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Sugar Apple Fairy Tale
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale
Yesterday, 10:21 AM
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Isekai Shokudou 2
Isekai Shokudou 2
Yesterday, 9:52 AM
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Bonus Track: Atarashii Yoru no Hanami
Bonus Track: Atarashii Yoru no Hanami
Mar 26, 9:04 PM
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Shin Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki
Shin Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki
Feb 13, 2023 2:40 AM
Completed 24/24 · Scored 8
Hattatsu Shougai to Issho ni Otona ni Natta Watashitachi
Hattatsu Shougai to Issho ni Otona ni Natta Watashitachi
Aug 11, 2022 6:22 PM
Completed 26/26 · Scored 6
Hikari to Tomo ni...: Jiheishouji wo Kakaete
Hikari to Tomo ni...: Jiheishouji wo Kakaete
Jul 30, 2017 2:19 PM
Completed 92/92 · Scored 9

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MoesianThracian Jan 14, 9:48 AM
I understand. It does kind of show its age and I was tempted to give up around the halfway point, but it gets better after that. There's a lot of errors that I've been told don't exist in the manga, so I haven't payed them much mind when I decided to give my score. I enjoyed watching it.
MoesianThracian Jan 14, 7:52 AM
Yeah, I think the only other anime I've seen are the 2013 Harlock film, which sucked, and the 2009 Yamoto movie (uh, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbZqggcL4w), which was pretty good. And that was comparatively recently. Then the man died and I felt sad I hadn't watched any of his main works or read any of his manga while he was still alive. Seems like all of the classic mangaka and anime creators are going to pass away soon.
MoesianThracian Jan 14, 3:19 AM
Heh, I saw them before "The Cockpit", too.

I knew who Matsumoto Leiji was, but I don't think I had seen anything by him directly. "The Cocpit" might have been the first one. Before "Interstella-5555" and "Captain Harlock."

In "Captain Harlock" the Queen of the Mazone leads her people into a mass exodus to save them from peril, coming into conflict with the one man who was ready to stand up to them, to save the Humans who scorn him. Later, it's revealed that the Queen herself is a human, which is never explained. But goes to show that it's one's kin versus another.

Common in all three works is the employment of goofy-looking characters alongside more traditionally drawn (in anime) ones. The Americans in "The Cockpit" do not have them, neither do the Mazone, or the antagonists of "5555". The Germans in the first episode also don't have them. In fact, they appear more sinister, as if degraded compared to the hero and his love interest, than the enemy whom we never actually see, just their fighter planes.
MoesianThracian Jan 13, 4:55 PM
All nations employ indoctrination tactics to some extent. People talk about how bad tribalism is, but the tribe is what even keeps you together in the first place. Everything is based on kinship and the cultural memory is employed to make one obedient and later loyal to his family.

When people talk about "There's only one race (literally "people") the Human race" they're talking about our shared common ancestry, invoking the need to be loyal to one another, to be fair amongst ourselves, so that we don't have anymore bloodshed. But our common lineage is just the byproduct of evolution, and no other animal species avoids conflict and destruction within its ranks entirely, either. It's a bizarre truism that calls to cease our selfish notions of kinship, but neglects to acknowledge the establishment of sub-groups of "people" who have families and bonds and who will want to protect those families in order for the gens to survive.

I guess that's why DINKS (Dual income no kids) or a new wave of anti-natalists have emerged, to say "it's cool to just consume products, you don't need a family".

To bring this back to anime - the creator of Gundam saw the need to show the two sides of a conflict in his story. It's worth noting that the main character let goes of his biological family and gets taken in by his foster one - the crew of the White base. But him and they are still part of a greater family, the Earth Federation. So, rather like a primitive aboriginal, he just leaves one gens (clan) for another, but they're still related in a sense. Through memetics, ideas, values, norms, beliefs, etc;
MoesianThracian Jan 13, 6:06 AM
This sort of storytelling focus was one I had not seen from war-focused films up to that point when I seen Cockpit over a decade ago, as much of what I seen had the habit of simply glorifying the main faction of focus and reducing the other side to being portrayed as some sort of irredeemable evil.


Very interesting.

In Bulgaria, Cartoon Network originally had to share a spot with Turner Classic Movies and they'd rerun various old WW 2 movies like the Dirty Dozen constantly, which didn't have very virtuous characters. I think exposure to those kinds of films saved me as a kid from glorifying one side over the other.

I guess that's one very positive aspect of old Anglo-American cinema as opposed to old Soviet cinema. I think the first 20 years of World War II cinema in the USSR, the majority of films was the hero kind, in which the Red guard violently and honorably opposes the invading German/"Nazi" force. Really one-sided, but I guess that's to be expected.

Two months back I watched "Hell in the Pacific" with Mifune and Lee Marvin. Enemy soldiers who hate each other come to work together to survive and form a friendship. It falls apart when the sobriety of living ends, having survived the worst of it, and the merry times begin with them becoming inebriated. Suddenly they remember that they are enemies, from different civilisations, and the friendship ends. I wonder if there's an anime like that.
MoesianThracian Jan 11, 1:22 AM
I hope I didn't startle you, man.
MoesianThracian Jan 10, 11:41 AM
It's more than making a humanistic take, it's about making them out to be heroes in their own right. That there are righteous men, virtuous men who shine, somewhat contradictory, by both obeying and refusing their countries' bidding. The offense is strange to me, but maybe it's because my nation has been on the losing side in both World Wars. You have the largest empires in the world condemning other countries' attempts at empire building. Very strange.
MoesianThracian Jan 10, 11:17 AM
I managed to watch it through alternative means. I enjoyed it, especially the second episode. It seems to me the Western fandom of Anime generally doesn't focus on works with nationalistic plots and themes, unless they are scornful of nationalism. Common criticism of "Angel Cop" for example is not even related to its main plot points of national subversion but rather focus on the localisation, and someone might say it's anti-semetic, but not why it is. "The Cockpit" is an apologia for the main Axis forces, which is cool. Especially to me, because my country was on the side of the Axis.
MoesianThracian Jan 10, 7:56 AM
Clearly you haven't watched enough anime.
Berry-Vodka Nov 21, 2023 11:46 AM
wow, really? that sounds like a nice box set, very collectible.
Yeah, I watched them all online but it wasn't very good imo
Berry-Vodka Nov 20, 2023 8:52 PM
Lupin III: Lupin Ikka Seizoroi · Completed 1/1 ・ Scored -
what the hell was that even? 😂
Berry-Vodka Nov 20, 2023 8:51 PM
Sonic X Pilot · Completed 2/2 ・ Scored -
wow...
Rozzes Jul 7, 2023 3:20 PM
Thank's for accepting me, apyr.
Macaroon17 Jul 4, 2023 4:58 AM
Thanks for accepcting my friend request :D
AthensBestCity May 29, 2023 11:01 AM
Happy Birthday! ~

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