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The Giants of Anime are Coming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reading-about-stuff-to-see dept.

Wired is running a story about the Giants of Anime which discusses numerous things happening on the anime front, including the new Ghost in the Shell movie, and the upcoming Miyazaki release "Howl's Moving Castle". This is something of a background piece for people somewhat unfamiliar, but it also covers a lot of interesting bits that the fans might enjoy as well.

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  1. Links to IMDb by CaptainCheese · · Score: 5, Informative

    Innocence
    Steamboy
    Howl's Moving Castle

    You'll find links onward to trailers from here...I'd paste the direct links, but I don't want to /. anyone who can't handle it...

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  2. "Howl" in the US by ll1234 · · Score: 3, Informative

    An acquisition and release date haven't been announced, but are basically formalities. For comparison, it took about a year for Spirited Away to make it from Japanese theaters to US theaters.

    The film is already scheduled for theatrical release in France early in 2005.

    It's also making an appearance at the Venice Film Festival. I don't expect it to win 'Best in Show' like 'Spirited Away' did at the Berlin Film Festival, but it's great to see animation put on equal footing with live-action unlike the Acadamy Awards.

  3. Re:Greatest Anime Film? by The-Bus · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to the IMDB...

    Taking away non-animé animated animations, we come up with:

    1. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) * ^
    2. Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke) * ^
    3. Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) ^
    4. Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (Laputa: Castle in the Sky) * ^
    5. Sennen joyu (Millenium Actress) ^
    6. Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) * ^
    7. Majo no takkyubin (Kiki's Delivery Service) * ^
    8. Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni (Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion)
    9. Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds) * ^
    10. Mimi wo sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart) * ^
    11. Akira
    12. Kurenai no buta (Flying Pig/Porco Rosso) * ^
    13. Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell)
    14. Jûbei ninpûchô (Ninja Scroll)
    15. Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro) * ^
    16. Vampire Hunter D
    17. Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie)
    18. Jin-Rô (Jin Roh)^
    19. Perfect Blue ^

    * A Hayao Miyazaki film.
    ^ Not a film about giant robots, ninjas, or robot-ninjas fighting each other. Not a film set in a dystopian future or filled with demons.

    So, of the top 50, we've got 19 features being animé (and half of the Bottom 10 are animé). Of the top 10, 5 are animé, 4 are by Pixar, and one is Shrek.
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  4. Re:One of the Best things for Anime... by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Informative
    Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf's Rain and FLCL are some of the best I've ever run across. Witch Hunter Robin and Wolf's Rain both took me several episodes to get into them, but they're pretty amazing once you get to know the characters. FLCL has more of a pubescent fantasy feel to it but that's kind of the point with that one. So I don't think you're giving the anime lineup enough credit.

    Their line-up of 15 minute shows is pretty twisted. The episodes I've seen of Harvey Birdman have been very... wrong... But they're all very hit-or-miss. I guess it's hard to keep up that level of twisted humor consistently across an entire season. I like 'em though.

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