Jan
20
2011
Archive for the “Articles” Category
Actually, the title is a lie. This is not a Behind the Music spoof but more an analysis of the show’s leading character, Souichi Negishi, and his more famous Death Rock alter ego, Johannes Krauser II. If you don’t like it, get lost before I summon Krauser-sama from the depths of Hell to murder you and do other bad unspeakable things to you. Mwa ha ha ha ha! Rock on!
One of the many inevitabilities with watching anime is that much like real life, you’ll eventually fall in love. The concept of love is a strange thing isn’t it? It’s something we’ve constantly tried to define throughout our relatively short history on this planet. It’s a concept so abstract it still can’t be properly define, but the concept of love is a gender and culturally universal theme we love to explore, bad pun totally intended. While hard to define, it’s something we intrinsically understand when we see and experience it. Two things I love are anime and Star Wars. If asked to pick between the two, I’d probably give a slight edge to Star Wars. Blasphemy for an anime blogger, right? Star Wars is such a mega franchise that mega franchise is an understatement. The expanded universe is downright ridiculous, and the far reach of Star Wars has just about every entertainment medium in its grip… Except anime, which begs the question, “Why isn’t there a Star Wars anime?”.
This is probably something anime fans don’t ask themselves too often, but why do we like anime? I know I obviously like anime since I watch it and have an animu blog, but things get murky when trying to explain why I like it. The first response would be that it entertains me, but that’s still a pretty vague answer.
In this post, nostalgic memories of the Indigo League and the anime’s steady decline thereafter. Time to nerd it up a notch! Note: I will use the English dub names for convenience. If you want to be a weaboo about it, just pretend I’m saying the Japanese names instead.
The epic space opera, Tytania. A tale of the intergalactic power struggle between the mighty Tytania clan and the unassuming yet charismatic rebel, Fan Hyulick, the universe’s sole beacon of hope against the oppressive Tytania regime. There were space battles aplenty, but the real focus was on character motivations and lots of political maneuvering. The readers are already crying out, “Oh no, politics!”, but politics can actually be… Interesting. With the conclusion of Tytania’s first season, I wanted to talk about various aspects of the show from the characters to various plot points.
I’ve noticed a recent trend that’s been affecting contemporary anime comedies, namely the emergence of the hardcore anime comedy. By hardcore comedy, I mean comedies that deliver barrage after barrage of industry related jokes, and are obviously intended for the hardcore otaku segment.
As part of the February Round Robin, I’ll take a serious look at the many nuances of the lolita complex. This post will remain mostly serious in nature and is fairly lengthy. Grab a Cherry Coke and make yourself comfortable. tl;dr territory ahoy!
Space, the final frontier. The vast unknown, the only realm that still remains mostly unexplored by modern man is a popular subject for various aspects of popular culture. Space is a popular subject, and the setting is ingrained in television and movies from the famous Star Trek and Star Wars franchises to slews of TV shows ranging from obscure to slightly less obscure in today’s popular culture. |
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