Tokyo Godfathers And Paprika By Satoshi Kon

STORYTELLING
Satoshi Kon’s storytelling generally is brilliant, like some of his works; “Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika” usually starting off as a normal regular story then slowly switches into a surreal story, the same goes for Paranoia agent. Paranoia Agent storytelling follows a more psychological route to investigate the relationship between reality & perception and we see this in Episode one. Tsukiko Sagi created a successful toy called Maromi but when Tsukiko Sagi is faced with realities stress and pressure mostly coming from her boss to make the next big thing, out of fear Tsukiko Sagi assaults herself to escape her responsibilities. I find this absolutely brilliant because I personally can relate to this. I remember as a kid I would fake

Unlike Paranoia Agent where the Lil Slugger is a figment of Tsukiko Sagi and everyone’s imagination Blood plus has taken a physical route of establishing their own Lil Slugger, a huge bat-like humanoid monster called a Chiropterans. In Episode one, we get introduced to a Chiropteran at Saya Otonashi’s school that attacks a teacher at night. Before the night is over, we find out Saya Otonashi’s blood is the key to killing a Chiropterans with the help of Hagi. Doesn’t the storyline strike you as something familiar? For example; on the 10th of July, 2015 Sandra Bland (28-year-old black woman) was arrested for failing to signal before changing lanes and allegedly assaulting a police officer in Texas. On the 13th of July, 2015 Sandra Bland was found dead in her jail cell and it has been ruled as a suicide by the Harris county medical examiner’s office. Here’s my point: just like in episode 2 of blood when the military released a cover-up story to the public that the English teacher was killed by Charles Hatcher, a 21 year old (black) marine private 1st class is exactly how the Texas police department released to the public that Sandra Bland committed suicide in her jail cell even though we see inconsistencies in the reporting on her death and booking, what was in her jail cell, lapses in data like the still unexplained jump cut in the footage from the dash cam of the police officer, she looked dead in her mug shot and she’s