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Holy shirt Verb this is fucking great. Please move Eva and Code Geass up to your top priorities and fully watch and review them, PLEASE.
>fully watch
>50 episodes total

you're asking a lot of me
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Dude PLEASE, I want your full unfiltered thoughts on the entirety of both.

>fully watch
>50 episodes total

you're asking a lot of me


 
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Dude PLEASE, I want your full unfiltered thoughts on the entirety of both.
i could probably do eva since it's (apparently) supposed to be the citizen kane of anime, and it's important or whatever

but i'm gonna need a reason to watch code geass all the way through, other than you wanting me to


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Whereas TTGL never took itself seriously at all, Code Geass doesn't know whether or not to take itself seriously. One episode is stupid high school antics and the next one is literally "MUH WAR AND WE WERE KNIGHTS N SHEEIITT!" It's just a stupid fucking roller coaster of nonsense but it was still one Hell of a wild ride when I first watched it.

i could probably do eva since it's (apparently) supposed to be the citizen kane of anime, and it's important or whatever

but i'm gonna need a reason to watch code geass all the way through other than you wanting me to


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Whereas TTGL never took itself seriously at all, Code Geass doesn't know whether or not to take itself seriously. One episode is stupid high school antics and the next one is literally "MUH WAR AND WE WERE KNIGHTS N SHEEIITT!" It's just a stupid fucking roller coaster of nonsense but it was still one Hell of a wild ride when I first watched it.
okay whatever i'll watch them next

eva comes first


 
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huh
I thought you'd at least somewhat enjoy Perfect Blue.


 
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huh
I thought you'd at least somewhat enjoy Perfect Blue.
If I hadn't already seen films like Black Swan or Enemy prior to it, I probably would've enjoyed it a lot more. Though I agree, 4/10 is probably too harsh. In fairness, even if I ultimately enjoyed those two films more, both of them came out several decades after Perfect Blue, so I should probably give it some more credit. Or who knows, maybe part of me just doesn't want to admit that I enjoyed an anime.

If nothing else, I obviously appreciated the underlying themes of "fanservice is cancer; human beings are not mere objects," etc. but at the same time, I felt like how the rape scenes were animated kind of undermined that message a little bit. It fell into the same trap (though to a much lesser extent) as shows like Kill La Kill and that Me!Me!Me! where they flash a bunch of sexualized imagery in your face to prove the point that fanservice is silly. It just seems very counterintuitive, but Perfect Blue was made in the late 80s, so clearly, it's gonna be a bit more tame on that front.

I've talked about this before, but I really think rape scenes have to be filmed or animated very carefully in order to work, and I just haven't seen it done well in an anime yet. It always feels like the animators were jerking themselves off the whole time, which logically goes against the nature of a rape scene, right? You're not supposed to enjoy it. It's not supposed to be erotic, yet it's always shot in a sexually provocative way. That's always annoying.

I also wasn't impressed with the VAing or the art design.

That said, if I rewatched it, it could easily go up to a 5/10 or even a 6/10. I agree that 4/10 is probably too low. A lot of my scores could probably be revised if I gave it a second watch--I'm just short on time these days.
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Also I'm taking over this thread.

May as well rename it to "Verb gives his shitty opinions on anime."


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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woah verb just called his own opinion shitty

what is going on


 
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woah verb just called his own opinion shitty

what is going on
I don't usually like talking about movies in-depth if I've only seen it once, and I'm just recognizing my own massive negative bias towards anime as a medium.

If I went into all anime telling myself "Japan gonna Japan," I'd probably enjoy every single anime I watch. I refuse to do that, though, so my opinions are probably going to be taken seriously by nobody, which is fine by me.


 
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So I saw Grave of the Fireflies and

FUCK

i actually liked that one

i actually REALLY liked that one


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anime is gay


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So I saw Grave of the Fireflies and

FUCK

i actually liked that one

i actually REALLY liked that one

FUCK


 
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So I saw Grave of the Fireflies and

FUCK

i actually liked that one

i actually REALLY liked that one

FUCK
FUG
W


 
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FUCK
GODDAMMIT
I CAN'T GO OUT LIKE THIS, NOT LIKE THIS


 
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stupid-ass fucking anti-war movies with their impossible to disagree or not sympathize with messages and themes

stupid fucking studio ghibli with their tolerably unique art style and animation


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nooooooooooooooooooooooo they cheated

you can't


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so yeah that was fun and all, but honestly, though i enjoyed grave of the fireflies, it's the kind of movie i can only see myself liking less and less the more i watch it, so i don't intend to see it again


 
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i'm conflicted though because now that i've seen something that doesn't make me want to kill people, i don't really know what to do next after ian's suggestions

i could watch something i know i'll hate and waste a lot of my time, or i could watch something with a premise that i like and be upset when i actually end up liking the stupid thing (which i won't)

anime is the worst

the WORST


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After you finish Eva and Code Geass you can watch Your Name. Even filthy fucking Normies are losing their minds over it.