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Space Dandy
スペース☆ダンディ
2014 · TV series · 24 min episodes · 2 seasons
AnimationComedyScience FictionFantasyActionAdventure
Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it’s first come – first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe!
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It's not that hard. Play with 4D toys and several intuitions jump to mind.
the slices of dimensions from one d dot to four d object make sense when you roll them around in your hands via game controls.
Space Dandy had an episode where the hero dates a four dimensional girlfriend. It's not 'magic', it makes sense.
The idea that our brains are hard wired for basic concepts is almost synonomous with a self-limiting belief.
There needs to be a lot of hard evidence/definitive causation, to make those claims about a biological organ and not accidently limit yourself.
Also in the category of fictional references to Laika, a wonderful episode of Space Dandy (“The Lonely Pooch Planet, Baby”)
Lathe of Heaven has to be one of my all-time favorite ANYTHING book.
When it was recommended to me, at first I thought it was a bad joke or something because the first few chapters were so "middle school-ish" in quality.
Towards the end I both wanted to find out what happened next and stop reading altogether because I didn't want the story to end.
The closest thing I found to the experience was the anime Space Dandy where the first few episodes were excruciatingly painful to watch in a "WTF is this crap?!?" disbelief sort of way ... only to progress very quickly to be one of the best entertainment experiences I can remember in a long time.
I fucking cried during her episode in Space Dandy.
> Bonus points if they also troll people into thinking it's fluff for the first two-and-a-half episodes and try to break their minds.
You might like Space Dandy. Japanese again, but they really play around with continuity expectations between their episodes. I'm pretty sure most of s1 is meant to occur simultaneously in parallel realities due to the (lack of) continuity between episodes and occasional story-ending events. It's never really explained. And then s2 seems to tie some of the threads back together into a cohesive story arc over the season. Bonus: it's almost always available on Netflix, with their recent push for more anime.
In a similar vein, I've been loving the show Space Dandy, which is like Adventure Time's (slightly) older brother from across the Pacific; it's co-directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, of Cowboy Bebop fame.
Bringing it closer to Adventure Time than Cowboy Bebop however, it includes the work of a wide range of artists in different episodes, and isn't too minded by continuity. It also benefits from surprisingly bearable English voice acting and translation in Adult Swim's dubbed version.
Here's a review:
http://www.avclub.com/review/space-dandy-is-more-than-cowboy-bebops-demented-li-201062