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davemerrillThe lockdown that started April 3 should be ending in a week? Hopefully? We can sign up for early second doses today? Hopefully? Ontario's numbers have been trending downwards again. It would be nice to get through this. I can't say we'll get back to normal. I just want to go to a store and buy a pair of pants and a shower curtain.
Weather has warmed right up and it's very summerlike out there. If things aren't crazy maybe we can get to a beach or two soon.
Anime North's Stay At Home show went well, I think. My Anime Hell did about 500 viewers which is less than a live show, but my panels about 1981 and Gatekeeping In Fandom did about 180 viewers, which is more that I'd get in a panel at the actual Anime North. So it's a win.
I finished a new Let's Anime reviewing the new book LEIJI MATSUMOTO: ESSAYS ABOUT THE MANGA AND ANIME LEGEND, a collection of interviews and essays about the seminal manga artist. I learned a lot from the book, and I've been paying attention to Matsumoto for years, so there are some revelations in this thing, trust me. I'm not a big fan of the whole "all my works fit together into an extra-dimensional Eternal Hero cycle" thing he's been doing the last third of his career, but I know some people are. Have fun with that.
https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2021/06/across-leijiverse.html
I personally think "Maetel Legend" did its darndest to ruin "Galaxy Express 999" - the whole point of "Galaxy Express 999" is to make people think about what it means to live an eternal life in a machine body, and the whole point of "Maetel Legend" is that Maetel's mom Queen Promethium goes power-mad and decides to *force* everyone in the universe to have a machine body, throwing the whole moral of 999 out the window. Oh well. Gotta force everything into a "universe" I guess. I won't even get into the late 1990s nonsense of Matsumoto trying to drag Space Battleship Yamato into his own reservation. Let it be its own thing, man.
Fingers crossed we'll be able to take a vacation and cross the border this summer. Hopefully we'll see some friends down in the States!
Weather has warmed right up and it's very summerlike out there. If things aren't crazy maybe we can get to a beach or two soon.
Anime North's Stay At Home show went well, I think. My Anime Hell did about 500 viewers which is less than a live show, but my panels about 1981 and Gatekeeping In Fandom did about 180 viewers, which is more that I'd get in a panel at the actual Anime North. So it's a win.
I finished a new Let's Anime reviewing the new book LEIJI MATSUMOTO: ESSAYS ABOUT THE MANGA AND ANIME LEGEND, a collection of interviews and essays about the seminal manga artist. I learned a lot from the book, and I've been paying attention to Matsumoto for years, so there are some revelations in this thing, trust me. I'm not a big fan of the whole "all my works fit together into an extra-dimensional Eternal Hero cycle" thing he's been doing the last third of his career, but I know some people are. Have fun with that.
https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2021/06/across-leijiverse.html
I personally think "Maetel Legend" did its darndest to ruin "Galaxy Express 999" - the whole point of "Galaxy Express 999" is to make people think about what it means to live an eternal life in a machine body, and the whole point of "Maetel Legend" is that Maetel's mom Queen Promethium goes power-mad and decides to *force* everyone in the universe to have a machine body, throwing the whole moral of 999 out the window. Oh well. Gotta force everything into a "universe" I guess. I won't even get into the late 1990s nonsense of Matsumoto trying to drag Space Battleship Yamato into his own reservation. Let it be its own thing, man.
Fingers crossed we'll be able to take a vacation and cross the border this summer. Hopefully we'll see some friends down in the States!
