Week Fourteen April 23: Manga as an International Style Read An Invitation from a Crab by panpanya. Talking Fish I really wish I could have attended the class. My internet was acting funny and I couldn’t get into the class properly. I wonder what kind of wired fish talking questions came up during. Wow, this is weird, and really disturbing. The idea of cutting up a fish while it is talking to you sends chills down my spine. This manga has way too many disturbing questions for me. The class resource page’s link to read the manga wasn’t working properly for me. I was able to find the first thirty pages for free on a different sight. It intrigued me that the little girl looked like a ghost and she was styled so differently from the rest of the world. It was like she was innocent in a world of fish killers. All this leaves me with is questions of what came next. The fact that the butcher wasn’t human also leaves me wondering. I’m sure there is so much more to this
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Week Thirteen April 16: Films of Makoto Shinkai This was my first time being exposed to any of Shinkai’s films and I was really impressed with it. I know that I haven’t been very well exposed to anime, but I was surprised to learn that I had never even heard of the highest grossing anime of all time. I thought that I would have at least heard of Your Name before. Over all the story for Your Name was simple and relatable. While there was a lot of magic in the move, most of it focused on ever day life. Part of me wondered if the. simplicity is what made this so popular and likeable. The characters were more of a look into different people’s lives. Even with the time travel and meteor, the story made me focus more on the city verses country life. For the girl, she got everything she ever wanted by living a day in his life. The show brings questions that I feel have been asked in movies before. In Freaky Friday, a mom and daughter switch bodies. There is
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Week Twelve April 9 : Contemporary Manga: S ilver spoon Reading this manga really surprised me. I have had a friend tell me to watch the anime multiple times, but I’ve not been able to access it yet. I do plain to hunt it down, and maybe finish reading the manga once I get a break from manga. Before this, all I had ever seen from this author was FMA. In a way, the change in story styles surprised me, while at the same time it didn’t. I was happily pleased to see the same characters as FMA in this series. It reminded me of Tezuka at the beginning of the year. It is as though the characters are all actors drafted by the artist to reappear in her stores. Some characters didn’t even really need to change personality like Armstrong. Changing the setting is more than enough to differentiate the characters and their roles. I love the way that works. It has got to be a lot easier on the author to keep drawing the characters she knows. The idea th
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Week Eleven April 2: Horror Inuyasha My biggest surprise this week was a question that hit me. How is Inuyasha horror? I saw the anime when a friend suggested it. The show came off as a cheesy girl anime that I left on while doing homework. At times the episodes got repetitive, but overall the show was good. Looking back now, I never questioned the whole section with there being demons and half demons in it. The horror was kind of lost on me. The manga that I read for the week made my stomach turn. Usually, I’m rather numb to horror. For some reason, right now with the corona virus, I don’t have it in me to get into it. To avoid giving myself more nightmares; I’m going to focus on Inuyasha and not people being dismembered or stalked or anything else that my isolated mind will make me lose sleep over. When watching Inuyasha, the reason the horror probably didn’t set in is because it really feels like a teenaged girl’s drama. The whole demon element didn’t seem satanic,
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Week Ten March 26: Isekai: Leveling up Dragon ball, another anime I actually know. My ex really liked this show, so I actually knew a lot about it before the class. Surprisingly, I also really like the reincarnation as a slime story. This whole concept of leveling up makes me wonder if they are talking about life or a videogame. In reincarnated as a slime, it really did give me a video game vibe. He got past the early levels, beat some little bosses, acquired his kingdom, acquired a metal worker… all things that could count for a video games. I’ve never been a big fan of games where you create your own kingdom. When it comes to that, I would rather write a book or draw out the world than spend so much time on side levels working my way up. The gameplay in itself has never really drawn me to that kind of game either, but I love the concept and learnings about how the world works. My favorite character in this story was the dragon in the
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Week Nine March 19: Cyberpunk: Ghost in a shell Reading this manga really surprised me. Before reading it, I saw the live action move ghost in a shell with friends. When reading the manga, I was completely caught off guard. The live action movie is about a young innocent heroin. It was more of a hero origin story with a teenaged girl. It had everything for the young girl’s anime. The movie seemed stereotypical. There was the love interest who seriously didn’t deserve her, I wanted him to die the whole movie, and the slightly overprotective “father” figure. the movie was pretty good and I was expecting the same from the manga. Once I started reading the manga I realized that I needed to forget what I thought I knew. This manga wasn’t about a girl that’s a bounty hunter fighting a corrupt system. As far as I read, the manga never even brought up the question of her family. Instead the protagonist was the leader of a task force for the gove
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Week Seven Feb. 27: Shonen and Seinen. Boys Manga Before this class, I read 20 th Century Boys. I didn’t understand that it was jumping between past present and future till class. the manga really confused me. I feel as though I would have needed to see the end to understand the beginning. The more I read, the more confused I was. I was sad when I found out about the death of the man that was remembered as the little kid with snot running down his nose. The way he was made fun of, but still saved them made him super likeable. This kind. of makes me think of how we also talked about FMA. In that show Hews dies. He was an innocent and likeable character as well. Is there a thing where the innocent guy must die in boy’s manga? I will say that FMA is probably the reason I’m in this class. I joined the class knowing hardly anything about Anime. I never watched anime before college. My friends told me to watch FMA and I gave it a chance. Everyt