Posted by saviour2012 on 12.18.2013, 09:43 AM:
So saw some[a lot] of anime this vacation and some in the last one.Updating the list and adding some comments
The serial is based on how i marked them not how i liked them
1.Code Geass
Chose it due to the high rating.
remarks: Excellent from almost all sides. Good story,character,animation,plot etc. But it has some deep messages one of them is "Only he should kill who is ready to die too". This is done by Sunrise.So it was expected to be good. Season 2 was better than one. However watching two seasons is a must to understand the whole series.Very much recommended.
2.Samurai Champloo
Chose it for high rating and also made by Cowboy bebop director
remarks:Violent.However i expected that as i was watching something based on samurai life. excellent overall.Very educative in some sense if you ignore some fantasy part. Got some fanservice. recommended if you want to learn about samurai japan fun way.
3.Elfen Lied
Watching Samurai Champloo made me a bit confident that i can handle gore and nudity a little bit.chose it for high rating.
remark:I was wrong completely wrong.Atleast for this series. I never knew that a non-adult anime can be so overtly blatant about nudity and gore. And many parts of it IS fanservice. Personally ashamed of watching it. Still i completed it, why? Story . Despite all these things and even if you just skip those part there are many things that was worth watching in this anime.Specially the starting score. Latin song but beautiful. However i think this anime could be much much better without those things.A very sad story, It was not right for me. But definitely worth a watch due to some arising questions about our humanity toward ourselves[orphans etc]
4.Paranoia Agent
Was in my list for some time. I have watched almost everything of this director.
Remarks: Confused about it.It says many important things and many things we see and ignore. That was well understood but the fantasy factor of the anime was not very clear to me. It made me feel like almost all of his works contains this element ,dream element.Good series worth the time to watch it.
5.Kaichou Wa Maid Sama
So watching serious anime was too much for me. Searched comedy and chose this due to the 1.maid factor 2.romance and high rating
remarks: Yeah it is very funny. If you got time to kill or too much bored to work watching it will cheer you up for sure. Straight forward school romance[i got it this time yaa]. with the sexual tickle. No need for these things. To understand that i watched it skipping and without skipping those parts[made no difference to me]. So these were made to give the viewer what is called guilty pleasure. however it is a happy story with no ill intention. only one fanservice episode[beach one] and that does not involve the special camera angles.People call it shojo so it means made for girls and so there is no intention to make girls sexy. Good series to watch and fun to watch too.
still that is not what i liked it for its core is romance so must tell something about it. I feel it is fair. That is the way i can think about how love works or should work. however i do not understand what love[that is between two unrelated people] is at all. but this anime showed my version of it. recommend for those who have time to kill.
6.Berserk
Had no idea about it.completely chose it for rating
remarks: Old school animation. poor quality and also many cost cutting technique.However it has a very complex story. It is totally adult, the problems and other things it addresses disguised as fantasy element is something tasty for brain chewing[this word describes my thought best]. However the extreme graphic[gore in most case] nature of the anime has demeaned the overall quality .The s** scene and the r*p* scene , the **** probably had a connection with the story but the *** was completely unnecessary. Both in the Elfen Lied and Berserk i cant give them full credit due to this fact. They were overall good but they tried to win by that shock factor[extreme nudity and gore]. I have heard berserk is one of the best mangas. And it really ends with the worst possible episode.And when it started and ended has no connection in them broadly. So i might read the mangas next year if i am alive and have time.
7.Serial Experiments Lain
Was in my list for some time.Choose it for the same reason why i chose GITS that its relation to computer and network
remarks: Wow that is a opening theme. I liked the theme soo much that i might have listened to it more than 50 times, right now too.People often say they quite dont understand it. However the anime was almost understood by me, atleast i think so.Overall the series is slow pacing and some times uninteresting. The problem with soft science fiction is they sometimes too much move away from real world. I have seen some more anime,read books about this particular matter. The thing that most writer cant fully understand that we cant create individuality in a program, a random action is not individuality. We learn these in our AI class. And thats why i liked gits more than this. And thats why the tachikoma who developed individuality had actual neuron. thats why i fear bionic things.However particularly in this anime one line struck my mind that is "is it better just to wipe the bad memories from our brain or face the world". A quite strong question toward escapists. Recommended if you are into science fiction like me and got free time when you are too bored to work.
8.Planets
Planets was in my list for its high rating and the story.
remarks:The animation quality of planet seems second only to ghibli or ig production. Vivid graphics and animation. Specially the communication between space station and space craft acting is superb. I wont say anything more watch it to see yourself.All these were a plus point
The reason i liked most is it defined some of my own questions more clearly.The confusion and the hatred that makes a person do unreasonable things and the take over of large national corporations over the resources were two of those. it is a hard science fiction so it is very close to reality.almost no fanservice. Liked this series very very much. Recommended for everyone as a classic.
End line: All of these anime are very good example of quality anime so they possess the general high quality anime properties.So skipped those, like good character,voice acting bla bla bla.
NB: all science fiction has romance in them, not only in anime in my language too. i read my first science fiction[interesting remembering i was raised reading science fiction. thats why i love them so much] at class 3 or 4[age 7-8] maybe then i did not get many things. now re-reading them i found most of them had this romance element.And i wanted to write some more about them but i think most of you know them anyway.
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