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Shelf Life - Hikari Un-Go

Shenl742 wrote:

Of course, this Anime News Nina MUST be referanced

Thank you for bringing up that strip, it was a blast reading it again.

I hear there's a Manga where cockroaches are anthropomorphised as Moe girls. Is there no level that Japan won't stoop to?

so having a mascots is a bad things?? Listen you hate it I like it that's where our line draws out for our biases.

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

so having a mascots is a bad things?? Listen you hate it I like it that's where our line draws out for our biases.

It was a light-hearted comment, sort of like "oh Japan you . . .".

When you say you "like it", does that mean you've actually read the cockroach Manga in question? What was it like?

I don't think mascot's are "wrong" per se (Read Breakfast of the Gods )

...I just think that anthropomorphizing a consumable product can be inherently creepy when you think about it...

I mean, is drinking soda analogous to drinking their blood? What happens when the soda runs out? Will the girls have to canabalise other sodas to fill back up, like some kind of carbonated vampire?

If you accidentally rip the metal tab at the top off, will they become bald when they turn human...or decapitated?

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I hear there's a Manga where cockroaches are anthropomorphised as Moe girls. Is there no level that Japan won't stoop to?

I've read a few chapters of that, and it's not as bad as you'd think.

...I just think that anthropomorphising a consummable product can be inherantly creepy when you think about it...

I think I've kind of figured it out. If it's really really bad like Akikan is, then Erin can find some sort of enjoyment out of it. This isn't the first pile of excrement that she has stamped a 'rental' on, and it certainly won't be the last. And yes, when a great studio like Brains Base, who did Durarara, Kurenai, Mawaru Penguindrum, Kamichu, Baccano, Natsume Yuujinchou, etc. puts in the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel animation/art, then I think it's pretty safe to say that even the studio didn't even enjoy working on the show.

All of the cases are based on an older series of detective stories by Tsunao Sakaguchi, so the terrorist war seems to act as an obvious proxy for World War II.

Erin Finnegan wrote:

All of the cases are based on an older series of detective stories by Tsunao Sakaguchi, so the terrorist war seems to act as an obvious proxy for World War II.

　
Actually, Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochō, which Un-Go is mainly based on, was written by Sakaguchi Ango. Sakaguchi Tsunao, who is a photographer, is the son of Sakaguchi Ango.
I read Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochō in the original.
　

Erin Finnegan wrote:

All of the cases are based on an older series of detective stories by Tsunao Sakaguchi, so the terrorist war seems to act as an obvious proxy for World War II.

　
Actually, Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochō, which Un-Go is mainly based on, was written by Sakaguchi Ango. Sakaguchi Tsunao, who is a photographer, is the son of Sakaguchi Ango.
I read Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochō in the original.

hyojodoji wrote:

Erin Finnegan wrote: All of the cases are based on an older series of detective stories by Tsunao Sakaguchi, so the terrorist war seems to act as an obvious proxy for World War II. 　 Actually, Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochō, which Un-Go is mainly based on, was written by Sakaguchi Ango. Sakaguchi Tsunao, who is a photographer, is the son of Sakaguchi Ango. I read Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochō in the original.

I was having a super hard time finding information about that, so thanks!

If you've read the book and seen Un-Go, what did you think? I'm super curious.

thanks!

If you've read the book and seen Un-Go, what did you think? I'm super curious.

　銀座から築地へ歩き、渡船に乗り、佃島へ渡ることが、よく、あった。この渡船は終夜運転だから、帰れなくなる心配はない。
佃島は一間ぐらいの暗くて細い道の両側に「佃茂」だの「佃一」だのという家が並び、佃煮屋かも知れないが、漁村の感じで、渡船を降りると、突然遠い旅に来たような気持になる。とても川向うが銀座だとは思われぬ。こんな旅の感じが好きであったが、ひとつには、聖路加病院の近所にドライアイスの工場があって、そこに雑誌の同人が勤めていたため、この方面へ足の向く機会が多かったのである。
　さて、ドライアイスの工場だが、これが奇妙に僕の心を惹くのであった。
　工場地帯では変哲もない建物であるかも知れぬ。起重機だのレールのようなものがあり、右も左もコンクリートで頭上の遥か高い所にも、倉庫からつづいてくる高架レールのようなものが飛び出し、ここにも一切の美的考慮というものがなく、ただ必要に応じた設備だけで一つの建築が成立っている。町家の中でこれを見ると、魁偉であり、異観であったが、然し、頭抜けて美しいことが分るのだった。
　聖路加病院の堂々たる大建築。それに較べれば余り小さく、貧困な構えであったが、それにも拘らず、この工場の緊密な質量感に較べれば、聖路加病院は子供達の細工のようなたあいもない物であった。この工場は僕の胸に食い入り、遥か郷愁につづいて行く大らかな美しさがあった。

　仙台は伊達政宗のひらいた城下町。その時までは原野であったそうだ。
　この城は天嶮だね。しかし眼下に平野を見下し、水運には恵まれないが、陸路の要地ではある。政宗が仙台を開府したのは、大坂や江戸の開府よりも後のことだ。だが、大坂や江戸にくらべて、地点の選び方が田舎豪傑式であり、近代性が低いのである。
　秀吉は主として信長の独創を実践した人で、彼自身の、独創というものはあまりないが、大阪の地に立って四方を見ると、ここに居城を選んだ彼の識見の凡庸ならざることがハッキリするね。海陸ともに交通の要点で、これにまさるいかなる要点も有り得ない。ビワ湖に面した安土城（信長晩年の設計）と大阪の地とでは、雲泥の差があるね。安土の地はなお戦国的な要点であるが、大阪は近代の首府に通じる要点だ。