Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Mushishi RahXephon Five Centimetres Per Second Kara no Kyoukai My-HiME Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Code Geass Black Lagoon Texhnolyze Eleven days, almost twelve and a half thousand words, nineteen videos, one hundred screenshots and ten anime later, the summation of a decade of anime is complete. About the list To call this anything other than a monumental effort would be [...]
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Mushishi Like the creatures themselves, Mushishi came more or less out of nowhere. A critically acclaimed manga by Yuki Urushibara mostly unheard of outside of Japan, and Studio Artland for which this would be one of their first fully produced series outside of some relatively obscure OVAs. For it to be so unspeakably brilliant is at [...]
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If anything, it was worse than the anime. Stitches between story arcs were annoying. Acting was super-weird, certainly not Kurosawa-like. More like theater than cinema, if you ask me. Uninitiated got confused by the flashback in the end.
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I was extremely interested in the Mushishi live action film right from the first rumours and announcements; not only is it one of my all-time favourite animated TV shows (I really ought to read the graphic novels sometime), the fact that Katsuhiro Otomo was in charge as director made me preorder a copy without a [...]
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After a spectacular pilot episode, my hopes were set pretty high for Letter Bee, and the series (which begins some good amount of time prior to the events in the pilot) does not disappoint. This could be the show to look out for this fall as a surefire heart-bleeder and artistic joy-ride.
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Or maybe that should be “Araraginko”. In the maligned episode 10 of Bakemonogatari, at about 7:57 in the episode, Mushishi fans can hear that familiar three chord descent on the piano, interweaved with a jazzy tune (Mushishi meets Brubeck’s Time Out). Oshinbo may have the mushi-mastery, but Araragi is the one who keeps trying [...]
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A recent discovery: GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters. It mostly concerns Western horrors, but there is an article on “The Religious Functions of Pokemon” here (scroll down a bit). I wonder what the contributers would make of Mononoke, or Mushishi. (Via Eve Tushnet.)
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Bakemonogatari 9 started and I thought I’d stumbled on a lost episode of Mushishi This episode (the first of the Nadeko Snake arc) was a visual feast — from the bamboo as Araragi and Suruga climb to the shrine To the bibliophile-pandering bookstore porn Until we discover that Koyomi still has some vampire left in him, since [...]
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Mononoke Episodes: 12 Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological Aired: Jul 13, 2007 to Sep 28, 2007 Producer: Toei Animation What initially enticed me to watch this series was the amazing animation style. The vibrant colors and Japanese style art work give this series alot of charisma. I had also heard alot of people compare this series to Mushishi, [...]
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