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if you held a gun to my head and asked me to make a 3x3:



i'm only super committed to four of these (they make a Y-shape)

Watch Fist of The North Star. It's really charming and also somewhat hilarious.

i'm surprised i haven't watched it already, given how popular it is

i'm gonna hate it though, spoiler alert

Texhnolyze (Madhouse, 2003, completed) This is a good show. None of you are gonna like it, though. If you know anything about it—and if you know anything about me—then it should come to you as no surprise at all that I wound up liking this one. If you don't know anything about it, then it's going to be very challenging for me to explain the show's appeal, because this is a very challenging show. There's very little to "enjoy" about it from the surface. It's probably one of the darkest and "edgiest" shows ever, with a lot of heavily nihilistic life-sucks-and-then-you-die philosophical musings (and just like that, I lost about 90% of you), but unlike a Berserk, it actually pulls this off very well, and never quite comes off like it's trying too hard, despite how absolutely fucking brutal it can get. I don't think you necessarily have to see eye-to-eye with the show's philosophy to enjoy it (even though it probably helps). Everything that happens is pretty open to interpretation, and you're never exactly told how to feel or how to react to any of it—it just is what it is, and the grim realism and attention to detail with the beautifully presented—albeit visceral and grotesque—backgrounds and character designs adds a lot to this particular style of storytelling. This also helped establish Ichise as one of my new favorite anime protagonists. It's an extremely rare treat when art is able to capture what life is truly all about, and believe me. This show gets it. Also, I'd like to just point out that Markhan—the person who recommended the show to me—is the first person to ever recommend me an anime that I wound up thoroughly enjoying, and nobody else has come within a mile of doing so. So, congrats. Sincerely. This is a special show, and it saddens me that I'll probably never come across anything remotely like it again. It's definitely earned a spot in my top 5. And I mean, I do have my problems with it, but I won't even get into them here. I'm too happy that such a show exists to even criticize it. 7/10*

*This could easily shoot up to an 8 or a 9. I just need to rewatch it a couple times before I make that decision.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) Scratching off some more Miyazaki off the list. I was actually prepared to give this one a 6/10, until I started thinking about it some more. I realized I was only giving it a positive score because it happens to cater to my politics. I think Nausicaä is a great character, and another fine example of the strong, independent, non-sexualized female lead that I'm so perennially fond of. But then again, she's also a bit of a Mary Sue. Then you have the film's overall pro-environment, anti-pollution message—a message that pleases me ideologically, but it's also executed in a rather heavy-handed way. I can't just give a movie points just for being on the right side of all these global or political issues—I have to rate things based on how they're presented, and in this case, I have to be just a little bit harsher, even though I wanted this to be my highest rated Ghibli film. 5/10

The Wind Rises (Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) This is the 6/10 I've been waiting for. As much as I respect the guy, I'm not sure if Miyazaki is capable of making a film that I could rate any higher than that—but this film is, for quite a few reasons, his best movie, and it doesn't surprise me AT ALL that a lot of people consider it among his worst. The story is told in a creative and decidedly un-Miyazaki-like way, but it's still directed in his trademark safe, cuddly, and inoffensive demeanor. The parallels between the Jiro's life and Miyazaki's are striking, and introduces within me a unique kind of fear that I've never felt before beyond trace and fleeting amounts—that the fruits of your creative passions, whether they be flying machines or cartoons, could wind up being used for great incomprehensible evil. That scares the shit out of me, and knowing that Miyazaki himself—being the pioneer that he is—now looks upon the industry he helped build with a cold and almost bitter resentment really gives the film a sense of gravitas that none of his other works have. I think if the film actually explored the consequences of this a little bit more, this could've wound up being a 7/10 or higher. As it is, not a whole lot really happens of substance. At no point does Jiro show any regret for what he's created—because the message of the movie is to encourage innovation in spite of the inevitable abuse your creations will undergo—but it would've made more sense for Jiro to have a stronger emotional reaction to it all, I think, just to give him a greater sense of humanity. Among other issues, too. It's pretty long, and not every scene in the movie is stellar, but it is—as of right now—my favorite of Miyazaki's repertoire. 6/10

Rurouni Kenshin (Studio Gallop, 1996, thirty episodes) It lacks a lot of my least favorite tropes, despite being a shonen, so it's respectable in that regard. I enjoyed it enough to sit through a decent chunk of it, but I kinda just stopped caring after all. It's just too long, and the story is too messy and uneven for me to continue following. The inconsistent quality of the episodes caused me to find myself growing bored with it more often than not. That said, it's one of the better shonen I've ever tried out, but it's still nothing special. 5/10

Katanagatari (White Fox, 2010, six episodes) Almost decided to finish this one, but I couldn't. It was just getting way too stupid, and I've come to the conclusion that everything about the show is utter trash from the art style, character designs, the fucking story, the dialogue, and almost everything else except for the OST and a select few characters which were actually decently likable. The show puts all of its eggs into these small baskets and leaves the rest of the show to rot, and it's a bit of a shitfest. 2/10

i do get the sensation, but it's overshadowed by a larger feeling of irritation

I'm scared

welcome to sep7agon

WTF no pc release?

peasant

Quote from: SecondClass on April 05, 2018, 11:56:13 PM

Quote from: bzkx on April 05, 2018, 11:35:11 PM

insult someone and they fall in love with you

true af tho

you are a sad little man

you honestly have no idea

he has led me to believe that you're just an actor in this elaborate ARG he's been conducting for the past year

Quote from: Shhhhhh on April 05, 2018, 03:48:09 PM

did not grow up with this series, so i'm viscerally repulsed by the old aesthetic

the new one isn't amazing either but eh

what's repulsing about the old

going by this one screenshot

the plainness of that astroturf grass texture, along with that specifically gross shade of green, is really off-putting to me—i don't like to see a lot of just one or two colors everywhere, it's just a nightmare to have to look at

castle in the background looks dull and uninspired, with bland earth tones + no visually striking features whatsoever, like something i'd ignore if i had the choice (compare it with the iconic princess peach's castle from mario 64, a game that i think looks just as shitty overall)

it's just one of those things that hasn't aged particularly well, imo—i understand the limitations of the PS1, but there are games with "worse" graphics than spyro 1 from a technical standpoint that still manage to look more visually appealing to me, like MGS, which came out on the same month, or mario 64, which is a game i don't even like

the new version at least has a lot more colors and dynamics, like some pavement to break the monotony, which is not only sensible but easier on the eyes, and while the new castle is still pretty bland with nothing special about it, i'd still consider it an improvement, just with how acceptably decent it looks

i always thought spyro himself had a pretty cool design, though

Quote from: SecondClass on April 05, 2018, 08:17:28 AM

Quote from: Aether on April 04, 2018, 11:33:17 AM

Called it. This is going to be bad.

didn't call anything

seems like an upstanding fellow to me

shoe0nhead has to be the dumbest bitch on youtube

so basically the least trustworthy person possible