DayOfDoom
Rewatched Jin-Roh: Wolf Brigade (I read that the kanji for WB literally translates to Werewolf) and A Silent Voice this evening. I remember the ending to Jin-Roh devastating me when I first watched it. I think I finally understand what actually happens in it plot-wise and also the backstory about a parallel-but-still-effectively-fascist post-war Japan, just more influenced by Germany than the US. I still didn't like how ham-fisted the Red Riding Hood theming was, they just repeat it over and over and over. Also I remember talking to someone and they thought the WB were supposed to be a marxist officers' rebellion of a secret police squad based on the October revolution but I'm pretty sure they're just fascists. Like, they're literally described and self-describing as wolves or beasts or monsters that may temporarily wear human skin, it repeats this a lot, and it seems like they're just trying to survive for their own sake and the main character Fuse finds the fascist military/cop structure too comfortable to rebel against it even if he's fallen in love with a leftist rebel. Animation was as fucking amazing as I remember, it's so fucking good. Like, those suits are being animated as odd angels going up and down stairs at extremely smooth frame rates perfectly. It looks rotoscoped during a lot of it despite not being so.
General Content Warning on A Silent Voice.
A Silent Voice: I didn't actually like it as much the first time I saw it. I definitely liked it (had a 7/10 rating on MAL from me), but I think the way it handles suicide and bullying felt too contrived. I also don't think I appreciated the excellent music and audio the first time since I'm pretty sure I watched it late-night on a laptop, probably a medium-quality Kissanime stream (R.I.P.). I haven't' read the manga but the way it kinda' slaps suicide attempts into things makes me think maybe the manga explained that more, it still felt too convenient to have it plotted out the way it did at the end where every problem is neatly fixed. I actually think it did a good job showing some of the group dynamics and the gradations of bullying though: there's a girl who's actively tormenting her due to ableism and not being able to cope with someone who can't communicate how she wants to be communicated with, there's the boy who's doing it to fit into the hierarchy of his friends, there's the prissy girl who's more passive and mostly talks behind her back a little while, there's the other boy who's encouraging other people to bully her because he likes the outcomes of bullying but doesn't do it himself. And at least he's totally not vindicated and the active-harasser girl first mentioned is like half-vindicated by it, so it's not totally contrived in that way at least. Also felt mostly respectful in regards to not using Sho's (bullied girl) disability as like pity fodder, I'd say her fault is more so his moe-ness and personality that makes it hard to sympathize not because she's unlikeable but because she's so outwardly sweet and kind that she comes off cartoonishly unrealistic.
He's been quoted saying repeatedly "Can't find a better man"
My last GF broke up with me because I had to sprint to the washroom inside one of these and dragged her across half the living room floor.
Did you listen to the latest Blut Aus Nord album, Disharmonium - Nahab? It's really good. I didn't think they'd keep pumping out good albums but they do.
I would 99% agree but a tiny little retort about how liberals kinda' use this to just degrade white working class living standards down rather than raise everyone else up. More specifically thinking about referring to not being (frequently) carded and searched and assaulted and murdered by police as a "privilege".
Only if they're white and they're using this website communistly.
I'm seriously advocating for cementing these little aphotic and despotic fish freaks.
Send in divers to save them too.
I have many health care issues which have affected my ability to hold onto swords for ceremonial purposes,
I belong to a few Orders which require a sword, I find that I can hold onto this sword without it falling out of my hand. None of my Fraternal Brethren realize that this sword is not emblematic of the Order. (And, if they do, nothing is said) They are just pleased that I can participate.
Filling these caves in with bakelite under world communism.