#NieA_7

[s-yasuhira]

#fanart #serial experiments lain #灰羽連盟 #NieA_7 #リューシカリューシカ #texhnolyze

[therosecrest]

#NieA under 7 - domestic poor @nimation #NieA_7 #Chigasaki Mayuko #Anime #screenshot

[foto-oxotnitsa]

#serial experiments lain #nihon hikikomori kyoukai #haibane renmei #niea_7 #yoshitoshi abe #link

[crtlover59]

#NieA_7 #early 2000s #anime #アニメ #crt

[catphenomenon]

#NieA_7 #niea 7 #mayuko chigasaki #art #manga #manga screencap

[douglasandknuckles]

she's so real for this

#yoshitoshi abe #NieA_7 #NieA #screencaps

[silhouettelover]

merry christmas to neets specficially

#yoshitoshi abe #NieA_7 #stealing my house a ladder for xmas so we can sit on the roof..

[beepofsleeplessdreams]

thinking out loud about some anime an illustrator i like worked on

so, one of my favorite illustrators (at least, I think that's the right term for him) is yoshitoshi ABe. recently i made the decision to look through a bunch of projects he had a hand in, mostly because i wanted to see what kind of stuff he'd attached himself to over the decades. prior to this i'd only seen Serial Experiments Lain, but i feel like basically everyone's seen that so that's not saying much lol. this was partially spurred on by a friend of mine telling me Texhnolyze was among their favorites. at time of writing, i've finished Texhnolyze and NieA_7, and i'm watching Haibane Renmei on-and-off and loving it. the world is bizarre and beautiful, and the character designs are lovely and have so much personality in my eyes. so that's where i started. so below is a series of rambles and thoughts i've had on this little journey of mine up to this point. i've still got a ways to go.

misc. spoilers for Texhnolyze in the next section

texhnolyze was a show i really enjoyed, but falls into the same pit as serial experiments lain in my brain. i struggle to understand what it's trying to say below the immediate surface and i end up primarily enjoying it as a surface-level product. not to say that i didn't make some connections in my head along the ride, i have so many questions about the world that i want answered, and some really fun observations I made. ichise's conversation with the voice in the chair was something that i had a lot of fun picking apart because it tickled that little goblin in my brain that loves social science. with the whole idea that height relates to authority, the pile of stones bringing images of gods on mountains in myth, but the chair tying all that powerful imagery up in this idea of boredom. apathy of the gods and all that. the entire trip to the surface is something that had me on the edge of the seat, and kinda tied into my greater sci-fi brainrot. that whole idea that one a society stagnates and rots people seek "better times", and this is how you end up with so many space prussians/germans being bad guys in older sci-fi anime like classic gundam and legend of the galactic heroes. it's people clinging to an idea of a """better time""" to larp that they're better than they are. this is what was going through my head during the arc of the story on the surface, whenever i saw that outdated technology that lives only in old b&w movies and period pieces. despite these obversations, i feel like i can't formulate a big picture, this is by no means bad, but i can't help but feel like i'm "missing something". though, this might be rectified in lain's case when i get around to it, it's been close to 10 years since i last watched it.

misc. spoilers for NieA_7

this is one that i don't think i ever heard someone talk about prior to me just plucking it off of ABe's wikipedia page. it's this weird slice-of-life comedy about living in poverty but there's also humanoid aliens that are kinda just around and comically failing to integrate into society. that whole second point, with the aliens, i feel it kinda detracts from a lot from the show's actually really simple and touching heart about just trying to escape being poor. the whole thing is kinda tainted with this mild xenophobia for the sake of "comedy" and the vast majority of the recurring aliens are these really mean-spirited racist stereotypes. eventually i came to ignore the vast majority of that aspect of the show, besides the titular NieA, and focus on the part of it that really spoke to me. the main character, Mayuko, is a young adult working 3 jobs on top of going to cram school in a desperate attempt to get into a good college and escape poverty by getting a """real job""" and a """future""". the reason why i use quotations is the same reason why her character really spoke to me. she was so focused on the mere act of survival and vaguely working towards the future that she never found the time to really think about the future. no plans, no dreams, inching towards a success she has no idea how to capitalize upon. something similar happened to me, personally. i spent the vast majority of highschool and college fighting for good grades and accolades with no other plan than to just get away from a very toxic family situation. and i succeeded. i gave up a social life for the sake of advancing and was rewarded by getting poached right out of college into a fairly comfortable. i moved out 6 months later and subsequently broke down. without that constant pressure of ESCAPE ESCAPE ESCAPE i had this sort of psychological explosive decompression and became incredibly depressed, and almost made some very poor and very permanent decisions. i saw a character that was flying towards the same mistakes i made and i was wondering all along if the show would propose some kind of "solution" that i'd failed to see. it didn't offer anything concrete, but something much simpler that i nontheless really appreciated. a loving promise that things will be okay somewhere, someday. the same sentiment helped me when i needed it. i get that that's corny as hell, but i'm a stupid mushy man-thing. it's a show i really recommend people look at, because while the lows are INCREDIBLY low and mean, the heart is there and beautiful.

#texhnolyze #niea_7 #haibane renmei #yoshitoshi abe #serial experiments lain

[animejihad]

Anime Chocolate Bars by Fred Seibert Via Flickr: True Confections sales sheet Circa early 2000s

#ANIME #FOOD #TENCHI MUYO #TRIGUN #NIEA_7 #THE SOUL TAKER

[blushblue2000]

niea_7 x cibo matto

#niea_7 #niea under 7 #cibo matto #anime #this was mostly done to test out layers lmaooo #my art #art #artists on tumblr #illustration

[musicinanime]

Venus to Chiisana Kamisama - Maria Yamamoto

Anime: NieA_7

#NieA_7 #NieA Under 7 #Maria Yamamoto #anime #ED

[infamousblackcoat]

yoshitoshi abe heart'd my comment :D

#yoshitoshi abe #serial experiments lain #Haibane Renmei #NieA_7 #Despera

[therosecrest]

#Sure is wet today #NieA under 7 - domestic poor @nimation #NieA_7 #NieA #Chigasaki Mayuko #Yoshioka Nenji #Anime #gif

[freenic]

#NieA_7

[transangledlozengeggbutt]

#niea 7 #niea_7 #manga #yoshitoshi abe

[ryoki-ph]

NieA_7 weed Episode

#originals #img #benni watches anime #niea_7