of the point. The life of a salaryman is mundane and boring. Thank god it was a short film.

Last one is from Koji Yamamura. I actually didn’t enjoy this one as much as his other short films like Atama Yama, Inaka Isha, and Muybridge’s Strings but I think Dozens of Norths is the only one that could be classified as a feature length film.

I was only added as a mod because the previous top mod left Lemmy.

I think I can make a post over there and a survey.

Finished Oshii Mamoru’s Kerberos Movie Trilogy with Jin-Roh. It’s the only animated film in the trilogy and it’s a lot more serious than the other two films (they are all very good IMO).

I was debating whether to submit a clip of Fuse being a killing machine or this one but I really liked the human emotions he displayed here that we never get to see in any part of the film and yet he still ultimately plays the role of the wolf.

I use Strawberry for playing music and MusicBrainz Picard for file renaming and cover art.

I like how the anecdotes are just part of the world so you would be claiming your dailies from Katheryne and suddenly Varka shows up inquiring about his wine shipment.

It would be so funny if Capitano would suddenly show up right next to you one day lol

Really love what they made. Even if it’s just 15 minutes long it’s nice to revisit the alternate worlds of Eva, this included. Eva is timeless.

Kami wa ita 🙏

In the video, it’s framed that the world thinks manga is a “uniquely Japanese” thing but the video counters that by using Eike Exner’s book on manga history.

I did not finish the video yet (this is just the first minute or two) but I am going to guess that it’s either the Meiji period or the American occupation having influence on how manga eventually developed to what we know today. This is the same argument used by theorists like Azuma Hiroki but he talks about otaku culture more broadly.

Again, I did not finish it yet so…

The CORS headers should be there now. I managed to get my account from another homeserver to join. Also, someone else managed to join just fine from another homeserver. Can you try again?

Can you try #general-alt:ani.social ?

okay anyone who saw my message in the chatroom please try joining #general:ani.social again

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