phantom of the opera-anime

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When I was first getting into POTO, someone linked me to this fanvid someone made of the ALW POTO Overture...dance mix...played over this...anime. I always remembered it forever because 1) it creeped me out. 2) it's utterly fascinating how well this anime seems to fit POTO. 3) I spent hours and hours wondering what the anime could possibly be about. 4) there were skulls and roses and stuff, and sad phan that I am, I get all fascinated by flowers and death.

Anyway, so I mentioned the vid to my_daroga, and she hadn't seen it before. Thank god for YouTube.

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Comments

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now that I've found it again I looked it up too. I've never watched anime before (except Dragonball Z. Is that anime? Anyway).

As I said to K below, I actually saw it for rent at Blockbuster but then fate had me over and I never did get it while it was there.

The thing is, I'm not even sure I want to see the actual cartoon; I have so much fun trying to figure out what the plot could possibly be. It's like 2001 Space Odyssey meets POTO.

[seraphcelene]

Anime. Anime. You can't call it a cartoon, it's Anime!!

I love Anime.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I've never watched anime. Unless you count dragonball Z. I used to watch that fairly regularly.

[seraphcelene]

I used to watch DBZ, but it gets kinda annoying because of the drawn out fight sequences. Talking heads all over the place and battles that last for Episodes. I will never forget the Cell arc because I will never get those days of my life back that I lost as the gang fought and were beaten into the ground by the uber unstoppable super villan. I tend to go for the dark, angsty, shorter serials like Wolf's Rain and Trinity Blood. Bleach has been interesting, but it's got a little of the DBZ battle Syndrome, although the battles in Bleach don't usually go on for more than two or three eps.

Hmmm .... Blood Plus has been really, really good. Basilisk is AMAZING. Trigun is also very good. Love Inuyasha for one of the longer series and also the original Ranma 1/2 episodes. The later series are just ... odd to me. I've been wanting to try Naruto, but no joy yet. I can't seem to manage to keep sync with Full Metal Alchemist, so even though I like it, I'm never quite sure if I know what's going on. Then, of course, there's always movies. Kiki's Delivery Service is tres cute. Spirited Away is probably one o' my favorites.

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

Yup, DBZ is anime.

Anime isn't a genre; it's a medium (like watercolor, oil, fiction, etc.) There are many different genres within anime. I favor the more dramatic stories, in full length movies like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle (all by Hayao Miyazaki), or the modern magical realism tale Tokyo Godfathers, or the poignant and bitter World War II story of the firebombings, Grave of the Fireflies.

[my_daroga]

I've never watched anime before (except Dragonball Z. Is that anime? Anyway).

Oh my god, J, you are sorely lacking in a fundamental area of good pop culture. This must be remedied.