Week 14: Perfect Blue I’ll talk a little bit about Perfect Blue, since it is one of the most important movies in Anime history in my opinion and I’ve seen it a lot of times. Plus, I presented today so I don’t know what else to talk about. Anyway, Perfect Blue has much to say about fame as an addiction for star and audience – a mutual dependency heightened these days by the internet. To know herself, Mima has to read her own diary as compiled by a psychotic fan. In essence, Perfect Blue is a traditional doppelgänger nightmare. Mima’s artificial pop self – one of three near-identical fluffy Lolitas that comprise girl-group Cham – revolts by taking on a life of its own, and all Mima can do is guiltily suffer its taunts, while trying to exorcise it in her new soap role. It’s no accident that Mima’s television character is dressed as a soft-porn version of the Cham look in her rape scene. Satoshi and screenwriter Murai Sadayuki develop a complex structure for Mima’s psychosis, i
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Week 13: ONE PUNCH MANNNNN!!!!! One Punch Man’s story is simple- The story of an average guy who’s a hero for fun. Now what makes this unique is that this show is a parody. For people new to that genre, it’s an imitation of other work. Basically what this anime does is it makes a parody out of shounen genre, where you have a male protagonist who gets beaten down, and then trains or in some other way defeats the bad guy. Here, the MC is just over-powered to the extent that he gets depressed there’s no one strong enough to challenge him. You might think that such a strong person would be revered as a God by the people. Sadly, you’re mistaken. The people don’t even know he exists!! Anyone who is open-minded will enjoy this anime to its full extent. Now the only reason I gave this a 9 is because of the meticulously high standard set by Ufotable in the Fate series and Kara no Kyoukai movies. But by no means is it far behind. In most anime, usually the MC has some kind of weapon, you can
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Week 12: Junji Ito!!!! I'm going to review Uzumaki because it was the first and only manga that I've read by Junji Ito and I absolutlely love it. The story follows what must seem like a bizarre, absurd premise even by the standards of weird fiction. A small Japanese town is “infested by spirals.” This means spiral shapes begin to appear everywhere: blades of grass, clouds, pottery baking in a kiln, whirlpools in creeks. The story quickly becomes unnerving once townspeople begin obsessing over the spirals, such as Mr. Saito, the father of Shuichi Saito, one of the main characters. Mr. Saito commits acts like stopping in the middle of streets to watch snails for hours and stocking a room in his house dedicated to anything with a spiral shape drawn, carved, or otherwise embedded in or on it. This situation becomes even more menacing when Mr. Saito begins to distort his own body to assume spiral shapes, which leads to some truly disturbing images of the horrifying pliability
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Week 11: Psycho-Pass I will give my review of Psycho-Pass since I saw it pretty recently (in the last few years or so). The plot structure is a crime serial with several smaller cases and an overarching major villain entering the picture several times, similar to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex . I don’t know if there is something in the air or water at sci-fi crime studios, but they always seem to have excellent villains. Psycho-Pass is no exception. These villains complement the central theme of humanity and free thought perfectly, sometimes through twisted means. Good art and animation blend CG nicely with lighting and filters such as rain. Love the world design. Despite the dark settings, the city’s neon lights create a nice colour contrast. Psycho-Pass predicts the criminal rather than just the crime like in Minority Report . In Minority Report, a chain of events lead an individual to want to commit a crime, and the system predicts this for prevention. Ps
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Week 9: Bananafish & Kill la Kill I thought the Banana Fish presentation was one of the best presentations to date. It definitely got into a heated argument about sexualization in Kill la kill right before the presentation but that doesn’t foreshadow how informative and excellent it was. The Kill la Kill argument was a bit intense and I think a lot of the students forgot that it’s not our country and not really culture so us judging is a bit redundant. I didn’t want to give my own input due to the amount of people that could get triggered and offended. Therefore, I sat back and let the argument go on. I was also afraid to drag on the conversation when there were still a few other presentation that needed to get off the ground.
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Week 8: RANMA 1/2!! For me, that would be Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma 1/2. It was the anime that launched my love for “Japanese cartoons.” And I actually find it kind of sad that a lot of anime fanatics nowadays seem to not know it even exists. I watched it actually a long time ago and even thought there are a lot of episodes, I can still write a small review of what I remember. Ranma 1/2 is about Ranma Saotome, a boy who has been trained in the Anything-Goes School of Martial Arts style by his father, Genma, ever since he was a boy. During a training expedition to the cursed springs of Jusenkyo, Ranma falls into the Spring of Drowned Girl and now, whenever he gets splashed with cold water, he turns into a girl while hot water turns him back into a boy. Throughout the series, Ranma gets into all sorts of messes and encounters all sort of characters who either want to date him or beat him up. I pretty much like all of the supporting characters as each and everyone has their own quirks
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Week 6: Studio Ghibli I want to talk about my favortie studio ghibli movie "Princess Mononoke" since the presentation was about studio ghibli today. It was a movie that was on toonami a lot so that's how I saw it. I remember Prince Ashitaka protects his rural village from threats of the forest. When a demonic corruption starts spreading across the land, he encounters San, the warrior princess raised by wolves. As the forces of Irontown led by the fearless Lady Eboshi strive to harvest the forest, and mercenaries hunt the Forest Spirit, Ashitaka and San must fight to keep the forest protected. A fantasy of epic proportions, Princess Mononoke is a masterclass in establishing themes, building a world around them and executing animated action sequence with fury and beauty. This is Miyazaki’s greatest work fulfilled with enormity and prowess, a true masterpiece.