Recommend me some post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, psychological stuff!
If I sent you a friend request, it's because I like your taste and I'd like to see your updates to check what other cool things you found. Also, feel free to message me about anything :)
Something happens in my heart when I see Seiya in his first anime cloth... I probably have seen some random episodes of Speed Racer and Kimba before, but I really got into anime when Saint Seiya aired in my country in 1994, and I was 5yo. After its success, there was a huge flood of anime on over-the-air TV. Dragon Ball, Shurato, Ronin Warriors, they'd even show some random OVAs for the kids, like MD Geist and Genocyber, between Sailor Moon and Captain Tsubasa. I also got a VHS of Akira back then and fell absolute in love with it - no wonder I became teenage punk later on. Some anime I watched in the 90's I hold dear are Street Fighter II V, Yu Yu Hakusho and Samurai X (and Akira!).
In 2001, when I was 12, my family got a paid TV service and there was an anime channel. I got to watch tons of random stuff, but also Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, Jin-Roh, Perfect Blue, Animatrix, among others, that blew my mind and completely changed my view of anime. In 2003 we changed the service and I no longer had that channel, the anime on TV were the likes of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Bey Blade, and I couldn't get into those, my bar was set too high already. I didn't watch anime through the rest of my teenage years.
In 2008 I started watching some episodes of One Piece and Naruto on my lunch break. It was either that or watching the news, but they didn't air too many episodes on over-the-air TV. I got curious to see how the story would continue, but my internet wasn't good enough to watch online, so I looked for the manga. I discovered that manga (of those shounen, at least) are so much better than anime -it's fast paced, they don't repeat the same dialogue ten times per episode, nor have a flashback every five minutes. From there, I started reading a lot of manga, and although friends got me reading stuff I regret wasting so much time on (like Fairy Tail and Noblesse), I also discovered Berserk, Basilisk, Gantz, Attack on Titan, Eden, Death Note...
It was late 2015, I was hanging at a friend's house and the guy said there was this cool anime I had to watch, I thought he was going to show me yet another shounen, and I was pretty bored at the whole genre already, but he showed me the first episode of Gangsta. and I absolutely loved it. When I got back home I watched the whole thing, there were nine episodes out and I was so excited, but then, like a curse, when I finally got back into anime after twelve years, the studio went bankrupt and the anime was dropped two episodes later, not even completing the season haha.
But now I was back at it and started looking for other stuff. I discovered Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, The Sky Crawlers, Darker Than Black, Code Geass, From the New World, Terror in Resonance, Psycho-Pass... I was watching a lot of stuff, and then I found MyAnimeList. I joined on Jan 5, 2016, and the rest of my updates you can see on the site :)
- Error: Comickers Manga Collection For Another World (?) - Plan to Read
- Gabuli (?) - Plan to Read
- Global Astroliner Gou (?) - Plan to Read
- Sky Crawlers - Innocent Aces (?) - Plan to Read
I see, no worries, take your time. Good things take time~
Yeah my scores for each of them are different lol. The first season is more into the worldbuilding, while the second somehow felt like an iteration of Angel's Egg with alternative ending.
In regards to backlog, I realize nowadays my preference is already much more different compared to when I started watching anime in early 2022. Hence my PTW list is already cut by 50%, and I don't think I would even complete the remaining one anyways. Have you ever experienced the same thing (taste change)?
lol, that's not a bad solution, I guess. Will certainly cut down on the spammy lists. Found any interesting movies from the lists yet? One thing I hate is how some of these films have amazing posters, but the movie will look poor in comparison.
Oh man, how could I forget about Fury Road!? Yeah, that's absolutely an exception. One of my favorite movies so I can't believe it didn't instantly come to mind. I think the key difference with the decades later sequels that are actually good is that they're usually made by the original director. Or at bare minimum the director is involved in some part of the process. At least that's the commonality found in the sequels that we've mentioned. Without that factor these movies usually end up like bad fan-fiction.
Rewatching The Lost Boys was a blast! The 80s goth/punk aesthetics were awesome, especially in that opening scene. I forgot how good the cast was too. Well, mostly good at least. The sets were great and added tons of atmosphere. Some of the dialogue was pretty awful in places but hey, that's what you get with 80s movies.
I haven't watched The Lost Boys in a while but I feel like it probably still holds up pretty good. At least for me it would with the nostalgia factor and all. I think I mentioned before that it was the first R rated movie I had ever watched when I was around 8 years old or so. There's still that hilarious thing that we talked about with the saxophone concert to look forward to haha! But I wouldn't even go near those sequels. I haven't actually watched any of them, but there's not even a small chance that they're even halfway decent. Sequels that come out decades after the original are usually dog shit as you said. Almost always just straight to video cash grabs that some people can't resist because of nostalgia. I can only think of a few exceptions like Blade Runner and maybe some of the Alien franchise. I'm sure there are more but nothing is coming to mind at the moment. Aw hell, I'm up early and now I think I'm also gonna watch The Lost Boys. Hope it's as fun as I remember.
Totally agree with you on Letterboxd. I have noticed it's hard to find good lists, and most of them are bloated with random titles. No DMs or profile comments is also kind of odd. The only place you can comment, I think, are on lists and reviews. And a lot of stuff I find unintuitive or not well integrated. I don't much like the diary and find the list on MAL with notes vastly superior. tbh, IMDB, when it had message boards, also seemed better to me, even if it had similar comment limitations otherwise. The main good thing I have to say is that the site can be rather aesthetically appealing when viewing lists of movies because of the minimalist emphasis on covers and posters. I recall they often used more exotic ones than IMDB as well to the point of feeling carefully curated almost. I wish they would just copy MAL's setup.
Oh yeah, speaking of which, there's this music video out right now from a band called Imagine Dragons featuring Ado, a JPOP singer. It's called Take Me To The Beach. I don't know who did or why the animation was like that, but it was pretty cool seeing a new 90s cyberpunk-inspired lyric video in the modern day. Nothing too promising though, just a pleasant surprise.
Something interesting about newer generations looking at an old thing and be like, "How do we interpret this?"
That's crazy when you said you started again a few years ago. Pretty much same on my end. But yeah, wish we had a website purely for animation. MAL and Letterboxd are great but of course they don't cover everything. I've been keeping a personal list apart from my lists here online just to actually keep a record of everything I've seen...that's animated of course.
Also yeah, social media lately is really something else. I try to train my algorithm to give me only stuff I care about, but of course, if enough people engage with a dumb post, it always ends up in my feed. I still stay around though, there's some cool shit there from time to time.
Good luck with your journey down this rabbit hole, whatever that is! I keep going because of my love for animation. I do it for the game. There's something really fun about finding out a new animated work you haven't seen.
Oh that's a shame! I would have loved that channel now. Is the show Locomotion not archived anywhere or is it the shorts you mentioned? Now, I'm curious! Haha! The closest I had to that type of channel was Random! Cartoons on Nickelodeon, but all of them were cartoon pilots, while some actually turned into full-fledged shows. Apart from that, it's Catsuka and everyone online who loves animation that keeps me updated on anything and everything really.
I thank YouTube and Vimeo for making most of the obscure animated stuff accessible! :)
What keeps you going? Watching media I mean. I'm still quite new to all of this, if you wouldn't believe it.
Hey thanks for the follow and friend request! I don't think I've got much to show you, but thanks for showing interest! I've seen a bit of your blog recently, and I'm in love with it! Could spend some time exploring it more.
I lean on the animation side, anything and everything about it, so I don't know if you'll find this info interesting but, check out Catsuka (on any major social media platform), they talk about animation news and everything in between. They might pique your interest since you dabble in almost anything media-related. That's my recommendation!
Oh, another Szulkin film. Think I only ever saw O-bi, and I'm not sure what to think of it now and hardly remember it. What I hate about letterboxd is how limited the visual information is. There's not a convenient trailer or stills, as is common on IMDB. But this one sounds like it might be intriguing:
You watched a good one recently? I think most of the Eastern European films I've seen were more serious and not comedies, but their comedies do tend to be a little more low-key and depressing. Although maybe try a Swede like Roy Andersson. He has a rather unique arthouseish comedy that's also pretty depressing.
Edit: Oh, O-bi, O-ba is maybe what you meant? That's an oddball film. Their more normal comedies are probably not so depressing. I remember Kin-dza-dza! being interesting as a sci-fi comedy.
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I've been like this too in the last 1+ year.. Just a halfway into first ep and "Nah, doesn't click".
I got into animanga at 26+ years old, so shounen mostly don't click with me.
> love-hate with MHA
the latest it happened to me was with Dandadan, kinda disliking it but awaiting what would happen with these MCs lol
Yeah my scores for each of them are different lol. The first season is more into the worldbuilding, while the second somehow felt like an iteration of Angel's Egg with alternative ending.
In regards to backlog, I realize nowadays my preference is already much more different compared to when I started watching anime in early 2022. Hence my PTW list is already cut by 50%, and I don't think I would even complete the remaining one anyways. Have you ever experienced the same thing (taste change)?
btw, Oshii and his team released 2-cour anime called The Fire Hunter. The overall plot may resemble Angel's Egg a bit. Would you care to take a look?
MAL link
You might like some of his lists for animation:
https://letterboxd.com/nyy/lists/
A lot of interesting stuff I've been wanting to see.
Rewatching The Lost Boys was a blast! The 80s goth/punk aesthetics were awesome, especially in that opening scene. I forgot how good the cast was too. Well, mostly good at least. The sets were great and added tons of atmosphere. Some of the dialogue was pretty awful in places but hey, that's what you get with 80s movies.
Totally agree with you on Letterboxd. I have noticed it's hard to find good lists, and most of them are bloated with random titles. No DMs or profile comments is also kind of odd. The only place you can comment, I think, are on lists and reviews. And a lot of stuff I find unintuitive or not well integrated. I don't much like the diary and find the list on MAL with notes vastly superior. tbh, IMDB, when it had message boards, also seemed better to me, even if it had similar comment limitations otherwise. The main good thing I have to say is that the site can be rather aesthetically appealing when viewing lists of movies because of the minimalist emphasis on covers and posters. I recall they often used more exotic ones than IMDB as well to the point of feeling carefully curated almost. I wish they would just copy MAL's setup.
Something interesting about newer generations looking at an old thing and be like, "How do we interpret this?"
Also yeah, social media lately is really something else. I try to train my algorithm to give me only stuff I care about, but of course, if enough people engage with a dumb post, it always ends up in my feed. I still stay around though, there's some cool shit there from time to time.
Good luck with your journey down this rabbit hole, whatever that is! I keep going because of my love for animation. I do it for the game. There's something really fun about finding out a new animated work you haven't seen.
I thank YouTube and Vimeo for making most of the obscure animated stuff accessible! :)
What keeps you going? Watching media I mean. I'm still quite new to all of this, if you wouldn't believe it.
I lean on the animation side, anything and everything about it, so I don't know if you'll find this info interesting but, check out Catsuka (on any major social media platform), they talk about animation news and everything in between. They might pique your interest since you dabble in almost anything media-related. That's my recommendation!
https://letterboxd.com/film/bewitching-eyes/releases/
Edit: Oh, O-bi, O-ba is maybe what you meant? That's an oddball film. Their more normal comedies are probably not so depressing. I remember Kin-dza-dza! being interesting as a sci-fi comedy.