The Hideaki Anno Plan for Complete Mental Health
Yesterday was another visit to an elementary school. Luckily it was within biking distance of my apartment and my first class wasn't until 9:30, so I could sleep in a little. I had three classes, all sixth years. Keeping to the schedule was difficult because the teachers wanted me to cover a lot of new material, including several adjectives to describe personalities that were difficult for the students to pronounce. Just teaching that was time-consuming. I taught two of the classes "Row, row, row your boat" because I was getting sick of singing "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes," "BINGO," and the alphabet song. The whole time I was teaching it I couldn't stop thinking about Star Trek V. As usual, a bunch of kids wanted my autograph, and some of the students I taught were a part of the sansa dancing team I belong to. I think I'm definitely getting better at elementary school visits.
Today's going to be pretty boring it seems, unfortunately. The first and second years are on school trips while the third years will spend the day practicing for high school entrance interviews. I wish I could have gone with the second years to Hiraizumi. It's not like I'm performing any vital functions just sitting around the teachers' room. Rants aside, I watched the live-action Cutey Honey on saturday and found it to be fairly entertaining. Cutey Honey is a live-action adaption of a wonderfully cracked-out seventies anime show about a female android who fights the evil organization Panther Claw. She can change into multiple outfits in order to investigate crimes and fool her enemies. Then she changes into her main form and cuts them to pieces with her sword. Ah, the casual violence of classic anime. What's so interesting is that director was Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion. If Evangelion really was his own personal therapy, it appears to have been very effective. He's now married (to a female manga artist who coincidentally had the same last name as him) and making wacky movies like Cutey Honey. It makes me think that if I really want to overcome my problems, I should enter the Japanese animation industry, make a few well-regarded shows, then make a show that starts out really popular and ends in a complete audience mind-fuck. And then I'll be able to overcome all my psychological problems and become happy and well-adjusted.
Today's going to be pretty boring it seems, unfortunately. The first and second years are on school trips while the third years will spend the day practicing for high school entrance interviews. I wish I could have gone with the second years to Hiraizumi. It's not like I'm performing any vital functions just sitting around the teachers' room. Rants aside, I watched the live-action Cutey Honey on saturday and found it to be fairly entertaining. Cutey Honey is a live-action adaption of a wonderfully cracked-out seventies anime show about a female android who fights the evil organization Panther Claw. She can change into multiple outfits in order to investigate crimes and fool her enemies. Then she changes into her main form and cuts them to pieces with her sword. Ah, the casual violence of classic anime. What's so interesting is that director was Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion. If Evangelion really was his own personal therapy, it appears to have been very effective. He's now married (to a female manga artist who coincidentally had the same last name as him) and making wacky movies like Cutey Honey. It makes me think that if I really want to overcome my problems, I should enter the Japanese animation industry, make a few well-regarded shows, then make a show that starts out really popular and ends in a complete audience mind-fuck. And then I'll be able to overcome all my psychological problems and become happy and well-adjusted.