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The Magic of Silence

AC — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:00:48 +0000

No, Nagato didn't get raped here.

The NHRV staff has put a lot of effort in churning out articles on our blog at the start of this year, Sorrow-kun’s “Violence > Action” being the first in the blog surge. I’ve read all of them and appreciate all the insightful ideas and opinions of the article writers and the people who made response comments. I want to highlight one of Sorrow-kun’s blog articles entitled “How to Disappear Completely“, where he discussed aspects of the movie that makes it such a remarkable work by Kyoto Animation, including its masterful use of reflections and high production values. I don’t disagree with any of his points, since they’re all spot-on.

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Post tags: Full Metal Panic, High School of the Dead, Nana, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

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Bakemonogatari and Other Anime With Great Dialogue

Sorrow-kun — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:28:53 +0000

Anime isn’t exactly a medium renowned for great dialogue. There are probably several reasons for this, most of them stemming from the fact that creative dialogue isn’t really seen as a requirement in most series for conveying story. Most series tend to take a very straightforward approach to explaining plot points, a consequence of the fact that, in most instances, the only objective is clarifying the important points, so being elaborate can come off as unnecessarily extravagant. The other place where one might expect great dialogue is in dramatic moments, but drama in anime tends less towards the theatrical and more towards the sentimental, so again there’s not a huge amount of time for dialogue that is bold or distinctive. There’s also a small matter of context. It takes a lot of care to set up an intricate and elaborate character like Senjougahara, who can believably spout out lines like “I mean, the only kind of girl who would talk to an unappealing virgin like you are late-bloomer crazy virgins like me!” It doesn’t take nearly as much effort to set up a once-and-done character that ends every line with “desu”. (This post contains mild spoilers for the tagged anime.)

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Lamenting sequels

Sorrow-kun — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:37:45 +0000

We touched on it a bit in our Year in Review article, but 2008 did have a lot of sequels and 2009 so far seems to be following that trend. Is it more sequels than usual? Well, I haven’t bothered sorting through the data, but it sure feels that way. The difference between last year and years before isn’t so much that there have been a crapload of second seasons, but that these second seasons have cropped up in places where one wouldn’t initially expect them, and there have also been a rise in prominence of third seasons. We’re currently into a third season of Minami-ke and a fourth season of Marimite. Last year we had a third season of Zero no Tsukaima and the third season of ARIA. Later this year we’ll have a third season of Nodame Cantabile. I’m not going to bother with the question “has there been more sequels of late” because I’m not prepared to do the number crunching to answer that question… at this point in time anyway. My question is, is the proliferation of sequels a good or bad thing for anime as medium for creative storytelling.

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Post tags: Aria The Animation, Clannad, Code Geass Hangyaku no Lelouch, ef -a tale of memories, Full Metal Panic, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Minami-ke, Nodame Cantabile, Zero no Tsukaima

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