My friend also said it's a good take on the classic "Siren song" in which sailors are lured to their deaths
The art style has held up just fine, and will continue to hold up just fine.
Fr he said the artstyle doesn’t hold up but most anime today come out looking ugly and boring I think it looks fine
@@patricklewis9787 likely because there's so many short cuts taken in animation to pump shit out. These older films are typically full of details. I honestly think if effort was made they could match it, they just don't because the art is less important than revenue.
Magnetic Rose is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I've seen in animation.
You said the art hasn't lived its best shelf life???? That's straight up blasphemy lol
Really glad Solaris was mentioned, it’s very similar to the original novel.
Kon, kano, and otomo is an insane trio. So many gems out there like this one and angel's egg mentioned in the video.
Him: "Everything Kon works on is in the eye of the mainstream public"
Me, sadly: "Everything he _worked_ on" 😢
I love whenever I find some true glimmers of gold from the past, that seemingly not many people ever mention when talking about animated movies. I've watched Magnetic Rose four times now, in the past week, and it's amazingly beautiful each time. The art is fantastic, the voice acting is damn good, even in the dubbed version,, and the music is hypnotic.
Great video btw.
Wait... aren't you also dwelling on the memory of the comfort that magnetic rose gave you on your first watch, something that magnetic rose is about?
Nice summary though there is a talent in this film that is already bursting with top tier talent that you missed. That is Hiroyuki Okiura who both did the art (along with Kon) and was the animation director. Okiura is most famous for Jin-Roh, but is known for having an animation style that has an incredible realistic attention to detail. See the opening to the cowboy bebop movie for another great example.
I like stating that this film literally had an anime dream team behind it. I don't think we'll ever see a collection of talent so great behind an anime film than what was put behind Magnetic Rose ever again.
The worst thing is that this may be possible today but several factors prevent "dream teams" from being formed.
The main factor is obvious, money.
Making masterpieces is expensive and no one in the industry wants to fund daring projects anymore, like this collection of short films, for example.
Memories makes me cry every time, a father grieving his daughter just hits hard.
I just watched this film and my good that first episode is so beautiful..I wish they continued to make it though the movie.
I'm sorry, but I laughed so hard when you went "Oh Jesus Christ..." after saying "Corona" 🤣
I'm so glad I found this! I was taking a jaunt down memory lane, and I came across an old AMV that used Magnetic Rose as it's story line. This short feels like a fever dream because I felt like I was the only one to have watched it in my friend group at the time. I had no idea Satoshi Kohn worked on this piece, but I can see his fingerprints everywhere on it. I watched it 15 or more years ago, and it still comes to mind every now and again.
It's a stunning piece of work. Thanks for your time and effort you put into this video retrospective.
I'm glad other people found this gem. It's an absolute masterpiece, and probably my favourite sci-fi horror ever. If there's an anime that would make an incredible feature film it is this, and it's crazy how many industry giants basically started their career with this project. Great video!
in the knife scene, Eva's uses The Red Dress from Zeffirelli's production of Puccini's Tosca, immortalized by Maria Callas.
great video, I've been looking for a more detalied analyses of Magnetic Rose since I first watched. thanks for the hard work
Thank you! At LAST, someone has put the dots together and acknowledged Satoshi Kon's VITAL contribution to the 1995 anthology film 'Memories' which for TOO long has hidden under the title of Katsuhiro Otomo.
P.S. intrigued to hear that Otomo is STILL working on Akira and more original content, but knowing the SLOW perfectionist nature of this guy (just look at how LONG his last feature' Steamboy' took to come out) with nothing much since from him from back in 2004 I wouldn't put that much hope on ANY of this coming to completion soon! Would be curious to know your source though.
u king. i love this video gr8 work ⛄️
Amazing video. Very informative
Saw this when I was younger, too young to know or remember anything about the name. Even seeing "magnetic rose" didn't bring anything to memory, but these beautiful haunting images are something I DO REMEMBER. This animation is so beautiful and impressive that I'm glad I can watch it again as an adult now and enjoy more works by the same artist. Thank you for helping me remember something I'd never have remembered on my own!
These three short films were amazing the ones that stand out is magnetic rose and stinkbomb. Please make more
You make some perfect comparisons to other movies in this review.
I really love the art it’s beautiful
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I just saw this last night and thought it was amazing.
We will probably never see such craftsmanship again in anime. And that saddens me deeply.
Just seen it... blown away!
Dude your vid quality is f great
I thought you were some big channel
Imagine my surprise when I subscribed
Damn good job man!
your channel is pretty interesting . the quality is pretty good . detailed enjoyable reviews too sad you don't upload anymore
I've been looking for the name of this movie on and off for years. I saw it when I was a little kid and it left a huge impression on me, but I could never find out what it was called. Now I know, and it's off to Amazon to get a copy immediately.
Actually watch the first story here on UA-cam. Someone uploaded magnetic rose.
The best sci-fi in anime, ON GOD!
Your content is great. This is 2 years ago, so I hope you've fixed that issue of mic picking up some bangs and clatter when you possibly bump the table it's sitting on or handle it roughly... if you use headset, then maybe the cable hitting something is to blame, it's amazing how easily the cable transfers handling noise up the wire to the headphones mic :)
Omg, saw this short when I went to an Anime club in the late 90s and have never known the name of it. Searching variations of "anime ghost space ship" has yielded nothing over the years lol.. dunno how I stumbled across this but looking forward to checking it out again!
This movie is a masterpiece
OMG what? This work is from Satoshi Kon? I've seen Paprika and Paranoia Agent, but I've never heard of this! I'll watch it for sure!
How have I never heard of this old Anime?
"Victorian house" Well mansion rather and you were close, but it's not Victorian-- it's Empire style, ala the French Empire under Napoleon. There's some odd 20-40 years between the heyday of the Empire style and the beginning of the Victorian Era. Weird nitpick but hey, the more y'know. Great video btw. Maybe there's some comparison between Eva and Josephine to be made here, idk. Quick Wikipedia check and yeah, Josephine's Château de Malmaison was known for it's rose garden. Pretty neat that even such a small detail as this was so well thought out and executed in Magnetic Rose. These guys really knew the story they wanted to tell, and made sure everything in the short film was significant to make it as poignant as possible-- even if it was just a reference material or an allusion.
I just watched the film yesterday, it's totally worth it
Eva was completely ripped from this (name and all) to be the main antagonist of the 1998 Squaresoft game Parasite Eve
To me, the cherry on the cake is when at the end:
a) The guy escaped and sees the rose petal inside his helmet, and
b) The magnetic forces pulling the giant debree together ends up shaping the whole ship as a rose. Just OOF
Dude I watched it just now and I’m crying
YOKO KANNO AYYY
Holy fuck your channel is a gem
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I do be subscribing tho
"Known as the corona" (yes I can see where this is going)
What happened to artists like this? Where have they all gone?
이거 대박이지..
Does anyone know the song used at the end?
Also awesome video.
"more recently in 2014"
That's almost a decade ago chap.
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Why can’t people animate like this anymore?!? Adult animation like the new dc movies and that skull island series just look like bland picture books it’s so sad but literally every shot from these eras anime’s could be a painting it feels like people gave up the hard work for an easier time
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Jesus, man
does anyone have a link to the full film to watch online ?
What's the status on the "Orbital Era" movie? I can't find any recent news about it.
OK. I have to say this: Solaris is not an original movie, it is an adaptation ( it was adapted by both Russian, and American movie studios). The story of those movies is based on the novel by Polish S-f writer Stanislaw Lem.
I think I watched this in toonami
music?
The ship name what ???
You talk more about Yoko Kano than the film itself
just let it play no one cares what you wanna blurg about it.
Ghost in the shell copied this a bit
go to sleep
Jesus man. You butcher the shit out of the titles and names of everything in this video. LOLOLOLOLOL
Why even make this video if you’re not going to talk about the actual story what so ever
Saw it (Memories) in a theater and I didn’t enjoy it
Old masterpieces must be saved from the woke cult. Whatever fell in their hands have been destroyed already
Relating stories to someone's original story is poor taste as it implies no one has original ideas and that we all copy one another in some way to reach a level of notoriety. If you personally don't have the words to adequately describe someone's works without referencing another work then you probably shouldn't be creating content using only words as your only offering with those beforementioned works being monetized behind. Poor taste.
While I agree to some point, sometimes it‘s just more describing to a general viewer, if you relate or point out similarities between works/us them to describe said work. I imagine you must be very fun at parties.
They referenced that dinner scene in bioshock 1.
Really glad Solaris was mentioned, it’s very similar to the original novel.
I wish the magnetic rose would of gotten it's own complete movie. The other segments were great but magnetic rose was a masterpiece and you don't see hardly any anime space films
To be honest i think its brevity was to its favour. It flows really well as a 40 minute short film and i think lengthening it would only hurt it after a certain amount.
It was complete
Galaxy Express 999/ Photon Space Sailor Starlight. These are great classics, Your Welcome!
I don't. They would just ruin it.
nah, it was perfect as is. didn’t need to be any longer.