Opening of the 1987 Little Women anime:
I’ve been reading Little Women, by Louis May Alcott, and I have heard that the book is very popular in Japan. In fact, someone who once worked at the house where the Alcotts lived in Concord Mass (it’s now a museum) mentioned the many visitors from Japan who […]
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Anime and Lit: Little Lolis (I mean Little Women) and slice-of-life
Published by February 25th, 2008 in analysis and anime. 4 CommentsAmazing Daijoubu Rant: Seiyuus, Crappy Reviewers, OAVs and not a Dango in Sight!
Published by December 17th, 2007 in analysis and fandom. 6 CommentsNow that a week has gone by since I went to NYAF, I thought I’d present some of my musings about various anime-related issues almost in a stream of consciousness kind of way. Therefore, don’t expect much polish in this post! :) The place to start is with that Art of reviewing anime […]
Recently I noticed Hidoshi’s rant about the films of Hayao Miyazaki. And he’s certainly not the first to take on the mighty director. My intention here is not to try and answer Hidoshi’s points directly, so this post won’t reach the level of blog-to-blog discourse that some may be looking for. However, […]
Gender and Anime: Images of “Safe” Women
Published by September 10th, 2007 in ABC and analysis. 17 CommentsClearly the medium of anime is too varied to make many absolute generalizations about a topic as broad as gender and anime. Even the fundamental notion of a gendered division between shoujo and shounen is more and more questionable these days, as things like action and reverse harems (think Ouran) appear in shoujo, and […]
“I Didn’t Think She Was Still Only a Loli!”
Published by September 6th, 2007 in analysis and anime. 2 CommentsThis is about “Age Deflation” in anime. Watching Denno Coil recently, I thought that these kids are very mature for what are supposed to be children in elementary school. I certainly can’t imagine myself at that age (or even later!) being able to master the kind of technology that they use with the […]
Kanon: Moe Winnage or Sexist Epic Fail?
Published by September 1st, 2007 in analysis and anime. 8 CommentsA while back I wrote that I’d only recently got around to finishing Kanon. Just as when I’d started watching it, my feelings about this fan favorite have continued to be conflicted. Yes, as much as the next fanboy, I’ve loved the mo
How deep can you get?
With all the talk about whether anime is deep or just entraining, I think I sound sound a warning about false or pseudo depth, which is what a lot of series out there have. How deep you think Eva is really depends on how deep you want to get into […]
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