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This is your Daily Reminder to
watch 91 days
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The thing about the whole "mental illness" mentality is that even THAT doesn't work for this act of protest. If Bushnell was mentally unwell, had a "suspicious, anarchist past", was in decline or had any form of anti-authoritarian behavior... he was still in the military. He was still an active service member. If any of that rings true then it means the US military doesn't vet people enough before training them to kill. It means they don't do check ups on their mental wellbeing (which, I mean they don't but still).
It means this whole facade of being this well put together, tightly run ship that the military has maintained for decades at this point, gone. In an instant, in one act, it's at the very least called into question. It's waking up even those who have been staunchly against the Palestinian protests by saying "This system doesn't protect even those it calls heroes. Is it really just?"
Thank you for that Aaron Bushnell. You were a sadly necessary nail in the coffin for many's idea of the US government
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she is just so cutie pie🧡
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Fun fact about the Utena dub: the first 13 episodes were dubbed in 1998, while the remaining 26 episodes weren’t dubbed until 2002-2003 due to licensing issues (according to wikipedia). I mentioned I’m not primarily watching the dub anymore, but I do like to flip over to it for some scenes just to see if there’s any difference in the quality of performances. So far, the answer is no- Rachel Lillis as Utena is still standing head and shoulders above the rest of the cast, but there is one exception: Lisa Ortiz as Shiori.
Probably not a coincidence that Lisa Ortiz is one of the handful of people who participated in this dub who’s still actively doing VA work.
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not yuri not yaoi but a secret third thing (friendship)
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Hunter x Hunter Ch. 362 Redraw
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Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?
I don't think it's possible.
Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...
...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.
The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows.
The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.
"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:
- Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.
- Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.
- Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.
- The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.
- The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."
- A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.
- Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.
- A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.
- An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.
- Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.
- A character called "the Earl of Pudding."
- A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."
- The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.
- An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.
- A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.
- Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.
- A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."
- Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.
Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.
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i love you choso
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putting on a british movie but the subtitles arent working
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Animedia Magazine, September 1997!
A Revolutionary Girl Utena spread led me to grab this used, and because I archive like a maniac, I also scanned the insert sub-magazine that sits at the centerfold: Animedia's 'Anime Eye: By Reader for Reader.' Check those out below!
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