Zacs UK Anime List
Rudely lifted from Zac's email, with minor editing ...
Herein is a quick list of quality anime in Zac Appleton’s collection that he’s willing to bring for OUSFG’s enjoyment. Personally, he doesn’t want to bring all of them, but this list and your vote will let him know the sort of mix he might want to bring.
- All 6 DVDs of Cowboy Bebop? + movie DVD, or a few select DVDs with really good episodes to give folks a sampling. Simply a superb series.
- Maybe the first DVD of Gasaraki ... a so-so series, perhaps worth seeing. I tend to think the mecha designs, geopolitics, and music to be very good in this series with just a sufficient dashing of what-the-fuck?!
- The new Vampire Hunter D?: Bloodlust DVD ... for the fans. It’s not great, but it is damn good.
- Blood: the Last Vampire – I think many have seen it in the UK already, but I can bring it if folks want it. I think it’s damn good.
- All 5 (that I have) DVDs of Love Hina, or select episodes ... simply a damn funny series. Imagine the kind of peer-identification one finds in Spaced, only in an anime series.
- Memories – a collection of anime shorts, haunting and if I’m going to be bringing anything, I’m definitely bringing this.
- Metropolis DVD – again, for the fans, will suffer for not being on a big screen, isn’t superb, but is quite good. Neat unusual music too.
- Jin-Roh – damned dark and depressing, but quite good and violent ... folks may or may not like it, but is worth bringing/watching. By Oshii incidentally (Ghost In The Shell?), and is perhaps one recent example of why Oshii needs to take prozac.
- Graveyard of the Fireflies – an incredibly sad and depressing Hayao Miyazaki film, I don’t know that I’d want to bring it to a party, but I mention it as an offer (I cried and cried and cried ...). "Grave of the Fireflies" actually, a real plucker of heartstrings --TCW
- Spirited Away – if someone can handle a Japan-coded DVD, I’m bringing this! Unless, of course, everyone has seen it already. Really really sweet Hayao Miyazaki film.
- The Evangelion movie – so I finally got in on DVD for those who remember the awful taped copy I had that we suffered through after a weekend-long journey through the twisted mind of Anno.
- If people let me know quickly, I can try to get my hands on an MPEG? of the new Ghost In The Shell?: Stand Alone Complex? on some kind of CD. I know I can definitely get the first episode in that format, though the best parts of the series that I’ve seen to date are in ep 2 +. Then again, you GN Utella? fiends over there might find your own sources.
- Patlabor ... I have the first 3 DVDs of the TV series and the first 2 films. I think you can get quite a bit of that in the UK though. Do not yet have my hands on the new Pat movie ... not sure if I’ll buy it when it does come out.
- Super Atragon ... not because it is much good, rather because it is billed as 'Japan’s Greatest Science Fiction Novel and Most Incredible Military Adventure Ever Filmed!' (and is fairly accurate on both those counts incidentally) ... featuring ... submersible battleships!!!!
- Samurai XOAV? 1 & 2 – a romantic samurai drama that is very good and will help everyone understand why so many fans have Ruroni Kenshin T Shirts?. The thing that strikes against this is that it is time-consuming and would therefore take away from other more delightful choices.
Well, that’s about as cutting edge as my personal collection goes without my running out there and buying a bunch more Japan-coded Studio Ghibli? stuff and Chobits.