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30characters - day 13 - joshua
another 30characters character.
joshua is a strange character. he lies on a rusting metal bedframe and dirty matress in a dark, rotting room. the room is in a decaying wooden mill on the banks of an underwater stream. to get there you must follow a mineshaft to the bottom.
joshua lies on this bed all day, all night, and does not move. people are searching for him - his sister has come to the underground mill. but she can't find him, and keeps calling out to him.
and all he hears is a soft dripping of water.
joshua's based off of a dream i had, and possibly will get a minicomic sometime next october. we'll see.
joshua is a strange character. he lies on a rusting metal bedframe and dirty matress in a dark, rotting room. the room is in a decaying wooden mill on the banks of an underwater stream. to get there you must follow a mineshaft to the bottom.
joshua lies on this bed all day, all night, and does not move. people are searching for him - his sister has come to the underground mill. but she can't find him, and keeps calling out to him.
and all he hears is a soft dripping of water.
joshua's based off of a dream i had, and possibly will get a minicomic sometime next october. we'll see.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Human
Species Human
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File Size 255.7 kB
I love this!
Derelict places and motionless persons who have taken refuge in them.
In the anime' series I just started watching, there's a repeated flash-back sequence which shows a young girl lying on an iron frame bed in an abandoned hospital. However, the girl is not voluntarily there.
The building is normally underwater behind a dam, but during droughts it is exposed.
Derelict places and motionless persons who have taken refuge in them.
In the anime' series I just started watching, there's a repeated flash-back sequence which shows a young girl lying on an iron frame bed in an abandoned hospital. However, the girl is not voluntarily there.
The building is normally underwater behind a dam, but during droughts it is exposed.
It's titled Ghost Hound(2007). I watch it on JustDubs.net, as my Japanese is very limited :B
It's really more of a Psychodrama-Supernatural-SliceOfLife.
In a small town, a boy named Taro about age 13 is beginning to have flashbacks to 10 years prior, when he and his elder sister were kidnapped and held in the abandoned hospital during a drought period. Taro is also having lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences.
A boy from Tokyo has transferred to the Taro's school. He's very sardonic and has an arrogant interest in other people's business. He's gotten interested in Taro's inner-struggles for some reason.
My favorite line of his: "Taro? I can't believe someone actually named you that!"
My understanding is that "Taro" was once an extremely common name, so much so that an adult would address a boy as such, if said adult did not know the boys name.
I like this series because unlike a lot of Shounen-Mecha stuff it's very light on action and heavy on character development and exposition.
I also that the way the characters are drawn. The young ones are actually a bit more minimally rendered than most pop-anime'. There is more emphasis on realistic background sound FX than on seamless visual motion. The music sound track is really atmospheric.
It's really more of a Psychodrama-Supernatural-SliceOfLife.
In a small town, a boy named Taro about age 13 is beginning to have flashbacks to 10 years prior, when he and his elder sister were kidnapped and held in the abandoned hospital during a drought period. Taro is also having lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences.
A boy from Tokyo has transferred to the Taro's school. He's very sardonic and has an arrogant interest in other people's business. He's gotten interested in Taro's inner-struggles for some reason.
My favorite line of his: "Taro? I can't believe someone actually named you that!"
My understanding is that "Taro" was once an extremely common name, so much so that an adult would address a boy as such, if said adult did not know the boys name.
I like this series because unlike a lot of Shounen-Mecha stuff it's very light on action and heavy on character development and exposition.
I also that the way the characters are drawn. The young ones are actually a bit more minimally rendered than most pop-anime'. There is more emphasis on realistic background sound FX than on seamless visual motion. The music sound track is really atmospheric.
The Japanese language must have some wonderful puns, subtities, and semantic-shifts.
In a live-action comedy I once saw, a man was relating in a flashback about he and a group went to one of Japans more sparsely populated islands on some enterprise.
They needed a secretary and were interviewing local teen girls. But evidently the modern term for secretary sounded very similar to the islands vernacular for "prostitute".
Hilarious hijinks and misunderstandings ensued.
In a live-action comedy I once saw, a man was relating in a flashback about he and a group went to one of Japans more sparsely populated islands on some enterprise.
They needed a secretary and were interviewing local teen girls. But evidently the modern term for secretary sounded very similar to the islands vernacular for "prostitute".
Hilarious hijinks and misunderstandings ensued.
oh man, classic. reminds me of the time me & by friend gin were looking for a pharmacy in a slum of osaka.
we couldn't remember the word for pharmacy and so when we finally managed to locate a local who wasn't afraid of gaijin, he was baffled at what we were asking for. struggling, gin goes "we're...we're looking for a place that sells drugs!"
and, like in english, drugs has a dual meaning. the guy suddenly got a huge grin, began pantomiming shooting up and went "you mean HEROIN? :D"
"NO! NO!! FOR YOUR EYES! EYE MEDICINE!"
"oh. right down that street, turn left :>"
we couldn't remember the word for pharmacy and so when we finally managed to locate a local who wasn't afraid of gaijin, he was baffled at what we were asking for. struggling, gin goes "we're...we're looking for a place that sells drugs!"
and, like in english, drugs has a dual meaning. the guy suddenly got a huge grin, began pantomiming shooting up and went "you mean HEROIN? :D"
"NO! NO!! FOR YOUR EYES! EYE MEDICINE!"
"oh. right down that street, turn left :>"
That's one of those tantalizing things about anime'. You get a good quality story, and the art and animation will be minimalist. I remember renting The Tale of Genji (sp?). The animation was crap, but the story was good.
Still, I like Japanese animation tons better than Amerikan. It's a stylistic preference, I know. But I also think the Japanese are better story-tellers than we are.
As I mentioned before, I like the sound effects in Ghost Hound: Papers shuffling, footfalls on stone steps, knife on cutting board. These seem slightly more synchronized than usual.
I'm up to Episode 6. The supernatural vs. neurological angle is emerging in the narrative. For the sake of entertainment, I think the supernatural argument might win, but better still would be if the contest ends ambiguously.
Even without all that, you could have a story solely about the mystery of the kidnapping and who all the players really were.
Still, I like Japanese animation tons better than Amerikan. It's a stylistic preference, I know. But I also think the Japanese are better story-tellers than we are.
As I mentioned before, I like the sound effects in Ghost Hound: Papers shuffling, footfalls on stone steps, knife on cutting board. These seem slightly more synchronized than usual.
I'm up to Episode 6. The supernatural vs. neurological angle is emerging in the narrative. For the sake of entertainment, I think the supernatural argument might win, but better still would be if the contest ends ambiguously.
Even without all that, you could have a story solely about the mystery of the kidnapping and who all the players really were.
Now I'm jealous: community college gives me only enough free time to watch an episode of this and an episode of Gantz before going to bed.
I generally don't like the genre Gantz falls in, but it's funny to listen to retarded hoodlums shout the same brilliant witty rejoinder over and over again:
"YEW STOOPID FUCK! I'M GONNA KILL YU!"
and then their heads explode.
I generally don't like the genre Gantz falls in, but it's funny to listen to retarded hoodlums shout the same brilliant witty rejoinder over and over again:
"YEW STOOPID FUCK! I'M GONNA KILL YU!"
and then their heads explode.
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