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Blue Sonnet and muggings [message #383607] Sat, 04 May 2019 16:33 Go to next message
David Johnston is currently offline  David Johnston
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I was thinking today about the Blue Sonnet OAV from the 80s which was
about a supervillain from the United States who ends up going to a
Japanese high school. It's not as funny as it sounds. But it did have
an inadvertently funny scene in it where Sonnet, who appears to be a
sheltered foreign "princess" to Japanese eyes finds herself cornered by
the school's two juvenile delinquents who assume that she'll have a lot
of pocket money and demand it from her by threatening her with box
cutters.

Despite her elegant appearance however Sonnet isn't just a cyborg
killing machine with vast telekinetic powers. She's also a girl who was
originally born and raised in a New York slum who killed her mother
after her mother tried to sell her.

She freezes, not worried at all about being hurt, but uncertain how to
deal with them without blowing her cover and has the problem solved for
her. Me, I thought it was a pity she had no sense of humour, since the
appropriate reaction for a New York girl from the slums being mugged by
these suburban wanna-bes armed with art supplies would have been laughter.
Re: Blue Sonnet and muggings [message #383638 is a reply to message #383607] Sun, 05 May 2019 15:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nick Roberts is currently offline  Nick Roberts
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In message <qaksvk$1e94$1@gioia.aioe.org>
David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was thinking today about the Blue Sonnet OAV from the 80s which was
> about a supervillain from the United States who ends up going to a
> Japanese high school. It's not as funny as it sounds. But it did
> have an inadvertently funny scene in it where Sonnet, who appears to
> be a sheltered foreign "princess" to Japanese eyes finds herself
> cornered by the school's two juvenile delinquents who assume that
> she'll have a lot of pocket money and demand it from her by
> threatening her with box cutters.
>
> Despite her elegant appearance however Sonnet isn't just a cyborg
> killing machine with vast telekinetic powers. She's also a girl who
> was originally born and raised in a New York slum who killed her
> mother after her mother tried to sell her.
>
> She freezes, not worried at all about being hurt, but uncertain how
> to deal with them without blowing her cover and has the problem
> solved for her. Me, I thought it was a pity she had no sense of
> humour, since the appropriate reaction for a New York girl from the
> slums being mugged by these suburban wanna-bes armed with art
> supplies would have been laughter.

Or even slaughter.

--
Nick Roberts tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Re: Blue Sonnet and muggings [message #383676 is a reply to message #383607] Tue, 07 May 2019 00:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Arne Luft is currently offline  Arne Luft
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On Sat, 4 May 2019 14:33:48 -0600, David Johnston
<davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was thinking today about the Blue Sonnet OAV from the 80s which was
> about a supervillain from the United States who ends up going to a
> Japanese high school.

Thank you for the hint.

> It's not as funny as it sounds.

Well, I didn't knew til now that to switch on the monthlies by a late
bloomer you just have to give her a severe smash on her face.

Omoshiroi desu ne
Re: Blue Sonnet and muggings [message #383841 is a reply to message #383676] Sun, 12 May 2019 02:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Arne Luft is currently offline  Arne Luft
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On Tue, 07 May 2019 06:54:53 +0200, Arne Luft
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 May 2019 14:33:48 -0600, David Johnston
> <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking today about the Blue Sonnet OAV from the 80s which was
>> about a supervillain from the United States who ends up going to a
>> Japanese high school.
>
> Thank you for the hint.

It is a very nice anime.

>> It's not as funny as it sounds.
>
> Well, I didn't knew til now that to switch on the monthlies by a late
> bloomer you just have to give her a severe smash on her face.
>
> Omoshiroi desu ne

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This was probably a very rude wake-up call for a nice girl, but it may
also be a symbolic of the connection between Japan and the USA.

Blue Sonnet is of US origin, and even if she and her Japanese opponent
don't share the same ethics in detail, they help each other, and they
need to be up of their slumper.

For an anime of 1989 this is very actual nowadays, especially in times
of Mr. Trump, isn't it? It wasn't only true for 1989.
Re: Blue Sonnet and muggings [message #383948 is a reply to message #383841] Wed, 15 May 2019 14:16 Go to previous message
David Johnston is currently offline  David Johnston
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On 2019-05-12 12:04 a.m., Arne Luft wrote:
> On Tue, 07 May 2019 06:54:53 +0200, Arne Luft
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 4 May 2019 14:33:48 -0600, David Johnston
>> <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking today about the Blue Sonnet OAV from the 80s which was
>>> about a supervillain from the United States who ends up going to a
>>> Japanese high school.
>>
>> Thank you for the hint.
>
> It is a very nice anime.
>
>>> It's not as funny as it sounds.
>>
>> Well, I didn't knew til now that to switch on the monthlies by a late
>> bloomer you just have to give her a severe smash on her face.
>>
>> Omoshiroi desu ne
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> This was probably a very rude wake-up call for a nice girl, but it may
> also be a symbolic of the connection between Japan and the USA.
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> Blue Sonnet is of US origin, and even if she and her Japanese opponent
> don't share the same ethics in detail, they help each other, and they
> need to be up of their slumper.

Up of their slumper?
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