Comments on: Seasons of giving in slice of life

By: Seasons and Slice - aloe, dream

Seasons and Slice - aloe, dream — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:57:20 +0000

[...] has stubbed some thoughts on Seasons of giving and slice of life and namely events within fictional works as related to the commercialized Western Christmas. [...]

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:40:34 +0000

I don’t feel confident with the breadth of my own viewing to comment further either, but this is a very interesting topic and I’ll look out for how you develop it further. I’m watching Planetes right now and I’ll let you know if it’ll feature an xmas episode.

By: Pontifus

Pontifus — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:24:25 +0000

Yeah, Christmas shows up all the time in contemporary slice of life. Toradora’s Christmas bits were some of my favorites — some of my favorite Christmas bits in anime, even.

Here I’m talking mostly about shows driven primarily by their slice of life component, so I’m not sure Macross would apply. 0080, though — man, I don’t know how I failed to think of that one. Maybe there’s a pattern (and Macross would work for the purposes of this; maybe it’s a pattern that doesn’t require slice of life as dominant genre, so to speak): the less recognizable the setting, the less the likelihood of a giving/receiving holiday. Probably I haven’t seen enough anime, even, to do all the collating needed to provide evidence for such a pattern. But we’ve got 0080, which, despite a few extraneous bits of technology, is set in a world a lot of us can recognize, a world of cars and suburbs and school — and then we’ve got Haibane Renmei.

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:04:07 +0000

Remember Toradora!? It had lots of western trappings processed by the local culture. Honey and Clover has at least one good example as well. But these aren't speculative shows... I do have two speculative shows, that slice the lives of its characters in time for Christmas (at times grinding them into burger): SDF-Macross Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. SDFM may be too bulky for Xmas rewatching, but 0080 is now a masochistic MUST. I'd like to know how you'd think of these episodes in the context of this post.