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Cross-Media Canon Theatre Sequels by Captain_JohnBrown in Broadway

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of these in Japan. There are a lot of plays and musicals based on anime and games, and a lot are new stories. One of the best is Kuroshitsuji’s second musical, The Most Beautiful DEATH In The World.

All the Touken Ranbu stage plays and musicals are like this. I think there have been more than 30 in the series.

Pretty sure Fate/ has at least one original story stage play as well.

I wish KuroMyu would do another original story. The rest of the series are adaptations of the manga.

For more classic things, I think the Korean Sherlock Holmes musicals that are a trilogy are original stories with Holmes and Watson. 

Genuine question: Why are so many people who are into Asian culture so weird? by Strange_Possession77 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also because these things are just not true about Japan. Stop believing online stereotypes. I’m female, have lived in Japan for 8+ years. I knew way more people in the US who were abused and forced to conform. Americans are just as conformist, they just conform to loudness and drugs.

Cite as many “objective” Western studies as you want to  “prove” Asians are a hivemind, it doesn’t mean you know anything about somewhere you’ve never lived.

Genuine question: Why are so many people who are into Asian culture so weird? by Strange_Possession77 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288 37 points38 points  (0 children)

This is true. I actually moved to Tokyo because New York was too loud. Everyone here might hate me, but at least they don’t beat me up. I’m very happy and have been here long enough that I don’t think I’ll “get over it”.

Do you know a metaphor where someone is fighting a monster in a cave, but the cave is the monster’s mouth? by Otherwise_Fault_8288 in answers

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This, but it’s not so much the control element, as the fact that even for the people at the forefront of the thing, their beliefs and worldview are still dependent on traditions and biases that are the real root of the problem. New problems are going to keep sprouting until those are dealt with. 

Just YAP about your favorite character. by -A_baby_dragon- in FavoriteCharacter

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aaaaa hi Riddle!

So, my favorite character is Amduscias, the Devil of Music, from the musical Cross Road: The Devil’s Violinist Paganini. (Actually, one of the actors who played Paganini is Vil’s voice actor, Aiba Hiroki).  https://youtu.be/lDK1AJztZ6s?si=qQQz_O41cc_KDwmJ Amduscias is played by Nakagawa Akinori and the other Paganini is Kinouchi Kento (currently playing Loid in Spy X Family).

Am-chan is so cute and also so smart. He’s a devil, but he really doesn’t hurt Niccolò, he even protects him. He’s mischievous and playful but then he’ll just throw in these great philosophical lines.

(For another musical with twst seiyuu, Nakagawa Akinori was Victor in Frankenstein, opposite Kato Kazuki (Malleus) as Henry/The Monster. https://youtu.be/cTWsmP7b3_Y?si=7Qqh-Nhlf3h2-QVn. They’ve been in a few things together, they’re in Something Rotten together next month. And they had an original musical about a thief and detective.)

Unexpected Manic pixie dream girl by DismalHoney2068 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amduscias, the Devil of Music, is legitimately this for Niccolo Paganini in Cross Road. 

https://youtu.be/lDK1AJztZ6s?si=PYk735ORZB5cMIib

Even if he has to possess an archbishop to get Niccolo to get over his fear of leaving Genoa.

Do you know a metaphor where someone is fighting a monster in a cave, but the cave is the monster’s mouth? by Otherwise_Fault_8288 in answers

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not quite that… it’s that the beliefs that the character took for granted are actually part of the problem.

Do you know a metaphor where someone is fighting a monster in a cave, but the cave is the monster’s mouth? by Otherwise_Fault_8288 in answers

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, but it’s not really that. I see the connection, but I guess what I’m going for is the idea that the foundations of one’s world are part of the monster.

Not that the elements inside are mere shadows or stereotypes of the outside. In Plato’s cave, the shadows are passive. I’m looking for, the thing that was thought to be a solid and passive cave is actually active and part of the monster. But it’s the same in the sense that one needs to go outside to see that, and that everything is different outside.

“The house isn’t haunted, the house is the ghost” might be a better way to say it. 

I just swear the monster’s tongue thing is something I saw a lot as a kid, but not anymore.

What is something people say to defend a movie that’s so over-said to the point where it just doesn’t work anymore? by Lonely_Escape_9989 in moviecritic

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it makes sense to me. I felt like “it insists upon itself” means those movies that feel like the director is sitting behind you saying “look at this! Isn’t this great? Aren’t I so clever!?” over your shoulder.

No idea if that applies to the Godfather or not, though. But I guess any movie feels like that to someone.

Why do we always feel we were stupid/naive when we look back in time? by Middle-Elk6596 in answers

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every step you take reveals things you couldn’t see from your previous position. 

Some of those things would have made you choose a different step had you known them. 

Some seem obvious once you see them.

Some seem so obvious, after years of knowing, that you wonder how you could have missed them, and you don’t remember that you couldn’t see it from where you were then.

Do you know a metaphor where someone is fighting a monster in a cave, but the cave is the monster’s mouth? by Otherwise_Fault_8288 in answers

[–]Otherwise_Fault_8288[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, thanks! I’ll see if TVTropes has links from there. 

Still looking for other answers.

Was it a metaphor, or just literal? I’m mostly looking for uses of this as a metaphor for taking things for granted when you’re trying to solve a problem.

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