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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

[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.