Daily Anime Thoughts

[VivisQueen]

Oh, do I smell a buddy group? Do I? Do I? Tell me I do!

[valondar]

Well if someone wants to post comments 'bout Spiral Labyrinth I'll definitely chime in, but I'm going at my own erratic clock of two or more episodes per day.

I just can't guarantee I'd watch only two episodes of this. It is LOGH, after all.

[Funkgun]

I would have to see them all to catch up to Spiral, or maybe look at release dates. Anyone know if they are continuous, or out of order in years?

[Teinouji]

DAT: The wife doesn't seem to care about fanservice anymore...

[valondar]

The Legend of the Galactic Heroes movies/OVAs can pretty much be viewed in any order, ignoring the 110 episode series proper. Most of them - as with Spiral Labyrinth - are prequels, and the only non-prequel takes place early during the series. I've been watching them in production order, though, and Spiral Labyrinth is the last of those titles.

[ForgottenSon]

I really want to start LotGH, but after I've rewatched Monster I'm not sure I'll be in the mood to leap into another epic series.

[VivisQueen]

Originally Posted by ForgottenSon

I really want to start LotGH, but after I've rewatched Monster I'm not sure I'll be in the mood to leap into another epic series.

Do it. LOTGH has a completely different feel. You'll forget Monster even exists while you watch it. I know - that's ME saying it. And it's length is barely noticeable, when I think about it.

DAT: I am reading this blog entry about Redline http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/...e?blog=1#c3723

and this paragraph leapt out at me:

The first 15 minutes of Akira, the first time you saw huge, glorious animated breasts, the first extra-gory decapitation you saw in a cartoon; Redline works on this level not because it’s overtly sexual or hyper-violent, but because it will excite you in the same way Japanese animation probably hasn’t excited you in the last 10 years. It triggers your reptilian response to awesome shit, and reminds you of the kind of cartoons you gave up on ever seeing made again.

This is why I MUST see Redline. I'm in a malaise, a terrible muddy rut, a dull stasis where I fear I just don't give a shit anymore. But somehow, somehow, oh God somehow, this anime is shining on the horizon of the new year firing rays into my numbed soul and provoking some kind of long-forgotten reflex - ah to experience that feeling again...

[valondar]

Well ForgottenSon, as I often tell people, Legend of the Galactic Heroes is actually divided into four seasons. There's useful primers at the start of each season so people can view those fairly independently of each other.

The first season? That's 26 episodes long.

So give that a go. And you could do the next season at a later date.

About Galactic Heroes:

Of course he'll just keep going. But it's a good hook.

[valondar]

Oh and regarding Red Line I have wanted to see that for like, years. It had a trailer released years ago because it's been in the works for years - one of those really long winded animated labour of love deals. It's one of those anime films I thought 'yeah I want to see' and then patiently waited to see if I'd ever, ever hear of it again (hey Amano I STILL WANT YOUR ANIME FILM BASED LOOSELY ON A MOZART OPERA IT'LL BE LIKE ANGELS EGG ONLY PLUS MOZART K? Bai) which is how things go.

Now seriously go on youtube and watch the trailers. Any of the trailers. Mind-blowing stuff. Like, just... beautiful animation and crazy awesome action going down all at once. There's nothing about it I don't like.

I must see that movie.

Granted. I've never been Koike's biggest fan - Trava is a passable little space oddity, and I think everyone liked pissing on his Animatrix short (which is also a sci-fi sports piece, incidentally) - but I'm not an anti-fan either.

But this?

Yeah.

Want.

[ForgottenSon]

You've convinced me, even though I know I'm going to end up watching 10 eps at a time. My band mates won't be pleased, but fuck 'em.

I think I'll cleanse my anime palate with something short, light and stupid like Seitokai Yakuindomo first, though.