Comments on: “Britney.”

By: lelangir

lelangir — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:27:57 +0000

late comment: there’s also fushigi yuugi, whose hair-cutting is rather significant, as well as gunxsword (crappy series) but the context in which it happens is hilarious.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:41:53 +0000

You forgot Lain (who is crazy so prolly a bad example)…. And Sakura from Naruto when she does it to save Sasuke’s life…

By: justam

justam — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:06:50 +0000

@ Cactopus
Sure, Haruhi doesn’t look bad in that pic, but personally, I like her hair when it’s shorter. It gives her… more of an air of authority. Long haired serious Haruhi just looks like an angry chic.

By: Epi

Epi — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:55:04 +0000

I guess it would be silly to mention Mononoke Hime, when Ashitaka cuts off his hair when he has to leave the village? I mean in the English version, they even added in the voice over where they explain that the cutting of the hair means he’s officially cut ties with his old life in case Western audiences didn’t understand the significance of it all.

By: Versus

Versus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:16:43 +0000

Bart Garsus of the Vandread anime comes to mind near the beginning of the second Season.

Similar to a lot of the examples above, it also happens when he raises up from the weak idiot to the determined pilot when he tries to protect a young girl and a good friend of him.

He is actually successful, but an long lasting illness finally claims its victory and so she still dies. Since she was making a doll that looked like Bart for him, but couldn’t finish the hair on the doll as she died, Bart shaves his head completely to match the hairless doll.

Its actually a pretty good, but sad episode.

edit: various spelling stuff^^

By: usagijen

usagijen — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:00:58 +0000

aww no Akane (Ranma 1/2). She’s one of the classic examples of the “accidental haircut tragedy”.

By: rollchan

rollchan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:09:43 +0000

Angelina Jolie rules!

By: Cactopus

Cactopus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:26:07 +0000

@justam
Haha, Haruhi looks much better with long hair, here’s a link

But I have to say, cutting hair must be extremely popular in representing a phase shift of some sort : P It seems like it’s popular may it be Britney or anime o.o

By: phil

phil — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:50:55 +0000

Interesting read and post - and Haruhi of course is saved for last. I don’t know if I can downplay the significance of Britney’s fall into a simple drug lapse. IMO, the fall of Britney de-mystified her entire aura as the untouchable princess of pop. It didn’t matter at any point that she was dancing around with barely any clothes and a snake - America was still holding this strange facade of her being wholesome and ideal.

It’s also difficult to downplay the sway of public opinion. Her last album actually had some really great songs. Her first single was a sick club song, but this album reminds me starkly of Tom Cruise’s MI:3 (which I thought was actually a pretty good movie). However, Tom Cruise’s fall from grace inadvertently made the movie crash. I wasn’t sure if we were supposed still like Tom Cruise at this point. Britney’s latest album had the same exact parallels.

By: Reverse Vampire

Reverse Vampire — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:13:17 +0000

You forgot another person and this person is from a video game: Princess Garnet from Final Fantasy IX.

She cut her hair somewhere in between the game itself, and since I don’t play that game (I just happen to own a DVD that shows all cutscenes of Final Fantasy VIII and IX) it must be worth sacrificing that long hair of hers, maybe to change, I think…

By: Omisyth

Omisyth — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:11:10 +0000

“ALL HAIL HARUHI-SAMA!”
Damn right.

By: justam

justam — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:31:29 +0000

Haruhi sure doesn’t look like Haruhi when her hair’s long. But Kyon sure liked her with long hair!

Ah, about hair cuts… well the only one I can pull off the top of my head that hasn’t already been mentioned is Simca’s haircut in Air Gear. It was a rather pointless act… unless she was trying to symbolise a new era for Genesis… nah, that idea somehow rubs me the wrong way.

Favourite hair cut scene is still the Nia one from TTGL… particularly so because I watched a clip of the seiyuu cast doing a live dub at some random show in Japan. It was SO hilarious because Katsuyuki Konishi (Kamina) was voicing Nia and Tetsuya Kakihara (Simon) was voicing Yoko. XD