2012-08-10, 05:10 | Link #281 |
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There were actually a bunch of references I missed, as I thought.
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Source That's a lot of stuff packed into 20 minutes! It also confirms my suspicion that somebody on the animation team is a David Lynch fan. That strange sequence in episode 10 was definitely a reference to a movie he did called Rabbits. |
2012-08-11, 09:41 | Link #286 |
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yet 19eps already in give 7eps left got wonder near how wrap it all up?
give wonder if series had version of Incident at Honnou-ji til some twist cause them travel to modern world? or unless yea if that talking dog appear must indeed another world cue ONORE DECADE on it.
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2012-08-11, 13:09 | Link #287 |
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Holy shit, ep. 19 was fucking amazing. The complex layering of murder mystery on top of Mitsuhide's amnesiac dream/play on top of Sengoku era historical references on top of pop cultural movie and detective-mystery series references made this by far the tightest episode this series has aired yet. What makes it particularly noteworthy is also that this is pretty much the first episode which has seriously dealt with this series' Sengoku era inspiration/setting/background, i.e. dealt with PLOT. As someone who got lulled into the usual rhythm thinking that this would just be some random story featuring a genderbent character who happened to be called Akechi Mitsuhide, that ending was a total mindfuck, lol.
Anyway, on top of the extensive and greatly informative list of references already provided by Cyprene (great work btw), lemme just add two more bits of further information:
Y'know, after the first couple episodes of Sengoku Collection I'd basically just put this series down as a series for bored people, and even after I caught onto the parodisiacal aspects of the episodes and movie themes I still didn't really feel like it had any concrete appeal or narrative. Even if there were individual episodes which stood well on their own and were engaging and interesting, I could have barely entertained the notion of "Sengoku Collection is good anime". Episode 19 gave me a very real feeling of being able to approach that sentiment. |
2012-08-11, 13:24 | Link #288 |
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I've enjoyed it since the early episodes, once I caught onto the anthology nature of it. Anime could do with a really good anthology series, and this looks to be a top contender for that title. For people used to a more serialized narrative, it might help to think of it more as a series of short films, but they're all interconnected, mostly implicitly. The appeal of anthology is that it's not just one story. It's one hundred smaller stories happening at the same time, each of them in equal importance to another. I like the sound of that very much - nobody is really a background character, in that regard.
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2012-08-11, 22:53 | Link #289 |
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Dunno if I ever will consider Sengoku Collection a "good anime"...
It's difficult for me to recommend it for somebody. But it has some clever aspects I would never imagine in a story about 'cute girls doing cute stuff'. It's like the people doing this anime are having a lot of fun. I think this is the feeling that keep me watching the anime wondering what is gonna happen next, or if the episode will be funny, sad, serious, or just crazy. |
2012-08-12, 15:22 | Link #290 |
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I'm kind of disappointed the character songs for this show only cover the first ten episodes. At the rate the releases were going, I was expecting everyone to get a song. So much potential for music that's vanished into the aether. Mitsuhide, who's pretty important in the grand scheme of things, won't get a chance for music, and I would've loved to hear a slow ballad by Yoshitsugu. Ryuubi could've gotten a nice, upbeat number too. (And it would be Yui Horie singing, people love that.) A man can dream.
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2012-08-14, 14:45 | Link #297 | |
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I really enjoyed this episode despite only getting a small fraction of the references. (I wish I'd known that hototogisu meant cuckoo, that would have given me a good laugh). Mitsuhide's outfit was pleasing, some nice detailing without being too fussy and a colour-scheme that complimented her hair and eyes. Talking of eyes, did anyone else notice that she only ever developed pupils when she was having a moment of realisation? Well, it looks like we'll find out what the issue is between her and Nobunaga next week. I don't believe either of them is a bad person at heart. If the ED animation is to be believed they'll make up eventually; where does that leave Ranmaru? Last edited by ujiuji; 2012-08-14 at 15:29. Reason: Too many eyes. |
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2012-08-14, 15:40 | Link #299 |
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Based on what? The closeups don't have much in common with the movie pics. Heck, look at Salieri's picture. The guy is frowning, while Mitsuhide is obviously smiling/grinning. One gotta be blind to think that shot of Mitsuhide references Salieri.
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