This series is embarrassingly bad. I'm not a person to automatically dislike movie / T.V. adaptions of books, nor do I particularly care about the faithfulness to the originals. This show is really bad in its own right. It seems to very loosely take the originals and then fills them with awful anime cliches and sequences with no power.
Good translations of the original stories are available, and if you're interested in them I'd highly recommend them.
Particularly Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom is an intensely disturbing story with unexpectedly grotesque images. The power of these works are in their uniqueness. The failing of this
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Jun 9, 2013
Mugen no Ryvius
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I had high hopes for this anime, but at the end I did not feel as if I watched a show about how kids survive without adults or government, I felt as if I watched 26 episodes of cliche anime teenager romance. If you like that sort of thing, this show will be fine, but it does not deliver on the high praise of politics and Lord of the Flies-likeness that persuaded me to watch it.
The sphinx (sort of like the persona of the ship) reminded me of Boogiepop Phantom, which only served to make me think of how much better a show that was ... 
Feb 24, 2011
Mimi wo Sumaseba
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The strength of Whisper of the Heart is the strength all films that have been touched by Miyazaki seem to have. That is, the details. In this film the things that have impressed me were the little extras that are contained in each characters movements. It's something that you very rarely get—at least this consistently—outside of Miyazaki films. Whether it be reaching for the lamp cord from bed, failing, and needing to sit up to do it properly, or whether it be the normal silences in conversation (as apposed to dramatic silences), everything just feels a lot more real, a lot more vibrant than most
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