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GATSU
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I appreciate that you gave credit to Brian, unlike some people...
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TheTrueUndead
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Being somewhat of an Oshii fan I may have to have one of my co-workers try and track down a copy for me when she goes to Japan around Christmas...amongst a few other things like Robot Carnival.
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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Credit where credit's due -- it helped me fill in a few cracks in my knowledge for this article. I wasn't a huge fan of his analysis, but some of the info and research in it is quite valuable. Haven't read Dani Cavallaro's book. Is it any good, research credits aside? |
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GATSU
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jsevakis: I hear it's basically an overpriced version of Brian's book.
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JoshuaStChristopher
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Wow, that was one of the most absolutely fascinating Buried Treasures yet (and being that this is probably my favorite column, that's saying something--I have a soft spot for more unknown gems).
I'm definitely interested in tracking this one down now. |
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lord-darkseid
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Yeah, Twilight Q has been one of the weirder viewing experiences I've had in my time.... *shakes head*
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UtenaAnthy
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Tomomi MOCHIZUKI didn't direct (or appear to have anything to do with) Code Geass, that was Goro Taniguchi (Planetes, s-CRY-ed, Infinite Ryvius, GUNxSWORD).
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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Whoops, fixed. I had the ANN encyclopedia and Wikipedia open in separate windows... guess where THAT one came from? 
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abunai
Old Regular
 Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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Excellent analysis, though I have to say that I understood File 538 completely differently. To me, the little girl never seemed to be an hallucination.
As I understood the story, the point was that her powers of transformation were real (as if, perhaps, she were a fledgling goddess), and the entire focus of the story was the immense hazard of awesome power without any form of control. In that sense, I viewed it as a general metaphor for power of any kind, and especially destructive power. The girl's keepers, one might say, are in the position of people who are sitting on a stockpile of nuclear weapons. They can't leave it and go away, but staying is just as perilous. It's only a matter of time before the situation turns nasty. I rather like the interpretation of the girl as an hallucinatory effect of heat and starvation. Who's to say that both interpretations are not true? - abunai |
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JELEINEN
 Posts: 253 Location: Iowa |
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You should do Angel's Egg for one of these colums. I'm always interested in seeing different people's reactions to it.
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Xenofan 29A
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I've been wanting to see this since I read Brian's book.
Speaking of Brian Ruh...when's that Eva essay book finally going to be published? |
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1850 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Akemi Takada's name reminded me of the CGI anime worked on, Visitor which I watched dubbed in Tagalog about nine years ago. Was kind of surprised that it didn't have an Encyclopedia entry.
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writerpatrick
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The description makes it sound to me as something I wouldn't want to bother with. It sounds like a poor attempt to do a Twilight Zone story by just making things weird rather than writing a surrealistic story. And because it's weird many wouldn't notice how bad it is. Fortunately, somebody did.
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Craeyst Raygal
 Posts: 1383 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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The fun thing is that Oshii's live action work is just as surrealistic and insane as his anime. A few friends and I watched Red Spectacles together and it was a blast.
Totally incomprehensible, but still a blast! |
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doc-watson42
Encyclopedia Editor
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It's also a reference to Ultra Q—see the Twilight Q entry in The Anime Encyclopedia, Rev. & Exp. Ed., p. 682. |
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