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Hi, I'm trying to start a club for critical and knowledgable anime fans. I came across your account in the "World Masterpiece Theater" club and you seem to fit the bill. The two purposes of the club are to foster community via the club Discord server, and to create a robust poll of the "greatest anime of all time", voted on by members in a thread on the front page of the club. Each member would post their personal top ten list in the thread, titled "Post Your Top Ten", and then eventually I will compile all the lists into a final aggregate. Here's the link to the club if you're interested: https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=92948

And post your list of the ten best anime of all time here: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2208449

Thanks. Amiability is always appreciated. I watched it. Pretty good.

Hello, there. You have commented on a Osamu Tezuka short film called Memory. Where did you watch it, if you will?

Nice programming screenshots. It's strange shows never use syntax highlighting. It always makes things look more cryptic, albeit cooler.

Ihatov Gensou: Kenji no Haru ("Spring and Chaos") was the best anime film I've ever seen. It's the Tarkovsky of anime. Its poetic depth was incredible. I'm going to read Kenji Miyazawa's poetry after watching this.

I watched an interview, skimmed his Wiki, and watched a short biography to make sure I got the nuances of the film. I'll rewatch Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru tonight.

I found a perfect quote to describe Spring and Chaos:

"Yet even these poems can never attain to any wide popularity, nor can they ever have much weight with practical intelligences that shun the evanescent world of revery where the real and the unreal meet and blend together in indistinguishable twilight. For this atmosphere is one of indulgent brooding; their warp and woof are of the stuff of dreams woven by a mind that turns from the actual issues of life as a naked body cowers from the wind. The world is seen through a haze of abstraction, glimmeringly, as a landscape looms misty and vague through the falling, fluttering veil of the rain. Indeed it is noteworthy, how many of the poems descriptive of nature..." - cool passage from a review on Arthur Symons

My favorite Russian poem, by the way, is Osip Mandelstam's "The sea-shell".

Is Aoi Blink as heartfelt as Unico?

If you ever feel like playing games, I recommend checking out Earthbound (Mother 2) and Mother 3. Something tells me you'd love them based off your tastes.

Have you ever watched Andrei Tarkovsky's films? Offret, Zerkalo, and Stalker were very good films. His father was also a good poet.

I was born in America but from Persian immigrants.

I think a lot of Japanese anime and rpgs tend to be more Gnostic... Xenogears in particular with one of the central "characters" resembling the demiurge. Shin Megami Tensei 2 and 3 are other examples.

Are you by any chance Christian?

Also, it's pretty awesome you can read Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky in the original Russian! I love their fiction.

" in [the Heidi] WMT adaptation all the mentions of Christianity has been replaced or removed"

Not true. Remember the German psalm in the WMT adaptation of Heidi?

http://enominepatris.com/deutschtum/musik/Die%20gueldne%20Sonne.htm

Heidi read that to Peter's grandmother in the anime.

It's a good psalm. Has a strong Zoroastrian feel to it.

Fluttershy <3

The new design is sort of weird, but I didn't really dislike it by itself. Unfortunately, it looks terrible in motion. I guess we'll have to see about the rest, there doesn't seem to be many of the original staff involved. It looks like a one-shot Cartoon Networks special rather than any sort of an actual attempt at reviving the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYOro8j6Mmg

Tell me of your pain.

Nah, BW is actually fairly popular on YouTube and one of my friends actually prefers it to AT so it doesn't seem to be that uncommon to like it more.

Well, AT isn't perfectly consistent with high quality episode-by-episode (no long-lasting animated or live-action series ever really is, it's unreasonable to expect that), but I do think season 3 & 4 are more consistent with good quality and reach higher peaks than season 1 & 2 IMO. But I get your point.
btw in my last comment I said only the first episodes are good, but I don't actually believe that. I messed up and thought that there were two seasons after 3 & 4 and I meant to type "6". When in fact, there is only one season, 5, and it consists of 52 episodes, longer than any other previous season. I think the first half is constantly good, while the second half is generally weaker and mostly underwhelming.

Yeah, SP is quite long. I've been watching it for more than a decade. It's easier that way. haha
The Simpsons's very first couple of seasons are decent and its footing is awkward, but that issue gets fixed once it finds its stride as the series progresses. However, for a number of early seasons The Simpsons was incredibly great and charming IMO. Some episodes were undoubtably perfect (which is most definitely a feat in an of itself). They were full of reliably good writing though way of the team's sharp and clever sense of humor that typically induced multiple laughs in just a single episode and sincere and successful attempts at being heartwarming, thus allowing them to hold up despite being over 15 years old (standing the test of time). The exact season where its flaws become fairly noticeable and the overall quality goes downhill slips my mind, but The Simpsons has definitely fallen off. The last seven seasons or so generally aren't particularly impressive, humorous, or touching. There are a few exceptions in terms of specific episodes I can think of, but the overall seasons come nowhere near the consistency of its classic seasons.

Have you seen the most recent episode of MLP, Flight to the Finish, yet? I actually liked it despite it being centered around Scootaloo. A character who I didn't really care for but I think I've warmed up to her. Although, she's still not one of my favorites.. at least not yet.
PP has been acting a little too exaggerated even by her standards in those first few episodes for this current season, but I think she was at her characteristic level of zany on Daring Don't. I don't tend to the mind over-the-top characters, but I do mind when it's uncharacteristic of the character based on their established personality and there isn't a justifiable reason for it in the said episode(s).
Anyway, who's your least favorite pony out of The Mane Six?

Damn, I still haven't seen The Prisoner or B5 yet, but I heard they're really good. I have seen Breaking Bad, and there's too much greatness that I want to write about in that series for me to succinctly describe in this one paragraph so I won't right now. I really loved most of it.
I've only seen the first four of episodes of GoT Season 1. I won't give an opinion until I have not to work with.
I've watched a lot of live-action series, I'll try to make a list of them soon.

I like Avatar but not as much as some of its rabid fans. I do certainly think it's an above-average series, but it's not one of my favs or think it's great. Haven't seen LoK yet.
I love the majority of Dexter's Laboratory, didn't care for Samurai Jack, and really like Symbiotic Titan. Tarkovsky is influential and deserves recognition for that, but I do think he's be a tad over-praised in other respects. I'll have to re-evaluate him due that opinion being somewhat old, though.

Linklater's beautiful, interpolated-rotoscope-style wonder, Waking Life, was great. I remember the first time I watched it when I was 8 or so, I knew I was watching something special, even though I couldn't understand a single thing.
Anyway, it's been almost three years since I've last seen it so I could change my opinion, but I remember I really dug it every time I saw it. I do, however, agree with it not being accessible. I wouldn't recommend to the majority of my friends either.
Have you seen A Scanner Darkly?