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Art-Eater ➡️⬇️↘️🐲👊 Profile picture
@Richmond_Lee
Jul 30, 2020 • 13 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
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Gather round children! It's time for a new Art-Eater.com article! Today we take a DEEP DIVE into analyzing the Shin Megami Tensei announcement trailer!
art-eater.com/articles/demon…
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Wanna know where "The Demon Artist" Kazuma Kaneko gets his ideas from? We go into some of the likely historical sources!

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Did you know that Tokyo Tower is pretty much a modern Tower of Babel? Hell of a place to declare that God Is Dead right??

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Wanna know what kind of flowers those are on the protagonist's school uniform? Or what they could mean? We explore the historical significance of white lilies and their symbolism in different cultures!

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You know the flower symbolism is intentional when you have the protagonist literally rise up from the dirt!

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It goes wayyyyy deeper than that though! From resurrection to the apocalypse, the Shin Megami Tensei V trailer is RIPE with compelling lily imagery!

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And if you're a longtime reader, you KNOW I'll be getting into the Buddhist themes as well!

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There's so much to discuss here!

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Longtime followers of Art-Eater.com will appreciate this re-emergence of a familiar old face!

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When I say we went deep on this one, i mean DEEP. What do lilies, Jesus, Hercules, Buddhism & Akuma have to do with one another? And how does the Shin Megami Tensei V trailer tie them all together? Read on to find out!
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I can't believe I actually originally thought I could write all this in one night haha. I ended up putting dozens of hours into properly researching this article. I hope it was worth the wait!
If you enjoyed this article, please share it! Spread it around! I'm particularly proud of this one!

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And if you like the idea of spending a STUPID amount of time analyzing just 1 minute of gameplay footage, know that there's a lot more where that came from!

Catch up on all our other deep dives into the games we love here!
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Apr 5
🧵Here's a great example of why you shouldn't always go by Western sources on non Western subjects

Eng Wikipedia page: Yoshitoshi was the last Ukyo-e master. The art died with him😔

JPN Wikipedia page: Yoshitoshi had over a dozen notable protegés with their own Wiki entries 😃

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🧵The Western take on Yoshitoshi is that he was a tragic figure waging a lone war against industrialization and modernization. A war that he lost and thus the traditions he championed died with him. It's a romantic notion that also satisfies tons of biases.
🧵But it's so far from the truth. Yes Ukyo-e fell out of favor for more modern methods of reproduction like photography. But it never died out. For instance there was the Shin-hanga (新版画) movement of the early 20th Century, whose purpose was to keep Ukyo-e alive and evolve it.

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Mar 16, 2023
1. Manga has been more popular than Marvel or DC comics in the west for decades now

2. Marvel & DC =/= All American comics. Dog Man is one of the best selling books (not just comics) in the US. Americans definitely still enjoy reading American comics!
In fact, there have been times where Dog Man has been the #1 best selling book in the US overall!
Dog-Man is the most popular comic in America, outselling any manga. But for some reason it's not really considered a comic by most, i guess cos it's for kids? Where are the articles about how Dav Pilkey is a threat to Superhero comics lol
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Mar 14, 2023
Listening to this nice piece on the film "Living" and how the author, British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro was inspired by the Akira Kurosawa film "Ikiru," an internationally beloved classic whose title means "To Live."
npr.org/2023/03/06/116…
The piece drops the ball at the end tho, when the narrator says that the film "is not just a remake" and they have a Brit critic that goes "'Ikiru,' by Kurosawa, seems to be a film about Japan, 'Living,' by Ishiguro and his colleagues. seems to me a film about humanity"

Like WTF
What does that mean? Ikiru has been widely regarded as one of the "great films" internationally for decades. It's obviously very universal in its appeal. How is it that "Ikiru" being set in Japan makes it "about Japan" but "Living", being set in the UK, makes it "about humanity"?
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Mar 14, 2023
Western Samurai movies: We must preserve our honor above all else. Honor is everything (#honor)

Japanese Samurai Movies:
What I'm saying is Westerns were already the Samurai movies of the west
(literally)
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Mar 13, 2023
Sometimes I think about when Hail To The Thief dropped & this one music critic called it pretentious pap saying Thom Yorke simply screams the words "PENETRATION" over and over in 2+2=5. But the actual lyrics are "we are not even PAYING ATTENTION" lol
Oh man this album rules. It brings back so many TERRIBLE MEMORIES lol. But in a good way!
I think There There is one of Radiohead's best singles. Such a rich, downbeat, groovy, anxious sound. And what a perfect message for the times. "Just cos you feel it, doesn't mean it's there." Tough pill to swallow. But sometimes you really need to hear it
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Mar 13, 2023
I'm overdo for a food post! I hit up some nice places in Chiang Mai recently. #ArtEaterEats
Dirty Mocha from ... Google Maps has them listed as "Cutlater Cafe" but I could swear they had a Japanese sounding name. Probably rebranded without updating google. Anyhow it was a very good cup of coffee and a beautiful cafe!
#ArtEaterEats

location here:
goo.gl/maps/NWMtNhGY7…
In addition to great coffee this place specializes in wagashi, traditional Japanese sweets, which go perfectly with a hot drink (really I should have just gotten an Americano or cappuccino instead of a sweet drink to go with these!)

Cafe located here:
goo.gl/maps/NWMtNhGY7…
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