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"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| Wow~ definitely worth the wait for this one. Of the shorts I've seen so far, this was the best by far. Watanabe is such a skilled director. I thought it was just beautiful~ everything about it was great. I'll even admit, that last part made me cry a little ^^ [edit] Ahh, you beat me by two minutes~ =P |
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| Just a couple moments I didnt like, the bike chase with cartoonish facial reactions from the policeman, and the whole grenade blowing up a car thing. They took me out of the tale. The rest was great though. Watanabe needs to branch out into live action movies. Dude takes too long between anime productions, maybe he can direct films during those breaks. If Takashi Miike can make a dozen movies a year, anything's possible. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| I had been waiting for this a long time since we don't get to see anything by Watanabe very often and I loved it. I wish he did stuff more often. It was a really sweet story and Yoko Kanno made excellent music that just fit perfectly. |
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| If only the rest of Genius Party was this amazing... I really loved this, though. I almost cried. :x It usually takes at least like ten episodes of an anime and then a death or something really sad to make me cry, but it seriously almost cried after just 14 minutes in this. |
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| so... he blew up the train in the end??? or was that just a weird effect? |
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Guybrush said: so... he blew up the train in the end??? or was that just a weird effect? I think my brain blew up. Its just a time-stuttering affect to emphasise the fleeting moment, to slow it down so we can enjoy the upsetting yet lovely resolution to the tale. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
| Shinichiro Watanabe is on a different level. He had two shorts before this, and while I thought "Detective Story" was okay, "Kid's Story" (granted, he only directed it) is the only work by him that genuinely sucked. But here, he made an absolutely brilliant short, and in a genre where it's extremely difficult to come up with a good story over 13/26 episodes, let alone fourteen minutes. Incredible. |
| It reminded me of Makoto Shinkai too, but it didn't seem like a cheap rip-off to me. It had a bit of a different feeling and although this short is only 15 minutes long, it grasped me and made me feel really emotional, something most short films can't do. |
| aw that made me kind of sad :'( beautiful art!!! |
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| I cried at the end. Wonderful as expected! |
| That was beautiful, very sweet. |
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Guybrush said: so... he blew up the train in the end??? or was that just a weird effect? My theory is that it was a represantation of memory fading, since that idea was brought up earlier in the ep, would work well thematically. |
| *sniff* That was beautiful...yet sad. Best one in my book! |
| I liked this short. It managed to keep my attention throughout the entire 15 minutes, something most of the other short stories in Genius Party weren't able to do. |
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| Wonderful slice of life short with beautiful art, such detail almost felt like it was filmed rather then drawn (kept pausing to look at the skies!!!). Music fit perfectly and enjoyed the deadpan banter (first time skipping class, blowing up the staff office etc). Not particularly original storywise, but the way it was told more then made up for it!!! :) Beatnik said: I understand what you mean but, probably because it was a little out of character, I enjoyed those parts all the more.Just a couple moments I didnt like, the bike chase with cartoonish facial reactions from the policeman, and the whole grenade blowing up a car thing. They took me out of the tale... |
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| not one of my favs no...I thought it was OK. It was the most mainstream of all the shorts in the GP collection, and had a pretty 'safe' romance + school + slice of life formula. But yea it does it much better than those long 12-24 episode series. |
| "...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') |
| Maybe...but read your first para again :P I thnk you mistook me for saying its cliched. I actually meant its based on a pretty safe concept i.e its not as daring as the other shorts. But thats not necessarily a bad thing. |
eyerokDec 16, 2009 9:15 AM
| "...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') |
| I didn't think anything would top the first ep... I was wrong. Simply amazing. |
scherzo said: Teddy said: It reminded me of Makoto Shinkai too yes some elements from baby blue does share similarities with his typical themes |
 Are you the bloody applause monkey? Keep your sh*t comments to yourself or go troll on 4chan. |
| I really liked this one too. Definitely succeeded in transmitting the emotions to me.. I was not seeing them in order, but this would have made a beatiful end to this series of shorts. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Probably my favorite out of the seven shorts. Whist being the less “peculiar” of all the Genius Party bunch, it managed and set itself as a nice story; and such feat is quite difficult considering all romances are pretty much based on a mostly unchanging formula, which makes many of them come off as a rip-off or copycat of one another. Gratefully, Baby Blue sets itself apart and makes a wonderful tale in a run-time of solely 15 minutes. Yoko Kanno’s lovely sound made the experience even more impressive. It was touching; it was nostalgic. It, without doubt, set the perfect end to this compilation of works. |
I think, then procrastinate. Therefore, I am. |
| So well executed that it's head and shoulders above the rest for me, even though it has the most typical premise. |
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| Wow, I can relate to this so much it's scary, except for that grenade part, which in all honesty, was not necessary... I understood the point of it though. Certainly one of my favorites. |
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| Chopin Etude Op 10 No 3. Every scene and sentence spoken developed the characters. Invoking that level of attachment to the characters within 14 minutes. I love bittersweet endings. |
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| Really great final episode, was quite a good finisher for the all the shorts! Good separated stories in general but they did really top it off with something fascinating! In general great stories each on their own! 7/10 |
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| Wow, this was beautiful, and heartbreaking... and I only knew these characters over the course of a few minutes. Watanabe is a genius. |
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| it reminded me of 5cm/sec, and wow, I loved that 14 minute show |
| Subdued and nostalgic -- a great one to end on. |
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| It was nice. A quite but adventourous story. The ending's "slow motion" exhasted my eyes though. |
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| Though not as intricate or "deep" as the others, this is the only short that lived up to the Genius name, not that the others were sub-par, mind you. It really took me by surprise how immense of an impact this one left me with. This is what 5 Centimeters Per Second should have been. |
KatoBytesDec 25, 2014 3:27 PM
| Why do people have such bad taste? Anime isn't subjective anymore. |
| It doesn't simply work out with a childhood friend. Anime.. |
| So very bittersweet. |
| This was the best short, so bittersweet but so executed well. |
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| Damn touching. Oh my gawd, how music always leads me to this mental state. One thing for sure - without music this would not be the same. Certainly this and the Masaaki Yuasa's Happy Machine were the best from whole anthology. |
| That's one way to yolo, throwing a grenade into a dude's car. Overall the anthology was pretty bad. Either really pretentious or just badly executed. Hopefully Beyond has better stories. |
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| watanabe is my man |
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| This episode was nice but I liked Shanghai Dragon and Happy Machine more. |
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| That was sweet and sad. I liked this one most. I always thought the idea of people moving away was super sad. I almost cried. But I will probably have to end up giving the whole thing a 7/10. I really liked some and I didn't really like others. |
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| Very nice, 6/10, Deathtic 4 and this last short made it worth the watch. |
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| Ah, a nice one to finish things. The beautiful music made this all the better |
| Nice music, nice story, nice visuals, and an interesting use of reduced frames per second at the end. Also, I swear I recognize that piano piece. I believe it's Chopin? |
| Being artistic doesn't make them well written. This was a consistent episode, it's a 9. |
Contemporary0091Jan 24, 2018 7:10 PM
| And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all... for millions and millions of years...exploring, learning, living, until the earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning and the moment comes that he knows only the positions of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives and he lives until all of the lights go out. |
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