Comments on: The Smell is Sweet, the Heart is Bitter(DTB Season 2 Episodes 5 + 6 + So much more)

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:49:18 +0000

Definitely a good thought with respect to not liking other girls liking Hei so much. That probably plays a roll in Suou kicking the light pole after seeing Yin near Hei (The other reason of course being that she thinks Yin’s specter killed Norio’s mother). Suou is probably too young for him. I’m not sure what her age is, I think 15 or 16 and Hei by this point is reaching his mid twenties. He still views her as a kid though (as do the rest of us).

By: ShadowAhimsa

ShadowAhimsa — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:48:52 +0000

Sorry I meant me not my. Can’t believe I didn’t catch that :oops: .

By: ShadowAhimsa

ShadowAhimsa — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:44:55 +0000

Well I just want to say shame on my for not finding you sooner. I am so intrigued by the ideas and thoughts here and happy to know I am not the only one noticing and thinking about a lot of this stuff. Now I don’t have too much to say because you guys have already said most of what I was thinking, but I will say this. From a girls point of veiw, I really dislike the thought of another girl loving Hei like that. I don’t see it going that far, but still, the idea does not sit well with me and maybe it’s just because as a girl I do have that attraction to Hei that most girls I know that watch the show have, but then again maybe it’s just because she’s so young and that honestly bugs me.
I also share your oppinion on Norio, and Yin supposedly killing his mother. It seemed kind of meaningless to me too. But I honestly cannot see them leaving it where it is now. I’m sure they will devolope it more and it will make sense. I have not know DtB for having too many meaningless fillers. I still like this season, even though I was completely thrown off and slightly panicked at the thought of Yin not being there. But as was said even if it doesn’t live up to the first season so far (at least for me) I still think this anime overall is one of the best I’ve had the pleasure of watching. I look forward to seeing the rest of it.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:46:57 +0000

Oh if you like the magical girl discussion I discussed the idea of it a lot more in the next post. I think you’ll like where it goes.

You’re right about the putting them magical girl in the DTB world, but as I include in my next post the theme is more of a harp on innocence and our transition. The magical girl allusions are prominent, but that’s not all that’s going on.

I think they are still sticking with the characters entering and leaving quickly, but I’m more disappointed by some of the plots being skimmed over. I’m still waiting to marathon the whole thing.

As always I really appreciate your comments and compliments :). Hopefully we’re reaching plot escalation now.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:17:05 +0000

I always end up one post behind :oops: Can’t help backlogging DtB abit, since its such a serious show its kinda hard to find time to watch it. I think its kinda nice to wait abit and watch a few eps in one go though :)

I liked the select pieces of conversation you had at the top there. Some of the details in Season 1 has gone kinda fuzzy in my head, and they really helped put things back in perspective. I also found the whole magical girl discussion up there really intriguing. I didn’t actually notice the allusions before (magical girl isn’t exactly a genre I can claim familiarity in). In any case I think its a neat idea, and I don’t think it’s a matter of making fun of Sailormoon. The idea as I see it is that magical girl shows tend to have some sort of overriding positive growing-up message central to the theme of the show, and that message tends to be fleshed out in an idealized world of colourful powers and clear-cut villains. Starting with similar kinds of circumstances and with the same theme of growing up but passing it through the cruel world of the DtB universe and seeing what kind of changes happen around the message is at least interesting experimentation, I think.

At any rate, as a member of the ‘two-eps-is-a-little-short’ camp, I’m actually quite happy with the way things are going this season, even if we have to deal with peculiar artifacts like Norio the long-living strawman (truthfully I never expected him to last this long as an important part of the plot). Still, things are evidently not over at the Norio end yet, so Bones may still surprise us in the end.

I also have absolutely no clue on what was going on in the Yin-Norio’s Mum scene.

(And I loled hard at Cologne btw :D )