Comments on: Jintai 3 Redux: We Are, Again, All Part of the Problem http://omonomono.com/2012/07/17/jintai-3-redux/ The Yard Sale Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:40:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: omo http://omonomono.com/2012/07/17/jintai-3-redux/#comment-9462 omo Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:15:59 +0000 http://omonomono.com/?p=4259#comment-9462 It’s a little Austen-ish to me. It reminds me of Swift because it’s nowhere nearly as opaque as Carroll, at least in episode 3. The visit to the Fairy factory is Alice-like, you are right. The way the main character talks about herself and her situation reminds me of Austen too, but only in spurts.

]]> By: vendredi http://omonomono.com/2012/07/17/jintai-3-redux/#comment-9458 vendredi Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:59:27 +0000 http://omonomono.com/?p=4259#comment-9458 Personally I think the whole faux-European look is to mimic, well, a fairy tale. Less Swift, more Lewis Carroll. Not so much German literature but English.

After all, it’s a story with fairies in it – and it strikes me that the feel the author is going with the work for is a more overtly satirical Alice in Wonderland (which itself was in some ways a critique of class-based British society at this time).

“Fairy tales” as satire has some roots, and I don’t think this is totally out of nowhere. And one can also draw a line between Caroll’s Alice and modern Japanese moe culture too.

I think part of the effectiveness of the show is just how fast it papers over some rather amazing statements. There’s a dominant theme in each episode for sure, but there’s tons of little odds and ends like you note that the show blitzes past and lets the viewer process the humour.

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