The Japanese anime film Ah! My Goddess was the most true to what I would expect a modern anime to be, as far as films we’ve watched through out the year. When I say this, I’m really focusing on the fact that this, in my mind is the most science fiction or even farfetched anime we’ve watched to date. As far as the manga series goes for Oh, My Goddess, I was not as impressed with it as I was with the film. The supernatural feel of the whole film is awe inspiring and the way they portray women, as dominant characters through out the film is very classic and semi formulaic for most anime films. I mean this in the most positive way. I also mean that I think it’s interesting that in American culture, this type of model is a rarity and at the end of the day, I think we should be more like the Japanese with our cartoons and films because in real life not everything has a happy ending and the Japanese recognize this and make it into a pure art form for everyone to love or hate.
I like how memory is a factor in this film that some people fail to address. As in other anime we’ve watched such as Cowboy Bebop and Ghost In the Shell, it is shown that the loss of someone’s memory is extremely traumatic because not only do they not know who they are anymore, but they also find it hard to comprehend what’s going on around them. Also, it’s hard to trust people when knowing what is real doesn’t come as easy as it does for others.
I like how we watched A Clockwork Orange in class because it really brought to light a lot of the things that I was missing while watching the movie. Mainly, the aspect of brainwashing throughout the film and how brainwashing people doesn’t actually make people good or happier or whatever the main goal is of the person brainwashing. It essentially just destroys peoples sense of reality to the point where they don’t even make the connection to life that they would normally.
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