Comments on: A Terrible Darkness addendum: on Lorelei and Love

By: Cuchlann

Cuchlann — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:15:58 +0000

Well, actually, the Creature was beautiful, the ideal man, before it was animated. A nebulous something in the way the Creature moves, holds itself, is what made it terrible. One could argue the Gamia move in a way that makes them just as terrible (as they’re, you know, killing people with their hair). Of course, Rocky was drawn directly from the movie tradition, so his terrible thing is his speech affect.

By: Brack

Brack — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:46:51 +0000

The design of Gamia is one of Go Nagai’s standard designs, showing up in a lot of his manga. I think it first appears as one of the secondary female characters from Shameless School. Her name escapes me as she’s the boring one who isn’t a secret ninja! I do think Imagawa may appreciate that they and Lorelei are blonde, as that ties them aesthetically to the artificially created Rocky from RHPS. And like Rocky they are physical ideals, rather than the monstrous creation of Frankenstein.

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:59:40 +0000

FUCK YEAR! Awesome read!

LOL I really enjoyed this one. Another example of a child’s doomed love: in Tetsuwan Atom Atom falls in love with a young robot (blond?) girl on and island. She turns out to be a bomb ;_;