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Departments => Movies and TV => Topic started by: EUOL on August 06, 2003, 03:45:12 AM
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Okay, Cartoon network is running this anime on Adult Swim. It is completely insane. In the first episode, a strange alien girl on a motorcycle smashes the main character on the head with her chainsaw-guitar and he grows a giant robot from his skull.
Yeah.
Anyway, it's strangely transfixing. I don't understand it at all, but something about its animation style is very interesting.
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Heh I like it so much I'm thinking of buying the DVD's, confuseing as heck though. The voice acting of the two girls is so strikeingly Japanese it's almost scarey. Furikuri is an onomatopoeia that I think means topsy turvy or something like that. Don't quote me on that. My Japanese dictonary is still packed and onomatopoeia's are like a language of their own in Japanese. And I don't study them, so I only know the realy common ones.
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Heh. Tonight's episode was amazing too. Mind-numbing, but amazing. Boy, Tage would hate this one wouldn't he--talk about some chibi....
Did you catch the kid saying that his dad had written a book on the philosophical meanings of Eva? I thought that was hilarious.
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Well some of the people that worked on FLCL did EVA.
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I'll say this, it has a good soundtrack. I'll get back to you after I put my mind back together, or before I kill myself. Sometimes I just really despise the things the Japanese do. How bored are those people that they'd create something like this.... or something where you stomp your feet on arrows to a song. Argh!
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Episode three...ug....mind numb....
Man, the plotting in this show is brilliant--when you can figure it out, that is.
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Ya tonights was strange. Episode 2 was, dare I say it, Brilliant.
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So apparently this is what the Gainax guys do to blow off steam, eh?
And I wonder if Spriggan meant 3, and misspelled that. :P
As another note, that kids father reminds me of Josh Lesnick, the creator of Cutewendy. ( www.cutewendy.com )
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I finally got to see an episode the other night. Very bizarre. It's like a cross between Ranma 1/2 and Twin Peaks. I'll be watching it again tonight.
......eyebrows.....(shudder)
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So I saw an episode last night. It seems very much like something Andy Warhol would make, if he had made anime.
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EUOL sat me down and made me watch the finale tonight. I'll admit, I wish I'd caught the five preceeding episodes. And as I was telling EUOL, chibi is the LEAST of this anime's problems.
The funny thing is, I liked it too. So bizarre, but definitely fascinating.
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So what, thats it? That can't be it. There must be more! I will not be thrown away like this. I want more... I'm going to go cry now. :'(
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ya only 6 episodes. The more annoying thing is that there are only 2 episodes per DVD!
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That is -very- annoying. Unless there is like some unfathomable amount of extras on each one.
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For anime there's a lot. Like directors comentary (in Japanese) storybords, outtakes, production art and such.
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Heh. According to Tage, this show was created with the same haphazardness manifest in its plot. It was animated during spare moments over a period of years, people working on it for fun. That might have something to do with why there are only a few episodes.
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wouldn't surprise me if what tage was right. That might explain why the animatoin style changes sometimes.
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Hey Spriggan, or someone else. Do you know if they have a soundtrack out for FLCL?
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Umm ya how do you think I got the music? It's import only though so you'll have to get it via e-bay or some specialty store.