I will always upvote this picture

Serial Experiments Lain.

I was rewatching a couple of episodes and I had forgotten how eerie and creepy this one was.

Oh wow that’s Senjougahara Hitagi’s birthday

MY WIFE

Your Name is always a good choice.

It’s a movie so newcomers don’t need to invest a lot of time to finish it. It’s visually stunning, the soundtrack sticks with you, the narrative starts simple but becomes increasingly complex and memorable. It fits into most age brackets and its not marketed toward one gender only.

I think it’s still widely available for streaming too so it should still be pretty accessible.

Here’s mine. I kind of cheated with the last three though.

I didn’t particularly enjoy The Sky Crawlers as much compared to other films that I did not include in the list but I often use these type of threads to suggest works that aren’t commonly suggested anyway. Sky Crawlers doesn’t have the same meditative feeling you get from watching other Oshii Mamoru films but Oshii always had a very complex understanding of war and its relation to media and global politics (see Patlabor and the Kerberos Saga) which are often absent in many war-themed films.

The next one, Genius Party, is a collection of short films. I don’t think short films get enough discourse within the anime community but if you’re looking for originality in anime this is often the place to go. There’s one short there with a yapping salaryman and sitting through it makes me want to jump off the roof for fun but in the end I realized that’s kind of the point. The life of a salaryman is mundane and boring. Thank god it was a short film.

Last one is from Koji Yamamura. I actually didn’t enjoy this one as much as his other short films like Atama Yama, Inaka Isha, and Muybridge’s Strings but I think Dozens of Norths is the only one that could be classified as a feature length film.

Boys’ Love

Yeah I think they changed the ending theme for newer releases due to licensing issues. My sister watched NGE on Netflix and she was confused whenever I brought up Fly Me to the Moon.

The only disc that didn’t work when I tested them is the one that has something called “Evangelion:Death(True)2” and the End of Evangelion movie plus some bonus content – this is an AACS issue rather than physical damage so there’s hope that I can watch it eventually, just… not now.

Death:True^2 was a recap movie with some extra scenes IIRC. It was like watching an experimental edit of NGE. The End of Evangelion movie is really important to the original series though. Hope you get to watch it!

lol this is the funniest response

Yes but I like red.

Monogatari Series.

This is the first 45 seconds of the first episode:

It’s really perverted but I’ve never seen perversion presented in such a way. I instantly knew it had a different kind of “language” in anime. I love every second of it. ^{and i love hitagi so much}

this pretty much

Don’t skip End of Evangelion though. Especially if the series ending wasn’t to your liking.

Yeah I think I could revisit this during the break.

Glad you like them!

I thought Anno was done with Eva

Eva fandom being mentally deranged 30 years and counting

(I am no different)

I was expecting “Goodbye All of Evangelion”

Sorry if the pictures are low res. I couldn’t use my camera to take photos. Only phones were allowed and my hands were shaking from the excitement and nervousness lol.

The exhibit goes on until January 12 at Roppongi Hills. Tickets are ~2000 JPY.

edit: I should mention that these photos were taken on November 24. I wanted to post this on the same day but I kept falling asleep while trying to upload everything

Saotome-kun in Kawaihara-senpai (manga though, not anime)