Posted by thanossapiens on 04.05.2018, 05:30 PM:
Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974)
This took a while to watch because I was enjoying myself so much I didn't want to finish it.
For those who don't know this was directed by Isao Takahata and Miyazaki was involved too.
It's a slow anime, especially in the beginning but it eventually picks up and a bit of plot is introduced here and
there. The pacing is very good. Everything is very good, actually. The music, story, art (especially in the new Blu Ray version... you can
see tons more detail than the original). I like how when you see older anime like this one in HD, you can see the imperfections in the linework and it's texture. It shows that it has drawn by hand in a animation cell, and it feels a lot more organic than the digital counterpart.
This is the only case I have seen so far where an adaptation is better
than the original work. Not only that but they had to stretch the story in order to make it 50+ episodes long and surprisingly everything
they added makes it better. The original novel feels lackluster by comparison.
Now, there are some things I don't like either but they would be spoilers so I should leave them out of this post.
I started Anne of the Green Gables now, which is another Takahata anime and part of the World Masterpiece Theater too, I probably wont end up liking it as much but still it's a nice break from the recent cookie-cutter anime.
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