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Macross 2
Madox-01
Magic Knights Rayearth
Mahou Tsukai Tai, OVA
Maison Ikkoku
Mononoke Hime / Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro / Tonari no Totoro
Type: Movie
Description:
Two Meccafighter pilots argue over who's best, both loses to an automatic fighter. They can't stand for that, now can they?
Treefinger's rating:
Treefinger's comments:
At least not as soapy as the episodesversion
(Robotech in the U.S), quite ok, actually.
Type: Movie
Description:
Young mechanic gets a battlesuit by mistake and gets trapped in it while on his way to a date. Lots of confusion in this one.
Treefinger's rating:
Treefinger's comments:
A bit too classical maybe, almost no story and well, almost no fun things.
Type: 20 episodes
Description:
Three schoolgirls are sent to another world to save a princess.
Karja's rating:
Karja's comments:
Very good series. A bit "girly",
but what the hell... "Pu pu puuu!" (Mokona rules! :)
Treefinger's rating:
Treefinger's comments:
One of my favourite series, but, growing armours, wtf? "pupuupuupupuuu" all ^_^
Type: 6 episodes
Description:
About a group of magic users in a school.
Karja's rating:
Karja's comments:
Amusing at times, annoying at times. Not too
good. Rather low jokes at times (although it's not necessarily a bad
thing. ^_^).
Type: ?? episodes
Description:
Drama-anime about a house and it's inhabitants.
Treefinger's rating:
Treefinger's comments:
Well, there ain't no blood, gore or mechanical parts flying around in this one,
but I kind of liked it anyway. I have heard that the Manga version is really great though.
Type: Movie
Description:
It's early iron age in a world of spiritual magic. Ashitaka is becomes an outcast after having contracted leprousy from a Tatarigami. He wanders far from his homelands and stumbles into the bitter struggle between man and the spirits protecting the land.
Karja's rating:
Karja's comments:
Amazing artwork, good story. Still not among
the best IMO.
Treefinger's rating:
Treefinger's comments:
This is the shit I tell you. Amazing stuff from my favourite anime genious Miyazaki.
The mononoke hime is cool and the story is great and *keeps raving over this one*.
If you should watch an anime and you don't know what to watch, watch this one.
Quest's rating:
Quest's comments:
Mononoke Hime was the largest-grossing movie ever to be shown in
theaters in Japan (to be narrowly dethroned by Titanic a year
later).
Unlike Miyazaki's other creations, this movie is a massive epos. It has everything that a really touching fantasy epos should have.
One common complaint in American mainstream reviews is that Mononoke Hime is a bit slow-paced. Possibly so, if you are both American, high on speed and blind. If you cared nothing for development of the characters, for fantastic artwork, for the suspense of a poweful and dramatic plot, nor for the sense of wonder inspired by a richly detailed mythology, you might consider this movie slow-paced.
The most striking quality of Mononoke Hime is its lack of bad
guys. Neither the hero, nor either if the warring sides ever feels
good or evil. They are all noble and fight for a good cause. These
causes just happens to be incompatible (you may feel the
slaughtering of the boars to be evil, but remember that the boars
are the aggressors - the alternative to slaughter is extinction).
Type: Movie
Description:
Girls Satsuki and Mei moves with their father to an old house int the countryside, rural Japan. It's the late traditional Miyazaki era (late fourties, early fifties) and the mother is ill in some non-trivial illness. We get to meet Satsukis grandmother and cousin, and of course Totoro, the gigantic grey teddy bear, benign and terrible.
Quest's rating:
Quest's comments:
My rating on this movie is highly subjective. Tonari no Totoro
approaches a religious experience for me. No matter. It is the
best animated movie I have ever seen. It has been voted the best
Japanese movie of the twentieth century - closely followed by
Kurosawa's The seven samurais.
It has two parts. First, it has the heady magic of fantasy. Wether Totoro and the cat-bus exists in the physical world is irrelevant: it is real in the minds of the main characters. Secondly, why doesn't their mother come home? Oh, she has just gotten a cold. She will soon get better. That's what they said the last time. Tonari no Totoro is a tale about two girls who become aware of the terrible possibility of death.
Miyazaki has condensed his own essence in this movie to the degree where it is nearly painful to watch. This is not so much a movie for both children and adults as it is a movie that touches both my adult personality and the hidden child I carry inside.
Oh, and don't forget to view the credits afterwords. The drawings
tell how the story ended.
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