10th Anniversary of Satoshi Kon's Death

I agree Yuasa is a respectable director but he hasn't released anything since leaving Science Saru.

i think first of him too when i try to come up with directors who have a very recognizable style, but like you say the newer works are kind of lost their grit a bit.
theres also hosoda, but his work is a bit different in approach. i still like both a lot though.

God damn this thread got me in the mood.
Time to rewatch Paprika.

What other movies would i enjoy from him? i loved Perfect blue but hated paprika

Shinkai has brought more to the medium with a single film than the entirety of Kon's legacy -- terribly overrated director!

paranoia agent comes close to the feeling of perfect blue but it has many dream-like properties of paprika.

how does it feel having no taste

where was this copied from?
but seriously tho, shinkai is such a boring director

My main problem with paprika was it felt like things happens randomly for no real reason and the characters were shit, can you the say the same about paranoia agent?

Of his proteges I think that Kou Matsuo and Shougo Furuya are pretty good but obviously neither has lived up to him yet. I don't want to doompost, but things in the industry have been getting worse and worse over the past decade and I think it's stifling talent. We're actually starting to see episodes with more ADs than KAs, somehow.

I like Paprika and Paranoia Agent, but at least Paprika has coherent plot progressions. Paranoia Agent has moments of diving head first into its absurdism and dragging the story with it in a way that doesn't really connect well.

not really, there's much focus on the characters in PA, it's probably its most psychological work along with perfect blue

Paranoia Agent has the best ending of any anime.

Never made a bad anime. We can only dream what he would have given us.

Feels like more time has passed

Personally I think the problem isn't that there's nobody who can fill his boots, but that they're spread too thin across the industry so they simply don't get the resources or time necessary for it to be visible. If I'm right then the only real way for things to improve is for the industry to consolidate a lot. Basically, most of the studios would need to die first and a lot less anime would need to be made in general.

It's not that it's physically impossible or auteur level films like the shit that Shinkai is making wouldn't be put out. It's that the level of artistic vision Kon made is no longer there. Generations' worth of directors are retiring and if Kon were still alive he would have maybe another 10 years normally to 20 years if he wanted to make films into his elderly years like Miyazaki.

>It's that the level of artistic vision Kon made is no longer there
*is no longer in demand in the industry
The Eva wave has flattened out. Until the next huge trendsetter occurs it's more profitable to hire people to make basic bitch adaptations than passion projects, so the result is the potential Kons just don't get work, or work on garbage and can't spread their wings so to speak.

please explain how Your Name brought loads into the medium of anime. And why its more than Kon

R.I.P Satoshi Kun.

will madhouse ever complete his final movie?

It brought loads more money, ha ha ha.

The trendsetter unfortunately is Shinkai. It's easily digestible romance with a supernatural twist. It's popular and profitable with regular people who never have been interested in anime. Fast food anime. To your point I wish there was a trendsetter with a bit more depth and merit but that while somewhat profitable isn't a chart topper and the nature of the business is squeezing blood from a stone in terms of profitability.