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This set of 3 fantastic stories will take you from the haunting delusions of a space explorer, to a bio-chemical threat with the power to wipe out all of Tokyo, and finally to a day in the life of a young boy who lives in a world ruled by cannons. These stores will capture you with their intrigueing storylines and awe inspiring artwork.

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Name Role
Hirotsugu KAWASAKI Character Design
Hidekazu OHARA Character Design
Toshiyuki INOUE Character Design
Katsuhiro OTOMO Director
Tensai OKAMURA Director
Satoshi KON Director
Koji MORIMOTO Director
Shigeru WATANABE Producer

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Title Author Score Date
Memories miyamoto 8/10 Apr 28, 2010
List Title Username Entries Date
Everything Good Kirua 960 Apr 3, 2013
My Favorite Anime PerplexedAutomaton 35 Mar 4, 2013
Priority WtW: OVAs and Shorts CommanderKarasu 34 Feb 20, 2013
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Watch Log of 2010 March, Part 1 Innocency 2 Mar 2, 10

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Paranoia Agent

Paranoia Agent

In the streets of Tokyo, a new menace has surfaced: Shounen Bat, a young boy who wears golden roller skates and a baseball cap, and likes to whack people on the head with a golden baseball bat. These seemingly unconnected and random attacks soon become a police investigation... but after all is said and done, is there a pattern to this chaos?

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badazz5001

Bouth are episodeic anime directed by the same persion and bouth have simmiler animation and great thems of phycology

Diachy

Both Memories and Paranoia Agent are thought provoking Psychological works of Satoshi Kon. They have a great link with the mysteries and ambiguity of the human psyche. While there may be dihherences in the way they show the underlying messages they are still relativley the same. This can be said about all Satoshi Kon's works however. If you like one I truly don't see how you could not like the other. This is the most different of Satoshi Kons works. it is a a collection of three stories. I found the first story based in space to be the most thought provoking. So even if you don't like the final two stories, which I am sure you will, you'll still (more than likely) love the first of the three.

Perfect Blue

Perfect Blue

When popular pop idol Mima decided to retire from her group, Cham, and become an actress, she had no idea that one person's obsession would soon spiral out of control. With death threats, letter bombs and a forged website which details her every move, Mima finds herself slowly becoming trapped in a nightmare she can't seem to escape. With murders piling up and her mental state slowly degrading, can she discover who the culprit is, before she becomes the next victim?

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XMrNiceguyX
If you like the first ep of Memories you'll probably like Perfect Blue (and th eother way around). Though while Perfect Blue plays in real time, the first ep of memories plays in the future.
bshegg

The director of Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon, wrote the screenplay for Memories. Both films are similarly deep-thinking and imagery-rich films.

Wings of Honneamise

Wings of Honneamise

Shiro Lhadatt wanted to fly jets for the Kingdom of Honneamise's Air Force when he was young, but unfortunately he didn't get the grades he needed; instead, he enlisted in the Space Force, a tiny embryonic unit that most people haven't even heard of. Embittered and disillusioned about his lot in life, Shiro takes no interest in his training - that is, until he meets and gets to know a young woman preaching God's word on the city streets. After one inspiring conversation with her, Shiro promptly sees the light; he finds his passion for flight reinvigorated and immediately volunteers to be the pilot for his unit's first space warship! Reaching that new frontier is all well and good but Shiro still faces some major obstacles: even if launching the first space warship becomes reality, not everyone will be happy to see the Space Force succeed. Suddenly, Shiro has to grapple with the complex, far-ranging consequences of his very personal decision.

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TheBurningCrow
A great animated work by 3 different artists that tells 3 different stories, but the elements in the first and 3rd episodes of this ova remind me of Wings of Honnaemise for some reason. Definately a good watch... if you can get your hands on a copy of it.
wolfangel87

Memories and Wings of Honneamise both tell a tale of multiple stories that have the same type of theme almost in a dream like state.

Aoi Bungaku Series

Aoi Bungaku Series

Sometimes the greatest distance is between people. Whether a man alienates himself from society with a façade of cheerfulness, or two friends fail to communicate their feelings of betrayal, invisible barriers plague mankind. Although love should bring people together, when a stoic renter and a dutiful monk choose to court a widow’s daughter, their mutual affections drive a bitter gap between them. During each encounter filled with mistrust and despair, the flaws of human nature slowly reveal themselves...

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Bouth are anime that have episodic stories that are all unrelated and are writtin by the same aouther.  BOuth have a lot to do with pshychology and philosphy and bouth have simmiler thems

Cat Soup

Cat Soup
  • OVA (1 ep x 33 min)
  • 2001

Cat Soup is an extremely abstract, abnormal, and at times, disturbing adventure, from the director of Nadesico. This 30 minute OVA follows two kittens through what seems to be the underworld, as they search for one of their lost souls. Along the way, they encounter new (edible) friends, scary situations, and even the end of the world! Will these felines manage to return unscathed? Or more importantly, avoid becoming the main course for dinner? Confusion abounds in this quirky OVA.

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If you like short crazy anime you'll like both "Cat Soup" (one animation) and "Memories" (three short animations). Every animation of those four has a different style, plot and characters, but something crazy connects them all together. Every piece should be known as "crazy professional artwork."