#16 is 1:1 ONK. Overwhelming video.
It may be impossible to get across what a shock
Haruhi was. Things just hadn't really looked or felt like it before.
Kyoto Animation's masterpiece was so influential that this richness is now basically taken for granted.
I believe the eruption of energy present in just the OP is a big part of what swept the whole phenomenon along.
The maximalist sequence running through the stars is still breathtaking to me.
A little touch I like is the sound novel style "posterized" photographs in the multicolour collages.
And who could forget that dance sequence from the highly
avant-garde ED? A favourite at anime conventions and video-sharing websites on both sides of the pond.
The same month that Haruhi finished it's first run came this classic.
Notice the similarity of the late-Pizzicato Five-esque music in both this and Haruhi. Something was definitely in the air.
Same goes for the graphic style. This post-Shibuya kei, Jason Brooks meets Hisashi Eguchi thing. Some of those Bleach eyecatches and Sonic Team's Feel The Magic XY/XX (both Bleach and XY/XX are from '04, the latter getting a prequel a year after) and more recently Yoot's Aero Porter fit this. Does this have a name?
I'm not big on lyrics but the Kenji Ohtsuki track from the ED turned out to be quite prophetic too.
Flawed anime with a flawless OP.
Another that should have been in the first post. Has my favourite piece of music from any anime.
Now, I haven't read the manga (27/40) but there are some details that make me rate this fairly highly as a work of westabooism. Enough research was done to not fuck up things like geography or gastarbeiter ethnicity.
It should be obvious where artistic license was applied.
Visually things are very nice indeed and it's sad the bleakness of the OP wasn't retained non-stop in the episodes.
I have a distinct memory of wanting to see the part where that desolate landscape makes it's appearance.
I have no memory of whether that actually happens or not.
[media]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35331039[/media]
Proof that doing it "AMV-style" can be more than adequate.
Carefully chosen and unassuming clips taken from the show itself show the ordinary lives of Japanese children across classes.
It's immediately melancholic, and as the show progresses this works with
a detail in the eyecatches to bring out a mournful sense.
I don't think the anime was a smash-success but the song "Uninstall" appears to be popular on Youtube both for instrumental covers and karaoke.
#16 is 1:1 ONK. Overwhelming video.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uCWC1dgB2M[/media]
It may be impossible to get across what a shock [i]Haruhi[/i] was. Things just hadn't really looked or felt like it before.
Kyoto Animation's masterpiece was so influential that this richness is now basically taken for granted.
I believe the eruption of energy present in just the OP is a big part of what swept the whole phenomenon along.
The maximalist sequence running through the stars is still breathtaking to me.
A little touch I like is the sound novel style "posterized" photographs in the multicolour collages.
And who could forget that dance sequence from the highly [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwYuFadMmIE]avant-garde ED[/url]? A favourite at anime conventions and video-sharing websites on both sides of the pond.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHs5AjAvFoA[/media]
The same month that Haruhi finished it's first run came this classic.
Notice the similarity of the late-Pizzicato Five-esque music in both this and Haruhi. Something was definitely in the air.
Same goes for the graphic style. This post-Shibuya kei, Jason Brooks meets Hisashi Eguchi thing. Some of those Bleach eyecatches and Sonic Team's Feel The Magic XY/XX (both Bleach and XY/XX are from '04, the latter getting a prequel a year after) and more recently Yoot's Aero Porter fit this. Does this have a name?
I'm not big on lyrics but the Kenji Ohtsuki track from the ED turned out to be quite prophetic too.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYdCd00TJhI[/media]
Flawed anime with a flawless OP.
Another that should have been in the first post. Has my favourite piece of music from any anime.
Now, I haven't read the manga (27/40) but there are some details that make me rate this fairly highly as a work of westabooism. Enough research was done to not fuck up things like geography or gastarbeiter ethnicity.
It should be obvious where artistic license was applied.
Visually things are very nice indeed and it's sad the bleakness of the OP wasn't retained non-stop in the episodes.
I have a distinct memory of wanting to see the part where that desolate landscape makes it's appearance.
I have no memory of whether that actually happens or not.
[media]https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35331039[/media]
Proof that doing it "AMV-style" can be more than adequate.
Carefully chosen and unassuming clips taken from the show itself show the ordinary lives of Japanese children across classes.
It's immediately melancholic, and as the show progresses this works with [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fm29FrNgQ]a detail in the eyecatches[/url] to bring out a mournful sense.
I don't think the anime was a smash-success but the song "Uninstall" appears to be popular on Youtube both for instrumental covers and karaoke.
