Post by Jonny 5 on Oct 12, 2013 16:03:46 GMT -6
Thank's largely in-part to Otter, I've gotten really into Cartoon Conspiracy Theories lately; so much so that I've written my own. It's not completely polished, and like most theories out there there is more that you could expand on to it.
Maybe we should have a conspiracy theory board, what do you think ragers?
Anyway, before I forget why I started this thread in the first place, here is The Truth Behind: Rosario + Vampire (There's no such thing as monsters.)
Rosario + Vampire, is actually a metaphor for a prep school. Unlike our typical understanding of a "prep school" being a private school, in Japan prep schools are used as a mean to either prepare students for entrance exams into other schools, or to prepare them for life outside of school like Job Corps here in the U.S. Evidence of this is seen in the first episode when the opening lecture of the first class talks about "the world being primarily dominated by humans and therefor monsters must learn how to function in the human world."
The name of the school "Yokai Academy" is loosely translated as "Monster Academy," however, the Japanese word "Ryoukai," often is mistakenly heard as "Yokai." What does "Ryoukai" mean? Again, Loosely translated it means Roger...not the name, but the response to a command. Yokai academy is a subtle variation of "Ryoukai" academy; which would be a school teaching students to subject themselves to the authority of society's standards.
This is simply a metaphor for the students of the school not meeting the strict standards for how a typical citizen of Japan should be. Because they don't fit into the standard for "normal," they are branded "monsters." The irony of the situation is that the teacher who obviously shares the branding given to the students for not adapting to social standards, now has to teach the students how to adapt to the "human world" because her unwillingness to conform has prevented her from attaining a job in higher education.
Kurumu, the succubus, learned through her mother that a pretty girl doesn't have to work hard to live a life of luxury as long as she finds a kind man that will do everything for her. Because of this, she focused less on her schoolwork, and more on trying to find her sugar daddy. After failing her entrance exams she had no other choice but to go to a prep school; in this case Yokai Academy. This also explains why she is attracted to Tsukune. Even though she doesn't know that he is a human, she could tell that he probably shouldn't have been at the school, and knowing that the school was for slackers, this made him ideal in her eyes because he showed promise of better things. The reason she is given the monster identity of a succubus is because she wants nothing more than to lure in a man and use his life and blind affection for her to benefit herself. The part about her race dying is a metaphor for anti-feminist women who see women taking a larger role in the business world as a threat to their lavish lifestyles.
Tsukune, the protagonist and the "human," is just a normal kid. He had everything it took to get into a proper high school and go on to live a normal life, but as it turns out this was a major accomplishment because his parants are alcoholics. Tsukune spent a lot of times at his friends' houses growing up and as a result he began to notice that their sober parents were living happier lives than his parents who were drowning themselves in their sorrows. He used this as motivation to do as well as he could in school under the circumstances, but the night before the entrance exams his parents were hospitalized because of alcohol poisoning ultimately resulting in him missing the exams. He was content to wait another year to take the exams again, but his parents were unwilling to accept that there irresponsibility was what caused him to miss the exams and sent him to Yokai Academy because they rationalized the consequences of their actions as Tsukune's because he wasn't prepared enough. Tsukune often doubts if he should be at Yokai Academy but ultimately decides that it is a better environment for his studies than with his drunken parents. This actually backfires against Tsukune because by being surrounded by children who don't care about their education he actually loses his motivation to do well. This is seen in both season finales when he demonstrates monster-like abilities, showing that he has actually become more like the other students and ultimately defeats the purpose of being sent to the school in the first place.
Moka, the vampire, is actually just a rebellious teenage girl. Her true form is actually her true self, a perfectly respectable young woman who has been raised well by her father. The other Moka, being the Moka we are introduced to, is actually her front. The story that the series talks about how her father created this alter ego is another metaphor for why rebellious teens become something they are not. In order to make her father angry, she embraced the facade character of Moka that we are presented with and blames her father for her actions. She actually failed the entrance exams on purpose just because she knew her father had high hopes for her. When telling her story of how the "humans", or the normal people, outcast her she is merely trying to portray that she wants to be different, but wants sympathy for it. Like when a kid calls themselves "goth," Moka stereotypes herself and calls herself a vampire because it's an easy stereotype to portray that she thinks will make her stand out and make her father angry. People who seek to portray individuality don't call themselves "goth," or "punk," or "emo," because attaching a stereotype to who you are isn't an act of individualism. The reason her front is a cute adorable girl is over-dramatized symbolism for the fact that people that do this have limited knowledge of the stereotype they are trying to portray. Knowing that the school would be filled with slackers, she knows that her father wouldn't approve of her dating any of the boys because of his high hopes for her, and is attracted to Tsukune solely because he is the first guy she meets.
Moka's true self has limited screen time because she tries so hard to hide it. But if you have ever been around someone who wasn't being themselves, you will from time to time get a glimpse of the real person. This is why Ko-Bat always gives us a recap of how long her fights are. At first we get very short glimpses of who she really is, but the more time we spend with her the longer her appearances are. When in her true form, she even goes as far as to tell Tsukune that she is just using him; which results in Tsukune questioning which the real Moka is. This metaphor is meant to describe the phase we go through when we first meet someone and are trying to learn more about them to figure out who they are. At first she isn't attracted to Tsukune but as the series goes on she gets more attached. This is the cliché of "time makes the heart grow fonder." She eventually decides that she wants to see if Tsukune can love her true self and completely does away with the fake Moka. However, when she realizes her true feelings it's too late because Tsukune has spent so much time with the fake Moka that he can't accept who she really is and actually ends up fighting to bring the fake Moka back.
Yukari, the witch, is an exchange student. The reason she is portrayed as younger and bratty is because of the culture barrier. It's simply a case of people seeing what they want to see in a person, and that person being what they think those people expect from them. Even in the states, because kids in exchange programs are often phenomenal students, we go out of our way to find reasons why they would be inferior to us. It's not something we do consciously and it's not just in the states. All over the world we are brought up to have blind nationalistic pride that causes us to see what we want to see in foreigners especially at young ages. Yukari wasn't accepted by her classmates in her home country because of how dedicated to her studies she was, which is ironically what made her eligible for the exchange program. After arriving in Japan however, she is looked down upon just because students don't want to admit that another nationality could be educating better students than themselves. Yukari is a witch because she's not a "human" or a "monster." She isn't a normal kid because she's from a different country, and she isn't a "monster" because she's actually very well suited for society. Yukari is so fond of Moka and Tsukune because she is lonely and they were the only people there for her in this foreign land, or at home.
Mizore, the snow-woman, is the most blatant portrayal of the metaphor she is meant to represent. Mizore is meant to portray an extremely psychologically troubled girl. Most of which don't even require a comparison to her character in the series. She has Dissociative Identity Disorder, which most of you will know as multiple personalities. She is Schizophrenic and has complex delusions that she feeds with irrational logic. She is Type 1 Bipolar, being in that the majority of the time she exhibits either a manic or depressive affect but is prone to major lapses to the other extreme. The most important of which, however is Anti-Social Personality Disorder, AKA, a Sociopath, AKA what most serial killers are eventually diagnosed as having. She portrays no emotion, has no understanding of right and wrong, and her ultimate goal is to freeze Tsukune into an ice sickle so she can have him forever. Why is she attracted to Tsukune? Because his character model is so generic that he probably fit's her MO. Why is she a Snow Woman? Because a Snow Woman quite literally is the supernatural equivalent of a serial killer. They use their charm to lure their prey, and brutally murder them without a trace.
The series is often criticizing for not having an ending. Tsukune never decides on one of the girls, and they never graduate from Yokai academy. This metaphor is a powerful message that tells us without a proper education, and associating with those who don't care for the structure of the system, you will always live a life of what most claim to be mediocrity, but you can still be happy. That is if, one of those people doesn't end up killing you and incasing you in ice.
Maybe we should have a conspiracy theory board, what do you think ragers?
Anyway, before I forget why I started this thread in the first place, here is The Truth Behind: Rosario + Vampire (There's no such thing as monsters.)
Rosario + Vampire, is actually a metaphor for a prep school. Unlike our typical understanding of a "prep school" being a private school, in Japan prep schools are used as a mean to either prepare students for entrance exams into other schools, or to prepare them for life outside of school like Job Corps here in the U.S. Evidence of this is seen in the first episode when the opening lecture of the first class talks about "the world being primarily dominated by humans and therefor monsters must learn how to function in the human world."
The name of the school "Yokai Academy" is loosely translated as "Monster Academy," however, the Japanese word "Ryoukai," often is mistakenly heard as "Yokai." What does "Ryoukai" mean? Again, Loosely translated it means Roger...not the name, but the response to a command. Yokai academy is a subtle variation of "Ryoukai" academy; which would be a school teaching students to subject themselves to the authority of society's standards.
This is simply a metaphor for the students of the school not meeting the strict standards for how a typical citizen of Japan should be. Because they don't fit into the standard for "normal," they are branded "monsters." The irony of the situation is that the teacher who obviously shares the branding given to the students for not adapting to social standards, now has to teach the students how to adapt to the "human world" because her unwillingness to conform has prevented her from attaining a job in higher education.
Kurumu, the succubus, learned through her mother that a pretty girl doesn't have to work hard to live a life of luxury as long as she finds a kind man that will do everything for her. Because of this, she focused less on her schoolwork, and more on trying to find her sugar daddy. After failing her entrance exams she had no other choice but to go to a prep school; in this case Yokai Academy. This also explains why she is attracted to Tsukune. Even though she doesn't know that he is a human, she could tell that he probably shouldn't have been at the school, and knowing that the school was for slackers, this made him ideal in her eyes because he showed promise of better things. The reason she is given the monster identity of a succubus is because she wants nothing more than to lure in a man and use his life and blind affection for her to benefit herself. The part about her race dying is a metaphor for anti-feminist women who see women taking a larger role in the business world as a threat to their lavish lifestyles.
Tsukune, the protagonist and the "human," is just a normal kid. He had everything it took to get into a proper high school and go on to live a normal life, but as it turns out this was a major accomplishment because his parants are alcoholics. Tsukune spent a lot of times at his friends' houses growing up and as a result he began to notice that their sober parents were living happier lives than his parents who were drowning themselves in their sorrows. He used this as motivation to do as well as he could in school under the circumstances, but the night before the entrance exams his parents were hospitalized because of alcohol poisoning ultimately resulting in him missing the exams. He was content to wait another year to take the exams again, but his parents were unwilling to accept that there irresponsibility was what caused him to miss the exams and sent him to Yokai Academy because they rationalized the consequences of their actions as Tsukune's because he wasn't prepared enough. Tsukune often doubts if he should be at Yokai Academy but ultimately decides that it is a better environment for his studies than with his drunken parents. This actually backfires against Tsukune because by being surrounded by children who don't care about their education he actually loses his motivation to do well. This is seen in both season finales when he demonstrates monster-like abilities, showing that he has actually become more like the other students and ultimately defeats the purpose of being sent to the school in the first place.
Moka, the vampire, is actually just a rebellious teenage girl. Her true form is actually her true self, a perfectly respectable young woman who has been raised well by her father. The other Moka, being the Moka we are introduced to, is actually her front. The story that the series talks about how her father created this alter ego is another metaphor for why rebellious teens become something they are not. In order to make her father angry, she embraced the facade character of Moka that we are presented with and blames her father for her actions. She actually failed the entrance exams on purpose just because she knew her father had high hopes for her. When telling her story of how the "humans", or the normal people, outcast her she is merely trying to portray that she wants to be different, but wants sympathy for it. Like when a kid calls themselves "goth," Moka stereotypes herself and calls herself a vampire because it's an easy stereotype to portray that she thinks will make her stand out and make her father angry. People who seek to portray individuality don't call themselves "goth," or "punk," or "emo," because attaching a stereotype to who you are isn't an act of individualism. The reason her front is a cute adorable girl is over-dramatized symbolism for the fact that people that do this have limited knowledge of the stereotype they are trying to portray. Knowing that the school would be filled with slackers, she knows that her father wouldn't approve of her dating any of the boys because of his high hopes for her, and is attracted to Tsukune solely because he is the first guy she meets.
Moka's true self has limited screen time because she tries so hard to hide it. But if you have ever been around someone who wasn't being themselves, you will from time to time get a glimpse of the real person. This is why Ko-Bat always gives us a recap of how long her fights are. At first we get very short glimpses of who she really is, but the more time we spend with her the longer her appearances are. When in her true form, she even goes as far as to tell Tsukune that she is just using him; which results in Tsukune questioning which the real Moka is. This metaphor is meant to describe the phase we go through when we first meet someone and are trying to learn more about them to figure out who they are. At first she isn't attracted to Tsukune but as the series goes on she gets more attached. This is the cliché of "time makes the heart grow fonder." She eventually decides that she wants to see if Tsukune can love her true self and completely does away with the fake Moka. However, when she realizes her true feelings it's too late because Tsukune has spent so much time with the fake Moka that he can't accept who she really is and actually ends up fighting to bring the fake Moka back.
Yukari, the witch, is an exchange student. The reason she is portrayed as younger and bratty is because of the culture barrier. It's simply a case of people seeing what they want to see in a person, and that person being what they think those people expect from them. Even in the states, because kids in exchange programs are often phenomenal students, we go out of our way to find reasons why they would be inferior to us. It's not something we do consciously and it's not just in the states. All over the world we are brought up to have blind nationalistic pride that causes us to see what we want to see in foreigners especially at young ages. Yukari wasn't accepted by her classmates in her home country because of how dedicated to her studies she was, which is ironically what made her eligible for the exchange program. After arriving in Japan however, she is looked down upon just because students don't want to admit that another nationality could be educating better students than themselves. Yukari is a witch because she's not a "human" or a "monster." She isn't a normal kid because she's from a different country, and she isn't a "monster" because she's actually very well suited for society. Yukari is so fond of Moka and Tsukune because she is lonely and they were the only people there for her in this foreign land, or at home.
Mizore, the snow-woman, is the most blatant portrayal of the metaphor she is meant to represent. Mizore is meant to portray an extremely psychologically troubled girl. Most of which don't even require a comparison to her character in the series. She has Dissociative Identity Disorder, which most of you will know as multiple personalities. She is Schizophrenic and has complex delusions that she feeds with irrational logic. She is Type 1 Bipolar, being in that the majority of the time she exhibits either a manic or depressive affect but is prone to major lapses to the other extreme. The most important of which, however is Anti-Social Personality Disorder, AKA, a Sociopath, AKA what most serial killers are eventually diagnosed as having. She portrays no emotion, has no understanding of right and wrong, and her ultimate goal is to freeze Tsukune into an ice sickle so she can have him forever. Why is she attracted to Tsukune? Because his character model is so generic that he probably fit's her MO. Why is she a Snow Woman? Because a Snow Woman quite literally is the supernatural equivalent of a serial killer. They use their charm to lure their prey, and brutally murder them without a trace.
The series is often criticizing for not having an ending. Tsukune never decides on one of the girls, and they never graduate from Yokai academy. This metaphor is a powerful message that tells us without a proper education, and associating with those who don't care for the structure of the system, you will always live a life of what most claim to be mediocrity, but you can still be happy. That is if, one of those people doesn't end up killing you and incasing you in ice.