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maxxjulie:
i own the animeigo box set. i bought it blindly for like $250 i think back when it was only available through their website. best blind buy i've ever made. the first movie is the most gut wrenching thing i've ever watched. i watched it once and never again.
dbml:
--- Quote from: maxxjulie on January 18, 2010, 05:57:20 PM ---i own the animeigo box set. i bought it blindly for like $250 i think back when it was only available through their website. best blind buy i've ever made. the first movie is the most gut wrenching thing i've ever watched. i watched it once and never again.
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Expensive.. but yes, good buy :P And you're telling me, the movie was exactly that. It was glorious though! It was so realistic and painful... loved every second of it.
maxxjulie:
it's good and realistic, but too much for me. it's like take one of my favorite anime characters ever and make a movie about stabbing her in the heart for 90 minutes straight. jesus christ. grave of the fireflies is like watching the hangover in comparison for me.
dbml:
Ah, I see. We liked different characters then.
(click to show/hide)I seriously loved Madoka. Hikaru on the other hand, I was all over the place with. She was very cute and happy-go-lucky, but she annoyed me so much, especially with her laugh. Towards the end of the series though, she had grown on me quite a bit and I began to like her as well. But when she revealed her true colors in the movie, I didn't like her anymore. She was seriously two-faced, pretending to be oblivious to how much Madoka and Kyosuke liked each other, when she knew they did and purposefully tried to stay between them. What she went through was painful to watch... and I don't think she deserved it that badly, but I did NOT want her to end up with Kyosuke. So I was pleased with how the movie ended. That movie really took a page out of some of the high-end tragic dramas though, like KgNE or the Ef series... as that was painful to watch.
Oh. And Grave of the Fireflies was so sickeningly depressing. Ugh. I hated it. That was far, FAR worse than this movie :P
Ixarku:
--- Quote from: isukianime on January 18, 2010, 12:06:12 PM ---If you liked this I highly recommend Maison Ikkoku. It's even better. The only problem with Maison Ikkoku is that the first 10 - 11 episodes will make you want to drop it, after that it's awesome.
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I agree with your first statement, but personally I liked KOR better -- it's one of my favorite animes of all times. I saw it for the first time in the mid-90s. The first movie is definitely gut-wrenchingly painful to watch… it’s almost as bad as going through a real-life breakup!
I thought that Maison Ikkoku had more realistic characters, but it was way too long and drawn out. Watching Maison Ikkoku recently for the first time, I had to marathon it in parts just because some of the story arcs were so frustrating that I couldn't stop in the middle.
I was also amused that Toru Furuya, the voice of Kyosuke in KOR, was also the voice of Amuro Rey from Gundam, and Hiromi Tsuru (Madoka) also did Asuna's voice in Maison Ikkoku.
I’m curious if anyone has any suggestions for other shows along the lines of MI or KOR. I’m watching Marmalade Boy now. That one’s entertaining so far, but I’m only 30+ episodes into it.
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