Have you heard about High School of the Dead? It’s a zombie anime currently airing in Japan, with tons of fanservice. And some people are trying to explain that the idea of ‘fanservice’ is more deep that you can think. In this article, the author is offering a Freudian analysis of the show.
And it reminded me of an interesting point shared by director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, which happens to be a real cinephile too. He said, he loved american horror films like Romero’s. But he was deeply surprised to discover the critical response in the West for these films.
Because, most of the time, western reviewers only saw zombies as a political metaphor. When, for Kurosawa, what makes zombies interesting is more the fact that they’re really frightening. And that’s it. Just ‘emotion’. Even commercial tools can be ‘fun’.
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the director of this anime is my god :
‘We think people that come to watch this anime come to watch the breasts’
http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3131280&postcount=962
Rukawa – you have to respect a man whose only telling the truth. I like fanservice as much as the next avg yank but a creative plot or in this case genre specific attraction only enhances the entertainment factor. I’m sure to catch this on one of the many online video providers (pointing at you hulu)