Re: Help with anime classics

Wasabi wrote:
> Justin Palmer <justin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>      Project A-Ko: 
> 
> Yes, another great movie, very funny but also intriguing and has one of
the 
> best sword fighting sequences I've seen: when D manages to nick A-ko's 
> cheek she really goes off the deep end! Not to mention an unbelievable 
> number of panty shots (mainly A-ko's), like when she ends up sitting 
> astride a plane’s cockpit, giving the pilot an eyeful... then there's
the 
> scene where she literally runs up a hail of incoming missiles... you
know 
> the more I think about this the more I get the urge to dig it out and
watch 
> it again...
> 
	Get the remastered edition, its worth it for the directors commentary 
alone, where he laments that copyright means he'd never get away with it 
now. It makes you realise just how special it really was.

	Also has one of the great space dogfights of all time, animated by a 
guy who had a grudge against Macross: Do You Remember Love. It shows. ^_^

>>      The Vision of Escaflowne: a few years ago, this was the dogs
dangly 
>> bits. Funny you don't hear that much about it now. 
> 
> The TV series was good but I don't rate the movie (apart from the
brilliant 
> opening scene, with the goats on the mountain and the huge air****p
slowly 
> powering into view). I thought the movie retelling of the story
descended 
> into direness from the moment Van appears in the stadium to whisk her
away, 
> which is ironically where the TV series version really takes off.

	Its been ages since I saw the movie version, but I think the general 
feeling I got was that it wasn't quite what everyone was expecting.

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