Rewatched Cardcaptor Sakura and it's still one of those animes with the most pleasant and calming atmosphere, I like how the motw eps aren't that repetative and it manages to give something new with every episode. Has some fucked up stuff and very stupid explanations but->
->The elements of Kanda's directing really leaves a very strong impact on the viewer. London's "Who is the real beast? Wild animals or humans?" is delivered so well, I'll check out some golden age Hollywood movies of his works for sure too, as well as his novels and short stories
->working on this who is like my all time fav storyteller in Sunrise, really explained all the stylistic similarities to Vifam, I just loved it. Tanaka Mayumi as Mit Sah was perfect and the whole story is just too damn powerful and beautiful, one of Sunrise's best works->
Watched Sunrise's White Fang movie for the 3rd time, gave it a 10 finally, this movie is just damn, Yasuhiko's designs and animation is too perfect and the directing sheesh, checked out the staff more thoroughly this time and realized that the other director was Kanda Takeyuki->
->more 0 dimensional than the Space Cobra girls, idk why was this neccessary when Tezuka can equally write great women too but oh well, the 2 main guys really stole the show anyways. They are based on Tezuka's great grandfather, a doctor and his close friend, a samurai, pog
Rewatched Yasu's Sanctus OVA, it's very suprising but he has a real talent to artsy, dramatic directing too, also a lot of side characters radiated his artstyle while the mc guys had the standard 70's shoujo look, that was kinda fun, the VAs for the boys were perfect, it's->
->Too bad that ofc they couldn't top Miyazaki's direction but they still made a very fun and special little movie with, possibly, a tragic ending because it's totally not clear what actually happened in the credits scene. Also the Mermaid In Blue song is a true banger damn
And right after Xam'd I watched the other Nausicaa clone (harsh), Elfie from Nippon Animation, they even hired Shimamoto to voice Elfie and Kotabe for CharDesign, so they kinda made their own little Ghibli movie, with a lot more interesting underwater setting than the original->
->is that it's basically a GAR ninja revenge story with animals and it's a bloody battle shounen, pretty wild XD Because of this it was unintentionally pretty funny sometimes but overall it really did work very well, new fav character by Yamada Eiko unlocked = Gin
Yamada Eiko shounen fight ninja doggo THE ANIMATION
Second "cute animals doing not so cute things" anime I've seen but unlike in Gamba where there are cute animals then Dezaki butchers down your soul, here the whole stuff was pretty dark from the beginning and the fun thing->
