Mar. 24th, 2010

nenena: (Soul Eater - Blair kitty)
SRS BZNS

Hat-tip to [livejournal.com profile] furikku: The Americanization of Mental Illness. Very good article, and definitely worth reading all the way through (especially the meaty stuff on pages 3 and 4). Warning: There are some potentially triggering passages about eating disorders.

NOT SRS BZNS

Soul Eater fandom, Noah is disappoint. Dante's Inferno =/= the traditional "seven deadly sins" of Christian pop culture. The levels of hell in Inferno are:

1. Limbo
2. Lust
3. Gluttony
4. Avarice and Prodigality (AKA hoarding and squandering)
5. Wrath and Sullenness
6. Heresy
7. Violence
8. Fraud
9. Betrayal

Now I dunno if Ohkubo is going to stick strictly to Dante or not, but given what we've already seen of Noah's Inferno (Introductory level = limbo, followed by seven chapters, the first of which is Lust, arranged in a spiral going downward, and ending with the special unreachable eighth chapter in which Lucifer Gooberkins is chillaxing at the bottom of Hell and generally being a douchebag who is rather heavily invested in betraying God), it seems likely that Ohkubo is going more for Dante's levels of hell than not.

Then again, Ohkubo generally does Whatever the Hell He Wants with this series, so we'll see.