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Sky blue, AKA Wonderful days.

Synopsis

In 2042, a disaster threatens all life on Earth. Fleeing from the disaster to an island in the Pacific one group of people set up the city of Ecoban to ensure their survival. When other refugees come to the shores of Ecoban, the citizens of the city deny them entry interested only in maintaining their own life style and purity. One hundred years later, the citizens of Ecoban and the descendants of the refugees, the Marrians, have settled into an uneasy coexistence. A terrorist attack on the pollution-fueled Delos energy system of Ecoban begins to signal the end of the status quo.

Genre: Science-fiction
Length: Movie, 87 minutes
Distributor: Available On R1 DVD From Max Media
Content Rating: 16+ (violence, brief sexual situations, brief substance abuse, adult themes)
Related Series: N/A
Also Recommended: Animatrix, Green Legend Ran, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Metropolis
Notes: Wonderful Days is a Korean production and thus not technically anime as many Western fans tend to define the world. This title has been reviewed as a service to our readers.

http://srv14.movie-list.net/bendermac/posters/wonderful-days02.jpg

this actually says 회망외날 = hopeful days
and the top says "changing the future"

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#694

Apr 23 2008 10:33am

Quote (FloraFreak @ Wed, Apr 23 2008, 02:38am)

NOT A CHAT THREAD.

Recommendation for the day.

Synopsis

The time is the future, and the place -- Scrap Iron City, a wretched hive of scum and villainy (sorry). In a time where cybernetic replacement organs are as easy to come by as a screwdriver, organ-thefts are a common occurrence. The only thing keeping these criminals in check are the Hunter-Warriors, bounty hunters after the heads of organ-snatchers to trade for cash rewards.

Gally is an amnesiac cyborg girl who is rescued from the scrap heap of the city by a cybernetic surgeon. Who she once was, what she once did -- all of it is a blank in Gally's mind, the only possible hint of her past being the formidable fighting skills she possesses. Although most of her body is artificial, her soul and mind are fully human in their childlike innocence, and have never before experienced tragedy or loss. And there's plenty of tragedy and loss to be had when you're in Scrap Iron...

AKA: e–² GUNNM, Battle Angel Alita, Hyper Future Vision Gunnm
Genre:
Length: OAV series, 2 episodes, 60 minutes each
Distributor: Licensed by Fox Home Entertainment.
Content Rating: R (violence, language, sex)
Related Series: N/A
Also Recommended: Armitage III, Key the Metal Idol
Notes: Loosely based on the manga by Kishiro Yukito, released by Viz as "Battle Angel Alita".

http://www.yale.edu/anime/imgarchive/battle_angel_alita/alita-z.jpg

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I own this dvd

it was kind've boring :X

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#695

Apr 23 2008 11:33am

Quote (FloraFreak @ Wed, Apr 23 2008, 12:58am)

sorry ><

just add it to plan to watch list ^^

I try to find one a day because I keeps me looking for my self as well.

if i add it to my plan to watch list ill never get around to it. just like everything on my plan to watch list LOL.

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#696

Apr 23 2008 07:42pm

Quote (disgust @ Wed, Apr 23 2008, 01:33pm)

if i add it to my plan to watch list ill never get around to it. just like everything on my plan to watch list LOL.

Oh well. keep on it then !

Quote (Belldandy @ Wed, Apr 23 2008, 12:33pm)

I own this dvd

it was kind've boring :X

I think I will enjoy it.

I like these kind of things.

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#697

Apr 24 2008 10:04am

Quote (FloraFreak @ Wed, Apr 23 2008, 08:42pm)

I think I will enjoy it.

I like these kind of things.

Hmm.. i should just add everything i plan to watch into my plan to watch on MAL... it would be like 10x what ive seen lawl.

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Apr 24 2008 09:04pm

Recommendation of the day.

Robot carnival

Synopsis

I’m not even going to try and summarize this one.

Recommended Audience: Nothing terribly objectionable, really. Younger audiences might be bored during some of the slower parts, though, and they probably won’t understand some of the shorts (hey, even I don’t understand some of the shorts).

Review

Robot Carnival is a collection of animated shorts (not the kind you wear) by various writers and animators in Japan. The types of stories vary greatly; some are silly and melodramatic, some are abstract and probably highly symbolic, some are deeply moving and haunting, and some are twisted and simply bizarre. All of them, though, are remarkably well animated, and all of them have something to do with robots, or at least mecha in some way.

How to summarize it in a sentence? A.D. Cop Rock? Mecha: The Musical? Tales From the Garage? Fantasia II? Amazing Stories goes Anime? Well, whatever it is, it’s different, that’s for sure. You’re probably never going to see anything else quite like this anime.

Most of the shorts have no dialogue whatsoever, and are set to music instead. Fortunately, the music is pretty good, nice and cinematic when it needs to be, and fits the action very well. Dubbing is surprisingly good (there’s a particularly hilarious short set in 19th century Japan where all the Japanese characters act like they're poorly dubbed on purpose), for what little dialogue there is. Some shorts are more interesting than others, though, and the more abstract ones may make some shift in their seats uncomfortably as they wonder when some action is going to occur. And some make absolutely no sense at all.

All in all, a decent watch, if you view it with the right mindset. This might be a fun one to stick in the middle of an anime-fest to get a nice dose of the surreal.

Genre: Robot-related short-story anthology
Length: Movie, 90 minutes
Distributor: VHS from Streamline out of print
Content Rating: 10+ (violence)
Related Series: N/A
Also Recommended:
Notes: From the Editor: According to APPP's North American branch (Super Techno Arts), a sequel to this anthology is in the works. Time will tell whether this will come to fruition or not.