Lolita is a type of fashion (and a novel wrote by Vladimir Nabokov) that originated in Japan. Clothing is based on Victorian and Rococo clothing. Rococo is also called the Late Baroque period and developed in Paris, France. Rococo is more lighthearted and intimate than the earlier Baroque periods. The novel (if you are wondering)…
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Anime Annoyances: Humor
Anime humor itself isn’t annoying (often weird, but not annoying). It is the when and what that makes anime humor annoying. Anime has the bad habit of interjecting humor during serious scenes and having characters that are more annoying than funny. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is especially prone to injecting humor during serious scenes. Several times…
There is Personality in the Blood
Ever wonder what is up with all the blood types in celebrity bios and anime? Well, apparently in Japan blood type affects personality. The idea started with Furukawa Takeji and his paper “The Study of Temperament Through Blood Type” published in the scholarly journal Psychological Research. Since then, blood type is used as shorthand for…
Shuffle!
I normally don’t like harem comedies, but I decided to give Shuffle! a try. After all, it is geared toward my age group ( It’s a seinen anime) . I braced myself for nudity and other sexual theme; surprisingly Shuffle! was lighter than I expected for this genre. Shuffle! is pretty stereotypical. The male protagonist, Rin…
Gunslinger Girl
Classical music and firearms are oddly complimentary. Add in cyborg children and Gunslinger Girl almost pulls the ol’ heartstrings…almost. Gunslinger Girl follows the missions of Italy’s (yes Italy for a change) Social Welfare Agency. Sounds like a retirement home…only it puts down its guests. The Agency, as it is also called, specializes in counter-intellengence and…
Shangri-La
I was drawn to this anime at first because it looked like Last Exile. I enjoyed that anime’s art so I gave Shangri-La a watch…I made it only halfway before I just gave up. Looks can be deceiving. The world is undergoing a global warming crisis. The governments of the world shift their stock markets…