11-year-old, genki entertainer, Sana. Her classmate/rival/nemesis/love interest, the seriously repressed (ex) lone wolf, Hayama. Her mother, a famous novelist who keeps a pet chipmunk on her head. Her manager, chaffeur, boyfriend and pimp, Ryo. Possibly a host of other important characters who haven't been introduced as of episode 8.
The gender politics in the first few episodes are scary and wonderful for being so blatent and so relentless. Somewhere around episode five, it starts to show off how well it can mesh soap operatics with CRACK. According to my friend and co-worker Carla, there are about five hundred episodes, which fills my heart with both dread and anticipation. There is also an insane parody of its opening sequence using Neon Genesis Evangelion characters, which I saw when I was only familiar with Eva.
I heart Sana unto death, and the next time I acquire some new piece of computer equipment, I'm naming it after her.
I'm netflixing it. Just the first season through Netflix right now, I think, but when I was chatting about it with Carla, she mentioned that the DVD releases were coming out faster than she could buy them, so probably they're releasing the whole thing?
Sana's voice actress is stellar. Lots of people can do zombie bimbo on crack, and lots of people can do drama, but she bounces back and forth between both without the slightest hint of dissonance.
It might be overstating things a bit to say that Sana is everything I'm looking for in an female anime protagonist, but she's damned close.
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on 2007-06-11 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-06-11 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2007-06-11 10:38 pm (UTC)The gender politics in the first few episodes are scary and wonderful for being so blatent and so relentless. Somewhere around episode five, it starts to show off how well it can mesh soap operatics with CRACK. According to my friend and co-worker Carla, there are about five hundred episodes, which fills my heart with both dread and anticipation. There is also an insane parody of its opening sequence using Neon Genesis Evangelion characters, which I saw when I was only familiar with Eva.
I heart Sana unto death, and the next time I acquire some new piece of computer equipment, I'm naming it after her.
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on 2007-06-12 01:26 am (UTC)Sana's voice actress is stellar. Lots of people can do zombie bimbo on crack, and lots of people can do drama, but she bounces back and forth between both without the slightest hint of dissonance.
It might be overstating things a bit to say that Sana is everything I'm looking for in an female anime protagonist, but she's damned close.