Why can’t I hate Gundam ZZ? Did Erich Hartmann really steal Hitler’s hat? The coveted answers to these and other questions are revealed in this Brocast, which very nearly didn’t happen due to technical problems. But we have prevailed, and now we stand poised to serve you once again.
Brocast 4/25/2010 (23:48, 27.8MB)
Topics and links after the break.
And now I shall swing the makeshift club of social science at anime fandom yet again — taking a class in mass media theory is convenient that way — and talk about subjectivity. You might also read this as an attack vs. objectivity, but I don’t really think of it like that. No point in beating the deadest horse there is.
Besides the characters, I mean, who are fantastic. They all manage to make mistakes and achieve meaningful everyday successes through nothing more than the power of their own character traits, and they all remain more or less sympathetic throughout, which is a real achievement, as far as I’m concerned. But I’m not going to go on at length about characters here. I’d like to take a look at those little stylistic accoutrements that render Aoi Hana more (delightfully) complex than perhaps it needs to be.
Now with 9000% less ruinous sound canceling on the part of my terrible microphone! Savor these musings upon super sentai shows and yuri, as I’ll be out of town next weekend for a conference, and won’t have time to edit a Brocast beforehand. But I will, at least, try to come up with something to fill the Sunday void.
Brocast 4/11/2010 (18:09, 21.3MB)
Topics and links after the break.
Well, no, I can’t do that, I guess. I am and shall remain male and straight; sorry if I got your hopes up.
I have this proposition, though. I don’t claim that it’s true; I don’t even claim it’s plausible, or that it has any foundation in logic or data; all I claim is that it’s something I’ve been thinking about, and it may seem relevant to you or it may not. Accept, reject, or modify it at your discretion.
Lest you doubted whether we played too many old video games and thought about Aria too much — here, have this Brocast. The raw audio was all over the place this time, and I made a valiant effort to cut any major spoilers, but if you’re especially reticent, you may want to hold off if we talk about something you plan to read/watch/play.
Brocast 4/4/2010 (26:55, 25.2MB)
Topics and links after the break.
From Twitter:
3.31.2010 2:53:46 “I’ll read one or two chapters of a Kozue Amano manga before bed” = STUPID PONTIFUS, STUPID
Actually I’ve had a strange relationship with Amano’s manga so far. I love it for being the basis of what is probably my favorite anime series in terms of raw enjoyability (which series that would be should be pretty obvious by now) — but, at the same time, I find the Aria anime generally more enjoyable than its manga precursor. So I suppose I have, semi-consciously and based on inadequate evidence, made Amano into a pretty good writer whose writing might benefit from a little editorial intervention (but whose fantastic art, unfortunately, has not been reproduced in the transition to animation).
Is it still soon enough after the fact that we haven’t allowed our subcultural amnesia to rob us of Mr. Handley? I’ve said more than I care to say on the matter already — but, while combing through articles on media effects, I came across an interesting notion.
That being: pornography is “violent” media.
Otouto-kun and I talk on Skype so much anyway that I figured there couldn’t possibly be any harm in recording fifteen or twenty minutes of our banter for your listening pleasure. And besides, I suggested that we may have a few follow-up comments on Strike Witches as a whole, and I figured audio would take less time than another transcription. But Strike Witches isn’t all we talk about here. Oh, no indeed.
Brocast 3/28/2010 (17:27, 16.3MB)
You’ll find a timestamped list of topics and relevant links below the break.
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