Posts Tagged Death
For Week 3: gushing about the setting of Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, questioning Satoru’s treatment of Hiromi in Boku Dake ga Inai Machi, a personality shift with a positive cause in Dimension W, and highlighting the brilliant animation in Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
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Alternative Timelines, Animation, Art, Boku Dake ga Inai Machi, Characters, Childhood Friend, Colors, Comedy, Death, Dimension W, Durarara!!, Emotion, Emotionless, Fantasy, Fighting, Flashback, Friendship, Interactions, Japan, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Syukufuku o!, Light, Memories, Personalities, Serious, Setting, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, Storytelling, Strength, Style, Time Travel, War, Weekly Anime
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the setting is my favorite aspect of anime. To me, it is the most significant attribute of an anime because the setting is the foundation for which the stories and characters are shaped and constructed, the ground from which they grow and progress. It is what provides the story and the characters with the appropriate tools, direction, and limitations for which we, as an audience, are able to watch, appreciate, and enjoy. And the setting is more than just a pretty backdrop, but one that defines the culture, society, technology, clothing, architecture, geography, climate, diet, and lives of the characters we love. As a result, I absolutely adore any anime with a captivating, distinctive, and inspired setting because of how it influences the story and the characters. And that brings me to Death Parade and the Quindecim, arguably my favorite setting in all of anime for 2015.
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12 Days of Anime, Art, Characters, Colors, Death, Death Billiards, Death Parade, Evaluations, Favorites, Opinions, Purpose, Setting, Society, Story, Style, Themes
This week: why combining business with school has failed for Classroom Crisis, highlighting a major weakness for Chamo in Rokka no Yuusha, similarities between the Orihara family with the Araragi family for Durarara!!x2 Ten, and major changes (again) in the OP for Gakkou Gurashi.
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Analysis, Anxiety, Art, Business, Charlotte, Classroom Crisis, Death, Durarara!!, Family, Fantasy, Fighting, Friendship, Gakkou Gurashi, Gangsta., Horror, Joukamachi no Dandelion, Monogatari Series, Negatives, Observations, Opinions, Politics, Questions, Real World, Rokka no Yuusha, School, Setting, Sound, Story, Storytelling, Strength, Themes, Wakaba Girl, Weekly Anime, Writing
This week: reading between the lines of Miki’s decision and her subsequent character development in Gakkou Gurashi, criticisms over the number of disrupting flashbacks in Gangsta., complaints over the expansion of Hajime’s breasts in Gatchaman Crowds Insight, and chuckling at how Charlotte handles Ayumi’s “death”.
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Analysis, Art, Characters, Charlotte, Classroom Crisis, Clichés, Clones, Comedy, Death, Demons, Development, Disappointment, Durarara!!, Ecchi, Flashback, Gakkou Gurashi, Gangsta., Gatchaman Crowds, Independence, Joukamachi no Dandelion, Names, Negatives, Observations, Opinions, Pacing, Personalities, Perspective, Positives, Purpose, Questions, Rokka no Yuusha, Setting, Society, Story, Storytelling, Themes, Weekly Anime, Writing
Hi. I’m still alive.
Last week: questioning the relevance of Isla being a robot in Plastic Memories, considering the skill of the professionals playing the instruments in Hibike! Euphonium, Joseph Joestar’s amazing achievement at the end of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders – Egypt Arc, and criticizing the monotonous comedy in Ore Monogatari!!
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Bittersweet, Boring, Characters, Comedy, Death, Fate/stay night, Future, Hibike! Euphonium, Humanity, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Music, Observations, Opinions, Ore Monogatari!!, Plastic Memories, Questions, Real World, Religion, Romance, Sound, Story, War, Weekly Anime, Writing
This week: one of the primary reasons why Shirobako is one of my favorite anime of all-time, questioning other factors outside the arbiter’s control in assessing souls in Death Parade, contrasting the younger and older pilots in Soukyuu no Fafner – Dead Aggressor: Exodus, and my issues with the overpowering symbolism in Yuri Kuma Arashi.
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Action, Analysis, Anime Industry, Characters, Comparison, Contrast, Death, Death Parade, Demons, Development, Differences, Dog Days, Durarara!!, Evaluations, Fantasy, Fighting, Girlfriend (Kari), Gundam Reconguista in G, Kamisama Kiss, Kantai Collection, Mecha, Negatives, Observations, Opinions, Pacing, Purpose, Questions, Real World, Romance, Sequel, Setting, Shirobako, Soukyuu no Fafner – Dead Aggressor, Souls, Story, Storytelling, Strength, Symbolism, Weekly Anime, Writing, Yuri Kuma Arashi
This post reviews: Death Parade, The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls, Assassination Classroom, The Rolling Girls, Soukyuu no Fafner – Dead Aggressor: Exodus, and Yoru no Yatterman.
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Action, Aldnoah.Zero, Analysis, Animation, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, Art, Characters, Colors, Comedy, Comparison, Competition, Death, Death Billiards, Death Parade, Direction, Disappointment, Dog Days, Drama, Durarara!!, Fighting, First Impressions, Food, Gundam Reconguista in G, Idol, Idolmaster, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kamisama Kiss, Mecha, Mystery, Observations, Opinions, Personalities, Positives, Puchimas!, School, Sequel, Setting, Shounen, Soukyuu no Fafner – Dead Aggressor, Story, Storytelling, The iDOLM@STER, The Rolling Girls, Yoru no Yatterman
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