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Two brothers are in the spotlight: one a movie star making a football movie, the other a musician who occasionally goes to school (to cover for his sibling). What will destiny bring them?
Cipher
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Japan
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03 Mar 1989
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Japanese people speaking English phonetically and licensed American New Wave music make for one of the most bizarrely charming OVA's of the decade. Did you know we have a Laserdisc rip of this now, by the way?
Treat yourself: youtu.be/0MfrWjOQ1k4
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"You're the only one who really knew me at all" - Phil Collins,
Chaos reigns.
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Cipher is a cornucopia of copyright violations, limited animation and even worse voice acting, culminating in gentle smooches upon a sibling’s lips. This is a project I can only fathom came about after a legitimate anime adaptation was cancelled with 10% of the work done, so a plan was hatched to hastily cobble together what was completed into a mock documentary format and dump on the market, obscuring the knowledge that the credits roll halfway into the video with the provided plot synopsis never actually occurring. A pathetic mountain of lies and broken promises which will never leave my video library. ❤️
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oh sure, when hideaki anno does it it's "art," but when this prescient work anticipates every multimedia franchise approach of the next 30 years it's "bewildering" and "not a movie" and "an inexplicable series of decontextualized images and scenes within scenes quoted by scenes set to music for no discernable reason", I see!!! Creamy Mami WHOMST? Everyone who wrote their thesis about Vocaloid or otome game CDs or 2.5d fandom can go HOME and hang their heads in SHAME!
(not gonna lie I legit loved this. i NEVER want the full backstory.)
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This is genuinely postmodern. Ideas and images spliced together (presumably from an actual adaptation of the manga that was scrapped) with no explanation or semblance of context. By the year 2025 all storytelling will be presented like this.
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who the fuck eats yogurt topped with vanilla ice cream, raisins, and peanut butter for breakfast
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yea 😊 YAH 👹 *kiss* 👨❤️💋👨💓 g-good morning…. ☀️ jay 🧍 good 🚫👎 morning! 🌅 so what 😦 do 💫 you 👈 want 😌 to eat? 🍽✨ YOGURT 🥛🥄 top 🔝 it with vanilla 🍦 ice 🧊 cream 💦🐄 and raisin 🍇 ah 🤡 ok 💅👌 ok 🙆♂ how 🤷♂️ bout 🤩 some ➕💯 peanut 🥜 butter 🧈 too 😍
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can't believe no-one talks about the bizarre thompson twins sequence that makes it seem like the creators knew 9/11 was going to happen?? most ominous moment in cinema history
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You have to see this to believe it.
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It’s like they made a boring-ass OVA about two brothers in NYC and then threw out all the dialogue and used the leftover footage to create their own 25min YouTube AMV. At one point I think the brothers kiss? Maybe I imagined that part. Wait no they did it again! I don’t know why this is.
Track listing:
00:54 “Against All Odds” - Phil Collins
04:17 “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” - Deniece Williams
12:27 “Footloose” - Kenny Loggins
18:17 “Kamikaze” - Thompson Twins
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when you listen to phil collins
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postmodern and experimental in a way we’ve yet to fully appreciate. both YouTube poop and Ryan Trecartin were born here
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