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These SHAFT show DVD/BD rankings are ridiculous! You always hear about how well Bakemonogatari sold, but it’s hard to get a real perspective on it until you see something like this. Another source provides the following data. Continue with Holy Shit, I Knew Bakemonogatari Sold Really Well But… This is a brilliant post by Cuchlann of Super Fanicom in which he gets into the bones of Hidamari Sketch’s use of symbols to represent characters. If you’ve seen HidaSketch, you’ve surely noticed the way that characters will at times entirely disappear from a scene, and be represented only by a symbol, usually on a single-color background, backed by the character’s voice. If we take a look at these symbols (as Cuchlann does) we can find all sorts of meaning to their connections with the characters. However, to that end, I have nothing to add. Cuchlann does a wonderful job of exploring those meanings, and I largely agree with what he had to say, and the comments on the post I think round out the discussion quite nicely. So, instead of also talking about what the symbols might mean, I’m going to talk about why the symbols exist, from the standpoint of an Akiyuki Shinbo connoisseur (lol). When Bakemonogatari started, a lot of praise was given to the show’s spectacular background art, not so much because of the detail or style of the backgrounds, but because of the extensive lighting techniques. Some people have commented on the way that Bakemonogatari would not have been possible without modern technology, and many see it as a bridge into the future of what anime will look like. Of course, it being a SHAFT anime, most of the series doesn’t quite live up to the splendor of the first episode, but there’s something I feel the need to point out: I think there’s a good reason that this in particular was the show to use those new techniques on, and that reason was VOFAN. Bakemonogatari for me is like an old friend that you’ve known for as long as you can remember. It’s the kind of a friend whom you love and can hang out with at any time, but you do KNOW him. It’s not like the two of you have to sit there and talk about yourselves and get all interested in one another, and it’s not like a cute girl who you’re flirting with for the first time. In many ways, I may want to hang out with this friend more than anyone else. Sometimes, meeting new people and making new impressions is stressful and difficult, so it’s always good to have friends you can fall back on and know they’ll be good to you. A lot of the times, that’s what you do when you are rewatching a show you love, but for me, Bakemonogatari was that all along. I finally finished S-cry-ed after 6 years! he show makes my favorites list for sheer strength of spirit, much like G Gundam, in spite of it’s relatively weak plot and characters. It’s also taken me a goddamn long time to finish Pani Poni Dash! I started collecting the DVDs a few months after Zetsubou Sensei began in late 07 since I’d just learned about Shinbo. Though it’s not an absolute favorite of mine, I will definitely say that I think PPD deserves to be called one of the greatest comedy anime ever made. |
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