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Snowflake 2021 #5
Jan. 10th, 2021 12:25 pmChallenge #5
In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I didn't really know what to do with this one, I still largely don't, but I still wanted to give it something. And what I've landed on is a couple anime I've watched in the past year that made me do lots of ugly crying.
I have kind of an odd relationship to amine in general. I've tried to really get into it several times in my life and it's never quite stuck. I'm in a more interested phase now that more is on Netflix so I don't have to go seeking it out. Also, in my early rounds of trying to get into anime, my college friends were subs-only people and I'm a dub person (I think part of it is that dubbing has overall been improved since those friends had their experience getting into anime, so now it's easier to be a dubs person).
And that's connected with this, because my emotional reactions to amine stories are a lot deeper when I can more easily immerse myself in the story than having to split focus for reading subtitles. That said, part of why I'm talking about this is that I don't know that I would consider myself a huge fan of either of these shows. I'm not drawn to write fic or find fandom discourse (if I ever get back into vidding and there happens to be a particular song that strikes me, maybe I'd do that), I just appreciate the series as they are.
Also, I'm sure these are common recs for people who want anime regularly, but for people who only watch occasionally like me, they might be new.
1) Anohana
It's basically what happens five years after Bridge to Terabithia, and a whole group of friends who had one of them die when they were little. After that the group drifted apart and are all haunted by her death in one way or another. Then her ghost comes back; but it's not haunting, it's about finally being able to heal and reconnect and at the end say goodbye. And that final episode was a super ugly cry.
2) Violet Evergarden
I'm really still not sure I actually liked this series. I found the first half or so to be a bit bland, though interesting enough to keep me watching. But about halfway through, every episode seemed to find a way to have me sobbing by the end. It's really more of a vignette style series, and it's really good at that. It creates interesting, and often tragic, characters that the lead (Violet) interacts with in each episode, making you care about these new characters and situations for the course of the episode and moving on. Only on occasion did I find Violet herself to be the most interesting character in a story, but she's a good glue that holds the vignettes together.
In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I didn't really know what to do with this one, I still largely don't, but I still wanted to give it something. And what I've landed on is a couple anime I've watched in the past year that made me do lots of ugly crying.
I have kind of an odd relationship to amine in general. I've tried to really get into it several times in my life and it's never quite stuck. I'm in a more interested phase now that more is on Netflix so I don't have to go seeking it out. Also, in my early rounds of trying to get into anime, my college friends were subs-only people and I'm a dub person (I think part of it is that dubbing has overall been improved since those friends had their experience getting into anime, so now it's easier to be a dubs person).
And that's connected with this, because my emotional reactions to amine stories are a lot deeper when I can more easily immerse myself in the story than having to split focus for reading subtitles. That said, part of why I'm talking about this is that I don't know that I would consider myself a huge fan of either of these shows. I'm not drawn to write fic or find fandom discourse (if I ever get back into vidding and there happens to be a particular song that strikes me, maybe I'd do that), I just appreciate the series as they are.
Also, I'm sure these are common recs for people who want anime regularly, but for people who only watch occasionally like me, they might be new.
1) Anohana
It's basically what happens five years after Bridge to Terabithia, and a whole group of friends who had one of them die when they were little. After that the group drifted apart and are all haunted by her death in one way or another. Then her ghost comes back; but it's not haunting, it's about finally being able to heal and reconnect and at the end say goodbye. And that final episode was a super ugly cry.
2) Violet Evergarden
I'm really still not sure I actually liked this series. I found the first half or so to be a bit bland, though interesting enough to keep me watching. But about halfway through, every episode seemed to find a way to have me sobbing by the end. It's really more of a vignette style series, and it's really good at that. It creates interesting, and often tragic, characters that the lead (Violet) interacts with in each episode, making you care about these new characters and situations for the course of the episode and moving on. Only on occasion did I find Violet herself to be the most interesting character in a story, but she's a good glue that holds the vignettes together.
