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gartholamundi
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I found out about Kon's contribution to this project being available online when GATSU posted this link on page 10 of the thread concerning Kon's last blog post: CATSUKA Fan Page Ani*Kuri 15 15 I can't remember when or where I first read about it, but if I remember right 15 animators did 1-minute long projects for this. It's the kind of thing I wish I had on DVD. |
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bglassbrook
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His sense of pacing, particularly for going off to build worlds, was one of my biggest problems with the books. The other being all the times he made none-to-subtle references back to episodes of the TV series with which he was involved. Most having little bearing nor making any sense until he goes on about it, at length, in the afterword. I think the first example that really bothered me was where he spends almost an entire page, beginning on page 38, discussing Cyberbrain drugs. While this might otherwise be a worthwhile insight into the GitS world (or drug use in general,) the lab tech had literally just finished saying that this topic had absolutely no bearing on the case at hand! A point further reinforced once he returns to the story. So he meanders about until it seems the realization of a dwindling page count looms into his consciousness, and he starts wrapping things up. I much preferred the second book, as having three separate stories in the same total length forced him to stay tighter on topic. Sadly, the third book did not learn this lesson well enough, and gives him too much space to roam again. |
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Kitsune-chan
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The piece really is amazing. It seems to me that the act of reflection serves to awaken her from the illusion of the separation of the body and mind, where either her soul or her body is lagging behind the other, distanced from one another as they are in the dreaming state. As the morning routine goes on, the one slowly catches up with the other. Finally, the mirror declares that there is only one entity to be reflected, and the spirit and body become joined into one. The joining is a cheerful one, and the woman smiles at this natural union. In fact, she greets it. One could perhaps argue that she is unaware of this disconnect, and is only able to acknowledge herself as this unified entity, unaware of the disconnect that occurs every morning between her body and soul as they struggle to come together once again upon awakening from their divided slumbers in which the body recharges and the mind wanders, plays, and reorganizes. Perhaps it is speaking to the inability for modern humans, all too familiar with their own reflections, to differentiate between these two separate entities. Or perhaps it is saying, as with my earlier argument about Kusanagi's reflection in Ghost in the Shell, that the reality is only one, and the soul and body as disconnected entities are only flickerings in our fractured and tainted visions of our world. I really hope the shorts get an official release in the US as well. 
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