Just picked up the Magical Heart Kokoro-chan OVA which made me realize that I hadn’t seen the Valentine’s Day OVA. Quick notes on Otome Katou and Sekai’s mom before the MHKC OVA post.
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Adding one Anna-senpai to the MILF list. Wow, that’s the second one from this series after Akatsuki’s mom back when he was still a kid.
I have been thinking that she reminds me of someone and it has finally dawned on me: Natsumi Tsujimoto - because of her hair style.
And is ARIA Company a sole proprietorship or a private company limited by shares or by guarantee? Even more than the ‘Who does Anna look like?’ question, this has been killing me because I’m really worried that Akari will get the company into trouble by misfiling her taxes or something.
I LOL’ed a lot during the first half of the episode (right from the moment the BGM and Alastor intro came on due to the Shana-tan effect) and enjoyed the action in the second half. Got an early scene of my favourite aspect of Shana x Wilhelmina interaction i.e. an embarrassed Shana shooing Wilhelmina away and the increasingly flappable Meido Manipulator of Bandages looking surprised and hurt.
I was about halfway through ARIA: The Natural when my laptop went kaput. But I was inspired to pick up where I left off by Francesco’s Venice which was recently repeated on BBC4.
The historical comparision was startling. Francesco da Mosto laid out how Venice was a place of great art and culture but also a latter day Sin City, home of Casanova and syphilis. It was the herat of a mighty trading empire that was laid low overnight by Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope. A third of its population died horribly from the plague. It was stripped of its treasures by Napolean, many of which are still in France. Then the existential threats of the sinking lagoon bed as well as native Venetians being crowded out by tourism.
But da Mosto’s exposition also explained how the romantic image of Venice created by the poet Byron and the painter Turner are still with us today. And this legacy is evident in the anime. But by placing it on another planet far into the future, the series has bypassed the grotesque mirage of our own age and successfully created a sci-fi/fantasy world of beauty, grace and love.
Great characters are an essential part of the series’ charm. Plus the chibi mode in combination with the humour, deadly effective on me - I was laughing so hard I had to stop the playback when SD-Alice said: ‘From the ancient times… Gachapen desu!’
