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[ryanitenebrae]

I haven't had much to say lately, so I haven't been posting, and also, I've really not felt like rattling on about fiction and my insignificant life when far more important things are happening in this world, but I also have not wanted to discuss said important things, as I don't have really any right to, in my mind, being so far apart from them as

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[tuuli_chan]

A couple of weeks ago I hadn't heard a thing about Mushishi, now I'm running into it everywhere. Maybe this means I should watch it...

[ryanitenebrae]

You definitely should. I personally think that you would really, really enjoy it. It's a very quiet episodic fantasy show about a world in which their are these creatures called mushi, which are basically beings below that of animals, some are sort of like fungi, or like bacteria, or like insects. The main character, and basically the only character to be featured in more than one episode, is a man named Ginko who goes around helping people with issues caused by the mushi. It's a quiet, philosophic show with amazing art and animation.

[tuuli_chan]

Mmm, sounds good! Now I just need to find it somewhere... (at least it is available in R2, which is really nice after so many things that aren't.)

You know, that reminds me a bit of Mononoke... the main character (basically the only character to be featured in more than one episode as well) goes around selling medicine and killing demons. In fact, one of the places where I'd come across this series before was a (very short) Mononoke/Mushishi crossover.

[ryanitenebrae]

Yep, the plots are a bit similar, though from the little I know about Mononoke, I think they're very different in terms of theme and tone. Still, I definitely think you'd love it.

You might also like Kino's Journey, which is about an adolescent travelling the world on a motorcycle, and also very quiet and thoughtful, though a great deal more cynical.

[unitomega]

Your thoughts on the end, other than it being awesome (IE, the final battle) are absent. You know my opinions, and I did kinda wanna hear yours. Though I know you don't mind a bit of a down at the end. But I can now post this

[ryanitenebrae]

I loved the ending, but it made me very sad. I agree that that is how things should be, but not in terms of storytelling

[ethelflaed]

Episode six, aside from the cameos (Nonnononono), is really obnoxious because it's just. . .not very funny for the most part, and occasionally mind-scarring.

What I mostly like about Gurren Lagann (SPOILERS to follow, they SPOIL stuff, stuff to be SPOILED below) is the way it is all about heroes and civilization; how you need people like the core cast to found a city and fight a war, but once it's founded and the war is over, they don't have any place in the world that they built. They have to leave or they have to die; and if they don't do either, the civilization has to turn on them. It's inevitable. (Similar to the way big brother characters almost always die, actually. They have to die or nobody gets to grow up. On the other hand, big sisters usually live, I think. I wonder why?)

Aristotle said in the Politics that all men must live in the city (i.e., society, civilization), and the only ones that can survive outside it are either lower than animals or greater than gods (heavily paraphrased) - I thought of that a lot in the

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[ryanitenebrae]

In that manner of speaking, one could even say that the person with the best ending would be Kamina, having died at a time where his death would be heroic and he would be considered to be a martyr for his cause - thus, the person that likely would have had the hardest time sitting still and living in a peaceful civilization didn't have to, and was able to remain a hero without encountering the displacement encountered by Simon, and to a lesser extent, Yoko