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Trashy Anime Poll / Update (Patreon)

Published:
2022-10-10 20:40:36
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2023-04

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Hey y'all. 

Update: Got the huge Coen Brothers / Hail Caesar column up last week and feeling good about it. Got another one I've been working on character behavior and a storyteller's "ear" for dialogue that's coming soonish! 

As for anime stuff, last month I asked for trashy anime advice and it took me, like, a whole month to comb through and figure out what I'm most interested in from the pile (and actually, I've still been watching a ton of Haikyu!! I'm almost caught up! Gonna be able to watch live with y'all). Also, gonna watch more Takahata. 

Also also, I always fear getting get bogged down in shows, so warning! I may just sample a few of these and not finish the runs necessarily and might hop around! Though my plan was just to watch season one of Haikyu!! and here I am in season four soooooooo haha.

Also also also, Patreon now allows MORE than three options in a poll. So here's the list! Enjoy!

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Anonymous

Hmm, the only one of these 5 shows I associate with 'trashy' is High School of the Dead, but it honestly is /just/ trashy. There's nothing interesting there besides the much memed breast jiggle speed math (which you can surely find on youtube by searching "high school of the dead boob scene") You /need/ to watch some Ikuhara, but I would rec both Utena and Penguindrum before Sarazanmai, especially because Sarazanmai is not trash in any sense of the word and thus not appropriate for this poll. Utena is at least as influential as Neon Genesis Evangelion, and you'll instantly recognize how much every single weeb queer artist under 40 absolutely loves it (Rebecca Sugar is an easy example). And Penguindrum is insanely ambitious, lovable, a complete mess, and easily my favorite anime of all time. The thing that could push Sarazanmai over the top for you though is the fact that it's loudly, proudly, explicitly about MLM, and it's not afraid to be weird and gross while making that it's subject material (which is probably how it ended up on this 'trash' poll) Any discourse you've seen about Bunny Drop entirely stems from the manga/anime dichotomy you already said you don't want to get into. The anime is a straightforwardly charming show about single parenthood and adoption. Kill la Kill is a show I have complicated feelings about. I think it trips itself up more than it succeeds, and is a pale imitation of the pastiche of influences it wears on it's sleeves. I liked the show better before when it was called Gurren Lagannn, and better later when it was called Promare, and even 'Female Main characters' isn't strong enough bait for me because I don't trust that writer's room to get anything right from that perspective at all. . . . But Iwasaki osts still fuckin slap, all the reimagined Sukeban Deka/Tomorrow's Joe/Aim for the Ace imagery is amazing, and the girls are both gay and cute, so I can't really say don't watch it. But also, it should be clear that it's going to be the runaway winner of the poll by an insane margin, so you'll be watching it. Also, I'd (selfishly) much rather hear your takes on a breadth of anime creators, rather than deep dives on the most discussed ones and Hiroyuki Imaishii is a creator that has thrived on wallowing in the same shallow pool of ideas for the last 2 decades. And imo, was and is way more interesting when working under other people's creative direction rather than sitting in the auteur chair himself, which, to me, is especially evident in his most recent outing Cyberpunk Edgerunners. Made in Abyss isn't 'trashy' so much as it's neon warning sign 'PROBLEMATIC' which of course means it's the one you should watch instead. It manages to perfectly mirror it's own subject matter; it's literally "Stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back at you" the anime. But it's also easy Anime of the Decade level material, with plenty of meaty hooks for you to get a fascinating article out of, even without addressing the problematic elephant in the room.

Anonymous
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If you scroll up through the comment thread, you'll see Hulk's already started watching Kill la Kill. And agreed on the "watch Utena" point -- I've been beating that drum almost three years, ever since I read his Evangelion essay.

Anonymous

Bunny drop is great. Just… don’t read the manga. Ever.