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> I've never really developed a taste for Japanese animation, and went in with no expectations. To be fair, the vast majority of it is crap. (In much the same
by cthalupa 12y ago
> I've never really developed a taste for Japanese animation, and went in with no expectations.
To be fair, the vast majority of it is crap. (In much the same way the majority of American entertainment content is also crap)
But there's also fantastic stuff out there, like Miyazaki films.
Makoto Shinkai has some excellent films.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Shinkai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Shinkai
Garden of Words, 5 Centimeters Per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, The Place Promised in our Early Days, and Voices of a Distant Star are all excellent.
Mamoru Hosoda's recent works have all been quite good as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoru_Hosoda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoru_Hosoda
I'm not really a fan of his earlier works, but everything he's done since The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has been very high caliber.
I wouldn't say either is quite at the level of Miyazaki and Ghibli, but they're both quite good, and some of the better examples of the medium at it's best.
- pja 12y agoWolf Children is another great non-Miyazaki film done in a similar style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Children http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Children
- cthalupa 12y agoYep! That's one of Hosada's works
- huxley 12y agoSturgeon's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law "I repeat [Sturgeon’s Law], which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud. Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. is crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other art forms."