This reminds me of one of the essays I wrote recently, which argued, in part, that when a character in some medieval genres meets a report of his or her reputation, it’s kind of like introspection is for a character in a modern novel. I don’t know how plausible that sounds, though.

But it does suffer in comparison to its prequels.

I think part of the backlash was due to the fact most of us fans wanted more of the same AWESOME (A’s) but the writers wanted to try something different, complex and deeper. I at least respect that choice.

That said, there are some great moments in StrikerS.

A true alliance of technology and magic (Clarke’s law is reversible), each completing and reinforcing (and Agito-ing?) each other.

(It’s one beef I had with Harry Potter, how little modern technology was exploited by local mages. And also why Kiritsugu in Fate/Zero is so awesome.)

And yeah, I think one of the best resources my philosophy teachers had is the long, long list of thought experiments, allegories, intuition pumps &c that previous philosophers have come up with (or borrowed from elsewhere). We used to spend whole lessons arguing about Chinese Rooms, Orgasmatrons and so forth.

so thank you for allowing me to make you flashback to your philosophy days

also i didn’t read all of the entry. I haven’t seen MSLN and so some of it was lost on me, but neat post

also i liked what you said about philosophers having an armoury of things to make you think

@Kaioshin_sama: I really do not wish that anyone i s left out from this. If everyone is like “this is going to be like SaiGar”, then no one will ever bother to do anything no more. ^^ That said, it will take a HELL lot for me to go down, and you can rest assured that I will persuade every single doubter here and persist until I get you to nominate and vote.

By nominating your own choice, you help to promote sites that should be appreciated more. That, in itself, should be more than enough credit as we are gathering enough visitors to help the small blogs promote, yet give credit to the good blogs out there.

In addition, i doubt anyone at /a have an anime blog or is able to write well enough to maintain an anime blog. There are rather strict criteria =/ You should stop worrying and start registering. If you are keen to discuss more, pop me an email at that @ animeblogger . net. I will be glad to discuss more ^_^

@ Kaioshin_Sama: Well yes, it probably is a popularity contest and an opportunity for blog-nepotism. But it’s a fun way to throw links around, a good exercise in mass blogsturbation if nothing else.

Lolitas are truly deadly. I guess they’re top of the list of things you can’t kill on screen without bumping your anime into OVA territory.

@ TheBigN (again): I’m not sure I understand the process, but it sounded like there might be a round of voting after the nominations? Or I might have that wrong.

@ Westlo: Well, thank goodness for anime fans in Japan who can get hold of Nanoha legally, then.

@ Shiri: You’re right that because we live in it, we don’t notice it (in the same way that some of the most perceptive things I’ve heard said about my country have come from foreigners) – a case of not seeing the wood for the trees. Until I started reading medieval and Classical literature, I didn’t see how keen on individuals a lot of novels are.