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I've never much enjoyed Yamato as a show, I can't expect the movie will change my opinion significantly.
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But... Dude... Duuuuuuude! Its like the plot of Battlestar Galactica meets Babylon 5: Crusades!? HECK! SBY probably originated the plot of all the 'edgy' scifi's!!!!!
How can you not enjoy it for its epic story telling? Its like watching history in the making! I'm in the second/third episode and so far so good, its like watching The Original Series for giggles because of the cheesy special effects.
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Can't you fanboy something like Serial Experiments Lain instead? Or perhaps 5 Centimeters per Second?
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I would be curious to see what you would say, is all.
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I'm generally a Scifi-Space opera fan so I'm usually keeping an eye out for them, Serial Experiment Lain was a mind boggling bowl of mind [bleeper]ery that kept me up at night mentalling figuring out what the hell was going on and more or less got me in on shows that had darker and edgier plots.
In fact I think that Lain was my introduction to big budget mature anime.
Of course the reason why I made the threas was because SBY was alike to BSG and Bab5 and being this a live action adaption deserving of its own thread.
Lain definately competes with Full Metal Alchemist for the 5th place spot in my rankings, easily top ten 6th or 7th overall.
My favorite gimmick being the juxtoposition of Lain's personality in differently apparant aged selves and her increasing computer Otaku-ness.
Her rewriting herself out of reality I must say was my first experiance with a Downer Ending outside the Outer Limits.
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Lain was a very interesting show. I wouldn't exactly call it a dark anime though.
I look at shows such as Gilgamesh, Death Note, and Blood + as being dark.
Lain I put into the same category as Ergo Proxy, Wolf's Rain, Noein, and Crest of the Stars. These are more mature anime shows, but I wouldn't call them dark. Wolf's Rain is still one of my favorites. It is one of the few anime shows that have made me cry. (My wife laughed at me, saying a grown man shouldn't cry over a cartoon. Then I made her watch the show and she cried too.)
On a side note, I just found out they released Banner of the Stars III. I had watched Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars I and II but had no idea there was a third. Looks like I am going to have to make a purchase.
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I do have a certain soft spot in my heart for Yamato- Star Blazers was probably the first anime I was ever exposed to.
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