Well, I'm still on episode 6, and it's already up to ep.8! Maybe I shouldn't have picked up so many shows this season.
I think another swimsuit episode is coming up in ep.7, haha. I don't really know what's going on anymore, apart from that Muv-Luv is kinda disjointed and will throw anything into the pot to see if it works, if it adds anything. So far, it's my idea that the whole nationalism going on in those earlier episodes was possibly just a plot device, and little more. I can't completely discount it though, since a central idea of nationalism seems to be at work there, too: To understand what we are, you have to be one of us. Put another way, the Japanese have a certain character, and this character (or "essence") is needed of you right here and now. I think the idea can be traced back in time some ways, making itself especially manifest the years before and during WW2.
Okay, I better stop before I go off on some tangent headed nowhere distinct, haha. But still, it did get me thinking (but not necessarily about swimsuits).
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Otaku Idol (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 08/25/12 | Reply
@Apple Bun:
Well, I'm still on episode 6, and it's already up to ep.8! Maybe I shouldn't have picked up so many shows this season.
I think another swimsuit episode is coming up in ep.7, haha. I don't really know what's going on anymore, apart from that Muv-Luv is kinda disjointed and will throw anything into the pot to see if it works, if it adds anything. So far, it's my idea that the whole nationalism going on in those earlier episodes was possibly just a plot device, and little more. I can't completely discount it though, since a central idea of nationalism seems to be at work there, too: To understand what we are, you have to be one of us. Put another way, the Japanese have a certain character, and this character (or "essence") is needed of you right here and now. I think the idea can be traced back in time some ways, making itself especially manifest the years before and during WW2.
Okay, I better stop before I go off on some tangent headed nowhere distinct, haha. But still, it did get me thinking (but not necessarily about swimsuits).
Apple Bun
Otakuite++ | Posted 08/25/12 | Reply
I'm curious about the status of your Muv-Luv watching, and I feel an anime isn't complete without the swimsuit episodes. Haha!