zaldar (Level 15)

So I don't normally notice fashion...I'm a guy after all. But I have started to see the kind of knee or thigh high socks and tights around in America that before I only saw in Japanese media. It seems to be confined to the tween or younger set right now, but I expect it will move up as time goes on. Most recent one I saw was an interesting American iteration. Jeans but the Jeans were rolled up to the knee so white and pink cloth socks could be seen that had a bow wrapped around the back of the sock and tied in the front. Girl was about 8 and it was actually amazingly cute....and very Japanese.

Anyone else noticing this and what do you think about it? I'm kind of dreading it moving up the ranks to older people..I mean in pics the whole knee high and thigh high stuff works but in real life I have found it doesn't really look all that attractive I mean just go ahead and wear full tights....

True that...but is amazing to go from all most winning the super bowl to stinking so much sigh...

um...well no as I don't consider love hina to have much philosophy....um and I wouldn't say the show really had much of a point (was hilarious though).

Sigh...why do the charlotte panther's stink so hard? I mean seriously to go from all most winning the super bowl to stinking for eight years or so now....sigh. Seriously freaking ridiculous. They have a radio commerical that starts off with "A lot of things have changed since the panthers were formed..." First time I heard it I had to turn the radio down and scream....YEAH LIKE YOU FORGOT HOW TO PLAY FOOTBALL....sigh ok end rant.

So thinking about starting a new thread/feature as an offshoot of watch and learn. This would be a bit different than watch and learn as it is going to focus on shows where the point is not the entertainment value so much as the meaning behind the show. Shows that have something to say and don't have a problem being blatant about it. Now by blatant I don't mean coming out and saying the point directly. Symbolism, theme all that English stuff is what I go for, but it will be obvious that all that stuff is there and it will make no apologies for having it. (Utena is a good example of what I mean, I find the show entertaining but entertainment was never the main thing the show was going for). To ease ourselves into this I thought we may start with steins gate. Doesn't really fit the above completely as I do think it was meant to entertain but it can definitely be a starting off point for some rather deep discussions. Idea would be to do one or two episodes of what ever show we are doing a week, and discuss them. The discussions will hopefully get incredibly deep. I want people throwing around philosophies, and philosopher names....lets get metaphysical up in this piece (why does that sound like a really bad rap song...?). My questions to you are:

1. Any interest? I don't want to be talking just to myself.....(though I do that..)

2. Should I start with steins gate from the beginning or pick up where watch and learn left off

3. Anyone give me some tips on setting up features...how do I manipulate things on the site to make stuff I post look professional like the watch and learns?

4. What other shows do people want me to do? I was thinking about doing noein (another great time travel show), texnolyze, now and then here and there, Hanibai Renmei, and probably utena.

What say you?

Ug how do I put an amazed smiley on here.....can't seem to get to the advanced posting features.  AMAZING!   I can't believe we couldn't hit those penalties...kept talking about how the goalie was the weak link for the Japanese but then she wins it for them...absolutely amazing. 

Heh not going to join the running arguments here as I don't have an answer but interesting to see this get some responses here where the other place I posted this thread which will remain nameless got none.  Differing communities are different.  To bad the Japanese people are not paying attention there team is doing them proud and showing the power of the Japanese philosophy.  The reason the Japanese are doing well is that they also know how to work as a team they have 0 star players but they are by far one of the most entertaining teams to watch. 

AWow....great job against Sweden....you could actually beat America...crap..

My GOD america could actually loose to Japan in soccer...

I agree though I think there was a little more to it than that as I stated above, but yeah...I had to stop watching the show in the middle after Kou died (who I thought was a guy up until the second disc...I suppose that may say something about me though as a show with only female main characters was just to odd..ah well) and then it got much worse before it got better.  An emotional roller coaster was that show.  The opening music now even makes me feel a kind of bittersweet happiness (can't explain it better than that) such great music but yet so sad..

heh.....I don't think it is all supposed to fit together and make complete logical sense.  In fact when i asked abe that question directly he basically said that it wasn't.  Yup with the whole religious interpretation the other people in the town and those who come into the town doesn't completely fit.  I can see the tonka and the leader of the temple as failed Habanie but the townspeople...yup don't know, and you have to be ok with that in the end I think.  Check out the links I gave and then start discussing more here.  The religious interpretation works the best for me as they were born into the world in a rather odd way, but I like your "they are insane interpretation" not sure anyone has tried that before.
 
Show was really moving and uplifting for me, humming the opening music when I am down now even makes me happy.  Like a lot of art I think it runs more on emotion than logic.  I really would love a watch and learn on it as I think it would drive tom crazy (in a good way).

Heh...this anime was an experiment in letting your subconscious rule.  He didn't start out with a plan and just wrote.  I think he came up with one as he went along but it wasn't nearly as planned as his other shows.  The show works best when you let it work on your emotions, many people have seen it as a limbo for people who commit suicide (aka ALL of them committed suicide including Raka).  Others have seen it as an investigation of the seven deadly sins.  (I can see sloth in one of them but no one really represents gluttony that I can see).  Mostly and this really is doing an injustice to the show because so much of it is about how the show makes you feel (which for me was a lot of longing) I think it is a dissertation on the importance of community.  Something really that all Japanese are big on.  Most of the people's problems was that they didn't ask for help or participate in a community.  Another great thing about the show was the music...I bought the cd's simply for the opening song and was not at all disappointed.  I recommend chri's reviews on mania as well as the following threads that have some interesting thoughts.
 
  feel free to start another thread there to many of us love to talk about that show. 

YES!!!!!   Everyone always underestimates japan, but you have shown that you are never down and never to be underestimated!  Keep up the good work! (just don't think you can beat the US).....
 
Know who should direct the anime?  And should the animation be realistic and modeled after the way the players actually look?

So this is a cross post from I thread I started over at mania but thought I would get this communities thoughts as well...
 
So in morning from funimation saying they are never going to bring over the sequals to when they cry...or "anything even remotely like it in the future" I started watching it again. (it has been about a year since I watched it the first time so much I had forgotten...or blocked out). Made it up through the end of the first arc..taken away by the demon...and then I had to stop.

SHIT I had forgotten how scary this show was. Japanese ghost stories are sooo much scarier than western ones. This has to be the scariest show ever made. When the girls go from being moe to being possessed (or just freaky bipolar...but I'm going with possessed) and their eyes become those crazy slits...is there any show that is scarier than this? Are the translated visual novels as good? I have the first one but couldn't get past the animation...but it seems the only way now we are going to get more of the story is with these.

I have heard people compare madoka to this...does that make sense or are they talking out their butt?

NO STEINS GATE FALLS BEHIND!!!  MUST GET BACK ON TOP IT MUST@@!!!

Yeah steins gate still in the lead!!!  How long is the poll going for?

Steins gate all the way.  One of the best anime shows I have seen.

hmm 8th grade is about 13 year olds.  So pg 13 or so...

So, I am working a stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) camp this summer that has somewhat of a zombie theme.  We are looking for a good zombie movie that we can have them watch at the end.  Anyone have any suggestions?  I thought of Shawn of the Dead which I didn't think had any truly bad scenes but it evidently actually does have an R rating.  (Why I am not sure)  Anyone got any better suggestions?

Obviously as much as I might like to, I can't show them high school of the dead THAT would get me fired. 

The great thing about HR though is it doesn't have the violence of gunslinger girl and honestly I can't see how you can like that better...the religious aspects of HR make it so much more meaningful...never seen Erin what is that one about?