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Lo más cercano a Angel's Egg primero
El viaje de Chihiro 2001
Anime
De camino a su nueva casa, una niña de diez años y sus padres se adentran en el mundo de los espíritus. Sus padres se convierten en cerdos y ella tiene que trabajar en unos baños para salvarlos.
Las caras de El viaje de Chihiro
- Un mundo extraño con sus propias reglas
- Una niña que encuentra su valor
- Momentos tranquilos y naturaleza
- Cada fotograma dibujado a mano
Buena para ti si
- te encanta perderte en un mundo con sus propias reglas extrañas.
- te gusta no saber qué va a cruzar la puerta a continuación.
- te gustan las películas que se detienen a respirar, como ese tranquilo viaje en tren.
Mala para ti si
- no ves películas de animación.
- quieres que todo esté explicado. Gran parte de los baños nunca lo está.
Temas: crecer · la codicia · conservar tu nombre · el trabajo
Serial Experiments Lain 1998
Anime
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
The sides of Serial Experiments Lain
- A shy schoolgirl who logs on to the Wired
- A classmate's suicide and the emails she sends afterwards
- A world where the network and real life blur
Good for you if
- you like a quiet, eerie anime where the internet starts to feel haunted.
- you like piecing together who Lain really is across thirteen strange episodes.
- you're happy to finish with questions and your own theory.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- a teenage suicide at the very start is too much for you.
About: identity · the internet · loneliness · reality
Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995
Anime
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.
The sides of Neon Genesis Evangelion
- A boy ordered by his father to pilot a giant robot
- Angels attacking Tokyo-3
- A final two episodes inside his head
Good for you if
- you like a series that leaves you with more questions than answers.
- you care more about the pilots' minds than the robot fights.
- you like an ending that goes somewhere no one expected.
Bad for you if
- you can't take depression and self-loathing on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
About: depression · fathers and sons · loneliness
2001. Una odisea del espacio 1968
Película
Mientras investigan la aparición de misteriosos monolitos en el universo, dos astronautas luchan contra la inteligencia artificial de su nave.
Las caras de 2001. Una odisea del espacio
- Simios que descubren las herramientas
- Una computadora que no abre las puertas
- Un viaje más allá del infinito
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las naves que bailan un vals al ritmo de El Danubio azul, en planos perfectamente compuestos.
- te gusta una película que avanza como una sinfonía.
- quieres sentirte pequeño ante el universo.
Mala para ti si
- necesitas personajes con los que conectar. Dave y Frank siguen fríos y tranquilos, y la computadora HAL es la que muestra más sentimiento.
- quieres que pase algo. Hay tramos largos en silencio.
- quieres una explicación clara del final.
Temas: la evolución · la tecnología · lo desconocido
Haibane Renmei 2002
Anime
A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of female beings with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.
The sides of Haibane Renmei
- A girl born from a cocoon with small wings
- A walled town nobody may leave
- A house of young winged women
Good for you if
- you like quiet days of odd jobs in a small walled town.
- you like the bond between Rakka and Reki, the older girl who looks after her.
- you like a mystery about the Wall that never fully answers itself.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't face a story that circles around guilt and suicide.
About: rebirth · guilt · forgiveness
Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2011
Anime
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
The sides of Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- A schoolgirl offered a wish
- A small white creature with a contract
- Witches hiding in strange labyrinths
Good for you if
- you like a cute magical girl story that turns dark.
- you can take a story where every wish has a price.
- you like witches' lairs drawn like surreal collages.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you want a light magical girl show to relax with.
About: sacrifice · hope · despair
Carnivàle 2003
Series
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
The sides of Carnivàle
- A traveling carnival in the Dust Bowl
- A young farmhand with a gift for healing
- A preacher haunted by dark visions
Good for you if
- you like tarot cards, prophetic dreams and a freak show full of secrets.
- you like a slow, patient build toward a clash between good and evil.
- you like the dust and poverty of the Great Depression.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that wraps up, and this one stops after two seasons.
- you want a story that moves fast with plenty happening.
About: good and evil · destiny · faith
Over the Garden Wall 2014
Series
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this strange land, in hope of finding their way home. Join them as they encounter surprises and obstacles on their journey through the wood.
The sides of Over the Garden Wall
- Two brothers lost in a strange forest
- A woodsman and a grumpy bluebird
- A beast lurking in the woods
Good for you if
- you like an autumn fairy tale that feels like an old storybook.
- you like old-time songs sung along the way.
- you like painted forests that look like vintage illustrations.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated series.
- you want fights and chases. Wirt and Greg mostly talk, sing and get lost.
About: brotherhood · finding your way home · growing up
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 2008
Anime
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
The sides of Ghost in the Shell 2.0
- A cyborg major hunting a hacker
- A program that claims to be alive
- The 1995 film with new computer scenes
Good for you if
- you like long, silent shots of a rainy future city.
- you like a question about what makes you human left open.
- you like chants that carry whole scenes.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum and can't sit through long talks about the soul.
About: identity · the body · technology
Following Madoka's rewriting of the universe, sacrificing herself and her happy normal days to save all magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them by wiping witches out of existence, the despair still manifest into creatures known as nightmares. Magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the hope that she will be able to see Madoka smile again.
The sides of Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-
- Homura fighting alone after Madoka's sacrifice
- A city that feels slightly wrong
- Magical girls against nightmares
Good for you if
- you like a surreal world of witches and nightmares that looks like collage.
- you like Yuki Kajiura's choirs over every fight.
- you like a final act that takes the story somewhere you won't expect.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't follow a plot that only makes sense after the series.
About: friendship · sacrifice · obsession
Tales from the Loop 2020
Series
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
The sides of Tales from the Loop
- A small Ohio town above a strange machine
- Rusted robots in snowy fields
- A different neighbour in each episode
Good for you if
- you like quiet, patient episodes with long silences.
- you like Simon Stålenhag's paintings brought to life.
- you like science fiction that feels small, personal and strange.
Bad for you if
- you need some hope, and many episodes end on loss and loneliness.
- you want the mysteries of the Loop explained.
About: time · loneliness · family
Children of the Sea 2019
Anime
Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
The sides of Children of the Sea
- A girl spending summer at her father's aquarium
- Two boys raised by dugongs
- Sea creatures vanishing around the world
Good for you if
- you like hand-drawn oceans full of fish and light.
- you want a film about the sea and the birth of the universe.
- you like whales, dugongs and summer by the shore.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you want a story where everything is explained.
About: the ocean · the origin of life · belonging
The Leftovers 2014
Series
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
The sides of The Leftovers
- Two percent of the world vanishing at once
- A police chief holding his family together
- A silent cult dressed in white
Good for you if
- you like grief so raw it moves you to tears.
- you can live with never learning where the vanished went.
- you like Kevin and Nora, two broken people trying to go on.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief, suicide and despair on screen.
- you need a story that moves fast, not three seasons of mourning.
About: grief · faith · loss
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
The sides of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
- An armed assault on the NERV headquarters
- A boy who refuses to pilot
- The end of humanity as one shared mind
Good for you if
- you can take the end of the world shown without mercy.
- you like giant surreal images, live-action shots and a sea of orange liquid.
- you like a finale you argue about for years.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand soldiers gunning down staff or Eva Unit 02 torn apart.
- a teenager's despair and self-hatred on screen are too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: loneliness · the end of the world · the fear of others
Aniquilación 2018
Película
Cuando su marido desaparece durante una misión secreta, la bióloga Lena se une a una expedición a una misteriosa región acordonada por el gobierno de Estados Unidos. El grupo, compuesto por varias mujeres científicas, investiga la Zona X, un intrigante lugar controlado por una poderosa fuerza alienígena del planeta Tierra. La Zona X es un lugar al que han ido otras expediciones, pero del que ninguna ha vuelto.
Las caras de Aniquilación
- Cinco científicas que entran en el Resplandor
- Una naturaleza que muta en otra cosa
- Un oso que grita
Buena para ti si
- te gusta la ciencia ficción que parece una pesadilla.
- te gustan los paisajes mutados de colores arcoíris.
- te gusta un final que se niega a explicarse.
Mala para ti si
- el horror corporal y una criatura aterradora son demasiado para ti.
- necesitas ritmo. La expedición avanza despacio y en silencio por el Resplandor.
Temas: la autodestrucción · el cambio · el duelo
Ghost in the Shell 1995
Anime
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
The sides of Ghost in the Shell
- A cyborg agent in a special police unit
- A hacker who can rewrite people's memories
- Long silent shots of a city in the rain
Good for you if
- you like asking what's left of you when your body is a machine.
- you like a dense, rainy city drawn in every detail.
- you like long quiet moments between short bursts of action.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you want a plot that's easy to follow. Hacked memories and rival police sections tangle fast.
About: identity · technology · the soul
Under the Skin 2014
Film
A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
The sides of Under the Skin
- An alien in a woman's body driving around Glasgow
- Men lured into a black liquid void
- Hidden cameras on real Scottish streets
Good for you if
- you like Scarlett Johansson as an alien studying humans from a van.
- you like a film that explains almost nothing.
- you like images of men sinking into black liquid, under a strange score.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and can't sit through long silences.
- you'd rather avoid a lot of nudity.
About: humanity · the body · loneliness
Severance 2022
Series
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
The sides of Severance
- Office workers with their memories split in two
- The endless white corridors of Lumon Industries
- A team sorting numbers they don't understand
Good for you if
- you like piecing together what Lumon really does.
- you like goats in an office basement and a waffle party as a reward.
- you like Mark slowly realising what his other self lives through.
Bad for you if
- you need things to move fast from the first episode.
- you want answers at the end of every season.
About: work · identity · grief · control
Paprika 2006
Anime
Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.
The sides of Paprika
- A psychologist who enters her patients' dreams
- A stolen dream machine
- A parade of objects marching out of dreams
Good for you if
- you like a dream that spills into the waking city.
- you want every frame packed with shifting images.
- you like not knowing whose dream you're in.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need a machine to follow rules. This one runs on dream logic.
About: dreams · identity · technology
Mushi-Shi 2005
Anime
Ginko, a Mushi master, travels from place to place researching the Mushi and helping people who are suffering because of it.
The sides of Mushi-Shi
- Ginko, a wanderer who studies the mushi
- Villages in old rural Japan
- One strange case per episode
Good for you if
- you like quiet episodes with long silences.
- you like tiny life forms that bend the world around them.
- you like mountains, rivers and forests that feel alive.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need fights and chases to stay hooked.
About: nature · coexistence · loss