Comments on: Mouryou no Hako - 08 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/mouryou-no-hako-08/ An anime blog covering a large variety of series, both popular and underrated. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:36:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: psgels http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/mouryou-no-hako-08/#comment-10547 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:47:47 +0000 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/mouryou-no-hako-08/#comment-10547 Aznan: here's the thing: she doesn't think that Kanako has been killed. Instead, she simply believes that she ascended to the next world. If the killer promises the same thing to her, how can she refuse if she still has the same beliefs that Kanako taught her? Aznan: here’s the thing: she doesn’t think that Kanako has been killed. Instead, she simply believes that she ascended to the next world. If the killer promises the same thing to her, how can she refuse if she still has the same beliefs that Kanako taught her?

]]> by: Aznan http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/mouryou-no-hako-08/#comment-10546 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:38:10 +0000 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/mouryou-no-hako-08/#comment-10546 I quite don't understand Yoriko motives here,so she choose to go with the murderer willingly? To be killed next? Where's the logic in this,hearing few frazes about eternal life and she is hooked up with that mysterious man even if she knows she pushed Kanako. She is really dumb. I quite don’t understand Yoriko motives here,so she choose to go with the murderer willingly?
To be killed next?
Where’s the logic in this,hearing few frazes about eternal life and she is hooked up with that mysterious man even if she knows she pushed Kanako.
She is really dumb.

]]> by: Kurisu http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/mouryou-no-hako-08/#comment-10464 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:02:04 +0000 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/mouryou-no-hako-08/#comment-10464 You're sailing in dangerous waters by casually dropping a comment like "While an anime about Pearl Harbour is of course never going to happen[...]". First of all it's overly "presumptive" and second I don't get what you're trying to say anyway. The events summed up as "Pearl Harbour" are rather something to be held against the USA. It also shows that you haven't watched LOGH yet. Ignoring the information that Perl Harbour was to be attacked and sacrifying it as an execuse to nuke Nagasaki and Hiroshima is addressed in LOGH where a similar event takes place albeit with a twist. Works by Leiji Matsumoto refer to WW2 in obvious but also twisted ways. "The Cockpit" is his most direct approach. One episode covers the kamikaze attacks on Perl Harbour. Actually I prefer that anime doesn't (ab)use WW2 as background for entertainment. Most Hollywood movies give the impression of being authentic when they are really nothing but entertainment and to this day they are usually painfully single-sided and almost qualify as propaganda. Today the US military uses WW2 as a tool to justify their war mongering to naive people and recruit young people. Actually, Anime makes references to WW2 more frequently than some might think. Granted it usually revolves around the atomic bomb in a slightly disguised form. A lot of anime has an anti-war spirit much more than so-called anti-war movies from Hollywood which are usually only a statement against war if you expect it to be. In anime its often shown that the motivation for war and fighting is quite questionable in the first place, driven by unscrupulous political and economic interests disguised by a layer of ethical pseudo-reasons. Hollywood only realizes that war kills people. If you really expect some self-critical approach of WW2 in the Japanese context, it would have to be about what they did in China. You can see how difficult that is when you look at their relationship to the USA compared to the status-quo concerning China. You’re sailing in dangerous waters by casually dropping a comment like “While an anime about Pearl Harbour is of course never going to happen[…]”. First of all it’s overly “presumptive” and second I don’t get what you’re trying to say anyway. The events summed up as “Pearl Harbour” are rather something to be held against the USA. It also shows that you haven’t watched LOGH yet. Ignoring the information that Perl Harbour was to be attacked and sacrifying it as an execuse to nuke Nagasaki and Hiroshima is addressed in LOGH where a similar event takes place albeit with a twist. Works by Leiji Matsumoto refer to WW2 in obvious but also twisted ways. “The Cockpit” is his most direct approach. One episode covers the kamikaze attacks on Perl Harbour.

Actually I prefer that anime doesn’t (ab)use WW2 as background for entertainment. Most Hollywood movies give the impression of being authentic when they are really nothing but entertainment and to this day they are usually painfully single-sided and almost qualify as propaganda. Today the US military uses WW2 as a tool to justify their war mongering to naive people and recruit young people.

Actually, Anime makes references to WW2 more frequently than some might think. Granted it usually revolves around the atomic bomb in a slightly disguised form. A lot of anime has an anti-war spirit much more than so-called anti-war movies from Hollywood which are usually only a statement against war if you expect it to be. In anime its often shown that the motivation for war and fighting is quite questionable in the first place, driven by unscrupulous political and economic interests disguised by a layer of ethical pseudo-reasons.
Hollywood only realizes that war kills people.

If you really expect some self-critical approach of WW2 in the Japanese context, it would have to be about what they did in China. You can see how difficult that is when you look at their relationship to the USA compared to the status-quo concerning China.

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