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I appreciate that you gave credit to Brian, unlike some people...

Being somewhat of an Oshii fan I may have to have one of my co-workers try and track down a copy for me when she goes to Japan around Christmas...amongst a few other things like Robot Carnival.

jsevakis: I hear it's basically an overpriced version of Brian's book.

Wow, that was one of the most absolutely fascinating Buried Treasures yet (and being that this is probably my favorite column, that's saying something--I have a soft spot for more unknown gems).

I'm definitely interested in tracking this one down now.

Yeah, Twilight Q has been one of the weirder viewing experiences I've had in my time.... *shakes head*

Tomomi MOCHIZUKI didn't direct (or appear to have anything to do with) Code Geass, that was Goro Taniguchi (Planetes, s-CRY-ed, Infinite Ryvius, GUNxSWORD).

Excellent analysis, though I have to say that I understood File 538 completely differently. To me, the little girl never seemed to be an hallucination.

As I understood the story, the point was that her powers of transformation were real (as if, perhaps, she were a fledgling goddess), and the entire focus of the story was the immense hazard of awesome power without any form of control. In that sense, I viewed it as a general metaphor for power of any kind, and especially destructive power.

The girl's keepers, one might say, are in the position of people who are sitting on a stockpile of nuclear weapons. They can't leave it and go away, but staying is just as perilous. It's only a matter of time before the situation turns nasty.

I rather like the interpretation of the girl as an hallucinatory effect of heat and starvation. Who's to say that both interpretations are not true?

- abunai

You should do Angel's Egg for one of these colums. I'm always interested in seeing different people's reactions to it.

I've been wanting to see this since I read Brian's book.

Speaking of Brian Ruh...when's that Eva essay book finally going to be published?

Akemi Takada's name reminded me of the CGI anime worked on, Visitor which I watched dubbed in Tagalog about nine years ago. Was kind of surprised that it didn't have an Encyclopedia entry.

The description makes it sound to me as something I wouldn't want to bother with. It sounds like a poor attempt to do a Twilight Zone story by just making things weird rather than writing a surrealistic story. And because it's weird many wouldn't notice how bad it is. Fortunately, somebody did.

The fun thing is that Oshii's live action work is just as surrealistic and insane as his anime. A few friends and I watched Red Spectacles together and it was a blast.

Totally incomprehensible, but still a blast!

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