Cullum~ I've been Spirited Away!

Spirited Away is one of my absolute favorite movies. I brought my boyfriend to the screening with me and he admitted to thinking it was a really good movie. We ended up spending the whole drive back to Belle Chasse talking about it (he’s a film buff)! I’ll be honest, I love all of Hayao Miyazaki’s films. When I was younger I remember thinking ‘for cartoons, they are surprisingly deep.’ Miyazaki definitely let his imagination run wild with this film, and it leaves you wondering how someone comes up with all the ideas he does and how they fit perfectly with the idea he is trying to get across. 

In Spirited Away the main character is a young girl (a reoccuring item in Miyazaki films) named Chihiro. She seems like she gets a lot of what she wants and appears to be a brat but she is still a very likable character. Her parents are moving her to a new town, which she is obviously unhappy about, when they stumble upon a deserted ‘village’ with a ton of food. It gives Chihiro, and even the viewers, a very uneasy feeling. Her parents begin eating all of the food claiming that they’ll pay for it later, and end up turning into pigs. Chihiro, with the help of Haku and Lin, avoids being turned into a pig also and gets a job working in a bath house owned by the nasty, mean Yubaba. Yubaba takes peoples names, and gives them new ones and when they forget their old name, they never leave the spirit world. Chihiro, given the name Sin, ends up earning brownie points for cleaning a stink spirit at the bath house. The spirit gives her what looks like a rock, but is edible, as a present for her help. Sin, as nice as she is, lets in a seemingly friendly spirit by the name of No Face. The bath house makes him crazy and he begins eating people but with the rock, she gets him to throw up the food and leave. 

Sin begins to fall in love with Haku and goes on what could be a dangerous journey to save his life. He stole Yubaba’s twin sister, Zeniba’s, golden seal. She makes him throw it up and returns it to Zeniba. Haku goes to Zeniba’s and brings Sin back to the bath house. She answers Yubaba’s question and she allows her to leave with her parents not remembering a thing. Over the course of the movie, Chihiro is on a journey of self-discovery. She falls in love, frees Haku from Yubaba by telling him his real name (as he saved her from drowning when she was little and he was still alive) and telling him he used to be a river spirit for a river that is now apartment buildings. With her help, Yubaba’s baby becomes nice and starts to walk. There is so much to talk about with Spirited Away but I’m going to have to cut myself short because I’ve already written 500 words! 

Cullum~ Nausicaa

As a little girl growing up in America in the 90s, I had a childhood full of disney princesses that never seemed to actually do anything. My Japanese Anime class was my first exposure to films that seemed to be geared toward a younger age that had princess’s who actually fought! The two anime that will be discussed in this blog are Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke. The two films, put together, complete a sort of image of a war against earth and its inhabitants from beginning to end. In both films, nature is trying to be destroyed but is saved by a heroine. 

In Nausicaa, the main character is a pretty, young, passionate, strong-willed princess named Nausicaa. This particular anime is set in a post apocalyptic world, after a war that managed to wipe out most of the ecosystem and most organized civilizations as well. There is a Toxic Jungle in which everything in it is lethal to humans. In Nausicaa, the Pejite are trying to destroy the toxic jungle by burning it. Nausicaa is a ally to the Ohmu in the jungle, they kind of look like giant caterpillars that you wouldn’t want to mess with. The ‘Giant Warrior’ is the weapon they plan to use to destroy the jungle and the Ohmu. When they go to use it, though, it doesn’t work. In the end, Nausicaa saves a baby Ohmu and gets run over by a herd of Ohmu drawn out of the forest by the Pejite. She survives, though, after the Ohmu revive her for her efforts and it ends happy with everyone living in peace.

In Princess Mononoke Lady Aboshi is destroying the forest to better her people and to make more iron in Iron Town. She is also killing the creatures that live in the forest. Her hatred for the creatures is the reason the main character, Ashitaka, has been fatally wounded and is now in search of a cure. Princess Mononoke, whose real name is San, won’t stand for the destruction Aboshi is creating. San is young, pretty and passionate just as Nausicaa was.  Aboshi takes the forest spirits head and her ignorance and destructive personality ends up destroying her own town in the end. San and Ashitaka return the spirits head to it and it ends up healing them and the lepers in the town. 

Cullum ~ Ah! My Goddess!

As I packed my bags for cruise vacation over Thanksgiving break, I made sure to remember Samurai from Outer Space. After reading a full chapter on what seemed like female empowerment, I was ready to get back home and watch Oh! My Goddess (well, not really since I was on a cruise, but I was definitely ready to get it over with!) After struggling with blackboard to get the words and sound effects to stop lagging fifteen seconds behind the actual film, I was ready to write!

On the whole chapter of what I read, I was disappointed to have read very little specific information on Oh! My Goddess. The book was right on the spot when it mentioned the whole bit about how in the film, Keiichi embraced Belldandy’s powers while in American shows, it is quite the opposite. In Bewitched, Darren dislikes Samantha’s powers. In Oh! My Goddess Keiichi is fine with being looked over by his Goddess. Even after all the baggage she comes with (after being used as a ‘Trojan Horse’/virus spreader, losing her memory, and having the pass through the Gate of Judgement) they still end up together in the end, and there love is still as strong as ever. 

While reading the book, it seemed like a romance like Belldandy’s and Keiichi’s is quite normal, but in the film, I felt as if it hinted that it was a bit strange. Celestin seems like he wanted her for himself and was not okay with her choice of a lover. In the book it seemed as if that type of coupling was socially acceptable. I believe one of the ‘salient issues’ was that love can overcome anything. After having her memories of Keiichi erased, she still ended up with him in the end. 

I hate to compare the film with Twilight but I have to for a moment. Let’s not pretend that we didn’t notice that when Keiichi drove to Belldandy’s temple at insane speeds without realizing that he was expecting Belldandy to save him from having an accident. That scene made me think of when Bella was being a complete retard and was driving her motorcycle super fast and jumping off of cliffs to see Edward’s face and be ‘saved’ by him. 

Cullum, Princess Mononoke

Prince Ashitaka received a wound that will kill him by defending his village of Emishi from a boar that turned evil. Now he must venture on to the west to try and find a cure for his disease. He rides right into a battle and begins fighting. His arms starts to change shape and he shoots the arms off of warriors. The warriors call him a demon after he rides off. A wandering monk tells him he fights like a demon, which is evil, but the prince is obviously a good character. He even feels bad about killing that bad samurai. The battle between good and evil is inside each and every one of us and its important. It makes us do things that no one wants to do, but need to be done. Soldiers are defenders of our country and are very good, but they kill other people which is bad. Without them, we wouldn’t be as safe as we are now.

Lady Eboshi believes the wolves stole Princess Mononoke’s soul and now she is out to kill the lady. Toke, the man the prince saved wife, was really nice to Ashitaka, but she yelled at her husband. All the men in iron town are yelling at their wives, but they risk their lives for the food they eat. The women are yelling at the men, but they make the iron in the town. Lady Eboshi is the reason the boar is a demon, because she shot it. Naturally, you would think that this would make Ashitaka hate her, but he actually saves her that night. San, Princess Mononoke, tries to kill her and he uses his curse to stop the fighting between them. Since Eboshi runs Iron Town and goes on the missions with the men, but she turned the boar into a demon. She seems really nice to everyone, but she keeps making weapons to create more destruction. She also took in the lepers, washed them, bandaged them, and let them live in the town when everyone else looked down on them. These reoccurring examples of how people have good and evil inside of them keep turning up.

Iron town, a town for outcasts, is run by Lady Eboshi. In Iron Town, they are at war with the forest for clearing it out to mine the iron in the town. All of the women have the same headdress on, and the same outfits in different colors.  They mine the iron in the town and work long hours and do hard work. The men go on dangerous journeys to obtain the rice that everyone eats. Lady Eboshi is trying to create rifles for the women so they can kill the forest monsters. The women are doing hard work and fighting. When Mononoke invades the town, both the women and men fight. 

Cullum, Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies was one of the most depressing and slightly life changing films I have ever seen. There are very few films in the world that could move you the way Grave of the Fireflies could move you. The film follows two siblings’ struggle for survival and love for each other. At the very beginning of the film, you discover that whatever the two siblings are going through, they do not survive it. Throughout the whole course of the movie you find yourself wishing they will live; that there will be a happy ending. 

The film takes place during the years of 1944-1945, at the very end of WWII. In the beginning of the movie, you see a man throw a fruit tin can, that he picks off a corpse, into some grass. The lid comes off and fireflies and Setsuko emerge from it. Setsuko sees the body of her dead brother and her eyes get wide at the sight of her brother. Before she can reach the body, her big brothers hand is on her shoulder and the flashback starts.

Seita, the big brother, and Setsuko, the little sister, find themselves orphaned after the bombing of their home, Kobe’. Their mother has passed away due to fatal wounds after the bombing and their father has died fighting for their country. In my opinion, one of the most moving elements in the film is how much Seita tries to protect Setsuko and how you can see how much they love each other just by their actions towards one another. 

The two lived with their aunt, briefly, but left their aunts house because she was treating them so unfairly. He even gave them the supplies he had buried at his house. He kept one thing from his former life and that was a fruit tin can. She was giving them really small portions and took half of the rice that Seita bought with the money he got from selling his mother’s kimonos. She was taking their rations and half of the rice that was rightfully theirs’. When they are one their own, farmers won’t sell them rice because they don’t even have enough for themselves.

        The two find themselves all alone, living in an abandoned air-raid shelter and poor.  One night, Setsuko brings a bunch of fireflies into the shelter and they light up the room. The two experience a short-lived moment of happiness together. When Setsuko wakes up and finds then dead, she buries every single one and asks why did they die, why do they live such short lives and why did their mother died. This is an important scene. Fireflies are beautiful creatures, but they have short lives. You appreciate them more because you don’t see them a lot. Setsuko, Seita and their mother are like fireflies. In the eyes of children, mothers are very important, beautiful people. Their mother, like the fireflies, had a short life. Setsuko and Seita also died very young. The point Nosaka is trying to make is that life is beautiful but it is short so appreciate it as much as you can until you burn out and die.

        Setsuko becomes malnutritioned and the doctors won’t give them food to feed her. At a last hope, Seita goes to the bank to take out all of his mothers money to buy food to save her even though Setsuko begs him not to leave her. When he gets back, Setsuko is on the edge of death and is hallucinating. Seita’s younger sister Setsuko dies and he gives her a proper burial. He uses some of the money to buy a really nice ‘coffin’ to cremate her in and keeps some of her ashes in his fruit tin can. Seita dies not long after his sister. 

Cullum, Harp of Burma

Harp of Burma is a two-part anime film adaptation of the famous Japanese novel Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama. It is set towards the end of WWII. After my research about it on the internet, I found that it was also adapted into a Japanese film named The Burmese Harp and follows the same story. After reading Death and Other Bad Stuff in Samurai from Outer Space and watching the film, I came to a conclusion. The Japanese have no problem talking about death, whilst in America, bringing up the topic sets a kind of depressing mood in a conversation and is to be avoided. 

In Harp of Burma I could not stop thinking ‘Muzishima is so loyal’ and I kept wanting to say ‘spiritual’. He did not join his battalion in returning home because he wanted to bury his fellow Japanese soldiers. I think it is amazing how loyal Japanese soldiers are to each other and to their country. After reading War Films Depict Japan as a Misunderstood Victim I also could not help but think, ‘is this how loyal they really are or is this how they want everyone else to think they are?’ 

I do think the Japanese are depicted as poor pitiful victims after reading War Films Depict Japan as a Misunderstood Victim. Then again, there are far more films produced by Japanese directors than there are one produced by American directors. The Japanese don’t have a problem with discussing death. It is a natural part of life and it happens to everyone. Another big difference in Japanese and American views on death is suicide. In America, suicide is a way out that cowards take. As America is predominantly Christian, as Americans we see suicide as a sin. In the Japanese culture, for samurai, ritual suicide is praised and is honorable; this idea is true for most other battle situations. In Harp of Burma the Japanese soldiers accept the fact that they might all die now that the fighting has stopped. Sure, they may be sad about it, but they accept it. The Japanese accept the fact that the world is an amoral place. 

Cullum, Ghost in a Cyber-Shell

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       For some reason, the whole time I was watching this movie, I kept thinking about the movie called Surrogates, with Bruce Willis, and that movie scares me. Not because its meant to be a horror film, its actually quite good, but its set in the future and people hook themselves up to a computer and live their life through a cybernetic version of themselves (or whatever they want to be, look like, ect). Which brings me to the point I'm trying to make here, technology scares me, but it also fascinates me. I really enjoyed Ghost in the Shell because of the fact that a lot of it has to do with technology and how you can manipulate it to make it a bad thing. It also has a little bit of corruption in there, like in Botchan. Let's not forget another big issue in this film : identity crisis. In Black Swan and in Perfect Blue the main characters were going through MAJOR identity problems. 

The movie is set in the year 2029. Technology is far more advanced than it was when the movie was made, and pretty far off of what technology we have today. I feel like, the way we depend on technology now, that one day the world as we know it might be similar to the one in this film. In Akira technology is used to basically stalk the population and control them subconsciously. In Ghost in the Shell, people are able to be brain hacked. There is a character called ‘the puppeteer’ and its hacking into people and causing all kinds of rukus. The creator of the puppeteer ends up being Sector 6 and the government. Let’s be honest here, if the idea of someone being able to ‘brain hack’ you doesn’t scare you, you deserve to be brain hacked. 

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In Ghost in the Shell a lot of the world is cyborg, and of course there are still some humans.  In the film, they have cyberneticlly enhanced cops. The main one were focused on in the movie is Major Motoko Kusanagi and she is 95% cyborg, I think, and she was cyborged at a very young age. In our world, modern day and how it has been forever, people have always questioned their identities. People are constatly asking themselves ‘what is my purpose’ ‘why am I here’ ‘who am I’ ‘who do I want to be.’ In the film, the characters are doing the very same thing. The main one is our very own Major Motoko. In Perfect Blue Mima goes through a similar identity issue. Mima has everyone telling her who she should be and people even try to murder her and rape her because she isn’t being who they want her to be. Motoko isn’t even human (mostly), so try to think of the questions about identity she is asking herself. 

       

Cullum, VAMPIRES VAMPIRES VAMPIRES

As soon as I got about 20 minutes into Vampire Hunter D, it had already started reminding me of Blade. I’m a huge scary movie buff, which naturally includes vampire movies! From sixth grade up until sophomore year, I was completely obsessed with all things vampire. I was not obsessed with vampires because of Twilight, like every other vampire crazed girl. I was obsessed with vampires because of The Southern Vampire Series (Sookie Stackhouse Series) written by the lovely Charlaine Harris. When I opened up a signed copy of one of her books, and a picture of her holding it, for Christmas Sophomore year, I could have died happy in that moment. The point of this is, I know an embarrassing amount of information about vampires. 

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Since the blog prompt said to write about anything pertaining to vampires, that we wanted, I will talk about my favorite movies. My three all time favorite vampire movies are Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (because lets be honest, this one was Bada$$), Interview with a Vampire and THE amazing Lost Boys. Underworld is so amazing to me because it talks about the origins of both vampires and lycans. I also love how they tie in this intricate love story and the cold heartedness of vampires in this particular film. For those of you who haven’t seen this one, the ‘king’s’ servant lycan named Lucian and the ‘king’s’ daughter, Sonja, (a vampire) fall in love, and she becomes pregnant with a hybrid baby. Her father burns her in the sun room and makes the Lucian watch. He ends up getting together all the lycans and they revolt against the vampires, creating a never ending war between lycans and vampires. 

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Interview with a Vampire is so amazing because it shows what being a vampire who doesn’t want to be one is like. A vampire named Lestat turns a man named Louis, who hates his life, into a vampire. This movie covers the life of Louis from right before he got turned into a vampire up until the moment he is telling the story. Lestat puts Louis through some rough sh!t. Louis is forced to drink human blood, Louis is a vampire with a mortal consciousness and even brings a dying young girl named Claudia (played by the wonderful Kirsten Dunst) into the immortal life of a vampire (to save her from dying of Yellow Fever). I think the fact that this is a wonderfully written story by Anne Rice (which surpirsed me when I first read the book) and was adapted just as wonderfully on the big screen is one of the reasons I am so intrigued by this story of a very compassionate vampire named Louis. It is also set in New Orleans and it has a bit of a history lesson in it also, and I love history. 

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The last film on my favorites list is The Lost Boys! I like vampire films that portray vampires as they are meant to be portrayed; as scary monsters that should be feared!! If you haven’t seen The Lost Boys yet, you need to rent it or watch it online on Megavideo right now. Its an awesome old movie. There is so much information about vampirism in it, that you could make a small Vampire for Dummies pamphlet from it. This movie follows the story of two teenage boys who have just moved to Santa Carla, California. Michael, one of brothers, angers the leader of the vampire motorcycle gang named David, by falling for his girlfriend named Star.  David turns Michael into a vampire and his younger brother Sam enlists in the help of the Frog brothers to help him turn his brother back into a human. The Frog Brothers are vampire hunters. In the end, *SPOILER ALERT, READ NO FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS AMAZING MOVIE*, David is killed and all of the vampires he has turned, become human again. 

Cullum Perfect Blue Identities

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I honestly have no idea where to even start with the movie Perfect Blue. It was enjoyable to me, but then again I like thrillers, suspense movies and Alfred Hitchcock movies. Mima is an ‘innocent’ pop singer in a three woman group called Cham! When she announces her plans to become an actress and stop singing, stuff hits the fan. She becomes stalked by Me-Mania, starts to lose touch with herself, people get murdered, and she almost gets killed. For most of the movie, I thought Mima was crazy, like Nina in Black Swan. I wasn’t able to distinguish if Mima was doing something or someone else who thought they were Mima was doing it. I thought she was killing all these people. The moment I knew for sure that it was not her killing everyone, is the moment that the Mima jumping around in the dress turns into Rumi in the street. 

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Through most of the film I feel like Mima isn’t even sure of who she is as a person; this does not surprise me at all. As a female celebrity she has all kinds of people dictating who she should be, how she should act, and what she should do. She changed from a innocent pop singer to a rape victim that had pornographic pictures taken of herself. Her fans basically feel like she doesn’t have the right to stop singing and move on to acting. Rumi thinks Mima is ruining her(Mima’s) reputation and ultimately tries to kill her for it. Her office manager, Tadokoro, is pushy and wants Mima to become an actress. Me-Mania/Uchida is just a crazy stalker that is more than a little upset that she is pursuing a career in acting now instead of singing.

I’ll tie this post up with a little spin on the webpage about her that is written by someone claiming to be her. This is extremely frustrating. I had someone from another country use my pictures and name, my facebook pictures and information, and make a facebook. They spoke some sort of Arabic language, and only had guys added. This is irrelevant, but the point I’m trying to make is that you feel very invaded when someone does something like that. As soon as this aspect was mentioned in class I was thinking ‘oh wow, that happened to me !’

Cullum, Botchan Corrupt Principals

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In Student Days, you can automatically tell that education in Japan is a serious thing. The film in class made it obvious that there was also quite a bit of corruption in the education system. If you had money or if your parents were a ‘big deal’ you could get in without the good grades. Unfortunately, for Botchan, he had no such connections and he had to study. In the film from class, a series of unfortunate events happened to Botchan. His sick brother, that had not even been prepared for the test, passed the test; Botchan, who had studied hard and long, had not passed the test. His brother also ended up with the girl he was in love with and wanted to marry. 

In Botchan it was pretty evident that the principal and the vice principal (Red Shirt and Buffoon) had all the power, and they did not exactly use it right. Hoffa had been kind to Botchan since the moment he had arrived. On the first day of class, the students immediately started ridiculing Botchan. Every day he arrived to class, they had a new cartoon drawing of Botchan with mean things that were meant to humiliate him written next to it. After his night duty mishap, he confronted Red Shirt and Buffoon about it and on a fishing trip, Red Shirt and Buffoon pinned the students behavior or Hoffa. After they turn against eachother, Hoffa stands up for Botchan and Botchan then realizes that Red Shirt and Buffoon were the ones behind the students. The principal and the vice principal were corrupt! 

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In my high school, we always joked with the teachers, but we would have NEVER dared to treat a teacher like the students in Botchan treated Botchan. There was far more teasing among students like the kind in Botchan. My senior year, there was an issue that the student body, mostly the senior students, complained and pushed so hard to get through, that our principal quit over the intercom about. At Belle Chasse High School, we had/have to wear uniforms. A black or red uniform shirt with the school crest and khaki shorts or pants. We had to wear white, black or red socks and we had to have lace up shoes. If you wore an undershirt, it had to be black, white or red. On Fridays, we were able to wear club and senior shirts. We were told that we weren’t going to be able to wear any sweatshirts or shirts that didn’t say ‘Belle Chasse High School’ on it anymore. This excluded all of the club shirts, club sweatshirts, some sports team shirts and last but definitely not least, this means we couldn’t wear our senior sweatshirts and shirts. We were outraged. Everyone got their parents to call to the school and complain. We had bought these shirts sweatshirts from the school, so why couldn’t we wear them to school? Students were dropping by the principals office to complain, and parents were showing up to school to yell at the principal. We ended up pushing him so far, that he told us ‘no more uniforms, I quit’ over the intercom. 

       In my four years of attending Belle Chasse High, there was one teacher that got punched twice. He was seriously annoying and unnecessarily mean to his students though. My freshman year he told a student to shave and that he was writing him up and the kid straight up punched the teacher in the face. Senior year, he took someones phone away, they stood up and slapped him across the face, took their phone and left. So I thought it was appropriate to include a video of a student punching a teacher in the face. This is exactly how the punch went down freshman year, except the teacher didn't push the student first. 

Cullum, Good Power in Ninja Scroll

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I am not going to lie, I actually enjoyed Ninja Scroll. When trying to pick one central topic to blog about, I, once again, can not just choose one specific topic, so I’m choosing a broad one. The most obvious theme in Ninja Scroll is powerful beings. Everyone from the characters considered to be good to the characters considered to be evil are powerful in this movie. Having power sometimes destroys a person and turns them in the direction of being evil. In my opinion there were far more ‘evil’ users of power then good in Ninja Scroll. I will start with the first most powerful character, focusing heavily on him. This blog will be fairly longer than my first two.

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The most powerful, influential character I noticed in Ninja Scroll was definitely Jubei. He was able to defeat Gemma twice, the first time he was able to regenerate himself. The second time, what he desired most ended up leading him to his demise when Jubei cut him in half and left him in a river of melted gold. Jubei is also very cunning and is able to trick some of the eight Demons of Kimon. Jubei is not only powerful, but very honorable and loyal, like a Samurai should be. In the end, Jubei does not follow Dakuan to his next destination to get rewarded, but instead he cuts whatever the old man was holding a brick of gold in so that it falls in the water. I believe his reward was knowing the the old man did not get the gold. When Kagero offers herself to him to counteract the poison inside of him with the poison inside of her, he declines her offer. He does not just decline her offer because he is respectful, but he does not do it because he feels like he would be raping her. My interpretation is that he believes she will be wondering wether he had sex with her to cure himself or because he actually wanted to. This shows that Jubei is not only superhuman physically, but an amazingly remarkable person mentally as well. He is the Robin Hood of Samurai’s after all. 

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Kagero is a very powerful woman in the movie. She is a woman Ninja. After Jubei ‘saves’ her from the oni, she follows him, determined to pay him back for his help. She ends up dying to defend him, which I think makes her more of a Samurai than a ninja, but thats just my opinion. Anyone that even touches her is poisoned and dies.. She killed two Demons of Kimon, including the oni and the shadow puppeteer, with this very poison. She is a superb fighter and is the only one that survived the trip to the ‘infected’ village, even if Jubei is some what responsible for her survival. 

Cullum, Mya : Akira Blog Post

Before I had even pressed play on the streamed video of Akira, I could tell there was going to be a lot of action in it. Eleven o’clock on Wednesday night was the first time I had watched an anime film, that was not produced by Studio Ghibli, all the way through. I had noticed multiple themes throughout the movie and trying to write about just one was too complicated for me. 

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The first thing that jumped out at me was how controlling the government and higher powers are in the Akira.  Ever since the 1988 disaster, the government has cracked down. They set up lengthy check-points all of the time. They even have check-points at the mall that the citizens basically have to shop at. At the school, the disciplinarian figure just started slapping the characters in the face and was screaming ‘discipline’ at them when he did it.

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I also found it terrible that the government knew about the genetic research being done on these children, which brings me to my next point. I personally think that doing genetic research on children is wrong, especially ones that did not consent to it.  As the film opens up, you see the child that was abducted forced to go back to the facility. This child is an esper and he has psychic abilities. The scientist and Colonel Shikishima decide that its okay to just take the wounded Tetsuo with them back to the facility with them. When they take Tetsuo back to the facility to heal him they realize he has the mental frequencies that are similar to the former powerful Akira. They automatically start thinking of the powers he could posses and what he could be capable of. The doctor and colonel give Tetsuo capsules that make him develop the psychic abilities without Tetsuo even knowing. They later realize they cannot control Tetsuo because Tetsuo cannot even control himself. Ever since he obtained the powers, he gets random pains when he uses them.Tetsuo loses control of himself when his pain and emotions grow too overwhelming. Tetsuo ends up creating a disaster much like the one Akira created.

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Hello everyone! My name is Mya Marie Cullum and I turn 18 on Labor Day. I am from Belle Chasse, Louisiana and I'm a commuter here at Loyola. I work at the Palace Cafe on Canal street and I LOVE it there.This is not my only blog, I also have a Tumblr, which I am ALWAYS on in my free time. I love the color purple and Hello Kitty! Right now I'm on a 'Young the Giant' kick. I'm into indie music and floral patterns. My hair has been blue, purple, pink, red, bright blonde, and orange. I have two little brother, one is 8 and one is 10. I used to be a cheerleader in primary school. I like to eat food, a lot. I'm thinking that I won't have much of a social life this year due to school, work-study, and my job at Palace. For the last three years I have had a job, I haven't gone a day without one. I've worked at PJ's Coffee of New Orleans as a barista Quiznos Subs as a sandwich artist, and now Palace Cafe as a hostess. I'm very outgoing and this year I have vowed to work out, I'm trying to utilize as much of Loyola as I can. I'm a Mac user and I HATE PCs. As a dare during senior year I joined the school's 'Miss BCHS Pageant'. I ended up winning second runner up and EVERYONE was surprised by this, not just me.
I enjoy Studio Ghibli anime. I love Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away. Non-anime things that I love anyway include video games, books, tv, food (again), music and random miscellaneous items that have sentimental value to me. I enjoy not having a social life by playing Fallout3, watching ABC family (because lets be honest, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, Secret Life of the American Teenager and the Lying Games are pretty amazing), watching Fringe, blogging on tumblr, playing Pokemon, watching Misfits and reading. I love Looking For Alaska, Cracked Up to Be, Beautiful, Harry Potter, Southern Vampire Series, and the Mortal Instruments. Now go laugh at that baby picture of me as a pumpkin.