Posts Tagged ‘oh the humanity’

Otaku, Clothes and the Normal Life

Posted on August 6, 2008 by super rats

A couple of days ago I watched that Genshiken episode where Kasukabe goads Madarame into investing in his outward appearance. The Genshiken crew were a little on the deep end as far as minimizing all other expenses, such as skimping on clothing, to be able to afford otaku gear.

Portraits from Memory: Boogiepop Phantom

Posted on July 20, 2008 by super rats

I’ve been wanting to write something smart about Boogiepop Phantom for years now, but I’ve come to realize that, no, I really don’t want to. Every six months or so it goes into the dvd player and I sit and take it all in. It has to have been at least ten times through already. Ten viewings seems like a crazy amount of time to spend with a story. It is, but sometimes a story or the personal luggage that one brings to the story can support that kind of thing.

5 Centimeters Per Second

Posted on April 24, 2008 by super rats

I can’t shake Five Centimeters Per Second. Toono’s experience as an adult — I identify with it. Feel it as my state. The details of how we got there are very different and appear far less breathtaking, but we wind up in a similar place, going through motions, not knowing how long we’ve been on auto-pilot. It’s a common story. That wont sit well with some viewers who look for extraordinary things in the stories they watch and/or read. The rest of this might be spoilerish.