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

[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.