Gadget Geek Supports Toradora!
I don’t really give a damn about cheeky romance, “one more time” [cue Daft Punk], or the usual inner struggles as manifested through intercharacter drama that wrapped up like a satisfying trashy romance novel. Toradora is based on light novels, right?
I do care about the display of current-gen kids and their interactive behaviors as brought about through improved access to each other, and to technology that improves their Quality of Life. I know, in America, major carriers, armed with big bucks, push their version of a tomorrow where MMS (multimedia messaging) can transform your relationship with the people you care. Does it? Maybe. Perhaps it did for Taiga because, you know.
But would some other method work just as well? Maybe not for a naive little girl who isn’t too great at verbal communication. It’s probably some kind of cathartic moment for me to see it portrayed in pop media, mixed in there with an emotionally satisfying ending to a love story. However at the same time it makes me question the authenticity of the message…
…that is until I realized big brothas aren’t agile enough to create something like this. That car cases, literal product placements and other simple name droppings are still going to be the primary means of in-show advertising. Even CC’s craving for larger-than-life pie is as clear cut as a box of Rocky. Or Packo. Or Pochy. Something like Taiga’s silliness can only be the creation of someone who’s equally silly. It’s not srsbzns.
What is serious is something like Platonic Chain. I guess that’s the catch, right? When you want to show off a new reality built on some next-gen perspective on how to live, it’ll come off like a science fiction. This is not the case with Toradora, so it caught me off-guard.
But this really makes a huge case for phones with high-megapixel cameras with good sensors. I mean, seriously, this is not possible in America given far, far majority of the phones people have (99.9%, probably more) will never be able to capture an image that shows anything but a sheet of darkness, if there’s some lonesome star upon an urban sky. Let alone seeing it on another phone (QVGA screen? LULZ). Tokyo is one of the brightest places on earth as viewed from space, after all. And it might be because it’s aglow with awesome cell phones I wish I could have.
Needless to say, I’m really glad that I can find one final, positive note, to end this fun but ultimately pedestrian journey through adolescence. Yeaaaaa go Toradora! :woot:
I was actually surprised when Taiga took that picture because I took a similar picture of Sirius in the ugly brown/purple Los Angeles night skies with my phone, two years ago, after making my Sirius Knights school research group.
Awesome. I hope you’re also a hopeless romantic.
IMA START UP A CELLPHONE ASTRONOMY CLUB.