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| Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team | - | RDVD 4.0 |
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| 5 Centimeters per Second | 10 | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 1.4 Retail Disks: Start Date: Aug 6, 2008 End Date: Aug 6, 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 09-15-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 45 seconds (0 hours, 22 minutes, and 55 seconds per episode) Comments: Not a single shot, nor an individual piano note lacks the subtle-yet-overwhelming beauty that I've come to expect from Makoto Shinkai in these films. To make an uncomplicated, unidealised account of growing up thoroughly tearjerking more than proves his ability. |
| Akira | 9 | RDVD 2.0 |
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2 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Rewatch Ep: 1 Storage: Retail Disks: 2 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 1 Deviation Score: 1.0 Retail Disks: Start Date: Dec 2007 End Date: Dec 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-12-09 Time Spent Watching: 6 hours, 12 minutes, and 0 seconds (2 hours, 4 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: This deserves its reputation as a cult classic. The percussive music sends shivers down my spine. |
| Area 88 | 7 | RDVD 2.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 2 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -0.5 Retail Disks: Start Date: Feb 14, 2009 End Date: Feb 15, 2009 Total Days Watched: 2 Last Updated: 02-15-09 Time Spent Watching: 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 7 minutes, and 40 seconds per episode) Comments: Time leaves its mark on the character designs, screenplay and presentation, but such marks of the decade affirm this as a classic action show. Dramatic virtually throughout, with an ending that may not satisfy but certainly resonates, this OAV has a commendable ability to keep a viewer's attention skyward. |
| Armitage III | 6 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -1.3 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 11-19-08 Time Spent Watching: 2 hours, 18 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 34 minutes, and 30 seconds per episode) Comments: Passable elements of romance, mystery and action didn't sit comfortably with the less-than-stellar acting, at least that of the English dub. Ultimately it could have left me more attached to the characters despite a strong start. That said, it was quintes |
| Armitage III Dual-Matrix | 6 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -1.1 Retail Disks: Start Date: Nov 19, 2008 End Date: Nov 19, 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 11-19-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 29 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 29 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Formulaic as regards storyline and the division between heroes and villains, but certainly well paced. Music, action and the English dub pass muster and improve slightly on its predecessor, yet do so without raising the bar too much. |
| Battle Angel Alita | 6 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -1.4 Retail Disks: Start Date: Nov 8, 2008 End Date: Nov 9, 2008 Total Days Watched: 2 Last Updated: 11-10-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 30 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Manages to tell a complete story within its too episodes. Whilst the screenplay was certainly passable, somehow I feel justice wasn't fully done on a couple of events in the story- they could have had more of an immediate punch. |
| Blue Gender | - | RDVD 8.0 |
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0 times Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 8 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 03-25-09 Time Spent Watching: 9 hours, 58 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 23 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: |
| Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru | - |
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0 times Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Medium Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jan 5, 2009 End Date: Jan 5, 2009 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 01-05-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 49 minutes, and 43 seconds (0 hours, 49 minutes, and 43 seconds per episode) Comments: To depict a romance under undesirable circumstances may aid it to some degree, yet in practice it hinders it also. The viewer is made aware of the characters' love, and as such I commend it, but more substance was required for me to really feel the sweetness of the couple's time together. |
| Chobits | 8 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Medium Downloaded Episodes: 26 Deviation Score: 0.2 Retail Disks: Start Date: Sep 2007 End Date: Oct 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 10 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Some nice tender moments here. Towards the end it shakes off its comedic style and becomes more of a drama. The plot isn't too complicated, but it needn't be. |
| Di Gi Charat | - |
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0 times Rating: G - All Ages (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 06-16-09 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 4 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: |
| Dominion Tank Police | 7 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Medium Downloaded Episodes: 4 Deviation Score: -0.1 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jan 2008 End Date: Jan 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 40 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Nice and Retro. Whilst not as funny as I was hoping, Buaku's backstory gave this short series an unexpected depth. |
| Elfen Lied | 9 | RDVD 4.0 |
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0 times Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 4 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 13 Deviation Score: 0.7 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jan 2007 End Date: Jan 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 05-28-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: The violence, moe and infamous "taboo" scene do not detract from the story at all, and the brief (and somewhat sombre) concluding scene gives the viewer a sense of what has become of the main characters, whilst intentionally leaving their feelings for each other undisclosed. |
| Fruits Basket | 5 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 26 Deviation Score: -3.1 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jan 2008 End Date: Feb 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 10 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Transforming animals isn't a particularly deep theme, and as a result I felt like I was plodding through this series. The comedy was mild at best, the music could have been better and the various character monologues were unmoving. Its not fatally flawed, but not nearly as good as I was expecting. |
| Furi Kuri | 5 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Very Low Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -3.2 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Oct 28, 2008 Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 10-30-08 Time Spent Watching: 2 hours, 30 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Perhaps the distinct style of this show is where it fails. Certain sequences do certainly try to counteract the abnormal narrative, but cannot amount to much. The show concludes itself adequately but does so without leaving behind much of a sense of endearment. |
| Ghost in the Shell | 7 | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -1.3 Retail Disks: Start Date: Dec 2007 End Date: Dec 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 23 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: It's an "art" film. I don't quite understand the plot or symbolism, and the film is somewhat short. Nonetheless the scenes are varied and the minimalistic style is fitting, at least when compared to some other sci fi. |
| Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | 8 | RDVD 2.0 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 2 Rewatch Value: Medium Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 0.1 Retail Disks: Start Date: Dec 2007 End Date: Dec 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 09-15-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 40 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Provides closure, and ends at the right time. The way the Major protects Batou is perhaps subtly romantic. |
| Haibane Renmei | 8 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Medium Downloaded Episodes: 13 Deviation Score: -0.3 Retail Disks: Start Date: Feb 2007 End Date: Feb 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 12 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: This is a gently paced series with a strong feeling of homeliness. The darker elements are handled without the show becoming too dramatic. Although much about the world of the Haibane -and what lies ahead for them- isn't explained, I can appreciate this series nonetheless. |
| Howl's Moving Castle | 4 |
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2 times Rating: PG - Children (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -4.7 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jul 2007 End Date: Jul 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 51 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 57 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Original concept with unenthralling conservative ending. Chalk up another win for Mr Miyazaki. |
| Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade | - | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 09-15-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 42 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 42 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Red riding hood becomes thought-provoking here. To come to terms with what Oshii has done is difficult: Instead of fan-pandering and allowing the romance to prevail, it becomes swallowed up by the grim state of affairs that falls upon the film's bleak yet oddly realistic alternative world. |
| Kanon (2006) | 9 | RDVD 4.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 4 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 24 Deviation Score: 0.3 Retail Disks: Start Date: Oct 2007 End Date: Nov 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 06-17-09 Time Spent Watching: 9 hours, 36 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Romantic, dramatic, tearjerking, heartwarming and very cute. The series blends some serious issues with a persisting paranormal tone. The revelations before the ending make the plotline open to some interpretation. |
| Key the Metal Idol | 8 | RDVD 3.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 3 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 0.7 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Feb 13, 2009 Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 02-13-09 Time Spent Watching: 6 hours, 15 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Some aspects of the narrative and antagonists one could point out as flawed. Sparks of often startling introspection, a genuinely engaging protagonist and a terrific, rousing ending grant this gem far, far more than is needed to compensate though. |
| Kimi ga Nozomu Eien | 6 |
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0 times Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 14 Deviation Score: -1.8 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Aug 15, 2008 Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 08-15-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 22 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 23 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Dramatic and ultimately bittersweet it may be, but just not my sort of romance scenario. The premise of the story being a love triangle resulted in it not quite hitting the spot. Narumi had to choose one girl or the other, so a good deal of the tenderness amounted to nothing. |
| Koi Kaze | 7 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 13 Deviation Score: -0.5 Retail Disks: Start Date: Mar 2008 End Date: Mar 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 12 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Realism is one thing many series deliberately lack, but it is a realistic approach that this gentle tale nonetheless uses (right to the very end) to handle the subject of socially forbidden love. The results are a good, solid anime without spectacle or dramatics, but one which did not emotionally absorb me nearly as much as more fantastic titles. |
| Memories: Cannon Fodder | - | RDVD 0.3 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 0 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: Feb 20, 2009 End Date: Feb 20, 2009 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 02-20-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 29 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 29 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: |
| Memories: Magnetic Rose | - | RDVD 0.3 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 0 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: Feb 20, 2009 End Date: Feb 20, 2009 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 02-20-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 44 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 44 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: |
| Memories: Stink Bomb | - | RDVD 0.3 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 0 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: Feb 20, 2009 End Date: Feb 20, 2009 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 02-20-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 40 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 40 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: |
| Metropolis | 10 | RDVD 1.0 |
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3 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Very High Downloaded Episodes: 1 Deviation Score: 2.5 Retail Disks: Start Date: Oct 2007 End Date: Oct 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 7 hours, 16 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 49 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: The retrofuturistic cyberpunk theme makes this unique and hopefully resistant to the effects of aging. As the film progresses I feel drawn in more and more; the climax scene's unorthodox choice of music makes me cry like nothing else, and I don't feel ashamed to say that. My favorite anime and my favorite film. |
| Midori no Hibi | 7 |
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0 times Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 13 Deviation Score: -0.7 Retail Disks: Start Date: Sep 2007 End Date: Oct 2007 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 12 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Although the idea is original, the relationship between the main characters would have been better if the romance was reciprocated. |
| Millennium Actress | - | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 09-15-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 27 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 27 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: |
| Mobile Suit Gundam I | - | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jun 4, 2009 End Date: Jun 15, 2009 Total Days Watched: 12 Last Updated: 06-19-09 Time Spent Watching: 2 hours, 20 minutes, and 0 seconds (2 hours, 20 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: An enjoyable episodic blast from the past which seems rather long when compiled into a feature film. Characters develop a little quickly, and the video itself is in need of remastering, but worthwhile for the legacy it establishes. |
| Neo Tokyo: Labyrinth | 8 | RDVD 0.3 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 0 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 1.3 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jun 18, 2009 End Date: Jun 18, 2009 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 06-18-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 15 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 15 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: A fantasia. A triad of contrasting yet mutually supportive works, each one contributing to a magical mixture of surrealism, horror and enchantment. For arthouse, this may not be surpassable. |
| Neo Tokyo: Running Man | 8 | RDVD 0.3 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 0 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 1.2 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 06-18-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 15 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 15 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: A fantasia. A triad of contrasting yet mutually supportive works, each one contributing to a magical mixture of surrealism, horror and enchantment. For arthouse, this may not be surpassable. |
| Neo Tokyo: The Order to Stop Construction | 8 | RDVD 0.3 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 0 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 0.5 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jun 18, 2009 End Date: Jun 18, 2009 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 06-18-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 15 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 15 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: A fantasia. A triad of contrasting yet mutually supportive works, each one contributing to a magical mixture of surrealism, horror and enchantment. For arthouse, this may not be surpassable. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion | - | RDVD 7.0 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 7 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 26 Retail Disks: Start Date: Feb 2008 End Date: Mar 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 12-26-08 Time Spent Watching: 10 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Some episodes were obviously filler, and some of the "battle" music could have been done without. Nonetheless this is engrossingly deep and introspective. So introspective in fact, that the actual ending is impossible for a first time viewer like myself to understand. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion | 8 | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 1 Deviation Score: -0.3 Retail Disks: Start Date: Mar 2008 End Date: Mar 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 09-15-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 27 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 27 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: This is the harrowing coup de force by which Evangelion reaches its true conclusion. So haunting is the total apocalypse of the individual that this spectacle is perhaps too ultimate, and too powerful. Horrible and brilliant. |
| New Dominion Tank Police | - | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Jan 5, 2009 Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 01-05-09 Time Spent Watching: 3 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 30 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: An acerebral set of episodes- basic plotlines, uninspiring villains and plenty of police-related explosions. Still, the madcap antics of the Tank Police remain as oddly charming as ever. |
| Now and Then, Here and There | - |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: Aug 16, 2008 End Date: Aug 23, 2008 Total Days Watched: 8 Last Updated: 08-23-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Bloody, tearjerking and bleak are not words I'd particularly use to describe this, contrary to some. The moral stance of the show -along with the narrative- is straightforward, and Lala-ru's character is never fully explained. As a stories of war and exploitation go however, this is a strong and occasionally heartpounding piece. |
| Pale Cocoon | 5 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -2.9 Retail Disks: Start Date: Jun 4, 2009 End Date: Jun 4, 2009 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 06-04-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 23 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 23 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Less of a story, more of an abstract. Direction appears consummate, though where similar works show heart this story fails to shine above its neutral and desaturated palette. The narrative crescendo it reaches thus remains dim. |
| Patlabor 2: The Movie | 7 | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Medium Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -0.6 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 01-27-09 Time Spent Watching: 2 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds (2 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: The sense of orchestrated menace amidst an urban sprawl gives a vision of the cerebral terrorist. More akin to GITS than its prequel, this is an exercise in reflection, but should one not extract too much of the commentary from the plot alone, the well furnished visuals compensate. |
| Patlabor: The Movie | 8 | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG - Children (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 0.5 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 01-06-09 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 39 minutes, and 0 seconds (1 hour, 39 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: As unfolding mysteries go, this one is hard to beat. The intricacy and intelligence of the antagonist's plan was compelling without being confusing, and the whole film polished off with Oshii's trademark combination of exposition and symbolism. |
| RahXephon | 7 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -0.8 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 08-02-08 Time Spent Watching: 10 hours, 11 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 23 minutes, and 30 seconds per episode) Comments: Masterful direction often competed with lacklustre here, especially where music was concerned. Ayato's rise to strength and the subsequent ending was arresting, but the show's romantic revelations lay dormant for too long. No pun intended, but the singing/re-tuning theme "struck a chord" with others more than it did with me. |
| Saikano | 9 | RDVD 4.0 |
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0 times Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 4 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: 1.3 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 10-14-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: I may forget the show's poor lines and stylistic flaws, but not its romantic purity. Such an element endeared right to the surprising and apocalyptic end, pushing the boundaries of bittersweetness almost disturbingly. |
| Seikai no Monshou | - |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 12-12-08 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: Focussing chiefly on the relationship between the two protagonists and not space politics and combat avails this series to exhibit subtle character interactions wisely. The romance remained bounded as such, and Jinto and Lafiel's adventure wasn't the most fantastic I've seen, but I'm tempted to watch the sequels. |
| Seikai no Senki | - |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Low Downloaded Episodes: 13 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 01-25-09 Time Spent Watching: 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: A love story on near permanent hiatus. Though I have nothing against large scale space battles per se, the golden moments Jinto and Lafiel shared needed a greater emphasis, even though they consisted of little more than choice exchanges of words. |
| She and Her Cat | - | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: G - All Ages (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 1 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 01-04-09 Time Spent Watching: 0 hours, 5 minutes, and 0 seconds (0 hours, 5 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: This is 'Voices' in the making. Intelligent, subtly passionate and adorned with visual devices which would go on to characterise the more substantial works of this great director. |
| The Place Promised in Our Early Days | 7 | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: High Downloaded Episodes: 1 Deviation Score: -1.4 Retail Disks: Start Date: Mar 2008 End Date: Mar 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-01-09 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 20 seconds (1 hour, 30 minutes, and 20 seconds per episode) Comments: Rich in production values, with screenplay more complex than its predecessor. The ending did its job and made up for the slight confusion of earlier scenes. I prefer Voices of a Distant Star, but this film may improve with repeat viewings. |
| The Wings of Honneamise | 5 | RDVD 1.0 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: Retail Disks: 1 Rewatch Value: Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -2.8 Retail Disks: Start Date: End Date: Total Days Watched: Last Updated: 03-01-09 Time Spent Watching: 2 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds (2 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds per episode) Comments: |
| Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo | 7 |
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0 times Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older (Why?) Fansub Group: Storage: None Rewatch Value: Medium Downloaded Episodes: 0 Deviation Score: -1.8 Retail Disks: Start Date: Feb 2008 End Date: Feb 2008 Total Days Watched: 1 Last Updated: 03-27-08 Time Spent Watching: 1 hour, 37 minutes, and 56 seconds (1 hour, 37 minutes, and 56 seconds per episode) Comments: It certainly had its moments, and the plotline was conclusive and sufficiently explained. But although the tale was not without some emotional effect, there are shows that have touched me more than this. |
| Tooi Sekai | - |
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| Top wo Nerae! | 8 |
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