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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- Gossip, pink dogs, bent bats, and lifelong lies; how can all these things be an escape from reality? And just how harmful can such a thing be…
Paranoia Agent (Mousou Dairinin) is a great Satoshi Kon anime, featuring a similar psychological horror between fiction and reality much like his beloved movie Perfect Blue. Paranoia Agent follows many stories from the citizens or a tortured Tokyo, where a mysterious criminal known as Lil’ Slugger is running rampant. A young boy with golden inline skates and a bent golden baseball bat, he strikes victims who are backed into a mental corner. Since Lil’ Slugger seems to appear anywhere and everywhere, the entire city falls into a panic, finding comfort in Maromi, a dog mascot character designed by Tsukiko Sagu, the Shounen Bat’s first victim. From little keychains to massive balloons, Maromi is everywhere to cope with the Shounen Bat stress, as gossip and rumors sensationalize the situation to no end.
Fighting this sensation are Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa, two detectives out to catch Little Slugger. Ignoring the escapism of Maromi and searching for reality, Ikari and Maniwa draw closer and closer, but can they catch the elusive boy before it's too late? Or, have the gossip and rumors, the paranoia, already gone too far?
Much like Perfect Blue, this 12 episode anime from Satoshi Kon expertly breaks down the lines between fiction and reality, creating a meaningful discussion on escapism, excuse, and facing reality, specifically through Ikari and Tsukiko. This anime video essay will explain the series, analyze its themes, and see what we can learn about ourselves through a great story.
An anime discussion video essay explaining Paranoia Agent (Mousou Dairinin)
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0:00 Introduction
6:22 Part 1 | The Perfect Escape
15:14 Part 2 | The Selfish Spread
22:11 Part 3 | The Perfect Escapism
29:16 Part 4 | The Perfect Answer
39:07 Part 5 | The Harsh Reality 
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This hits hard because it's not difficult recognizing problems, it's difficult to accept and deal with them. Great video!
I've always said half-jokingly for years that I'm great at recognizing my problems, I just don't want to fix them haha
gotta be the hardest part of life imo
I remember this show hitting me HARD. As someone with a severe anxiety disorder, back when it was untreated and less manageable, I came up with so many lies to excuse my actions that in reality were just crippling fear, fight or flight reaction ramped up to 11 in even minor settings. In the end those excuses always came back to hurt me way worse than ever thought even if the lie was never discovered. Need a new job to support myself? Lie to receuiter about the types of jobs i could do with my disorded to get a job easier. Then I was stuck at a job that had me puking and sobbing almost everyday from an overvlown stress response that I lied about to my partner. Which to help hide I lied to a doctor to give me painkillers to dull all my emotions and it just kept going until I was now older with no real job skills, my partner broke up with me and I was addicted to pills I didn't even want.
I am better now but still picking up pieces from the easy outs I took.
Im in the earlier stanges of that friend hopefully i turn this around but im starting to think maybe the fittist survive. I hope you are amongst the fittest but i know i am weak where this society needs me to be strong. I hope i am not remembered long. I pray for no legacy
The sad thing is that human brains are crap at recognizing danger. So our brains misinterpret chronic stress as literal life ending imminent threats. And once a "threat" is recognized the parts of our brains responsible for higher thought are deprioritized to receive oxygen and glucose. The only way to deal with this stress is to break down tasks into peices and celebrating every little victory.
I hope that you are able to make a new life for yourself with happiness and less stress. Just, be easy on yourself. You don't have full control your brain, no one does. All you can do is put yourself in situations where being healthy is the response your brain makes for you.
Keep trying
Paranoia agent is the crowning work of kon along with millennium actress.
The show absoltuely exposed me as a victim of society when i seriously started contemplating a bonk on the head to get time off work, be cared for, and have time to breathe. Its crazy how well Satoshi Kon understands and lays out the universal unspoken societal struggles we all face. A true genius rip
It's like Society has a shared dream just like individuals have dreams. Some of them good some of them bad but we all have this underlying thing
"Mindless, brainless, formless, meaningless comfort"
"That just right level of understuffed to fit any gap"
"something anyone can hold in any way because it is representing this rampant escapism"
Fantastic writing as always!
There is this strange commonality in all the works of Satoshi Kon, where he speaks to universal and fundamental "everyman" modern human experience from perspectives and realities that are certainly anything but those of the everyman. You see it in all of his works, themes of individual perspective writ societially and escapism and stress and the greater outreach of all of us as we somehow try to cling and provide meaning to each other in a reality that may be without. The freedom that comes with chaos as I like to put it.
I have always been convinced Kon still knew something, saw something, FELT something that we cannot put words to in full that he was so close to getting all the way out in his body of work. Losing him as an artist and visionary left a scar because his work holds that universal expression of the human experience in a very modern era. I appreciate that we still continue to discuss his work like this, not necessarily to understand it or even have a discourse, but to feel it as individuals in a shared experience... the way I think he would have wanted.
Thank you for your continued essays, I really do appreciate all the time and effort you put into these.
This is the best analysis of Paranoia Agent I've heard and you didn't even touch on some of my favorite characters or themes. That's just amazing.
This show saved me at a time when I needed it most and I've avoided watching it again because I was afraid of it not living up to that fact. But as I got older the lessons I learned from it were mostly forgotten, my life is crumbling around me and it's gotten easier to just keep going, keep ignoring it, keep moving forward otherwise I'll just collapse and die. Moving ahead without purpose, escaping that reality wont help anything. I needed to hear this so, so badly.
Thank you. For getting to the heart of this show I love so much.
Found your channel yesterday at 2 AM and I've already watch like 3 hours worth of content. Keep it up mate, love your videos
Ah thank you! I'll try my best to!
ProfesssorViral: *Mentions how avoiding reality always leads to bad outcomes*
Me Who Daydreams Constantly and Nigh Uncontrollably: Dude, please don't call me out like that.
maybe you should write :}
I don’t even remember subbing to this channel unless you had a different name, but the title and the thumbnail got me interested and I like it. I may check out the anime because of it.
It's only 12 episodes, so its not a hard watch at all!
Thanks for covering Paranoia Agent ❤ The ending always hits me like a bullet and yet I’ll take it every time!
One of the greatest anime of all time. Satoshi Kon will be missed.
I came from your pain of freewill video. Thanks for making the content you do! I honestly needed to see that video.
Of course! I couldn't do it without everyone's great support!
I think most problems people have stem from unchecked personal narratives. It hits everything from lack of motivation to obsessive paranoia.
Havent finished the video yet, but you're videos always give me a strange existential feeling, and I always go down a spiral of philosophical thoughts. Great work! Nothing else I ever watch can give me the down to earth, and intelligent feel you do! Amazing videos! 👌
I have now finished the video. Thank you for this. I needed to hear these words more now than I ever have. I've been dealing with a right person wrong time situation, and it hurts so much a lot of the time that I just end up escaping, most of the time to RUclips. It is an amazing thing that one of the times I did this, I found this video. Thank you so much for your amazing work. :) I can tell that you have a lot of issues in your own life, hut you still make these videos to help those around you. Admirable! 👍
this is one of my favorite anime and this video is fantastic!! I first watched your lain analyses and I'm so glad to have found your channel!
I believe that things we often consider vices or faults have purposes that are often gone beyond. Vigilance and Paranoia are the same thing in different application. We all should try to keep risk in mind and prevent it, but we shouldn't act in such a way that we destroy our lives through our paranoia. The true difficulty is finding the balance, and recognizing that we face very different circumstances of threat and perceived threat than even our next door neighbors.
This is definitely on of the more brutal animes. Damn. Though a lot to learn.
For sure, a lot of emotional brutality capped of with a moment of intense physical brutality
@@ProfessorViral Especially because so much of it comes from some very common things of not doing anything with more time, and making up an excuse for fear of timing the truth. I'mma need time to think it over.
Wow, I love all your videos but this one I definitely needed to see, even if I wasn’t ready for it. I sobbed.
I wouldn't have expected that from this one honestly. I'm glad it was powerful, i hope that leads to positive thoughts in the end!
Another exceptional video, thank you
I think that the last statement is of greater importance than it seems are first glance. When we face the truth and recognize the people that don't, it is really easy to create a new meta escape, the one where we can't do anything because Others live in their fantasy worlds and so it's not our fault(and we start ignoring reality because we once faced it)... But the consistent act of truth-facing, the small ripples we create and reinforce both in ourselves and those we interact with do add up, and this is where the true power of truth-facing comes and it creates the basis of a greater advancement (both internal and societal).
It's this same continuous commitment to improvement that makes us look inward and improve on what we can, despite having the easy and partially true excuse of a problematic society that, in the same vein, allows us to sincerely critique external factors and find what needs to be changed.
Only when we understand what really is there we can, on one hand, face inwards and stop blaming our parents, society, friends for every bad habit and, on the other hand, understand that, no, healthcare, education, consumer protection or trans rights cannot just appear if we just focus on ourselves and tidy our own f**king room(stupid transphobic capitalist excuse of a psycholog... I mean...I don't have anyone in particular in mind)
If I have to be honest, while watching the video, it was easy for me to think of an ex-friend who truly embodies this problem, but suddenly I realized that I was creating my own excuse to not face this problem in me, and it felt...wrong(and thus this whole comment was created)... thank you again for this video, that makes us think and feel more aware and uneasy about this phenomenon
Just watched the Existing only to Exist and Rebecca Explained videos, and I'm really digging the passion you put into your videos. Thanks for making great content.
your videos are really eye opening and interesting, thank you for this
42-minute video. A Surprise. But a welcomed one.
I just finished an old one of yours that you recommended last time about "fiction and reality" and it was amazing work.
Another wonderful video Prof ☕☺️ thank you for your hard work
Of course, thank you so much for the kind words so often!
Sorry, i can't watch the video, my eyebrow hurt
ZAMN!!!!!
Most problem are just a series of bad options to choose them and sometimes your the problem might be to daunting that it feels hopeless or it's unexpected that just overwhelmed you as a whole.
It might be the moste terryfying video, and i mean that as compliment. And its kinda ,alwayss timely,
good job showingoff how easy that goes bad, and how understandable it is.
Sasho koi makes it really terrifying human, as it is.
i've really enjoyed the format you used for this and the your name video. keep up the good work : )
Yessss Paranoia Agent, my favorite Satoshi Kon work! Great to see it getting more attention!
Cool analysis! Thanks for uploading
Of course, thanks!
I found your channel a few days ago sn now i put you on and listen as i do some work aaa, i love your videos so much!
I'm glad they've been positive for you so far!
I love yours video! ❤
Can you make a fullmetal analysis video? That will be amazing 😊
I do want to some day, but it'll have to wait a while since its hard to cover series that go over 24 episodes, down to just time with my current situation
@@ProfessorViral I hope you be able to do someday, I be following you unitil there :)
Ok this is exactly the kind of psych deep dive I like to see about surreal anime. Subbed hard
Glad it impressed enough, hope the future videos will just the same!
i genuinely think this anime is a dangerous one to watch. on one hand, it's a great art piece that offers some pretty crazy perspective, but on the other hand, it teaches people various manipulation strategies at almost face value. watched this back when it was on toonami as a kid. barely understood what was happening, but looking back at it, a lot of it makes too much sense
Awesome video.
Omg my favorite anime. I noticed recently there is very little reviews of
At some point I imagine I'll talk about every animation Kon worked on, so far they've been stellar
Dude how do you always cover shows I love?
Good job on the video. Take a rest, take a rest , take a rest
Oooh I love this show
Now that I've finally seen it, same here! An 8 or 9 for certain
Hey i really like your vids. Could you do an analysis of garica from black lagoon
With him it's weird, I think I've said all I can about him, but its spread out across the more general Black Lagoon videos
@@ProfessorViral oh ok
Banger vid no cap
Thanks!
you have taste... trigun
damn that little slugger anime looks interesting, imma add it to the list
i guess i'll go study, thank you
0:42 what is that song?
Gimme the Susumu Hirasawa.
Not sure if i misunderstood, but couldnt you just walk up to the first nsw person you saw and make their day?
Any suggestions everyone?
One of my favorite Anime. Very well said.
I'm still in high school without ever dating anyone and rejecting everyone because of The Fear of Love. This is sad.
Sameee
fear is not truth and the joy of love is one of the most wonderful things in the world. I believe in you my friend! Your life is your own!
Tbf some parts of the past were great. Like a clear purpose in simpler times. Like a hopefull past before a war started. An economy where buying a house was easier. There are great things in past moments of time, and even in whole years. Before the lockdowns education and development of people had been faster to some extend. Sometimes the past was really better for a person
things we romanticize about the past in comparison to the present are not helpful for understanding how to move forward. We live in fantasy and life is a question of appreciation. Much live to you my friend
Excuses do not exist, what exists are reasons and lies.
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Thanks as always 👍
@@ProfessorViral you’re very welcome
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Inserting your politics at end, classy
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Pokerus is desirable.
First!
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2nd (w/ the pinned), as well as many other numbers after that haha
I don't even have to watch this to know it's gonna start with pseudointellectual babble and end with you crying into the microphone as you wax philosophical about a buncha stuff a freshman in college realizes for the first time
oh I'm dying to know what you consider deep and decades beyond years