Films like Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers.

Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers (2009) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured mecha / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge (2013) poster
1. Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Patema Inverted (2013) poster
2. Patema Inverted2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) poster
3. Atlantis: The Lost Empire2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Maleficent (2014) (2014) poster
4. Maleficent2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Golden Compass (2007) (2007) poster
5. The Golden Compass2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Expelled from Paradise (2014) poster
6. Expelled from Paradise2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) poster
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) poster
8. Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) poster
9. Snow White and the Huntsman2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Restless (2006) poster
10. The Restless2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Treasure Planet (2002) poster
11. Treasure Planet2002

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Tron: Legacy (2010) poster
12. Tron: Legacy2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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