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[flemmings]

Ahh, feliciter led me astray. There's no anime scene where Adashino has red bows in his hair. Watched all the Adashino eps at animeseason yesterday, and I know.

I may eventually get into the way of watching anime online. Is no worse than solitaire and counts as ear training.

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[feliciter.livejournal.com]

Mushi made me do it!

One has qwerty to thank for the idea of adding pink bows to various Mushishi characters, IIRC she or lesstraveled had a rather fetching one of Ginko with much more professionally drawn ribbons in his hair XD

Mushishi is a profoundly aesthetic (and aesthetically profound) creation, which I wish I understood better.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Profoundly aesthetic and aesthetically profound, yes. I find the manga, at least in Japanese, easier to parse than the anime. For all I know, the mangaka is quite aware of the fact that she's evoking stuff from the Japanese collective unconscious, but she conceals the art very well. It's all about The Land, not something that modern Japanese tend to register very much in their work. Mountains and the sea, both foreign to the Tokyo ethos of present-day popular culture.