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There is good stuff out there. I watched Pantheon and Scavengers Reign recently, both excellent, but not old stable anime. Scavengers Reign: https://www.youtub
by cjk2 2y ago
There is good stuff out there. I watched Pantheon and Scavengers Reign recently, both excellent, but not old stable anime.
Scavengers Reign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQH8cMpWTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQH8cMpWTU
Pantheon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_HJ3TSlo5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_HJ3TSlo5c
- giuseppe_petri 2y agoI've not seen Pantheon, but from the trailer it seems very close to Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell".
- mos_basik 2y agoBecause a sibling comment said Pantheon trailer looked like Stephenson, I watched it. To me it looks like Greg Egan's Permutation City, which I found via HN and which made me inhale about seven more of his books in quick succession. To anyone who's consumed both - is it actually like Permutation City? Or is that too much to hope for? I'll check it out!
- duggan 2y agoI’m slowly working my way through Scavengers Reign, it’s absolutely brilliant — somewhere between Alien and Stanislaw Lem’s The Invincible.
- chpatrick 2y agoIt reminded me of Lem's Eden as well.
- persnickety 2y agoHaving just watched Scavenger's Reign, it differs from both Lem novels in an important way. Lem uses characters as an excuse to tell something about the portrayed worlds. Scavenger's Reign uses the world as a backdrop to tell the story of the characters. (Same goes for Solaris, although Tarkovsky's adaptation reverses that.)
- The5thElephant 2y agoNot enough people know about Pantheon. However both Scavenger's Reign and Pantheon feel distinctly different from Japanese anime. They have a much more Western aesthetic eye visually, narratively, and especially in terms of music I feel.
- rapnie 2y agoDammit, they are in other livestream imperiums than where I dwell :(
- cjk2 2y agoThere are other ways!
- urza 2y agoPantheon is amazing. Especially the ending.