"Healing" or "Character" recs?
Jan. 30th, 2017 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsSo at my UU Fellowship, we have monthly themes for reflection, and I lead the Adult Forum about once a month and usually show videos. Lots of TED talks and such, but now and then I take the opportunity to make them watch anime, and there's a month coming up where I'm in the mood again.
The month's theme will probably be "Healing," but it could also be "Character", we haven't quite decided yet.
So, does anybody have any recommendations for episodes that could be viewed on a stand-alone basis and would fit one of those themes? I do have some candidates picked out, but I thought it would be fun to ask, maybe see if there are some good thinky and episodic series I'm missing out on (or something with a good first ep or standalone ep for the purpose). It doesn't even have to be anime, although it would need to be a half hour or less.
When I show anime, my go-to thinky-episodic series are Natsume Yuujinchou, Mushi-shi, and Kino no Tabi. Last time I showed them anime it was Natsume (the episode "Tree of Promise" for the theme of "Blessing"), so I thought maybe a different series this time --- although feel free to remind me of good Natsume eps! Anyway, my own current top candidates:
For Healing, Mushishi: "The Warbling Seashell."
For Character, Kino's Journey: "Land of Adults." (I'll have to warn the older folks about the blood, tho.)
The month's theme will probably be "Healing," but it could also be "Character", we haven't quite decided yet.
So, does anybody have any recommendations for episodes that could be viewed on a stand-alone basis and would fit one of those themes? I do have some candidates picked out, but I thought it would be fun to ask, maybe see if there are some good thinky and episodic series I'm missing out on (or something with a good first ep or standalone ep for the purpose). It doesn't even have to be anime, although it would need to be a half hour or less.
When I show anime, my go-to thinky-episodic series are Natsume Yuujinchou, Mushi-shi, and Kino no Tabi. Last time I showed them anime it was Natsume (the episode "Tree of Promise" for the theme of "Blessing"), so I thought maybe a different series this time --- although feel free to remind me of good Natsume eps! Anyway, my own current top candidates:
For Healing, Mushishi: "The Warbling Seashell."
For Character, Kino's Journey: "Land of Adults." (I'll have to warn the older folks about the blood, tho.)
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Date: 2017-02-01 05:06 pm (UTC)(And I just noticed that I left the last sentence in the first paragraph hanging, argh. It should read "...Natsume's kind offer of friendship instead is a wonderful example of how to redirect that misguided impulse.")