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Hi, thanks :)
I also love Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Metropolis and Terror in Resonance from your list, but my free list can only hold 10 titles hehe
I'm curious, how did you find me in MAL?

if you didn't like berserk 1997 it didn't really adapt most of the manga material

infact that's not truly saying anything because the manga has more fucked shit in it

I really wanted him to die at the end

omg you also hate mirai nikki too based

You're welcome.

Just make sure it's the 1970s version of Wickerman unless you're looking for a comedy. X)

What kind of cult was it, if you don't mind answering?

Well, these kind of critiques of capitalism tend to be framed purely in terms of economics. I feel propaganda has always been more important than money when it comes to media, and what is profitable will sometimes be rejected because it's not in line with current and developing propaganda trends. The way parent companies and global markets work, they can often afford losses. A loss in one area can be recouped in another. And if even a small percentage of the Indian or Chinese market watch something, then that's a big profit.

I haven't read the original manga either, but, from what I've heard, the old 1980s OVA is much more faithful. Yuasa applied an aesthetic reminiscent of his other films/series and turned it into a silly high school thing with a lot of bad additions. If you don't mind the amount of violence and you think the trailer for the 1980s Devilman OVA looks good, then I'd suggest it.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/2354/Devilman__Tanjou-hen

From what I recall with class struggle, there's something about the upper class drafting or pushing the lower class into war, and I can definitely see that in the OVA, with the rich guy enlisting the help of the MC. Crybaby? I don't remember but I doubt it.

I don't like Crybaby either. It's a watering down of Yuasa's past glory, it's Netflix produced, a poor adaptation, and I don't think it does anything that well.

Nowadays "stereotypically villainous" almost always means not. Usually when I watch a murder mystery there's one person who is too obvious and can be ruled out immediately. Even if they make a twisty plot where you've come to not suspect them and then fake you out, it just doesn't seem to work to use the character for that.

I'm not a big fan of Midsommar, but I do like a lot of the imagery. It's interesting how much of the art that we see on the walls explains the process of the rituals and such. Do you like Wicker Man too? More so the older one than the Nicholas Cage one. X) I thought I remembered it having a good OST.

I guess it's not surprising. I feel like film craftsmanship has mostly dropped as a whole, so something that's a bit more difficult to do well like horror will fall even harder. And then you get a lot of the gross stuff to replace atmosphere or effective construction or anything like that.

The most memorable horror work for me that came out in the last few years was probably Petscop, but that's a fake "let's play" series rather than a movie.

I'm surprised you disliked Devilman Crybaby so much, but it honestly is a pretty bad adaptation. The first Devilman OVA is more like a horror film, and I think it's a much better adaptation. The only people disagreeing are probably people coping because daddy Yuasa failed them. X) Has a Kenji Kawai score too, I think.

Right, I was wondering who composed it, but I don't think it's credited on MAL (I just saw information for theme songs). That's a good choice to use the original music.

Is the story somewhat original or more like a crammed remake of the series?

I wouldn't mind trying the games, but I haven't really played anything in a few years. I'd really like to play the new Armored Core, though. I remember it was a niche game series back in the day, but I can see it getting pretty popular now.

lol speaking of AC, the composer for that did a weird soundtrack for a PS2 game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJbPYDVgwM

Maybe it'd interest you. Definitely stands out for a game OST. It's somewhat difficult to imagine what each track would have been set to!

Oh, during that season, I briefly wrote about it when I was experimenting with the blog feature, and I deleted the blog. I must have watched around 2-3 eps, but something about Nier prevented me from wanting to mark it as dropped. Nothing about it left much of an impression on me, but I don't know what direction it ultimately took, and I have no experience with the game series. As a game, Nier looks to have a solid aesthetic, but the anime has dated CGI (I recall comparing it to a Gamecube game) and seems subpar or just average in almost every way. I remember liking the music from the game OSTs, but I'm not sure if the anime is of a similar quality (it probably isn't). I can't imagine fans of the game being too impressed by it, or non-fans getting much out of it compared to other sci-fi titles with a similar rating. The series has a fairly high rating for a game adaptation, but I don't know if that's a case of it shaping into something decent or Nier superfans wanting to suck up every ounce of the franchise that they can find...

I’m slow lol I forgot to say

That why I don’t go lurking in there anymore

/m/ are filled with losers maybe i rephrased it wrong lol

/m/ board is calling you

And what I’ve seen I can smell the loser from my computer

The gundam grind