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By: All the Lights in the Sky are Our Enemies: Reflections on Legend of the Galactic Heroes « We Remember Love

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:01:57 +0000

[...] purposely don’t review anime (Iknight is tempted not to relate to it as anime, and I don’t blame him), but I have no qualms about calling Legend of the Galactic Heroes a [...]

By: But this dial has 11….. « Calamitous Intent

But this dial has 11….. « Calamitous Intent — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:29:57 +0000

[...] month ago, OGT told me up: I still must disagree with Lelangir, though-even in my relative infancy as a LoGH watcher, even with the quality of storytelling in [...]

By: Episodic VS Editorial AKA The “Conflict” That’s Kind Of Already Resolved But I’m Going To Point Out And Try To Explain Anyway. « Anime Chatter

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:53:34 +0000

[...] anime acquaintances to liabilities and lawsuits, just as IKnight of The Animanachronism can go from Aeneid references on epic series (haven’t seen LoGH yet but it’s reputation more than precedes itself) to [...]

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:01:17 +0000

Certainly it’s rarer for people to be persecuted for their religious beliefs, but it’s easy to find examples from the twentieth century of first-world countries in which institutions just as nasty as the Inquisition existed.

By: THAT Animeblog - On “Character” III: Architecture of Signification

THAT Animeblog - On “Character” III: Architecture of Signification — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:33:37 +0000

[...] whose voice is the only kind of signifier available to us. You could make an argument that anime utilizing narrators pose a case (DBZ, LoGH, Hayate), but I would suspect their fictive “being” to serve no [...]

By: Crusader

Crusader — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:38:53 +0000

The scientific revolution and the introduction of the printing press led to the decline of religion which in turn led to the end of the inquisition. I say we have come a long way from burning people at the stake and persecuting people based on religion. It’s not like you have worry about heresy anymore in the UK.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:51:17 +0000

@ OGT: Cultural perception’s surprisingly useful – for example, it’s how society treats them (separate shelves, pulping unsold copies, not studying them unless the academics involved are being wilfully perverse) that allows us to distinguish Mills & Boon novels from literature. I’ll agree that it’s inconsistent, though.

@ Crusader: Never heard of the ‘12th century Renaissance‘? That aside – I doubt many peasants cared about the twelfth century Renaissance – I’ll agree that life for the vast majority of people was nastier (and shorter) and, speaking as someone who’s grown up with all the comforts of the late twentieth/early twenty-first century, I’m sure I’d hate to live in the twelfth century myself. But twenty-first century people don’t seem to behave very differently, which suggests that it’s about as hard or easy to live a morally good life in either time. Again: technology hasn’t made us into nicer people.

@ 21stcenturydigitalboy: Oh, the series has its detractors (they pop up on /a/ and /m/ from time to time, and they’re not always trolling).

By: 21stcenturydigitalboy

21stcenturydigitalboy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:49:20 +0000

I almost want to avoid LOGH just to never have anything bad to say about it which will piss off everyone in the universe.

By: Crusader

Crusader — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:14:22 +0000

Well from what I have studied about the 12th Century it was not all that fun to be a peasant in Europe, not with the costs of crusades and all that jazz. Just because you are a peasant doesn’t mean that you will grow to nobles; just because you know less does not make you an idiot. If nothing else consider the benefits of modern chemical fertilizer rather than night soil. More over imagine life without a flushing toilet and toilet paper.

All I can say that technology has given the common folk a lot more leisure time to be spent on things like anime, it certainly beats working from sun up to sun down and doing conscript labor for the local lord for zero pay.

By: OGT

OGT — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:53:43 +0000

@Animanachronism: I doubt it’s a conscious choice, too. And, yes, opera is perceived as more “cultured” whereas anime (or Gilbert and Sullivan) is not, but that’s all cultural perception, and cultural perception is annnoyingly inconsistent at times.

On Erikson, not only are all the books over 500 pages, there are ten of them. Have fun!