"Utsu ge"

I like this story "Clever plants chat over their own network ". I remember reading Travel of Michael Crichton, he wrote that he talked to cactus in the book. I like WONDER! always. This story reminds me of this KOTODAMA post too. (Unfortunately the link is dead now ) I will talk to my Philodendron selloum everyday from now on.

I think "A Clockwork Orange" is the coolest movie title. This site shows the photos of behined the scenes. In Japanese wiki, Arthur Bremer was inspired by the movie then hit George Wallace. Is that true? I read Taxi Driver was made from the Bremer episode and it leaded to John Hinckley's accassination. It's a cycle of violence.

Last week, one animation went off the air, TV Tokyo shelved the show because the animation had some violent parts. They had to be careful because we have had teen violent affairs recently. On September 15th, "Teen ax killer says she gave her father the 'guillotine' over his affairs" and on September 25th, "15-year-old boy arrested for attacking father with ax". TV Tokyo worried the animation might push the cycle of violence. Anyway, when I read the news, I thought the animation would be boy's fighting type, one like Fist of the North Star. But! the animation was "school days". It looked a girls' love story animation to me. However, the story is a sludgy love triangle (strange way to say? we say like that in Japanese) and since they stopped airing it, they have had some violence....orz....weird, sickness.

Actually the School Days was based on a game and it is categorized "Utsu Ge". Utsuge stands for utsu game, and it means "depressing game". Those games have no happy end, no hope, no help. Here is the web translation. I can't understand why they pick and like to play such games....By the way, Higurashi no naku koro went off the air too. It is Utsu ge too. scary...

The only part I could laugh about this news is...
When School Days went off the air, people got angry and argued "why!!!" on the 2 channel. TV Tokyo aired some foreign photos with classic music despite people's anger. One of the photos was this boats and the boat got to be a target of people's anger. "Nice boat" was hot topic for 2 channel.

Comments

[supra shoes]

Your blog is very nice & informative. I always appreciate your work. Thanks to the sharing.I am so glad to hear that you are settling in and enjoying your new surroundings. I love Arizona!

[Darren Daz Cox]

Sometimes entertainment with 'depressing' themes can be therapudic, at least with music in my case, when I am sad I can listen to The Smiths and even though the lyrics are often hopeless I end up cheery!

[Heidi]

How depressing! In this country, we also have debates over the effect violent computer and video games have on kids. Persoanlly, I hate video games and computer games - I never play them - I think most of them are too violent and just plain pointless and a waste of time and money. I don't think children should be exposed to such graphic violence and I think adults should avoid them too. I think they have a very influential and negative effect on the mind...

But regardless, I think if parents don't spend enough time with their kids and discipline them, teaching them right from wrong and setting a good example, no matter where in the world you come from, the children will suffer and so will the parents.

[Chris]

School Days is indeed about a love triangle (in English we say it the same way, although perhaps not "sludgy"... maybe "syrupy"), although it's not really love - more like infatuation, obsession... and of course a Bad Ending.