Tag: japanese culture

• Rashomon: Kurosawa’s Yata no Kagami for our souls

  

  Those who dismiss the “naivete” of humanist’s “wishful thinking” have not adequately plumbed the depths and horror of nihilistic thought. In the wake of the death of God, we must ask: is it better to be hope against hope for a better future in the face of despair and harsh reality or to commit suicide?…

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  September 14, 2019

  art, culture, literary critique, literature, nonfiction

  feature, featured, japan, japanese culture, japanese history, rashomon, world war 2, yata no kagami

• [posting][review] Top Five Intellectual Anime Shows

  

  One of the common misconceptions about anime is that it is a strange and goofy genre designed for middle school students, but while that is true about quite a few that have had massive impact in Western culture (I’m looking at you, One Piece and Naruto), quite a few anime have been created specifically for…

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  May 26, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, review, thought piece

  AI, animation, anime, art, critique, culture, ergo proxy, ethics, history, ideologies, intellectual, japanese culture, japanese history, narratives, philosophy, psycho-pass, psychology, robotics, samurai champloo, sayonara zetsubo sensei, sci-fi, scifi, social issues, society, steins;gate, technology, time travel

• [review] Ghost in the Shell (2017)

  

  Ghost in the Shell (2017) surprised me. It isn’t perfect, but it ended up being way better than I thought it would be. A lot of “hard-core” GitS fans were disappointed apparently, but, considering the quality of other film adaptations of anime, they were being unduly harsh.

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  May 10, 2018

  literary critique, literature, review, thought piece, Uncategorized, video

  adaptations, anime, asia, asian culture, claims, culture, film, ghost in the shell, hollywood, ideas, japanese culture, literature, opinion, scarlett johansson, video, whitewashing, writing