Morals of Murder; relating Baccano to Kant

Baccano and Kant:Relating Immortals that murder haphazardly to the Godfather of German Idealism

 

A Post from my old blog

Anonymity,Humanity,Love,and a crazy guy with arms in his thong

Marathoning Kemonozume wasnt what i was supposed to do today, but when i did what i got was instead a trip into hell. With vivid colors, and insane gritty style, Kemonozume is the epitome of a mind-fuck anime.

Revolving around a dojo that kills demons called flesh Eaters, the story is centered around Toshihiko who would inherit the dojo called kifuuken and live a life killing the beasts. unfortunately he cant seem to kill them, as everytime he tries he shits his pants and runs away(literally). All seems well and normal until he meets yuka and the two fall in love immediately.

 

Denno Coil:relating anime to philosophy, and how terminology ruins anime

Denno Coil is a series about kids with glasses. Thats about it…If the series was shot from the perspective of someone without the magical glasses, the series wouldn’t have lasted beyond the first few episodes. What makes Denno Coil so special is the glasses. The glasses allow people to see a sort of cyber-world that exists in real time and affects everyone with the glasses. Take one of the episodes in which Daichi (one of the characters) gets an Illegal which is not allowed to exist in the Actual space(space without the glasses) unless the cyber space is obsolete. Well he decides to take the Illegal in as a pet and feed it Obsolete textiles from the cyber-space. Eventually it grows into this-

It would be easy to write off Denno Coil off as kids messing around with cyber-reality…until thir actions begin to physically harm them when they try to contact the dead through the Obsolete space.

The first half of the series is leading up to all the secrets that get revealed in the second half. Attempting to relate this to philosophy seems a perfect job for a solipsist. According to Metaphysical Solipsism the only thing that I know for sure exists is my mind. Everything else is just what my mind can come up with. A rock, a computer, a prostitute, those are all things that exist solely in my mind. We can never know what other peoples minds are thinking so therefore they don’t exist, according to solipsism. This seems unlikely and selfish, as it claims that all the great ideas thought up were all mine, and so were all the terrible murderous ones as well. So we’ve got this world and maybe others exist and maybe they don’t when all of a sudden these magical glasses come along and a whole new reality is created. All of these glasses are interconnected, and so when something happens in the cyber world, everyone after that with the glasses is able to see it for themselves. To me that is saying that others can and do exist. Of course does that mean that those without the glasses don’t exist?
Another interesting facet to Denno Coil is its terminology. Terminology in anime is nothing new, from the first time i heard the word Angel as a bad thing in Neon Genesis Evangelion, to the rampant confusion offered by Darker than Black’s misused “Messier’s codes”. Denno Coil completely revamps the concept of terminology to destroy the viewers fragile psyche, from the epic Meta-tags to the title of the show itself. Anything that even sounds remotely computer related is fodder for the name of something else on Denno. Whether this is a good or bad thing is up to the viewer, but as for me I loved the show but they could’ve toned this aspect down a few notches.

All in all I give Denno Coil a 10 out of 10. For such a small scale its perfect. Out of a hundred its about a 95. SO WATCH IT!

also i had to share this picture-

its from when a certain type of illegal grows on the kids’ faces. the tiny illegals then gains consciousness and begins to question everything. they make up religion, and makes yasako into a goddess. They then declare war on the other side of her face and declare that “yasako is dead”. That is almost a direct quote from Nietzsche. A stunning foray into the human condition…all on a show about kids with glasses

Comeback soon my next post will be a discussion on Kemonozume and the problem with anonymity