The real toddler show that is on a different level is: Robot Train (2015)
This shit was absolutely crazy
Basically it's supposed to be a toy-selling toddlers show but I suppose the producers didn't cared much so the creative team with full liberty decided to make real cinema ⬇️
It was made by a South Korean studio and fore some reason they put way more efforts in it than they needed to. I think the guys were big fans of animes and we feel their passion. They put all the melodrama, tragedy and shonen fights they could. The result is absolutely Kino.
They did not consider the kids dumb.
For example after a fight against a friend who betrayed him the main character almost died and end up in a coma.
When he wakes up he lost all his memories. And the series tells that with seriousness. The MC has a real existential crisis.
I'm watching Akage no Anne (or Anne of the Green Gables), I'm only 13 eps in but I already love that TV series. Isao Takahata was a pure genius, managing to turn a story of a girl who's sad because she can't get icecream into peak drama.
Asuka ?
(Now I really wonder if Asuka's first appearence is a reference to Akage no Anne)
Ok, so the name of the Netflix live action series comes from that line 😯
I'm officially on summer holidays! So let's go for a media thread of all the things I'll watch (or play) this summer and my opinion about it! 🎬📺🕹
1. Maquia
That movie was great, despite some flaw in the writing, Mari Okada really knows how to direct a movie. The animation was stunning and the OST by Kenji Kawaii was beautiful. Really a great fantasy movie and a touching story about motherhood. 8/10
I'm watching it for the second time and I liked it as much if not more than the first time. Shingo Natsume is really someone to follow. With the story already in mind I struggle less to understand what was happening on screen and the metaphorical messages. 10/10
I want to recommend unknown animes I like, so I will use the opportunity of Christmas to do an advent calendar! But instead of bad chocolates it will be an unknown anime every day (TV series, Films or OVAs).
... so let's go!
T - 24 days : “Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger”
Probably the less known of studio Madhouse's early movies of the 80's, it's a beautiful SF movie produced by Rintaro with a very cute chara-design by Moto Hagio (famous shojo mangaka).
The story is about a guy who escape from a-
-futuristic dystopia with a time machine that can only travel to the past, he picks up a group of high schoolers of the 80's on the way and that's how the story begins. The group will go through WWII, the Tokugawa period and Sengoku era meetings historical figures. The movie has-