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The CLAMP character designs offer the gothic elegance, the Madhouse visuals are stunning (ironic considering my lamentations just a couple of paragraphs earlier) and it takes a more complex and - most importantly for me - mature approach to presenting a serial killer-type murder case. It's not just about keeping the viewer hanging on and guessing for twelve or so episodes to see who's bumping off innocent(?) people: it has atmosphere, character and individuality to keep your attention in the meantime. I can immerse myself in MnH's worldview, which I never feel compelled to do in C;H; there's tension, a feeling of danger and peril as side-characters are killed off. While both series have a central character following a trail and digging in search of the truth I'm finding MnH to be doing the job so much better.

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Chaos;Head has the edge in terms of adding a contemporary spin with the technology - specifically the Internet and the rumours and lurid pictures distributed right to the hapless hero's doorstep - providing an extra layer of confusion, as it did in Serial Experiments: Lain. It has a sense of claustrophobia in that these frightening images are beamed onto a computer monitor inside a hikikomori's refuge, with an imaginary companion speaking his thoughts aloud. Mouryou no Hako has none of this thanks to its period setting; on the other hand the horrors of war, and the trauma that stays with those who were affected (which reminds me a bit of The Daughter of Twenty Faces, incidentally), are compounded with more primitive technology that harks back to Shelley's Frankenstein and The House on Haunted Hill. For some reason, I find the clunky and complex mechanical contrivances inside the hospital facility that were keeping a beautiful and mysterious girl alive to be very creepy indeed; moreso than the urban myths that sprung up around the New-Gen incidents, Tetracycline For Sale.

It's interesting to see two very different approaches to similar ideas being aired at the same time; I like my headscratchers so I feel spoiled in some ways that Chaos;Head and Mouryou no Hako are airing in the same season. Nevertheless, one is proving to be frustrating at points in being simultaneously quite clever and infurating, while the other uses old-school storytelling to create a more sophisticated sense of mystery and unease. Another way of looking at it is that for every generic looking show of a certain genre or type of subject matter, another is willing to risk obscurity in doing different. I really hope Mouryou no Hako doesn't fall in the shadow of its shinier, and to my mind, inferior rival.

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Furthermore I don't approve of saying something's good because it has a lot of fan service, or uses high production values as its only selling-point. Conversely, I discourage writing something off because it's slow, pretentious or hard to understand. I'm also hard to please - I can enjoy a wide variety (Re: my apologist post) but my standards for what makes something outstanding are very high. And so on, Estrace Vaginal Cream For Sale.

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While the idea of what makes someone elitist stems from others' impressions of them, the deciding factor as to whether it's ‘good’ or ‘bad’ elitism depends on how the elitist projects his or her views. If they state their opinions with confidence and conviction without putting other peoples' down or disregarding the validity of an opposing arguments, I think they can still be ‘elite’; crucially they aren't projecting an offensive sense of superiority or ignorance that's a characteristic of the traditional definition.

Elite individuals have something of a responsibility in that their opinions should be well informed in order to carry weight in an argument or discussion - if you want to be in that position you sure as hell had better make sure you have your facts right and your "Listen up. My views are relevant and interesting!" attitude doesn't overstep the line and become "I rule. Estrace Vaginal Cream For Sale, You suck." In short, elitism doesn't have to be negative if the elitist is intelligent enough to know when to show restraint and courtesy.

As for those ‘embarrassing fans’, they do draw undesirable attention from the occasional ignoranus (someone who is both stupid and an arsehole) but these supposed critics are usually attention-seekers who don't bother with logical reasoning for their arguments - no better than the annoying brats they're mocking. At the end of the day though, the embarrassing fans will grow out of it in time when they discover new shows or move onto other interests; as Impz pointed out, their voices merely happen to be louder than the rest of us, the validity of their views notwithstanding.

In terms of my own position though, does a declaration of being picky and over-analytical automatically come with a stance of superiority. I don't think it does. Maybe it's just me but many supposedly ‘elitist’ stances are just staunch conviction and having a firm grasp of what I like and don't like, Estrace Vaginal Cream For Sale. It's also a sarchasm (the gulf between myself and those who don't get my odd sense of humour) but most importantly sharing the love without putting myself on a pedestal above the people I share the enthusiasm and converse with on a regular basis. There's a difference between having a set of defined opinions and standards, informed or otherwise, and beating everyone else over the head with them.

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When the tsundere thing is done in a sloppy or poorly thought-out fashion, it does come across as just another stock personality type to tick the boxes and get the fanboys queuing up; perhaps Love Hina's Naru falls into that category but her warming towards Keitaro during the course of the series does actually feel more natural and convincing than some. FMP!'s Kaname and her brash, obnoxious attitude actually grated on my nerves in the first season, partly because the dynamic between her and Sousuke didn't really change. This is I think an important fact that's lost on some writers: keeping the character in tsun-tsun mode is good at teasing the viewer but the dere-dere breakdown needs to come sooner or later.

Because the tsundere is an archetype that shares common features with other personality types such as insecurity, inner conflict and so on, it's not something I can see going out of fashion any time soon because these traits would be placed under the umbrella of another descriptive term instead. The original motives will vary, as will the way in which they manifest themselves, but it will in some form or another will continue to be used - although the commonly accepted examples are found in the zany comedies and bishoujo shows, toned-down expressions of tsundere traits can work just fine in realistic fiction and drama situations. Of course, as long as writers remember why viewers find a character interesting and appealing instead of taking the lazy route and aiming for the lowest common fan service denominator, I won't mind too much.

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Similarly Saikano is so full of metaphors and unrealistic plot devices that it feels like an allegory when it's not in high school drama mode - there are many unanswered questions regarding the war, Chise's condition and so on but they are beside the central points the series has about devotion and human nature; the distance theme that pervades most of Shikai's work to date is evident in real life in the form of the distance between human hearts. Mikako and Noboru transimit their feelings across the light-years with cellphones: the same gadgets that everyday folk use to communicate each and every day. Buy Spiriva Without Prescription, By the same token, no seventeen-year olds I know of have experienced relationship problems due to one of them turning into a One (wo)Man Army* as in Saikano, but the break-ups and uncertainties that result from this implausible situation are very real.

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There is a mixture of both approaches in most anime romance productions of course but most lean more towards one more than the other; the key to the successful ones is making use of the advantages of each, without going too far and alienating the audience. Too much wide angle makes you feel detached from the events and feelings onscreen - it stands so far back that the plight of individuals is no longer discernable. Similarly too much zoom relies on personal experience and reactions to connect with the viewer, and the plot can get bogged down in trivial issues that are blown out of all proportion by tiresome melodrama.

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There are some titles that, for a number of reasons, never made it onto this list. Some, such as Kiddy Grade, Bokura Ga Ita and Myself; Yourself remain on-hold and unfinished so I cannot attest to their overall quality; others, such as Aquarian Age, are lifted into mere mediocrity by a good soundtrack. Others have such a bad reputation that I've been afraid to waste my money on the but looking back on some of the more amusing times spent laughing at the crapness of the titles that make up the meat of this post, I might look into them for curiosity's sake.

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I should note that I mean 'enlightened' with a dose of cynicism. Like Frankenstein and Godzilla, some horror stems from human hubris, folly and ignorance. While many of us aren't fazed by mythical monsters, the fundamental fear of the unknown, a primal sensation that will always be part of the human condition, will never go away. Regardless of the subject matter, horror movies always boil down to this and even when contemporary slasher efforts become quaint nostalgia rather than cutting edge cinema we'll still be scared shitless by something. Even the supernatural has dark corners that the torchlight of science has yet to penetrate; sometimes we create our own horrors but the universe still harbours much that we don't understand.

I know it's been a while since an update and this has turned into a spillage of rambling rather than the focused essay I hoped it would be but there you go. I've wanted to get a horror-themed post out for a while and this seemed the best time to do it. Now I have to dig out my review DVD discs from that pile of removal boxes...

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Nevertheless, Lucky Star was watchable beyond my initial expectations - there are aspects that I wasn’t too keen on but suffice to say its supposed ‘moeness’ wasn’t one of them. It also set the metaphorical wrecking ball to the Fourth Wall on numerous occasions which I found eternally clever and awesome on so many levels. To do that while taking on the appearance of a show that panders to the drooling otaku masses was the icing on the cake - it seemed to sell itself as a show that plays to the affections of the moe lovers...only to play to the affections of pretentious *serious* people like me too. Bonus, Buy Lasix Without Prescription.

In closing, I feel that I've won a small victory over my own prejudices, which is a small price to pay if it looks like I've become a moe fan or something (I haven't, don't worry). The upshot of all this. I'll be giving Clannad a couple more episodes before making my mind up on it. You never know, after all...

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16 Oct 2007

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As someone who respects anime and Japanese culture in general, I'm quite insulted by Glucklich's views but I'm even more offended on a literary level by the fact that he throws this sort of crap out and expects it to stick. His research is patchy at best and nonexistent at worst: I have no formal English qualification beyond GCSE level (age 16) but it's still clear to me that in order to put any written piece into the public domain, some research is necessary. e.g., I had to look up Che and Vick on Wikipedia, just to make the sarcastic jibes above...and this is just a private blog. Macrobid For Sale, Besides, if you think my own journalistic skills are substandard, Active Anime make a pretty neat job of tearing this thing to pieces.

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11 Sep 2007

Gender and anime: the follow-up

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Well, I guess you could call it a success. There have been some excellent posts in reaction to this from the likes of Stuff Happens and PinkuBentoBox among others but the quality of the original posts had me flabbergasted too. So much so that I'm still visiting and commenting on each in turn, and I've had trouble getting it all into a more coherant type of mess in my head. As an overview, this topic was...well, not so much a topic per se as a general theme that covers a number of issues. We wanted to do the opposite to the first attempt but I think we're still seeking the elusive middle ground that provides both room to avoid overlap and a common thread to all the contributing posts - it was a bit vague in retrospect but worth doing for experience's sake. We're happy to have other bloggers on board too, so drop one of us an e-mail and you can join the Google group to have a say on what to do next. 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