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Anonymous Mon Apr 13 03:30:07 2009 No.2419388 [Reply] [Original]

I just saw Paprika. While the movie was good, what really hooked me was the music...

Susumu Hirasawa is fucking awesome, transformational. It's not standard Enya new agey BS... It's irrational, scizophrenic music. It makes you feel like laughing at catastrophic destruction, even happy pieces, such as the title track of Paprika. I'm becoming obsessed.

Is this not standard fare for Japanese music, or are there more artists like this? Does anyone know any other artists that have this quality? Maybe even western or non-Japanese I don't care.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 03:36:07 2009 No.2419404 Wow, this is slightly less nerdy than what's usually posted around here. GTFO.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:34:07 2009 No.2419741 >>2419388 Paprika's music was pretty awesome.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:35:07 2009 No.2419745 >>2419404 That doesn't make any sense.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:40:07 2009 No.2419764 Don't know anything like his work. But yeah, Hirasawa is a genius.

>>	athens !SysNpnp3nU Mon Apr 13 05:42:07 2009 No.2419771 Paprika = Entry level animu.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:45:07 2009 No.2419783 >>2419771 Entry Level Anime is the best. All the "hardcore" anime is just pedo-bait. Sick fucks.

>>	athens !SysNpnp3nU Mon Apr 13 05:46:07 2009 No.2419788 >>2419783 LoGH. /argument

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:46:07 2009 No.2419791 >>2419771 athens, we all know your expertise in animu is mediocre at best. Go philosophize about ronery and /jp/'s collective purity complex.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:48:07 2009 No.2419799 File: 45 KB, 550x413, 1206688283705.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2419788 I show LoGH to everyone I know, even if they arn't hardcore otaku.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:49:07 2009 No.2419804 >>2419771 Entry level animu What the fuck is this supposed to mean?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:49:07 2009 No.2419807 Paprika = a seasoning made from dried peppers

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:50:07 2009 No.2419810 >>2419791 Yes I love Athens but his youth and inexperience shows whenever he talks about anime and the vidya.

athens !SysNpnp3nU Mon Apr 13 05:51:07 2009 No.2419813

>>2419799
Thats because its not moe moe.

But it is hardcore by any standards, I'm still working my way through it actually. Keep in mind most people on myanimelist who claim they've watched it actually havent anyway.

The problem I have with Paprika is that while its actually pretty good it reminds me too much of that shitty film with Keanu Reeves in it.

>>	athens !SysNpnp3nU Mon Apr 13 05:52:07 2009 No.2419818 >>2419810 How so? ¯\(O_o)/¯

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:58:07 2009 No.2419840 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7muOiXiOdlQ Why would you need something else than Hirasawa?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:58:07 2009 No.2419843 Yeah what's the deal with Legend of the Galactic Heroes? Is Yang Wenli actually racist or are those screenshots you see in /a/ lol out of context?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 05:59:07 2009 No.2419848 >>2419388 I like his music but the early stuff is pure garbage to be 101% honest. P-Model is utter shit, i.e. 1972-1999

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:00:07 2009 No.2419853 Geass is so much better than Legend of Gaylactic Zeroes.

>>	None !meltyD3ZUE Mon Apr 13 06:01:07 2009 No.2419855 Fuck Yeah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOkHAzxGdhw&fmt=22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx9qbEfHLQA&fmt=22

Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:01:07 2009 No.2419856

Paprika is the least "entry level" (hurr durr) Satoshi Kon anime since the director uses all the themes from his previous works, and add some Japanese pop culture to the mix. You probably can't grasp easily what the fuck it is about without seeing at least Perfect Blue, Milenium Actress and Paranoia Agent.

It is a movie about loving cinema.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:02:07 2009 No.2419862 >>2419853 Don't you mean Legend of the Gaylactating Homos?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:02:07 2009 No.2419863 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj13Y_H6lDo Oh Sweeeeeet Oh Sweeeeeeet 2D 2D OR NOT 2D 2D 2D OR NOT 2D

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:03:07 2009 No.2419867 >>2419771 >Entry level I really wish people would stop using this phrase. It's annoying elitism, and watching anime is nothing to be proud of.

athens !SysNpnp3nU Mon Apr 13 06:04:07 2009 No.2419872
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>>2419856
>It is a movie about loving cinema.

Actually you CAN without having seen those films. Do you need to have seen the films Cinema Paradiso references to understand it? No. You dont.

Cinema Paradiso is superior in that aspect anyway. This thread is now about Cinema Paradiso.

>>	athens !SysNpnp3nU Mon Apr 13 06:05:07 2009 No.2419880 >>2419862 Last I heard it was 'Legend of Lactating Homos'....

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:10:07 2009 No.2419901 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkAkWppCsVo&fmt=18

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:12:07 2009 No.2419907 Post some good Paprika songs, it's been a while since I've seen it

Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:22:07 2009 No.2419925

>>2419872 Actually you CAN without having seen those films. Do you need to have seen the films Cinema Paradiso references to understand it? No. You dont.
You don't need the references to get the movie, you need to understand what it's about. Satoshi Kon uses the same themes in his movies, and Paprika is a mesh of everything he has done before.
As visualy stunning it may be, I can't see how anyone can enjoy it plainly without knowing at least all the director previous works.
Being about cinema and Japanese pop culture doesn't help.

Anonymous Mon Apr 13 06:51:07 2009 No.2420012

>It's not standard Enya new agey BS...

Why would you think it is in the first place? What makes you compare the two at all? Of course they have nothing to do with each other.

>It's irrational, scizophrenic music. It makes you feel like laughing at catastrophic destruction

Well... welcome to the wonderful world of industrial music. You see people talking about entry levels above... well, Hirasawa is just an entry level here. It gets worse. Much, much worse. And Japan is usually at the "worse" end of the spectrum here (let's just say it's called noise, and for a good reason). Western bands, on the other hand, are often punk-influenced and you may witness them singing in the way you don't really want to hear. Straight out of my head, you may want to check Legendary Pink Dots - they're not purely electronic, but give off a similar vibe - catchy schizophrenic melodies that would still sound way too strange for casual listener.

There's also a possibility, of course, that you just heard modern electronic music for the first time at all and I should tell you to start all the way from Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Yellow Magic Orchestra. I mean, is Enya really the closest match here? Really?

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