Lacayo's Goddess and the Flashbacks.

Its the first week of school. I'm sitting in my room wondering what the heck my mailing address is. Wanting to buy the Samurai from Outer Space, I fumble across the boatloads of paper i have in several different bags and finally decide to ask if anyone has the book in the infamous class of 2012 facebook group. Luckily, Nia here was nice enough to lend it to me, after thinking I may have been a creepy psycho....but I digress as i always do.

As I read SOS I kept running across Ah! My Goddess, it kept being mentioned and there were even pictures in the books! I had to figure out what in the world this anime was. Since at the beginning of the  year we didn't have as much homework and I was fairly more responsible...and I didn't have as many friends...I ended up in my room at 9pm every night watching Ah! My Goddess. I was hooked!! The characters are hilarious and well drawn, the dub was actually pretty good and the soundtrack.....I loved it.

I love the opening song. Its very relaxing.

Sadly, I was only able to watch about 10 episodes before the beauty of college stress and procrastination kicked in....

A whole semester later I'm watching the movie and, for someone who saw 40% of the series I was initially confused. I guess that's because the movie is the ENDING of the entire series. So thanks for the spoiler Professor :) 

This was my wallpaper for
the longest time

Now, forgetting the fact that a great anime was spoiled for me. I must say the movie was really nice, I liked the way it played out but i wish they could have explained some things a little bit more, especially for those who have not even heard of Ah! My Goddess and needed some sort of intro. Oh well..

Something I kept thinking about while watching the movie was the idea of the end justifying the means. is it right? Does the end really justify the means to doing something. Are you willing to kill if its going to make things better? are you willing to destroy an entire planet full of people for the happiness of one goddess?

What drives us to do the things that we do? And could we find ways that avoid conflict?
I just kept thinking, Celestine wanted Belldandy to be happy, he wanted her to not suffer when she passed the gate, just like Morgan did.

Which reminds me....Keiichi! That guy is an intergalactic whore!! I could not believe that he did that to Morgan! or wait...was it really Morgan? Plothole?

I'm tired and i need my sleep anyhow. but yea something to think about!

"I have invisible wings
Look you have them too!
you can go anywhere because you're free." -Open Your Mind Ah! My Goddess Opening Song.

-Xavi

Lacayo's accident and the two sides of the coin.

The day has been dragging on; I feel my body protest for the lack of sleep and nutrition. Work was awful, having me run around all over campus multiple times. I’m looking forward to watch a film that has been recommended and praised multiple times. I buy my snacks; get comfortable…and then the people watching the film get to hear my repertoire of snores.

Watching this at 2am was pretty epic.

That’s just outright embarrassing…

My body is pretty much energized for the rest of the night so I reluctantly set up my computer on my bed, grab a bottle of water, a pack of double-stuffed Oreos and my headphones and begin to stream Princess Mononoke at 1am.

130 minutes later I have a smile on my face and my eyes are heavy with sleep. I fall asleep thinking of Mononoke, the Nature God with its crazy head hybrid and Lady Eboshi.

While watching the movie…the second…conscious time, I couldn’t help but thinking…who is the antagonist in the movie? Is it Lady Eboshi? With her Iron Town elimination the natural and replacing it with technology? Is it the beheaded spirit of nature? Destroying everything around it and withering all life? All the characters seemed to have their own reasoning, their own thoughts behind everything they did.  There are two sides to each character.

The one character I want to focus on the most is lady Eboshi. She seems to be an antagonist in the film, nevertheless you see her town and the way she treats her people and she doesn’t seem like an antagonist, but a main character. She’s destroying nature, killing animals and ultimately hoping to kill the spirit of the forest. But then you see her treating the lepers, taking care of them and showing them compassion when everyone else would reject them. She also gives women their place in society, allowing them to work and be valuable members of the community. She wants to murder Sai and then kill the spirit of the forest. But she also wants her people to prosper.

If Eboshi isn’t the antagonist…then who is? If it’s Eboshi then she definitely doesn’t fit the normal paradigms of an enemy.

One thing I know is that this movie raises awareness to nature, to our motives and the curses we all have inside of us.

But that’s enough rambling for today, I’m hungry.

Great plot...memorable characters and an AMAZING soundtrack. 

“What have I become, my sweetest friend?” –Hurt,  Johnny Cash

-Xavi