So this week is an Anime! The Show is Hi-Score Girl, and focuses on the relationship of two young children growing up during the 90’s at the height of the golden age of gaming. An era where games such as Street Fighter 2 was at it’s height for popularity. Now the show was only viewed from the first 4 episodes, I feel this is a necessary disclaimer when it comes to TV shows, as if it was a standard length movie, it’s the equivalent of watching the first 24 minutes and judging the whole thing based on that.

So this is definitely a lot more of a broader look at Japanese games and movies, and some…

So this week the screening was about Asim Abbasi‘s ‘Cake’, a drama, mystery from Pakistan.

So the political climate for the LGBTIQ+ community in Pakistan is a mixed bag, on the one hand they recognise the third gender; as it is traditionally called Khawaja Sira or Hijra, which is different to western ideas of Transgender, and is considered a normal and accepted form of identity for those that were born and assigned male; but does not formally recognise those who were born and assigned female, and until recently (around 2018 around the same time as this movie) meant the sacrifice of a lot of social rights in regards to voting, and inheritance of property.

This appears to be mostly from…

Oh boy do I love martial arts movies, and this one is awesome, thoroughly recommend. Sorry couldn’t help myself, onto the auto ethnography of this gritty and stylish action film by Vietnamese Director Le-Van Kiet.

So first point of cultural difference I wanted to look at was the apparent matriarchal culture portrayed in this film, whether that was part of a traditional viewpoint, or a new revolution in gender roles; and also the inclusion of younger family members as full humans of independent thought and opinions, and not…

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This week’s viewing was a TV show called ‘Hi Score Girl’ (2018), I loved the fact we were able to experience live tweeting a show rather than film, although we binged it and it were as if it was a film, it was just so different from the other weeks. The very obvious difference it this was anime! Our first time!

So I had to think about I could connect with, with this being a Japanese TV show and my very basic Australian up-bringing. Funnily enough, there were things that made me very nostalgic, I never considered myself a ‘gamer’ in any means of the word, but some of the featured games really connected with me.