This is a good one for the whole family to watch together. It starts out as a small time studio exec making a documentary for the studio’s 70th anniversery. In doing so he seeks out one of their fisrt stars/actress, a now ancient recluse. As the interview progresses her history unfolds. The movies she starred in and the life she lived blend and mesh together. Each movie she played in represents an aspect of her life. As her life unfolds so does the history of Japan from the feudal era, to World War II, to galactic scifi settings. One unique thing I liked was the changing of perspective. At times the audience saw the movie thru the lens of the camera and as the story unfolded you might find yourself running from sword wielding samurai or diving for safety as the rocket blasts off. Definately not a story to be missed.
Okay, so here is a pretty good link for finding and watching most anything worth watching on TV most seasons available…including some anime.
What I have noticed is they don’t have the very first episode (ATHF season 1) when the moononites land available, I havent been able to find it anywhere. The one where they force Meatwad to do all sorts of bad …if anybody finds this, (not on torrent but if I can’t find it by any other means I’ll just do that) …
Can you let me know? It was my favourite one and I’m in the mood for it. They took the link to that particular episode down in Youtube as well.
Serial Experiment Lain and Neo Genesis Evangelion just makes the grade. Monster is really good too, if you can endure the 70+ episodes.
The rest are for kids - plot loopholes, charging directly into a barrage of bullets/laser/missiles/swords without a scratch, repeated frames, stupid villians, etc
Worthy mention: Grave of the Fireflies if you want a fucking weepfest.