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Thursday, March 3, 2005
I want to fly into your sun... | Just out of interest, I wanted to ask everyone something about OtakuBoards.
I am planning to do a particular type of skin for 7.5, but if I get time I'll do a second skin.
I was thinking of doing something like the design you see on myOtaku lately (this design and the previous one) - ie: mostly black and white, with pink bits. Would that interest anyone? I doubt it'd be as popular for the default skin, but I personally like the colours and I think I'd enjoy doing a darker skin for OB as an option. I know I'd use it, anyway.
So if that interests you guys, let me know. Implementation work on 7.5 has begun; that work will go as fast as I can, for the most part. So I really hope to have most of it done in a fairly short timeframe.
Anyway. Last time I believe Mimmi asked about anime. So I thought I'd respond to that.
Generally, I've never been a big anime fan. That isn't really to say that I don't like anime itself, it's just that a lot of anime doesn't particularly appeal to me. And I guess, generally, I find a lot of anime out there to be fairly low quality.
But there is definitely some anime that I like and I've definitely had exposure to it for a long time.
I'm not sure what the situation is in America, but in Australia, anime has been a part of morning cartoons for a very long time. In fact, in the mornings before school, I can never remember a time where there wasn't anime.
So from a young age I've grown up watching a variety of anime and western animation in the mornings. In that sense, anime is nothing especially new - that's probably true for anyone who's grown up with it in that sense.
However, I've never really been passionate about it. There were only two series that I ever really enjoyed. One was called Teknoman; I believe some OBers know of it, but it's not a widely-known anime.
Unfortunately I haven't seen it in a long time. But I have very fond memories of it.
The other series that I ended up enjoying (and I'm now forgetting the name of it again), was basically an anime version of The Wizard of Oz. I think it was called Return to Oz or something, wasn't it? Someone out there may know.
In any case, it was (obviously) childish, but very cool. And being that it was a series, it was a whole lot more in-depth than the original story. There was a lot to it and it was like this big magical spiral, with so many different adventures. So I definitely enjoyed that.
But other than that, there hasn't really been anything that has really grabbed me. Then again, there's also a lot I haven't seen.
I really enjoyed Battle Angel Alita, which I saw once on SBS (local TV station). Again, I only saw that once and it was a while ago, but I was quite happy with it. I'm excited about the prospect for a live action version, anyway.
In more recent times I've really enjoyed stuff like The Animatrix; though this is possibly because it was largely written and organized by the Wachowskis, which could be one reason why the production values seem so much higher than a lot of anime I've seen. I don't just mean in terms of raw animation (though that's a part of it), I mean in general, it was a very impressive package.
I'd love to see an entire film done like Detective Story. That grainy Film Noir with the subtle CG work was simply gorgeous.
Apart from that, I own very little anime though. I also own Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Spirited Away and .hack//SIGN (the entire Japanese box set).
Vampire Hunter D was more or less an impulse buy. I enjoyed it, but not to any great extent. I felt that it had potential and it started well, but...as it went on I became somewhat bored of it. It was nice though; reminded me of Castlevania, lol.
Spirited Away was simply wonderful. I think I appreciated it a lot more upon second viewing though. That bath house...there's something very appealing about it. I can't quite say what it is. Maybe the fact that all the characters were only up at night and this made it like one giant slumber party? That could be it. But somehow it just had this atmosphere of incredible fun about it -- it made me want to visit that bath house at night. Does anyone else feel that way about it? Something about that combination of night time activity and the location by the water and everything -- it was just very appealing somehow.
.hack//SIGN was something that I didn't buy (I received it via theOtaku.com so that I could write about it). I did some very detailed episode summaries, but never finished them. I feel guilty about this, however, there were two big problems.
One, my version has terrible subbing. Terrible. So bad, in fact, that it's hard to know what's going on at all.
Secondly, the US version had been released and various names were changed (for both characters and objects). Combine that with the fact that my version had lousy subtitles and you have a recipe for disaster. I felt it would be hard to seem authoritative on something that I really have a lot of trouble working out. So I didn't want to risk it, with that.
So there you go. There's a general post on my experience with anime. There's a lot more to say about the subject itself, though. But I will leave that for later.
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