Xardie's Comments

Hello, thanks for reading the review.

The source is from here http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/02/10/anican-2008-readers-poll-macross-f-nana-mizuki-yui-horie/
Refer to the black and white ranking list.

Yo, I noticed you changed OreImo to a 7.. I thought you liked it quite a lot at first and gave it a 9 (iirc)? Just wondering what happened since it ended.

Also you should watch the 3rd true ending episode ASAP, it's fucking hilarious.

:D I am quite jealous that you got to see Tsubasa in theatres FOUR TIMES. Holy shit man that sounds incredible!

Yes, Madoka is at a 7 for me, but in the future I might up that to an 8. Succinct reasoning is due mostly to how badly written some of the dialogue was, and how hammy the otherwise talented VAs had to overact it. Many of the exchanges in the last two episodes literally had me rolling my eyes.

See my ramble on Forced Perspective for the inexcusably un-succinct reasoning. It was good, but man, maybe it was the break, but after rewatching several episodes and eating that finale, I can't help but wonder what the big deal is now. Aside from its impressive aesthetics & sound, there's very little to it. As mahou shoujo goes, I'd consider it as good as/a bit better than Nanoha or Pretear, but FAR from other so-called "masterpieces" of the genre.

I wish I could watch Sayonara no Tsubasa already! There's a chance Redline might be making a handful of stateside theatre rounds sometime this year, though... :D

RIP OSAMU DEZAKI

FUCKING DEZAKI, MAN

GODDAMNIT

FUCK YEAH SAILOR MOON

Shit's crazy. It's like it's 1996 again and I'm watching it on VHS, except without all the localization & dubbing and with tits and shit. Well, still not much with the tits, but whatever. Rei and Ami make up for that. Ami, mostly.

After marathoning Nanoha A's on Saturday, I felt the need for more mahou shoujo. I figured the famous quintessential landmark title of the genre should quench my thirst for awhile... especially since the first couple episodes of Creamy Mami weren't that good and I still haven't been able to find complete subs of the first Minky Momo series. I figured I might as well watch it now anyway, since Sailor Moon R was my initial target (lolIkuhara) and I should probably watch the first series before diving into that one, but this has been pretty entertaining in its own right.

Say, is EGF not accessible for you as well atm?

Not sure if it's my internet issues or more lolforum wackiness

Just wanted to say that I have your "anime dialogue" jpg saved to my desktop and will be eagerly looking for opportunities to whip it out in future. It is pure truth.

Finished Kimi ni Todoke S1. It was good, but man, you & Oz seem to go crazy over it. Am I missing something? I'd hardly call it ZOMGAMAZING shoujo. Well animated and certainly above average presentation, but not nearly incredible. "lolShoujo" done well, nothing more or less IMO.

I'm about to hop on board with S2, probably tomorrow. Or later today, seeing as how it's now after midnight.

Jesus Christardie,

Anno was explicit about Jung and Kierkegaard (and a superficial bit of Melanie Klein in the "Splitting of the Breast" between the "good breast" and the "bad breast"), but Anno's interpretation of Jungian-existentialism can be considered Lacanian. For Jung, personality forms when an individual identifies with "imagos" emerging from the collective unconscious; in Lacan's "mirror stage", the moment an infant identifies with its reflection (imago) lays the foundation of incompleteness -- the imago is external to the infant, and from this encounter with an "other" the "I" comes into being, dividing the boundless, "pre-language" existence. The last two episodes of the series were reportedly based on Anno's Gestalt psychotherapy sessions. Lacan used "Gestalt" to refer to the "pregancy" that will "unite the I with the statue in which man projects himself", the statue being Unit 01 to Shinji in Evangelion and this pregnancy being the Human Instrumentality Project -- although according to Lacan, this pregnancy can only give birth to death.

This isn't "another" interpretation -- I was simply defending the validity of the term Lacanian to refer to Evangelion (:

As for Comedy being Subjective, there is an objective method in "measuring" subjectivity through tangential evidence. Humor in its most rudimentary form is "X is funny"; in other words, humor relies on stereotypes such as "penis is funny" or "n-word is funny" or "gay is funny" and so on. "Comedy" shows such as South Park and Family Guy employ this rudimentary humor by pointing the imperial gun at anything other than themselves while holding a mute laugh track button; this is why Comedy is the most powerful socio-political Institution for disseminating and maintaining oppressive cultures.

Poor Comedies rely on some form of a laugh track -- any signal that commands laughter either through being self-proclaimed "Comedies", in which case each sentence is assumed by the viewer as a joke or something that leads to a punchline, or through a library of overused reactions to something hilarious which include super deformed facial expressions and so on.

I particularly love your emphasis on pacing. To me, film and music are intertwined like dancer from dance. Maya Deren once attacked film in its infancy by stating that photography already has an innate property of animation, and that film must distinguish itself from photography if it were to be called Art. The fundamental property of film is therefore motion, thus the term motion pictures. (In answer to Deren, one can film the phenomenological experience of viewing a photo just as Godard did with his films by panning the camera along the shapes and textures of objects and landscapes.)

I value moments of laughter among the height of human experience, thus I take Comedy very seriously. If the essence of hilarity is an unexpected incongruity, then timing the punchline is crucial before the viewer figures out what is to be revealed. The Simpsons has often gotten away with lame jokes through speed (but of course lame jokes in The Simpsons are rare). A one-liner can turn from viral to invalid with the wrong phrasing. Then again taste is more about tolerance -- any stimulation, from jokes to drugs to beauty, diminish in effect with each successive use. Thus only those who are knowledgeable of the "normative" sample of a given competitive domain can appreciate the creative efforts that make the difference.

BTW I've just seen Alien Nine. I, honestly, only loved it for reminding me of Eva; such is the folly of the fanboy heart (:

And Hare Guu (English dub recommended!) is just as squidding funny as Ika Musume! Another hilarious masterpiece is Fumoffu (KAA subs) and Honey and Clover. All these Comedies have more in them, of course.

Squiddingly yours,
~kurzweil1024

P.S. I felt it unfair that you seem to be more familiar to me than I am a stranger to you, so here's my Top 4 Greatest Works of Art post in my personal fun Tumble blog: http://pablobanila.tumblr.com/post/1204516933/the-4-greatest-works-of-art

Your comment on Mizushima Tsutomu's page on "having excellent comedic timing" is the first sign of sanity I've seen in MAL. I know the evidence is overwhelming but I just couldn't believe that so many people in here have no sense of decency whatsoever. I've been led to finish so-called "most hilarious" comedies waiting for that final, fatal laugh and I just couldn't help but doubt whether I was the sick one for being unable to imagine how anyone can live life trying to make people laugh using those-- OH, GOD, FUCCCKKK D; D; D;

DAMN.

DUDE.

YOU'RE LIKE

THE MOMENT I SAW YOUR FAVORITES AND ANIME LIST IT WAS LIKE A SAINTED HIGH-FIVE WELCOMING ME IN A WARM, SLAPPING TENTACLE EMBRACE

FRIENDS FOREVER K?