I watched Ergo Proxy (up to a certain point) a few years back, when it was new IIRC, and I thought it was okay. Nice futuristic locations, good art quality, main character seemed like a "sophisticated badass" (lol) which I thought was cool (instead of a cute, innocent looking, anime stereotype girl with guns, it was a cool, serious & moody woman with a 12-guage!). It had its comedy moments and a few characters that felt a bit too cute, which irritated me, but thats not why I stopped watching it. I cant even remember why I stopped, I probably just lost interest.
If I made an OVA (yea keep dreaming mate) it would be some GRITTY sh*t. The characters would look serious (no huge eyes & gravity defying hair, no helium voices, my women would sound like women, not like mice), the story would include a lot of adult subject matter, a lot of controversial stuff that might offend certain people, but paints a dark picture of a world thats similar to our own, realistic, but exaggerated. Thered be a fair bit of violence, but it'd be more realistic, and I'd try to make the violence "upsetting", like it is in films such as "This is England" or "Ill Manors", rather than entertaining like it is in FOTNS or any other hyper-violent anime (but I LOOOOVE FOTNS).
I watched Barefoot Gen the other day anyway, Id heard of it before but never checked it. I wasn't too sure about it at first. They make it look like a kids cartoon, but then shit hits the fan, or should I say payloads hit the ground? Pretty disturbing stuff man. All 3 major players in WWII commited some unthinkable atrocities, none of which can EVER be forgotten, or "sweeped under the rug". Yea, I cant say I really enjoyed watching little kids faces peeling off and their eyeballs melting, but Im glad I watched it, very hard hitting and direct, which are 2 qualities I really like in my movies!
Thanks again, I'll post back when I've seen some of whatever I try out next LOL! I'll probably check Planetes seeing as it was the first suggestion, I dont want anybody to feel ignored!
