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Karafuru (1999)
roses are red, violets are blue, this show is about panties
This show is partially like Pink Floyd The Wall, partially like Adult Swim's "robot chicken" except that this show is all about panties. Thats it. No more, no less. I could easily see this being filler between any other show on adult swim or G4. If you don't get it, you don't get it. If your the type to notice the edge of someones panties or bra sticking out and think "oh she's wearing red today :P~" then this show is for you. the music is really the best thing about the show, but in the long run, its an animation that was made from a serial comic strip. If you pick up the box and read the back with the tag line of "roses are red, violets are blue, this show is about panties." that there should tell you whether or not you will like it.
Haibane Renmei (2002)
a different point of view
What I see in the show, is the great, great, GREAT animation and artwork of Yoshitoshi ABe. its not to show off what anime really is to people surrounded by Pokémon or dragonballZ...but to show off how well ABe can build characters and towns and an entire world with so many differences that it would astound the minds of "hit" movie watchers.
Its not mass marketed for everyone. I would relate it to movies like SLC punk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Chungking Express, and Requiem for a Dream. They all try and challenge you to see the deep meanings behind the screen.
Music. Music can make or break a movie, and if it makes it, it either builds it up, or points it in a direction you didn't see before. The music in Haibane Renmei made it and it built up big time. The music gives it a deep RPG feeling, without the tedious and repetitive battles.
final opinion: not everyone will want to watch it, but having it in your collection is the anime version of having a 1830's bottle of wine in your wine cellar.
FLCL (2000)
not quite spoilers, but how i would explain the show...
it's interesting on many levels... At first, when i saw it, it was one of the funniest shows i've ever heard of. They joke about everything from the lowliest of sexual innuendo ("...its...getting bigger...") to pop culture humor that was WELL translated into american culture ("...like rage against the machine...and red hot CHILLI peppers!") It can be as subtle as the hard to pronounce names like "Haruhara haruko"(sp?) and Adamsk which make the outtakes quite funny.
Once i really got into it, (about the time i could sing along to a good song perfectly) i started to disect it and see it on more levels than just a cartoon about "d*ck-fors on the kids forehead." Mamimi and Haruko seem to play manic-depressiveness cranked up to 11 on the amp, while Naoita is an extreme protagonist(sp?) who cant seem to make his mind up about growing up.
story-wise, i'd say the movie (cause its really just a movie broken up into 6 episodes) plays like an older anime that follows one persons life and gets you to walk a mile in their shoes, but modernizes it and draws your attention with all the action and jokes. The ending, to me, gave off a feeling of a Mandarin Chinese movie.
Anyway, if you watch it for the first time, don't give up after the first episode, the LEAST you can get out of it is some good music.
Yeopgijeogin geunyeo (2001)
i'm not sure how to get to the right spot, but heres some trivia...
some things i've noticed so far: maybe they don't need to be said?
1: the picture thats on the wall the first night at the hotel with all the babies on it is also in the subway when shes yelling for him on a back shelf.
2: the ufo when she finishes reading his letter.
3: the old man under the tree may be who she meant by "a man from your future."