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A space to discuss Japanese animated films, whether it be upcoming ones or just your all time favourites.

Here is a chart depicting the upcoming anime for this Spring season, including the films due to be released.
http://anichart.net/spring

Personally, the film I'm most looking forward to this year is "Your Name" directed by Makoto Shinkai of "5cm per second" fame. Due to premier later this year. Here is a trailer for it.

As for my favourite anime film, it would probably go to "Whisper of the Heart" a heartwarming tale about adolescence by Studio Ghibli.

How about you guys?
 
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Looking through the list I can say the only movie I am looking forward to is Detective Conan: Junkoku no Nightmare. The movies from this series don't always promise a good time, but this time it centers around Black Organization, so I am totally in. The last time they appeared in a movie it had some good action.

Eh, as for all time favorite, it would be "Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on heaven's door"


Eeeeeeeeee, Kekkai Sensen is getting an OVA. Second season would have been better, but this is at least something, they haven't given up on it.
 
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I'm not the type of person who rewatches films in general, but every Christmas I put on "The Tokyo Godfathers" and watch it. There's just something magical about it.

What kind of genre do you guys like watching?
 
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I'm not the type of person who rewatches films in general, but every Christmas I put on "The Tokyo Godfathers" and watch it. There's just something magical about it.

What kind of genre do you guys like watching?
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Oh man, you just reminded me I still gotta watch that movie, been planning to watch it since Christmas. For the mood and all. Guess now Easter will just have to do. XD

As for the genre, i usually go for action/adventure, though it's not all blood and fighting with me, for example My Neighbor Totoro is on my list of good choices.
 
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If you want to indulge in the masterworks of someone that has defined goriest, darkest, most blissfully-animated and visually-striking films in Japanese animation, I strongly recommend just about any films made by the animation Mongol that is Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

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He's been behind some of the best anime films ever made, including the following:

  • Ninja Scroll, a kabuki-style Feudal action flick renowned for popularizing anime films in the West years before Studio Ghibli would do the same with Spirited Away
  • Wicked City, based on the Hiedyuki Kikuchi novel of the same name
  • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, the single best adaptation of the Gothic fantasy series to date
  • Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, which is the only thing with the Highlander brandname that's been any good since the original film
  • Demon City Shinjuku, the THIRD Kikuchi collaboration (he's seriously a fan of the man's work, much like myself)
And if you have any doubts about the man's credentials, keep in mind that aside from directing and producing, he also had dozens of anime credited to his amazing storyboarding and animation designing....

...including the endlessly flawed but beautifully-animated Devil May Cry Animated Series.

Also, on an unrelated but topic-centered note:
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If you like cyberpunk shows like Ghost in the Shell and Bubblegum Crisis even a little, WATCH THIS MOVIE.
 
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Call me a sap, but I really like coming of age stories as well as romances. This is probably why I'm drawn to Studio Ghibli so much.

I also have a real love for Makoto Shinkai films, "Garden of Words" touched me so much that I just had to buy the novel that came after it. Not to mention the amazing animation he puts into his films.

 
As you can probably tell by my profile pic, I'm a massive fan of Princess Mononoke as it's one of my favorite films of all time. I can watch it over and over again, never tiring. It's a beautiful piece of work.

Some of my other favorite Japanese animation films would have to be stuff like Akira, Nausicaa and The Valley of the Wind, Wolf Children, and Spirited Away.
 
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For the most part I've seen the Ghibli films and while I'm not a huge fan of any specific one I have most of them with only a few exceptions.

I saw Only Yesterday a few weeks ago in the theatres and what an weirdly outstanding movie. While you watch it there is nothing particularly great about it. It's good, funny, interesting, and even innocent, which is a rather unique trait and a definite plus, but, still, nothing about it is that outstanding and at even as the end when the credits start rolling all you're left thinking is, yeah, that was ok, not bad but not the best, and yet, while credits roll and the story starts to conclude there is just something that tugs at the heart strings during that credits scene. It's a rather simple scene that for all intents and purposes shouldn't be emotional but it is and I can't explain why but it was a perfect ending, a wonderful experience. The movie is kinda long and it seems unfocused but it has become one of my favorites and I have every intention of owning it when it comes to BD. I think it's the flaws that make it the movie that it is, that it's all of the long length, the lack of focus that somehow give it strength. It's hard to explain and I think that's part of what makes it what it is.

It's unique experiences like this that make me love the things that come out of Japan and while I sometimes get crap about been weeboo and people bitching at me for liking it, or what not, those people can kiss the darkest part of my Mexican ass**** because they don't pay my bills so the don't get a say in what I watch. That, by the way, wasn't just an online thing; I went to an animation school and I got a lot of s*** sometimes for liking anime. A lot of them focused too much on the technical side of things and forgot that it's the intangible aspects of the arts that make them what they are and why we love them.
 
Ive never really been to keen with anime films. I usually find myself getting to connected to the characters that i just cant bare with a single movie. The only time i actually did was with Death Billiards which (thankfully)got an anime adaption just last year.
Looking forward to Bungou Stray Dogs though.

EDIT: KEKKAI SENSEN IS GETTING AN OVA??? I had no idea!
 
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