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Anime anyone?
Thrillho:
We just watch. We're not (deliberately) letting 16 year olds watch something full of rape themes and borderline nudity.
GarandMarine:
So today in anime:
Kill La Kill's finale got delayed because Trigger are massive cock teases.
Strange+ which I think is a short anime based on a manga took the time to lampoon Sailor Moon with... uh... it's free on CrunchyRoll just go see it for yourself. It's a couple minutes tops so just giggle if you're familiar with SM or a fan.
Meanwhile you might remember my guilty pleasure that I rant and rave about a lot Golden Time. It completed today, and while there was a litte more drama and general weirdness between hiter and yon but it paid off today. Holy fuck it paid off in SPADES
This is me, watching today's Golden Time:
8/10
Engaged to the Unidentified also finished up today. A cute little paranormal romcom that could have used more paranormal and more "rom"... the com was pretty decent over all, but it all kinda fell flat by focusing on the com and some of the side characters and sacrificing actual relationship development between Hakuya and Kobeni, the leads. It does not fall prey to my most hated anime trope of no relationship resolution, because the entire anime felt like a long awkward first date, and to get resolution you actually have to start something.
7/10
The Current Purchase List (*= there's a American Release available through Amazon or a similar agent)
Good Luck Girl* (shockingly good dub)
Girls Und Panzer*
Kaze no Stigma*
Claymore*
Toradora! (American Release July 2014)
Kill La Kill
Blast of Tempest (Release exists, but costs a fortune... come on Aniplex!)
Psycho Pass* (Waiting on a Complete series box set)
My purchase list is generally stuff I think is so damn good I want physical copies of it in case the internet dies, I also actively want to give money to the team that made it. It does include the occasional anime like Infinite Stratos that isn't particularly ground breaking but I love any way. Junk. Food. <3
Speaking of, Gareth, while I wouldn't recommend Kill La Kill for 16 year olds (I will protest rape being described as a "theme" in Kill La Kill, it's not, rape/sexual assault is implied in a few scenes within Kill La Kill, and it's all about power dynamic, as actual rape is. It's disturbing and disquieting, and it's absolutely supposed to be.) Good Luck Girl and Girls Und Panzer are both solid anime with a comedy focus and tanks respectively that are solid for "all ages". Ditto Kaze No Stigma. If you're cool with "some" nudity implied or otherwise, Ghost in the Shell as a series, particularly the movie is a solid pick up for the kiddies, especially if you can pick out the right professor from the philosophy department to give a guest lecture about some of the themes presented, then it's both awesome, classic cyberpunk AND an educational experience! Woo!
Even if the nature of the soul and transhumanism is a little too deep for your first discussion I would heartily encourage getting the group talking and analyzing whatever they're watching. Learning to analyze cinema is a rather refreshing and enjoyable mental exercise in my opinion, and once you force yourself to actually think about something, you can find all sorts of themes and information you wouldn't have seen otherwise, this is particularly true for animation. Each frame, cell and line inside a piece of animation is there on purpose. Why? What does this or that serve? Why was X drawn like that? Albeit it's a little more difficult with another culture's film/animation because they have a host of unique themes and references that you really won't pick up on or get outside of that culture without study. For example my Kaiju Eiga thread, the roots of Pacific Rim and the Daikaiju (Giant Monster) Eiga (movie) were briefly discussed, and the central emotion behind Godzilla, and all that followed him, was the feeling of helplessness against the unrelenting force of the nuclear weapons released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.
Some other possible recommendations for your club:
Samurai 7 (Action, a classic anime)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (film)
Akira (Cyberpunk, Classic)
The Princess and the Pilot (film)
Strait Jacket (Action, violence warning)
pwhodges:
Kill la Kill. So the adventure has ended, and with the end of the life fibres our heroes can become normal and fully human youngsters at last:
Definitely one of the greats, though I don't think it trumps TTGL ultimately.
GarandMarine:
Bastard! Spoilers much? I kid, I kid, I already saw those else where. For me personally KLK resonated more for me then TTGL. I don't think I ever really made it all the way through Gurren Laggen, I saw what it was doing and appreciated it for that, but it just wasn't engaging me right to keep my interest... which I know is a blasphemy to some people.
pwhodges:
I reckon that most people most interested in KlK have been glued to the screen at the moment of release! And showing that the heroes defeat the enemy and survive at the end is not the greatest spoiler of all time, I'd say ;)
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