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carouselNIP said: somehow it reminds me of the story Happy Machine from Genius Party cuz Yuasa masaki is involved in both projects as animation director, script and storyboard writer. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| Wow, that was just..creepy :O And probably the wierdest thing I've ever seen. |
| I loved this! The animation, the atmosphere, the music, the interactions... everything just seemed so playful and surreal. Unlike its sister titles (Tortov Riddle, Angels Egg, LAIN, ...), Cat Soup is rather upbeat and doesn't withhold itself from having fun. Many of its parts had me laughing. The scene where the father of time reversed the clock was absolutely breathtaking. Shows like these tend to be heavy on the symbolism. Yes, the symbolism was there, but it felt disjointed and random. Each scene brought another idea to the table; however, these ideas did not form any coherent theme. If anything, the authors were simply noodling about. But man, what a result! About the ending, |
| Couldn't stop watching. Awesome. 9/10 That ED was haunting. |
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| Wow, I'm not really sure what I just watched, but that was a surreal experience. This series reminds me of Happy Tree Friends, except it's much deeper I think. |
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| That was indeed unique. |
| i definately need to re-watch this! anyway... whithout any dialogs, the creators managed to convey meaning through the visuals, viva la vida! and the metallic butterfly! so cute ^^ |
| wtf |
| That was just....wow. |
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| It felt unusually depressing for some reason.9/10 |
| "This Forest isn't going to reveal all its secrets for the likes of you." |
| God eating world. Rofl. |
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| lol ...He jumped in the water elephants pooper. |
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| a great little show, and its interesting how everybody finds different interpretations of each scene. so surreal, and good stuff |
| i would just like 2 say....Huh? |
| [Catchy, cool, insightful quote] |
| It was great, but pretty scary, too. Oh, and I loved the water elephant part the most! |
Puke-chan said: It was great, but pretty scary, too. Oh, and I loved the water elephant part the most! I hope you didnt puke while watching it, puke-chan :P (lame joke, I know) |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
eyerok said: Puke-chan said: It was great, but pretty scary, too. Oh, and I loved the water elephant part the most! I hope you didnt puke while watching it, puke-chan :P (lame joke, I know) No, I didn't, but I choked on my tea right after reading your post >D (Damnit, I honestly hoped no one would notice it's "puke"... I mean... you could read it as Japanese would! ;_; I was just so tired of thinking of some decent username, and nothing came to my mind... I wanted to puke back then, yes, I did! Because I couldn't think of anything again! And then I typed it. I typed it !And now I'm Puke-chan. Omg, don't look at me~!) P.S. Don't worry, I'm too lame to notice it was a lame joke. Really. >D P.S.2 I really liked that elephant. (And my post doesn't look like OT now, yay.) |
| eheh...OOOooohkkk... *starts edging away* seriously though. You can still change your username you know. Unless you like 'Puke-chan'. Since EVA is your fav anime, you could choose a name that has something to do with it. Like 'shinjis-girl','evangelion_666' or 'world-explodes!!!' yea the elephant is one of my fav moments. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| That one totally made my brain a soup o.O Hm...this could cause some serious brain damage to someone labile and weak-hearted :D I give 8/10 I really enjoyed it ^^ |
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| Eh, maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. I saw the imagery and it was very impressive and yes yes but I was just horrendously bored by the time they got to the time winding back scene. 5/10 |
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| I randomly decided to watch this. Well, it certainly wasn't as cute as it looked lol but it was good, very unique. 8/10 |
| uhm......... the art was great! |
Desirio said: Just saw this. Awesome, brave, deep. 10/10, a masterpiece. chumlum said: yes. no other visual has made such made me feel the way cat soup does a definite masterpiece |
| The threat is stronger than the execution. |
| Ok, I re-watched this and I still think it's weird and even scary to some extent lol but the art is just great... |
| At the end, I was so caught up I felt certain I was about to disappear as well. I can't give this masterpiece anything less than 10/10. |
| Great, just another Shakugan no Shana rip-off. 1/10. |
| I definitely have superpowers. I can feel it in my balls. |
| This is like watching your worst nightmare... Shit is creepy as hell. Can't count the number of times it sent chills down my spine. |
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Karhu said: Great, just another Shakugan no Shana rip-off. 1/10. you do realize that this came out at least 4 years before shakugan no shana, right? or are you just one of those trolls? |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| That was surrealistic as hell!! Lots of ideas/issues flooded my mind while watching this. It's very hard to interpret it all together but in the end, the feeling is strangely beautiful. Also, got some laughs out there esp. the bumps in the pig's head. XD 9/10. |
StormViruz said: That was surrealistic as hell!! Lots of ideas/issues flooded my mind while watching this. . Exactly what i thought, it wasn't just some meaningless imagery. Hell I could write a whole essay on it but, like you said, its hard to exactly put it all together. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| Great stuff. I'll be honest and say that i didn't quite wrap my head around everything this had to offer, in fact i didn't even think about all these possibilities until I read this thread. Anyway, I was impressed and I'll give a 9. Definitely will have to re-watch this later down the line. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| What the fuck. All I can say atm |
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| was there even a meaning behind this |
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| There is a meaning behind this, and it is up to us the viewers to come up with it. This anime can mean different things to different people. Don't look at the pictures - look into them. I am having mixed feelings about this movie, for it was not what I expected to see at all. It was, by no means, bad. It was so drastically different. I like it. |
Karhu said: Great, just another Shakugan no Shana rip-off. 1/10. You mean that Shakugan no Shana is a rip-off of Cat Soup, considering Cat Soup came out long before. Man people should really look stuff up before they say stupid things. Ignorance is bliss though, I suppose. |
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| didn't really enjoy it, I guess it's not for me or I had too high expectations.. |
| *badass mode activated* |
Frohike said: Yes, as disgusting and disjointed as Chien Andalou, and as pointless as a Rene Magritte painting. Some people won't get it, as you apparently didn't. Go find comfort in Toradora... Told. On-topic, I'm glad I finally got around to seeing this. Very surreal and somewhat sadistic, with some underlying, unsettling messages. |
| a 32 minute of great art. everyone has their own experiences and past, so everyone has their own interpretation of this. in the brothers journey to retrieve his other half of the sisters soul, we encounter many life issues. I couldn't tie everything but the ending was very clear, everything has to come to an end. |
| despair |
| throughout i saw general disregard and disrespect for life. i'm confused about the boy cat because i feel he was inconsistent in his actions. the pacing in some scenes could have been a little slower. i was quite bored as well. |
| u gay |
| God is an asshole man. this is so strange but so awesome. So much better than that other one when the cats are rude and racists bastards. well. the hate to pigs continues here to. What nekojiru had against pigs anyways? 10/10. I didn't understand some meanings but I guess that's what they wanted. |
| EL PSY KONGROO!!! |
| I don't know what to think half the time I was watching. Surreal, cruel, brutal and...weird. It was a good watch. |
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| Didn't like it. The surreal visuals were good, might even have called them great if they wasn't completely ruined by the story and most important - main characters which I truly hated. Seriously I would have a hard time trying to recall an anime, a movie or a book which made me wish protagonist's death so badly. I mean - what on earth have they done to that poor pig? Like, what. the. actual. fuck. And yet the creators of this story played with me mercilessly a little longer - when the pig bit off the hand of the protagonist, they gave me hope - he may bleed to death - I thought naively... What a fool I was, what a fool... I know that this isn't your typical run-of-the-mill anime and I appreciate that. However the great visuals and original idea are not enough for me when aren't teamed with a good story and characters and the story wasn't gratifying for me (you already know how I feel about the characters...) |
| This was like an Animal Crossing based creepypasta, except it's actually good. Honesty I think the main thing conveyed here was a message of time, hell I actually lost my sense of time while watching this. Of course anything I point out would just be my own interpretation and one could argue there is no point and this is probably just a drug induced fever dream animated. |
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