Patreon Q&A For "Who Was Responsible For This Anime?"
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my comment disappeared from the questions post :(. i wrote a lot of words and i can’t remember it all but the gist was: the way women are drawn in eiken made me think of all the creepy “straight shota” doujin that get posted on chan boards and i wonder if there’s a connection there. both those doujin and something as purely fan service are something made for the absolute seediest of otaku and it seems like there’s some broader disturbance of the male cisgender patriarchal psyche on display here. something something “the only nice woman is my mom” developing into a whole fractal of fetishes towards this exaggerated anime mature body type. there was more in the original question but this is what i recall
Sookie Stackhouse-Lenin
2022-03-29 23:52:28 +0000 UTCi don’t know if i’ve actually *liked* a trigger series on the whole but i’ve enjoyed bits and pieces like: in gurren lagann i really like how at the normal shounen end point where the credits would roll after they beat the evil king instead the story goes “sure you won a war but now you have to like actually govern a planet good luck have fun” and i found kill la kill incredibly stylish but its internal justification for the insane amount of fan service really rang hollow for me especially with the way they play girl girl romance for laughs. can’t think of any other stuff from their work that’s really made an impression on me.
Sookie Stackhouse-Lenin
2022-03-29 23:48:23 +0000 UTCi understood the dangronp question's answers and i... need to reflect upon my life choices. I'm not sure if one is the tightest because... it has that problematic trial.
Kitty ( The cursed existence of financial instability ) fo
2022-03-29 02:50:11 +0000 UTCThanks so much for the book recs! I have added them to my list. I am reading Beautiful Fighting Girl now and I have the Hikikomori book as well; I'm only allowed to take out so many books through my library's inter-library loan system, though, so I have to wait to tackle the Moe Manifesto lol
Rachael
2022-03-28 20:00:47 +0000 UTCOh my god, that sprite comic you mentioned was hosted on The Mystical Forest Zone! It was a Sonic sprite dump website. The comic was called InSonicNia I think? That website was great for a way too young to be online me.
Rupeescreamer
2022-03-28 15:28:11 +0000 UTCI personally love a lot of Gainax anime but Trigger shows are really hit or miss for me. I appreciate hearing other people give a perspective that isn't just a rave review for the studios.
larvapuppy
2022-03-27 05:20:48 +0000 UTCi totally agree with your read on nakashima kazuki’s writing… i enjoyed promare on the visual and audio level a lot but there’s almost nothing that i like about the way it’s written lol. but also him being brought up made me realize that he was the head writer on kamen rider fourze which is a fun time i suppose because it doesn’t attempt any serious sociopolitical stuff and is just about kids in high school being friends and fighting space monsters. it has some really heartfelt character moments among the kids who are friends and if it did anything promare-style stupid in its overarching plot i can’t remember it now. so i feel like that proves your point that he’d be better off focusing on interpersonal stuff lol… which is just to say he has his strengths too under the right circumstances and also fourze is a good time if youre ever in the mood for kamen rider. btw i love these q&a’s, you both are really interesting to listen to talking about stuff like this! excited for your next video!
Alice P
2022-03-27 02:41:12 +0000 UTCThe discussion about Trigger et al was really interesting as someone who is pretty ambivalent about a lot of their work--I think you're absolutely right that their attempts to explore complex social dynamics are frequently hamfisted and lack nuance (thinking of Promare and KLK) but there's also something incredibly earnest and cathartic about the way their work embraces a very pure desire for true freedom. I genuinely love Promare--for all its faults, I think its visual storytelling is incredible and really holds together the central metaphor(s) for me. This is one of my favorite pieces of writing about the film: https://medium.com/anigay/the-shape-of-queer-liberation-on-the-geometry-of-promare-cf8b1b47ced4
blusocket
2022-03-26 18:48:53 +0000 UTCAlso I really appreciate how much thought and consideration you put into my very tough and complicated question. Both of your struggles in explaining how you felt about the issues i raised where honest and more than I could ask for. Thanks!
T. K.
2022-03-26 13:00:00 +0000 UTC(Just to help out my folks trying to brute force google.) The manga/anime the hosts with the most are talking about is titled B Gata H Kei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Gata_H_Kei
T. K.
2022-03-26 12:23:17 +0000 UTCPu-erh is aged black tea. Definitely an acquired taste.
Peter Ciccolo
2022-03-26 09:01:27 +0000 UTC
