Demoned Away

[talkingsoup]

Hey you!

Ever wanted a show with gratuitous violence, copious amounts of pure, unadulterated insanity, and REALLY CUTE GIRLS?

Then Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni is the show for you!

Death curses! Torture devices! Dismembered bodies! Irreparable insanity! Cute girls with cleavers! REALLY BIG CLEAVERS! What more could one ask for???

Did you merely raise your eyebrows at Cat Soup? Yawn at End of Eva? Fall asleep during Paranoia Agent?

Not with Higurashi! After watching this show, YOU WILL NOT SLEEP!!

Try Higurashi today! It's a mind fuck--with LOLIS!!

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In other news, I went to hear the poet Yusef Komunyakaa read last Tuesday, and it was quite enjoyable.



OMG I am going to WET MYSELF the next time I hear cicadas.

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[talkingsoup]

It's the most fucked up show I have EVER SEEN.

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

I just watched the first episode out of curiosity... the style reminds me a lot of "Elfen Lied" where it's a series of happy cute fun-ness punctuated with pitch black violence and insanity. I think I'll keep watching just to find out how fucked up these cute girls are. You should check out "Elfen Lied" if you haven't. The best way to describe that show is cute, pink-haired, homicidal killing machines with six invisible arms that destroy everything they touch. It's good times.

Also, Alex Colby from Other Realms is going to be having Doctor Who (first season) marathons in Circle 0608 on non-Other Realms Saturdays (the 12th and 26th) starting at 4 in case you feel like watching it again or if you have friends who you want to get hooked on it.

[talkingsoup]

The thing about Higurashi is that it doesn't even disguise the fact that its entire purpose is to have gratuitous and often horrific violence. It's set up so that each arc consists of a few episodes in which one or more characters descend into pure insanity and paranoia and several others die horribly; then at the beginning of the next arc, it loops back around and starts things again, only with a different situation. Although now that I'm three arcs or so in, I'm starting to see connections between them.

And I've heard about Elfen Lied--I've kind of wanted to check it out. It looks pretty insane in the AMVs I've seen it in.

Ooh...I don't know. I might check it out, but things are going to get busy for me from here until the end of the semester. Also, when does the next season start up again??

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

Mm. In that case, you might also like "Gantz". Tons of people die in that.

You should.

Just thought you'd like to know. And this Saturday! :)

[talkingsoup]

Lol, but do they die repeatedly??

EXCITEMENT ABOUNDS!!

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

By "repeatedly", do you mean "the characters die multiple times each" or "the characters will die and then they bring out another batch of characters that also die"? Either way, the answer is yes.

FUCK YEAH! I hope British pirates are kind enough to put it online within a few hours. They watch it around 7, which is around 2 for us, so chances are we should be able to download it before the day is out.

[talkingsoup]

As in, at the start of each arc, everyone's alive, but then at the end most of them are dead, if not EVERYONE. And it's not like they resurrect them to kill them again, it's just like it's a time loop.

SWEET!!

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

Interesting...