One of the earliest topics to appear here was the wacky anime series Azumanga Daioh. The cartoon isn’t about giant robots, so it must be about a group of Japanese schoolgirls.
One of the musical themes is beautiful and simple, plaintive yet hopeful.
Category: Animé
Post-Pandemic Punk
A teen band in Los Angeles, The Linda Lindas, have a viral video.
The girls have been signed to a small record label. They got the idea for their band from Linda Linda Linda, a 2005 Japanese movie.
Schoolgirls are the subjects of countless Japanese movies, anime, and manga. From sweet, innocent and charming, to super-powered, to graphically pornographic, girls in school uniforms are everywhere in Japanese media. I rented Linda Linda Linda back when I had a 3-disc Netflix subscription. The movie is safely at the sweet and charming end of the spectrum. The DVD is out of print, and whoever owns the rights would be smart to make the movie available online as soon as possible.
Are there cybernetic assassin schoolgirls? Of course.
A song in English by a Scottish band really is the theme to the anime series. Here’s the complete recording. It’s one of the most remarkable productions I have ever heard.
Loud and Soft
More viewing on HBOmax. There was quite a contrast between watching this one night…
… and watching this the next night but, unlike the trailer, in Japanese with English subtitles.
https://youtu.be/x0ZrjocXVJ4
Only Yesterday is as quiet and gentle as Godzilla vs. Kong is the opposite of that. 1966 was the highpoint of their youth? Why yes, mine too.
Fight Covid-19 Like a Ninja
The coronavirus cares not which side you are on. WEAR A MASK!
Shocking Coronavirus Origin Revealed!
It was created from bats by a secret society in a Japanese laboratory in 1971, and its evil leader knew to wear a surgical mask!
https://youtu.be/hm6IAFmZoJw
Anime With Dorothée
How about more Dorothée? No? Well, here she is anyway, wearing her sexy pink pj’s while the Club rates the ten most popular cartoons and features for kids in 1990 France.
Speaking of anime, a Vox article from a year ago reveals the slave wages that animators are forced to accept so they can be livin’ the dream.