Source: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika / 風の谷のナウシカ
by Hayao Miyazaki
Source: Ran and the Gray World / Ran to Haiiro no Sekai / 乱と灰色の世界
by Aki Irie
Anonymous asked:
Porky is so freaking CUTE, I never paid much attention to him until you got me rewatching LT, and oh my god I just love him now! probably my fav!
YOU DON’T KNOW HOW HAPPY I AM TO HEAR THIS just yesterday i was griping about how porky is so underrated despite being such a versatile character with such a broad range of emotions... THAT AND HE’S SO CUTE DO YOU SEE THIS???
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1991-1995 Anime Primer Video Girl Ai (1992)
Yota Moteuchi (which can also be read as Motenai—meaning “Dateless”) is a shy, socially awkward high school boy with a kind heart. So kind that, when his crush Moemi’s inadvertent love confession is casually rejected by his best friend Takashi, Yota sheds tears for her pain rather than his own. This selflessness allows him entry into the mysterious video rental shop Gokuraku, visible to only the purest of souls. He rents a VHS tape with a pretty young woman on the cover… not expecting her to physically emerge from the TV screen after pressing play! Her name is Ai and she’s a literal video girl who, despite Yota’s broken VCR rendering her a little screwy, is on a mission to better his life before her month’s worth of run time is up.
Video Girl Ai is a six-episode OVA based on Masakazu Katsura’s (DNA², Zetman) sci-fi rom-com manga, animated by Production I.G. and directed with a winsome touch by Mizuho Nishikubo (California Crisis, Radio City Fantasy). Alongside Tenchi Muyo! and Oh My Goddess!, it was an early popularizer of the magical girlfriend genre which would surge in popularity throughout the 90s. What makes Video Girl Ai unique is the vein of somberness that offsets the cheeky humor and fan service, depicting the acute pain of adolescence that even a dream babe can’t completely distract from; the anime’s original ending goes a step further, putting a poignant spin on the usual escapist elements of the formula.
Anime cliches I miss because they don’t really do them any more
The sweatdrop
Liberal use of the V sign, even in situations that did not call for it and does not require a camera to be present.
Falling over because someone said or did something so incredibly stupid it made you lose all strength and will to live.
When they do the anime face thing
Making characters squishy
the dignity laugh
