[thechat] Champloo - wuz - RE: cats (was: yummy yummy yummy)

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On 5 Dec 2005 at 16:17, Luther, Ron wrote:

> Iris, the fledgling otaku, chatted about anime:

[...] 
> >>got anything else you would recommend to a fledgling anime fan?
[...]
> There are some very good single disc movies; 'Millennium Actress', 
> 'Spirited Away', 'Princess Mononoke' are all exceptional. 'Voices of 
> a Distant Star' and 'Ghost in the Shell' are very good older classics 
> as well.  The "Read Or Die' OVA (and the TV series) were very good.
[...]

i have mentioned this one before...

Wings of Honneamise (http://imdb.com/title/tt0093207/)...

big budget that at the time nearly bankrupted the studio (Gainax)... 
hand-drawn, lots of frames, nice art... soundtrack by Ryuichi 
Sakamoto (won an Academy Award for soundtrack to The Last Emporer)...

i really enjoyed the hard-SF stuff... which wasn't too much, so i 
also dug anything with robots that blow stuff up... i could get into 
Patlabor pretty easily, Iczer 1 reasonably well... i liked the 
Project A-Ko movies because of all the anime puns...

anyway... i don't watch much of the new stuff... not enough boom... 
too much digital... which makes me old is all...