WEEKLY MEGATHREAD (yes I'm late but let's get these started weekly now and go from here)
Feel free to discuss anything random/casual you want to discuss here. Chat, get to know each other, talk about the weekly shows. Whatever! It's all welcome.
Please use spoiler tags for show content.
Monday shows:
Tuesday shows:
- Houkago Teibou Nisshi [Ep7] MAL
Wednesday shows:
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Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- 2nd Season Part 1 [Ep7] - MAL
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Deca-Dence [Ep7] - MAL
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Great Pretender [Ep7] - MAL
Thursday shows:
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax [Ep7] - MAL
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The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED [Ep6] - MAL
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No Guns Life 2nd Season [Ep7] - MAL
Friday shows:
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Fire Force Season 2 [Ep8] - MAL
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Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! [Ep7] - MAL
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A Certain Scientific Railgun T [Ep20] - MAL
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Appare Ranman! [Ep8] - MAL
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Food Wars The Fifth Plate [Ep8] - MAL
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Rent-A-Girlfriend [Ep7] - MAL
Saturday shows:
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Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2 [Ep7] - MAL
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy [Ep8] - MAL
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Lapis Re:LiGHTs [Ep8] - MAL
Sunday shows:
- Digimon Adventure: [Ep12] - MAL
(if you think I missed something, please tell me and I'll add it in, absence of something in this list doesn't mean you can't talk about it here)
Previous 6 threads:
wow, Penguindrum is exactly as weird and fucked up as Utena and I'm only 6 episodes in. I have absolutely zero clue what's happening, everything is just absurd enough to be hilarious and unsettling/creepy at the same time, and there's a surreal quality that punctures straight through it all. Ringo is such a deeply fucked up character and yet she's like a living trainwreck: you can't look away, even if you wanted to.
fuck, this is good. like Utena, I think it's going to take a couple of watches to get past the surface elements to any kind of deeper understanding of the work. even if I didn't know going into this that the two shows were made by the same director, I'd be convinced of the fact by sheer similarity in the motifs, aesthetic, tone, presentation, and style. even the themes are deeply similar so far, with the central characters fixated on the past and trying to recreate it. I guess they're both kind of, sort of magical girl shows, but I think in reality they constitute their own genre, like Lovecraft, more similar to each other than anything else.
Yesss Penguindrum is cool and good.
I think the big thing to be aware of when doing a critical reading is that Ikuhara drew heavily from Haruki Murakami's non-fiction book Underground, which was about the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack. A lot of Penguindrum's symbolism should become clear with that background.