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Yay for Anime
Aug. 3rd, 2009 01:01 pm...
I'm discovering that there's more to Anime than meets the eye. JJ introduced us to it with the film "Spirited Away" which was really good, although it took a little while to get into the movie, mostly just because we'd never watched anything like it before. Since then we've also watched and enjoyed "Howls Moving Castle" and decided we wanted to explore a bit further.
The thing I like about the Anime we've seen, is that you just about think you have a grip on what's going on, and something completely unexpected and impossible to fathom will happen just to keep you interested. Even better than that is the way that unexpected, unbelievable thing is then wound into the story, so before long, you can't understand how the movie existed without it. All of the films we've seen are Ghibli studio productions and we have a feel for how those look and sound, this weekend we pushed ourselves a bit further down the Anime route with another Ghibli film that we haven't watched yet; "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" and a DVD which had the first two episodes of "Naruto" and "Bleach" on. We've watched those and enjoyed them very much, so we're now going to figure out buying some more and watching all of the series of both.
It's got that exciting feeling of being new and totally different each time, still good stories and animation, excellent thought processes and nothing like anything I've seen before. "We like it, We love it, We want more of it..."
I'm discovering that there's more to Anime than meets the eye. JJ introduced us to it with the film "Spirited Away" which was really good, although it took a little while to get into the movie, mostly just because we'd never watched anything like it before. Since then we've also watched and enjoyed "Howls Moving Castle" and decided we wanted to explore a bit further.
The thing I like about the Anime we've seen, is that you just about think you have a grip on what's going on, and something completely unexpected and impossible to fathom will happen just to keep you interested. Even better than that is the way that unexpected, unbelievable thing is then wound into the story, so before long, you can't understand how the movie existed without it. All of the films we've seen are Ghibli studio productions and we have a feel for how those look and sound, this weekend we pushed ourselves a bit further down the Anime route with another Ghibli film that we haven't watched yet; "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" and a DVD which had the first two episodes of "Naruto" and "Bleach" on. We've watched those and enjoyed them very much, so we're now going to figure out buying some more and watching all of the series of both.
It's got that exciting feeling of being new and totally different each time, still good stories and animation, excellent thought processes and nothing like anything I've seen before. "We like it, We love it, We want more of it..."
