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The List - 6 Times Anime Went Full Halloween


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Mikeski



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:12 am Reply with quote
Re: Soul Eater... How can an anime "go Halloween" if it's there by default? That's like saying GitS "went cyberpunk" or One Piece "went pirate" or K-On "went moe".

My favorite fictional Halloween, though not anime, is the Buffy/Angel one, where the real monsters all stay in for the night because it's too commercialized.

And I'm with the group whose first thought was the totally-not-the-Terminator episode of Dirty Pair.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:05 am Reply with quote
EricJ2 wrote:
Ishkabibble wrote:
Also, trick-or-treating is one of those things that only works in suburbia.


Everywhere else, it's been moved to nice big public location events, like shopping malls or the main pedestrian drag of main street, for fears of public and child safety.
Which would work in areas of Tokyo, provided...they had any cultural idea why the heck they were doing it in the first place.

(They're still trying to come up with one agreed-upon explanation of why the heck they wear the costumes.)

There's such a thing as Trunk or Treating. Basically the parents of kids at a school (mostly early elementary school age) go to the designated spot, fancy up their trunk area with decorations, and then have the candy there to give away. So it's trick or treating, but at a more controlled designated area where all the parents can watch the kids. It's an interesting idea for parents who do live in small communities or have kids are a bit young to go out and about in a neighborhood. It also lowers the risk of idiot teenagers messing with the kids or dealing with car traffic in neighborhoods. One of the docs at my vet clinic did it with her one kid this year.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:30 am Reply with quote
Come to think of it, it wasn't about trick-or-treating per se, but the second half of Minami-ke Tadaima episode 8 was somewhat Halloween-themed with a guy on television with a jack o'lantern head hypnotizing kids into liking vegetables, and the ultimate kitsune trickster archetype character Hayami-sensei for once gets the tables turned on her when she can't seem to escape her classmates forcing vegetables onto her.

It doesn't specifically say it's Halloween, but the first half of the episode featured an autumn barbecue and it definitely seems to be October-ish.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:08 am Reply with quote
Psycho 101 wrote:
There's such a thing as Trunk or Treating. Basically the parents of kids at a school (mostly early elementary school age) go to the designated spot, fancy up their trunk area with decorations, and then have the candy there to give away. So it's trick or treating, but at a more controlled designated area where all the parents can watch the kids. It's an interesting idea for parents who do live in small communities or have kids are a bit young to go out and about in a neighborhood. It also lowers the risk of idiot teenagers messing with the kids or dealing with car traffic in neighborhoods. One of the docs at my vet clinic did it with her one kid this year.


Wait, the kids are not normally escorted by their parents? That's the general rule in our neighborhood (which is a pretty popular one--we received about one trick-or-treater per minute and had to close up at about 8:40 PM because we ran out of candy), and there's rarely any trouble because the parents are there to keep trouble away.
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