InAnimete: Part 13 - Black Butler

Well, I took last week off due to sleep irregularities spurred by late-night (early morning, really) game releases and the fact I was playing said games for most of the week. Oh, and family, friends, life, watching anime, etc. Life'll just get you sometimes.  And then Christmas happened, and even though I don't celebrate it, it was a chance to catch up with family and time got away from me. That said, let's dive into the Victorian demonic-horror of Black Butler.

InAnimete: Part 12 - Chrono Crusade

I'll say ahead of time that this article is probably going to be a fair deal shorter than my usual. Why? Well, part of it is that I'm starting this piece at 2 on a Monday afternoon to be finished by Wednesday, so time. The much bigger element is that I can't remember much of the show in a coherent manner. I have images and snippets, and this anime has a great way of making striking images, but a lot of the logic of the story is lost to time in my mind unfortunately.

Any remotely competent or professional blogger would either go back and watch it to remind themselves or would alternately just not talk about the anime. If "competent" or "professional" are among the first words you'd use to describe my work, welcome to Red Television. It's great to have new readers. In keeping with my usual tactic, I'm going to talk about this show I barely remember, with the aid of TV Tropes and Wikipedia.

Welcome to a world of demons, nuns and horribly misappropriated historical events. Guess which one I'm going to be ranting about the most.

InAnimete: Intermission B - Race

So some stupid Missouri fuckers concluded in a non-trial that a man who represented a system which has a hard on for killing more African-Americans than the fucking Teliko was completely innocent. America fucking terrifies me. To those who are going to tear the fucking system down, I salute you and you have my utter and complete support and respect.

Sure, this is coming from a middle-class, white, Australian guy, so that's worth not that much. I am a world away from the situation in Ferguson in more ways than just geographically. Sure, my country doesn't have a great history of racial equality and multiculturalism, but I'm hardly in a persecuted minority (being of Irish heritage hasn't been much of a "thing" in my lifetime, so I'm not even going to pretend that that counts).

There isn't anything I can really do to help justice be achieved in Ferguson, and I'm not going to spend an entire post empathising with people I can't possibly know the experience of. It's a hard truth, but White Privilege is gonna influence anything I write, and I don't want to write something that could be confused with fucking Kipling. So I'm going to use this as a good time to expand on some ideas I've been thinking about for a while.

So, what can I talk about? Well, I do this thing where I talk about anime and nobody reads it, so maybe I should do that again. Let's talk about race in anime.

I swear to fucking Christ I am well rested and of reasonably sound mind right now, so if you're still confused from last time, I apologise and empathise. I was out of my fucking mind. I am now slightly less so, having gotten a little sleep. I am going to do something like last time, and use a thesis statement to focus my ranting. This one may be a little more to the point: