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* ''Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji'' (English language title, ''Legend of the Overfiend'') (1987): For better or worse, this was the seminal (er, bad choice of words) work of the [[Hentai]] anime genre, and one of the earliest animated uses of Naughty Tentacles. It is one of the works most responsible for the [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|rather shady reputation anime has had]]. |
* ''Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji'' (English language title, ''Legend of the Overfiend'') (1987): For better or worse, this was the seminal (er, bad choice of words) work of the [[Hentai]] anime genre, and one of the earliest animated uses of Naughty Tentacles. It is one of the works most responsible for the [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|rather shady reputation anime has had]]. |
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* ''[[Akira]]'' (1988): Based on a much longer and even more complicated manga series, this was another of the |
* ''[[Akira]]'' (1988): Based on a much longer and even more complicated manga series, this [[Mind Screw]] was another of the earliest anime films to cross the Pacific to any appreciable audience. It shocked many US fans straight out of the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] with its gritty visuals and stark violence. |
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* ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'' (Japanese title, ''[[Hotaru no Haka]]'') (1988): Poignant story of two children trying, and ultimately failing, to survive in war-torn Japan after their mother is killed in an air raid. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel (the author, needless to say, survived, but much of the rest is directly from his own experiences) that was well-known in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s but almost unheard of elsewhere. Widely respected as one of the finest animated films, ever, but also widely reputed to be among the ''saddest'' films ever shown—so much so that AVClub.com has included it in their list ''[http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/not_again_24_great_films_too/3 Not Again: 24 Great Films Too Painful To Watch Twice]''. |
* ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'' (Japanese title, ''[[Hotaru no Haka]]'') (1988): Poignant story of two children trying, and ultimately failing, to survive in war-torn Japan after their mother is killed in an air raid. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel (the author, needless to say, survived, but much of the rest is directly from his own experiences) that was well-known in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s but almost unheard of elsewhere. Widely respected as one of the finest animated films, ever, but also widely reputed to be among the ''saddest'' films ever shown—so much so that AVClub.com has included it in their list ''[http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/not_again_24_great_films_too/3 Not Again: 24 Great Films Too Painful To Watch Twice]''. |
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