anime and manga

For this week I read Annarasumanara  1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? I read seven chapters of this manga on webtoons. I'm not that interested in it. But I can appreciate a manga with a lot of black negative space. The main character didn't really interest me and neither did the side characters. I did however enjoy the intricate patterns featured in the manga.  2. What connections did you make with the story? Discuss what elements of the story with which you were able to connect? I relate to how the Yun Ai feels that wonder and curiosity are just things meant for children, and that it will never be useful in the real world. My dad always said that disney phrases like "a dream is a wish your heart makes" because you have to work your ass off to actually get what you want. I connected with the fact that Yun Ai's sister was still innocent and curious, and it still baffles me today as to how worn out and dull I've become in comparison t

To be a bully. For this week I read "A Silent Voice". I really liked this piece because it did a good job exploring the mind of a childhood bully. I think all to often people will just assume bullies are cruel just to be cruel. But in reality they're hurting on the inside and they decide to take out their frustration on people weaker than them. I've had my fair share of bullies in the past and that usually ended up being the case. On the one hand I sympathize for ishida because I feel like he get pigeon holed into the role of the misfit and rough boy. Its hard to change your ways when everyone expects you to be nothing more than a roughhousing little brat, especially when you're so young. Even his own teacher expects nothing out of ishida than to be a bully. Which really sucks, people can change ways and to treat them like a villain forever won't do anyone good. Forgive, move on, and heal. Bullies don't usually stay a bully forever. My childhood bully

I read ALL of Uzumaki and I can't wait to talk all about it. my favorite chapter of the whole Uzumaki was the snail chapter, that one was wild. I love the artist's chaotic style, and mostly how the female protagonist has such dainty, entrancing straight hair. (ill elaborate later, i need to sleep

Isekai wasn't a term I was familiar with but now that I know the meaning, I immediately thought of Inuyasha, even though I never really got into it. I did watch Digimon, and that counts. Another example I could possibly say is the American movie "Atlantis, The Lost Empire" but that's a stretch. I watched the boy and the beast and I really liked it. Like with Spirited Away, it always leaves me with a bittersweet feeling when: SPOILER ALERT!!! When the main character finally leaves the alternate realm to live in the human world, and leaves all the friends they made in the past. I mean neither Chihiro or Ren should have stayed in their alternate realms and it was the right thing to do, plus they're both kids and they need their parents. But still, wouldn't it be nice if they could still go back and visit?

Cyberpunk I watched the movie adaptation of ghost in the shell. I'm really glad I didn't watch the Scarlet Johansson version, even though some of the CG looked good. There's a whole discussion on white washing and western movie adaptations of anime but that's for another day. I will agree with Fransis's journal relating to this: It was nice that the western movie adaptation worked in a bunch of shots from the original anime and manga. For that, I'll put the live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell above the live action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. But back to the movie. I hope I'm not a simpleton when I say that some of the plot in the movie went a little over my head, and I got lost at some parts. The animation was unique and I always like when movies have different ways of portraying people, movement, and "vibes". I loved "Do Robots Dream Of Electric Sheep" and I'm always up for a robot dystopia. 

I absolutely loved My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness. I read it at the library, back when we still had access to it. I really related to the way that the author spoke about depression and hopelessness. This one line really touched me, "It felt good to fall apart". Sometimes when you're so far down the rabbit hole of mental illness, you find comfort in the emotions you feel constantly. Happiness becomes foreign. But let's not just focus on the mental illness aspect of it. MLEWL really did a good job at portraying the main character's struggle with their sexual identity, and how their parents may react negatively towards it. Granted having a whole story about enlisting a escort in a love hotel may be one of the more brash ways to tell the world that you're a lesbian but hey life isn't perfect. I liked the loose drawings in the story and how everything felt dainty and loose, I don't see enough of that in anime or manga. In relation to K