Info
- Artist:: Various Artists
- Album:: 絶望歌謡大全集
- Year:: 2007
- Label:: STARCHILD
- Catalog:: KICA-891
- URL:: https://vgmdb.net/album/51015
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kamisama to no Yakusoku | |
| 2 | Bara no Hitsugi | ★★ |
| 3 | Kagerou (Nenchakushitsu Baizou) | ★ |
| 4 | Shujinkou | ★★ |
| 5 | MISS UNIVERSE(S) | ★ |
| 6 | fetish | ★★ |
| 7 | Zessei Bijin (Oironaoshi Mode) | |
| 8 | Deadline Dance Death | |
| 9 | Zesshou | |
| 10 | Go Go Go Beauty | ★★ |
Log
2016-04-16
i have no idea why i still have this. i tried to check and apparently i did delete it but couldn’t live without it i guess.
szs is weird for me because it was my first anime and that seems like a very backwards way to get into anime. i still think it’s legit really good for what it is, but then again i haven’t seen it in years.
神様との約束 (kafuka): ew. eh.
薔薇の棺 (chiri, aka ╯╰): ★★ oh wow this is solid. and chiri is a great character and i love how her hairstyle lends itself to that perfect iconography where the camera can just point at her hair part and you know exactly who is talking and what is being discussed and what her opinion on it is.
i really really love the way he is able to give these characters character given the restrictions he imposes on himself—no pink hair, no crazy eyes, no unique costumes. so the only real points of variance he uses are • hairstyle (typical), • body type (and this is the incredible one imo), and i guess • facial shape too.
かげろう (kiri, matoi): ★ i forget the content of these songs. is kiri ever developed much? isn’t her plotline basically that she falls in love with sensei and just pops up in lockers?
主人公 (nami): 普通。
★★ that being said i really like this song too much. probably because my tastes are similarly 普通.
miss universe(s) (kaere/kaede, maria): oh boy do i have so many opinions about harumi but to jump ahead a bit there are basically two characters in the zetsuboutachi-as-social-illnesses that kumeta refuses to frame in a negative light. one is harumi, which he has personal interest in propping up i think. the other is maria, which is a very tactical political statement and one i sincerely applaud.
though maybe i’m ok with that because i come from a 移民国 and like the idea of tearing down bloodline citizenship (though we’re getting that same shit here)
★ also this is a fun song!
fetish (abiru, harumi): ★★ i think the thing which separates me from actual real-deal otaku is that the only anime character i would be willing and ready to immediately take as waifu is harumi fujiyoshi. i think i took the bait.
because, like, you can tell that kumeta really wanted people to go in on harumi. when she isn’t nerding out she’s one of the few voices of reason on this show (abiru might be in the same boat here), and her teacher crush has low valence and is only actualized either a) in plot-mandated moments where everyone loves sensei or b) when showing off her kinkiness (make nozomu wear the ears!). she’s really athletic and i think p attractive and i don’t think she really has faults apart from the yaoi thing. in terms of background characterization i think she might be one of the most developed of all of them; we know that she was an accident and is living with the weight of two successful siblings under her and all. we even spend an entire episode with her, just her, barely dressed! just us and her in the everyday.
so i think the first part of it is that he didn’t want to shame her since to shame her would be to shame himself—she draws doujinshi, he draws gag manga, neither are existentially better really. but then he goes the extra mile to hammer home the point that she is actually sexually viable with the special episode. it’s fanservice, but it’s unrestricted and mundane fanservice. for the next ten minutes you can see as much of her as you want, and i doubt she really minds (because you’re living alongside her and spending your everyday with her, right?)
this is unusual because generally fanservice is something which is exposed, often not consensually, which places the control over sexualizing the character in the (prob male) viewer’s hands. alternatively, there’s the beach/onsen episode, yet still that cordons sexual possibility off into specific locales, and even then i think it requires viewer activation. here it’s framed banally etc etc
(i think there’s an onsen episode gag where the wall between the male/female side breaks down and only nozomu cares)
so her sins are twofold: first, she’s a fujoshi, but i think that’s mostly a sin of association. but that builds into her second one, which is that her sexuality is an active and independent force which’ll go on with or without you, and will attach itself to objects beyond you whether you want it to or not. and i think the possibility of that kind of woman is repulsive to the type of men who do waifus. she’s already defiled, and i think if someone is pure before you then in your mind she will be pure after you because she is only yours. otherwise she is never yours?
(it’s late i might not buy that logic later) but the point is that this logic is super sexist and covers up the fact that the women who make and consume yaoi are generally pretty normal and they actually have sexualities which manifest in unique ways independent of you and to deny that fact is chou-sexist.
anyway i think the main reason i love harumi and would want to love her forever is because of that whole everyday aspect really. my dream would basically involve skipping everything romantic and her setting up a desk beside mine. we both work alongside each other and maybe cuddle each other every so often and we spend our everydays with each other and it’s just nice! i could admire her for her artistic talent and support and encourage her as she keeps improving. i dunno why she would like me. maybe she’d tell me that i did a really great job writing a thousand words about anime characters.
i don’t have as many opinions about abiru. she’s probably an interesting case study in her own right since she pairs with harumi as fetish subject/fetish object etc.
this song is amazing.
oh god miyu matsuki died at 38 from lymphoma. + pneumonia + a rare form of epstein barr virus. what the hell.
絶世美人（お色直しモード）: i think this is one of the eds. i think i skipped all these eds.
also now i regret not salvaging the other soundtrack because it had burebure on it. and that’s basically my favorite op.
even those first few episodes in the season when they just had title tracks are actually up there in my favorite ops list. audio, video, for real. or maybe nostalgia is blinding me here.
デット•ラインダンス、デス: i forget where this one came in.
絶唱 (seeesei): i think these last few tracks reuse backing tracks from the show soundtrack.
GO GO GO BEAUTY!! (kaere!): ★★ i genuinely love this song
oh yeah that reminded me that cv: yu kobayashi and that she draws art too.
also maedax pouring his heart out near the end. maeda best waifu
Notes
Character soundtrack for Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (2007)