Fooly Cooly


Fool

Sounds and meaning turn into noise. It repeats itself, the unconscious organizes it somewhere. Is that where the thought came out?

Fooly Cooly's choice to hire the slurringly natural and Karekano-esque voices of the majority of its 声優 is something I appreciate. Is it for that reason? Is that just the easiest observation to make when looking at their profile after making this identification?

Maybe it's somehow childish. That much should be obvious. It's obvious in your reaction to being kissed by a stranger under the guise of 人工呼吸. Is guise accurate? Any case of a girl putting her face close to yours. Seeing your father using the pointed edges of his stubble on that girl.

There's plenty to say, plenty that has been said about animation. About creativity. About ways to express things. About mediums. I appreciate it. I'm telling you I appreciate it. It feels good. It feels good when there's an acknowledgement that you're doing something, that there's a motive behind the action, that you know exactly what you're doing when you make it that way. That fact is communicated in its ability to be replicated or echoed multiple times. I'm sure there are other ways, being able to describe it with your words be you so eager to not let the object do the speaking for you, but that one sticks out.

The simple text laden across a shirt which informs... what? Does it inform a simpleness? Informs the place that it would be found? Informs what the wearer cares about? Relates to what the wearer knows or thinks?

Usage of one band throughout the entirety of a show, that is, for more than just a soundtrack, but with voice? Fooly Cooly is the only show who does this honestly, I'm not sure. I thought for a long time that Beck would do the same thing, I think I was betrayed by that expectation. Betrayed might be too harsh, I'm getting lost in my pet words and sentence structures.

Is it just the case that you're saying the show's ability to remain stylistically coherent, consistent, understandable, and other words of that sort is what you want to praise it for? Would that be the accurate description? Would it be accurate to say that, despite any amount of changing the formula that goes into an individual scene, that is, in the artstyle, how people talk, the presentation, whatever, there remains something consistent throughout. In this case, that is the characters, The Pillows, the themes of, well it wouldn't be a review other than to describe the oh-so vague yet encompassing genre that the show uses, coming of age.

I was reluctant to reference Kill la Kill when it came to that observation about being able to acknowledge the tools and methods that you're using when creating whatever it is Fooly Cooly is. I would just be stealing someone else's line by doing that. It makes sense that you would rather challenge yourself to make a different connection yourself, or that if you recognize that it is something you heard elsewhere, that you at least remember it being such.

There are a lot of great shows, movies, OVAs in this world. You know that all too well, don't you? My instincts are springing up and buzzing in my ear to give more than just the utterance of Tokyo Godfather's name, but that would require watching it more than once. I'll trust the judgement of others as it forms the clouded and hazy impression that I got of it so long ago. Akira, the type of thing to take so much advantage of your country's economy and the fervent, burgeoning culture of otaku media, is that accurate? I'm thinking too hard about Otaku no Video's appearance some couple years later and describing a period of time that I never experienced by the only indications one can make of it from databases and encyclopedias. Those three Memories OVAs, criminy. Then - though - that would be ignoring how the show, it is a show isn't it, nothing commissioned by a figure of royalty, a show, an animation, interacts with your character.

Cool

We'll use this opportunity as an excuse to talk, you and I. I was listening to the first, let's say thirty seconds, of Two Small Deaths - maybe, or was it Maybe, it might be better to describe from a different or earlier point, but this one's fine enough - you can hear the sound as it moves backwards, right? As it floats to the surface of the water? Where did that image come from? Did it come from the thought of いくつもの絵's album art looking like the reflection from a puddle? Did it come from the notion of flipping back through pages as if preparing to recollect a story with your music?

How this can be applied to Fooly Cooly is just how I think of it, in general. I think of Fooly Cooly as one of the shows I can listen to easily. One of the shows I can rewatch the most - I was reluctant to use that description, it preys too easily on the immature, no, we can use something without too many second definitions that seem so miraculously adjacent to act as antonyms or sparks of misunderstanding, insert something about private languages or the pitfalls of translation here, unripe? Undeveloped? 打つべし、打つべし、打つべし…でカッキーン!

I always used to assume, just since I never looked up the 歌詞, that the line 'Wait a little more' in Cattle's 'Somehow Hear' actually read 'Baby boy.' Sorry, I wonder if that's the appropriate puncuation or not. I asked GPT and that was the response I got. Was it what I wanted to hear? Was it what I somehow heard? Was the Engrish and the fog between my eyes and the view getting so involved in my perception that it became apart of the qualia received? Is it really accurate to refer to Lain as a mood board, and that it doesn't communicate anything distinctly? Are Tomizawa's thoughts in that interview that someone should be able to do whatever they want with the story, and not find themselves hindered a good thing? I certainly think they're a good thing. I think they're a fine thing. Though, I do wonder what the difference is between something which communicates, nothing really, and something which communicates a bunch of things extremely effectively. What's the difference between a show with a distinct story that you can use dry and/or descriptive words to describe, and one which doesn't seem so obvious? Are the only trains of thought that I'm any good at running down those which have no destination? うんっちゃかちゃっちゃ、うんっちゃかちゃっちゃ、うんっちゃかちゃっちゃ、ホイホイ!

Considering everything, I think that the best things that someone can get obsessive over recognizing the patterns of is probably something physics or math related. Kerbal Space Program makes that easy to appreciate. Wikipedia makes that easy to appreciate. So on, so forth. Somehow, I ended up choosing certain sounds, noises, instruments, architectural concepts, and uneducatedly indescribable changes in notes and pitches. Whatever, it can't be helped. I can only be grateful that my brain is still developing. I can be grateful enough that I know how to use my words. I can be grateful enough, rather than knowing how to use these tools, that I have a desire and a want to use them. Gosh, that really bothers me. I just had a thought run through my head which involved something I couldn't control.

I'm still a little surprised how much the instruments, or my flawed perception of the instruments, used in Stargazing from the Pokemon Channel soundtrack, influenced what I look for, would it be accurate to say like, in music. We'll just say that it sounds like a theremin, and we'll compare it to Lost Utopia, Swallowtail Butterfly, PGIC's FERRIS WHEEL and SAD DREAM, I mean that both in the sense that they like to stylize their titles that way and that listening to it again just now has sparked this 惡の華 suddenly looking-over-to-the-other-side-of-the-hill feeling...

I'm a little eager to make a segue to dreams, but didn't I mention that already with the unconscious thing. I had a dream last night which described pretty much the same thing as that one scene involving China and his coach in the first episode of Ping Pong the Animation on the rooftop listening to Smile and Peco playing, wherein I made attempts to do the same thing with Mahjong. Boy, is that hard by comparison I'd have to imagine. Maybe there's something you can say about the tiles having separate weights to them given that each are either painted or, was it beveled, sorry I forget the word but I can't get that flashcard I made for 掘る, maybe it was the same reading and a different writing, of a scene in からの少女. It's a bit frustrating to have so many different thoughts that you'd like to connect to each other, but the only means you have is a linear string of some two baker's dozen letters and other funny characters. Ping Pong though, that's another show which I think fits the bill of just being so... It'd be easier to say that it's another show which I've listened to two--too many times over. I feel like using two hyphens without a space emphasizes as close to a っ-sounding noise as you can get to with writing in English.

That paragraph looks long enough. The other thought whose card I wanted to add to the hat was how that idea with 麻雀 can be applied to Animal Crossing. Well, I've prated about that somewhere before, maybe I can copy it: I have this idea for a program which would create randomly generated Animal Crossing longplay audio files and ask you to create a mental image of the town from your mind from the sounds alone. Stylish sounding, don't you think? Maybe I'm a bit obsessed with Animal Crossing as a series, maybe this is just another acre of weeds to get unconsciously lost in while perhaps regrettably stocking frozen bags of vegetables onto shelves.

While we're on the topic of imagery being conjured from sounds, maybe that's where we were at, I started to reorder the paragraphs as my mind wandered and got tangled in the pocket of noise, thoughts, songs, Foolishness and Coolishness, in some ways the original prompt for this, whatever this is, Lily Chou-Chou's descriptions of flying or floating through the air in her 歌詞 being associated with her sound. I'm having difficulty keeping my head on straight, I can't finish this thought. Immanence was supposed to go somewhere around here.

I got a bit lost in it all, but I needed to write something down and put it somewhere. Fooly Cooly is probably the best sounding show that I know. It's one of the best looking shows too to boot. There isn't much to hate about it, other than maybe it lacks distinct substance and a story that you can grasp onto and relate so much to as to begin pointing at your monitor, holding in your tears, no, not holding them in enough to overcome the emotion itself, and shouting alone to yourself in your bedroom, that bedroom, that allroom, full of dishes and trash and laundry, "That's me! He's just like me!" One of the easiest things to listen to on repeat at days of work, one of the easiest things to fall asleep to or wake up to on the couch, though that spot might be more reserved for perhaps Haibane Renmei in my heart! Oh, and how I miss rubbing my fingertips along those old and broken in lines of fabric! How I miss those cramps and how I miss the fuzzy sound produced as my clothes rubbed across the face of the CRT!


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Pub: 09 Sep 2023 14:44 UTC
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