This is an unfortunate season for me as blogger but a great one as a spectator. How could such a dichotomy arise? Let me explain:

First, let’s talk about the season a bit. The season is GREAT; Barack Obama is in office, the anime is glorious, my first semester in University has been amazing, the Ottawa Senators are out of their slump.  I’m in a great mood and I’ve been enjoying the anime season but I somehow can’t get a blogging going on.

There’s a good reason for this relative slump in posting frequency; almost none of the new anime suits my posting style! Aside Michiko to Hatchin and the early Nodame Cantabile, I haven’t been able to unleash grandiose art/philosophy critiques. Last season, Code Geass left a lot of space for critique and interpretation, this season though, things have been a little rough. To fix that, I’m going to break things up and show my appreciation of most shows currently airing, starting with Kannagi.

(Can you read the Hiragana on that pic?)

Kannagi: Hilarious, charming and pleasing to the eye. Love the characters and their development, particularly, the way each of them possesses multiple personalities, motivations and attitudes. It creates what comes close to the breath and complexity of true human relations. I know this is an unrealistic story about Gods and exaggerated interpersonal conveniences (Harems) but bear with me. True Tears, Kurenai and Kannagi all capture different truths of life and relationships. True Tears represented the suffocating effects of resentment, tradition, miscommunication and romantic unease/confusion. Kurenai emphasized on how common cause, experiences and feelings can bring people closely together without the need for deep tradition. Kannagi, isolates the complexity/duality of our interests when it comes to interpersonal relationships.

I don’t know about you but I LOVE this stuff.You almost never see this sort of wisdom on american TV. The scope of human emotion represented on the western tube is much too limited. All in all, Kannagi rocks, definitely the rosy-ass show that I fell in love with this season. I can’t help it, don’t try to save me.

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