This is one brilliant man.
Mushishi is a polarizing show. Most people loved it for its poignant description of the human description and slow moving dramatics. The others hated it for the same reasons; it had some pacing problems, and was admittedly depressing in the way it portrayed every other human besides Ginko. It encompassed a wide variety of the spectrum of human emotion; Greed(ep 6) Love for those long gone(ep 8,16,17, 22) Unrequited love/lust/schoolgirl crush(ep 20) A womans love for a child not technically her own(ep 21) Hatred and fear of the unknown(ep 24) Acceptance of fate (ep 25).
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Yeah I just quoted They Live, which I will be referencing in a future post about dystopian fiction including 1984, animal farm, and they live.
Now as far as anime posts go I will have a series on Mushishi and philosophy(since everyone describes this show as so philosophical and deep I’m going to investigate). I will have a post about gundam soon although this cheeky bastard pretty much has the market cornered on intelligent gundam posts. I haven’t been watching any anime in a while although both kaiba and toshokan sensou look brilliant.
As for personal updates I have been watching more movies(Magnolia, and Memento being my favorite), reading more books(Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, and a bunch of poems by T.S. Eliot)
This blog is not dead, merely kicked in the groins by life outside of the blogosphere.
