...the same time period as 'Urusei Yatsura' and has a lot of similar 'look and feel' to the animation, plotting and timing. Essentially, all that is missing is aliens. Even Hirano Fum...
...t, Totoro is a viable title when they get the rights to it, Nausicaa might be although it is certainly dated animation wise....
... could be a lot better. The characters are pretty flat, the linear story line is fairly predictable, and the animation is nothing special. It was ok, but definitely not great like GitS.
Something ...
... The character design for the fighting characters is ugly(save for Jubei, who actually looks human), but the animation is decent. Unless the story starts going somewhere exciting, I'll probably d...
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It's actually a fairly standard narrative device, putting some action right up front to get people interested rather than starting with the slow setup. Obviously it backfired as applied to you in...
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...ce that Excel, even in the original, tends to shout a lot in a rapid voice even when the close-up face+mouth animation doesn't seem to look like it (press mute while watching and you wouldn'...
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Overall, very good. Great mixture of both the manga and the Oshii film with outstanding design/production values.
Character design reflects this mix as well, with perhaps a sli...
...evenue the anime companies are having is so small comparing to Disney or Pixar, major producers of "western" animation movies.
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