I did nearly use the term "quadrilogy", but considering its not an official term, know more by people by its use for the Alien franchise in DVD sets, and"tetralogy" or "quartet" are proper dictionary terms, I decided to stay classy...
A non-anime abstract review will be coming very soon. Until then, here are a few more tie-ins for the 1000 Anime blog, as eclectic as you can get.
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| Robot Carnival http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/3836792/640full-robot-carnival-screenshot.jpg |
The first, Robot Carnival (1987), is an actual anthology film which, barring the theme of robots, entirely let its animators (including Akira director/author Katsuhiro Otomo) loose on their segments, an example of the craft of eighties animation that has to be seen to be believed. The review can be found HERE.
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| Sparrow's Hotel From http://i.imgur.com/wGCbsTs.jpg |
On the opposite side of the coin, in terms of the lowest of budgets and expectations, is Sparrow's Hotel (2013); if Robot Carnival is an anime production that could've only been made in the eighties or nineties, with its painstaking craft and artistic heights, than Sparrow's Hotel could've only been made in the 2010s, with its janky animation, three minute long episodes and having some recognition in the West through the streaming site Crunchyroll. Is it deliberately bad - with its voluptuous, Barbie-with-assassination skills protagonist and crude, colourful demeanor - or just bad? Read the review HERE and find out how more complicated the truth is.
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| Five Star Stories From http://www.anime-kun.net/animes/screenshots /the-five-star-stories-108480.jpg |
Back to the eighties, with painstaking and gorgeous animation, but with the reminder that that era could have productions which promised so much in a teaser but never had an ending, nor a follow on barring a manga that might've never been translated for the West. Hence, whilst I absolutely recommend finding Five Star Stories (1989), a melodramatic space opera with fabulous character designs based on the manga author's obsessively beautiful art, and even more fabulous giant robots, be warned that if you fall in love with its uniquely fantastical take on the giant robot genre of anime, it'll hurt like it did for me that this was the only anime adaptation of Mamoru Nagano's manga, and obsession over multiple decades and still counting, and nothing else came after. Admire the series and share the pain HERE.
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| Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise From http://www.alcohollywood.com/wp-content/uploads// ep301-wingshonneamise-768x492.jpg |
Thankfully some of the productions in the eighties had endings, and in any other blog post like this, seeing Robot Carnival or even Five Star Stories and writing of that experience would've been huge for another anime fan. However I also watched Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) for the first time. One of the most significant anime theatrical films of all time, one of the biggest anime productions from the eighties, effectively birthing the divisive but culturally important anime studio Gainax, and one of the most divisive anime just for a (understandably) controversial segment, less than ten minutes but enough to lead people to dismiss the entire feature and its virtues, and took a huge additional chunk (with full spoiler warnings) for me to cover as it's be impossible not to talk of. However, even if that segment in its alternative world sci-fi drama was a moment that ruined the film for you the reader, rather than part of the complex drama few anime films cover for myself, than I'd still argue seeing The Wings of Honnêamise is going to be one of the most significant film viewing experiences, of all cinema not just anime, for the entirety of 2018. Read the review HERE and read why.
So effective, watch all these anime. Well Sparrow's Hotel is to debate, but at less than thirty minutes or so for an entire series, even something that deserves a warning before seeing would've hurt that much dear reader would it?
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