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Anime anyone?
Blue Kitty:
One of us, one of us.
I'm finally watching Demon Slayer after having read through the manga twice
pwhodges:
I've been looking out old anime curiosities. I'm currently halfway through each of three six-parters.
10 Tokyo Warriors (1999 OAV) is pretty poor stuff - I'm not sure I'll bother to finish it. There is a supernatural setup not dissimilar to X ; but there is no useful description, so you're wondering what it's all about for quite a while. I gather that the second half is another arc, with a timeskip and unexplained differences. The arcs are taken selectively from a series of light novels.
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora, known in English as Looking Up at the Half-Moon, also started as a series of light novels. It was adapted as a 6-episode anime TV series, followed the same year by a 13-episode live-action TV series, and a few years later by a live-action film. It's unusual in being set entirely in a hospital (except that the protagonists often slip out for various reasons). It's a romance, with one party having a probably terminal illness, for which they will have a potentially fatal operation - this (but nothing else) is like Your Lie in April. I think the 2006 anime version is rather sweet - quite gentle, and mostly not too absurd. The plot uses Night on the Galactic Railroad, both as a book which is read by the characters, and as having plot elements that could relate to their story; it's more deeply embedded, actually, than the similar usage in the film Giovanni's Island. Reviews vary strongly from loving it to hating it.
Please Save My Earth (original title is in English) is a 1993 OVA with six 30-minute episodes. The story covers less than half of a 21-volume manga. The story involves a group of children who discover that they have the memories of seven now-dead aliens (not necessarily of the same gender) who had been isolated on the Earth's moon when their civilisation was destroyed by an unimaginable weapon. So the story has two parallel paths, tracing the behaviour of the trapped aliens and the realisation of what happened in their pasts by the children. There may be some low-level time-travel shenanigans as well, as one of the aliens is seen to be aware of her reincarnation in Japan. Although the initial build-up is slow, this series is clearly posing moral dilemmas for the viewer to ponder. I'm pretty sure I'll go on to read the manga as well. Music in the anime is by Yoko Kanno, which is an additional recommendation.
pwhodges:
LATER: I finished Looking Up at the Half-Moon. I can't understand those who criticise the story for being bland. Sure, it starts gently, but the 5th episode in particular, and the ending have a decent amount of drama. My earlier assessment of "sweet" was undervaluing it.
LeeC:
I've been watching "Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy" on Netflix. Its based on the manga from the 80s and it shows (think of those "Heavy Metal" movies and magazines). Apparently it had its own animation adaptation back in the late 90s and Netflix decided to give it the remake treatment in 2022.
The premise:
Hundreds of years after an apocalyptic event created by an entity known as Anthrasax, that rocked the earth has kicked humanity back to the medieval era, but now with magic, monsters, etc. An evil wizard named Dark Schneider and his forces tried to take over the world, but he was defeated by Prince Lars Ul Metallicana whom sacrificed himself to seal Dark Schneider into the body of a baby boy named Lucien. Fast forward 15 years and the Kingdom of Metallicana is under attack by new dark forces. It's up to the naive young boy's caretaker Tia Yoko to unseal the dark lord to save the kingdom. She does as evil wizard Osbourne invades the castle. So Dark Schneider appears and is a total asshole. He defeats Ozzy who was working for the new dark lord. Now the new Dark Lord, an old friend of Dark Schneider's as are many of his generals, tries to find out if he will stop their plans of restarting that same apocalyptic event that destroyed the world before.
TL;DR: In a world of sword and sorcery the kingdom named after Metallica summons Sauron to fight a bunch of other dark lords and everyone/thing is named after 80s metal bands and band members. Its cheesy as hell and it knows it. Fair warning as I didn't know this going in but there is a lot of T&A, both male and female, as well as gore. Considering the source material is 80s sword and sorcery, it makes sense.
Also the music is awesome!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpcFgCCuBRc
LeeC:
Since Komi Can't Communicate has yet to have a season 3 announcement, I started reading the manga online (should this go in the webcomic section?) and today's chapter ending has me shook.
(click to show/hide)
Girl, he asked you out 4 years ago and you rejected him. Now he's dating someone and you're gonna try to swoop in like that and try to steal him?
Source: https://mangadex.org/chapter/d29d39af-ac15-4c70-8c15-147dc00d9c3e/1
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