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spamguy — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:02:55 +0000

A friend identified a print error identifying 17913 A.D. as the year Marie Antoinette was beheaded. It must be a typo, he noted, because likely there will be no such person named that almost 11,600 years into the future. The truth of that is hard to deny. Still, I suggested the opposite is true with regards to prior fiction. Deep down I know that somewhere, somehow, there is a mecha anime series that combines the Earth of 17913 A.D. with a futuristic heroine named Marie Antoinette. Think Firefly meets Xenogears.

The volume of animated content Japan churns out every year makes this series’ existence reasonable. Indeed, the Japanese are so accomplished in their art that I would just as well expect an anime for any tangible object in any conceivable future. To put this closer to terms that can be published in the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra,

For any time T and object X such that (for present time T₀) T – T₀ > 0 and X is in T, there exists an anime A.

(See also: Rule 34 of the Internet.)

Mew

spamguy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:27:45 +0000

I’m dead slow at reading, but when it comes to anime (which I’m not exactly obsessed with anyway), I’m a rock. One to two series is normal for a year: download one, rip through all the episodes in a month, get back to having a life for six months, repeat as many times as is allowable.

I tend to stick to the real-world situation shows, the ones conspicuously lacking lasers and explosions. If you think American TV is formulaic, Japanese scripts approach plagiarism! Furry fetishist crap aside, there are a lot of cats. A. Lot. Of them. ((Just so we’re clear, I hope Pokémon dies a horrible death in a fire.)) Hell, sometimes even the lasers-and-explosions media feature cats too.

There are too many other parallels to lump in one post—beach episodes, watermelon obsessions, and more await future days.

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