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1. My Favorite Anime Redline By Sonicfan546 Fur Affinity [dot] Net
   1. Redline Review — B

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JP's biggest dream is to win the Redline – the galaxy's deadliest illegal road race, only held every five years at a secret location not unveiled until practically the last minute. In order to get there he needs to qualify by finishing in a ranked position in the Yellowline race – something it looks like he'll have no problem doing, until his Trans-Am mysteriously malfunctions and flips out just short of the finishing line.

Waking up in hospital, with a bunch of his bones shattered along with his dreams, JP is shocked to find he's has in fact made the grade. It turns out the venue has been announced – and it's the fascistic, authoritarian military superpower state of Roboworld. As a result two racers have already dropped out – and not on ideological grounds either, more that they don't fancy being fired at while racing. It seems that the evil dictatorship that runs Roboworld are not too keen on hosting the event, and are already threatening to throw everything they have at stopping the racers before the starting flag even drops - including a couple of bizarrely terrifying peace-treaty defying weapon systems they've been keeping under wraps. Not, of course, that any of that is going to put JP off…

My Favorite Anime Redline By Sonicfan546 Fur Affinity [dot] Net

Redline was in development for over half a decade, finally being released several years later than originally planned. Given that it's the directorial debut feature of

Allowed the production to drag on for so long, and presumably swallow up a hefty budget. All of which begs one obvious question – was it all worth it?

's creative and economic risk taking with Redline, there's no denying that for the film's entire 100-minute runtime you are watching something very special, very different, and insanely exhilarating.

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For a start, Redline looks like nothing you've seen before. It's easy to see that Koike is a huge fan of western graphic art, and has been influenced as much by French comic artist Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud (possibly best known for his design work on The Fifth Element), the US animated film Heavy Metal, cult UK sci-fi comic 2000 AD, and even the Star Wars movies as much as he has by the likes of

. Not that Redline feels or looks like a mash-up of different styles – somewhere in the visual chaos it unrelentingly throws at its audience it becomes something that is far more than the mere sum of parts, a unique piece of animation that at times doesn't even feel like anime in the traditional sense.

Take the character designs for a start – the film feels like it is crammed with literally a cast of thousands of extras, all of different alien races and species. In fact it's only really JP and his love interest Sonoshee that appear to be baseline humans here, meaning that they are the only characters designed in a ‘traditional’ anime style, and are vastly outnumbered by the freakish and unusual looking. The same goes for the mechanical and set designs – there's little here that is reminiscent of a traditional anime production. Instead everything – buildings, vehicles, spacecraft, the Roboworld military's insane planet wrecking weapon systems – all seem warped out of scale, hideously impractical and with the apparent ability to be twisted and stretched out of shape despite how solid they might first appear.

This Cartoon Will Punch You In The Face: Redline

It's amongst this onslaught of graphic insanity that Redline accomplishes something truly surprising. Somehow, without the audience realising it, Koike has managed to make all this chaos believable. Perhaps through the pure density of detail or just knowing when to pull in the reigns slightly, he makes everything from the busy alien crowd scenes to the full-throttle, explosive race sequences seem like events in a real, tangible world. Exactly how he manages to pull this off is impossible to work out after just one viewing, and may never be revealed fully, but it does seem to hint that

Not that everyone will love this film – it could be that some will be put off by its soundtrack, comprised almost purely of high-octane, scratch-mixed techno. It might not be to everyone's taste, but it fits the film's visuals beat-perfectly, and it's hard to imagine any other style of music doing the job as well. Some critics are going to look at the film's minimal plot and decry it as ‘style over content’, but to do so will be to reveal themselves as not even within driving distance of the point. Redline is animation not only at its best, but also largely animation for animation's sake – not a story that had to be made in anime form to due to budgetary restrictions, but a story that could only exist in this medium. It is experimental, challenging and most importantly exhilarating in its artistic style in ways that most works could not even dream of reaching through script writing or thematic devices.

There will probably also be some more conservative anime fans that just won't get Redline, that will look at it's unconventional character designs and over the top action sequences and see something they don't consider to be anime. And that's fine, because ironically what will be turning them off is exactly what gives Redline the potential to be a huge cross-over hit – its unique blend of art, music and groundbreaking animation sure to pick up fans from outside the scene, as well as making it potentially one of the most daring and important anime movies for a very, very long time.? You most likely haven’t and that’s okay, don’t feel bad. Just know that your life is incomplete without watching this movie at least 2 times.

Redline Review — B

Is an anime movie about racing that was released at a film festival in 2009 and officially in 2010. The movie was produced by Madhouse so you know the animation is on point.

Is full of action and characters that are pretty fleshed out even though the main motive of the film is actually to bombard you with beautiful set pieces and a bangin’ soundtrack. So here’s why you NEED to watch

The plot revolves around a cool cat named JP (nicknamed “Sweet” JP) and his boss hairdo. Well, it revolves around him and his journey to the ultimate race, “Redline.” The plot has action and drama as expected from a racing story, with plenty of twists and turns. Honestly, without spoiling anything, there’s not much I can tell you about the plot other than that it’s satisfying in all the right ways. This movie is what anime is all about. It has a plot that never gets lost in the animation and crazy action scenes that are the meat of this film. When anime is done right it just gives you an all-around good feeling, and

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The animation and action scenes serve as this movie’s main course. The way that it makes you feel like the characters are going as fast as the speed of light is a sight to behold. The characters’ shapes becomes distorted and they even have nosebleeds from how fast they go.

This movie just keeps going and going like an anime Energizer bunny. There’s racers with rockets, lasers and huge race cars each with their own flavor to them. JP drives a Yellow TransAM20000 which looks so damn good speeding through the space-age tracks.

The movie has aliens, explosions, comedy, action, drama, friendship, with even a little romance sprinkled into it. While you’re watching this movie you’ll probably think “there’s no way that all of this won’t just fall apart” with how much shit they pack into it, but it never does.

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Is honestly one of the greatest animated movies of all time and it’s something that anyone, anime fan or not, can enjoy. So now that you know aboutI’m a kook for style and I’m pretty damn sure of it. Whether an anime series has actual depth beneath the grease or not, I always find myself drawn to the audacious and the boldly fabulous. If I happen to notice a heavily stylized flick, I’m always bound to watch it, no matter how completely absurd or ridiculously stupid it is.  It’s pretty safe to say that Japanese animation has many signature traits and features, whether it be the oversized eyes, exaggerated and colorful hair, or the constant bending of the laws of physics for action or comedy purposes. So while primarily a storytelling medium, you have to remember that anime is also already a heavily stylized visual canvas on its own. But what happens when a director pushes the latter to its absolute limits, while purposely simplifying the former to bring out the style? You get Redline.

Forget logic, forget the laws of physics, and forget everything you know about NASCAR, this is Redline, damnit, possibly the greatest style-fest ever created. Calling this show “just cool” would be a savage insult to the brilliant blast of vibrant energy this movie brings to