#beautiful anime

[doublesuicide19]

Everyday, from morning to night, I wait in despair for something. I wish I could be glad that I was born, that I am alive, that there are people and a world. ~Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

[lorcan-chan]

I’m just absolutely in love with Ginko. I wish the anime would have been longer.

[flyby303]

Noragami Aragoto scenery 🌸

[sauljudgeman]

Land of the Lustrous

Bort is the best character, by the way✨️

[sononatanellepocasbagliata]

"Forse, se io cambio dovrebbe cambiare anche il modo in cui do senso alla mia vita..."

-Ergo Proxy

[i-remember-yyou]

Flavors of Youth, “Shanghai Love” 

[asianhaven4u]

Animoo 🐄 🐮

[amitytaylor]

if you had to pick the your top two most aesthetically pleasing, most beautiful anime you’ve watched this far what would you pick?

mine are :

Backflip!!

Forest Piano

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[animal-s0ul]

[landsccape]

[chrisery-business]

my biggest issue with the httyd live action-and just about any live action reboot is that it seems that the live action adaptations are being made to make the original “better”? like, so many people talk about a live action spiderverse, a live action hercules, a live action PRINCE OF EGYPT (dont piss me OFF.)-like animation is a beautiful work of art, and for some reason putting real people and cgi in it is supposed to be an “upgrade”? im probably being that friend that’s too woke or whatever, but i just think it’s so disrespectful to act like something that takes so much time and effort and energy is immediately considered as lower because it is animated. animation is beautiful, and it is one of the most heartfelt art forms there are, and erasing that for the sake of a cash grab is downright degrading to animation as a medium.

[lorcan-chan]

Anyone else a fan of Mushishi? Because I have a conspiracy about our beloved Ginko (that might already have been thought of) but has left me devastated.

So we all know that Ginko's real name was Yoki, and that he was found injured by a lady Mushi Master named Nui. Yoki stumbles across a pond filled with white fish that have one green eye. Surprised, Yoki asks Nui about the fish and she explains to him that they became white, lose one eye and have the other turn green after exposure to the Mushi in the pond. She doesn't know their name, but calls them Ginko Mushi. Yoki asks if this happened to her, and she tells him it is, and explains about her family, and the reason she lingers at the pond is the hopes that they might find their way back, despite the dangers. She reassures him that the fish never lose their other eye. That is a lie of course, one that Yoki finds out. Yoki sneaks out to view the Ginko Mushi and discovers that they do lose their eye, and disappear. Nui finds him and he confronts her about it. She reveals that they end up being consumed by the Tokoyami that live in the shadows of the pond. That she knows that her family are not wandering around without their memories, but are a part of the Tokoyami in the pond. That after experimenting on the fish, she learned that they all, inevitably, become consumed by the Tokoyami. And after repeated exposure, she too has doomed herself and that she has run out of time. She sends Yoki away, but he realizes that she's going to disappear, so he goes back as she's being consumed, and latches onto her, being partially consumed himself. She drags him along, desperately, away from the pond and tells him to avoid being consumed by the Tokoyami, he must keep one eye closed and focus on trying to remember one thing. That in doing so, even though he will lose all his memories except the one thing he was able to remember, he will avoid being consumed by the Tokoyami. And so, Yoki finds himself out of the forest, no memories other than the word Ginko, white hair, one green eye and one missing eye that is consumed by darkness that seems to eat any light shined into it.

Now let's circle back to something. Nui experimented on the fish exposed to the Ginko Mushi. And they all succumbed to the Tokoyami. She herself succumbed to them. There is no cure. No escape. She was only able to prolong the life of the fish she experimented on. And she shortened her life with continued exposure. So that means, that the newly dubbed Ginko, will eventually succumb to the Tokoyami. Many of you might have come to that conclusion already. And I applaud you, because it took me watching the show three times to catch that. But wait (like an annoying infomercial) there's more! Tokoyami consume light! And Ginko's missing eye does the same! So that leads me to believe, that the Tokoyami are living in the place his eye once resided in. Which means he is in constant exposure to them. So not only will he eventually be consumed... but it is highly possible, that his lifespan is being shortened by these Mushi living in his eye.

But that's not the only thing pulling at my heartstrings. Surely, others know about these Mushi. After all, Tokoyami have been referenced before; even if Nui made up the name for the Ginko that reside along side them. And Ginko, a Mushi Master, who has traveled to the only Mushi library and read nearly all of the scrolls, has surely come across a reference to Mushi that turn hair white and an eye green while eating the other. After all, after hundreds of years and Mushi Masters telling their stories, someone has had to have seen them and documented them.

And him knowing would make so much sense! Sure, as a child, who didn't know anything and had taken the name of Ginko because that was all he knew; would think it perfectly reasonable to see his eye as cursed due to the fact that Mushi were drawn to him. And it would seem reasonable to keep on the move to avoid bringing bad luck onto others. Because how could he know that there were others who attracted Mushi too? But he's an adult now. With years of experience and information at his disposal. He knows better. He knows he doesn't have to keep on the move. He's seen others who attract Mushi live mostly normal lives in or near villages. He's seen Mushi Masters settle down. There are probably Mushi Masters who travel that have families. He doesn't have to keep on the move. He's shown that at times he's reluctant to leave (his hesitance over leaving the sister and brother in the valley that has the Mushi that take the form of butterflies). In fact, he makes it a point to sneak away so as not to have to deal with goodbyes or have people try to convince him to stay. We've seen how when he says he can't stay due to drawing in Mushi, no one seems to buy it. It's an excuse. One that everyone seems to just begrudgingly accept. Sure, he was kicked out of the nomad group and others due to drawing in too many Mushi. But that was when he was a child, and not fully equipped to deal with the Mushi. But again, he's a Master now. He can handle things now. Yet he holds everyone at arms length, mourns not being able to stay when he desperately wants to. When people desperately want him too. And the only reason I can think of that he would keep doing this to himself, this self imposed isolation, is because he KNOWS!

He knows that at any time, any day or month or year, he could be consumed by the Tokoyami. And he doesn't want to burden anyone with that. When people ask why he looks the way he does, the way he responds with "I don't know" just doesn't seem genuine. It seems pained. Like he does know, but doesn't want to say. Why when he jokes that he's hard to kill, he doesn't sound very proud, even if he says it in a joking way. It comes off as more depressed. Like dark humor. Like he wishes he would get taken out before the Tokoyami do it. He throws himself into danger with no hesitation. Like a man willing to die. Like a man with nothing to live for. Other than endless wandering. Sure, he loves discovering Mushi, is fond of them in a way. But there is always a melancholy about him. He's never really panicked when he comes close to dying, like he's accepting his fate. He takes being stabbed so casually. Jokes that he should have expected it. He even seems irritated when he wakes up. Irritated over being stabbed? Or irritated that he lived? When faced with the possibility of being reborn, he hates the idea and wishes he could die and just be dead. Not come back. He shows no interest in the possibility of becoming a Mushi like the grandmother did in the first episode. Curious over the process, sure. But the way he speaks, he sounds as if dying and passing on into the afterlife would be preferable. Again and again, he shows little regard for his safety. Continuously views the River of Light even though it's dangerous. Takes risks, even if their calculated. Refuses to let connections with others become deeper. Refuses to settle down when he could reasonably live in a isolated place and visit neighboring villages and even start a family. But he lives his life of solitude and sadness and tries to convince himself that seeking Mushi is more than enough. Why?

Because he knows he is a lost cause. And can't hurt the people he's grown to care about. Because what's worse? Telling them that he's going to die and become consumed by the Tokoyami and there's nothing he or they can do? Leaving them to mourn him every time they think about him or see him. Or just to disappear from their lives one day? A mystery. He's always getting into dangerous situations. It's possible that he just didn't survive one dangerous encounter.

I think Ginko knows. And that's why he's always on the move. Because he's scared to settle down and hurt someone. Maybe he's even scared to admit the truth. Because if he stays, if he gets too attached, then how can he cope with the knowledge that he could disappear from their lives at any given moment. Because he doesn't want to leave them. But what he wants doesn't matter, because some things can't be changed.

[cansu-m]