#fuyubachi

[islandneko]

banshee-strikes:

This chapter is one of the cutest things i’ve ever seen.

[loreweaver-universe]

Okay, that’s cute.

[islandneko]

istoleyourbaby:

if there was a show just about these three

i would watch it forever

[textsfromregionthots]

[zak-kondo]

The wonder about this series is that Saotshi Kon's creativity plays here, partly with his abundance of leftover ideas from his career. That means that when Sagi's paranoia created her scapegoat Shonenbat in her mind to take the blame for her hitting herself so that she can extend her work deadlines, Fantasy and reality crossed paths. Shonen Bat turned into a sort of reality. They say Shonen Bat sets you free from all your problems. It's all too enticing. 

The message is clear here. For all of us, we make up our own Shonen Bats; our own scapegoats and form of escapism to distract us and make us forget about our realities. Paranoia Agent critiques human paranoia and says that you must be weary and cautious of this. If you are driven into a corner, and run away, you have no where to go. Your are essentially running on a treadmill as your problems start to catch up to you. It's been a common theme lately in some of my videos, but you must face reality. Paranoia is an extreme example of this and shows you how at least some characters manage to victoriously and magnificently overcome their situations and keep themselves from delusion; fantasy thought. It only gets better if you face your problems and deal with them head on. Accept you were wrong, and your mistakes. Say you're sorry. Until then, you're only going backwards and more under.

Sagi must face Maromi, and what she accidentally did to her. Ichi needs to get over how full he is of himself, and how at the first thought of him losing popularity shatters his ego and makes him break down. Keiichi and Misae have to face the fact that they lost their first child during pregnancy, and that Keiichi lost his job and feels he has no place to belong to since he has to work so much to stay financially afloat. Chouno is at war with herself and an alter ego who enjoys sharing extreme pleasures with other men. Now that she is married, she can't quite rid herself of her troublesome split personality. Zebra is a gay man who lost his lover and fights his broken heart alongside overwhelming homophobia. Kamome is a child abandoned by her family who desperately tries to make friends online to make up for it. Fuyubachi is ill and lost someone important to him. Taeko was daddy's girl who found out something disturbing about her father and what he's been doing to her behind her back. Her father Masami wants the best for his family, though he resorts to all sorts of crime and sleeping around with women without realizing how irresponsible he really is. Roujin is an old man who is implied to have lost his mind researching something 10 years before the series started. Saruta lives the horrors of working in the anime industry, and can't help but fall to his clumsiness. Masashi is your average deplorable otaku who spends too much time obsessing with his anime figurines and lost himself as a result. Mieko is obsessed with gossip and the story of Shonen Bat to the extent she wouldn't mind her own husband dying if it means she'll have some nice gossip to share. Last but not least, Mitsuhiro went mad trying to figure out the truth about whether or not Shonen bat is real, and though he makes progress, he has a dark end waiting for him. These are most of the characters, and their paranoia will become familiar to the viewers as they learn their stories.

Lately I've been watching old anime I had forgotten about. I would encourage the same for you. I think that, sometimes, one can't really appreciate a series or film when they are too young, and that they could always see it in a different and hopefully better light years later. It took me several years to really appreciate Paranoia Agent, and now it's Madoka Magica's turn. It feels as if I was no longer the person I was when I first watched this. Age is a hard thing to think about. Even now I feel I should have started doing anime analysis so much sooner. Still, I think I started at the best time; I would have known even less what I was doing back then, and I have finally reached the most productive point in my life now. Despite this, I confess I still get distracted too easily many times.

With every rewatch, Madoka Magica got closer to my heart, and I saw something new about the pain of the characters each time. I found this peculiar, though wonderful. Because as dark as Madoka Magica is, it shows you hope in the end, even if you lose your very best friend.

With Sayaka, I felt a connection with the emptiness and frustration of her emotions. To let loose and get carried away to the point you lose yourself. To lose the one you love despite having a chance, because you've become crushed by what you have become. In the end, I sympathized with her because she managed to realize the error in her ways, and show some redemption in eventually coming to accept her misfortunes before parting ways.

As I tried to look critically at Homura, I thought I had her figured out and was right mostly because there were more than enough hints to make it obvious. Once it is revealed about her past, it makes all the little pieces of hints I saw from the earlier episodes fit together. Her pain became understandable, and all more tragic. It felt so much more painful on the rewatch, because now the viewers know for certain where her oddness and mysterious pain is coming from.

Mami, of course, is involved with what shocked the viewers back in the day. I looked at the archives on the day that episode aired, and the reactions were explosive, as one would imagine. The staff, however, were not finished yet, and showed her later in the series, just to the horror of the viewers that she'd mentally break down and become homicidal, at least because she probably felt it was for the better of the girls then to live on as these hollow shells they call magical girls.

I don't know too much about the magical girl genre. As a result, I thought this was what they were all like. Sure, this isn't the only dark type of magical girl series, though this one is really known for getting darker and darker, as it famously drove this hard into the viewers.

As the episodes brutalized me, I wondered where Madoka, and her wish would fit into all this. I thought it was clear that she'd be the positive, and optimistic message to pull Homura and the viewers out of their misery, and she was the one to do that. I feel hopeful despite what happened, and will be immediately watching Rebellion after finishing this video.

I was considering watching Rebellion and including that content into this video. On the other hand, I have to try to not burn myself out. An artist I know told us that he tried too do too many things as a musician and revolutionary. As a result, they were putting out a lot of material, but never excelled in any of it because it was too much. I don't want to make that mistake.

If this series taught my one thing at first, it was that I would not want to be a magical girl, if given the choice, as in Estab Life, as an example. If it brought me another thought, it's that even while knowing all this, individuals, such as those, as Kyuubey said, would sometimes, and rarely, still use these powers to become revolutionaries, and to change humanity by advancing civilization with their powers before their unfortunate end as this magical girl. On the contrary, I don't want to be a coward. To also help inspire me, Madoka would come to exist. She used her powers not just for the betterment of humanity, but for the betterment of magical girls. As dark, brutal, and hopeless as something like this series may seem, it shows that there will always be someone who has hope, and passion for us, that will find a way to subvert what was thought to be impossible, and find a way to help advance us to the next level. Impossible is a word that at most just holds us back. To Madoka, she knows the true meaning of being a revolutionary, to not leave anybody behind, and that it is the most honorable way to be live. She knows well, that we can't live on our own. We are all fish of the same pond. If the pond goes, we go. We can't pretend we can escape and live our own lives in peace, because this peace will run out, it always does. Looking at it this way, the way the staff tried communicating this hope, I would instead decide to not be a coward, and would now pick up the wand, if I had the choice to. Such as in Texhnolyze, this is a dark series, that at the end, and at best, inspires.

thank you for watching.

[islandneko]

amorouspanic:

“Oh wow…”

[mrawkweird]

I don't get the extra thin condoms at the end

If there’s another layer to that I’m unaware but the brand was called Happy Family Planning which the title of the episode.

Also Fuyubachi, Zebra and Kamome gained a family in each other as ghosts and those extra-thin condoms ain’t gonna prevent shit; you’re gonna gain a family too.

[weeaboo-god]

Fuyubachi are you ok?

[klaxustarah]

Poor Fuyubachi knows damn well how bad this looks

[loreweaver-universe]

Hey, so here’s a question:  Were all three already dead?  Zebra saw the train guy get up and walk away while onlookers were still staring at where he got hit, and the ladies with the photo screamed “What is that!?” at the picture of the group.  And I don’t think I saw anyone interact with the trio at all all episode.

Hrm.

Anyways, let’s watch the NEXT TIME ON segment, and do the wrap-up.

[alexthegamingboy]

Toonami Weekly Recap 06/13/2020

Paranoia Agent EP#08 - Happy Family Planning: The three members of an Internet suicide pact meet each other for the first time in attempt to come up with ways to commit suicide, but hope to see Lil' Slugger. The trio includes "Fuyubachi", an old man; "Zebra", a young man; and a little girl, "Kamome". The two men are shocked at her young age and try to run away from her. She finds them in a house trying to gas themselves with carbon monoxide, but the house is suddenly demolished. They then try to jump in front of a subway train, but someone else throws themself in front of the train first, ruining their chance. Afterward, Zebra sees the spirit of the man who jumped in front of the train, walk away from the accident into the crowd of people on the platform. Finally, the trio try hanging themselves from a tree on a mountainside, but the branch snaps. The men fall down a slope and get separated from Kamome, revealing Zebra's locket contains pictures of him with another man. The two almost leave to continue alone, but then decide to go back to Kamome because they fear she will die in the forest if she's alone. At a bathhouse, it is revealed that Kozuka had been a member of their suicide message board, then the three try to sleep, until they see the silhouette of Lil' Slugger. Delighted, Kamome and Zebra run at him with open arms, with Fuyubachi trailing behind, but a horrified Lil' Slugger flees the building. At the end of the episode, Fuyubachi notices that the three of them do not cast shadows when a man walks between them without noticing them. None of them had noticeable shadows throughout the episode, except for the two men in the first few scenes. While singing and skipping hand in hand in the last scene, the three stop behind a group of girls getting their picture taken by another girl with a digital camera. When the girls check to see how their picture turned out, they are shocked and frightened by what they see in the photo, which is not shown to the audience. The scene then zooms in on a condom machine behind the three which reads "Happy Family Planning," the title of the episode.

The UK release of this episode has a 1 minute 20 second mandatory cut made by the BBFC. The removed scene shows the three protagonists (including a young girl) attempting to hang themselves. This cut was made in accordance with the Video Recordings Act 1984.

Black Clover Arc 10 EP#120 - Three Problems: Yami and William find the Wizard King alive due to 13 years stored in a magic tool in case he was ever killed, rendering his body 13 years younger. Julius orders William to help with the recovery effort. Julius reveals to Yami, Asta, Mimosa, Noelle and Secre that his younger body has far less magic, meaning he has less influence over the selfish nobles and will be unable to protect the kingdom from attack. He also worries Asta may die; as his power is demonic and since it was a devil who attacked the kingdom, the Magic Parliament will probably blame Asta then execute him. Secre confirms that Asta's demon form as well as the horns on her head could be used as evidence they had contact with devils. Mimosa explains the Magic Parliament are royals and nobles who create laws and preside over trials for serious crimes. Meanwhile the Clover King credits Sekke for saving him, despite it being an accident. They are attacked by anti-royalists hoping to assassinate the king amid the confusion, but they are saved by Damnatio Kira, Chairman of the Magic Parliament. Asta and Secre are asked to testify before the Parliament, but when they arrive they are arrested by Damnatio who demands evidence of the devil behind the attack. When Asta can provide none Damnatio decides to simply charge the people possessed by the elves as normal criminals. Damnatio brings in Marie, Gauche's sister, and orders her immediately executed for her actions during the battle, forcing Asta to assume his demon form to save her, revealing himself to the entire Parliament, just as Damnatio wanted him to.

Slightly Damned Page 967: https://www.sdamned.com/comic/967

[islandneko]

banshee-strikes:

This chapter is one of the cutest things i’ve ever seen.

[textsfromregionthots]

[mrawkweird]

You know I didn’t come to the conclusion that Fuyubachi, Zebra and Kamome died until you and a few others pointed it out I just thought they were going to another trip together can’t believe I missed that

I missed them being dead the first time around to. I honestly did not understand that whole shadow moment watching it back in 2005. It’s the second time I’m watching the series but it’s kinda going to be a first watch as well. One I’ll actually remember and hopefully understand better this time.

[islandneko]

istoleyourbaby:

if there was a show just about these three

i would watch it forever

[islandneko]

amorouspanic:

“Oh wow…”