Wolf's Rain OP

God it's been years since I've watched this, hey want to watch a youtube video from 2006. The series itself is a very bleak setting in which humanity is dying under snowy conditions and it's up to 4 stray wolves to try and find 'paradise'. Don't go in expecting anything happy here, the story and it's themes though, of struggling in the face of the end, of finding purpose to give your life direction, of finding that 'Rakuen' where you can finally just rest for awhile. That's what this series is about, helped by Yoko Kanno and her guest performers it's just a wonderfully bleak series. I love it.

Outlaw Star

Fuggin Finally, Outlaw Star. Space adventures, Cat Tats and a general old school vibe to everything that makes you have a sense of fun. Recommend it, grab the uncensored blu-rays, thank me later.

Okay, now movies before I drive myself insane wit how much I've recommended. You can't complain that you don't have anything to watch now.

Actual Redline movie, surprised Funi hasn't DMCA'd it

A 2009film by Bones, it's famous for it being entirely drawn by hand. Every little detail of the dust and movement of the cars and characters is all top notch. This is just the animation studio flexing it's muscle saying, can you actually do as well as we can? Basic plot is race related and therefore it's like the classic Hollywood movies of the 80s, particularly Cannonball Run. Is absoultely worth seeing, subs or dubs, both are good.

From the same director as that, Koike Takeshi, he also made this gem, Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust. Can also be found on Youtube as well enter text, along with the 1985 movie, that one is separate as I wanna talk about this one.

On a cold night in 2001, I watched this late that night when my parents had gone to bed, I didn't quite get what Anime was at the time but seeing this dark hunter slay vampires oh this is what made me like Anime and Mushishi just cemented it. D is a Dhampir, a half breed that travels and slays any vampire that has a price on his head. Meyer Link has recently abducted the young girl Charlotte and D therefore has to hunt him down, another group is also hunting and Meyer has himself some protection. So the end is a showdown at the castle. The book this is based on is a little more rapey but the movie is fugging solid for 20 years old, also doesn't have that. It's sweet in places. Dub is pretty good, never really heard it not dubbed. The world of Hunter D is interesting as well, it's 10,000 A.D, Vampires rose in prominence around 3,000 A.D. or so and enslaved humans for a few thousand years but then they became secretive and paranoid their society basically crumbled when most of the relocated to the moon.

Interstella 5555, why hasn't Youtube taken these down?

So 2001Daft Punk are launching their Discovery Album and they need a music video to go along with it, so they don't just make one for the likes of One More Time, they meet with Leiji Matusmoto creator of Captain Harlock, and spend 2 years together creating an hour long music video to the album. It's almost amazing to be honest because this has survived for so long and is just a good piece of art.

Sword of the Stranger

Kind of a low key movie with a simple plot but the fight scenes are totally worth it, straight out of a wuxia and perfectly animated like Bones can do. Absolutely recommended.

Mononoke-Hime Essay

What I love about this film isn't the nature vs tech relationship between the forest spirit and Iron Town, not the aggressive nature of Mononoke herself and Ashitaka trying to keep the peace, nor the entire valley falling into corruption due to human hands. It's all these things, Ashitaka heading west and ending up in the middle of a conflict between all this. The score, the art, even the dub it's all just good and the above themes I mention all play into the story. I like this better over other Ghibli movies because it's told almost like a fairy tale, of a banished prince and a feral girl. It really does hold up considering it was 97. Did you also know it early adopted 3Dgraphics, in 97, a year before Half Life and only 2 years after Doom 2. Again if you want the artbook, look it up on Sad Panda.

Time of Eve Dub

This series, first started as a 5 episode web series before Yoshiura Yasuhiro picked it up and made it a full length movie. The basic plot is a small cafe opens up in a world where it's almost impossible to distinguish humans and Androids. in this cafe, you can't ask if someone's an Android and the school protag follows Sammy there after locating her GPS data. The social implications and resulting guesses of who's an android and who isn't unfolds with the story. It's a nice little slice of life with science fiction elements, recommended.

Patema Inverted

Staying on Yoshiura Yasuhiro, his next movie was Patema inverted. Basic setting is imagine if Whitebeard used his Devil fruit and flipped the world upside down. How many people would fall into the sky, how many would be stranded in houses and need to dig into the earth to be able to live. Patema ends up travelling via balloon up enough and eventually comes across this other human who can stick to his earth but she can't. The result is a very interesting scifi drama. Give it a try.

Summer Wars Trailer

Now, Mamoru Hosoda has a thing for family, in his other movies, Wolf children and Mirai no Mirai for instance, he likes to have that as a focus. For me, Summer Wars is still my favorite. It kinda plays out like the Digimon movie (He did make it as well after all), a virus gets loose in Cyberspace and wreaks havoc on the world but here it's more than that, because everything uses OZ, it causes traffic jams, business shut downs, false phone calls to emergency services. And it's the Jinnouchi family and them pulling together around Grandma that I honestly like about the movie. Maybe i don't come from a big family but that feeling of everyone doing their part and feeling that blood bond between them, that's what I love about this movie. And koi-koi of course, no joke, took that up as a hobby because of it. It's like solitaire but with picture cards and more combos. I like it.

Marnie Trailer

Now, if you ask me what has been the best movie of the last decade, easy. When Marnie Was There. You see. Miyozaki had already retired at this point and to date this is Ghibli's last movie in the traditional style that they're known for. Most of the staff who worked on this would leave and found Studio Ponoc instead, taking the artstyle with them for Mary and the Witch`s Flower. Now Marnie is special because not only is it a beautiful swan song but the story itself. Anna going to the Marsh House and meeting Marnie, who gives her the confidence to deepen their relationship. Once you know the twist to the story, yeah it's kinda obvious but still, the soundtrack, character designs, locations and voices are all just top quality and the adapted story is lovely. Give it was watch, easy recommend.

Fuuuuuug. That's it. I've got more things I can recommend but for me I'm happy with these ones. Pick something and enjoy.

Edit: 5,776 words in my posts with 31,315 characters. Hah.