Anime

The Red fox is found in more places than any other wild canine living all over the Northern Hemisphere. From the Arctic Circle and all of Asia, to Central America and even the northern Africa. Kitsune in Japan are connected to the god Inari Ōkami, the god of rice, rice harvest, and prosperity for farmers. Inari’s messenger and friend is the fox, or foxes depending on the image. Thus there are fox statues at Shinto shrines dedicated to the god Inari. Besides fox statues the shrines are also…

In the early 1500’s the plum nation was born. It originated in china and slowly spread about asia. The plum religion was pluminissum. Pluminissim had a great culture of sacrificing otters to their god, lord squaw. Squaw cultists (what pluminissim followers were called) spread their religion around to humans. Some group of teenage boy’s in the metro early college high school and middle school are still following pluminissim have been heard making the squaw oath. (said by shouting lord squaw's…

this in my tenth grade year when a group of students passionate about anime vocalized that they were not being represented in any after school activities. These students wanted to exhibit that passion in an organized and acknowledged school program. I saw this as a problem and used my power as a grade level senator in the Student Government Association (SGA) to help them; I was able to propose and organize an after school Anime Club for those students who needed another outlet to exhibit their…

DeathNote, arguably Tsugumi Ohba’s most acclaimed anime series. A suspenseful thriller that tells the story of a bright young Japanese high school student, Light Yuba, who happens across an old tattered book – the DeathNote. The series sends the audience on a rollercoaster ride as Light Yuba learns about the book, the conditions that must be met for using it, and the implications and complications that follow. Whether in its Manga (Japanese comic) or Anime (Japanese animation) form, DeathNote…

Over this week I attended a mishmash of performances. They ranged from good to mixed to awful. Let's start with the good: a fun, entertaining performance of Le Corsaire from ABT. This season at ABT the principal women have been falling like flies due to injury (currently, Isabella Boylston, Veronika Part, Gillian Murphy and Maria Kochetkova are on the DL list). What this has meant is lots of opportunities for soloists, and the 6/8 performance showcased the talents both of veteran soloist Sarah…

In John Horne’s “Sport Mega-Events and the Shaping of Urban Modernity in East Asia”, the mobility of the human body across a space-time continuum is considered the quintessential component to connect transnational subjectivity. Particularly, transnational competitions, such as sporting mega-events involve many nations. Events such as this provide an opportunity for each nation to enrich their economy, promote their “nationhood”, and display their national pride to the world. Nonetheless, this…

Casting Choice #1: Manu Benett as protagonist Guts After seeing Manu Benett as Crixus in Spartacus, it was obvious he would be cast as Guts. Both Manu and Guts share a similar facial structure, both with a chiselled, intimidating and hardened face. In addition both of them share a similar physique and build type, both extremely masculine, tall, big and intimidating. The personification of endurance and willpower, yet also of tragedy and hardships. Guts as a character is very complex, and to put…

Over the years there has been a commonality in Hollywood films, do you think you can guess what it is? Here’s a few hints, it has something to do with the following movies, Breakfast at Tiffany 's, West Side Story, A Mighty Heart, Drive, Avatar The Last AirBender, Aloha, and Ghost in the Shell. Still don’t know? Each one of these movies and many others like them, have minority characters played by white actors. The term for this is called, whitewashing. Whitewashing is defined as, the casting…

course it had some dark stuff as well. I saw a lot of people that do cosplay eating there while I was ordering my food with my boyfriend. While we waited for our food I took a lot of pictures of the restaurant and the people that were dressed up as an anime character. We pretty much stayed there for 2 hours just admiring the place. When we were done eating we decided to go back to our hotel and start unpacking so we can go to bed since we were both very…

A tale of perseverance can come from unlikely places and from unlikely people. Most do not think about the struggles faced when creating a game, and most do not realize how much hard work goes into the series that they know and love. This instance comes from the Pokemon franchise and its global takeover. To understand the situation, one must first take a look at the man behind it all: Satoshi Tajiri. Born in 1965, Tajiri grew up in the Tokyo suburb of Machida. He drew his inspiration from his…