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The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.

'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'

@thaliarchus1/2/2024, 9:05 PM

Space Pirate Captain Harlock keeps up a sort of arid background distaste for modernity and stays just slightly too weird about femininity at all times. Somehow this feels more abrasive than, say, the straightforward horniness of Space Cobra, perhaps because Cobra always focuses on having as much fun as possible, and shows no hints of a conscious theory about how things should be.

A real work-out for late-70s technique here, mind, not just in shot conception but also in editing, sound management across shots and scenes, different ways to imitate live action camerawork, &c &c

#Space Pirate Captain Harlock #captain harlock

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Z-A @Z-A1/9/2024, 6:16 PM

Captain Harlock is an anime I hadn't thought much about beyond being "the cool pirate ship in space" anime, but when I learned that the badguys were an all-women species of alien I figured that the show must have gotten pretty weird at points.

I suppose it shouldn't surprise me. I've watched (some of) Galaxy Express 999 and that's another show that gets very weird once you interrogate it's premise even a little.

@thaliarchus1/9/2024, 7:00 PM

Yes, it's not a tremendous shock, and I don't think that personally it inhibits my enjoyment of the show very much (but then my day job involves assimilating things older and stranger). There are obviously limits to what I'm about to say, but up to a point it is if anything kind of fun to encounter mass-audience anime that carries traces of a conscious capital-v Viewpoint from the creator of the source material. It's probably easier to say that about something from the 1970s, stemming from someone who is now dead.