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<\/p>\n“Aurora Town\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
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I would say that it took them long enough, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in no position to talk. Perhaps there is a reason beyond control for everything.
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\nIn this episode, Gerda is making a living in the winter time by doing laundry, while her grandmother Matilde is working hard into the night making tapestries. In nineteenth century Denmark, it was vitally important to be able to pay for winter provisions, so Matilde overworks herself sick.
\nMeanwhile, the Snow Queen goes about her rounds, and Gerda has to find a cure for Matilde in a blizzard. The episode ends with the original story\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beginning \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 slightly altered to take care of the troll characters.<\/p>\n
The story is presently in melodrama stage, setting the scene for Gerda’s character. Her dedication is shown in her trips out into the snow; this will come in handy for later on, as the whole story of The Snow Queen<\/I> is about facing hardship and having strong faith. I doubt that there will be quite a Christian moral as there was in the original story, but it’s possible that I will be surprised.
\nThe highlight for the episode, therefore, was seeing the Snow Queen get around. Suzukaze Mayo’s character is a woman of few words, but she exudes an air of sadness and her snow song was mesmerising.<\/p>\n
While I like a lot of the techniques involved in this program, and that I think the Snow Queen is a semi tragic figure, the secondary character designs leave quite a lot to be desired. The washerwomen were hideous in this episode. Even in the normal characters the eyes seemed off, with Gerda occasionally looking at nothing.
\nThe other factor is that the Red and Blue Trolls simply suck<\/i>. They look like refugees from bad eighties\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 American cartoons contracted to the Japanese for animation. When I was about five, I watched a hell of a lot of that sort of stuff – and it just doesn’t cut it for me anymore.<\/p>\n
The Snow Queen<\/i> is good, but not good or fast enough to warrant having to wait two months between episodes. The sudden possession of Red Troll and Blue Troll suggests that there is something evil afoot here \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is important because the Snow Queen is by no means bad<\/i>, she just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t undersand.
\nBy virtue of its basis in a short morality tale, this anime had to branch out somewhere. Next week<\/s> episode, at least, appears to be the pivotal mirror fallout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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