diversitytetsu

Well these days, I am so impressed with the works of Cloverworks whose well known anime are "Bocchi the Rock" and "SPYxFAMILY". Now they are releasing three adolescent comedies, "Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity", "My Dress-up Darling Season 2", "Rascal doesn't dream of Santa Claus" simultaneously. Their works are fine, terrific even in such a busy condition. The quality of animation could attract attention from overseas geeks.

By the way, recently, I found the one which should be checked. That is "Ruri Rocks". Original Manga is created by Keiichiro Shibuya, who was a school teacher of Science, studied Mineralogy in his graduate course. The quality of animation and music itself is also beautiful enough to make audiences to lock on to the beauty and wonder of stones and jewels among nature. However the most striking point of the story is that it is weaven to open up the eyes of audiences to think and see things as the entity having a long history and backdrops, which is quite important for students to learn and facilitate not only STEM but also humanities. The story proceeds to instill such a way of behavior, quite naturally. So impressive and exciting. Don't miss it.

It was almost over 20 years ago when I first saw this film. Of course, I've never read the original manga before as well. When I changed the channel right to the program, it had already passed the first 10 or 15 minutes. But very soon I got immersed into the story and the performances the casts made. Above all, it was the ordinary lives the students of the acting club passed, that I was mostly impressed with. So normal but quite lively. And reminded me of my adolescence in my high school days with some sentimental and bitter feelings and regrets. The film has left a deep memory inside my heart for a long time. 20 years later, I am asking myself why this film has an impact. If I check the cast of the time, it is sorry but there is no such renowned actor in this film. But the performances in this film by young students were so real and usual that I easily got involved in the story. Probably due to the fantastic direction by Shun Nakahara. Although Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" is the symbolic theme of this story, the taste has already been dominated by the "orchard" the girls' existence wove.

The momentum of the DEI movement has waned, and in some cases, even regressed. The historical bias against homosexuality largely stems from religious and ideological doctrines rather than scientific reasoning, much like how witch hunts and political purges were once justified under the banner of democracy. The modern ethical framework that once constrained such primal instincts is now being challenged again.

Homosexuality, rather than being an anomaly, is one of many natural variations of human sexuality. If the pioneering work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) had not been suppressed by the Nazi regime, scientific recognition of sexual diversity might have progressed more coherently. Instead, prejudice prevailed, delaying a deeper biological understanding of love in its many forms.

Diversity is the phenomenon that can't be circumvented but can be subdued through natural selection in every environmental change. Sometimes it reminds me of Mishima's "Confession of a Mask". His inherent covete to male brawny flesh is elucidated minutely rather passionately, with contrasting his ambivalent but requisite feeling for male to be attracted to chubby cute girl. We can see many works treating sex and death in Mishima's literature. Mishima's writing is strikingly detailed-his protagonist's attraction to the muscular male physique, particularly the famous image of St. Sebastian pierced with arrows, is described with both yearning and shame, reflecting an internal conflict that mirrors broader societal taboos, which apparently implies his ultimate desire was to be crucified to death in "naked". His life was obviously not personal and private, but really publicly exposed and theatrical, a really fragile "exhibitionist". And it was even his intention.

Yukoku (Patriotism), one of Mishima's most distilled expressions of his core themes-sex, death, beauty, and devotion, was strikingly intense work, particularly in the 1966 film adaptation that Mishima himself directed and starred in. Mishima is not writing about loyalty or patriotism-he's transforming the act of death into something sacred, erotic, and theatrical.

In his life, what is diversified for humans was sublimated and condensed. Ordinarily it's too arcane to clarify and classify. Thanks to him, we can feel and assume what it means, what it came from and what it leads to. Not so analytical, but rather instinctively. Begin from small empathy in his description to larger extention of understanding.