Reaching Out

Win.



I ordinarily don't like fast music to Tutu AMVs, but this worked really well. The song was cut, of course, but it's a very good montage of dance scenes in the anime.

h/t to caitlin_chan

Firstly, I'd like to say that I think Legally Blonde was an awesome movie. It devastated blond and misogynist jokes and I think it was first movie I ever watched with a truly empowered female who was self-confident, creative, witty, and fun. Elle taught me it was okay to be a girly girl and still be in academia at the same time. I know a whole wack of people who're like "yeah, I know, Legally Blonde, sad and ew, eh?"

But having a Legally Blonde musical out on Broadway makes me infinitely happier than having Disney's High School Musical come to Neptune next year as our big show -_-

Secondly, what an awesome song. So witty, so silly. Of course it plays on all sorts of gender tropes, but cute nonetheless.

Thirdly, what AWESOME EDITING. Look at how well all the clips fit in together! Like at .35 - .40, right after "is he gaaaaaaay, or European!"
[Clip of someone freaking out]
[clip of people looking at something interestedly] "ooohhhhhh..."

1.12 - 1.14 has a chorus of girls sitting around, which is also brilliantly lip-synched.

And while Tamaki metamorphosizes into a drag queen, the chorus yells "GAY! GAY GAY GAY GAY!" and everything stands still at 1.41 where he's sweeping a girl off her feet --- "DAMMIT!"

The coda is perfect, switching between the main lip-syncher and the crowds XD

Brilliant, brilliantly done.

Fourthly, I think I shall check out Ouran High School Host Club. I've heard of it before, of course, but I wiki-ed it after watching this video. Apparently, a "host club" takes from a "hostess club", where women entertain men after-hours by getting them to drink. They're modern-day geishas, basically. A "host club", therefore, is a place where men entertain women.

There're all sorts of problematic things that can happen of course: illegal employment, sexual assault, and most obviously, drinking problems, since hosts are expected to drink as much as their customers.

But a club where men are expected to entertain the whims of women (and gay men) is a really delightful notion, and having it accepted enough to be written in a high school setting is interesting. I don't understand why the Japanese won't take their own cultural cues and just start accepting gender equality and non-traditional ways already.

Anyway, obviously, this anime and manga have been set as "shoujo" stories - which is a shame but I guess boys just don't like that kind of thing, eh? eh? *nudge*

Hope you enjoyed the clip!