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Man y'all really like talking about the old stuff.
Miyazaki makes films for young girls. I'm not a young girl so he doesn't appeal to me. I prefer Hosoda because his works deal with family which is something I can relate to (and because I've met him). I love Shinkai because his works are more somber or sad and are usually 'boy meets girl' stories.

I will say I only recently saw The Cat Returns and it was awesome.
 
An Ghost said:
Man y'all really like talking about the old stuff.
Miyazaki makes films for young girls. I'm not a young girl so he doesn't appeal to me. I prefer Hosoda because his works deal with family which is something I can relate to (and because I've met him). I love Shinkai because his works are more somber or sad and are usually 'boy meets girl' stories.

I will say I only recently saw The Cat Returns and it was awesome.
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Miyazaki = old stuff?

Tell me when you're willing to talk about Horus, Prince of the Sun or Animal Treasure Island.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
Miyazaki = old stuff?

Tell me when you're willing to talk about Horus, Prince of the Sun or Animal Treasure Island.
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Don't get me wrong, people talk about films from 1965 because they're classics for a reason. I just pretty much exclusively watch shows that are airing this season.
 
Sometimes I just adore German dubs:

Seriously though, I love comparing various dubs. I find videos like these super interesting:
 
NotAKitty said:
Thanks to a mis-spent youth watching German dubs of Sailor Moon when I was skiing, I'm now unable to say Tuxedo Mask without resorting to a German accent.
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Oh man, I've been there! Gotta hand it to them, some of the techno\trance openings they've made for animes such as Sailor Moon or Mega Man very pretty dope.
 
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So apparently TFS were supposed to be in DBZ Kai, and Toei cockblocked it. Luckily, someone managed to grab it:
 
meatslab said:
I really wanted to hate this show so much but it's so god damn cute.

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Catgirls are Love said:
It's one of those shows where if you're not familiar with the source material, you expect something completely generic and uninteresting. I'm guessing it's coming as quite the surprise to anyone who hadn't read the manga and knew what kind of humor to expect.
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This when I watched the intro for the first time I was like "oh shit, this is it, this is the weird anime that will result in my room turning into a trash neet den." Mostly because of how fucking weird the opening is.

Instead the whole thing had me pleasantly surprised.

Steamboat_Bill said:
At what point will the world realize Miyazaki simply hasn't been good since Sherlock Hound?
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When Studio Ghibli stops fucking tanking every time there isn't some sort of Miyazaki attached to direct or tell a story.

I think when they named their documentary "The Kingdom of Madness" they didn't realise they've cursed themselves into a monarchy.

samuraicrack said:
because most of the time miyazaki's films are shit we saw as kids but no one wants to admit that they're mediocre due to nostalgia

i tried watching nausicaa a while back again and it was embarrassing how much of a mary sue the MC is
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Laputa: Castle in the Sky remains my favourite anime movie, because it was the first time I'd really watched anything by Studio Ghibli and it was the first time I realised that this medium could be beautiful. I'd been introduced like everyone else some 20 years ago (!) via the mindfuck that was Evangelion and some years later to the joys of Full Metal Panic! some 15 years ago, but it wasn't until Laputa I realised it could be insanely wonderful.

Now, the story itself is clearly hacked short in the end third, the voice acting is either janky or hilarious depending on which version (Mouska is an exposition spewing dick regardless of if its Mark Hamil or not) and today its not as pretty as some of the stuff drawn or CGI'd today by other studios.

But its a first love, and sometimes, sometimes that's enough to bring a smile back to your face.

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One flying under the radar for me is ACCA 13. A genuinely good slow-burn story in an anime TV show which deals with the fate of a nation seemingly in the balance. It's a sort of light political intrigue story that's a tad deeper than its surface shows.

Also a nice soundtrack and pretty gorgeous visuals throughout.
 
Kobayashi is AOTS. You guys judge shit way to quick (which is fine) when there are seemingly so many degenerate weebs here to ask what isn't completely trash. You might also enjoy Gabriel DropOut.
 
Hui said:
Kobayashi is AOTS. You guys judge shit way to quick (which is fine) when there are seemingly so many degenerate weebs here to ask what isn't completely trash. You might also enjoy Gabriel DropOut.
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Satania is fucking gold through that entire show.

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ShittyRecolor said:
Oh man, such delicious cringe!
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Italy and France has had a colorful history of creating their own theme tunes to anime as well.
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It really came down to how do you sell a show, and Haim Saban knew that very well back in France.
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I don't know if this was the actual opening or some kind of advertising, but Brazil did this with Digimon:

 
Ponderous Pillock said:
When Studio Ghibli stops fucking tanking every time there isn't some sort of Miyazaki attached to direct or tell a story.
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Isn't Isao Takahata retired as well? He was probably one of the most talented people at Ghibli, but by the time he got there, that was kind of when his best days got behind him. He was, after all, the man who directed Horus, Prince of the Sun and Goshu the Cellist and three of the best WMT shows...

So, no wonder they tank whenever Miyazaki isn't around.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
Isn't Isao Takahata retired as well? He was probably one of the most talented people at Ghibli, but by the time he got there, that was kind of when his best days got behind him. He was, after all, the man who directed Horus, Prince of the Sun and Goshu the Cellist and three of the best WMT shows...

So, no wonder they tank whenever Miyazaki isn't around.
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No, Takahata's still going, also his first job at Ghibli was directing Grave of the Fireflies, so I wouldn't say it was his best days behind him by any stretch of the imagination. He's probably getting close to wanting to step back or cut his workload way down.

It's kind of like a George Lucas effect, where everyone defers to them and then either fawns too much, or falls apart when he's not there driving them properly forward.

The biggest hurdle to this I can think of is that the other people in Ghibli cannot mimic his working style of storyboards first, script afterwards. It's insanely difficult to master because a number of his films could operate almost entirely as near silent pieces before dialogue is added on. The best example would be Kiki's Delivery Service, which with a couple of scenes removed can in essence be a completely silent film and do well.

The traditional workflow is used the world over for a reason, but it seems when Ghibli also tries to do that... it creates a sub par project.
 
Down The Rabbit Hole's Fredrik Knudsen tackles Anime and the Otaku in this first part (mostly history, and there are a few errors I spotted but pretty well put together context-wise).
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
No, Takahata's still going, also his first job at Ghibli was directing Grave of the Fireflies, so I wouldn't say it was his best days behind him by any stretch of the imagination. He's probably getting close to wanting to step back or cut his workload way down.

It's kind of like a George Lucas effect, where everyone defers to them and then either fawns too much, or falls apart when he's not there driving them properly forward.

The biggest hurdle to this I can think of is that the other people in Ghibli cannot mimic his working style of storyboards first, script afterwards. It's insanely difficult to master because a number of his films could operate almost entirely as near silent pieces before dialogue is added on. The best example would be Kiki's Delivery Service, which with a couple of scenes removed can in essence be a completely silent film and do well.

The traditional workflow is used the world over for a reason, but it seems when Ghibli also tries to do that... it creates a sub par project.
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Wasn't Kiki Miyazaki though?
 
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