We follow a rag-tag band of alien musicians who, in an ironic twist of fate, get abducted and shipped off to Earth to play for legions of adoring fans-but there's a catch. While Interstella 5555 (simply pronounced four-five, you know, to save us a twisted tongue) is essentially a strung-together music video, an aesthetic accompaniment to Daft Punk's 2001 album Discovery, it actually tells a story. Yoshitoshi Abe gained a reputation for his introspective art style, with his characters often looking forlorn and distinctly melancholic.
Critics have called Paprika an " eye-opening mind trip" not meant to be understood, a film that rarely makes sense for all its " challenging and disturbing and uncanny" elements.ĭirected by Kazuhisa Takenouchi, known for his work in multiple Dragon Ball series installments, this anime can best be billed as a Daft Punk Fantasia: no dialogue, just the musical stylings of the French electro-punk duo set to oozy, retro-inspired visuals done by Toei Animation under the keen eye of Leiji Matsumoto. This is one of the best acted, one of the best directed, and one of the most narratively complex anime available. It's a story reminiscent of contemporary tales that caution meddling with the minds of mankind, told through a deeply bizarre, often nightmarish, lens that erases the line between real life and pretend. We're talking building-leaping, skin-peeling, body-morphing crazy. But when the tech is hijacked soon after, things go haywire.
So they create the Pastime Club where they just horse around and play all kinds of games. Under the ginger-haired guise of her alter ego "Paprika," the doctor illegally slips into her patients' minds, initially hoping to help alleviate their anxieties and mental trouble. Asobi Asobase centers around three very odd friends Hanako, Olivia, and Kasumi, and their honorable quest to um not be bored. Director: Chiaki Kon Stars: Tru Furuya, Yui Horie, Ken'y Horiuchi, Makoto Ishii. Kirishima starts to blackmail and tease Yokozawa, but Kirishima might actually be trying to help him recover from an emotional period of his life in the process. Of course, there are many other not-as-violent anime series that are more psychological and think-heavy in nature, further proving the fact that anime can be for adults.Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name, Paprika centers around Doctor Atsuko Chiba, a research psychologist who begins testing a groundbreaking new psychotherapy tool, code-named "DC Mini." The device allows users (unsettlingly enough, even those who aren't doctors) to enter people's subconscious minds to get glimpses at their dreams and rewire their personalities. Yokozawa meets a man (Kirishima) and his life is turned around. If you can handle scenes of violence and horror, then you’ll be able to appreciate the engaging storyline and commendable artwork of each show. These anime series definitely aren’t for the faint-of-heart. Let’s just hope that scientists never send cockroaches to space in the future. When a group of astronauts land on Mars to search for the cure, they’re bombarded by cockroaches that have grown in both size and strength. Terra Formars tells the story of an attempted colonization of Mars, in which 21st-century scientists thought it’d be a great idea to spread algae and cockroaches on Mars to purify its atmosphere.ĥ00 years later, a mysterious disease plagues Earth and the only cure lies on Mars. If you have an insect phobia, turn away now.