Favourite Anime Movie survey

I already men­tioned this in my Akira post but I feel I should do a full post to garner more atten­tion for this sur­vey. Anime­source are run­ning a favour­ite anime movie sur­vey. The polls close on August 5^th so you still have about 2 weeks to vote (at least, at the time of writ­ing). So go on, pop on over if you haven’t already voted yet. I have no idea how many people actu­ally know of this site but they run giant fan-surveys about 3 times a year and they are always fun to see the res­ults of.

The awe­some­ness of this sur­vey seemed to be too much for my DVD player which promptly broke last week, leav­ing me incap­able of watch­ing any more anime movies. Since I’m really not in the mood to watch any­more crappy streamed movies and the down­load speed of my Eureka Seven movie is roughly 0.00004 kB/s, my list seems to be com­plete for now.

5: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Ghost in the Shell Inno­cence: A world where every­one has a degree in philo­sophy, everything that can be made CGI has been done so and cyborgs roam the streets. It truly is one of the most ima­gin­at­ive and well-constructed set­tings I’ve seen in an anime. Not as good as the ori­ginal but still good enough to deserve a vote.

4: Ghost in the Shell

The world of Ghost in the Shell is an amaz­ing cre­ation. Asides from kick-ass anim­a­tion that still looks great today and a soundtrack to match any­thing else out there, it asks ques­tions that you have try answer your­self. What is a human? How much of your body can you replace and still be a human? And can some­thing else cap­able of human thoughts become human?

3: Howls Mov­ing Castle

Out of all the Ghibli’s I’ve seen, heck com­pared to any form of enter­tain­ment I’ve seen, none can com­pare with Howls when it comes to a pure, fant­ast­ical fairy-tale. The cre­ation of that castle, plod­ding across the land­scape, always look­ing like it’s on the verge of total col­lapse, is one of the most amaz­ing things I’ve ever seen in an anime.

2: Grave of the Fireflies

For years I believed I had a heart of stone. Shriv­elled up inside, I tried watch­ing all those clas­sic tear-jerkers to no effect. I didn’t cry at Clan­nad, I didn’t cry at Air, I didn’t cry at Cow­boy Bebop, I didn’t cry at Elfen Lied, I didn’t cry at frikken Bambi!

I cried at Grave of the Fire­flies. For that alone it deserves my vote.

1: Akira

As one of the new gen­er­a­tion of anime fans, I com­pletely ignored Akira for ages. It was an old fella’s anime. You know, those people who would dis­miss all newer anime, claim­ing that things were far bet­ter back in the day when nobody could anim­ate prop­erly and all ideas were fresh and un-cliche. Why this anime cre­ate an entire gen­er­a­tion of anime fans, I didn’t care. But with the announce­ment of this sur­vey I decided ‘What the heck’ and watched it. And I under­stood. Akira is amazing.

So what’s your votes going to?