Kon made his directorial debut with “Perfect Blue,” a film about a J-Pop star named Mima who decides to leave the music industry to become an actress.
Perfect BlueĪny of the films directed by the late Satoshi Kon would make fine entries into this list (and at least one other is on it). Satoshi Kon’s penchant for trippy visual story-telling is already on full display in his first film. Above: “Summer Wars” is one of the best examples of fight choreography in anime. They each have some of the finest examples of visuals, storytelling, and direction on display, and are sure to leave you with a strong impression for what this style is capable of. With this in mind, the following ten films all serve as excellent entry points into the anime style. And while it is always safe to go with a Studio Ghibli film, they all tend to be much more similar to each other than they are to any other anime films thanks in large part to Hayao Miyazaki’s signature style. Starting there could make it difficult for a new viewer to appreciate what the film does right, and could leave them with a negative impression of anime broadly speaking. While a film like “Akira” is extremely influential and has some striking and imaginative visuals, it is not a very effective adaptation of its source material (six volumes of manga totaling 2000 pages in length) since it attempts to fit too much content into a feature film’s runtime, and the localization is pretty infamously bad. This tends to come down to licensing these properties for distribution and adapting them for a Western market, from changing music and re-editing lip movements for dubbing, to creating subtitles that roughly translate Japanese dialogue.Įven with wider access to this media available, it can be an intimidating prospect to know where to begin.
Despite the success of some anime franchises in the West, it has been difficult in the past to get access to a variety of shows and movies, no matter how popular they are in their home country. With the proliferation of anime streaming services like Crunchyroll it has never been easier to get into this style.
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