What anime are you currently watching/just watched?

Started watching Banana Fish and My Hero Academia

Went to watch the actual movie again. I don’t know why. I can see why fans went to the Japanese. The writing is very futuristic. Went to revisit the Robert Rodriguez movie. What a talented director. One of the first guys to shoot on digital. At first, I found the trans-humanism in it disturbing, but really got to say, that the Cyberpunk aesthetic looks top notch. It looks like the art we all looked at. It’s a shame we can’t get Rodriguez to direct Neon Future.

Such good writing. Makes you believe it’s real. I like that the Angel was like a military trooper.

Battle Angel Alita tells the story of Alita, an amnesiac female cyborg. Her intact head and chest, in suspended animation, are found by cybermedic expert Daisuke Ido in the local garbage dump. Ido manages to revive her, and finding she has lost her memory, names her Alita after his recently deceased cat. The rebuilt Alita soon discovers that she instinctively remembers the legendary martial art Panzer Kunst, although she does not recall anything else. Alita uses her Panzer Kunst to first become a bounty hunter killing cyborg criminals in the Scrapyard, and then as a star player in the brutal gladiator sport of Motorball. While in combat, Alita awakens memories of her earlier life on Mars. She becomes involved with the floating city of Zalem (Tiphares in some older translations) as one of their agents, and is sent to hunt down criminals. Foremost is the mad genius Desty Nova, who has a complex, ever-changing relationship with Alita.

The futuristic dystopian world of Battle Angel Alita revolves around the city of Scrapyard (Kuzutetsu in the Japanese and various other versions), which has grown up around a massive scrap heap that rains down from Zalem. Ground dwellers have no access to Zalem and are forced to make a living in the sprawl below. Many are heavily modified by cybernetics to better cope with their hard life.

Zalem exploits the Scrapyard and surrounding farms, paying bounty hunters (called Hunter-Warriors) to hunt criminals and arranging violent sports to keep the population entertained. Massive tubes connect the Scrapyard to Zalem, and the city uses robots for carrying out errands and providing security on the ground. Occasionally, Zalemites (such as Daisuke Ido and Desty Nova) are exiled and sent to the ground. Aside from the robots and exiles, there is little contact between the two cities.

Started watching Fire Force 🔥

Just watching this, I could definitely watch Anime under the right conditions. The drop-in scene of this one makes me realize Anime of Robert A Heinlein books are ones that I’d love to see. Maybe anime of ERB’s John Carter of Mars. After Star Wars Visions, an Anime of DUNE would be cool, especially for minor violent elements with the crysknives.

Plot
When Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear weapon, the leading democracies of the world transformed into surveillance states, where each individual is constantly monitored, watched, and wired. While the developed nations of the world entered this state, the developing countries around the world endured a multitude of genocides. Those developing countries went from harmony to complete destruction in about 6–8 months, with all of the events and evidence leading to one person, an American named John Paul.

Clavis Shepherd, a US Special Forces Officer, along with his team of advanced super-soldiers, are tasked with finding and eliminating John Paul. They want to know how one man can cause so much destruction and death.

Eventually, Clavis manages to track down John Paul, who confirms that he has discovered the existence of a “genocidal organ” naturally present in mankind that can be activated using a sequence of words, called by him as the “genocide grammar”, which he has used it to cause massive civil wars in the rest of the world, believing it to be the only way to protect America and the rest of the “first world” to terrorism and resentment from the third world, but Clavis unmoved take him into custody, only to see him dying after an assassination operation carried by his own intelligence unit who were ordered to kill him to prevent the end of the “peace” carried out by the surveillance states.

Consequently, Clavis discovered from Paul’s personal effect the truth, that the “organ of genocide” is actually the result of a massive program of subliminal messages, under the name of Operation John Paul (a probable controversial reference to the influence of the Catholic Church in the Western world), originally led by the leaders of the new “first world order”, which used the massive media coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo to start their operation, which was most likely also behind the nuclear city destruction. In fact, John Paul was originally the American agent in charge of the program, but unlike their original plan, Paul managed to escape their grasp, disappearing into the chaos of the civil wars that followed, creating a network of Resistance against his own former bosses. Paul’s notes also underline that he had found the true intention of the whole ordeal, to use the new world crisis, to impose an “Order of Nations”, transforming the world into a one-world government, militarized and controlled by its new “masters”, as a last resort Paul had also created a new sequence of words to activate his “genocidal” program in the English-speaking world, which just like the rest of the world population, had received the subliminal message of “genocidal organs”.

The revelation causes an immense conflict within Clavis, who despite having seen firsthand the result of the “genocidal organs” ordeal, he is also forced to admit that America and the rest of the first world are the real culprits of World suffering and devastation and that in any case, while America is still standing, they have practically killed the “American dream” and imposed a convenient “first world truth”, finally deciding to put Paul’s plan forward, planning an information leak to force his summons to a military hearing, watched from afar by the chief of staff and the general public, and Clavis, despite having no illusion about the future or that he is doing the right thing, activates the program, causing a civil war centered on America.

I watched The Empire Of Corpses a while ago, very interesting concept with lots of potential, but the pace of the movie itself was way too slow and jumpy for my taste

Watching Magic Knights Rayearth ’cause of this cute thing 😻

Also watched My Hero Academia movie 2 Heroes 😸

Let’s see, I finished The Testament Of Sister New Devil and now, I’m currently watching Stein;s Gate, both on physical media.