CILF (Cartoons I'd like to $%#)

[BoyScoutKevin]

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[DistantJ]

Actually, I think that this happens in "Wicked City."

Sounds about right to me.

I hope you'll understand when I say the limits of my tolerance for such things would be Perfect Blue

Perfect Blue is definitely a great movie. What I always think about it though is that it could easily be live action - it doesn't really make any use of the animation, kind of like the way the older Simpsons episodes could easily have been a live action sitcom. So Perfect Blue doesn't have that messed up "anime magic" in there - but it's nonetheless a great movie.

...I still can't make a lot of sense out of it though.

[Inyarear]

Perfect Blue is definitely a great movie. What I always think about it though is that it could easily be live action - it doesn't really make any use of the animation, kind of like the way the older Simpsons episodes could easily have been a live action sitcom. So Perfect Blue doesn't have that messed up "anime magic" in there - but it's nonetheless a great movie.

...I still can't make a lot of sense out of it though.

It's my understanding that Perfect Blue actually was actually going to be a live-action movie until the studio making it realized it could be made as an animated film for less money. (I'm guessing the special effects budget was the sticking point.) This did make it more immediately accessible to the growing audience of American anime watchers, though.

I think exactly what happened in Perfect Blue was deliberately left a bit ambiguous, since the movie was about how confused Mima was about her own identity. Either way, the conclusion to the story is pretty chilling, because either explanation suggests something really dreadful:

1. Some part of Mima's soul really did break off from her and get into other people, driving them to murder people who had wronged her; now this doppelganger is in almost total control of Rumi at the mental hospital, with Rumi's psychiatrists mistakenly believing her to have a split personality. If this is the case, the doppelganger may escape from Rumi at any time and go on another murderous rampage.

2. Mima actually has a split personality herself, and one of her personalities committed a murder of which the other personality is ignorant, having attributed the murder to Rumi and her similarly split personality. Certainly Rumi (and the crazed fan Mimania) did commit some of the murders, but Mima is mistaken about her own identity, her other self is a murderer still at large, and more people may die at her hand.

Of course, whichever explanation is the right one, the movie's main message also holds true: being a celebrity sucks!

[DistantJ]

Hahah, option 1 sounds best to me.

By the way, they did do a live action version of Perfect Blue as well, though I heard it's not as good, and I guess you're right, if it wasn't animated I probably never would have watched it.

Did you know that the guy behind "Pi" bought remake rights to the whole movie of Perfect Blue just so that he could use one scene? In his movie "Requiem for a Dream", Jennifer Conelly recreates the same "screaming in the bath" scene almost exactly.

[Wicked Nick]

From Inyarear:
Then too, I've heard there are some hentai (NC-17) cartoons in which sexual stuff is used to amplify horror and disgust instead of for prurient appeal. I read about one hentai movie, for example, in which there was this demonic female humanoid with a pair of carnivorous mandibles where an ordinary woman's reproductive organs are supposed to be. To make things worse, she later transforms into a huge spider-like creature and swallows a lecherous guy whole... with her mandibles... down there.


That was definatly Wicked City, there is also a woman in there who turns into a giant vagina. Other sick animes are the La blue girl and Cool Devices series, but thats getting into the japanese weird obsission with rape, bondage and extreme S&M.
Oh and does anyone else remeber the sexy mink charector ( can't remeber her name) from  Animaniacs. When I was a kid I had a weird crush on charector.

[IzzyDedjet]

From Inyarear:
Then too, I've heard there are some hentai (NC-17) cartoons in which sexual stuff is used to amplify horror and disgust instead of for prurient appeal. I read about one hentai movie, for example, in which there was this demonic female humanoid with a pair of carnivorous mandibles where an ordinary woman's reproductive organs are supposed to be. To make things worse, she later transforms into a huge spider-like creature and swallows a lecherous guy whole... with her mandibles... down there.


That was definatly Wicked City, there is also a woman in there who turns into a giant vagina. Other sick animes are the La blue girl and Cool Devices series, but thats getting into the japanese weird obsission with rape, bondage and extreme S&M.
Oh and does anyone else remeber the sexy mink charector ( can't remeber her name) from  Animaniacs. When I was a kid I had a weird crush on charector.

Minerva Mink?

[DistantJ]

Hey she is pretty hot

[Jason]

Daphne from Scooby Doo has to be near the top of the list, surely?

Oh, and Wilma Flintstone.

Both redheads, strangely.

[IzzyDedjet]

Maybe I'm weird, but Lois, from The Family Guy is kinda hot.  So is Elasti-Girl from The Incredibles.  Maybe it's just me

[the guyver]

I'm a sucker for redheads!!!

[Jason]

Yeah, what is it with cartoon redheads?

I don't normally find redheaded women that attractive (with the exception of the girlfriend, of course...), but for some reason most redheaded cartoon women seem to be smoking hot, and most brunette cartoons tend to look like Velma!

[Raffine]

Two words: no pants.

[Jason]

Hawt.

[IzzyDedjet]

I'm a sucker for redheads!!!

I'll see your redhead and raise you a redhead.

[Jason]

  good grief... I think I need some alone time!