Dex-chan lover
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- Sep 20, 2023
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dorothy stylising everything like sailor moon and then hitting us with the car window reflection panel out of nowhere š originally I thought she was just flexing, like "I'm so versatile I can copy anyone" but every now and then she reminds you it's a horror manga & goes for maximum impact
e: actually, I feel like there could be sth interesting going on there. Michi, a corrupted memory, an idol whose image is largely mediated ... all of her jump scares make use of digital glitching techniques (like the distorted Aizawa) which is what makes them unsettling - when a work is presented with absolute aesthetic uniformity, that aesthetic becomes transparent to us and we no longer see it, only the content. it's like the gif of a spider crawling out of its apparent borders - we're accustomed to enjoying at a safe distance, the only way to truly shake us, make us uncomfortable, is to say: "you are now no longer insulated from danger simply by being part of an audience - you're next". I'm still trying to put together a thesis but one feeling I have is that this jokesy Aizawa-the-ghost might not resemble her personality as when she was alive, but more in the sense that the boundaries btwn public image & privacy are already distorted when it comes to idol culture, and that dorothy might be exploring the ramifications of that within the domain of the supernatural. if you're only dead when you've been finally forgotten, what kind of afterlife comes from being misremembered?
e: actually, I feel like there could be sth interesting going on there. Michi, a corrupted memory, an idol whose image is largely mediated ... all of her jump scares make use of digital glitching techniques (like the distorted Aizawa) which is what makes them unsettling - when a work is presented with absolute aesthetic uniformity, that aesthetic becomes transparent to us and we no longer see it, only the content. it's like the gif of a spider crawling out of its apparent borders - we're accustomed to enjoying at a safe distance, the only way to truly shake us, make us uncomfortable, is to say: "you are now no longer insulated from danger simply by being part of an audience - you're next". I'm still trying to put together a thesis but one feeling I have is that this jokesy Aizawa-the-ghost might not resemble her personality as when she was alive, but more in the sense that the boundaries btwn public image & privacy are already distorted when it comes to idol culture, and that dorothy might be exploring the ramifications of that within the domain of the supernatural. if you're only dead when you've been finally forgotten, what kind of afterlife comes from being misremembered?
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