A lot of strong shows appearing this week, which makes the weaker ones show up a fair bit more. Then again, that is the seasonal process! Rooting out the weaker ones to make the experience more enjoyable. I did just decide not to follow Haikyuu’s anime anymore. It has never worked for me for one … More Weekly Seasonal Watches: Fall 2020 Anime Season Week 3
Here is the second short film in Katsuhiro Otomo’s short collection of films, Memories. There is not as much staff to highlight in this short film other then it’s directed by Tensei Okamura of Wolf’s Rain fame. You know, well before he worked on that series, but it counts. This is a short film based … More Memories – Part 2: Stink Bomb
Following Patlabor: The Movie, which I have mostly positive thoughts on, comes Patlabor 2: The Movie. Something I feel a lot better at and much more thematically rich as well. Mamoru Oshii comes back in full force with his military and political theming. Something that I am not completely ok with in general Patlabor practices, … More #OshiiOct Patlabor 2: The Movie – A Needed Intervention
This post is a culmination of a lot of previous posts finally coming together. To understand all that craziness, this movie is a follow up to short OVA series Patlabor: The Early days. It also takes up a lot of the original ideas from Mamoru Oshii’s from his concept from Lupin the Third: The Legend … More #OshiiOct Patlabor: The Movie – Low Frequency Problems
So, big news today. The new Higurashi anime is a sequel and not a remake. Which means that it’s time to take that show out of my list of things I’m going to watch and choose something else. It is early enough after all. I went with Adachi and Shinamura. I have been starved of … More Weekly Seasonal Watches: Fall 2020 Week 2
Oshii films are not inherently Halloween like in themselves. There isn’t anything scary besides the crushing reality hitting you in multiple ways. That is the kind of material Oshii writes and directs. To enlist some help to provide the horror mood, I brought in another expert of some kind. His name is Katsuhiro Otomo and … More Memories – Part 1: Magnetic Rose
Following the fashion presented in They Were 11, this is Scott’s Adventures in watching something that isn’t available in any form to support the original creators. This one hasn’t been available for a while. There is a very HD edition of this movie on Youtube that I’ve watched and it’s posted by a fan. Yeah, … More #OshiiOct Angel’s Egg – You Try Explaining This
To start Oshii October, we’ve got to start somewhere near the beginning of Oshii’s career. That means we start with the first official anime OVA ever, Dallos. Ok, it’s not only the first OVA but the first direct to video production release as well. So, let’s think about this for a second. If this Dallos … More #OshiiOct Dallos: The Winds of Change
Covid-19 really did a number on airing anime series for a while, but that didn’t lower the quality of this season for me. I didn’t watch a lot of shows that have sequels this time around. Mostly because I didn’t have a lot of interest in some that came out. Still, I feel like most … More Summer 2020 Anime in Review
The first half of the new seasonal shows I’ve watched are here. I’m pretty excited about this coming season so far. Wondering how good the next shows will be compared to these two. Only time will tell. Seasonal Anime The God of High School Episode 13 (Finale) Ever watch a finale of a shonen battle … More Weekly Seasonal Watches: Fall 2020 Anime Season Week 1
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