Here are the limitations:

  • No sequel movies, only standalone
  • No Ghibli movies
    This is a 3x3 format that I think really brings out everybody’s unique taste, if you’ve seen enough anime movies to make one. If you can’t fit the limitations, feel free to break them.
    I generate my 3x3 on here: https://gqgs.github.io/3x3-generator/

To label mine: 5 Centimeters Per Second, Macross Do You Remember Love, Christmas in January
Galaxy Express 999 Movie, Weathering with You, Pompo the Cinephile
A Silent Voice, Ongaku, Tokyo Godfathers
I allowed myself to include things like the Macross DYRL and Galaxy Express movies which are remakes of existing series.

  • Crank@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    • A Silent Voice
    • Liz and the Blue Bird
    • Look Back
    • Your Name
    • I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
    • The Colors Within
    • 100 Meters
    • Mononoke: The Ashes of Rage
    • Mononoke: Phantom In The Rain

    There is the Mononoke series too, but you could watch the movies without knowing it

  • hitagi@ani.socialMEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Here’s mine. I kind of cheated with the last three though.

    I didn’t particularly enjoy The Sky Crawlers as much compared to other films that I did not include in the list but I often use these type of threads to suggest works that aren’t commonly suggested anyway. Sky Crawlers doesn’t have the same meditative feeling you get from watching other Oshii Mamoru films but Oshii always had a very complex understanding of war and its relation to media and global politics (see Patlabor and the Kerberos Saga) which are often absent in many war-themed films.

    The next one, Genius Party, is a collection of short films. I don’t think short films get enough discourse within the anime community but if you’re looking for originality in anime this is often the place to go. There’s one short there with a yapping salaryman and sitting through it makes me want to jump off the roof for fun but in the end I realized that’s kind of the point. The life of a salaryman is mundane and boring. Thank god it was a short film.

    Last one is from Koji Yamamura. I actually didn’t enjoy this one as much as his other short films like Atama Yama, Inaka Isha, and Muybridge’s Strings but I think Dozens of Norths is the only one that could be classified as a feature length film.

    • isyasad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Like most Oshii movies imo, the Sky Crawlers was really boring. But, in a way I didn’t really mind; it was a good kind of boring, like 5 Centimeters Per Second or Christmas in January

  • ReluctantlyZen@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Noticing I’ve not seen that many anime movies (counting movie series as a package). Hence, I’m breaking the sequel/standalone rule.

    1. Liz and the Blue Bird
    2. FSN Heavens Feel films
    3. Garden of Sinners films
    4. A Silent Voice
    5. Kizumonogatari films
    6. Chainsawman Reze Arc (I don’t think it’s recensy bias)
    7. Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System films
    8. Your Name
    9. Madoka Magica Rebellion
  • Rottcodd@ani.socialEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago
    • Kimi no Na wa
    • 5 Centimeters per Second
    • Redline
    • Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
    • Perfect Blue
    • Miss Hokusai
    • Expelled From Paradise
    • The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi
    • Sakasama no Patema

    And I just have to note that the no sequels rule is the only thing that kept Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust off of this list.

  • Outsider9042@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    22 hours ago

    Haven’t watched a lot of anime in a long time.

    • Akira
    • Ghost in the shell (just the original)
    • Ninja scroll
    • Perfect blue
    • Tekkonkinkreet
    • Paprika
    • Spriggan

    …Fuck, didn’t know how much of a ghibliphile I was

  • fireweed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Hmmm, I’ve seen a lot of bad and mid anime movies (and a number that I even regret, yeah I’m talking 'bout you, third Made in Abyss movie!), but not a lot outside of the usual classics that I’d actually recommend. Redline definitely makes the list, probably also Utena: Adolescence because they went there and I applaud them for that. Other decent movies include Koe no Katachi, Ookami Kodomo, Vampire Hunter D, Interstella5555, and of course the Eva movies. Then there are the movies that I watched so long ago that I don’t know if I’d still enjoy them today, like Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo. I used to like Makoto Shinkai’s early movies a lot, but the more of them he released, the more I realized he basically only knows how to make one movie over and over again with aesthetic tweaks, which kinda killed it for me. Also I don’t like Satoshi Kon’s movies very much (unpopular opinion I know).

    Sorry for not following the assignment, but nine movies without Ghibli is apparently a tall order for me.

    • foodvacuum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I enjoy Shinkai’s recent movies more than his early. His early movies, I feel like he writes and directs a feeling of disjoint emotion and then beats your head over and over with it with visuals of empty spaces. Like the characters barely exist. Like stand in humans for music and landscapes to feel ennui over.

      Then he got to Children Who Chase Lost Voices and the especially Your Name where he found bombast which made up for the weaker character writing and direction. And to me it worked with Your Name. That was blockbuster fun. Then Weathering With You and it was like he was trying to recreate Your Names best received moments over and over again. Anytime the vocalist from that band that was also in Your Name started singing. Did not like Weathering With You. Haven’t watched Suzume yet so don’t know if he did Your Name remake again.

      I contrast character movement of Naomo Yamada movies with Shinkai. Yamada movies, the characters sound and move like humans. Shinkai movies, they’re stiff

  • foodvacuum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago
    • Millennium Actress
    • Liz and the Blue Bird
    • A Silent Voice
    • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
    • The Night is Short Walk On Girl
    • Your Name
    • Patlabor 2
    • Miss Hokusai

    I remember Jin Roh looks good, End of Evangelion was great, Macross movie from the 80s was very impressive. Redline is cool. Metropolis is solid. The Appleseed movies are alright. Also I haven’t watched a new anime movie in like 5 years so have no opinions on movies of this decade

    If associated with a series was countable I’d have Cowboy Bebop Knockin on Heavens Door, Samurai X Trust and Betrayal, and Ruruoni Kenshin Reflection in the list

  • Unboxious@ani.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I don’t watch a ton of movies, but Redline would be right at the top next to LOOK BACK; Tokyo Godfathers would probably be up there as well.

  • e0qdk@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    No sequel movies, only standalone

    No Ghibli movies

    I don’t really watch a lot of anime movies. Excluding Ghibli and movies that are associated with / cap off a TV series cuts out a lot of the ones I’ve seen as well.

    Colorful and Paprika come to mind pretty quickly. Would have to think a bit for what else I’d put on there. May edit this later if more come to me.