Black★Rock Shooter – Body as a Machine in Visual Culture

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Black Gold Saw, Black Rock Shooter, Black★Rock Shooter, Chariot, Dead Master, Insane Black Rock Shooter, Kagari, Kagari Izuriha, Mato, Mato Kuroi, Saya, Saya Irino, STRength, Yomi, Yomi Takanashi, Yuu, Yuu Kotari

I was reading an article about Visual Culture on my way home and once again bumped into the notion of body as a machine. It’s a seventeenth century ideology adopted by the postmodernists to explore the expressions of the future and desired body.

So upon reading this metaphor, it instantly reminded me of how Black Rock Shooter creatively and beautifully fusions the heroines’ bodies with technology,  plus how this anime grippingly depicts the female bodies as a machine-like aggregates of detachable and interchangeable parts.

Craft of Balancing Time, An Aniblogger Testament

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Anime Time Management, Ano Natsu de Matteru, Arata, Black Gold Saw, Black Rock Shooter, Chihaya, Chihayafuru, Dead Master, Hibiki, Kanade, Kanna, Karen, Mato, Nisemonogatari, Symphogear, Taichi, time, Tsubasa, Tsukihi, Yomi, Yuu

I mentioned on my past posts that time is the variable that I fancy the most. In fact when I was in university, it came to the point that I got so obsessed with it that I wanted everything to be in-sync and happen exactly like I perceived. I was being raised by a single parent. Unlike some lucky kids, I have to support my schooling by my own.

So while I was enjoying the success of handling both school and work, it somewhat hurt my personal relationships. I started to notice that I could no longer relate with my friends’ inside jokes and I always dozed off easily whenever I go on dates and events. But overtime, I managed to fix it not only by finding the schedule which suited me best, but also because my shift became more flexible as I gained seniority at my workplace.