Seishun Anime Zenshuu Episode 16 Discussion

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Mar 16, 2020 6:01 PM

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Most of the episodes in this series have been pretty mediocre (poor animation quality + unenviable task of trying to compress a Great Work into a ~23 minute video), but the ghost stories it actually handles particularly well. The story of Hoichi the Earless is a particularly good example, recreating a folk tale collected in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things to excellent effect, even with a bare-bones animation budget.

Between this and Vampire Princess Miyu, I’m also now wondering if Gothic horror was a thing in the ‘80s.

Funnily enough, I came across the tale of the Heikegani crabs (“It is locally believed that these crabs are reincarnations of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in The Tale of the Heike.”) in Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, where he used it as an example of how cultural practices unintentionally directed Darwinian evolution. A pleasant surprise to come across the tale in an original form.

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