I am not categorical about this issue. This is just a personal approach, one that I find works well with people who dislike anime.

This is just my own pragmatic “solution” of sorts. It allows me to recommend Perfect Blue, Jin-Roh, The Sky Crawlers, Memories (to people who I think would enjoy them of course) by saying that “these pieces are animated, but they are more like a movie that happens to use animation, not an anime.” And it works.

No idea regarding automation, but you can get (some) 4K TV series off rutracker (a public tracker).

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=119

The site itself is in russian, but search queries in English work perfectly.

Content from English speaking countries almost always (literally around ~99.9% of the time) includes the original English audio track. You will have to manually set language priority in your video client as russian audio is set as the default track, but this should be easy to do.

Keep in mind that non-English movies/series will include the original audio and a russian dub/VO, English dub/VO will not be included. English subs are typically provided for non-English content.

While this is technically an anime, I would argue the style and topic makes it more of an animated series that uses Japanese animation styling.

Honestly, I would even recommend Dallos if you don’t like anime.

Thinking of re-starting Attack on the Titan.

I’ve only seen the first season back when it was released. The fact that there seem to be ~100 episodes is a little bit daunting (I honestly prefer shorter self-contained series).

Kalki 2898 AD sounds fun. Have not heard of it. Will have to check it out. Cheers!

Falling Stars

This looks cool. Thanks!

It’s still a sci-fi movie, no? All post-apocalyptic movies are science fiction.

You’re also welcome to give your suggestions. 😄 These are the 2024 movies that I watched and thought fit the bill.

• Alien Romulus - If you haven’t already seen it.
• Dune Part 2 - You have to watch the first part if you haven’t seen the newer Dune movies.
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - I thought this was very good, even though it doesn’t really include the eponymous Mad Max

Less mainstream stuff:

• The Platform 2 - People complain it’s not as good as the first one, but I thought it was solid. You don’t really need to watch the first one.
• Abigail - More of a horror, but has fantasy elements
• V/H/S/Beyond - Horror, but has scifi elements (more than the previous entries)

That’s right, the TV show has practically nothing to do with the books other than some character and place names and the general idea of a declining emprire and its emerging remote colony.

I decided to not watch the Foundation series because I was worried that the concept would be butchered. I watched Man in the High Castle (based on Philip K. Dick) with very high expectations. Dropped it after the first episode. The book was strange, dark and psychedelic. It was clear that the series was not made in the spirit of the book.

I guess its a good thing that I decided to skip the Foundation series.

For a second, I read that as remake of Fantastic Planet.

That would have been a plastic surgery disaster.

FWIW, the Lost World novel (on which the 2nd movie was based on) was solid. The movie was OK, but could have been much better.

This sounds like an interesting movie. Although I would hesitate to call it a documentary.

I can never say no to dystopian cyberpunk media.

For a second, I thought he was working on 1408, the horror movie with John Cusack based on a Stephan King story.

Some Japanese animation that may fit the bill:

• Dallos (1983) - A scifi/political OVA from the creator of Ghost in the Shell.
• Kite (1998) - Action/revenge movie. Includes porn scenes, but IMO this is not a typical “hentai” movie.
• Ninja Scroll (1993) - Action movie set in pre-Meiji era.
• Megazone 23 (1985 to 1989) - Series of scifi/cyberpunk movies. The concept and especially the first movie likely served as an inspiration for the Matrix series.
• Perfect Blue (1998) - An exploitation/thriller that IMO easily beats most Hollywood fare. Was originally supposed to a live-action movie, but they switched to animation because they couldn’t get the budget for a live-action movie.
• Vampire Hunter D (1985) - Solid vampire themed action movie.
• Wicked City (1987) - Action/horror with gothic themes and nudity.

CG is their sister site. I don’t believe they have another sister site.

Like with all private trackers, best route is via invite forums. If you can get into CG, you should be able to get into TVV.

This sounds exactly like my kind of movie. Not to mention it’s being made by Bong Joon Ho, made one of favourite movies (across all genres); Memory of a Murder.

While his later movies are excellent (Okja, Snowpiercer, Parasite), Memories of a Murder benefits from a more indie vibe, a less polished presentation and a more eclectic style. Check it out if you liked his later movies (I would recommend watching it in Korean with subtitles).

Let’s see how those plays out, hopefully it won’t be lame.

Btw, if you go in without any expectations, The Fly II is decent. Just don’t compare it to the Cronenberg release and take it for what it is.

I generally dislike musicals (with some exceptions like Dancer in the Dark and Moulin Rouge!), but the Back to the Future franchise seems like a bad fit for a musical.

More so than most franchises, Back to the Future feels very tied to the zeitgeist of its time (80s to early 90s).

Then again, they made Joker 2 a musical (I recently found out about this and had to double check that this wasn’t a joke).

If you approach it as an unintentional parody, it can be fun.

I have a feeling this is going to be terrible. Hopefully in a “so bad, it’s good” kind of way, but I have my doubts.