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As much as I hate Family Guy, it had a funny parody of the Hitchcock scene.

I cannot watch Bareback Mountain. XD

On Lust, Caution, which I never watched: Makes sense to me. Look at 50 Shades of Gray. Women are obsessed with being dominated and raped, even to the point of fantasizing about it and have more fetishistic/violent impulses when it comes to their smut by default. And the women who swoon over murderers of children and serial killers, so long as he's somewhat handsome and has that dangerous, dominant energy. XD

That's weird about the theater group, though, wtf...

Right, he doesn't seem to standout much at all in the animation department, though those might not be the best selection. He makes more sense to be selected for directing/writing/storyboarding. Idolmaster is so moe! XD It's so ironic to see him animating on idolmaster after he made the biggest F U out there to the idol industry! XD

Oh, so grotesquely Freudian. Bet he's a big fan of those train going into the tunnel shots. XD

I remembered not liking it and it starts off a bit slow, but I like it now.

I'm suspicious of his animation credits because you'd expect an animation director for a big film like that to have a bunch of animation credits. Maybe most of them aren't listed. This site link lists animation director, but there is an error indicating a lack of source. My guess is that he is an assistant director in the case of Akira, as is listed on that site, and just like with Little Nemo. He has some other animation credits here, but I don't really know. There are also a few instances I know of of two animators with the same name.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=6410

Well, believe it or not, IMDB is the place that has the most animation or art related credits for him:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766486/

I don't really know. :\

Yeah, I blame everything on Choi. I've been suspicious of her for a long time. Saru is also heavily western-pandering and subtly (and not so subtly) political more so than the average studio and constantly getting Netflix infusions (a lot of the other companies selling their souls to Netflix are not nearly as panderish). I can honestly see Yamada having an easier time working with Yuasa. I wouldn't mind watching that new film of hers, and I figured it would be out by now. Really hopeful to see the first Yuasa announcement.

I'm thinking someone involved with Perfect Blue had to have seen Key the Metal Idol. I would very much say it's Lynch (there's even an explicit Eraserhead reference) + Lain + PB. And it predates Evangelion and the more experimental works that are often thought to have been influenced by Evangelion. It's the most cynical take I've ever seen on idols and the entertainment industry. I'm guessing it killed Sato's chance at writing/directing anything serious again, and most of his credits are like fucking hentai scripting and random bullshit! XD

You should PTW it if you think it looks interesting. Unlikely that you'll like it as much as me, though, because while I can be extremely harsh, I'm also very forgiving of certain flaws, and Key has problems similar to Evangelion at the end. :S

I think it makes perfect sense because it seemed like he didn't understand what went into running a studio and it kind of got hijacked. I'm not sure of all the details. Quite a number of more obscure people in the industry end up doing a bit of studio-founder hopping. But, yeah, Saru track record wasn't that great. I'd add their Time Machine spin-off of Tatami Galaxy as well. Everything else is pretty much not worth noting other than for aesthetics. And as much as I enjoyed Eizouken, it can be a bit repetitive and isn't amazing or anything. Yuasa-Shinkai seems like they would clash too much, not just in terms of technical style but also tone and story. They're opposites, but I guess that's why you posed the idea, as it might result in something interesting? It might be interesting to see a more typical Shinkai film using a style closer to Lu Over the Wall but with somewhat more realistic-looking characters. I don't know why Shinkai is so beholden to this kind of realism. Gets a bit tiresome. Maybe this SARU could be used as a prototype, but make it more fantastical.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/53747/Kimi_no_Iro

Oh, awesome, I'm looking forward to the Jumping animator's short! Oh, I'm sure I will suffer through Suzume. It looks like one of his worst. I dunno, I feel like there are maybe a few others still around that would, but I can't say which... You know Masaaki Yuasa started a new studio? Which I'm very glad about. I reckon he probably learned a lesson from that, based on his differences with the production side. I could see Yuasa also willing to do something like that maybe, but I'm not sure if he's mostly going to work on originals or what.

ToZ is more similar to the former and quite atmospheric and slow. Though his Come Drink with Me is more like the latter. Those are his two key films. The other ones aren't mentioned as often and aren't as well liked. I don't know, but I have more faith in this author over the Planetes author, so I bet it would have potential for a good adaptation. Unfortunately, NT is more like a cult classic for 80s fans, and neither Time Stranger nor Psychic Wars are that well known, so I'm not expecting anything else from that author to be adapted, and the anime industry is so LN focused. Honestly, I think Psychic Wars should be more popular because it's fairly similar to Makoto Shinkai, but I think it's better and more meaningful than everything he directed, with maybe only Your Name being possible competition. It also helps that, even though PW also focuses on personal relationships, the author's writing makes what is expressed feel broader than what Shinkai does. It's about love and connections, even if it focuses on a few characters, but something like Weathering with You is very much focused on that one romance and is weaker thematically and seems narrower with the emotions it's expressing.

lol, did you know the author of Time Stranger and Psychic Wars was also the creator for Neo Tokyo? I guess it must have been based on his short stories or something:

https://myanimelist.net/people/18711/Taku_Mayumura

Oh, it's the shadow bastard mystery trick that it's using? It comes across really weird with the way they define the form and make the eyes so clear. Would work better as more of a pure silhouette, I think. lmao, that spinoff.

Ang Lee seemed like a potentially interesting director, but I never felt any movie other than CTHD looked all that good. Doesn't help that he was absorbed by Hollywood. Have you ever looked into King Hu's Touch of Zen? That's what a lot of these newer wuxia were heavily influenced by.

These kind of crossover things rarely turn out well, and this seems like an especially odd one. Looks like the villain is a guy in a gimp suit in that film... :)

Yeah, ML is a huge improvement for GoHands style, and I can see how Hand Shakers was a technical pilot of sorts for that style. I'm guessing the problem is partly that these are sort of simulated long takes and it's like we're a magnet attached to the main characters. What helps ML out is they're not afraid to use stills and rely on animation for movement, and they have many cuts to other things or characters in the environment rather than being tethered to the object of interest. I don't think there is any way to make Hand Shakers fully palatable except to go with a different editing style, and it would take a lot of effort to make it work. @__@

Interesting video.

Lupin X Conan? That must be silly. Never heard of that. :\

lol, yeah, that's basically what Momentary Lily is like, only I think it's probably not as extreme and slows down a lot. It definitely has a movement that seems reminiscent of AoT but it ends up feeling more like a spastic fighting game.

https://www.sakugabooru.com/post?tags=momentary_lily

Script is steaming dog confetti, though.

Maybe I should try more Obayashi. I mostly only saw Hausu and his experimental shorts, and I'm not sure I was too into the "normal" one that I saw, but I'm not sure which one it was. Oh, I don't know if GoHands is that bad. MS actually looks pretty decent, but the color gradient is a fairly rough slap-on affair that looks okay for a grimy cyberpunk film, but it's definitely not handled with as much artistry, and it's a relatively trashy film. lol, maybe take a look at the trailer for their Momentary Lily. Seems imaginative in an otakuslop amnesiac CGDCT kind of way and featuring lots of detailed hair animation for moe. XD

lol, I haven't used that translator in a while. XD

Psychic School Wars also had two live-action adaptations, one from Obayashi, who made a lot of romance and drama films but is most well known for Hausu.

What is GoHands? XD

Lol, I just saw this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9x9j89evxo

Trump and Melania were also pumping some shitcoins here recently. XD

I wonder if this is going to be the new trend for world leaders.

No, it's a good bit grander in scale than that and quite an interesting journey in different lands. The world is much better than most isekai. The shitty title does make it sound like that's what you'd get, though, lol.

Blah, I wouldn't mind trying TK, but I'm thinking I'll try to finish more of the 20+ episode series I'm part way through first. It does suffer from OVA syndrome. Maybe cut together in a non-ideal way and unfinished, of course. :(

https://myanimelist.net/anime/14293/Nerawareta_Gakuen

I guess you should probably add this to your PTW. I didn't know it was the same author as Time Stranger. Some of what's there is already giving me a similar vibe, but this feels more like a Makoto Shinkai romance. Lovely visuals and with that crystal at the beginning, I think the flashy colors feel more conceptually rooted and the color gradients are much smoother than stuff like, say, Mardock Scramble and other shows that use them in kind of a rough way.