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Yardhouse12 | Aug 29, 2023 2:21 PM
Hello, nice to meet you all. |
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Slain_slate | Oct 19, 2018 11:32 AM
Fuck gender ideology, f*ck political correctness |
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_Morpheus_ | Apr 9, 2018 2:39 PM
Just finished watching Houseki no kuni. You could derive some interesting comments about the relation between mind-body-gender from it, with reversed Buddhist overtones in the background. It certainly has an interesting plot behind its back. Have you watched it ? What did you thought of it ? |
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TheInvisibleSelf | Mar 29, 2018 7:24 PM
This club should be more active. I just watched submarine 6 and would love to talk about it with someone. |
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Crusader_8 | Dec 18, 2017 10:45 PM
Yeah It's difficult to find good anime that's philosophical rather than psychological (or anything else). The only time anime seems to get philosophical is when it gets eastern-philosophical, with rare and few exceptions. |
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PleiadesRising | Oct 4, 2017 3:53 AM
Haven't posted here in a while. I guess that's to be expected when most of what I've watched up to this point weren't philosophical in any meaningful way. But that's not entirely true.One anime that struck me was Harmony. I noticed it's genre-tagged in MAL as "psychological", but it does have some interesting philosophical topics it covers, e.g. self-hood, consciousness and origins. It even quotes Foucault, which I thought was fitting, but not exactly in relation to that quote. Foucault wrote about knowledge and the constitution of the self, which is I think why this anime owes its intellectual origins to him, but goes even further back to Nietzsche. Why him? I don't want to give too much away, but anyone who has read "On The Genealogy of Morals" ought to be familiar with his thesis on the origin of guilt and its relation to consciousness and memory. This is key to a central part of Harmony, especially as the story progresses near the end. Okay, before I get out of hand, Harmony is worth watching if you're familiar with Foucault, and especially his intellectual predecessor Nietzsche. Once you get a grasp of what it's doing and where it's going, the ideas it presents are a bit unnerving in their implications and consequences. |
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Crusader_8 | Sep 28, 2017 9:53 PM
I still have Kino's Journey sitting on my shelf... I'm afraid to watch it since everything I've heard and seen about the show to this point comes across as pseudo-intellectual |
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Suffering_Desu | Aug 22, 2017 9:48 AM
Hopefully the new Kino no Tabi season will bring some life back into this club |
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Antanaru | Jun 1, 2017 8:57 AM
Well, I don't remember when was the last new thought provoking anime maybe aside from Death Parade and how much can you talk about the same 90s and 2000s stuff so... |
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Yardhouse12 | Apr 8, 2016 10:11 PM
Hey, has anyone seen the anime Monster? I trying to write a paper that associates it with the four types of evils and I was wondering if anyone could have me out with it. |
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yolerMit | Nov 18, 2015 11:19 PM
Hello everybody!Has anyone watched Nekojiru-sou (Cat soup)? Have you understood the symbolism behind every scene? |
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Tsukiaki | Aug 23, 2015 11:10 AM
I'd like to suggest the adding of The world is Mine manga.It looks like a mess of violence and explosions at first but as the story progresses it talks more and more about existentialism, making it the central point of the manga. |
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omponk_donk | Jun 21, 2015 9:54 AM
Yo, I'd like to talk about Kiseijuu (Parasyte the Maxim)From what I see, almost everyone here in MAL that have watched the series seems to be bothered by the environmental messages that the series has. Personally, I don't really care about those kind of stuff. Even if in the future, the earth is rotted because of human's wrongdoings, I don't care, I really don't. (It's not like I don't give a shit about our environments, in fact I do care and treat them gently, but I just don't really think too much about them, as people nowadays seem to do too much to preserve nature, which often led to hypocrisy). I think Kiseijuu brings a really good topic about humanity, our place among other species, our place within the Nature. It also explores more about the humanity itself, and how similar we are to animals, etc. And I think people here in MAL seem to overlook this matter. So, what do you guys think? |
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PleiadesRising | Apr 5, 2015 10:19 PM
Alright, I'm a couple of chapters in, and so far Mechademia has offered some unique ways of exploring ways in which its possible to extend and blur the concept of humanity.So far, the topics have had an historical aspect to them, which might seem strange if one is thinking of "going beyond human". However, the topics covered show how historical appropriation is a key element in how each subject pushed the envelope into "otherness". As an example, the chapter "The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru" writes about Shigeru's take on yōkai and how he himself was a kind of historical link to a world of mystery somewhat alien to modern, scientific Japan. As such, he embodied a kind of "otherness" that opened up a space in the present that allowed a historical mysterious to coexist with the present. It's quite fascinating, and the following chapters are similar in their historical analyses, e.g. the next deals with Abeno Seimei, which is followed by one on Lolita fashion. At times it made me think of Heidegger's comments on technological society, along with Nietzsche's ideas on three types of history. A nice read, so far. |
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fartsy | Apr 5, 2015 12:48 PM
hi i'd like to suggest Mouryou no Hako on anime list, idk if its underrated or not popular? but i put a lot of thought of it, interesting art and theme in my opinion, i cant really give a decent review since my english bad.. haha |
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PleiadesRising | Mar 15, 2015 9:57 PM
When I read the summery and full details of vol.9, I had to wonder: Whose ideas? To what extent do the submissions, having identified the concept "Japan", themselves participate in that concept, I wonder.Now I'll have to buy that one too if I want to know! |
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Lazhward | Mar 15, 2015 4:50 PM
Volume 9: 'Weeaboos'.But yes, that one does seem interesting as well =P |
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Awashima | Mar 15, 2015 1:17 PM
Those look very intriguing, but i also have a lot of books i have yet to read and even more books i've already order >.< I need more time and less distractions!Anyway, 2, 3, 7, and 9 all seem like they would be interesting reads from that mechademia series |
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PleiadesRising | Mar 14, 2015 9:59 PM
Alright, they just shipped my order yesterday! The series overall did look like it has something to offer, so it enticed me to give one volume a try.Volumes 2 and 6 look like they'd be good companion pieces, and if all goes well, I'll probably grab one of those as well. The series' publisher, University of Minnesota Press, has some other books that interest me, too, which aren't on the Mechademia page I linked to. Here's the UofMP's page with another book that I've taken note of, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/otaku I might also pick up a copy of Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saito Tamaki, even though I'm not the biggest fan of Lacanian-style psychoanalysis. Still, chapter 5, A Genealogy of the Beautiful Fighting Girl, traces the history of that character type, and I'll always make time for historical analysis of that sort. Ah, so many books, so little money, haha. |
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Lazhward | Mar 14, 2015 5:31 AM
Those look awesome! Thanks for sharing, I might pick up some volumes myself. Please let us know what you think once you receive it ;) 3 does indeed seem to be among the most interesting ones; 2, 6 and 7 also garner my interest. |