Indeed, it feels like Majestic Prince is preparing us for harsher times, but I’m really beginning to sense a tightness and strength in Team Rabbits, too. If there’s one thing that keeps me coming back to anime time and again, it’s in search of these long form stories of shifting eras and friendships, where heroes and dreams are made and lost through a sheer force of will and persistence. I’m not sure if Majestic Prince will ascend the pantheon of great anime those words may recall, but it’s an unpredictable and honest trier, and I’m behind it all the way.
Majestic Prince
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It was a naive thing for [Amy] to do. [Ledo’s] attack was her order, but this whole idea of responsibility brings into question [his] role, too. He used to be a soldier, yes, which is to say, he would act on the behalf of others. He was a weapon, pure and simple, but now he’s alone and stranded is it still fine for him to abdicate responsibility like this? It’s an idea that ties into the underlying themes of Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, as mooted by writer Gen Urobuchi on Wikipedia, where he talks of a story that’s “[…] aimed towards those in their teens and 20s, who are either about to enter into society or recently have, and is meant to cheer them on and to encourage them that “going out into the world isn’t scary”.”
Power and responsibility in Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
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This is what The Sky Crawlers is about. Facing the reality that you’re not doing anything different with your life, but taking the responsibility to push yourself forwards anyway, that is how I’m interpreting Yūichi’s last line, “I’m going to kill my father.” Although it means he’s almost certainly going to his death, he’s at least trying to step out of the cycle, cast aside his history and change his life. There’s a huge difference between dying in pursuit of change and dying without ever having tried anything. It beautifully transforms what’s ostensibly such a sad end into such a moment of rapture. It’s wonderful to struggle, to be imperfect, to change. Life would be so boring otherwise: don’t give up.
Don’t give up: dying in pursuit of change and The Sky Crawlers
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But, like Azusa, the earnest and solitary underclassmen of the light music club, even though I knew the light music club would never play the Budoukan as they so boldly proclaimed I still kept watching. I watched as their Budoukan dream was quickly forgotten, and as the seasons seemed to tumble into one another all too quickly. Shouldn’t they start practicing now? I’d ask myself. Do they even remember what they said, on the club’s inception? I pondered. The question I was really asking, of course, is whether they’d ever make their dreams into a goal.
All good dreamers pass this way @ Bateszi Anime Blog
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![[This] is pretty much exactly how I wanted the anime for Attack on Titan to turn out. The first few glimpses we get of the 3D maneuver gear are exhilarating and pretty much alone justify its existence: we get to see the scouting legion in action, running through a forest on their horses and coming across a lumbering Titan. The sheer fluidity of their movement as they move from branch to branch, using their gear to swing and pounce, is so beautifully done. You will realise then, at that exact moment, that this series is going to be a keeper.
The anime-fication of Attack on Titan](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a4de17d2aa4100d692e0dff8c5f71550/tumblr_mkwbtrbKge1qa7b7qo1_500.png "[This] is pretty much exactly how I wanted the anime for Attack on Titan to turn out. The first few glimpses we get of the 3D maneuver gear are exhilarating and pretty much alone justify its existence: we get to see the scouting legion in action, running through a forest on their horses and coming across a lumbering Titan. The sheer fluidity of their movement as they move from branch to branch, using their gear to swing and pounce, is so beautifully done. You will realise then, at that exact moment, that this series is going to be a keeper.
The anime-fication of Attack on Titan")
[This] is pretty much exactly how I wanted the anime for Attack on Titan to turn out. The first few glimpses we get of the 3D maneuver gear are exhilarating and pretty much alone justify its existence: we get to see the scouting legion in action, running through a forest on their horses and coming across a lumbering Titan. The sheer fluidity of their movement as they move from branch to branch, using their gear to swing and pounce, is so beautifully done. You will realise then, at that exact moment, that this series is going to be a keeper.
The anime-fication of Attack on Titan
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![This is where the [Aku no Hana] anime changes things. Director Hiroshi Nagahama’s weapon of choice isn’t poison, but an axe. By rotoscoping characters, he’s completely destroyed the layer of superficiality that the manga labours under and delves straight into the dark soul of Flowers of Evil. For many, this is unforgivable, but for me, it’s more just revealing of the seemingly widespread disdain anime fans have for facing anything that removes their blanket of unreality, where certain times and places like the rose-coloured high-school setting are magically protected within a bubble of nostalgia and innocence. Quite frankly, fuck that shit.
The flower bloomed](http://25.media.tumblr.com/10e76f72803dcaf312978dec1c9f8802/tumblr_mku5kwpTqk1qa7b7qo1_500.png "This is where the [Aku no Hana] anime changes things. Director Hiroshi Nagahama’s weapon of choice isn’t poison, but an axe. By rotoscoping characters, he’s completely destroyed the layer of superficiality that the manga labours under and delves straight into the dark soul of Flowers of Evil. For many, this is unforgivable, but for me, it’s more just revealing of the seemingly widespread disdain anime fans have for facing anything that removes their blanket of unreality, where certain times and places like the rose-coloured high-school setting are magically protected within a bubble of nostalgia and innocence. Quite frankly, fuck that shit.
The flower bloomed")
This is where the [Aku no Hana] anime changes things. Director Hiroshi Nagahama’s weapon of choice isn’t poison, but an axe. By rotoscoping characters, he’s completely destroyed the layer of superficiality that the manga labours under and delves straight into the dark soul of Flowers of Evil. For many, this is unforgivable, but for me, it’s more just revealing of the seemingly widespread disdain anime fans have for facing anything that removes their blanket of unreality, where certain times and places like the rose-coloured high-school setting are magically protected within a bubble of nostalgia and innocence. Quite frankly, fuck that shit.
The flower bloomed
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The Flowers of Evil
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![In terms of challenging the viewer and forcing us to question our own moral stance, [Psycho-Pass] proves a fascinating experience, but for a series that seems to be about instigating change, the sad thing is that nothing has changed by its end. Weirdly, it isn’t a depressing watch. It doesn’t wallow in despair. This is the world, and it simply moves on with the status quo. Again, is that right? Or good? It’s realistic, I guess, and serves to warn us that our freedom is as precious as it is easily lost, and lost, at that, as a consequence of trying to do some good.
The end of Psycho-Pass](http://25.media.tumblr.com/65a87b9d33983bff735c1c366a0e0123/tumblr_mkha92KvSU1qa7b7qo1_500.png "In terms of challenging the viewer and forcing us to question our own moral stance, [Psycho-Pass] proves a fascinating experience, but for a series that seems to be about instigating change, the sad thing is that nothing has changed by its end. Weirdly, it isn’t a depressing watch. It doesn’t wallow in despair. This is the world, and it simply moves on with the status quo. Again, is that right? Or good? It’s realistic, I guess, and serves to warn us that our freedom is as precious as it is easily lost, and lost, at that, as a consequence of trying to do some good.
The end of Psycho-Pass")
In terms of challenging the viewer and forcing us to question our own moral stance, [Psycho-Pass] proves a fascinating experience, but for a series that seems to be about instigating change, the sad thing is that nothing has changed by its end. Weirdly, it isn’t a depressing watch. It doesn’t wallow in despair. This is the world, and it simply moves on with the status quo. Again, is that right? Or good? It’s realistic, I guess, and serves to warn us that our freedom is as precious as it is easily lost, and lost, at that, as a consequence of trying to do some good.
The end of Psycho-Pass
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Stripped naked and put on trial, Squealer screams at the judge that he is human. Everyone in the room just laughs. He’s then bound by their Cantus’ (telekinesis,) and sentenced to ‘Eternal Hell,’ a disgusting form of torture that deforms his body yet forces him to keep living, experiencing excruciating pain in his every waking second. Him screaming “My name is Squealer” is as haunting as it is sad, and comes to symbolise Shin Sekai Yori’s parting shot. Hostilities may have ceased, but the war is far from won. Squealer was their equal, an intellectual and brave individual, rewarded with nowt but serfdom, indignity and torture. He deserved his freedom.
My name is Squealer
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from the new world
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Shin Sekai Yori. I shall miss thee.
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![cureelliott:
[Image: A full color image of Akira from Tsuritama facing to the left with Tapioca sitting on his head.]
By ナナムラ](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rukgmiU71qcu5qro1_500.jpg "cureelliott:
[Image: A full color image of Akira from Tsuritama facing to the left with Tapioca sitting on his head.]
By ナナムラ")
cureelliott:
[Image: A full color image of Akira from Tsuritama facing to the left with Tapioca sitting on his head.]
By ナナムラ
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Ryūtarō Nakamura. Serial Experiments Lain, 1998.
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