Of course, I naturally dislike the Left. When there are movies or Avatar or anything else, even if I dislike it, I won’t say much of anything about it. But I will about the Left. Thus while there are things I disliked about Farscape, it wasn’t important enough for me to give it much consideration, let alone write it down. 

At the time, it felt like a great balance. And it is pretty funny to re-read and combine those thoughts. My way of showing my thoughts about the Leftist regime of 2009: movie or no movie.

Starship Operators= Funny as hell Engrish and unintended side connections relating to US-Japanese relations. War Drama in the truest sense of the term; telling the story of normal people in extraordinary circumstances that bring out the best and worst of human emotions and character.
 
Naruto= Very well crafted ninja battles, a good philosophical ethic on work vs inborn intelligence, and is much better educational material for the younger generation than Leftist propaganda.
 
Bleach= Extraordinary epic story arc during the first arcs concerning individual power and motivation. Both it and Naruto suffer, after a few seasons, of the Long Series problem, which scrambles the quality and inter-connection of the manga lot to be replaced by popular esque fillers and other unmentionables. This is, notably, something never seen in LOGH, which had 110 episodes when most anime series have 10-24 or are stand alone OVA/movies.
 
So, in point of fact, the reason I like these things is the very reason why I like reading or doing anything. Because it interests me. Military history interests me. Political science and the manipulation of individuals and masses, interests me. For most others, it may not be so. And as such they won’t see what I see, they won’t think what I think, and it won’t matter to them as much vis a vis their life experiences.
 

Most people don’t study enough politics, let alone military history, to connect the dots. That’s why, historically, there were low culture and high culture. Now a days, Liberal Hollywood thinks they set the definition on what is ‘high culture’. I beg to differ. They’re the pimps and brother keepers of low culture, not high culture. Same goes for the Awards, and the Peace Prize, and I can keep on going.
On a final note, these anime stories are also popular in Japan and other parts of the world because… they connect to people on many levels. They are a true myth of the human condition, and one need not be of a specific profession or interest group to appreciate it. The story of self-sacrifice is not a monopoly of any ideology or group, contrary to the claims of Leftist religious fanatics.
 

I know of them and have seen them. But I was never interested in them much, because the themes are actually not staple elements of current Japanese anime. Such things inspired manga and anime authors, of course, but you’d have to almost be Japanese to get under the layers between technological humanism and gaia environmentalism as seen from the Japanese, rather than Hollywood, perspective. Without such investment, it’s just sfx.

Many of the recent and the not so recent productions are more diversified in terms of subject matter and style. Actually, anime as a whole can be said to be too diversified. If you don’t know what you are looking for, it’s going to be a quest to find the straw in the liberal federally regulated haystack.

Unlike Hollywood, anime has no ideological restraints. Thus any creator can get his stuff published as a manga, and then if people like it and spread it by mouth, it becomes animated and the rights are bought by big corporations and then we have toys and cult followings like Dragon Ball Z, which even transcends national boundaries. Which is funny. Hollywood also translates national boundaries… but only with Westerners and other select motifs (like the eternal Hollywood happy ending), which are not the modern Hollywood cream of the crop because the culture of the West is looked down upon by insufferable elitists as being backwards.

Because often times the manga writer does the story sketch, dialogue, art work, and world/character background all by himself, what you get is individual diversification and less of a bar to accomplished status. It doesn’t take millions of dollars, like Hollywood movies or even sit coms.

That means there’s almost something for everybody. The OVA type movies you mentioned belong selectively to the techno, advanced future, dystopia branch of anime. It’s like Goth music and Western culture here in the States. If you don’t like it, you won’t get into it regardless of how much you get see it. And there’s no reason to waste time if you are looking for something else. Something else meaning something else science fiction to name one genre.

Networks here in the states cancel things like Firefly and crap all over Michael J for Babylon 5: Crusades, because it’s a sort of semi-monopoly with either limitation by production costs or limitation by lack of competition. Much of the Japanese manga business is low cost and fueled by fan bases, rather than cooked up by elite executives. They’ll publicize and produce the advertisement for the popular animes, like Bleach, DBZ, Naruto, etc, but that’s after the talent is recognized by a loyal following, not before. While there are stupid network decisions like any, including infamous ‘filler’ episodes based around some anti-author’s idea of what the author would have created, there isn’t as much of a critical failure. One decision can destroy Firefly and hold the network rights to it and that’s it. Even with extraordinary fan loyalty. In Japanese anime, there are so many shows around, that even if you include the bad CEO decisions, there are also a lot of good productions and even exceptional ones like LOGH. Like Miyamoto Musashi’s book of 5 rings, Sun Tzu’s Art of War, and Clausewitz’s On War, it’s a cult classic.

On a philosophical level, I like how Japanese authors create and communicate what they have built. It won’t affect the artistic result, however, since ethics and aesthetics aren’t the same thing.

Also, it’s far better to watch japanese anime in the original Japanese, while reading the subtitles in English, because the Japanese VAs are the most dedicated and talented around. Here in the US, our voice artists just aren’t paid the big bucks, so they usually go into singing or theater acting. The things that can be done to a Japanese anime by putting it in English dubs is not worth describing.

As a relative comparison, there’s nothing unique about the japanese experience except in so far as the authors are… Japanese. For example, on a purely creative level, Americans can produce just as good a world and character list as the Japanese. Look up Safehold or Honor Harrington by David Weber as an example. Babylon 5’s 5 seasons telling one grand inter-connected story. Firefly. Westerners.

It’s all about competition. That is what lets the good rise to the top and sinks the bad to the bottom. But then, I don’t suppose I need say that given what non-idiots can see happening in America.

<B> That is easier for kids to do; not so for adults</b>

The Left is full of adult-children. They eat it up because one should not expect otherwise.

<B>Movie critics, for the most part, like it as well. </b>

Like an abused spouse, they won’t leave or criticize their partner because they fear the alternatives and disbelieve that it can be better by letting go and forming another relationship.

After all, don’t most people believe Republicans are baby eating evil people that create myrmidon kill bots to kill/rape indigenous populations? If that was one’s only alterantive, one might have little choice but to stay with the flawed but still good intentioned cult of the Left, anti-humanity screeds or not.

<B>So, I ask you, why should he work harder to tell a good story if it isn’t going to change anything?</b>

Creative individuals create because that is their love. The money is nice, since they need to eat and can use it to create some more, but it is not their primary motivation. If one’s primary motivation is profit, then… what’s the difference between that person and the greedy corporations Cameron portrays? And if Cameron is producing gunk for the proletariat to lap up, then what is the difference between Cameron and the company in Aliens? (Btw the Pc games were funny and weird as hell. I got motion sickness first time I played as an Alien face hugger climbing over walls.)

<B>As for that, why should Hollywood in general try harder?</b>

They’re on welfare and have a semi-monopoly. As such, innovation, creativity, and what not suffers.

<B>Meanwhile as anyone with a brain knows, once a society becomes very technologically advanced and prosperous, many solutions are found for protecting the environment.</b>

Check out the post on China’s pollution. The Left thinks by destroying wealth and making everybody eat from a single, static pie, that they can ‘save Gaia’. What a laugh.

<B>Had he took any chances with the story</b>

he could be made a Mel Gibson. As in crucified if ideological boundaries aren’t followed in Hollywood. And the Left likes to claim they are all about anti-censure and anti-blacklists and what not. Hypocrites, again, as usual. Energic hypocrites, which are sort of like locusts.

<B>The underlying themes in most of his movies have always been critical of corporations</b>

The best message against corporations would have been him using his money cash to make movies that destroy Hollywood’s monopolistic practices. Instead, he funnels them money. Which I suppose is as good an indication of corporatism as anything he artificially created as a case lesson in his movies.

<B>I usually save the deep analysis you’re talking about for DVD</b>

The primary consideration I used when I mentioned it was that people wouldn’t mind if movies were too long, if they could not be held as a captive audience for the entire length. Sitting in one place for several hours at a time, is after all, the same way young children are steadily brainwashed and attention deficit starts happening.

I wouldn’t recommend people keep doing this as adults while labbing up sensory information from movies without any mental filters. I just wouldn’t. I know of too many ideological control mechanisms and have seen the result of them employed (look up Jones Town).

Many of the recent and the not so recent productions are more diversified in terms of subject matter and style. Actually, anime as a whole can be said to be too diversified. If you don’t know what you are looking for, it’s going to be a quest to find the straw in the liberal federally regulated haystack.
 
Unlike Hollywood, anime has no ideological restraints. Thus any creator can get his stuff published as a manga, and then if people like it and spread it by mouth, it becomes animated and the rights are bought by big corporations and then we have toys and cult followings like Dragon Ball Z, which even transcends national boundaries. Which is funny. Hollywood also translates national boundaries… but only with Westerners and other select motifs (like the eternal Hollywood happy ending), which are not the modern Hollywood cream of the crop because the culture of the West is looked down upon by insufferable elitists as being backwards.
 
Because often times the manga writer does the story sketch, dialogue, art work, and world/character background all by himself, what you get is individual diversification and less of a bar to accomplished status. It doesn’t take millions of dollars, like Hollywood movies or even sit coms.
 
That means there’s almost something for everybody. The OVA type movies you mentioned belong selectively to the techno, advanced future, dystopia branch of anime. It’s like Goth music and Western culture here in the States. If you don’t like it, you won’t get into it regardless of how much you get see it. And there’s no reason to waste time if you are looking for something else. Something else meaning something else science fiction to name one genre.

Networks here in the states cancel things like Firefly and crap all over Michael J for Babylon 5: Crusades, because it’s a sort of semi-monopoly with either limitation by production costs or limitation by lack of competition. Much of the Japanese manga business is low cost and fueled by fan bases, rather than cooked up by elite executives. They’ll publicize and produce the advertisement for the popular animes, like Bleach, DBZ, Naruto, etc, but that’s after the talent is recognized by a loyal following, not before. While there are stupid network decisions like any, including infamous ‘filler’ episodes based around some anti-author’s idea of what the author would have created, there isn’t as much of a critical failure. One decision can destroy Firefly and hold the network rights to it and that’s it. Even with extraordinary fan loyalty. In Japanese anime, there are so many shows around, that even if you include the bad CEO decisions, there are also a lot of good productions and even exceptional ones like LOGH. Like Miyamoto Musashi’s book of 5 rings, Sun Tzu’s Art of War, and Clausewitz’s On War, it’s a cult classic.
 
 
On a philosophical level, I like how Japanese authors create and communicate what they have built. It won’t affect the artistic result, however, since ethics and aesthetics aren’t the same thing.
 
Also, it’s far better to watch japanese anime in the original Japanese, while reading the subtitles in English, because the Japanese VAs are the most dedicated and talented around. Here in the US, our voice artists just aren’t paid the big bucks, so they usually go into singing or theater acting. The things that can be done to a Japanese anime by putting it in English dubs is not worth describing.
 
As a relative comparison, there’s nothing unique about the japanese experience except in so far as the authors are… Japanese. For example, on a purely creative level, Americans can produce just as good a world and character list as the Japanese. Look up Safehold or Honor Harrington by David Weber as an example. Babylon 5′s 5 seasons telling one grand inter-connected story. Firefly. Westerners.
 
It’s all about competition. That is what lets the good rise to the top and sinks the bad to the bottom. But then, I don’t suppose I need say that given what non-idiots can see happening in America.
<B> That is easier for kids to do; not so for adults</b>
 
 
The Left is full of adult-children. They eat it up because one should not expect otherwise.