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Interview With Tenchi Co-Creator Hayashi Hiroki

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

paranormalized sent us this link to Animenewsnetwork.com's Interview with Hayashi Hiroki. He talks a lot about his work on El Hazard, Black Heaven, and of course, Tenchi Muyo, which are coincidentally enough, three of my favorite series. Interesting points about Ryoko's relationship to 'I Dream of Jeanie,' and why he tends to make shows about a young boy surrounded by hot girls (and why he strayed so far from that to make Black Heaven)."

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  1. Why I like Anime ... by Enonu · · Score: 5

    After growing up in a Disney world, where animation was full of evil witches, lions, and mermaids, I frankly shat my pants when my first experience with anime was with Neon Genesis Evangelion. Here we have a main character who is emotionaly unstable, has the world on his shoulders, and is confronted with female sexuality at an early age (like we all do). To boot, this was all done with a theme and story based off the bible. This mind-f**k of a series left me questioning my own reality. I wasn't the same afterwards ...

    It is this change of pace, this shift from the mundane to the excentric and psychotic that makes anime appealing. I, however, am not deluded to such an extent to say that all anime is good. The Japanese have their own set of problems, just like American animation.

    To sum it all up, anime is different, variety is good.

    I'd also like to add that I'm enjoying indirectly learning about the Japanese culture through anime. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the few phrases that I know are:

    (forgive my to-English-bastardizing of Japanese)
    gomeno sai (I'm sorry)
    ariagato (Thank you)

    Perhaps respect is very important to the Japanese?