Philip Brophy on Japanese cinema/manga/anime (compared to Western): "Not that Japanese characters behave differently, but that the schisms which we perceive as corrupting and interfering with a characters identity are acknowledged as the substance of a characters identity. In the West, we will crudely designate the hero, the buffoon, the cynic, the sage, etc; in the East, characters are founded upon their schizophrenia, established through their multiplicity, and defined by their inability to be grounded." ______________________________________________ Extract from "Cinesonic" Article in RealTime Magazine, June/July 1999 edition. Borrowed here by the Undesirable Propagation Unit.