Anime Report -- the Nature of Faery

[alfreda89]

Naruto just gets sillier. This is W's popcorn amusement -- the 5 minutes of new material each time drives me nuts. Lost track of the new Inuyasha episodes.

First disk of Princess Tutu completed. This is beautiful art, and strange storytelling. I'd love to be watching this with a child, to see what kids get from it. Only annoying thing is the current preference for having characters drop into really embarrassing behavior by flattening and rounding out with XXX eyes and screeching. I find it a short cut to get the gag, as opposed to "Dave the Barbarian" when the physical humor changes each time to reflect the actual situation.

This a a dark tale, and therefore closer to true fairytales than most.

So -- are fairytales the fantasy genre of hundreds of years ago? They mean one thing to children, and another to adults who are also listening, at end of day?

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Isn't Tutu lovely?

It's like crack for writers, with all that it has to say about storytelling there.

And yeah, it's not as light as any description of it makes it seem.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

It's like crack for writers, with all that it has to say about storytelling there.

Very much so -- I may need to watch them strung like beads on a string, to keep my head from wandering off chasing will o' wisps. They must have been free associating to get all this out.

Will Shetterly says you think it's over halfway through -- and then it just gets better. Looking forward to it!

[janni.livejournal.com]

The ending of the first half is much like the ending of act 1 of Into the Woods (if you've ever seen it), that way.

It's not a bad ending. But it does get so much better from there.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I think I saw INTO THE WOODS, but the story doesn't stick hard, just a few of the biggest jokes.

[seaweed-shark.livejournal.com]

I've seen all of Princess Tutu and it's good, though it does indulge in the anime mix of "way too gooey & cutey" plus "way too dark and abstruse" that we all know and love. Mr. Cat never fails to be amusing, but the same (alas) cannot be said for Drosselmeyer. The sine qua non of this kind of show is Revolutionary Girl Utena, which is well worth a look if you haven't seen it. On the other side, I believe there are Web sites that will tell you which eps of Naruto and InuYasha actually contain new content. Go anime!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

On the other side, I believe there are Web sites that will tell you which eps of Naruto and InuYasha actually contain new content. Go anime!

Haven't found a sponsored InuYasha one -- the various fan sites can be confusing. I don't know if W is cheating and checking the sites for Naruto. He tapes the new episode every Saturday night!