ShortCircuited

Warning! This post is full of TL;DR fail.

A response and a discussion of value and preference of literature (and obviously other forms of media). (more…)

This time I vectored an image from some SnS product (think its a cushion or a mousepad?), so the source was an annoyingly sparse 500×500.

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Fumina Konoe Strikes Back was definitely one of (if not) the best Shana-tans I’ve seen.

Figure 1.0: Shana-tan mulls.

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>:3

In the eyes of the beholder - at first it simply looked like the response of a multi-coupled band-pass line filter…

Figure 1.0: Jesus Christ its a lion, get in the car!

hahaha.

For some reason I was quite surprised that they mentioned some actual literature in the anime.

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Gonna take a while to get back to the old movie-watching habits. My goal is to have seen all the notable 07 films by next month.

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It is pretty much understood that most independent films, particularly ones made by first time directors and writers, will not gather much of an audience. They may bring it around the festival circuit, or they may get a few open-minded fans, and if they’re really lucky, they can find a good distributor, sell enough tickets to keep the producers happy, and gather enough credibility to finance their next project. But every once in a while, such a independent film (usually a comedy) comes along and makes it very, VERY big. I’m talking about hundreds of millions in box office revenue and a multitude of media attention. In 2006, there was Little Miss Sunshine; before that, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and most recently, it was Juno.

Good luck exploring the infinite abyss, Braff. (I’ll explain how this is relevant)

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I am not certain as to the stimulus behind the comparisons between two distinct media, and while not even outright (literature spans the full spectrum of creative and uncreative output of humanity so I guess such complete inspection would be unnecessary and tiresome), it is quite true that fiscal impetus is a primary driving force on televised works. Thinking of literature meant primarily to be entertaining (and thus might cater to even the lowest common denominator - which isn’t always the case as my friend touched on in his Honey and Clover article Mike so graciously linked), many cases come up which are, in a way, just as intellectually uninspiring as anime: The Da Vinci Code, many science fiction works, I would like to mention more but it had been too long since I read a non-academic work. In contrast, writing and publishing a book with a very small intended audience is quite possible, however I do not believe that animated shows easily lend themselves to such solitary efforts, Makoto Shinkai being an anomaly - it simply costs too much and distribution used to be a problem. Although with increased computing power (efficiency) and with the internet, anime might see an increase in independent, thought-provoking works whose primary objective is to show something to the audience for the sake of making them think (see Yasuhiro Yoshiura). (more…)

I saw one whole movie this month, but at least now I’m done with exams.

Southland Tales - It’s a movie staring Dwyane Johnson, Justing Timberlake, Seamm William Scott, Mandy Moore, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and half of the cast of Saturday Night Live. How can it possibly go wrong?

J.C. Staff <3

I thought that the Shinra Banshou ought to be quite convenient, one possibility shown in Figure 1.0 (comic).

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