Reading 愛人 (AI-REN). Interesting "surrogate companion" sci-fi/romance story in the line of Chobits and 電影少女 (VIdeo Girl Ai), but heavier on the drama and philosophical elements. The worldbuilding also seems way more advanced and "transhumanistic". Curious to read more.
To add to this: characters are moving parts of a greater narrative. They are tools of storytelling, they can be metaphorical, allegorical, symbolic. People are *not*.
This is not Oshii "just saying shit" though. The incest interpretation of Grave of the Fireflies is hardly new or unique to Oshii, and it's even discussed by Takahata and Nosaka themselves in interviews.
I know the synopsis is just a translation of the original, but daily reminder that Japan's suicide rate is actually lower than the USA, significantly lower than South Korea or Russia or even Belgium, and pretty much on par with European countries like Sweden and Finland.
I have the line "This day will never come again, so let me have this moment" that Tifa spoke tattooed on me for a reason.
It wasn't just her beauty, she was an incredible character who was well written. That line stuck with me from the first time I saw it to the time when I
There's a lot of people ranting around here about why Masamune Shirow, an artist who's work has always been imbued with beautiful women and the like, "wasted his talent" drawing adult themed works. I really can't get over how much cultural relativism happens around this.