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Anime to follow this summer
May. 7th, 2011 11:02 pmOk, most of them are old anime, but still, I haven't watched them yet. Ok, I did watch one or few episodes of most of them, but I need to finish them.
Japanese animations:
[C] The Money And Soul Of Possibility
also known as [C] - The Money of Soul and Possibility
also known as [C]: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
- Economics and finance, recycled in form of flashy monster battle! It is exactly as the aka name means: you fight with the money of your soul as life points. When you go bankrupt anything you've brought with that money disappears, including your life and existence. The trick is to control possibilities. All the attacks, heck, the whole battle system is based on different strategy people use in business and how they affect your assets. The game is sort of metaphor for using credit card or something (the card they give you for the game is a black card, like the Centurion card, and it's also invitation-only). Japan, thanks for giving us a fun reason to remember how business and finances work.
Trapeze
also known as Welcome to Irabu's Office
also known as Irabu: The Psychiatrist
- Psychology, in anime form! Sort of. It's a deranged, incredibly styled animation that includes live action pretty often. Like, all non-important characters are literally 2D paper people. The more important ones are either "normally" drawn or in semi-live action (as in, they are live action with anime-colours painted on, like one of those midnight animations we see on TV here). And the "normal" style looks like something we see more often in American comics (no, not the super-hero muscles, more like the simple style ink). There's one patient per episode, though you see the patient in other patients' episodes too as side characters. The patient pretty much always shows up in live action when he enters the clinic. The nurse too (nice legs). Extremely surreal. However, every time a "mental sickness" or symptom is mentioned, a "real psychologist" appears and explain to the audience how it works in real life. It's like, a footnote in an anime. He comes out of a door cut into the screen like that and starts to give information. Awesome. I never knew we could insert footnote in an animation. I've seen subtitles that do the same job, but to have a footnote in an animation in the form of an animation (semi-animated character)... wow. Warning: heavy in collage and flashy colours. Warning to psychology students: the Japan does not use the DSM-IV revised or its predecessors for psychology diagnosis, so don't use them for your class if you don't live in Japan! (And why does TV Tropes say they don't use DSM-V? I thought it isn't officially out yet?)
Paranoid Agent
- Made by the Japanese equivalent of David Lynch. It's a surreal social commentary about... a lot of things. The opening is very much on acid, which equally deranged lyrics (What a beautiful mushroom cloud!). Some flashbacks are in live action. Unlike the other animations on this list, the drawings aren't very stylised (but still not the Japan mainstream style; it has more of a Korean feel somehow, but of course not the Korean shojo-manhwa one, it's more like... I have no idea;;). Oh, the same team's behind the anime movie Paprika.
The Tatami Galaxy
also known as Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei
also known as 4½ Tatami Mythological Chronicles
- The title refers to the size of a student dorm. It's the tales of an university student and eccentric people in the building who pretend to be deities or look like demons (to the narrator only). Could count as a social commentary, but mostly it is a campus comedy. Started as a novel that sounds just as interesting. The animation also uses very stylised drawings, which fit the story well. Live action is occasional used, but not very often.
Mononoke
- Do I need to explain this one? It's a medicine peddler that exorcise demons with a fancy sword. Very stylised animation. Use a lot of pasted-on textures, which are very pretty. I watched the first two episodes at school's Anime Night and the art blew my mind.
Non-Japanese Animations:
The Adventures of Mark Twain
- A claymation that... explores the stories written by Mark Twain. It's a series, actually.
All the deranged midnight animations I watched when I was young and found them intriguing. I'll list them as I remember them.
Several machinimas as I discover them. Oh, and try to watch more Red vs. Blue. I hope there are good Portal machinimas.
Those old Chinese animations using paper puppets/cut-moleskin-shadow shows/whatever they are called. Also old Chinese water-ink animations.
La planete sauvage
- How to describe it? miniature humans treated like how we treat animals by giant blue humanoids. One mini-human escaped with alearning tool and gave her people technology. They travel a lot. The whole thing gets weirder as it goes. Like that creepy "flower" that'll forever haunt my memories. Or those creepy cubes. Or the headless statues. Brrr. I watched the whole movie before and watch it in parts too several times, but they were all when I was young (like middleschool and before), so I want to rewatch this.
That stopmotion animation with a child entering a world where everything is in half. I think it was an animation meant to teach children fractions. I think he also went to worlds where things are in quarters and stuff. I don't know if it was a long movie, a short movie or a series. I don't known if the one I saw was one of the episodes or the whole series' about that. I don't remember what they used for the stopmotion. Normally it would be claymation, but I really can't remember and I think it was wood-cut or papier-mache. Need more research.
More animations in general.
Krysař (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) (1985) looks good, but it looks too dark so I don't want to watch it alone.
Need to rewatch Ryan. You can watch and buy it here: http://www.nfb.ca/film/ryan
What is Yuri Norstein’s Tale of Tales? I know that it probably inspired the name of the game-making company that made The Graveyard, The Path and The Endless Forest, but... is it creepy?
I mean, it is based on a Russian equivalent of Grimm's collection of fairytales (in this case is Giambattista Basile and the collected tales are Russian fairytales). I don't want to watch this animation alone.
Japanese animations:
[C] The Money And Soul Of Possibility
also known as [C] - The Money of Soul and Possibility
also known as [C]: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
- Economics and finance, recycled in form of flashy monster battle! It is exactly as the aka name means: you fight with the money of your soul as life points. When you go bankrupt anything you've brought with that money disappears, including your life and existence. The trick is to control possibilities. All the attacks, heck, the whole battle system is based on different strategy people use in business and how they affect your assets. The game is sort of metaphor for using credit card or something (the card they give you for the game is a black card, like the Centurion card, and it's also invitation-only). Japan, thanks for giving us a fun reason to remember how business and finances work.
Trapeze
also known as Welcome to Irabu's Office
also known as Irabu: The Psychiatrist
- Psychology, in anime form! Sort of. It's a deranged, incredibly styled animation that includes live action pretty often. Like, all non-important characters are literally 2D paper people. The more important ones are either "normally" drawn or in semi-live action (as in, they are live action with anime-colours painted on, like one of those midnight animations we see on TV here). And the "normal" style looks like something we see more often in American comics (no, not the super-hero muscles, more like the simple style ink). There's one patient per episode, though you see the patient in other patients' episodes too as side characters. The patient pretty much always shows up in live action when he enters the clinic. The nurse too (nice legs). Extremely surreal. However, every time a "mental sickness" or symptom is mentioned, a "real psychologist" appears and explain to the audience how it works in real life. It's like, a footnote in an anime. He comes out of a door cut into the screen like that and starts to give information. Awesome. I never knew we could insert footnote in an animation. I've seen subtitles that do the same job, but to have a footnote in an animation in the form of an animation (semi-animated character)... wow. Warning: heavy in collage and flashy colours. Warning to psychology students: the Japan does not use the DSM-IV revised or its predecessors for psychology diagnosis, so don't use them for your class if you don't live in Japan! (And why does TV Tropes say they don't use DSM-V? I thought it isn't officially out yet?)
Paranoid Agent
- Made by the Japanese equivalent of David Lynch. It's a surreal social commentary about... a lot of things. The opening is very much on acid, which equally deranged lyrics (What a beautiful mushroom cloud!). Some flashbacks are in live action. Unlike the other animations on this list, the drawings aren't very stylised (but still not the Japan mainstream style; it has more of a Korean feel somehow, but of course not the Korean shojo-manhwa one, it's more like... I have no idea;;). Oh, the same team's behind the anime movie Paprika.
The Tatami Galaxy
also known as Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei
also known as 4½ Tatami Mythological Chronicles
- The title refers to the size of a student dorm. It's the tales of an university student and eccentric people in the building who pretend to be deities or look like demons (to the narrator only). Could count as a social commentary, but mostly it is a campus comedy. Started as a novel that sounds just as interesting. The animation also uses very stylised drawings, which fit the story well. Live action is occasional used, but not very often.
Mononoke
- Do I need to explain this one? It's a medicine peddler that exorcise demons with a fancy sword. Very stylised animation. Use a lot of pasted-on textures, which are very pretty. I watched the first two episodes at school's Anime Night and the art blew my mind.
Non-Japanese Animations:
The Adventures of Mark Twain
- A claymation that... explores the stories written by Mark Twain. It's a series, actually.
All the deranged midnight animations I watched when I was young and found them intriguing. I'll list them as I remember them.
Several machinimas as I discover them. Oh, and try to watch more Red vs. Blue. I hope there are good Portal machinimas.
Those old Chinese animations using paper puppets/cut-moleskin-shadow shows/whatever they are called. Also old Chinese water-ink animations.
La planete sauvage
- How to describe it? miniature humans treated like how we treat animals by giant blue humanoids. One mini-human escaped with alearning tool and gave her people technology. They travel a lot. The whole thing gets weirder as it goes. Like that creepy "flower" that'll forever haunt my memories. Or those creepy cubes. Or the headless statues. Brrr. I watched the whole movie before and watch it in parts too several times, but they were all when I was young (like middleschool and before), so I want to rewatch this.
That stopmotion animation with a child entering a world where everything is in half. I think it was an animation meant to teach children fractions. I think he also went to worlds where things are in quarters and stuff. I don't know if it was a long movie, a short movie or a series. I don't known if the one I saw was one of the episodes or the whole series' about that. I don't remember what they used for the stopmotion. Normally it would be claymation, but I really can't remember and I think it was wood-cut or papier-mache. Need more research.
More animations in general.
Krysař (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) (1985) looks good, but it looks too dark so I don't want to watch it alone.
Need to rewatch Ryan. You can watch and buy it here: http://www.nfb.ca/film/ryan
What is Yuri Norstein’s Tale of Tales? I know that it probably inspired the name of the game-making company that made The Graveyard, The Path and The Endless Forest, but... is it creepy?
I mean, it is based on a Russian equivalent of Grimm's collection of fairytales (in this case is Giambattista Basile and the collected tales are Russian fairytales). I don't want to watch this animation alone.
