All Things:Animated

Had a bit of an Anime urge lately so based on some recommendations I watched two shows, Elfen Lied and Claymore. Claymore was very good, set in a fantasy world in which shapeshifting monsters called Yoma are living among humans and feeding on them and the only ones who can fight them are human female warriors with Yoma blood, granting them inhuman strength and speed. Lots of action and monsters with good animation. Check it out if you like Anime. Elfen Lied also had good animation and was violent and atmospheric, set in a contemporary world where some people are born as mutants with something that resembles telekinetic abilities, allowing them to tear things and people apart from a distance. Unfortunately it's too indulgent in creepy nudity, sexual tension and self loathing, fairly common themes in anime but Elfen Lied really pushed the limit on how much I could take. But the rest of the show was good enough to carry it past those parts for me. Both shows are fairly short and when they were over I wanted to see more episodes. A bonus is that they were pretty light on that anime style humor that I find so off-putting, especially Claymore kept things serious all the way through which I appreciated.
 
BigBrown said:
Had a bit of an Anime urge lately so based on some recommendations I watched two shows, Elfen Lied and Claymore. Claymore was very good, set in a fantasy world in which shapeshifting monsters called Yoma are living among humans and feeding on them and the only ones who can fight them are human female warriors with Yoma blood, granting them inhuman strength and speed. Lots of action and monsters with good animation. Check it out if you like Anime. Elfen Lied also had good animation and was violent and atmospheric, set in a contemporary world where some people are born as mutants with something that resembles telekinetic abilities, allowing them to tear things and people apart from a distance. Unfortunately it's too indulgent in creepy nudity, sexual tension and self loathing, fairly common themes in anime but Elfen Lied really pushed the limit on how much I could take. But the rest of the show was good enough to carry it past those parts for me. Both shows are fairly short and when they were over I wanted to see more episodes. A bonus is that they were pretty light on that anime style humor that I find so off-putting, especially Claymore kept things serious all the way through which I appreciated.
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Thanks for the reviews. Claymore is on my list, but haven't had a chance to watch it yet, so I'll give it a try. I am watching Sword Art Online and Log Horizon, both swords and sorcery type stuff, and recently finished Fate/Zero, which I would also recommend. Also, I am about a third of the way into Hunter x Hunter, which we are watching pretty much every night at our house.
 
If you haven't bought either the Amazon.com or Funimation special edition blu-ray of Cowboy Bebop, then what the he'll are you waiting for?

It's been a long time since anime has grabbed my interest the way Bebop did.
 
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FBJ said:
If you haven't bought either the Amazon.com or Funimation special edition blu-ray of Cowboy Bebop, then what the he'll are you waiting for?

It's been a long time since anime has grabbed my interest the way Bebop did.
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My friend at work just recommended that to me as well! I will check it out.
 
FBJ said:
If you haven't bought either the Amazon.com or Funimation special edition blu-ray of Cowboy Bebop, then what the he'll are you waiting for?

It's been a long time since anime has grabbed my interest the way Bebop did.
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I bought the DVD boxset when it came out a few years ago. Of course.
 


First ANIMALS Trailer Teases New Adult, Independently Produced Animated Series from Mark & Jay Duplass
Read more at http://collider.com/animals-trailer-animated-tv-show/#cbK6J5hmG7uTFEH6.99

While the Sundance Film Festival is usually a launching ground for the best in independent cinema, festival regulars Mark and Jay Duplass are shaking things up this year by unveiling their new independently produced, animated

TV series Animals. The show was made possible through private financing, which means co-creators Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano were given extensive creative freedom and the time necessary to complete the show on their own schedule. The series takes place in New York City and revolves around “the downtrodden creatures native to planet Earth’s least habitable environment”, with a minimalist animation style and adult-geared tone reminiscent of Archer. The voice cast is great and the scenes shown in the trailer are really funny, so I’m eager to see where the series ends up.

Watch the Animals trailer after the jump. The first two episodes will premiere Monday, January 26th at the Sundance Film Festival


in the Special Events section in hopes of landing distribution. The voice cast includes Mark Duplass, Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, Katie Aselton, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, Mark Maron, Ike Barinholtz, Jason Mantzoukas, Nathan Fielder, Paul Scheer, Matt Walsh, Chelsea Peretti, Zach Woods, and Adam Scott.

Here’s the logline for Animals.:

An animated comedy series

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from co-creators Phil Matarese & Mike Luciano and produced by the Duplass Brothers, ANIMALS. focuses on the downtrodden creatures native to planet Earth’s least habitable environment: New York City. Whether it’s lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bed bugs steeped in midlife crisis, the existential woes of non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own.


Read more at http://collider.com/animals-trailer-animated-tv-show/#cbK6J5hmG7uTFEH6.99
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G?teborg Review: Inspiring, Absorbing Studio Ghibli Doc 'The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness' Is A Must For Miyazaki Fans

"I am from the 20th century," states Miyazaki ruefully at one point, and this is the 21st. But the man, the films he made, and the company he co-created would have been extraordinary in any age. Without overly romanticizing it or suggesting that, ultimately, it is anything more than a business built around the talents of some very singular men, Sunada's film becomes a love letter of a most unusual kind, because it is addressed to a place that is unremarkable in every way except for the spirit that flowed through it. That spirit, of unfettered creative imagination, of dreams and madness, is so transformational that it did indeed make this modest suburban structure a "kingdom," at least for a little while. And if the magic of this magic kingdom is no longer concentrated in this particular pile of bricks and mortar on the outskirts of Tokyo, we can take heart in the fact that it's immortalized forever in every frame of every film that Ghibli ever made. [B+/A-]
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