Happy Almost Halloween to all out Awesomely Bad fans who attended our return to Anime Weekend Atlanta this year!
Here's the wonderfully spoooooky playlist we showed! Enjoy and stay tuned, for a stream coming before the end of the year! Trick or Treat!
Pre-Show:
A lot of Japanese commercials for Coca-Cola products and such.
Main Show:
“S.H.R. ~Sexy Hero Revolution~” — Sex Machineguns
“Swinging Nippon Forever” — Kishidan
“Killer” — The 50s Kaitenz
[badulator] “Lollipop Candy♥BAD♥girl” — Tommy heavenly6
“Rock the Planet” — DAIGO☆STARDUST
“Nyanpire Taisou” — Aso Nyatsuko & Nyadain
“Tsukio Kaisuiyoku” — Wakusei Abnormal
“Tatakau Nihonjin” — Seikima-II
[badulator pt2] “Lollipop Candy♥BAD♥girl” — Tommy heavenly6
“Dance My Generation” — Golden Bomber
“Pompara Pekoluna Papiyotta” — Go Go Nana Ni San Ni Rei
“Ai no Memory” —Shigeru Matsuzaki
“Host In The Hell (Hide behind the high)” — LOVE SPREAD
“BE MY BABY” — COMPLEX
[badulator pt3] “Lollipop Candy♥BAD♥girl” — Tommy heavenly6
“SPIDERMAN” — DJ Ozma
“FISH FIGHT” — Yaen
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Plague Art
TW: This post talks about plague, disease, and death. There is also mention of the current COVID-19 pandemic. There are pictures of "plague art" through the entire post. Please take care of yourself and do what's best for you!
This is all my own opinion, basically this is an outtake from my senior thesis paper, I will link sources at the bottom of the post!
What is “plague art”?
The term “plague art” refers to art created during times of plague and dealing specifically with macabre themes and topics surrounding the plague.There are many ways of finding meaning and themes in plague art. One of the more popular forms of plague art falls into a category called Danse Macabre. Popularized in medieval France the term translates to “dance of death”. Early interactions with this concept involved scenes and dialogues being brought to life by actors; these scenes were usually comprised of conversations between Death and various members of society. The earliest known example of this concept in physical art is found on an architectural mural in the Holy Innocents Church in Paris, dating to about 1424.(** note that this church was demolished in the 1700s as overflowing cemeteries and crypts was resulting in the spread of disease). Danse Macabre works following this mural all tended to follow the same theme and have the same dancing motif.
These works showed a personification of Death encouraging people to dance with him towards their graves. This contrast of jovial dancing and the concept of death/dying has the potential to take on multiple meanings. Perhaps it is meant to be a reassurance that regardless of who you are in society you will all be the same in the eyes of Death. Or maybe it is a reminder to live life to the fullest while you can, because you never know when Death will greet you. Adding to this secondary idea, another common motif was that of hourglasses, this was a reminder that time is always limited. This is something that can be seen in most panels from Hans Holbein the Younger’s series Dance of Death (** this is what my current senior thesis topic is on so if anyone wants to hear more about that I will be happy to elaborate).
What is plague art for?
There are many different themes that can picked out from plague art, and many different meanings that can be assigned. I am going to briefly discuss a couple different examples of plague art. First, Raphael’s painting Il Morbetto (below, right) illustrates a scene during plague time wherein those suffering illness are being treated with kindness and care. After Marcvantonio Raimondi did an engraving of this work in the early sixteenth century, there was a rise in plague art with the same theme. Raphael showed the public their potential to be kind and compassionate to those suffering. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Catholic church began to display plague art in religious institutions and likening those who were sick to Christ. The thinking was that by making this comparison clergymen would be more willing to overcome fear of contamination in order to act in accordance with their beliefs. This shift in the imaging of public health also changed ideas about who was likely to survive an illness. For years and years prior, it was more common for higher ranking nobility to survive as they both had the means of escape and were not tied directly to the land like common folk were. This furthers the idea that the playing field was even among men when it came to Death.
Another potential theme in Plague art is that of healing or protection. A common seventeenth century belief was that imagination had the potential to hurt or heal a person, and art is an expression of that imagination. A later example of this idea is the 1892 work by Tsukio Yoshitoshi, depicting the legendary samurai warrior Minamoto no Tametomo (above, left). For centuries Japan suffered with outbreaks of smallpox, and so in this scene Yoshitoshi depicts the warrior standing strong and proud against the gods of smallpox. Contrasting the figures, Tametomo is bright and vibrant, dressed in red armor, while the gods are pale and colorless. This signifies the ability of the warrior, and indeed the people of Japan, being able to overcome the plague that the gods cast upon them.
What does plague art tell us?
In my opinion plague art expresses feelings surrounding human experiences with community. While doing research on this topic I came across a couple different experts who seemed to have similar ideas that plague art acts as a warning about loss. A loss of community and even the end of the world. This is a time period (the 15th century) there was many world changing, earth shattering things that the average person had to deal with. Climate change, crop failure, the hundred years war, common pestilence, and the Black Death were all going on in the same general span of time. It would have been very hard to make it in to adulthood without having seen someone dead or dying, not to mention that the life expectancy was about 25 to 30 (give or take- and if you lived that long it was more likely that you would live into your 50s). To me these depictions of everyone being brought down to the same level speaks volumes. I am viscerally reminded of the Hamilton lyric “Death doesn’t discriminate,” and in works like Holbein the Younger’s this idea is extrapolated in the portrayal of a variety of people from different social classes. (Below, left to right "Death and the Blind Man", "Death and the Child", "Death and the Emperor".)
Plague art speaks to the concern that we have, or should have, for members of our community. Looking to our contemporary world and the recent (and ongoing) COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a loss of that sense of community in the disregard for disabled people, poor people, front-line workers, etc. But we have also seen an uptick people speaking up about these issues. We have seen people provide resources for these marginalized people, we have seen people reaching out and continuing to form and care for these communities and I think that these feelings can be found and examined in plague art all the way through to today.
Sources - the first three are the sources that I primarily looked at for this section of my paper; the two books I linked are ones that I got just recently but that deal with the Black Death specifically. I have been looking most specifically at Hans Holbein the Younger’s work specifically and so I have many more sources regarding historical context and if you’d like to any of those sources I will be happy to share them!
Life expectancy
Hans Holbein the Younger - his images
Danse Macabre
The World the Plague Made by James Belich
The Great Mortality by John Kelly
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-HSA OC Information-
Character Bio
Name: Khamari Nephele
(Japanese: カマリ・ネフェレ)
Romaji: Kamari Nefere
Quote: "Dreams are eye-catching indeed, though do not compare them to reality."
V/A: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese)
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Birthday: March 10
Star Sign: Pisces
Eye Color: Light Gold (His Normal Eye Color)
Pastel Lavender (Second Eye Color and Half-Myth power activation)
Hair Color: Neon Light Teal
Height: 186 cm
Race: Half Human, Half Myth/Hybrid
Species: Dream Unicorn
Homeland: Crystalsle Village (The fifth country in the island of enchantment)
Family: Tyrone Tsukio (Father)
Bethel Nephele (Mother)
Luniana Tsukio (Older sister)
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School Status and Fun Facts
Dorm: Pastieri (@rookvonhunt)
School Year: Third
Class: 3-C (Same Class with Izumi, Akio, and Fuyuhiko)
Student no. 22 (A transfer student)
Occupation: Student
Dream-catcher Maker
Official Prosecutor of the SIDC (Meaning: Supernaturals Investigation Department Center)
Club: Sorcery Club
Best Subject: Mathematics, Target Class and Alchemy
Dominant Hand: Ambidextrous (Mostly his right)
Favorite Color: Light Lavender and White
Favorite Food: Cake Flavored Milk Tea, Spicy Fried Rice (From Lynette's Family Restaurant), Jam-flavored Donuts, Whipped Chocolate Cream Pancakes,
Least Favorite Food: Green Lime, Yellow Mushrooms, Steamed Crab, and Too Much Gravy, Anything Too Sweet,
Likes: Night-time Rainy Music, Quiet Places, Making Dream Catchers (Mostly), Relaxing on Clouds, Making Star-dust, Studying the Constellations (Mostly), Sweaters, Meditation,
Dislikes: Loud Places, Freya and Saburou's bickering, Anywhere too hot (Mostly), Interruptions, Chaos, Losing Sleep, Doremi's Typical Stupidity (Mostly), Things that doesn't make any sense,
Hobbies: Making Dream-catchers (Mostly), Studying the Constellations (Mostly), Meditation, Napping on Floating White Clouds (Mostly), Making Star-dust, Star-gazing,
Talents: Transforming into his half-myth form, Flight Abilities, Dreamer's Sight, Third-eye, Mind-reading, Archery Skills, Prosecutor Skills, Earth Magic,
Nicknames: Kami or Kari (From his family and friends)
Khamari-senpai or Nephele-senpai (From the freshmen students and mostly for Lynn and her friends)
Mr. Nephele (From the SIDC workers and trainers)
Kai-kun (From Sayoko and Freya)
Other Nicknames:
N/A
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Appearance and Personality
Appearance: Khamari has a tall average but slender but slightly muscular male body build. He has a long and wavy neon light teal colored hair which he ties it into a single yet long braid that reached to the floor slightly. He has light gold colored eyes which they can turn into pastel lavender whenever he uses his myth abilities. Khamari is known for calm and collective behavior but isn't very talkative.
Personality: Khamari is a first born son and second child in his family, who lived near about where Lynette's family restaurant and Arianna's house are located but is fifteen blocks away from the two. He lived rather much like any normal lifestyle like others and is more fully close to his father and order sister who is an adult. His family runs a galaxy-theme shop which they mostly create house decorations, especially on dream makers.
Khamari is collectively calm and quiet but tends to be on a silent tongue towards on others he isn't familiar with, that would explain on anyone he sees. He would answer if someone communicate with him but rather quick than slow though, sometimes it could get a bit or a lot awkward if it was rather a long conversation he had with a stranger.
He's mostly seen with his usual half-myth companions, but express a little more emotion though it's different from his silent tongue. Though he does get annoyed with Doremi's usual antics on the daily basis and often helps Cynthia and Akio when it comes to Saburou and Freya's constant bickering to one and other. Needless to say, he does get tired a bit.
He's rather a calm gentle men if you get close to him if you avoid getting things awkward for him. He's mostly seen away from the crowd people in the room in whatever place and is often seen outside, do expect this man to show something interesting that is quite interesting if you're curious about it eventually, he's quick to answer on any questions.
But do try not to get him annoyed too much though, Khamari can show a similar smile that he shows but it looks rather a lot or a bit murderous to your POV, it can tell that he's definitely pissed towards on something that he heavily dislikes if you do it. His anger can be a time-bomb but won't lash it out but will give you rather a threatening warning to clear the message in your head and brain to get a click from you now.
Sometimes, his patience is the key to avoid chaos, though it would add more fuel...
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Trivia
-The name 'Khamari' in the African origin, means African,Caribbean Prince or Moonlight; Dreamer. Name Khamari is of African origin and is a Boy name. While his surname 'Nephele' is primarily a female name of Greek origin that means Cloud.
-He's based on Cream Unicorn Cookie.
-In the dorm, he often help Irelyn with his sweater making, but in exchange the two ended making dream catchers that matches the sweaters.
-He respects Naoki as his rank captain, the two seemed to be in good terms with one another.
-Is in good terms with Kiara whenever the two are together.
-Is absolutely annoyed with Doremi's typical stupidity, helps Yuzuki and Hibiki whenever she's involved in whatever chaos created.
-Is a bit irritated towards Saburou and Freya's bickering, helps Cynthia whenever he's with her.
-Was a victim of a chainsaw incident which he got a large cut on his left side of his stomach. He received a four week hospitalization.
-His voice sounds charming and soothing but the attitude can change whenever he's annoyed. Which is why I chose Jun Fukuyama to be his voice actor.
-He's in natural terms with Daphne and Rosabel, but does a debate showdown with Haru in a competitive terms.
-He and Akio are known to be a pair with horns.
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