fired: Look at all these crosses, this anime must be rich with spiritual meaning!
tired: The Christian symbolism is meaningless. The director said he put them there because he thought they looked cool.
wired: The Christian symbolism has meaning because we each give religious symbols a different emotional loading, which we read into the work.
inspired: The Christian symbolism has meaning because God inspired various Japanese anime directors to put it there.
It’s possible for a dead character to have great influence on the plot without being undead or some other form of not-really-dead.
In real life, such things are echoes, or mechanisms setup beforehand.
Many years ago, I observed a discussion between an acquaintance and his father. The father said that the shows the son watched did not deal with death. The son said that Dragon Ball Z did deal with death - that the characters had died at such and such time, and were trapped in the spirit realm. But the father said that, as those characters came back, and so on, that they hadn’t really died, not in the way we understood it, and that the work didn’t really deal with death.
You know, it’s not like science has fucking stopped entirely. So why the hell do none of these sci-fi shows seems to have any vision? It’s like ideas for sci-fi stopped being created in the 80s and they can’t use anything that wasn’t written about before 1990.
Because Eclipse Phase is too unrelatable to general audiences.
We even got a live action Ghost in the Shell movie, and it really missed tons of opportunities in trying to dumb itself down for general audiences. Perhaps the worst part of it is that Standalone Complex was really quite prescient about the power of memeforce!
Though really, I also think that many Hollywood writers are mostly not of the sci-fi visionary caliber to go from “what if some dude became part robot?” to “what if every dude became part robot?”
The latter includes all sorts of cascading changes throughout society, seen in shows like Standalone Complex, with ordinary people becoming vulnerable to cyberbrain crime and reserving organs to be grown in pigs. Psycho-Pass is really the spiritual successor here in that it will probably seem really prescient about the use of big data to analyze people for criminality in about 10-20 years, the way Standalone Complex seems prescient about crimes-as-memes.
But even then, those are what, two shows in a foreign country, where most of the shows are either not of that type, or not of that caliber.
How would American audiences have responded if Standalone Complex were a live-action TV show?
my bed
are you sure this isn’t an SCP that comes to life at night and strangles people to death, only to be resold in the estate sale to the next victim
Actually, I’m reminded that the Ranma ½ anime is chock full of filler, and I’d love to see it get a gritty cyberpunk reboot, because I’m an evil person.
I was mad and hungry when I made this~
Okay, the contrast between the realism of the shading here with the anime face is weirding me out a little.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
That’s why most Japanese stuff is anime instead of live action: too expensive to fake the backgrounds and keep finding Chinese actors who can pretend they speak “Japanese”.
I can’t believe you would publish such a slanderous ask against the country that was once the 大日本帝国, you treacherous kangaroo farmer, the light of their mighty rising sun nearly covered all of Asi–
* gasping *
* coughing *
* wheezing *
Phew, don’t know what came over me, there. One moment I was just reading Tumblr and then I just… blacked out. It was almost like that time a foreign hypernationalist ideo-virus got past my memetic barriers and infected my cyberbrain. But fortunately I got that removed. No traces left.
A-argumate, why are you looking at me like that?
Argumate-kun? Is something wrong?
Anonymous asked:
Right then, let’s see what’s in this box you’ve brought us, my dear Anon-kun.
Hmn, yes, this is a good find. Go now, and be proud of yourself, my little grey sphere friend.
i’ll leave this here without any context
anime as hyperstimulus strikes again
(the task at hand is software design, I assume)
The task at hand is always software design, for a sufficiently abstract understanding of the term “software design”.
