Bitten nails: July 2016

Hi. I am back. From the grave. lol
So as you may know from my last two posts, I have been really into anime and Japanese culture in the past month, so I thought it would be a good idea to recommend my fav anime films (Only films. I am not an anime tv show guru. Yet.) that are 1.) fun to watch. 2.) super cool 3.) trendy and hip and you can show off your amazing skills. So lets get a poppin'!

1.Akira
I recently watched Akira for the first time, after renting it from the best shop ever, 20th century flicks, which is literally the only dvd rental shop that I know of. And it was so good. At one point I was like I need a motorcycle right now and a jacket and a gang and my own neo-tokyo (or neo-bristol. Um....no) And fight some bad guys or other street gangs. If you didn't know Akira is about a young boy who has the best best best best motorcycle ever, has to fight his best friend, after his best friend is consumed with a great surging power. It was based on the 1982 manga, by the same name and is very highly critiqued. And just so you didn't believe me, here are some screen caps from literally the best anime tumblr ever 80sanime.

See???

2.Summer wars

Now this is a great film. Like when I was still a small super chubby weird little girl and was into manga and anime, but didn't really get it, this was alongside the studio ghibli films that I watched. This is basically about Japan and ,I think the whole world as well, lives being on a singular website. It controls the money, the security, the electricity, even nuclear weapons. Then a boy staying with his friend (the girl he has the hots for) and her family, gets framed for being the hacker who hacks into the website and basically ruins everything. Then a load of shit goes down. There are family troubles, troubles with the actual hacker and a lot of trippy computer scenes, which made me have a bit of a spasm. AND the only way I can show the comedy and beauty of this cool film is in the form of the ALMIGHTY GIF.

Literally me when I even see the guy I like.

OMG me.

3.The girl who leapt through time

This is like summer wars. Watched it at an age which was way to young to understand anything. But I re-watched it and.... OH MY HEAVEN AND MIGHTY AND LOVE OF ALL THINGS MIGHTY IN THIS WORLD THAT IS HOLY. GOD this is such a gooooooood film. Its funny, romantic and has all the aspects of a teenage drama. But and this is a big but (lol) it has sic fi aspects and a massive twist at the end. It is fabulous and beautiful and tear worthy and one of the protagonists, Chiaki, is a peng ting. And the ending between Chiaki and Makoto just................gave me the absolute feels and when I was searching it up I nearly cried and I just can't.

I'm sorry most of these pics are of Chiaki and Makoto but they make me feel so....happy but sad but lovely inside.

4.Ocean waves

This film is from a very small anime studio. I don't know if you know it, it's pretty underground. Its called Studio Ghibli. I know so original. But this 1993 film is so cool and fun and it is...........just so good. Its about this guy who is besties with this nerdy guy with glasses. Then a pretty, smart, sporty, mysterious girl moves and a love triangle evolves. AND A STORY IS CREATED. It was a tv movie and it doesn't have the fantastical, beautifully set, and it isn't created by Ghibli's big man H ayao Miyazaki, but it does have the beautiful charm and sweetness. It also is a love story so you know.

Yes, and so is mine.

Look for it watch it and enjoy it because it is so great.

5.Spirited Away

I am not even kidding when I say this, but Spirited away is my favourite film (next to monsters inc) and am its biggest fan. I love it so so so so so so so so much and I once watched it twice in one day. Seriously. I want all the posters, all the march, everything, I want it all. I also for quite a while thought it was special only to me because I was born in 2001 and it came out in 2001. If you have been living under a rock for the last 15 years then you probably don't know the storyline. And its about a girl called Chihiro Ogino who's flowers are withering and she's moving and she stops with her mum and dad at a weird meadowy, hilly, temple turned market. Then tragedy! Her mum and dad turn into PIGS. PIGS!!! Because they eat so much junk food they are then turned into pigs because they are "greedy". Then Chihiro-chan (I gots to be correct) becomes a worker at a bath house, gets her name changed to Sen, makes some friends like Haku, Kamaji and Lin, and confronts a creepy, greedy and sweet spirit called "No Face" although he does kind of have a face. And I will challenge anyone to a duel if they say that they are a bigger fan, because I was born in 2001 AND spirited away came out in 2001, so......connections.