I watch a lot of anime (Japanese
cartoons), so I write some about it.
I love sci-fi, regardless of anime or
live action, but my first exposure was
to the original series of Star Trek.
And I like Star Trek more than Star
Wars. And surprisingly, I don't watch
robot anime much.
I recently started watching an anime
that aired in 2003 called "Kino's
Journey (The Beautiful World)". The
story of a young person who travels to
various countries on a motorcycle that
speaks language. The countries that
appear there are small countries like
Europe and are from the world of
science fiction and fantasy.
It's like the original Star Trek
series, where they visit one country
in one episode, and each country has
its own system, and sometimes it's
inexplicable. For example, what would
happen if automation were so advanced
that humans no longer needed to work,
or what would happen if there was a
world where people would not be
punished for not following the law. .
The young person does not have a
destination. When I was young, I used
to travel around North America and
Europe by car without much planning,
and it reminds me of those days. Now
that I think about it, there were a
lot of things that were dangerous. . .
There is an anime called "Girls' Last
Tour" that has a similar atmosphere to
"Kino's Journey". There are very few
characters in the story of two girls
traveling on a vehicle like a
motorcycle with caterpillars on a
ruined ground. The story is like a
pair of a carefree girl and a cautious
girl meet one or two people in one
town.
I like stories about the
post-apocalyptic world, stories about
visiting unfamiliar lands, and stories
with few characters. In this story,
the human race that perishes among the
(wreckage) of endless buildings left
in the vast world is very sad.
The story of the anime ends at a good
stopping point, but if you look at the
wiki, you'll find the ending of the
original work even more painful.
アニメはよく見ているんだけど、それについて書いてみることにする。
アニメに関わらず、SFが好きなのだが、最初に触れたのはスタートレックのオリジナルシリーズだった。そして、今でもスターウォーズよりスタートレックのほうが好き。そして意外なことにロボットアニメは殆ど見ません。
最近「キノの旅」という2003年に放映されたアニメを見始めた。
言葉をしゃべるバイクに乗って色々な国を旅する若者の話。国と言ってもSFやファンタジーに登場するような感じのもので、ヨーロッパの小国のようなイメージ。スタートレックのオリジナルシリーズに近いところがあって、１つの話で１つの国を訪れるんだけど、それぞれの国にはそれぞれの国の制度があり、時には不可解なものもある。たとえば、自動化が極端に発達して人間が働く必要がなくなったらどうなるかとか、法律を守らなくても罰せられない世界があったらどうなるかとか、そんな国々が描かれていて教訓めいた話も多い。
主人公は目的地があるわけではなく、行き当たりばったりに旅をする。若い頃、自動車で北米大陸やヨーロッパをあまり予定も決めずに旅行するということをしていたが、その当時のことが思い出される。今思えば色々と危険なこともあったし。。。
「キノの旅」と少し雰囲気の似ているアニメに「少女終末旅行」というのがある。キャタピラのついたバイクのような乗り物で、廃墟と化した地上を２人の少女が旅する話で、登場人物がものすごく少ない。能天気な少女と慎重派の少女のペアが１つの町で１～２人に出あう感じ。
終末世界を描いたもの、知らない土地を訪れる話、登場人物が少ない話が好みなんだけど、広大な世界に残された延々と続く建造物（の残骸）の中で滅びゆく人類がなんとも切ない。
アニメはキリのいいところで終わるんだけど、Wikiを見るともっと切ない原作のエンディングを知ることができる。
7月27日
M5Stackを使用したロボットの制作 ー4週目
Robot production using M5Stack - 4th
week
The legs are just decorations now, but
I'm looking into whether it's possible
to add joints so that the robot can
walk.
I'm thinking that if the robot changes
the direction of the legs, it will
transform from a two-legged humanoid
to a four-legged dog.
It's hard to walk if the robot has one
axis for each limb, and if it has
short hands, it won't be able to stand
up, so it might have to make two axes.
The other day, I had a robot
performance at a live studio.
It is a project to disseminate the
good points and culture of Japan to
the world.
The robots performed with the shamisen,
a traditional Japanese instrument.
In addition to playing musical
instruments, robots performed Japanese
stand-up comedy and played a
well-known flag-raising game in Japan.
7月21日
M5Stackを使用したロボットの制作 ー3週目
Building a robot using M5Stack - 3rd
week
It can now run the PWM servo motor.
I didn't think about cables, things
get messy. . . The power supply of the
servo must be taken from another
cable.
Yesterday, my robots (the Robot Band,
a communication robots, and steampunk
robots) had a performance, at the
Inari Studio, which is located right
next to Fushimi Inari Shrine. After a
long time, one of the big robots also
appeared on the drums.
Fushimi Inari is a very famous shrine
in Kyoto with a fox as its guardian
deity.
Ms. Shimizu, who sings, and plays
shamisen and sanshin, participated in
the performance.
