/pony/ - Pony

There's this show called My Little Pony.  I think that might be mine.  It teaches things like Honesty and Loyalty and they're pretty good principles.  

original pokemon (98-00) (even though i was only ever interested in it for about 2 years or so and haven't done much with it since)

>>1203340
sounds neat. where can i find it?

>>1203341
I dunno anymore.  It was on Netflix for a bit.  I used to watch it in streams when it came out.  It's usually on Youtube too.  Its honestly getting hard to keep track of what's on what streaming service.

Pee-wee's playhouse was my favorite show when I was 6 years old.

It had a lot of influence on my love for eccentricity and embracing your weird side

I haven't actually watched this movie in a while, or done any short films in a long-ass time, but I can't lie - "Be Kind Rewind" struck a chord with me.

If you're unaware, it's 2008 comedy film starring Jack Black and Mos Def, where they play a pair of slackers who work at one of the few remainign VHS rental shops... and accidentalyl manage to wipe every single movie from every single tape in the shop while the owner leaves them in charge for a bit.

And so, with absolutely no cash, they simply start re-recording the films in their own, inept, yet strangely creative ways. No one is actually fooled, obviously, but the films are so creatively done and so endearing that the shop actually becomes a bit of a sensation and people love these movies - which eventually causes them to get hit by massive fines from the Copyright holders, forcing them to make their first original movie as a fundraiser. A biopic/mini documentary about local jazz musician Fats Waller in order to save their store.

It's one I need to see again, because it truly is inspiring. Not in that it's a movie about the underdog, or about how the truest of talents come from the littlest of places or any of all that - but just about the sheer joy of creating and sharing your creations, even the ones that start off as derivative of other, better known things.

No one in this film is at any point under the impression that these two video store chucklefucks are great artistes or anything like that, much less themselves. But as cheesy as it is, the way that an entire community gathers around two dudes who try a crazy idea and just end up having so much damn FUN doing it that they can't stop creates a very cozy, heartwarming and encouraging feeling that I think every creative needs to inject themselves with every now and then.

It made me feel the way Lloyd Kauffman's filmmaking books did around the same time. Like maybe it ISN'T actually totally impossible to make something kinda cool that at least a few people might really, really enjoy, and how that is a reward in itself.

>>1203340
I do love me some ponies! wouldn't be here without em!

>>1203341
I WANNA BE
THE VERY BEST
LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS!

>>1203345
oooh i love Pee Wee's Playhouse <3 he was an icon for meeeee!

>>1203347
that actually sounds really inspirational! i'm sorry i never heard of that movie before, but i'm actually interested in watching it!

i also named a short script Be Kind Rewind, and I had no idea i was biting on its steeze

>>1203357
>>1203357
There are some good movie making movies out there. Tim Burtons "Ed Wood" comes to mind, though that one is more avout blind optimism in the faxe of your own limitations , and kindn of conveniently skips the less fun later stages of Wood's life.

I also recommend Living in Oblivion, where you can see Steve Buscemi struggle with all the little annoyances of doing a low budget film and having to delegate parts of your creative vision to folks who either don't care or are inept in their own ways.

I don't really have a single favorite thing in general, but FLCL is my favorite anime. I was posting as Canti back on Ponychan, and I still have Naota as my avatar on Discord.

Higurashi: When They Cry (the VN, not the anime) changed how I look at the world and think about problems for the better, though maybe not quite as much as I'd like. That's my own fault, to be clear - I'm scatterbrained and find positivity hard at the best of times.

"But Minxy/EMF/Rainbow Cash/Storm Vision/any of the other fifty aliases I've used on pony imageboards before, isn't Higurashi (the VN) basically an 80-hour PowerPoint presentation mostly notable for extreme violence, horror and janky artwork? How can something like that change the way you view the world for the better?"

Well, dear reader, it turns out I can't sufficiently explain that in an imageboard post. Go drop 80 hours into the VN, then you'll get it.

It counts as 'integral to how [I] view [myself]' as well, in a way, because Rena Ryuuguu is the single character from any piece of media I can relate to the most. The way she thinks is almost eerily similar to how I think, except she's also way prettier than me and has more friends.

>>1203379
I've seen the anime.  Should I still drop 80 hours into it?  What about the one that came after?  Is it good?  Umineko.

>>1203405
You don't know what you're missing if you've only seen the anime. dropping 80 hours into the VN is definitely worth it.

And Umineko is also really really good, though I'm pretty sure it's longer than Higurashi by at least 20 hours. It's a very different affair, though.

>>1203405
>I've seen the anime.  Should I still drop 80 hours into it?
The first season of the anime adapts the first six chapters of the VN. Simply put, they tried to condense 60 hours of pacing, build-up and suspense into 9.5, so by comparison it comes across as rushed and lacking subtlety.

The tone is different too. Higurashi the anime is like a slasher movie, it's bloody and scary and the emphasis is on that aspect of the story. Higurashi the VN has that, but it's less about that as a spectacle and more about what it implies. It's a tragedy that transforms into a story about hope and friendship and victory against overwhelming odds.

Take the last episode of the anime's first season, for example - it's the one where Rena takes the entire school hostage. Both the VN and the anime stay very tense right up to the part where Rika tackles Rena to buy Keiichi time to stop the school from exploding, but where the anime stays very tense and scary afterwards, the VN immediately cues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEwKBM7jsw (which is royalty-free music the author got from a random Japanese website, by the way), which both draws attention to the fact that Rika is wholeheartedly fighting for a future with her friends for the first time in god knows how many cycles and flips the tone into something that mirrors the kind of light-hearted one-upmanship the cast's typical club games have (albeit with an undercurrent of 'Rena has gone nuts and is about to blow up the school and kill everyone'). And that whole atmosphere, and Rena remembering it and realising she's not past the point of no return, is the entire reason the overarching plot of an arc is resolved in a way that isn't tragic for the first time in 60 hours of VN. The author even cues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR0SvgLy_D8 (also royalty-free music from the same group) for the fight proper, which is the same music he cued for the water gun fight at the start of the chapter, to further drive the point home.

Deen realised this at some point and pulled it back for the second season of the anime, which does less condensing, is tonally more similar to the VN, and even comes with a bonus Satoko arc that covers stuff they forgot or skimmed over in the first season.

So yeah, it's a long one, but overall I think the VN is worth 80 hours. It's a fun ride and has a lot more to it than the anime does. And people generally liked the anime, so that should say something.

>What about the one that came after?  Is it good?  Umineko.
I own Umineko but despite my best intentions I've yet to read it. I know it also has a problem with its anime being condensed and rushed, and from what I understand it's more crippling to Umineko than it was to Higurashi.

Honestly I'm a little skeptical of it, but my friends who like Higurashi seem to like it and I trust the guy who wrote Higurashi to make what seems like a boring premise into something compelling (because on a very surface level, Higurashi is set up like a typical harem anime of the era, but diverges early and hard into something unique and interesting).