Kurisu wrote

HarmfulMushroom wrote

Kurisu wrote Anyone ever seen the movie Grave of the Fireflies?
I just saw it a couple weeks ago.

Yeah my roommates and I watched it a couple months back when they decided they wanted to watch a sad anime movie. Honestly didn't care for it that much and didn't get very sad for some reason.

Same here. The movie did not make me all too sad.
However, I really liked the story.
I believe it was a very well made movie that exposed parts of World War 2 we don't see in school.

Kurisu wrote Ok I may have just found the weirdest SnK video of all time guys.
No spoilers at all.
Trust me. You won't be expecting this.

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Evigishki wrote

Hated SnK, loved that video. Thanks for the find Tao. While we're sharing anime dance videos -

Kurisu wrote

Evigishki wrote

Hated SnK, loved that video. Thanks for the find Tao. While we're sharing anime dance videos -

.... Is that dance at a prison? LOL

Evigishki wrote

FLCL (Fooly Cooly)
A Review by Evigishki
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Genre - Action, Comedy, Parody, Dementia, Mecha
Episodes - 6

"Nothing exciting ever happens here." Is something the main character, Naota Nandaba says in the first episode. And I suppose he's right, provided he gets runover by a bright yellow scooter and launched across a bridge by a rocket-powered bass guitar in the first 30 seconds, not to mention the massive iron steaming in the hills around town. Normal, right? I can't begin to explain why FLCL is a masterpiece, except that it isn't even close to a masterpiece... But maybe that's what makes it a masterpiece?

More than often, anime thrives on the ability to make anything possible and immerse you in it, regardless of its "realism". We have Gundam units protecting colonies in space, basketball players shooting full court, and a rubber pirate adventuring on the sea, none of which we really ever question. FLCL is the exception though, I often found myself saying "why...." or "how..." but that's a good thing in my book. I mean, it made more sense than The End of Evangelion but I often found myself questioning the meaning of my existence while watching Fooly Cooly. FLCL is created by Studio Gainax, of which many of you know I fanboy from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gunbuster, but I didn't really walk in with a bias from it. This is mostly because FLCL is unlike any of their prior works or really...any work for that matter.

Similar to Evangelion, FLCL is a show where it's only after the fact that you realize what some of the stuff meant. There's an entire episode where he talks about "not being able to swing his favorite baseball bat", which is ultimately a metaphor for masturbation. You see in the long run, FLCL is actually a coming-of-age story, for a kid with some weird circumstances and even weirder people around him. The art style changes on purpose every few minutes, whether it be awful inconsistent Gundam animation, bright flashes and poses only comparable to JoJo's, or even a scene in complete homage to South Park. I can't forget the music either. It was solely done by a group in Japan called The Pillows, who have a fantastic garage-band sound and sorta remind me of The Pixies or Car Seat Headrest. The sound and artwork were all there, but what about the plot.

I can't tell you anything about the plot honestly. I seriously cannot. I've watched FLCL three times, and still have no idea what really happens, yet I gave it a 10/10 on my personal MAL account. In my book, FLCL is a masterpiece because it's a testament that anime can do whatever the hell it wants, and throw absolutely random things in that you can still pull symbolism out of. Similar to basically every other Gainax work, it's a 50/50 split where you either love it or absolutely hate it. I don't know, something about watching a robot sprout out of a boy's forehead through a time-space rift between the two halves of his brain to fight a rogue GameBoy adored by a delinquent girl to awesome rock music is just more than enough for me to piss myself laughing and enjoying it all at the same time.

It's only 6 episodes, so just try it out. The subs and dubs are both absolutely horrendous by the way, but that gives it the oddest charm. It also gives me one of my favorite images of all time:

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Rating - 9.0/10 (will heavily vary)

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Evigishki wrote

FLCL (Fooly Cooly)
A Review by Evigishki
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Genre - Action, Comedy, Parody, Dementia, Mecha
Episodes - 6

"Nothing exciting ever happens here." Is something the main character, Naota Nandaba says in the first episode. And I suppose he's right, provided he gets runover by a bright yellow scooter and launched across a bridge by a rocket-powered bass guitar in the first 30 seconds, not to mention the massive iron steaming in the hills around town. Normal, right? I can't begin to explain why FLCL is a masterpiece, except that it isn't even close to a masterpiece... But maybe that's what makes it a masterpiece?

More than often, anime thrives on the ability to make anything possible and immerse you in it, regardless of its "realism". We have Gundam units protecting colonies in space, basketball players shooting full court, and a rubber pirate adventuring on the sea, none of which we really ever question. FLCL is the exception though, I often found myself saying "why...." or "how..." but that's a good thing in my book. I mean, it made more sense than The End of Evangelion but I often found myself questioning the meaning of my existence while watching Fooly Cooly. FLCL is created by Studio Gainax, of which many of you know I fanboy from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gunbuster, but I didn't really walk in with a bias from it. This is mostly because FLCL is unlike any of their prior works or really...any work for that matter.

Similar to Evangelion, FLCL is a show where it's only after the fact that you realize what some of the stuff meant. There's an entire episode where he talks about "not being able to swing his favorite baseball bat", which is ultimately a metaphor for masturbation. You see in the long run, FLCL is actually a coming-of-age story, for a kid with some weird circumstances and even weirder people around him. The art style changes on purpose every few minutes, whether it be awful inconsistent Gundam animation, bright flashes and poses only comparable to JoJo's, or even a scene in complete homage to South Park. I can't forget the music either. It was solely done by a group in Japan called The Pillows, who have a fantastic garage-band sound and sorta remind me of The Pixies or Car Seat Headrest. The sound and artwork were all there, but what about the plot.

I can't tell you anything about the plot honestly. I seriously cannot. I've watched FLCL three times, and still have no idea what really happens, yet I gave it a 10/10 on my personal MAL account. In my book, FLCL is a masterpiece because it's a testament that anime can do whatever the hell it wants, and throw absolutely random things in that you can still pull symbolism out of. Similar to basically every other Gainax work, it's a 50/50 split where you either love it or absolutely hate it. I don't know, something about watching a robot sprout out of a boy's forehead through a time-space rift between the two halves of his brain to fight a rogue GameBoy adored by a delinquent girl to awesome rock music is just more than enough for me to piss myself laughing and enjoying it all at the same time.

It's only 6 episodes, so just try it out. The subs and dubs are both absolutely horrendous by the way, but that gives it the oddest charm. It also gives me one of my favorite images of all time: [spoil] [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Rating - 9.0/10 (will heavily vary)