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Wow, great movie here, watch it whenever you get the opportunity to it. Earned some good prizes and awards already.
Original, good characters, great animation, good story, everything is fine here.

If my words didn't convince you, thisnice AMV will.

Junk Town OVA (2006)

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As always Studios 4ºC provides us with a good animation and a unusual story. This time the story centers in a not so far away future, where robots are regular view in the streets.
Our main character is a little kid, while passing by on a street discovers this little robot head eating other robots parts and other mechanic in general and forming this stange tail on its back as soon as it eats a new part. Later we learn that the "tail" that the robot formed was just assimilated parts to form its own body. When the robot achieves its goal he becomes rather twisted and even tries to attack humans. In the end the robot it's just a little head again trying to do the same thing again, it seems that it didn't learnt its lesson. We can take a lesson from here. In Portugal we have a saying that goes something along these lines "Who wants everything looses everything", and I think it goes along fine with this short OVA.
It's good view. If you are familiar with short OVAs from the 4ºC gang this will not disappoint you.

Rate: 6.4/10

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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Guren-hen Movie (2009)

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Finally the first of the two Gurren Movies, what to say, it's a resume of the series. Lot's of stuff looks rushed up but that's unavoidable. They even have done some chapters of the series without dialogues just to speed up the story. The whole stuff looked just like the series, soundwise and animation wise, because the series already had a good animation, so no major differences on those departments.
It's always nice to remember Gurren, I'm looking forward to the sequel, which might well be half year or more from here, depending on the fansubs.

Rate: 6.8/10

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Denpa teki na Kanojo OVA 1#/3 - 7.7 Pretty Good!

Wow , this was unexpected, it was pretty cool. It had a certain type-moon feel to it, but more scary. Animation, directing, characterizations, everything was pretty cool. Full of crazy people, thankfully we'll have more two episodes, we sure need them.

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I've finished some of Genius Party (2007)


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from studios 4ºC, some because, BSS fansubs only translated 6 shorts out of seven shorts in the film, they even admitted that they didn't translate the short Limit Cycle because it had too much talk in it, lazy bums.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, Genius Party is a film from Studios 4ºC filled with shorts of some known and less know Japanese (but not exclusively)Directors.

1- Genius Party (directed by Atsuko Fukushima and Nicolas de Crecy) - 7.2/10
Nice opening to the film, great animation as expected from studios 4ºC. Abstract characters, dance music (unexpectedly made by Joe Hisaishi) in it to fulfil the modern flavour in it. De Crecy is a abstract/surreal comic French author and Atsuko is known to be key animator of several anime, but she directed only once, and it was on the fantastic Robot carnival Op/Ed, I wonder why she didn't any more works on her own since then.

2- Shanghai Dragon (directed by Shoji Kawamori) - 7.4/10
Shoji Kawamori, known from Macross fame brings us a great work of a cyber punk story with the best animation, perfectly suited to his concepts. Here the story is a bout a introverted and not too smart snotty little kid that gets ahold of a super materialization weapon that no one can use except him, but then comes the bad guys from the space and the good guys too. Very Pleasant chance to watch Kawamori back in directing, too bad it was only a short.


3- Doorbell (directed by Yoji Fukuyama) - 7.9/10
Even though with the worst animation of the film, it had a very captivating story and the concept and story filled perfectly it's 13.40 minutes. The story deals with a high schooler with multiple personality issues where eache one strives to take command. It was very interesting watch. The director according to ANN only made mangas throughout the years and was new to directing animation. Good work.

5- Limit Cycle (Directed by Hideaki Futamura) - I'm still awaiting for someone to pick this one.
Known for directing Jojo's Bizarre adventure and and Animatrix's Beyond.

6- Happy Machine (directed by Maasaki Yuasaa) - 8.2/10
Known for directing the impressive Mind Game and Kemonozume, which I missed in my 2006 hiatus, but I'm thying to fix it now and, most recently, last year, Kaiba. We can see where he went to pick his crazy style for Kaiba, the animation here and character designs are totally in the style of Kaiba. The story is surreal but very easy to follow, most likely because of his special style, it is a fest to watch.
The end was kind of weird, but hey, this was a surreal short after all.

7- Baby Blue (directed by Shinchiro Watanabe) - 8.9/10
Watanabe doesn't need introduction, his works with Camploo and Bebop are highly known around the world. The music here is by Yokko Kanno and suits perfectly.
This one waas probably the most beautiful piece in the movie. Watanabe's style here leaves you in peace as you see the lead guy in the school inviting the girl to travel for the day and the day after throughout Japan without a care for the future, and until they have spent their whole money.

Genius Party was a great voyage, it had that artistic and visual style, philosophy, and stories which only short movies can have.

There's also the release of Genius Party Beyond, which compiles all these shorts and some more which were left out on the film of 2007. I hope to watch it someday.

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Rain, the girl, and my love letter ONA (2005)

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Katari, is a young girl who dreams of becoming a novelist, she writes a love letter to a boy at her school, but she is turned down, this is the start of this short story.
The animation was quite the let down here. CG of a third category, but it managed to deliver the story somehow. It had a quite soft and calm atmosphere as soon as you could forget the animation, it reminded me of Mizu No Kotoba's animation but slightly worse. Perhaps it was done by a Japanese student, I don't know.

Rate: 6.0/10 - It was nice because it was so short, if it were longer it would become troublesome because of the animation.

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Ani Kuri 15 (2007)


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15 animation personalities of different anime studios are given 60 seconds to animate something and were compiled into this small movie called Ani (Animation) Kuri (creators) 15. These shorts were shown between commercials in NHK channel and it's other channels.

- The Hidden Princess /"Princess Onmitsu" (Mahiro Maeda: Gonzo) - 6.3
Regular animation here and a cute story based on anime most used themes. A little princess turns into a magical girl and defeats a power rangers like villains and the final boss with the help of her doll.

- "Gyrosopter" (Ranji Murata: Gonzo; and Tatsuya Yabuta: Gonzo) - 5.6
Yoy can feel Range Murata in it even though it was fully made in 3D. This doesn't had a story so to tell. It showed the so called Gyrosopter and a a girl looking at the water reminiscing about.

- Amusement Park Kiss /"Wandaba Kiss" (Atsushi Takeuchi: Production I.G) - 7.0
This one was pretty good, the animation well done and it was pretty effective, it was perfect for the movements required at a amusement park .

- Beyond the Tears (Akemi Hayashi: Gainax) - 6.8
This one was more like a music clip, showing a girl near a window crying and remembering perhaps a friend and happier days of the past.

- Project Mermaid (Mamoru Oshii: Production I.G) - .7.8
Oshi's done it again, whenever he does something short these days he goes into this direction. He presents us with a very modern approach of an animation even converging with real pictures of a woman to do the mermaid. It ends becoming a pretty good short movie. And the actual last two seconds of it, makes you want to learn more about that story.

- Frolicking /"Okkakekko"(Michael Arias: Studio 4°C) - 6.0
The most weird so far. We see a big green field with children happily playing on it, but then there appears this big robot like the Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky robot, walking around. A child stares at it without fear as the other children runs along with it.

- "Good Morning" (Satoshi Kon: Madhouse) - 9.0

This one was an excellent piece from Mr. Satoshi Kon. It deals with the process of fully awaken in the morning.

- "Supaatsutaisa" ("刺客來搜山了"?) (Tobira Oda; and Yasuyuki Shimizu: Studio 4°C) - 8.4
This one is animated in basic sketch like black and white. Despite being so simple, it is a huge fun. It is shown to the viewer like it was some scenes or episode in the middle of a samurai story about this colonel that lives in the mountains with his pets but must leave everything behind because he's being targeted. It was a very funny short.

- A Gathering Of Cats ("Neko no Shuukai"?) (Makoto Shinkai: Comix Wave Film) - 8.3
Very good Shinkai short. It's about how a cat gets fed up about the humans always stepping on his tail and eventually does a "gathering of cats", where all the cats in the neighborhood assemple together and take revenge on humans. The next day, it happens all over again.
This was very different from what shinkai usually does, but not less good.

- Alien Invasion - Hiroshi's Circumstances /("Uchujin Raikou Hiroshi no Baai"?) (Shōjirō Nishimi: Studio 4°C) - 7.8
Very nice short, with a little robot distracting a guy on his desk when this one was calmly reading a manga, it looks like the little robot is playing with the guy. The character design here is like Mind game.

- Yurururu ~Daily Chapter~ "Yurururu ~Nichijou Hen~" (Kazuto Nakazawa: Studio 4°C) - 8.0
A guy is trying to animate a scene in it, and you actually see the drawing being born and process of it. You also see the guy, well not see but it's more like in first person animation. see the guy also going to the bathroom and in the return trying to play a joke on a co-worker by messing with the keyboard that the co-worker was typing (I found that scene hilarious, because I usually did the exact thing too). In the end you see the animation complete.
Interesting point is that he has the drawing upside down.

- Project Omega (Shōji Kawamori: Satelight) - 7.9
It's Kawamorui time so you can expect mecha here, even if it's a one minute mecha anime. A comet is about to collide with earth, and when the announcer of NHK news announces that the colliding point will be NHK there are measures to be taken. The whole building of NHK transforms into a huge mecha to stop the comet, the problem is that it needs more power.

- Heat Man ("Hyotoko"?) (Yasufumi Soejima: Gonzo) - 4.0
Another total CG piece here.
A group of Native attacks a beast, or whatever it is. total CG in Gonzo vein, the worst of the bunch.

- Attack of The Azuma Area #2 (Shinji Kimura: Studio 4°C) - 7.0
CGI animation again but done differently. This one was fun. Three little alienes arrive on earth to conquer it, when they approach someones house speaking of their plans of conquer throught he intercumunicator, the person on the other side just tells them that she doesn't need it, confusing them by some seller.

- Sancha Blues (The Aromatic Tea) Blues" (Osamu Kobayashi: Madhouse) - 8.0
An record store owner watches their supposed clients coming to his store but most of them don't buy anything for the store owner sadness.

Some directors were able to accomplish their tale or their message in it's 1 minute story, but some weren't able to do it, afterall, it's pretty difficult to come up with a finished product in only one minute.

It was a great watch never the less.

Rate: 8.0/10 very good stuff.

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Toshi Densetsu Monogatari Hikiko OVA (2008)

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This was kind of a taboo for me, since it was entirely made on computer and I tend to dislike entirely computer made animations. Okay, I still disliked the fact that it was entirely made on computer graphics, but I managed to stick with it because the story got a hold of me.
I don't know how developed is the 3D world these days, since I don't play games since ages ago, but speaking about the graphics here Ican say that there were some good animations and some bad, for example, the faces looked quite realistic, but in contrast, the bodies sometimes were bad animated and drawn in some scenes and reminded me of those bodies of the first Resident Evil game days, if you know what I mean.

It begins with a grown up man going to visit his old house on his old town, once there he remember a very unusual chapter that happened and he never came to know how it concluded and starts to remember those times.

Characters were well fit into the story and they didn't felt dislocated. It had a scary "the ring" similar girl character there, that helped to kept your eyes glued on the screen. The story was built up in a good suspense and got a hold of me during most of it's time, but when the end came, I didn't felt like it tied very good, it happens a lot with horror stories and in my view it happened with this one also.

It was a very entertaining nevertheless and I committed the error of watching it in the morning, the sound effects and the obscurity of some scenes were perfectly matched for a dark evening.
Next time I have to keep that in mind.

Oh, yeah, if you've watched the recent horror cinema, you'll know more or less what to expect here.

Rate; 7.3/10

Ah...there's Amazing Nuts! Someone on MAL's forum made a topic about it and here you did it such a long time ago.

Some two years ago. Not that much time.

I hate when MAL doesn't allow me to put an anime as "completed". When I try, it says that To Heart 2 adplus is still airing so it can't put it as "completed" image

Never happened with me before. a matter of time until it will I guess.

I got a little interested on Isekai because of the artwork that looked fine, but I never got to check it, nor did I have the will to. From reading your posts I think I'll still not check them.