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I've been digging through my collection of old anime over the last few weeks -- particularly looking for fun lines, screenshots, etc. to post over at !animepics (and sometimes !fangmoe or anime_irl@kbin.social) -- and I'm paying a lot more attention to the actual art in anime as a result. I recently watched Ghost Stories (with it's famously unfaithful dub), for example, and there's a lot of just fun images if you're paying attention to the artwork itself. I mean, that probably sounds like it should be obvious -- it's anime! it's visual art, right?! -- but before I started this I was usually watching shows and movies for the story and characters primarily and just taking in the art as an aid to enhance the storytelling rather than really paying attention to it in its own right. This slightly more active viewing approach has been a fun alternative to just riding along with the plot.
As part of that, I've just finished watching Wolf's Rain a few hours ago. I've had the DVDs for years but never got around to watching it -- so I finally did. I knew of it from an old friend I used to talk to on AIM (yes, from waaaaay back) who really liked the ED. I didn't actually know much of anything about the show going into it besides that one song, so, that was interesting... The one sentence summary, if you haven't heard of it, is basically: a group of wolves that can alternate between wolf and human appearance go on a journey in search of Paradise in a bleak, frozen, post-apocalyptic dark fantasy-with-tech setting.
Does anyone know WTF happened during production? There were FOUR back-to-back recap episodes in the middle of it -- plus four OVA episodes to make up for that, I guess.
I've got a few screenshots from the show that I'll be posting in the coming days -- as well as a composite of a panning shot of a character that I thought would be fun to try to edit back together. I ended up writing some custom software -- and refreshed myself on a numerical technique I haven't used in a long time -- in addition to using my image editor to make it.
I have a soft spot for some vintage anime myself. I posted in the ml community previously about my experience going back and watching The Vision of Escaflowne from the latter half of the 90's. One of the things I really liked about it was the animation itself. Something about actual drawn mecha anime just feels different in a good way.
I am actually going through a bit of a spell myself trying to watch anime differently. One of the things I really liked about the anime community on reddit were the random clips people posted. It was a nice, digestible chunk of animation that usually showed a series at its best. So, I have started to pick out 1-2 minute clips from old series that I like and am trying to figure out how to make a webm from them (once I wrestle ffmpeg into submission). However, the point is that going back and watching bits of shows I have seen with the context of wanting to pull out a clip has been interesting. You really do see things from a different perspective.
I am not familiar with Wolf's Rain, but doing some quick reading on it. It seems as though your criticisms about the 4-episode recap stint are widely shared by others as well.
Ah, Escaflowne. I should probably rewatch that at some point. I've got both the movie and the series DVDs around, so it's more a matter of when than if... I remember the movie being rather different from the series but it's been such a long time since I've seen either that I don't really remember the details.
Going back to different eras of anime can be neat. I've only got a couple shows and movies from the 80s and 90s though. The oldest I have access to right now is Lupin III (the first season from 1971, I think, plus the pilot from the late 60s) since it got a DVD release a few years ago. (I saw some reruns of Speed Racer and Hakushon Daimao on TV when I was kid but I don't have a copy.) Maybe I should sort my shows by age and try looking at the progression of styles over time. Hmm...