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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Dagurasu on Jun 08, 2006, 03:18:18 PM

Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Dagurasu on Jun 08, 2006, 03:18:18 PM: This is from the same guy who did Voices of a Distant Star.

It's set in an alternate universe, Japan's split into North and South. Two teenage best friends have two obsessions, a girl they both have a crush on, and building a plane to fly with her to an enormous tower on the horizon in enemy territory. Unfortunatly, the girl goes into a coma and the guys go their separate ways. 3 years later, war between north & south is coming, a link between the girl's coma, the tower, and alternate universes is found, and the boys realize that the only way to wake up the girl is to complete their promise and fly to the tower. But if she wakes up, the tower might destroy the entire world.

The animation's pretty, the story's slow and has little action, and the ending's happier than Voices. The movie was ok, but had the annoying tendancy to occasionally jump from present to 3 years ago and from reality to dreamland. Also, several things weren't explained, like why the enemy would build a giant tower to possibly destroy the world, and why this girl was connected with the tower.

Voices was better, anyway.
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: IDE on Jun 08, 2006, 04:21:13 PM: I need to watch more full legnth feature anime movies. Did they ever come out with the next ninja scroll?
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jun 08, 2006, 06:27:53 PM: Not that I know of but there was a Ninja Squirels TV show.

Miyazaki movies aside I thought Appleseed was a great full length anime movie. I assume you've seen the stardard ones like Ghost in the Shell and Akira.
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: IDE on Jun 08, 2006, 10:51:39 PM: Yeah I've seen pretty much all the old school classics

Fist of the North Star
Vampire Hunter D
The Professional
etc.

recently I sa w one where some goth guy rides out of a painting and has powers but I can't recall the name.
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Guest on Jun 09, 2006, 01:41:09 PM: I have "Voices..." but haven't watched yet. I've been in an anime slump recently.
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Rama on Jun 09, 2006, 04:02:05 PM: I hear "Voices" but I try not to listen to them.
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Dagurasu on Jun 10, 2006, 01:24:14 PM: Quote
Not that I know of but there was a Ninja Squirels TV show.

Miyazaki movies aside I thought Appleseed was a great full length anime movie. I assume you've seen the stardard ones like Ghost in the Shell and Akira.
Which Appleseed?
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: B E C K on Jun 10, 2006, 05:58:10 PM: I came into this thread expecting Doug to whine about religion.
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Rama on Jun 11, 2006, 01:57:01 AM: D....whine? NEVER!
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 11, 2006, 07:09:43 PM: The only thing closest to aniime I would watch every day until I die is Candy Candy.
Title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jun 13, 2006, 09:53:34 PM: Quote

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Not that I know of but there was a Ninja Squirels TV show.

Miyazaki movies aside I thought Appleseed was a great full length anime movie. I assume you've seen the stardard ones like Ghost in the Shell and Akira.
Which Appleseed?
The new one. The old one's good too but I don't seem to remember it being full length. Thought it was an OAV.