Forum - View topicAnime in America: The Best (and Worst) of 2013
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Blood-
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Ya sure you can't retroactively add in the coveted "Girls Who Blood- Would Most Like to Party With" Award? 
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dtm42
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No discussion about anime in 2013 is complete without mentioning Samurai Flamenco. There surely should have been two awards for it. One award for Biggest Ever WTF Scene, the other award for Most Complete Trainwreck In Anime History.
I doubt anyone could watch the first seven episodes (with no knowledge of what was coming) and not have their jaw slam through the foundations of their house or apartment building. |
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Stretch24
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I am still watching Samurai Flamenco (episode 12 finally came out). While the show took a seemingly inexplicable U-turn in it's plot, it still intrigues me and I wonder where the hell this could all be headed to.
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Doughboy88
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When the writers figure out where SF is going they might be able to let you know...
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Hastati
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I'm sorry to dig up this thread three months later, but I just had to say something about the very brief discussion of hikkikomori in Outbreak Company.
While I was pleasantly surprised by Outbreak Company as an anime, I don't agree with the assessment of its portrayal of hikkikomori, as I think it is a mistake to call "hikkikomori" either a "lifestyle" or "pathetic." The word lifestyle implies "choice," which leads you to believe that they are "pathetic" for making this choice. I have only recently started working at a rehabilitation school for hikkikomori, but have come to the conclusion that the term itself (along with the oft associated word "lifestyle") is fundamentally broken in its ignorant categorization of a very large and varied group of abused and largely ignored people. I think this common, generalized view of the socially withdrawn in Japan is harmful in the ways that it sidesteps significant problems in the mental health care system and the acceptance of individual idiosyncrasies. Most of the students that I have met have been physically or verbally hurt by their parents, acquaintances, perhaps even teachers, and have withdrawn through fear of the world itself. They do not do it because they are lazy, or because they are cowards, but because they think it is the only way they can survive. Many of them have mental health problems, including ADD, ADHD, Autism, OCD, Tourette's, significantly reduced mental capacity, or physical problems that have led to ostracization in (and by) school. It is not their fault that they have these problems, but there is no time or room for alternate shapes that can't be shoved into the mold in the Japanese education system. I understand that this does not apply to all "hikkikomori" in Japan, whoever they may be (as this term seems to be ever-expansive), but please, take a moment to consider the difficulties that people with disorders, disfigurement, or just abusive parents may face in Japan before accepting the labels that bind them to a "pathetic" and "lazy" existence. |
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Oh well... 
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