Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at
I’ve never been an anime/manga person/otaku (minus watching Akira and Ghibli films), but strange things happen during finals season, and one of the strange things that happened during my last finals season of my undergrad career was my introduction to Studio Gainax, and subsequent Gainax trip. And because I love reviewing things, here’s some thoughts on:
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt Somehow, this anime was my introduction to Gainax as a studio, discrete from the background radiation of entertainment: specifically, it started with (SPOILER ALERT)this AMV(END SPOILER ALERT) in which the music and visuals just fit so perfectly (better than the original music video) that I had to look up the anime backing it, and was surprised that it was a Japanese animation, since the style seems derived from western schools of art.