"THEY'RE GIRLS! If they're not doing gay things with eachother, THEN WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR!?!?!?"
...Wait, god danm it, that's not an anime quote, that's a quote from an anime reviewer/analyst.
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"Let me give you just one little warning. -brief skip- The Wired is just an advanced medium for communication. Don't ever get it confused with the real world. Pause for emphasis Do you understand what I'm warning you about?"
Smirk "You're wrong."
"Huh?"
"The Border between the two isn't so clear. Pause for emphasis And I will be able to enter it soon. In full range and full motion. I'll be completely metamorphosed."
~Iwakura Yasuo and Iwakura Lain, 'Serial Experiments Lain' Episode 4.
Personally inspirational because it's a near-perfect mimicry of discussions I've had with family, friends, and co-workers about the internet...minus the whole "I'll be metamorphosed" part.
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"I promise you I'll always be right here. I'm right next to you, forever."
~Iwakura Lain, 'Serial Experiments Lain, Episode 13
Inspirational because SEL was a religious experience for me, and Iwakura Lain is one of the most believable human-yet-not human depiction of a deity. In a sense, this allowed me to accept the Abrahamic God, his metaphorical 'son' Jesus/Yeshua, and the concept of a 'Holy Spirit' as an actual deity-trio-in-one that might care for (at least some) people rather then creators with no actual investment in humans beyond a tallying game.
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The next three come from three separate works, but really only work all together as one.
"Yes. You made the right decision."
"No! That's impossible! How can that be the right decision!? 200 survived...but 300 died so they could live! The scales are tipped the wrong way!"
"No. Your calculations were correct. You made a choice to sacrifice the few to save the many."
~Internalized Realizations of Kiritsugu Emiya, Fate/Zero S2, Ep11
"Just because you keep trying to do the right thing doesn't mean you're guaranteed the happy ending. In fact, the more stubborn a person gets about what they think is right the less happy they're going to be. It's like we stop being rational all-together. Slight skip If the only way to help was to do something drastic, would you do it?"
"Yeah."
"Then you should do something wrong."
~Junko Kaname and Madoka Kaname, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Episode 6
"I don't expect you to understand. No one in the world could possibly understand."
*Huge time skip*
"I'm an existence called 'Evil' now. And if Evil is supposed to disrupt the divine and be a force of chaos, it's only natural for me to upset the laws of a 'God'."
~Akemi Homura, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion |