(add: this essay's not well structured and rambles a bit at the start.  the more interesting stuff imho is toward the end.)

From m-w.com:

Definition of PARABLE
a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle

I've written in previous posts (perhaps friends-locked ones) that one of the purposes of art is to ( Read more... )

There's a lot of sucky soundtracks in cartoons an anime, but occasionally you come across some good ones.

The visuals on this fan-vid are pretty lame, I just love the song and couldn't find a version that wasn't part of a video.

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...as to why Anime opening theme songs are almost invariably screechy-annoying noise?

Is that sort of like those damn air-horns they often use to signal the beginning of a ball-game?

Just finished all 50 episodes of Saiyuki. In 3 days ( Read more... )

I swear the only person they ever cast for the lead male role is Kevin Conroy. They all eventually start sounding like Batman.

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