Second time seeing this, and it really cemented itself as my favorite Satoshi Kon film. For my money, it’s a perfect film, but I can see why it doesn’t land for a lot of people narratively. It’s 1 AM, and I have lot of whirling, uneven thoughts to sort through and absolutely no clue where to start, but just as an initial impression, this film perfectly captures a process as opposed to a traditional story, a sort of mental back…
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Gunbuster 1988
These guys sure do like their anime!
Gunbuster, as Hideaki Anno’s directorial debut, is interesting in how positively reverent it is to the robot anime that came before. This contrasts with Anno’s later Evangelion, which uses the tropes of the genre to explore the psychology of its characters and by extension its creator. Eva is dark, moody, and at times, abstract—more akin to the later chunks of any Tomino Gundam than Macross.
Gunbuster, on the other hand, is a joyous celebration of the…
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Mobile Suit Gundam F91 1991
At its best, F91 is an absolutely bonkers, gloriously indulgent, sweat-inducing Gundam sakuga fiesta, but at its worst, it’ll put you to sleep faster than a fent-laced bottle of Tylenol.
As many are quick to mention on here, it’s hamstrung by a lot of the same pacing problems that Char’s Counterattack suffers from, but unlike that film, it doesn’t have 150ish episodes of context (albeit often dubiously relevant context in CCA’s case) to support its massive cast of characters and…
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Love Strikes! 2011
desperately want to shove the incel protagonist into a locker.
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