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• pathological gambling therapist
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• emily

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• texhnolyze, gundam seed, voices of a distant star, samurai x (ova), kino no tabi, kurogane communication
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myOtaku.com: synapticdefection


Friday, May 21, 2004

   ...sigh.
ok, so i've been trying to broaden the horizons of some of my fellow co-workers (i.e., trying to spread the joy of good anime). last week i gave one of the therapists i work with the first 13 episodes of texhnolyze, thinking that he would appreciate thought-provoking anime. (we'd talked a few times before about akira kurosawa films, so i thought he was a good candidate.)

when i saw him today, i was of course eager to see what he thought about it. when I asked him, he sort of looked at me, visibly blanched, and was like, "um...i haven't really gotten it yet. it's not like anything i;ve ever seen before." (!?!??) this was after he had watched 2 episodes. wait a sec, who made up this rule that everything has to "click" immediately? maybe the best part about intelligent anime is that you may not even begin to wrap your neurons around it until some time later. i feel that some of the best anime out there is that which lingers in your mind for a while without really making sense in the conventional way. i feel it's an error to attempt to understand things merely in terms of what we already know. the point of innovation is to break the mold, not to pattern yourself after something else that has already been established. sheesh.
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