Postby Kendrix » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:35 pm
So I finally managed top squeeze some time to watch it into my shedule - Now, I usually don't watch romance comedies because while I do like romance and comedy, shows that consist of only that don't tend to be very memorable, I feel like they're all the same - but since I heard that this was another of Anno's mayor works I decided to watch it.
It's really a proof that everything that man touches turns to gold, because the basic story/manga was not worth that much, this could have gotten *very* Twillight-y... but then, Anno pokes it with his little finger, and suddenly it's a profound yet entertaining piece of modern, avantgardistic art that is all about human identity, and what could have been cheap angst got twisted into delightful psychoness. (Arima ~<3)
What was WRONG with the original author, anyway? Fire Hideaki Anno? Really? No kidding?
Since it was an adaptation, he didn't have to write the outline of the story and could focus on the "methods", the actual directing, so to speak. His style is evident, the urban imagery, random life action stuff, descripte fast cuts and the way he really uses the advantages of a medium that has sound, (yeah, its that cool music that got reaused for Rebuild!) the basi text a book would have and then the entire screen, I would often pause to stare at all the many details, the use of captions/telops was superb.
You know, when I watch an Anime, now and then, there are these awesome montages where the words read like poems and the images capture the emotions in an unique way... The Kare-Kano anime is made up of NOTHING but such genius montages, and often, the episodes would open with an introduction to some character's inner universe that flat out told us who they were, there was this steady, logical progress, some very epic uses of perspective and, of course, I could feel Anno's inner teacher trying to tell us inexperienced kids about relationships, just that entire theme of "living better"....
I didn't think this would make me *bawl* so much! Honestly, I started crying at episode three and just couldn't stop until episode 18 or so.
Artful ~~~ Intense ~~~
Sure, it's not Evangelion or Ghost in the Shell, but it *does* show that those Gainax ppl are freakin geniuses.
As for the ending, I don't think the later episodes ever really got bad - You *could* tell that some of the je-ne-sais-quoi walked out of the door after episode 18, but after all, Tsurumaki was still there, there were still many good, artful moments and I think they did the best with what they had... even if it *was* abrupty cut short, you can sort of assume how it would continue since everything that had to be said had been said but I would have loved to see that ending Anno wanted to write.
Knowing that he probably *did* have an ending we never got to see planned out in his head makes me feel a little cheated.
Again, I wonder what exactly the original author could possibly have been thinking.
I will definitely take this as an an inspiration for my own writing.
I wanted to try harvesting the rice
I wanted to hold Tsubame more
I wanted to stay together forever with the boy I like
esselfortium wrote:For all the supposed complaints about Luc making troll posts, I don't think he's gone as far as making up fictional motives for other people who disagree with him about something. What ever happened to "stick to the points, not the people"?
