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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!DrAllosaurus
- From: DrAllosaurus@cup.portal.com (Samuel DrAllosaurs Crider)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
- Subject: UY Stuff
- Message-ID: <72663@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 20:19:31 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
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- Man, you guys really have me looking forward to UY#4. A film that is
- well made and recondite (as apposed to just being BAD) is a rare
- and wonderful thing (any Andrei Tarkovsky fans out there?).
-
- Along these lines, any place I can look for anotations of UY? Along
- the lines of AnimEigo's liner notes, but more thorough. I mean,
- Ilove the show but my apartment gets rather drafty from all the
- jokes and references flying over my head. I have never really
- believed that having a joke EXPLAINED totally ruins it. Like,
- how many Americans understand the name "Ford Prefect" from Hitchhiker's
- Guide? I didn't -- but I was glad to find out...
-
- I made some progress showing UY to some non-anime friends over Xmas.
- At least one guy got some good laughs out of it. I've been slowly
- working him through Akira, Lodoss Wars, MS Gundam 0080, and now the
- UY episodes. I'll try Beautiful Dreamer on him next.
-
- In watching Dreamer again myself I was impressed all over again --
- noticed things like the number of times the little girl in the hat
- appears, or that Ataru's dreamharem dissolves into the same black &
- white mannequins he saw in a truck early in the film...
-
- This also leads me to ask about a good book on Japanese mythology
- -- and I mean a good one, not just one with lots of colorful pictures
- and brief myth synopsises... This comes from noticing the rather
- different interpretations of the spirit "Baku" in Dreamer and
- Vampire Princess Miyu...
-
- Many thanks,
- Samuel "Dr.Allosaurus" Crider
- DrAllosaurus@cup.portal.com
-