In every age,
in every place,
the deeds of men
remain the same.
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
Hope you guessed my name but friends can call me Stephen. I consider myself more of a movie critic than an anime fan. Following good shows and finding film masterpieces is an important hobby in my life which made me watch until now almost 2000 movies. Regarding the anime industry I think in the last few years it has become generic and full of clichés with some exceptions, but I don’t lose hope in this genre just yet.
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
I prefer shows who deal with the human psychic or are centered around the interactions of people and make a mature portrayal of their characters, because after all, all forms of art is about us, the people. In other words I like stories who make social or philosophical statements especially through surrealistic ways. In this category I include series like Serial Experiments Lain, Ergo Proxy, Kuuchuu Buranko, Texhnolyze, Paranoia Agent, Kaiba, Welcome to the N.H.K. and many others. Also I like to see new ways of telling a story, the most prominent examples being The Tatami Galaxy, Aoi Bungaku Series, Mononoke, Mushishi, Boogiepop Phantom, and to witness characters who conquer themselves and find catharsis or fall in the depths of their power. In the last category I include series like Monster, Death Note, Gankutsuou, Steins;Gate, Berserk, Ghost in the Shell franchise, or all of Satoshi Kon’s movies, my favourite being Paprika. But one series who stands alone as the greatest is, of course, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, the most well written anime and the best way to explore the destiny of humanity and to see the journey of a man who was born to rule the universe.
Just on the border of your waking mind,
There lies another time
Where darkness and light are one,
1. House of Small Cubes
2. Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor
3. Gosenzosama Banbanzai!
3. FLCL
4. Mt. Head
6. Alien 9
7. Cat Soup
8. Neo Tokyo
9. Twilight Q
10. 1001 Nights
And as you tread the halls of sanity
You feel so glad to be unable to go beyond
I have a message from another time.
1. Paprika
2. Spirited Away
3. Ghost in the Shell
4. Grave of the Fireflies
5. Princess Mononoke
6. Millenium Actress
7. Perfect Blue
8. Akira
9. Jin-Roh
10. Angel's Egg
11. Only Yesterday
12. Miss Hokusai
13. Tokyo Godfathers
14. Mindgame
15. Tamala 2010
16. Who's Left Behind?
17. Wings of Honneamise
18. Howl's Moving Castle
19. My Neighbour Totoro
20. The Tale of Princess Kaguya
21. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
22. Kiki's Delivery Service
23. Giovanni's Island
24. Barefoot Gen
25. Metropolis
26. Colorful
27. Oseam
28. Nausicaä
29. Memories
30. Pom Poko
31. Nitaboh
32. Porco Rosso
33. Wolf Children
34. A Letter to Momo
35. Spring and Chaos
36. Whisper of the Heart
37. 5 Centimeters Per Second
38. My Neighbours the Yamadas
39. Night of the Galactic Railroad
40. To The Forest of Firefly Lights
"Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are."
― Grant Morrison
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