Let’s go adventuring again, okay? Flip Flappers is the type of anime that invites dialogue—character-driven, stylish, rich in symbolisms, and, perhaps most importantly, darker than its visuals would suggest. However, for all the attention that Flip Flappers has received, surprisingly little has been written about Papika.1 And for a good reason. Papika is the literal […]

via Papika, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl — lystlesse

Time will unbind our memory glue and I’ll be as nobody-ish as all of you. — Marceline The most beautiful aspect of Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) is how it weaves its various themes to form a coherent labyrinthine story, waiting to be untangled by the unsuspecting viewer. Its take on the body swap […]

via Memory and Musubi in Your Name — lystlesse

“Walk along, and you’re six hundred foot under Manhattan. You’re at approximately 30th street or something. You’re in the middle of the greatest city in the world. Nobody even knows you exist. Nobody has a f-. Nobody has a clue. It’s just… It’s just… Beautiful. It’s a weird place. It’s like being on a planet somewhere.” — […]

via The cyberpunk cities of Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame! — lystlesse

“I’m the foot fuckin’ master.” – Jules, Pulp Fiction. The third arc of Re:Zero -Starting Life in another World- begins with a tedious grind of forced misunderstandings and annoying displays of male chauvinism from the protagonist, but it also contains my favorite scene in the anime thus far: the foot fetish scene.

via Re:Zero: Camera Shots and Angles in the Foot Fetish Scene — lystlesse

McDIVITT: They want you to come back in now. WHITE: Back in? McDIVITT: Back in. GRISSOM: Roger, we’ve been trying to talk to you for awhile here. WHITE: Aw, Cape, let me just [take] a few pictures. McDIVITT: No, back in. Come on. WHITE: … Listen, you could almost not drag me in, but I’m […]

via Breakaway Phenomenon and Escapism in Amanchu! — lystlesse