Monday, November 16, 2015

The Tale of Princess Kaguya recap

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This movie is ... pure beauty...

Summary:
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Friday, October 9, 2015

Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works high session 2

Okay so... back after this long...

Episode 17
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works high session 1

Watched the first 12 episodes like 6 months ago, but didn't start writing log posts for it until now. So far it's pretty much exactly the same story as the VN, except more animated. Some of the background and animation quality looks gorgeous. Now that I'm behind on the releases, I can watch the rest of this while high at my own pace.

This UBW series really is a great, faithful adaptation of the VN story... it has some new things added, but its storytelling style emulates the VN very well... While Fate/Zero was more like... Think of this in terms of Ryukishi07-style writing. Fate/Stay Night was the "question arc", and Fate/Zero was the "answer arc"... F/SN is designed to keep you in the dark about a lot of its plot details... mostly showing things from Shirou's perspective and teasing other perspectives once in a while... while F/Z was more about showing its story from multiple different perspectives, challenging the reader a lot less while still giving them a chance to figure the rest out on their own.


Episode 13

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Final thoughts/interpretation on Revolutionary Girl Utena's ending

The ending of this series has me so perplexed, and ever since seeing the movie's interpretation I've been even more confused... I've thought about it a lot more, and I think I've found a satisfactory answer that doesn't involve the movie's heavy implications towards everything just being a metaphor for Akio raping Anthy, cuz that's a cop-out answer lol

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena movie recap

The art design in this movie is gorgeous... it's like a masterpiece in visual storytelling. 

But... wow, this plot is so different. It's nothing at all like the show...
Whereas the show had a lot of subtle cryptic symbolism, this movie's symbolism is very blatant and over the top.

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena series recap part 7 (finale)

This is the last "normal" episode before the final duel starts... the creepy side of the story clashes up with the normal slice of life school scenes.

Episode 37

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena series recap part 6

This is where the plot really comes together, and all that weird symbolism from earlier on in the series begins to make some sort of sense... at this point I'm only watching the rest of this series during the peak of a high session. And I'm commenting a LOT more... like each episode I spend around an hour just writing about it.

Episode 34

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That was some deep stuff...

Episode 35

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Friday, February 20, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena series recap part 5

Episodes 28-29

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Episode 30

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Monday, February 16, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena series recap part 4

These next few episodes I watched during the peak of an edibles high, and I commented a lot on them.

Episode 25

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena series recap part 3

This plot just keeps getting more and more confusing... Now I'm starting to watch some of these episodes while high, and I'm also spending more and more time writing commentary as I'm watching it.

Episodes 15-21

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I'm really liking these silly silhouette scenes that happen whenever Utena gets a message in her locker. They seem to have nothing at all to do with anything. Utena has even started interacting with the silhouette people, saying something clever at the end of the scene...

Episode 22

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena series recap part 2

This plot is very... I guess abstract? I dunno it's hard to explain, something about it is really hard to summarize...

Episodes 8-14

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Revolutionary Girl Utena series recap part 1

Started watching this today. I figure if it's good I'll probably watch some of it while high.

Episodes 1-7

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1st episode is already kind of intriguing. Saionji, the green-haired guy, the student council vice president, is being a jerk to Utena's friend who likes him, so Utena challenges him to a duel.

The student council has this kind of mysterious aura about it, they talk about how they have to follow the will of "The End of the World", and that a new challenger will be joining them soon...

Utena's whole backstory is that a prince gave her a ring with a rose seal on it to cheer her up after her parents died, and the theme of roses occures a lot in this series... Everyone in the student council wears those rose seal rings... which means Utena turns out to be their new challenger.

Holy shit... the transition when she goes to fight a duel... There's this ominous gate decorated with roses, and she goes up a spiral staircase leading to a platform way up in the sky. And above that platform is an upsidedown castle that seems to be standing on a void of nothingness...

Himemiya, the black girl who Saionji was talking to, is apparently the "Rose Bride" who belongs to the champion duelist (who is currently Saionji)... She puts a rose on Utena's chest.
If the rose is knocked off your chest, you lose.
Saionji pulls a sword out of Anthy Himemiya's chest.
Grant me the power to bring the world revolution!

Monday, January 5, 2015

Sailor Moon Crystal high session 7

ACT 13 - Final Battle -Reincarnation-
WOOOOOW
amazing... I just watched this while high on edibles... i have no face and i must be amazed

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