Thank you so much for those links! I'm totally excited to read them!
I can't really count myself an expert on Digimon--I only watched part of whatever season my book was from, because it was a novelization of two episodes. I immediately fell in love with the theme song and sang it incessently.:-)
That's really interesting about the whole "something good coming out of war" thing. I mean, the atom bomb connection seems obviously but there's got to be a complex reaction to it. It's kind of interesting that if the Japanese view is that this bomb creates a monster that can then fight for you, the US movie seems to always turn on scientists creating something that then turns on *them.* Japan actually had to live through a bombing, America's living with being the ones that actually did it, I guess. The Tokyo/New York connection is definitely a good one too--cities where you live as in a beehive and you have to find your personal space inside your head. That's something a lot of people just don't think about a lot. Like in a movie about either city, if the subway is shown to be knocked out or the traffic messed up I immediately think about how awful it's going to be for everyone to get home from work!
I'm so glad to hear that about Cartoon Network too--I love them. I did several Dexter Books which are among my favorite books I ever did.:-) Unfortunately Scholastic cancelled the series before the last two were published, and the last one was my favorite. Anyway, I loved the show and got into Samurai Jack too. My partner and I seemed to be a much better fit with Cartoon Network than Nickelodeon. We just didn't seem to be on the same wavelength as that channel whenever we tried to do books for their shows. CN seemed to really like us, though.
I keep wanting to learn about anime, since I know nothing about it, but it's hard to know where to start. I recently bought a copy of "Banana Fish" because I saw that referenced somewhere. Actually, it was a book with a big flow chart of questions to ask that was supposed to tell you what kind of anime you would like and Banana Fish was one of the ones listed under my type, plus I'd seen it before. Now I just have to get around to reading it...
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Date: 2004-02-14 09:25 pm (UTC)I can't really count myself an expert on Digimon--I only watched part of whatever season my book was from, because it was a novelization of two episodes. I immediately fell in love with the theme song and sang it incessently.:-)
That's really interesting about the whole "something good coming out of war" thing. I mean, the atom bomb connection seems obviously but there's got to be a complex reaction to it. It's kind of interesting that if the Japanese view is that this bomb creates a monster that can then fight for you, the US movie seems to always turn on scientists creating something that then turns on *them.* Japan actually had to live through a bombing, America's living with being the ones that actually did it, I guess. The Tokyo/New York connection is definitely a good one too--cities where you live as in a beehive and you have to find your personal space inside your head. That's something a lot of people just don't think about a lot. Like in a movie about either city, if the subway is shown to be knocked out or the traffic messed up I immediately think about how awful it's going to be for everyone to get home from work!
I'm so glad to hear that about Cartoon Network too--I love them. I did several Dexter Books which are among my favorite books I ever did.:-) Unfortunately Scholastic cancelled the series before the last two were published, and the last one was my favorite. Anyway, I loved the show and got into Samurai Jack too. My partner and I seemed to be a much better fit with Cartoon Network than Nickelodeon. We just didn't seem to be on the same wavelength as that channel whenever we tried to do books for their shows. CN seemed to really like us, though.
I keep wanting to learn about anime, since I know nothing about it, but it's hard to know where to start. I recently bought a copy of "Banana Fish" because I saw that referenced somewhere. Actually, it was a book with a big flow chart of questions to ask that was supposed to tell you what kind of anime you would like and Banana Fish was one of the ones listed under my type, plus I'd seen it before. Now I just have to get around to reading it...