Netflix streaming just added Miyazaki's first film, _The Castle of Cagliostro_. It's really good. It's clarifying for me a lot of things I dislike about most anime, by virtue of not doing them.
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Replying to @hillrober
One problem I have with most anime I've seen is it's so slow. DBZ is the worst example. Closeups of people yelling and groaning for 5 minutes as a substitute for plot and writing. In CoC there's always something interesting happening onscreen and there's always momentum.
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Replying to @St_Rev
I don’t think most anime is like that, it depends on what demographic the anime is targeted at. Anime targeted at kids tends to have the problems that you describe but series aimed at older viewers moves a bit faster imo.
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Replying to @hillrober
I don't seek out Anime so most of what I see is snippets from Adult Swim when I flip between the Venture Bros. and Rick & Morty marathon steams.
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Replying to @St_Rev @hillrober
Hetalia moves fast -- almost too fast -- but doesn't have weight or momentum. (Which is OK for what it is.) Attack on Titan has some degree of momentum but doesn't feel like it goes anywhere, and it has the problem of endless groaning closeups.
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Tokyo Ghoul is worse than DBZ in some of these respects, and adds torture porn to the mix. One-Punch Man plays with a lot of these issues in a fairly sophisticated way so I can't criticize it on the same grounds.
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