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Feb. 4th, 2006 02:30 amHey guys!
I thought I'd poke around Wikipedia, and ended up spending an hour playing with the Princess Tutu entrypage. I added an entire new section: Themes and Arcs.
I added the following subsections:
-Storytelling, Writing, and Meta
-Free Will vs. Destiny
-Transformation, Anthropormorphism, and Existential Identity
-A Prince With Two Princesses, A Princess With Two Princes
-Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends
-Ballet, Opera, and Classical Music
I filled in the entries for "Free Will vs. Destiny" and "A Prince With Two Princesses, A Princess With Two Princes", and I started a bit on the ballet entry, but I had to stop since I actually know very little about ballet except the ability to identify it when I see it. There's a SPOILER WARNING for the entire "Themes & Arcs" section, so be warned! I didn't spoil the ending of the series, but the PT entry as a whole includes several spoilers for the end of season one and quite a bit of the plot of season 2.
Anyway, I was hoping you guys might step up and fill in some of the sections! Because I'm tired and need sleep, and plus I'm pretty sure any attempt I could make at a coherent explanation of "storytelling, writing, and meta" in Princess Tutu would make absolutely no sense and jump around like crazy.
Oh, and feel free to edit the sections I already did, if you think you can explain it better. It's now 2:00 am for me, so it's likely that you'd be right.
Under the discussion of anthropormorphism, it'd be really cool if anyone knew about the Japanese mythological character of the cat spirit who seeks a bride. I believe Neko-sensei is a combination of that character and Puss In Boots. The cat spirit who is searching for a bride has shown up in other anime series... the one I remember most clearly is from Ranma 1/2. Unfortunately I have no idea what the story behind that is, but if someone does that'd be a cool thing to include--- I know that people I've spoken to who've seen the series always ask why Neko-sensei is threatening his students with marriage.
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octopedingenue, if you aren't already worn off the subject what with your thesis and all, your imput on these sections would be awesome. I know you probably know seventeen times more stuff about it by now than the rest of us do.
I thought I'd poke around Wikipedia, and ended up spending an hour playing with the Princess Tutu entrypage. I added an entire new section: Themes and Arcs.
I added the following subsections:
-Storytelling, Writing, and Meta
-Free Will vs. Destiny
-Transformation, Anthropormorphism, and Existential Identity
-A Prince With Two Princesses, A Princess With Two Princes
-Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends
-Ballet, Opera, and Classical Music
I filled in the entries for "Free Will vs. Destiny" and "A Prince With Two Princesses, A Princess With Two Princes", and I started a bit on the ballet entry, but I had to stop since I actually know very little about ballet except the ability to identify it when I see it. There's a SPOILER WARNING for the entire "Themes & Arcs" section, so be warned! I didn't spoil the ending of the series, but the PT entry as a whole includes several spoilers for the end of season one and quite a bit of the plot of season 2.
Anyway, I was hoping you guys might step up and fill in some of the sections! Because I'm tired and need sleep, and plus I'm pretty sure any attempt I could make at a coherent explanation of "storytelling, writing, and meta" in Princess Tutu would make absolutely no sense and jump around like crazy.
Oh, and feel free to edit the sections I already did, if you think you can explain it better. It's now 2:00 am for me, so it's likely that you'd be right.
Under the discussion of anthropormorphism, it'd be really cool if anyone knew about the Japanese mythological character of the cat spirit who seeks a bride. I believe Neko-sensei is a combination of that character and Puss In Boots. The cat spirit who is searching for a bride has shown up in other anime series... the one I remember most clearly is from Ranma 1/2. Unfortunately I have no idea what the story behind that is, but if someone does that'd be a cool thing to include--- I know that people I've spoken to who've seen the series always ask why Neko-sensei is threatening his students with marriage.
P.S.
octopedingenue, if you aren't already worn off the subject what with your thesis and all, your imput on these sections would be awesome. I know you probably know seventeen times more stuff about it by now than the rest of us do.
