The 3d animation is better than I expected. It’s not amazing but I can enjoy this. I’ll probably keep preferring the original

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

• 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