{"id":1215,"date":"2009-04-09T01:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T08:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2009-04-09T01:42:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T08:42:54","slug":"charadys-daily-joke-cute-comedy-or-twisted-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/charadys-daily-joke-cute-comedy-or-twisted-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Charady&#8217;s Daily Joke: Cute comedy or twisted show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1216\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/comedy-horror.jpg?resize=500%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is this anime supposed to be a light-hearted comedy with a cosplaying main character, or is it supposed to be a horrific, scarier-than-<em>Higurashi <\/em>anime with gory scenes, hidden themes, and the opposite of every single &#8220;life lesson&#8221; that kids learn?!?<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: I think this post is pretty funny. \u00a0You better agree, losers! (Not trying to actually insult people here&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-size:32px;font-weight:bold;\">Cute, funny comedy?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1217\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1217\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408234520.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In it for the Charady.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1221\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1221\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1221\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408234359.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In it for the Zetsubou Sensei art.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1218\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408234443.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In it for the Charady.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1220\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1220\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408234542.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In it for the Paper Mario animation.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1219\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1219\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408233034.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In it for the Charady.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1222\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1222 \" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408233050.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In it for the one liners.  And Charady.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1223\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1223\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408234828.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a comedy... right, Bath Pig?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No, wrong. \u00a0This is a sick, twisted anime, the kind that gives children nightmares that haunt them for the rest of their lives. \u00a0<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Charady&#8217;s Daily &#8220;Joke&#8221;<\/span> promotes themes like necrophilia and anti-feminism. \u00a0The only &#8220;joke&#8221; here is on the viewer. \u00a0The audience is unknowingly submitted to throngs of disgusting scenes that reek of all that we have put behind us. \u00a0Humanity has toiled for centuries trying to put away old, anachronistic, and downright nasty ideas&#8230; and this anime is trying to drag them out of the trash can. \u00a0Oyashiro-sama truly stands behind the animators of this wicked show, for man is simply not capable of producing such a horrific series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1224\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408234757.jpg?resize=500%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at this shit.<br \/>\nAn insane, short-tempered old woman lugging around a dead dog.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this necrophilia, but it&#8217;s also nothing short of\u00a0beastiality.<\/p>\n<p>This old shriveled up lady loves her dead dog. \u00a0She claims she&#8217;s bringing the dog&#8217;s body to a graveyard, but we know better than to believe her mad words. \u00a0She&#8217; undoubtedly crazy, and the very fact that she tries to ship around a dead dog as luggage proves this. \u00a0We can&#8217;t trust her words, so we have to bring in our own interpretations of her line.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, she&#8217;s not bringing the dog to &#8220;Boston.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s speaking Japanese, and the workers are too.<br \/>\nThus &#8220;Boston&#8221; probably means &#8220;Japanese love hotel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;graveyard&#8221; symbolizes death and burial, and what better way to say &#8220;end a relationship&#8221; than &#8220;bring it to a graveyard?&#8221;<br \/>\nShe wants to use her pet one last time and then finally terminate their relationship for good.<\/p>\n<p>So far, her intentions are clear as day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was going to end our relationship in a Japanese love hotel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But why? \u00a0Why would she go to such lengths to do such a thing to her beloved bitch (SO PUNNY)? \u00a0Even I don&#8217;t know that. \u00a0But one thing remains clear: <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Charady&#8217;s Daily Joke<\/span> is exposing viewers to some utterly disgusting ideas.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1225\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408235417.jpg?resize=500%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First off, let&#8217;s take a look at the background.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Red<\/span> and <span style=\"color:#008000;\">Green<\/span> stripes. The <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Republican Party<\/span> and the <span style=\"color:#008000;\">Green Party<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>How fitting is it to have this disgusting anime bring up politics? \u00a0*spits*<\/p>\n<p>Just because Obama is black. \u00a0That&#8217;s it? \u00a0Pshaw.<br \/>\nAnd what is the man in the picture? \u00a0Native American. \u00a0A <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">minority<\/span>.<br \/>\nAnd what is Obama? \u00a0Part of the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">minority<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>And at what point of the episode is this scene? \u00a0The punchline.<br \/>\nThe man in the screenshot, who obviously represents President Barack Obama, is portrayed as an idiot, mixing up the orders given to him.<\/p>\n<p>Now we see the true colors of those who made this anime. \u00a0They don&#8217;t want Obama in office. \u00a0The red and green background at this punchline scene proves it. \u00a0The Republicans and the Green Party unite to take down the &#8220;stupid&#8221; Obama. \u00a0Great job. \u00a0Great freaking job.<\/p>\n<p>And then what do they do? \u00a0They hit two countries with one Nice Boat.<\/p>\n<p>They go for Obama&#8217;s masculinity while attacking feminism.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1228\" title=\"obama\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/obama.png?resize=187%2C143\" alt=\"obama\" width=\"187\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is this? \u00a0These are BREASTS, that&#8217;s what they are.<\/p>\n<p>By portraying Obama as having breasts, the crew of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Charady&#8217;s Daily Joke<\/span> over at Kyoto University of Art and Design is linking him to women. \u00a0He is portrayed as &#8220;weak,&#8221; inferior to real &#8220;men.&#8221; \u00a0Having breasts, he is also seen as naturally stupid, giving an explanation to why he messes up.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they don&#8217;t stop there. \u00a0Oh, no. \u00a0They go on.<br \/>\nThey go on to bash women and feminism in general.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s &#8220;breasts&#8221; are incredibly prominent. \u00a0In fact, they could be considered the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">focal point<\/span> of the entire screen in this scene!<br \/>\nThis accentuates the sexuality of women. \u00a0Because all of the audience&#8217;s attention is directed at the breasts of this &#8220;female Obama,&#8221; we cannot turn to look at what the &#8220;woman&#8221; is doing or note her intelligence. \u00a0All we can see are her breasts.<\/p>\n<p>This is placing women in the &#8220;object&#8221; role. \u00a0From the POV of these soulless animators, women are nothing but objects of sexual desire. \u00a0All men see and [what they think] <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">should <\/span>see are a woman&#8217;s breasts.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1229\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408235133.jpg?resize=500%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s this?<\/p>\n<p>Instead of simply staying by subliminal themes, those insane people have resorted to a blatant display of their wickedness.<\/p>\n<p>There is no room for argument here.<br \/>\nThe theme is right there. \u00a0&#8220;Women are objects for sex and nothing else,&#8221; they say.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1230\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408233002.jpg?resize=500%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally, perhaps most sickening of all, we have the theme of secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>A child knows about his parents&#8217; affairs, and the parents are dazed. \u00a0Why?<\/p>\n<p>The expression on the parents&#8217; faces tells the audience that as a result of the truth being exposed, the mother and the father have &#8220;died.&#8221; \u00a0Their eyes are no longer in their eye sockets, and they have turned a bluish color&#8230; a color that feels cold and clammy, like a dead person. \u00a0They have stopped moving, and are stuck in the position in which they &#8220;died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;deaths&#8221; of theirs are portrayed so vividly, and the child is seen as incredibly malicious. \u00a0Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is to deter the audience from going down this path. \u00a0BECAUSE the child exposed his parents&#8217; secrets, he has become 100% evil and his parents have perished. \u00a0Telling the truth caused this catastrophic and scary result. \u00a0So thus it is implied that &#8220;telling the truth causes pain and death.&#8221; \u00a0Using this logic, we can see that Kyoto&#8217;s animation atudents are undoubtedly promoting the idea of &#8220;lying is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HAD the child not told the truth, this scene would not have taken place. \u00a0The parents held up their ends of the bargain. \u00a0They lied, and look what kind of lives the family lived before the child told the truth: happy, sunshine-filled lives.<\/p>\n<p>Lies had maintained that happy world.<br \/>\nTruth had destroyed it and turned it into a living hell.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1235\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1235\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/snapshot20090408235459.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truly sadistic cast.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Charady&#8217;s Daily Joke<\/em> is one <strong>hell<\/strong> of a &#8220;joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: Call me crazy, whatever.  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