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30 Sep 07 – 30 Sep 07
Added a review of KamiChu!, which I finished yesterday. Nice little slice-of-life show.
26 Sep 07 – 26 Sep 07
Finished Texhnolyze. What a mind trip. It's a perfect ending for this particular show, but it's tragic. Sad, in the sense of watching an insect get trapped in tar. You know it's not getting out of there.
It's odd. I never want to create a show like this. I don't like depressing stories, and I certainly don't like Texhnolyze. It is well-made, and thought-provoking. I appreciate it. I value it. It's a strong work of art.
There aren't that many of those in the world.
25 Sep 07 – 25 Sep 07
Been watching Texhnolyze. It's pure science fiction. It's dystopian storytelling. It's...true. Real.
I disagree with some of its philosophy, strongly, on a lot of levels. But that's surely part of the point, to watch and think and form opinions (reactionary or otherwise).
Nice to have something I can sink my teeth into.
17 Sep 07 – 17 Sep 07
It's amazing to watch people create something out of nothing.
Case in point: the first five episodes of Space Battleship Yamato, which I watched recently. Made in 1974, when anime was still a bunch of crude cartoons for kids, this is a show with weight and melancholy. It's slow and deliberate. We spend whole episodes in almost real time. We see huge futuristic cities, empty due to the prolonged war with Gamilon.
This was in 1974. A tremendous accomplishment. All because they decided to do it.
13 Sep 07 – 13 Sep 07
Just finished watching Brad Bird's short film, Family Dog (it's on YouTube). It was an episode of the old anthology TV series Amazing Stories, if you remember that.
Fascinating. It's a solid story, very funny in parts, and drawn in a very modern, minimalist style. What's most remarkable is that it isn't amazingly brilliant.
And that's comforting. Brad Bird didn't start brilliant then flame out. He's gotten better as he's aged.