#earthquakes and animals

[thissying]

[brookesmartt]

Yasha from ALA this weekend 💙

[assistedharakiri]

this scene always on my mind

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

it's as done as im going to make it tbh. inconsistent, not perfect, but done :)

i'd say "sorry about this" but if i found a silly three minute wizards city fan animatic id lose my mind so im not sorry in the least

[ksodirty]

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Frozen II (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee)

06/06/2024

[eerna]

Waking up for seemingly no reason only for an earthquake to hit a few secons later at this point is like. Disappointed but not surprised

[lilysayurii]

yamato saying to sakura: "it doesn't matter whether the things you do for him are great or small, what matters most is how much you care, really care, about naruto" is actually kishimoto relegating her to the role of the carer like most of the female characters in naruto and it's really depressing

[alpaca-clouds]

Misaki no Mayoiga - A Surprisingly Solarpunk Movie

I want to tell you guys about an anime movie, that kinda went under everyone's radar and that I only saw by happenstance. But the movie is surprisingly Solarpunk and more people should be talking about it, because it is really good. The movie is Misaki no Mayoiga.

The movie takes place after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tells the story of two young girls, who find each other in one of the emergency shelters: 17yo Yui and 8yo Hiyori. While Yui ran away from an abusive home, Hiyori lost all that was left from her family in the tsunami. Then an old lady shows up to give both girls a home... and takes them back to her magical house.

Now, you might ask: How can this movie be Solarpunk if it is set after the 2011 earthquake? Well, in the same way Princess Mononoke is pretty darn Solarpunk, even though it is set in medieval times.

While the movie does not feature any fancy technology, it does feature other core tenets of the movement. There is a large focus on the concept of mutual aid, as the people in the area destroyed by the tsunami need to help one another like that. There is also a big focus on the concept of found family. Because the movie not even once questions the fact, that Hiyori and the old grandma are Yui's actual family - but her blood related abusive father isn't.

The movie also has a big focus on keeping culture and knowledge alive through oral traditions and community. A large chunk of the movie focuses on oral traditions in fact with the old woman telling the two girls about old legends and their importance. Something, that obviously comes to play into the main plot later. And a lot of this oral tradition also focuses to live in harmony with nature, instead of just taking from it.

So, yeah, nobody is having solar panels on anyone's roof. But so many other core tenets of the movement are there.

So please, watch this movie - especially if you like anime. It was really overlooked and it is a sweet little thing.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Source: Japan Times

Breaking News: Kobe's "Tantan" dies, the oldest panda in Japan, at 28 years old

1 April 2024

🖤🐼🖤

[gumdefense]

Rewatching the anime and I’m at farewell my turnabout now, which always reminds me the magatama just… isn’t a thing they adapted, for some reason. When Phoenix asks engarde if he killed corrida, they adapt it by having engarde be like oh nooo I’m so upset over his death how horrible and Phoenix trusting him based on that. Which I think works and also doesn’t. With the magatama, there’s a concrete reason why Phoenix and the audience think without a doubt engarde has to be innocent until he reveals he isn't, with the magic lie detector not detecting any lie. Without it, it kind of makes Phoenix look overly naive, blindly trusting the guy just because he said he feels so bad without even answering the question. But on the other hand, it fits really well with Phoenix’s character arc in this case and the exploration of the “always believe in your client” motto. Because here the problem directly comes from that belief and trust; while it’s still there with the magatama, the anime might give it a bit more weight since it just makes sense to trust Magic Lie Detector. I mean, why wouldn’t you. It’s kinda less about Phoenix trusting engarde too easily and more “woahh you can bypass the magatama by answering a certain way”

This isn’t me arguing farewell anime version is better, or that the game handles the trusting your client theme badly, not at all, I just like comparing the differences with the choice of removing a key element of the game in an adaption and how it then handles it

Speaking of the game since I’m not done rambling: I think the game gives the case itself more suspense and tension, because even when literally everything points to engarde, even if your faith would normally waver, you think no, he literally CAN’T be guilty, the magatama said so ! While I played the games (moreso early on), I was bad at trusting clients lol, even characters like edgeworth got “yeah no they did it” from me. But in farewell, as it was the 9th case after 8 cases of innocent clients, I had the instinct of “well the client is always innocent so even if he seems guilty as hell he’s probably innocent too” (which is one of the million things I ADORE about farewell, how it plays with how the previous game and previous cases affected the player psychologically). Add the magatama to that, and I was truly convinced there was no way he could have done it for once, which made the reveal a huge shock and made me really connect to and empathise with Phoenix’s inner conflict. While I think the anime adapts the case very well, it does have that aspect I mentioned of Phoenix just looking naive for trusting engarde. Though to be fair it might be bias from already knowing what happens

[nevert-the-guy]

Currently: thinking about the Japan-only Bomberman earthquake safety OVA

[awesomecooperlove]

🌪️💨🌬️

[showamagicalgirls]

In 1993, two short safety-related films were made as part of the Heisei magical girl TV anime, Flower Witch Mary Bell (花の魔法使いマリーベル). This is one of the two, Mary Bell's Fire Prevention: What to Do When an Earthquake Occurs (マリーベルの火の用心 〜グラッときたらどうする〜).

[redsamuraiii]

Suzume no Tojimari *spoilers*

Sypnosis

Just watched this today and once again Makoto Shinkai is able to deliver it as always. The story is interesting, the animation and sceneries are beautiful, the songs are epic, the characters are likeable and it makes you smile and in tears. Coincidentally, I watch this today 11 March which happens to be the anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake which devastated Miyagi Prefecture, which this anime is likely to be based and inspired on.

Suzume is a high school girl who lost her mother in a devastating earthquake which destroyed her entire town in Miyagi prefecture and now lives with her aunt in Miyazaki, Kyushu who loves her like her own daughter. Suzume is an outgoing and cheerful girl who loves school but deep down is still saddened by the tragic lost of her mother and still dreams of her, remembering the time she looked for her in the house debris when she was a child.

One day, she came across a strange guy who asks her for directions towards an abandoned area nearby. Out of curiosity, she tailed him and discovers a mysterious door and a statue which turns into a cat, scaring her away. Back in school, she notices a black smoke near the mountain area when she was having lunch with her classmates but only she could see it. Shortly after, an earthquake occurs as she ran out of her school towards the smoke.

Upon reaching she discovers the strange guy struggling to close a mysterious door which smoke seems to be coming from. Apparently, the smoke is a spirit from the after world which causes the earthquakes. After helping him close the door, he introduces himself as Souta, who is a guardian that wants to ensure the smoke doesn’t come to our world and in other words, to stop earthquakes from happening.

Just as Suzume is trying to make sense of what is happening and Souta figuring out why Suzume is the only one who could see the smoke but not her friends, a familiar cat appears and places a curse on Souta. Determined to get to the bottom of it all, Suzume and Souta races across Japan, chasing after the cat who turns out to be some spirit god, going from Kyushu to Ehime, to Kobe, to Tokyo and back to where it all started...

...the Miyagi Prefecture, Suzume’s home where her mother died.

Along the way, Suzume encounters various people who ends up becoming a part of her life and going along on the joyride is Suzume’s aunt who is looking for her since she left school during the earthquake when Suzume first saw the smoke and Souta’s friend who’s been searching for him since he went missing in Tokyo.

Thoughts

Although it wasn’t explained or I might have missed the part as to why or how Suzume is able to see the smoke from the after world and not the others, I suspect it has got to do with her yearning for death as she do not fear death, possibly wanting to reunite with her mother whom she still misses dearly. 

The smoke spirit from the after world wants to enter our world to claim more human lives that it could bring back to its world. So Suzume is kind of at the “borderland” in between the world of the living and the world of the dead, which is why she still has dreams of her late mother who is in the after world.

As for Souta, I suspect that his grandfather might be a Yamabushi, a mountain hermit, which is why he keeps reciting the prayers to the mountain god for help every time he attempts to close the door and why his grandfather has books about this smoke spirit dating back centuries since ancient times.

It’s a story about overcoming loss and letting go of the past, which is not easy. Suzume wasn’t afraid to die because she wants to be with her mother but along the way when she met new people who became her friends, her views began to change and realise that she has to move on and live her life.

Souta is afraid to die and wants to live which is why he is determined to close the door and save the world as he could not bear to see more people dying. But after meeting Suzume, he realises that in order to be fearless to do his mission, to do what he set out to do, he has to be ready to embrace death. 

So in a way, they both change each other. 

I think it’s about balance. It’s like a Samurai who is ready to die but does not mean that he has a death wish going on suicide missions, it only means he is fearless because at the same time he does not wish to die so he could return home to his family which is why he fights bravely to survive.

It’s a beautiful anime like Your Name and Weathering With You, each unique and special in different ways. Don’t worry, there’s a happy ending for this too. But it doesn’t mean you won’t cry in tears along the way. Makoto Shinkai never fail to pull your hear-strings and making you all emotional.

[katsintriis]

Not to be like end times are happening but a fuckin earthquake in NJ??? Seems a little end timey