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Vitals

Birthday
• 1985-07-23
Gender
• Male
Location
• Chichester, England
Member Since
• 2003-08-04
Occupation
• Ex-OtakuBoards Team Miyazaki Leader, Actor, Writer, Director, Stage Combatant...
Real Name
• N/A

Personal

Achievements
• Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
Anime Fan Since
• I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
Favorite Anime
• Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Outlaw Star, RahXephon, Zoids, Princess Mononoke, Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Bleach, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Fruits Basket
Goals
• To write my series of stories, and to act in cool stuff.
Hobbies
• Writing, acting, anime, GameCube, Wii, swordfighting
Talents
• Stage combat, writing, acting, being vaguely humourous, and listening.

myOtaku.com: Solo Tremaine

Thursday, July 15, 2004

O Soleo, Soleo! Wherefore art thou Soleo?

I suppose whenever I see a sad ending to a play or film with characters in it that I really like, I wish that one of them might have done something else to keep it from being tragic. It'd give us a great feeling of success at the end of it. But...

Had Romeo and Juliet not been a tragedy, it would never have been remembered as much as it is today. It's the ending that makes it famous- had they lived happily ever after it just wouldn't have the same status it does now; not to mention it would have had at least somewhat of an anticlimax.

A lot of people in the Anime Frum complain about Cowboy Bebop's ending. I've never seen the series myself, but even knowing that it doesn't end in the way I usually like a series to end doesn't make it any less of a programme. To take a line from Haroun and the Sea of Stories:

"People can revel in the saddest of stories so long as they find it beautiful."

And it's true. The best endings for me are the bitter-sweet ones. Not completely happy, but not overly depressing. It's a great balance, and if it's dramatic enough it can fill me with a more ecsatic glow than films with happy endings. It's another reason I like music with pianos, violins and flutes- the sounds they make... I just think they're beautiful, encompassing both happy and sad emotions if played in the right way. Evangelion and .hack//SIGN in particular stir my soul. Others do to, but in different ways- they don't contain as much piano/flute/violin music and rely more on synthesisers, trumpets and guitars. It doesn't make them any less stirring; it's just a different sound which, on their own probably wouldn't generate too much of an emotion.

I still have some topics to write about for my Solo On: 'column' (which, technically speaking is a plagarism of Shinmaru's site, but I do it simply because he's got cool beans ideas), so I should be able to get those up fairly soon, heh.

It's nice being able to write regularly in this again ^_^

EDIT: Oh, before I forget:

Second person on the left, and straight on till you hit my face.

EDIT 2: That picture's a lot bigger than on the original website o_o; I think I'll put it in a link...

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