Haibane Renmei Cog.4 Limited Edition with CD-ROM

Created/Updated 2003-04-13



Animephile Rating: A+ (10.0)


Comments:

Limited edition comes with a CD-ROM with more gorgeous 1280x1024 images as well as couple of 3-D modeling programs and data for each of the characters like the CD-ROM for the Cog.1. I haven't actually looked at the 3-D models because it's too much of a bother. They really ought to use some open-source format.

Anyway, when you watch a film, animated or not, that makes you emotional, how is it doing that to you? Are you feeling for a character or are the events in the film making you feel something that's within you? I think a film that merely makes you feel for a character is far less powerful than one that brings out the emotion from within the viewer. Characters in films are fictional, after all. Anything you feel for a fictional character has to be somewhat removed from the deepest emotion you can feel whereas your own emotion is always true. I don't think I'm doing a good job at describing this. I tend to be better at this kind of stuff when I'm drunk. Maybe I should try again later. I just bought a $50 bottle of sake ;) No, that's just one bottle. Yeah, it was the second most expensive bottle at the Japanese market.

Anyway, Yoshitoshi-sensei is truly amazing with his ability to emerse the viewers (or readers) in their deepest emotions. Too bad this anime wasn't as high budget as I wish it were. I would've gladly paid twice what I paid.


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