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Seirei no Moribito is one of my all-time favorite shows, ever. Such a complicated and complex web of interpersonal relationship, not to mention a really amazing main character. I loved everything about it, not to mention the splendid fighting scenes that truly hammer home the meaning behind the violence.
Just finished Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit and wow, it was a real surprise. I wasn't sure about it from the initial looks and description, but damn if it wasn't nearly everything I love in a story wrapped up in a wonderfully told story within a believable world that sits right up there with the best of them.
It's not your typical modern dark, twisted or meme-filled humor anime - well it's not really modern at all being from 2007. I think the journey told is very nicely done in a short 26 episodes, it manages to pull of a sense of something very grand and larger than you'd expect. This is probably a better write-up than I could ever give, granted it's full of spoilers though you can skim it safely enough, but if you haven't watched this one yet and like fantasy/fairytale-like stories that don't resort to all the cheap fan service in a lot of anime, it's just a really great show like Avatar or Lord of the Rings in some ways I suppose.
Definitely bump it up on your lists if you haven't seen it! I'd rate it pretty close to 5/5. It's also perfectly suitable for children much like Avatar, watched it with my daughter who loved it as well.
Make sure to watch the sequel(-ish) as well.
Just finished Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit and wow, it was a real surprise. I wasn't sure about it from the initial looks and description, but damn if it wasn't nearly everything I love in a story wrapped up in a wonderfully told story within a believable world that sits right up there with the best of them.
its for the new blu-ray collection of the TV series / EoE which will be up for pre-order in 1 week's time.
If you think 3.0 was confusing you are in for a shock kind of wtfwhat kind of WTF it was?
cant waitIf you think 3.0 was confusing you are in for a shock kind of wtf
Ever watched End of Evangelion? Kinda like that, but also not like that.what kind of WTF it was?
uh ohIf you think 3.0 was confusing you are in for a shock kind of wtf
uh oh
I love my eva and i'm in for some wtf, but 3.0 was too much; it made no sense for most of its runtime
I just watched the last Evangelion movie on prime video, feels like a 20+ years ride just ended and I'm completely satisfied.
Eva/10 for me. He did it right.Exactly my feelings. I also love how much more polished than both ep 25/26 and TEOE it feels, especially in the last third that's filled to the brim with throwbacks. This feels like Anno's true, proper ending, complete with german singing and pencil drawings. Authorial intent confirmed! I mean you even have a retake of TEOE's last goddamn shot. I was quietly cheering throughout the end. What closure!
I also completely adore that finally, finally we're getting Gendo's perspective. And finally we're seeing him loose his shit as Misato one-ups him. If that's not second-hand catharsis, I don't know what is. I also loved the fourth wall-break of the models on a mocap stage with mocap virtual cameras. This final part is pretty much Anno talking to the audience in my opinion, about stopping Evangelion. In a way, it almost feels like a therapy exercise in him letting go of the series. It's weird as fuck and I loved it. I'm not sure that it makes for a good movie, but it did make for a good experience as someone who loved the series.
Not gonna lie, I was lukewarm on the movie at the start, but from halway in it gets really good and never stops until the end. If I have one regret it is that they resolved the whole "we hate you" timeskip-induced attitude of movie 3 in a way that made their previous attitude feel really damn unnecessary. Still, it was heartwarming.
I also feel that Nagisa's segment was much more revealing of the Angel's actual psyche and intents than it lets on. May need to watch again. Also, Adult shinji is a 10/10 design choice for me.
Of course, mental health-wise I don't agree with pretty much the whole of it but that's pretty much common sense I think.
The movie ending with Shinji fighting gendo and then talking it out, was something i somewhat expected, the fact that the conversation focused on Gendo's perspective rather than Shinjis is something that took me by surprise, given that te characters are inspired by Anno and his own father.
Some of the throwbacks i found amazing, most particular ritsuko shooting Gendo, mimicking the scene from EoE where she hesitated and was cockblocked by her mamacomputer, instead she now shows no hesitation as tho shes metanarratively taking revenge for what happened in EoE
I actually really liked the beginning, actually seeing a lot of these characters grow older for once in those 25 years the franchise exists was a weird feeling, in a good way.
The beginning and ending are very much my favorite part of the movie, but the middle section i found fairly disappointing. It reveled too much in the weirder lore regions of Eva that i dont really care about, and does so rather badly.
Anti-Space? Golgota Object? Everybody can summon some more spears? Asuka is also a clone like Rei? And she can turn into an angel? Gendo can shoot lasers because he became half-angel through Nebuchadnezar? Roaming Zombie Evas? Eva Infinity? Dreamspaces? I found that entire segment to be incredibly messy.
Im also sad that Asuka didn't got a lot of attention at the end. It's implied she hooks up with Kensuke, but you don't really see any of it. In fact, you might miss her entirely in the ending of the show.
One of the most surprising things to me tho, is that the movie actually redeemed Mari as a character.
Something that always felt like an unnessecary addition to sell more merch suddenly feels incredibly important, like something the entire Rebuild series build up to.
on the train station, an already important environment both for EoE and 4
Shinji - standing in for the viewer - and mari stand on one side.
Asuka, Rei, and Kaworu on the other, until a train arrives and you don't see them anymore.
Shinji and Mari the leave and they blend into real world footage.
I read the scene as such:
The fictional characters all enter the train and "return back to evangelion", while Shinj, connected to this woman Mari, with her hand stretched out, leaves the world of evangelion behind and returns to the real world footage, drawing him away from escapism. Essentially presenting Mari as an "invading force" from the real world, that broke into his escapism and drew him back to the real world.
Completely different license I believeWhy not include the rebuild?
FYI, its selling fast (down to the 700s already), and the standard edition won't be revealed until the 30th.Dang, was going to order, but for that price and still having issues with the Fly Me to the Moon rights feels bad. I might wait and see what they announce for the cheaper version.
Its now <500 copiesIn my entire history of making Ultimate Editions - we've never had one that sold out before release date. This is helped by when planning the quantities for these editions, we always prefer to round up than round down especially with the well loved titles. Even when faced with extremely high demand for some of those Ultimate's, we always had units available on release day for purchase. I strongly believe this will follow that trend.
Looks like there will be a "budget" edition to be announced next week? Not sure if the extra features in the discs will be 1:1 though.i'm wondering if i'll just wait for a Bluray only release in future
I echo this. My favorite JoJo story and villain by far.I just finished JoJo Part 4 earlier today; god damn that was good!!