I was writing a more detailed takedown of this assault on my dignity - “I Like You - Desire for the Alien Other in FLCL”, an ‘academic’ discussion of orientalist othering & Cool Japan ideology in FLCL, until:
[In the opening scene] Mamimi displays power and agency…
Mamimi, a female with resilience…
??? Okay, you didn’t even watch the show, author. I had all these comments about how they obviously weren’t familiar with the production process and the marketing/sales and so on. But why should I try if you so obviously aren’t?
“2000′s anime bloggers are leagues better than the entire academic establishment on media analysis” walked so “random twitter accounts are better epidemiologists than the entire public health establishment on Covid” could run.
That dog was on point February 2020, only reason I had supplies laid in before the general rush.
