My first favorite cartoon character was Popeye. Here’s Popeye finding himself in the totally incomprehensible world of today’s animated offerings.
This is a YouTube™ video, so if the area above is blank, don’t blame me!
Category: Cartooning
Eric’s Animé Pick
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Eric has us watching a totally bizarre, edgy and over-the-top 6-show series called FLCL. The most accessible thing about it for me is the music by The Pillows.
The video is a catchy Pillows song from FLCL called “Ride on Shooting Star.” Use the embedded audio player to hear the song with much better sound, in stereo.
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See a previous post for two trailers to the Animé title, The Place Promised in Our Early Days.
Here are two scenes from the movie that I’ve spliced together. Note: the bit rate is pushed up to 700 Kbps. We’re giving this one ★★★★★ (OK, who sees five red stars here and who sees something else?). Thanks go again to honorable son Eric for putting it on the Netflix queue!
Home Player Advantage
Click the thumbnail picture to see how the video in the previous post appears in my local media player when I click the “Player problem” link. I’d love to get playlists to appear in the embedded videos as they do in the standalone player, but so far no luck.
This Week’s Animé
Here is Eric’s pick for this week’s Animé from Netflix…
Son’s Request of the Father
At the end of the 8th grade, a school friend of my son Eric recommended the 24-part Animé series Last Exile. Eric urged me and his mother to watch it with him, and we got hooked right away.
It became our “Last Exile Summer,” with Eric getting two of his cousins wrapped up in the show, as well. My wife and I particularly enjoyed the often humorous little teasers at the end of each episode. Here is one of them.