Re: Playlist - 1st July 2008 - OVA night
by Mappy » Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:13 pm
Allow me to elaborate the above post a little....
Earth Girl Arjuna: Episode 9 - "Before Birth"
8m 51s
Cindy: No matter how dense a girl you may be you might as well have a pretty handkerchief to wipe away the tears from a broken heart.
Juna: How rude! It's not like things between Tokio and I are completely over.
Cindy: Have you ever kissed him?
Juna: Uh, of course I have.
Cindy: Did you slip him the tongue?
Juna: Huh? Well, ah....
Cindy: Have you slept with him?
Juna: What.... All of a sudden?!
Cindy: I see. I guess you haven't yet.
Juna: Hey! Don't you be reading my mind like that! Besides, I don't appreciate being talked to like that by some kid!
Cindy: Well, shall I tell you how that would feel?
Juna: Huh? You're kidding! At your age?
Cindy: Hahahahaha.... I guess if I was dense like you I'd wonder what kind of happy life I could have. Didn't I tell you? I can feel everything that happens to me physically before it actually happens. Like picking up someone's thoughts and reading it like a mystery novel, only to be told part way who the culprit is. It's the pits.
Juna: You feel it before it happens....
Cindy: That woman. She knew full well I was in her womb, but she'd go off and sleep with a different man every night.
Juna: Eh?
Cindy: Why would she do such a thing? It's not as if she even liked any of them! She'll think of things, like what to wear the next day, or paying back her loan. She didn't even know whose child I was! Why?! Why?! Why do I feel it so much?! Why is it that it feels so good?!
Juna: Don't tell me you're....
Cindy: I knew what it felt like from before I was born. How could anyone expect that I would grow up normally?
Juna: But....
Cindy: How could a baby in the womb understand anything like that? If you think it's all a lie, then use the ears of your spirit and listen in. Imagine that baby.
11m 38s
This is probably a little flat without the corresponding imagery that goes with the scene. Combine the dialogue with the imagery, though, and Arjuna goes from "the idiot-savant of anime, having a series of philosophical hissy fits" to "wow, shows that get the thumbs up from Eco-Nutters and Social Philosophers are downright creepy, and how the hell did this get licenced without the same hullabaloo that surrounded Kodomo no Jikan".
Other scenes in the episode involved a series of parables on conception, the damaging things that can pass from mother to child during pregnancy, dubious childbirthing techniques and abortion. Put these together and, naturally, you get the one episode of the series that is pulled from the schedule before screening by the networks.