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[timepiececlock]

I don't know what it is about today; I'm getting nostalgic for old fandoms. So I just rewatched a clip with the most gorgeous use of original score I've ever seen in tv anime about four times. (00:45 second mark)* And yes, that's Cowboy Bebop. It's been ages since I watched it, but I almost want to go back and rewatch the whole show. I miss the music for that thing, and I miss the characters too.

*Mind you, clip this has almost none of the original emotional resonance when taken out of episode 5 context, but it's still teh pretty. And features a little bit my ship.

**So, so conflicted about the very idea of Keanu Reeves. Still. A failure of Spike's character in a live-action CB movie might actually have the power to disappoint me more than the live-action ATLA movie, which at least will have epic awesome of the Slumdog Millionaire kid and thus guaranteed some level of entertainment.


ETA: On a separate note, counting Spike Spiegel, how many anime guys are there on shows I fangirl who have lost/augmented an eye? Cause I'm counting three, with Hatori Sohma and Roy Mustang. But I feel like I'm forgetting someone. I think it's all the same eye, too, though I'm not sure about Spike's.

ETA Again: This song is everywhere.

Comments

[mswyrr]

The visual artistry of that anime is breathtaking. Wow. When you combine it with the character arcs and the MUSIC (holy moly, the MUSIC!), it's mindblowingly good art.

My favorite song is Walk in the Rain, though. (Am I right / or am I wrong? / And is it here / that I belong?) Something about the organ music + guitar + rough male vocals tugs at me real hard. With Call Me, Call Me coming in second, and Butterfly stealing into third.

...damn, I love Yoko Kano's music.

[mswyrr]

ETA Again: This song is everywhere.

((jaw drop)) I can see why. That song is PERFECT for CB.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I kinda wish the videos I linked were edited by a better vidder, because, well--there's few anime series out there so perfectly waiting to be vidded to that song as Cowboy Bebop. There's tons of anime with gun violence and money, but few...few of them have the right spirit for it.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

A bit of youtube browsing led me to this trailer vid of AWESOME.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jems_/]

I don't know if it's considered anime, but Avatar has Zuko and his scarred eye.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

True! That's what my brain must have been telling me in silent whispers. And that's on the left eye, too. As is Roy's and Hatori's.

Oohhh! And Mushishi, how could I forget Ginko? He must have been the one I was trying to remember for anime. Also the left eye.

[noeon.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's amazing. Ginko -love. Zuko -love. Mustang - love. Spike -love. It IS astounding!!!

[gojira007.livejournal.com]

Always wanted to get into CB, caught bits and pieces of it on Adult Swim and was intrigued.

[strange_quark]

how many anime guys are there on shows I fangirl who have lost/augmented an eye?

Kakashi, perhaps?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

*feels like an idiot*

How could I forget Kakashi? SERIOUSLY??

Damn, why do fictional characters always lose the left eye?

[misora.livejournal.com]

...I actually have a theory regarding this. (Because one of my favorite Bleach characters, Ulquiorra, also has an eye thing -- his left eye is taken out of his head and crushed to display things he's seen to people.)

The Latin word for "left" is "sinister". The left has always been associated with "evil" things -- people who were left-handed, in the Middle Ages, were often fingered as Witches or in league with the devil.

By having a character have a significant injury in their left eye, their "sinister" eye, I believe the anime creators are (maybe even subconsciously) trying to show that the characters -- who might at some point in the series have a shadow of doubt cast on whose "side" they're on in the show, of which the prime examples for this are Zuko of Avatar, Ulquiorra of Bleach, and even Kakashi, from what I understand of the Naruto recent manga -- are actually "good" characters, because their "sinister" eye is somewhat bad.

You see where I'm going with this? I dunno, I just found that the correlation was kind of interesting.

[noeon.livejournal.com]

There's also a tradition with prophets that they become blind, OR, one eye is turned inward to see the past and the future. I think this is part of the left eye phenomenon. It has to do with seeing the past or an inward world.

[noeon.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw "Ballad of Fallen Angels" was like a religious experience. I had never seen ANYTHING like this scene before. I spent so much time trying to figure it out. I think with Bebop, as much as I am a huge fan of the story, I am an even greater fan of the back story, the things we don't know but catch a glimpse of. This is just the best. And YK and the Seatbelts are amazing.

Thanks for the great memory!!!