#departure and arrival for resonance pt 2 complete!!

[sluttyten]

I keep considering giving up on my photocard collection, but then I have days like today when I get the last photocards I needed to complete my KunDoTen sets from the Universe album (finally!!) and the Ten card I needed from the SMCU Express album!! And it just makes something in me feel so right to look at these completed sets

[thejollyshiner]

Meme Anime Ask Pt.1 of 4

@stacys–mum asked me to answer 12, 16, and 30.

Due to my past experience of learning to answer these I will answer them in this order

Pt.1 - 12.  Anime that should get more attention from others?

Pt.2 - 16. 10 animes you have watched to recommend? (alphabetically/1-5)

Pt.3 - 16. 10 animes you have watched to recommend? (alphabetically/6-10)

Pt.4 - 30. One anime conclusion you would change?

Also a quick mention to anyone of what not to do when writing an extensive post since this is now my fifth attempt.

1. Always stick with one network or wi-fi when completing these, otherwise when you connect to a new wi-fi theres a good chance of losing everything you wrote.

2. Don’t ever write on a train even if they promise some sort of wi-fi especially on a moving train. Since your computer is just going to run pretty slow to the point of your computer thinking you had decided to send the answer on private, instead of choosing your gif.

3. Always be cautious where you are leaning your body on the overly sensitive touchpad especially when your unaware of it, while enjoying someones company.

4. Don’t ever try to attempt to make a long post and expect your laptop to still run fast. I learned this the hard way being half way done with this ask only for my computer to stay frozen for over two hours. only to give up hope that my computer can work while still answering this ask, so I decided to restart my laptop and loose everything.

Knowing these are all of the things I’ve learned I encourage everyone to not be me lol.

So, fifth times the charm…I guess.

12. Anime that should get more attention from others

Gatchaman Crowds

Plot: The year is 2015. The city of Tachikawa has become home to special fighters known as the Gatchaman Crew (G-Crew), assigned by a council to protect the Earth against criminals with their superpowers. But a mysterious entity known as the MESS proves to be an escalating threat, leaving the G-Crew to have to fight it off. A young artist named Hajime Ichinose is the latest recruit to the G-Crew, and her impulsive personality sets major changes in motion.

Background: Gatchaman Crowds is a 12-episode continuity reboot of the 1970s anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. However, it is a radical departure from the concepts of the original, with the team receiving their powers from a source known as “NOTE" and no longer wearing suits themed after birds, with their suits instead reflecting their special abilities and personalities.

It started airing on NTV on July 12, 2013, and is directed by Kenji Nakamura (Tsuritama). It has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks, who also currently hold the license for the original Gatchaman.

Genres: Sci-Fi and Adventure

I will be using three resources in discussing why I this four year old show is still memorable to myself. Where I will rely heavily on these sources and the first part in discussion with the plot/analysis and the second being about Hajime Ichinose who I personally adored seeing as the main lead of the show.

Resources : Creamer, Nick . October 23rd, 2015 .  Animenewsnetwork.com . Anime News Network . Gatchaman Crowds Explained

Rand, Emily . December 21,2013 . formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com . Atelier Emily for me, in full bloom . [Five] Hajime’s World

Rand, Emily . July 27, 2013 . formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com . Atelier Emily for me, in full bloom . In Defense of Hajime Ichinose: Gatchaman

Plot/ Analysis

The internet has changed everything, while somehow also not changing much of anything. The context of our engagement with others has been completely transformed by the internet but we’re still human beings, and we still act more or less like human beings do. Gatchaman Crowds is a show about that, among many, many other weird little dichotomies and contradictions of our fundamental nature. It touches on crowdsourcing, gamification, the role of government, complacency, artistic expression, and social science. It’s a show about social engagement, a show about the nature of power, and a show about aliens and superheroes. Gatchaman Crowds is basically a show about everything. 

The first season of Crowds introduces us to Hajime Ichinose: upbeat teenager, scrapbooker extraordinaire, and the very newest Gatchaman.

Gatchaman are classic superheroes, secret fighters who transform into fancy CG suits and “fight evil.” But, the concept of “fighting evil” to “achieve justice” isn’t achievable. It wasn’t achievable in the past nor is it now-a-days, arn’t really relevant to the world Gatchaman Crowds is setting up. 

Instead, the “evil” of Crowds takes the form of Berg Katze - a distant, malevolent trickster who occasionally starts some fires of his own, but mostly just exists to compel others to be their own worst selves. Katze is trolling, Katze is anarchy, Katze is sociopathy.

Hajime and Berg Katze form a pair of binary ideas in Gatchaman Crowds - our instinct towards charity, and our instinct towards violence. Through their dancing and the various machinations of the very human characters around them, Crowds ends up taking on the internet, social engagement in general, the nature of political power, and more else besides. This busy idea-tempest picks up early in the first season, starting right off with.

Over the course of the series it goes over how society treats the internet, the importance of direct engagement, and the nature of power. Which unfortunately I won’t get into too much detail due to potentially reaching to spoilers.

Things fall apart fairly easily in Gatchaman Crowds. Rui’s high-minded goals are twisted towards petty terrorism, trolls end up doxxing innocents, the pursuit of social harmony leads to the hunting down of anyone presenting disharmony, and lots of awful stuff besides goes down over the course of its two seasons. While Hajime represents a kind of charitable ideal, most of Crowds’ characters are as flawed as they are passionate, dedicated to long-term ideals but making plenty of mistakes along the way. Embedded in all of Crowds’ points is an acceptance of that - an acknowledgment that not only are we all imperfect people who make plenty of mistakes, but that we are also all different people, and even if we were granted perfect understanding, we would still not want the same things. All we can do is our best - use the tools we are given, attempt to connect charitably with others, and be mindful of the power of our own actions. Crowds’ ideas go high and low in their interrogation of modern culture and the social animal, but the show arrives back home at a very simple place. “Be earnest, be honest, be kind,” says Crowds. The world’s a complicated place, but at least in that small way, we can hope to carry on.

Hajime Ichinose

I adored Hajime Ichinose, of Gatchaman Crowds, from the moment she appeared, lovingly caressing her collection of planners before taking the newest out on a rooftop lunch date. She was weird, wonderful, and expressive, regardless of whether she was enjoying lunch alone, or cuddling with notebooks in class in front of bemused classmates. More importantly, she communicated most successfully with others through gestures and actions, in spite of her vague and simple wording.

Personally, I resonated with Hajime’s character because of her inability to communicate outside of hand gestures and colorful art collages. I loved that this specific type of person had been placed in a leading role, and more importantly, that her actions drove the plot of the series, where other properties – in addition to their audiences, and to some extent, even viewers of Gatchaman Crowds – would have inevitably relegated her to quirky sidekick, or whimsical idiot.

Even though I adore and love Hajime Ichinose as the lead, she is still a controversial character. She can be a difficult character to some people due how high energy she is and how she always has a difficult time to express herself. I simply say be patient with her, but if Hajime is still very irritating my advice is to stop watching the show.

As it’s Hajime’s genuine desire to see others communicate with one another, and help people understand each other is an aura that radiates out from her every action. It is crucial to Gatchaman Crowds that you know that Hajime Ichinose is a Gatchaman. You can disagree with the choice, in fact, one could argue that the series wants you to. Perhaps sticking one like her in the role of protagonist annoys you, much like it annoys fellow Gatchaman, Sugune Tachibana. If this is the case, then I would additionally suggest that Gatchaman Crowds is working as intended.