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And People Make Fun of This??
Oct. 11th, 2006 09:37 amWell, Honey and Clover got kind of intense last night, so Julie and I ended up forgoeing actual...yanno...homework and just watched the whole damn series. Which, well, wasn't much since it's only 12 eps long (H&C II that is).
It's animes like this that make me wonder why anime is so strictly designated to nerd-dom. Liz laughs every time I tell her I'm watching anime. My brother tells me all the time what a freak I am.
Honey and Clover is so damn real. Yeah, whatever "it's cartoons, it's animated, it's not real!" But it's like, kids in college wondering what their futures will be, trying to work things out, stuff like that, and it's just like, oh my god I can relate.
Like when Hagu said if she ever was unable to draw, she'd die. That's how I feel about writing. If for some reason I lost the ability to write, I mean, that's it. Asimov said he writes for the same reason he breathes, cause if he stopped he would die. Yes. Maybe it's ridiculous, but I don't care. Writing is as important as air to me. If I couldn't write anymore, it would be the same as being brain dead and just hooked up to machines. There'd just be no point anymore.
I guess that's an artists thing.
That's probably why I like this anime so much, because it's so relatable. Naruto is good and fine, and there are a lot of things in that that people can relate to--loneliness, vengeance, sorrow, achievement and so on, which is why it's such a fucking good anime--but at the same time, the average person isn't fighting to survive most of their time. The average person isn't a ninja and doesn't have a giant robot in their backyard or fight ghosts with big swords or consort with demons or even know how to use a gun.
Don't get me wrong. Naruto, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, FMA, those of you who know me know how much I love 'em.
But in Honey and Clover it's like, situations you can see yourself in, characters you see yourself in. Like Takemoto is always questioning himself, asking where he's going, whether it's what he really wants, college questions, and it's like, "Dude, I get that!!"
This might be just me, though. I love being able to relate to things in a show/book/movie. Part of the reason I loved Sideways so much, because I saw so much of myself in Miles. Part of the reason I loved House of Leaves so much, because when Johnny Truant talks about fear I know exactly where he's coming from. When you watch or read something and know exactly what a character is feeling, or exactly what it's like to be in X situation--I just love it.
Anime has a lot more to offer than people seem to realize. I guess it's cause, as Americans, we're brought up on cartoons that are geared toward little kids. I'm always weirded out when I see shows like One Piece and Naruto on daytime television. I mean, yeah, kids love that stuff, but there are so many layers to anime. The storytelling is inevitably richer and deeper than anything American cartooning has to offer. A lot of what's in One Piece and Naruto just isn't for kids. Ten-year-olds just can't understand all that stuff.
Anyway. Yeah. I should have been using this time to read for QST tonight, but oh well. Had to get it out.
I freaking love anime.
It's animes like this that make me wonder why anime is so strictly designated to nerd-dom. Liz laughs every time I tell her I'm watching anime. My brother tells me all the time what a freak I am.
Honey and Clover is so damn real. Yeah, whatever "it's cartoons, it's animated, it's not real!" But it's like, kids in college wondering what their futures will be, trying to work things out, stuff like that, and it's just like, oh my god I can relate.
Like when Hagu said if she ever was unable to draw, she'd die. That's how I feel about writing. If for some reason I lost the ability to write, I mean, that's it. Asimov said he writes for the same reason he breathes, cause if he stopped he would die. Yes. Maybe it's ridiculous, but I don't care. Writing is as important as air to me. If I couldn't write anymore, it would be the same as being brain dead and just hooked up to machines. There'd just be no point anymore.
I guess that's an artists thing.
That's probably why I like this anime so much, because it's so relatable. Naruto is good and fine, and there are a lot of things in that that people can relate to--loneliness, vengeance, sorrow, achievement and so on, which is why it's such a fucking good anime--but at the same time, the average person isn't fighting to survive most of their time. The average person isn't a ninja and doesn't have a giant robot in their backyard or fight ghosts with big swords or consort with demons or even know how to use a gun.
Don't get me wrong. Naruto, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, FMA, those of you who know me know how much I love 'em.
But in Honey and Clover it's like, situations you can see yourself in, characters you see yourself in. Like Takemoto is always questioning himself, asking where he's going, whether it's what he really wants, college questions, and it's like, "Dude, I get that!!"
This might be just me, though. I love being able to relate to things in a show/book/movie. Part of the reason I loved Sideways so much, because I saw so much of myself in Miles. Part of the reason I loved House of Leaves so much, because when Johnny Truant talks about fear I know exactly where he's coming from. When you watch or read something and know exactly what a character is feeling, or exactly what it's like to be in X situation--I just love it.
Anime has a lot more to offer than people seem to realize. I guess it's cause, as Americans, we're brought up on cartoons that are geared toward little kids. I'm always weirded out when I see shows like One Piece and Naruto on daytime television. I mean, yeah, kids love that stuff, but there are so many layers to anime. The storytelling is inevitably richer and deeper than anything American cartooning has to offer. A lot of what's in One Piece and Naruto just isn't for kids. Ten-year-olds just can't understand all that stuff.
Anyway. Yeah. I should have been using this time to read for QST tonight, but oh well. Had to get it out.
I freaking love anime.
