#tsurumaki kazuya

[acquired-stardust]

FLCL Gainax 2000

#anime #retro anime #gainax #gif #anime gif #Kazuya tsurumaki #tsurumaki kazuya #FLCL #flcl haruko #haruko haruhara #haruhara haruko #raharu #naota #flcl naota #naota nandaba #nostalgic anime #nostalgia #nostalgic #2000s #2000 #y2k #y2k aesthetic #adult swim #[adult swim] #[as] #nandaba naota

[jinruihokankeikaku]

"God's Notions" by Tsurumaki Kazuya

(Originally published in Eva Fan Club #9.)

There is a phenomenon called the "100th Monkey".

From a band of Japanese monkeys that live on the desert island of Koushima in Miyazaki Prefecture, there emerged a genius monkey, that would carry mud-covered potatoes to the river, wash them, and then eat them. In the world of monkeys, this was a revolutionary affair. The habit of imitating the genius monkey and washing potatoes primarily spread among the younger monkeys, but it seems that the monkeys of the older generation made no effort to take up this novel habit. Nevertheless, when the number of monkeys who would wash potatoes surpassed a certain threshold, something incredible happened. They say that not only did the entire band of monkeys begin to practice potato-washing, but indeed, similar conduct was observed among bands of monkeys on the mainland, and on other islands, where communication with Koushima would have been impossible.

So says Lyall Watson, the first to name the phenomenon in which, when a certain number of people believe something to be true, it becomes true for everyone. For the sake of convenience, he defined the critical number to be one hundred.

Mars - for which the discovery of vestiges of life has become a topic of much discussion lately - has two moons. No one was aware of their existence until their discovery by one A. Hall in 1877, around the time of the planet's closest approach, but they say that ever since their discovery was announced, they could be observed by anyone and everyone. It must have been around the same time that Schiaparelli carried out his detailed survey of the famous "Martian Canal Maps", though.

Perhaps this matter was also an instance of the "100th Monkey Phenomenon". From the moment something hitherto nonexistent is felt to exist, it actually exists. It is possible that human consciousness is capable of exerting influence upon physical reality itself. The quantum theory, and the metaphysical theory of the anthropic principle supported first by Dr. Hawking, and by many noted scientists, may also have some connection to this area.

I think that "100" must refer to a quantity rather than a fixed number. If a person could think 100 people's worth of thoughts, they could bring about the "100th Monkey Phenomenon" on their own. They could attract a reality for which they alone hope―dreams come true. It may sound like some romantic notion that where there's a will, there's a way, but there does exist the possibility that a single lunatic could make a mess of the whole world. Like Hall may have created the moons of Mars, or like somebody, 15 billion years ago....supposing there existed with such fervently held notions as to make the Universe anew, there would be nothing stopping us from calling him God.

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Translator's notes: 想い込み (omoikomi) is translated here as "notions". While usually defined in Japanese-English dictionaries as something to the effect of "misconceptions" or "prejudices", the spelling (想 as opposed to the more typical 思) and context suggest an intended meaning more akin to "convictions; (strongly held) beliefs" or even "obsessions". The distinction between a "fixed number" and a "quantity" in the final paragraph is somewhat ambiguous in English. The intended distinction is between "a fixed number [of distinct entities]" (that is, the number of people or animals thinking) and "a quantity [of intensity; a degree]" (that is, the total amount of thought). The italicised English phrase dreams come true is written phonetically in katakana in the original text, and therefor has not been altered for this translation.

#tsurumaki kazuya #the evangelion annotation project #eva tomo no kai

[flclarchives]

Spreads from Newtype magazine, Feb 2000

#FLCL #Haruko #Naota #Canti #I believe the second image is of Kazuya Tsurumaki and someone else. the text is part of a Q&A but the img quality is too bad to translate #Newtype

[celestialmega]

The End of Evangelion by Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki.

#movies #movie #movie caps #movie cap #film #films #film stills #film still #film screenshots #film screencaps #Hideaki Anno #Kazuya Tsurumaki #the end of evangelion #neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #ritsuko akagi

[astolfocinema]

The End of Evangelion (1997) --------------------------------- dir. Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki cs. Japan

#neon genesis evangelion #the end of evangelion #hideaki anno #kazuya tsurumaki #1997 #1997 movies #90s cinema #japanese animation #evangelion

[spctrlghost]

#rei ayamani #neon genesis evangelion #kazuya tsurumaki #hiroyuki ishido

[scenesandscreens]

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

Directed by Hideaki Anno, Masayuki & Kazuya Tsurumaki, Art Direction by Hiroshi Kato

"You must seize the future. It is what you live for!"

#scenesandscreens #neon Genesis Evangelion #Evangelion #shinji ikari #asuka langley soryu #hideaki anno #Masayuki #kazuya tsurumaki #hiroshi kato

[lilafeuer]

FLCL (2000-2001)

#flcl #flcl fooly cooly #fooly cooly #anime #ova #art #kazuya tsurumaki

[90smovies]

#Neon Genesis Evangelion #Shin Seiki Evangerio #Hideaki Anno #Kazuya Tsurumaki #Hiroyuki Ishidô #Tsuyoshi Kaga #Keiichi Sugiyama #Seiji Mizushima #90s

[superartsy-carnival-0]

Smoker girl

#official art #Kazuya Tsurumaki & Hiroyuki Imaishi #Kazuya Tsurumaki & Hiroyuki Imaishi #Mamimi #Stephanie Sheh

[elitist-anime-superbowl]

#flcl #fooly cooly #ashita no joe #tomorrow's joe #osamu dezaki #mushi production #Kazuya Tsurumaki #gainax #production i.g #round one #anime elitism superbowl

[kuribo4indahouse]

Evangelion 3.0(-120min.) motion comic

#shin evangelion #evangelion 3.0+1.0 #thrice upon a time #rei ayanami #asuka langley shikinami #mari makinami illustrious #hidenori matsubara #kazuya tsurumaki #mahiro maeda

[jinruihokankeikaku]

"A Film for a King" (by Tsurumaki Kazuya; published in Eva Fan Club #6.)

There's a movie called Ed Wood.

Tim Burton was the director, and it became quite a hot topic―I'm sure there are many people who have actually seen it. It's a black-and-white piece that humorously depicts Ed Wood, said to be the worst film director in history.

I was unfamiliar with the name "Ed Wood", but for a long time, I had been curious about the film Plan 9 from Outer Space, presented in a book I'd bought about ten years ago called something like The Best 100 Sci-Fi and Horror Films. I've no idea why a film deemed to be the worst in history would be ranked among the Best 100, but while virtually every film ranked below #30 was presented with about 1/8th of a page, and with no stills, this "worst film of all time" was spared half a page, and featured still inserts larger than those for films like Planet of the Apes and Brainstorm. Even among independent movies, those that are half-bad never linger in my memory at all, and indeed I gradually well up with anger towards them - but conversely, I do, at times, fondly remember films whose lack of quality is remarkable. This was probably a truly awful movie. So I went ahead and assumed that for that reason, the editor of the book must have been very fond of it.

If I were told that it was the worst, I would want to see it, and confirm for myself the ways in which it was, but because it's an old movie, and the worst movie, it would never be broadcast on television or arrive in repertory cinemas, nor, at that time, would its video release have been launched quickly, so I was sure that like La jetée, which was the source material for Tokikake, or The Last Battle by Luc Besson (known as the French Spielberg), it was one more film that I would never get an opportunity to see.

This is where Tim Burton's Ed Wood comes in.

For it is the worst film in history - Plan Nine from Outer Space - that is the greatest work of the worst film director in history, Ed Wood. As opportunistic marketing, Plan Nine from Outer Space was also being screened in some mini-theaters where Ed Wood was showing. But alas, as soon as I was able to go see it, my feelings waned. After all, it was the worst movie. In the end, I didn't go.

I did see Ed Wood later, on LaserDisc. A line that Orson Welles delivers to a troubled Ed in the middle of the film lingers in my heart. His film, Citizen Kane, was undoubtedly one of the all-time greats, but it was not successful commercially.

An audience has the right to judge the best from the worst. But a film is something that ultimately exists for the director, and the director alone.

#the evangelion annotation project #tsurumaki kazuya #eva tomo no kai

[cptrs]

#evangelion #evangelion: 1.0 you are (not) alone #hideaki anno #kazuya tsurumaki #masayuki #filmedit #ikari shinji #ayanami rei #katsuragi misato #nagisa kaworu #evangelionedit

[celestialmega]

The End of Evangelion by Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki.

#movies #movie #movie cap #movie caps #film screenshots #film screencaps #film #films #film stills #film still #Hideaki Anno #Kazuya Tsurumaki #the end of evangelion #neon genesis evangelion

[staypuffedx]

evangelion: 1.11 you are (not) alone (2009) dir. hideaki anno, masayuki & kazuya tsurumaki

#evangelion: 1.0 you are (not) alone #* #hideaki anno #masayuki #kazuya tsurumaki #*f #*caps #evangelion