We are here on the red carpet in scenic Brooklyn for the 5th annual Reverse Thieves Anime and Manga Awards. All the stars are here and decked out in their finest. There has already been a bit of drama outside before the awards tonight. We saw Hayao Miyazaki punch out Gendo Ikari over a seating dispute. Then one of the K-ON! girls was seen with a male escort which raised a few eyebrows and possibly caused several suicides. There were also some red faces when Sheryl Nome and Ciel Phantomhive showed up in the same dress. But all that aside we are gathered here today to look back and praise the best and the brightest while scorning the foul beasts that waste our precious time. The viewing audience at home is also encouraged to send in their own votes to see how they stack up to the votes of the academy.
Tag: Mawaru Penguindrum
You Must Obtain the Answers to the Riddle of the Penguindrum!
Listen up you lowlives that will never amount to anything! Today is the day that the penultimate episode of Mawaru Penguindrum is released to your undeserving eyes. With so many twists and turns in this series we are curious what your puny minds incorrectly assume will happen in the final episode. Give us your mongrel howling in the comments below and we shall see exactly how incorrect you are next week. And just because some of you are foolish fools who foolishly fool themselves into ignoring how foolish you really are remember that there will most probably be spoilers in the comments below. Now go forth and obtain the answers to the riddle of the Penguindrum!
Mawaru Penguindrum’s Visual Library
Kunihiko Ikuhara tends to be famous for his work Revolutionary Girl Utena for several reasons. He is remembered for creating a show that takes the more conventional tropes of magical girl shows and fairy tales and twists them in an unusual but pleasant manner. He also took some very sexually explicit material and infused it into a story without making it gratuitous. He is also known for using some pretty bold symbolism and metaphor while still making an accessible and entertaining product. But the piece of his legacy we will being looking at in Mawaru Penguindrum is his flair with visuals that are both stunning and yet crammed with meaning and purpose.
When I look at Revolutionary Girl Utena, I see so many techniques and a visual library that let’s you look past a low-budget. Working within a limited means can sometimes create innovation and push the limit. So even when a show like Mawaru Penguindrum has more of a financial push behind it, Ikuhara doesn’t leave behind his flair for the dramatic. He combines this with an odd grouping of motifs in spectacular fashion making Penguindrum, if nothing else, an eye-catching anime.
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